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All of the best Piercing attacks in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth/Hacker’s Memory

Piercing attacks are worth their weight in gold in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth. When the game’s version of difficulty increases is raising enemy stats, you need something to punch right through! In this iteration of the Aggregate, we’ve listed all the best piercing attacks in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth.

This article will be going off the fact that all Digimon are available in both Cyber Sleuth and Hacker’s Memory if you buy the complete edition, which is available on Switch and Steam.

I also won’t be listing Digimon that are under Mega level unless they’re fringe cases like Lucemon. It’s very easy to get fully digivolved mons in these games, so you don’t have to stick with weaker digivolutions. Crusadermon NX has a piercing attack but I highly doubt you’ll sincerely use that Digimon.

There are also only two free types (Hawkmon and Stingmon) with piercing attacks, and realistically you won’t really be using either of those mons.

The Basics

Piercing attacks that ignore DEF use the attacker’s Attack stat. Piercing attacks that ignore INT use the attacker’s INT stat. INT is both Special Attack and Special Defense, like in the first generation of Pokemon.

Don’t worry too much about the description of the attack when it comes to medium/strong/extra strong. It’s more important that you’re ignoring the target’s defense. For what it’s worth, the modifiers are as follows:

  • Medium – 1.0 attacker’s stat
  • Strong 1.7 attacker’s stat
  • Extra Strong 2.5 attacker’s stat

If you played vanilla Cyber Sleuth then these numbers might seem low. The modifiers were initially 1, 2, and 3 respectively but as you can imagine, it was quite OP and was nerfed.

Best Data Piercing Attacks

This is the smallest category. There are only three Data types with piercing attacks. All three of them are INT-piercing.

  • Plesiomon (water, AOE)
  • Rosemon BM (Light, restores 50% of damage as HP)
  • Gryphonmon (Wind, can inflict Bug status)

Best Vaccine Piercing Attacks

Quite a bit more variety here.

  • Lucemon (light, INT, AOE)
  • Wargreymon (Neutral, DEF)
  • Slayerdramon (Neutral, DEF, increases speed by 10%)
  • Neptunemon (Water, DEF, always hits)
  • Alphamon Ouryuken (Neutral, DEF)
  • Omnimon (Water, INT)
  • Omnimon Zwart (Water, INT)
  • Chaosmon (Dark, INT) – don’t get too excited about this one, his INT is terrible
  • Ouryumon (Electric, DEF, tends to critical more often) – Incidentally, all of the Digimon in the Ouryumon line have piercing attacks

Best Virus Piercing Attacks

It’s probably harder to find a good Virus Mega that doesn’t have a piercing attack, honestly.

  • Arcadiamon Mega (Neutral, DEF, absorbs 30% damage as HP) – realistically you’ll be using his digivolution instead
  • Arcadiamon Ultra (Neutral, DEF, AOE, absorbs 10% damage as HP)
  • Chaosdramon (Electric, DEF, 80% accuracy, inflicts poison)
  • Kerpymon Black (Electric, INT, tends to critical more often)
  • Titamon (Earth, DEF)
  • Grankuwagamon (Plant, DEF, tends to critical more often)
  • Tyrantkabuterimon (Fire, DEF, AOE, cannot act next turn)
  • Blackwargreymon (Dark, DEF)
  • Beelzemon Blast Mode (Dark, DEF, absorbs 20% damage as HP)
  • Belphemon Sleep Mode (Dark, INT, AOE, 50% chance to cause sleep)
  • Belphemon Rage Mode (Dark, DEF)
  • Gallantmon (Dukemon) Crimson Mode (Light, DEF, Always hits, 10% chance to cause instant death)
  • Crusadermon (LordKnightmon) (Fire, DEF, 30% chance to stun)
  • Lilithmon (Dark, INT, 35% chance to poison)

Wrapping up

Most of the Mega and Ultra level Digimon are useful, and you shouldn’t discount any of them just because they don’t have piercing attacks. If you read my previous articles, then you know that I think MarineAngemon is the best mon in the game for its sheer utility. Don’t forget to use Accel Boost to amp up your attacks!

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