Different Artes also have different attack arcs, fields of effect, or move the character and target around in different ways. It's just a bit of optimization and I think you still need 10 more hours to better familiarize yourself with the combat system.ДЄlso learn to play all the characters, they are all fun in their own ways (probably except for Rokurou who I find to be the weakest character).ДЄrtes also have secondary effects like Stun, Poison, Health Drain, etc (not instantly, but they build up an invisible meter on the target). I wouldn't try and optimize mixing between different categories of Artes until you're further in the game. Arcane of course being just regular spellcasting. Velvet and Rokurou use Martial/Hidden, Eizen uses Martial/Arcane and Laphicet uses Hidden/Arcane. Each character only can do attacks from two of those three categories. If you hold R1/RB to bring up the enemy stats panel it will say if they are weak/strong to Martial/Hidden/Arcane Artes. Hidden Artes are different from Martial Artes in that they generally cost more SC to use and are more flashy. Rokurou's Hidden Artes is just like everyone else's Hidden Artes, just named like that. Therion's finishing move depends on what type of enemy (Human, Beast, Amorphous, Undead, Winged/Bird, etc.) you hit first when you enter Therion state. Stunned enemies/characters take double damage from all sources, and is usually a death sentence against bosses. You want to avoid getting stunned at ALL COSTS. Combining that with Stun Snipe (guard for 1.5 seconds?), if you land the first hit against multiple enemies and stun them all, you will get multiple souls back (especially useful when using Eizen's fourth neutral Martial Arte Coercion which has extra stun chance and very long range). Conversely the less souls, the harder it is to be inflicted with status effects and the easier it is to deal them. You could use it to cancel out of attacks but eh.ДЄlso something to keep in mind, the more Souls you have held, the easier it is for you to be inflicted with status effects and harder to deal them out, including getting stunned. Which is useless when fighting 1v1 because the enemy will still be in hitstun when your combo finishes. I might be remembering wrong, but his combo can only continue if you perform a successful counter (enemy hits you when you Break Soul). If you wade into 3-5 enemies just attacking at random there's a good chance you can keep going forever.ДЇor Rokurou, his combo potential is extremely limited compared to other characters. Which she enters Therion state, she generally has super armour on all her moves, and her chance to stun becomes very high. You can get souls from 1) Killing enemies 2) Having enemies use their Break Souls on you (doing so transfers a soul to your target, and if you Break Souls you will also transfer souls to the enemy) 3) Stunning an enemy 4) Doing a perfect dodge will spawn a soul somewhere on the field 5) If an ally dies they will spawn 2 souls on the field.ДЇor Velvet, it is very easy to keep combos going. The trick is to find ways to keep getting souls. As long as you keeping getting more Souls, you can keep Breaking them to extend your combo to infinity. Extending combos is a bit conditional yeah.

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