Berserk

Berserk

Debuff Status Effect

Duration	Limited
Removable	Yes

Berserk is a debuffing status effect.

Description

Characters with Berserk can only use damaging moves.

Related Moves

Move	Type	Category	Power	Accuracy	Use Cost
Berserker	Beast	Status Effect	—	100%	Passive
Damage Roll	Typeless	Ranged Attack	9	100%	3 AP
Taunt	Poison	Status Effect	—	100%	1 AP
Trick	Typeless	Status Effect	—	100%	1 AP
Vengeful Curse	Astral	Status Effect	—	100%	Passive
Wonderful 7	Astral	Ranged Attack	90	100%	4 AP

Related Type Match-Ups

Metal × Astral →	Debuff	Berserk ×3	(Disturbed)
Poison × Astral →	Debuff	Berserk ×3	(Disturbed)

Additional Information

Once Berserk, the victim's moveset is updated so that all non-passive, non-damaging moves are removed. While Berserk prevents some passives from functioning, they are not removed. Any non-damaging move will automatically fail if Berserk is applied before the user acts in the given round.

Certain passives that have nonzero power, such as Pre-emptive Strike, Splinter, and Self-Destruct, still work under Berserk. Passive moves that use other moves such as Custom Starter and Automation still work, but they may trigger a different move due to the moveset change.

In general, non-damaging passives that have active triggering effects (identified by a pop-up toast appearing at the top of the screen) are blocked by Berserk. This includes AP Factory, AP Refund, Berserker, Bloodlust, Burning Passion, Clay-Fired, Cold Fusion, Energy Reserves, Liftoff, Multicopy, Neutralise, Prismatic, Retribution, Spring-Load, Tower Defence, Trap Jaw, and Vengeful Curse.

On the other hand, the following non-damage passives still work even when the user has Berserk: Acid Reflex, all elemental resistances, AP Starter, Breathing Technique, Carnivore, Critical AP, Final Breath, Fossil, Hardback, Insomnia, Liquid Body, Machine Curse, Phase Shift, Pity AP, Radioactive, Ricochet, Self-Assured, Shear Luck, Status Resistance, Sturdy Armour, Sugar Rush, Tripwire, Unshakeable, and Vampire.

Berserk can be especially useful if an opponent has a number of passive/automatic/buff/status moves as part of their strategy such as:

 

• Penny Dreadful's Djinn Entonic, whose Haunt and Ritual will fail under this effect.
• Wilma's Djinn Entonic, for similar reasons.
• Aleph, whose Prismatic will fail; this can be automatically triggered if he becomes Astral type.