Technique design space
A way to have a 13-type system for Tuxemon.
A monster might get a basic or animal technique and a condition imposer to start, then every few levels pick up a few simple techniques, the occasional exotic technique, and eventually more and more powerful techniques.
New ideas in italics.
Initial thoughts
- Splash moves should all have low accuracy.
- We don't need symmetry. It's nice if different elements have different qualities.
- I am wondering if we should make touch, reach and reliable techniques quite rare - almost treating belonging to one of these ranges as a special feature of the technique. Or perhaps some elements should use reach or touch more often than others.
Animal techniques
Low damage (0.75-1.5), decent accuracy (90-100%), typically Normal, within the abilities of an ordinary animal.
- Hammerhead (melee *Earth*)
- Strike (reliable Normal)
- Ram (melee Normal) (somewhat higher damage, somewhat lower accuracy than Headbutt)
- Punch (melee Heroic)
- Shadow Boxing (touch Heroic)
- Hawk (melee Sky)
- Peck (reach Sky)
- Fledgling (ranged Sky)
- Slice (melee Metal)
| TXMN ID | TXMN Blurb | TXMN Element | TXMN Category | TXMN Family | Tags | TXMN Accuracy | TXMN Potency | TXMN Power | TXMN Recharge | TXMN Healing Power | TXMN Is fast | TXMN Effects | TXMN User Condition | TXMN Target Condition | TXMN Animation Target | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acid | 119 | A corrosive liquid is ejected from the user's mouth, burning the opponent. | Venom | Reliable | Basic | Toxic | 80% | 1.4 | 2 | Normal | 1 | |||||
| Bomb | 266 | They set a bomb. | Metal Fire | Ranged | Basic | Bomber | 80% | 1 | 1 | Slow | Foresight 1 | 3 | ||||
| Chill Mist | 77 | The user releases a freezing mist that lowers the opponent's stats. | Frost | Ranged | Basic | Weather | 60% | 1.5 | 1 | Slow | Splash | 1 | ||||
| Crystal | 128 | The user fires a sharp, crystalline projectile at the opponent. | Cosmic | Ranged | Basic | Gemstone | 90% | 1 | 1 | Normal | 1 | |||||
| External Power | 255 | The user uses a ranged attack that can be different types. | Normal | Ranged | Basic | Universal | 100% | 2 | 1 | Normal | Move type user | 0 | ||||
| Fire Ball | 4 | An orb of scorching fire is flung at the target. | Fire | Ranged | Basic | Bomber Flame | 90% | 1.2 | 1 | Normal | 1 | |||||
| Flood | 10 | The user summons a powerful flood that washes over the opponent. | Water | Ranged | Basic | Water | 60% | 1.5 | 1 | Extremely Slow | Splash | 1 | ||||
| Flow | 9 | The user channels a powerful water stream. | Water | Melee | Basic | Water | 60% | 1.5 | 1 | Normal | Splash | 1 | ||||
| Gust | 161 | The user creates a powerful wind that blows the opponent back. | Sky | Ranged | Basic | Weather | 100% | 0.9 | 1 | Normal | 1 | |||||
| Hook | 246 | They aim to hook the opponent, perhaps with a horn or limb. | Water Heroic | Ranged | Basic | Water | 95% | 25% | 1 | 1 | Normal | Harpooned | 2 | |||
| Ice Claw | 21 | The user's claws become covered in ice as it delivers a freezing attack. | Frost | Melee | Basic | Ice Claws | 80% | 1.25 | 1 | Normal | 1 | |||||
| Lantern | 133 | The user damages the target with bright light. | Heroic | Ranged | Basic | Light Gadgets Leadership | 90% | 1 | 1 | Normal | 1 | |||||
| Lightning Spheres | 163 | The user launches multiple balls of electricity at the opponent. | Lightning | Ranged | Basic | Electricity | 90% | 1.2 | 1 | Normal | 1 | |||||
| Lineage | 135 | The user draws power from its ancestors to unleash an attack. | Cosmic | Reach | Basic | Ghost Leadership | 100% | 1.5 | 3 | Normal | 1 | |||||
| Midnight Mantle | 55 | The user shrouds itself in a cloak of darkness, striking out with shadowy tendrils that inflict damage and disorient the opponent. | Shadow | Ranged | Basic | Darkness Celestial | 60% | 1.25 | 1 | Very Fast | Splash | 1 | ||||
| Phantasmal Force | 162 | The user creates an illusionary copy of itself that attacks the opponent. | Shadow | Melee | Basic | Ghost | 90% | 1.1 | 1 | Normal | 1 | |||||
| Power Theft | 256 | The user steals some power, perhaps by gene exchange, and uses it to launch an attack of the enemy type. | Normal | Touch | Basic | Pseudopod Shapeshifter | 100% | 50% | 1 | 1 | Normal | Move type enemy monster | Softened | 0 | ||
| Rock | 6 | A heavy rock falls on the target. | Earth | Touch | Basic | Rock | 100% | 1.5 | 1 | Normal | 1 | |||||
| Snowball | 267 | The user hurls a compact ball of snow at the target, dealing light damage and chilling them slightly. | Frost | Ranged | Basic | Ice | 90% | 25% | 1 | 1 | Fast | Slow | 1 | |||
| Spiky Strike | 199 | The user lashes out with its sharp spines or quills, striking the opponent with a flurry of piercing blows, inflicting pain and damage. | Earth Wood | Reach | Basic | Sharp | 95% | 1.5 | 1 | Normal | ||||||
| Stick | 221 | The user uses a stick, plant part or twig to poke or smack the opponent. | Wood | Reach | Basic | Plant Staff | 95% | 1.4 | 1 | Normal | 1 |
Basic techniques
Low damage (0.75-1.5), decent accuracy (90-100%), no recharge, no other effects (except splash).
Cosmic
- Crystal (ranged Cosmic)
- Lineage (reach Cosmic, long recharge)
Heroic
- Lantern (ranged Heroic)
Lightning
- Lightning Spheres (ranged Lightning)
Frost
- Ice Claw (melee Frost)
- Chill Mist (ranged Frost, splash)
Sky
- Gust (ranged Sky)
Venom
- Acid (reliable Venom)
Earth
- Rock (touch Earth)
Fire
- Sunburst (ranged Fire)
- Fire Ball (ranged Fire)
Shadow
- Phantasmal Force (melee Shadow)
- Midnight Mantle (ranged Shadow, splash)
Water
- Flood (ranged Water, splash)
- Flow (melee Water, splash)
Condition imposers
No damage, high chance to impose a buff on the player or debuff on the enemy (but not both). Should have 100% accuracy unless it's a particularly powerful buff/debuff or it's fast or has another effect.
- Boulder (hard shell self)
- Breath (nodding off)
- Cat Calling (harpooned)
- Sleeping Powder (area, nodding off)
- Clock (confusion)
- Insanity (diehard self)
- Negation (festering)
- Conjurer (grabbed)
- Fume (enraged self)
- Glower (softened)
- Petrify (stuck)
- Poison Courtship (poisoned)
- Rot (poisoned)
- Stone Rot (fast, poisoned)
- Riposte (fast, retaliate)
- Revenge Stance (revenge)
- Fluff Up (recovering)
- Feint (focused self, tired)
- Take Cover (sniping self)
- Wallow (healing user, focused self)
- Mending (healing user)
- Evasion (focused self, fast)
- Changeling (recovering self, Cosmic type switch)
- Chameleon (hard shell self, Wood type switch)
- Arcane Eye (elemental shield self)
- Tinder (burn)
- Blood Nets (lifeleech)
- Canine (wild)
- Feline (fast, wild)
- Clairaudience (feedback self)
- Terror (lockdown)
- Overfeed (slow)
- Barking (flinching)
- Lust (exhausted)
(blinded, charging, wasting, prickly)
Simple techniques
Some damage, and a condition or other effect (reliable, fast, type change); or lots of damage (1.6-3). Accuracy should be good (80-100%, with 80% and 85% being reserved for the more powerful options).
Normal
- Proboscis (reach Normal, lifeleech)
- Stampede (melee Normal, charging self)
- Constrict (reliable Normal, grabbed)
- Goad (melee Normal, fast, enraged)
- Assault (melee Normal, fast)
Venom
- Slime (reach Venom, festering)
- Pseudopod (reach Venom, festering)
- Web (melee Venom, grabbed)
- Spit Poison (ranged Venom, poisoned)
- Sting (melee Venom, poisoned)
- Venom (ranged Venom, higher damage)
- Battery Acid (ranged Venom, higher damage, poisoned)
- Muck (reach Venom, higher damage)
Metal
- Blade (melee Metal, fast)
- Bullet (ranged Metal, fast)
- Perfect Cut (reliable Metal, higher damage)
- Shuriken (ranged Metal, diehard self)
- Rust Bomb (ranged Metal, splash, poisoned)
- Wall of Steel (melee Metal, fast, hard shell self)
- Saber (melee Metal, higher damage)
- Platinum (melee Metal, focused self, softened)
- Tip (melee Metal, higher damage, festering)
Wood
- Blossom (ranged Wood, healing self)
- Splinter (reach Wood, blinded)
- Overgrowth (ranged Wood, grabbed)
- Stabilo (ranged Wood, multi attack)
Sky
- Whirlwind (ranged Sky, fast)
- Wingtip (melee Sky, fast)
- Peregrine (melee Sky, fast, higher damage)
- Biting Winds (ranged Sky, softened)
- Air Chain (reach Sky, higher damage)
Fire
- Magma (ranged Fire, area)
- Salamander (reach Fire, poisoned)
- Fire Claw (reach Fire, burn)
- Breathe Fire (ranged Fire, higher damage)
- Flamethrower (ranged Fire, higher damage, burn, slow recharge)
- Torch (reach Fire, flinching)
- Wall of Fire (reach Fire, elemental shield self, burn)
Frost
- Ice Storm (ranged Frost, area, higher damage)
- Icicle Spear (melee Frost, splash, higher damage)
Shadow
- Strangulation (melee Shadow, higher damage)
- Mobbing (melee Shadow, higher damage)
Cosmic
- Muddle (ranged Cosmic, both focused)
- Amnesia (reach Cosmic, higher damage, both exhausted)
- Starfall (ranged Cosmic, focused self, tired)
- Ruby (reach Cosmic, higher damage)
- Mind Vise (melee Cosmic, stuck)
- Shapechange (melee Cosmic, user changes type)
Earth
- Sand Spray (touch Earth, blinded)
- Thunderball (melee Earth, flinching)
- Mudslide (melee Earth, softened, higher damage)
- Quicksand (touch Earth, stuck, higher damage)
- Grinding (melee Earth, higher damage)
- Pit (touch Earth, harpooned)
- Walls (touch Earth, hard shell self)
Water
- Venomous Tentacle (reach Water, poisoned)
- Font (ranged Water, recovering self)
- Kraken (melee Water, higher damage)
Lightning
- Thunderclap (ranged Lightning, exhausted)
- Battery Discharge (ranged Lightning, healing user)
- Surge (ranged Lightning, charging self)
Heroic
- Invictus (touch Heroic, enraged self, grabbed)
- Beam (ranged Heroic, blinded)
- Berserk (melee Heroic, enraged self)
- One-Two (touch Heroic, higher damage)
- Radiance (ranged Heroic, higher damage)
Exotic techniques
These do strange things, fitting into a niche rather than being usable often.
Attacks
- Energy Claws (melee Lightning, sniping) (melee attack that makes it harder to make melee attacks in future)
- Kindling Flame (ranged Fire, enraged) (ranged attack that makes it harder to make ranged attacks in future)
- Panjandrum (reliable Normal, fixed damage)
- Sleep Bomb (reach Cosmic, both nodding off)
- Blood Bond (touch Water, both lifeleech)
- Bubble Trap (reach Cosmic, both grabbed)
- Fester (reach Venom, area, both festering)
- Orbs (ranged Aether, change user type to a random element)
- Undertaker (melee Shadow, sacrifice)
Special
- Ants, Fiery, Geyser, Sylvan, Electroplate, Ubuntu (switch target element)
- Gold Digger (take money from opponent)
- Hibernate (heal, nodding off self)
- Levitate (both sniping) (both monsters now benefit from making ranged attacks)
- Life Surge (heal self, charged up) (heal self but at expense of empowering enemy)
- Eyebite (fast, exhausted, slow recharge)
- Scope (scope)
- Clamp On (diehard self, grabbed)
- Sudden Glow (healing user, recovering self, focused)
- Mystic Blending (healing user, charging self, switch target element randomly, slow recharge)
- Fire Shield (elemental shield self, burn)
- Cloud Aether (switch user and target elements, new elements chosen randomly)
- Ice Shield (elemental shield self, slow)
- Neutralize (remove type changes and conditions from self and target)
- Solar Synthesis (heal)
- Shooting Star (heal)
Powerful techniques
Lots of damage and a condition or other effect, and with shorter recharges than you would expect given their power.
Attacks
- Firestorm (reach Fire, area, very high damage)
- Supernova (ranged Fire, charged up, very high damage)
- Lava (ranged Fire, area, burn both, very high damage)
- Surf (ranged Water, splash, very high damage)
- Tsunami (reach Water, area, very high damage)
- Stonehenge (reach Earth, splash, very high damage)
- Earthquake (touch Earth, area, very high damage)
- Viper (reliable Venom, very high damage)
- Electrical Storm (ranged Lightning, splash, very high damage)
- Frostbite (reach Frost, poisoned, very high damage)
- Snowstorm (melee Frost, splash, exhausted, very high damage)
- Avalanche (ranged Frost, higher damage, splash, exhausted)
- Shrapnel (ranged Metal, fast, splash, very high damage)
- All In (touch Heroic, recovering self, very high damage)
- Give All (melee Heroic, exhausted self, very high damage)
- Tonguespear (melee Normal, lifeleech, higher damage)
- Ten Thousand Feathers (ranged Sky, charging self, high damage)
- One Million Talons (melee Sky, flinching, high damage)
- Greenstone (touch Earth, high damage)
- Meltdown (reach Venom, high damage, chance of flinching)
- Time Crisis (ranged Cosmic, fast, slow)
Special
- Refresh (heal self, recovering self)
- Energy Field (fast, charging self, exhausted)
- Static Field (hard shell self, exhausted)
- Nest (healing self, sniping self)
Reserved techniques
These techniques are only used by a single monster family, or access to them through other methods is very limited.
- Tux Attack (melee Frost/Heroic, fast) (a rare double-element technique) - for Tux
- Vorpal (melee Metal, revenge, fast, very high damage) - for Bugnin
- Webs Wind (ranged Sky, slow, very high damage) - for Firomenis
- Oedipus (reach Metal, revenge self, confused) - for Miaownolith
- Demiurge (touch Cosmic, recovering self, confused) - for Altie
- Adamantine (touch Metal, very high damage) - for Windeye
- Ring (reach Wood, splash, recovering self) - for Tourbidi
- Suplex (melee Earth, diehard, exhausted) - for Sumchon
- Cavity (reliable Normal, very high damage) - for Gliffary
- Suck Poison (melee Toxic, damage, transfers poisoned) - for Nudiflot