New Genesis: Jet Boots Photon Arts and Actions

New Genesis: Photon Arts and Actions
Hunter	Sword	Wired Lance	Partisan
Fighter	Twin Daggers	Double Saber	Knuckles
Ranger	Assault Rifle	Launcher
Gunner	Twin Machine Guns
Force	Rod	Talis
Techter	Wand
Braver	Katana	Bow
Bouncer	Soaring Blades	Jet Boots
Waker	Harmonizer
Slayer	Gunblade

New Genesis: Jet Boots Photon Arts
Spinning Gust	Violent Gale	Fierce Wave	Surging Impulse

Overview

The Bouncer's Jet Boots focuses on utilizing Techniques and PAs to deal elemental damage and inflict one of Bouncer's skills, Elemental Decline, to make enemies more vulnerable to Elemental Downs. Similar to the Soaring Blades, the Jet Boots has 2 stage PAs that can be altered by holding down the PA button, consuming additional PP in the process. By learning Jet Boots Elemental Set, Bouncers can also infuse their Jet Boots attacks with the element they last used, further increasing their contribution to Elemental Downs and damage against an enemy's Elemental Weakness. Similar to Force and Techter, Jet Boots Bouncers can also learn element-based skills in their tree (Foie Brand, Barta Blot, etc.).

Despite their focus on Elemental Downs in their skills and attacks, Jet Boots alone do not significantly increase the amount of Elemental Downs, instead supporting other Technique casters. Technique casting on Jet Boots to activate element-based skills can also be unsafe, as you cannot defend yourself briefly after casting.

Features of Jet Boots

Normal Attacks

Icon	Stat	NA1	NA2	NA3	NA4	Thrust Drive
	Potency	85	95	105	120 x 2	125
	PP Recovery	4	4	5	7 x 2	5

Kick the enemy with the Jet Boots. Jet Attack Extra adds the 4th NA. Thrust Drive performs a gap-closing attack by pressing the Normal Attack button at a certain time after casting a Technique (signified by a purple glow on your character).

Jet Intensity, a skill that allows you to perform numerous kicks to build-up to a strong kick, can be performed by holding the Normal Attack button.

Normal Attacks

• NAs move you forward on the ground and in the air.
• NA4 hits in a wider, vertical range and autoguards from the front until the end of the animation.

Thrust Drive

• Travels further while targeting an enemy.
• You can travel horizontally and vertically with the gap-close.
• You are not invincible during the gap-close (despite disappearing), but it does provide super armor.
• Learning Thrust Drive Skip Attack allows you to perform NA4 after performing a Thrust Drive.

Weapon Action

Icon	Stat	Counter	Follow Up
	Potency	200	220 x 2
	PP Recovery	7	5 x 2

Perform a dodge with the Jet Boots. You can move a short distance in any direction. Learning Boot Trick Bounce Counter and successfully dodging an attack automatically fires a photon projectile, and can be followed up with an additional attack by pressing the Normal Attack button.

Weapon Action

• Cannot be performed consecutively if you fail to dodge an attack; you are vulnerable between dodges.

Counter

• Can be used consecutively to dodge lingering attacks (Dark Falz lasers, Flamedyl earthquake attack, etc.) and to deal rapid damage.
• Fired towards targeted enemies.
• You are invincible during the animation, and you will stay in the air as well.

Follow Up

• You are invincible during the animation. Due to the length of the animation, this can be a downside as you can miss an opportunity to counter.
• You will stay in the air during the animation.

Universal Actions

Action	Potency	PP Recovery
Sidestep Attack	150	7
Sidestep Counter	520	15
Dash Attack	280	15
Dive Attack	200	0

• Sidestep Attack/Counter: After a Sidestep, press Normal Attack to kick the enemy. If you dodge an enemy's attack with Sidestep, damage and PP recovery is increased.
  • Most effective against faster, grounded enemies over Weapon Action counters (Ams, Bujin, etc.)
  • Unlike Weapon Action counters, you will fall during the animation.
• Dash Attack: Perform a wide, horizontal kick in front of you with the Jet Boots.
• Dive Attack: Nearly the same across all weapons. Dive deals damage to nearby enemies and restores no PP, and is mainly used to reach the ground faster.

Photon Blast

Gather photons around you, then perform a kick that sends a sphere of photon energy towards the enemy.

• You will move backwards after kicking.
• Travels horizontally only and penetrates enemies, making it effective against groups of enemies.
• Contributes a high amount of both Physical and Elemental Down accumulation.
• High damage-per-second amongst Photon Blasts.
• Like all Photon Blasts, you are invincible during its animation.
• Potency Notation: Deals 516% x 7 hits.

Photon Arts

Spinning Gust

Icon	Name	Stat	Lv.1	Description
	Spinning Gust	Potency	315	Jet Boots Photon Art. Kick the enemy as you spin vertically. Pressing and holding the PA button will change the attack in exchange for consuming additional PP.
		PP	15 (10)

• Performs two rising kicks in the first half, and an additional kick in the second half. If held, consume 10 PP to alter the second half to instead perform a delayed but stronger kick.
  • The first half can juggle smaller enemies. The altered kick can launch and knock down smaller enemies.
  • You will move roughly a Sidestep in the first half. With lock-on, you will move roughly 2 Sidesteps.
• Provides super armor in the second half, and auto-guards from the front in the unaltered second half, and during the transition to the altered second half until you kick.
• Can be canceled in the first half and unaltered second half at any time with Weapon Action.
• Potency Notation: The first half deals 11% x 2 hits of noted potency, and the unaltered second half deals 46%. The altered second half instead deals 78%.

Violent Gale

Icon	Name	Stat	Lv.1	Description
	Violent Gale	Potency	380	Jet Boots Photon Art. Kick the enemy as you spin horizontally. Pressing and holding the PA button will change the attack in exchange for consuming additional PP.
		PP	18 (10)

• Performs two kicks in front of you in the first half, and additional two kicks in the second half. If held, consume 10 PP to alter the second half to instead perform a retreating kick.
  • You can move in any direction horizontally in the first half.
• The altered second half retreats you to the proper distance for Fierce Wave.
• Provides super armor in the second half, auto-Guards from the front at the beginning of the altered second half (before the retreat).
• Can be canceled in the first half and unaltered second half with Weapon Action.
• Potency Notation: The first half deals 13% x 2 hits of noted potency, and the unaltered second half deals 30% x 2 hits. The altered second half instead deals 30% + 44%.

Fierce Wave

Icon	Name	Stat	Lv.1	Description
	Fierce Wave	Potency	520	Jet Boots Photon Art. Unleashes a shockwave in front of you as you spin vertically. Pressing and holding the PA button will change the attack in exchange for consuming additional PP.
		PP	12 (10)

• Send out a shockwave in the first half and then a single lingering shockwave in the second half. If held, consume 10 PP to alter the second half to instead send out a stronger lingering shockwave.
  • The shockwaves both stop at a set distance. Using Violent Gale's altered second half can launch you to the appropriate distance.
  • You can slowly move horizontally in any direction in the altered second half.
• Performing the altered second half again will replace the previous shockwave.
• Can build up Jetsweep Jolt and Technique skills like Barta Blot and Megid Sphere quickly, especially if hitting multiple enemies.
• Provides super armor in the altered second half.
• Auto-guards from the front during the transition to the altered second half (sending out the 2nd lingering shockwave).
• Potency Notation: The unaltered PA deals 6.5% x 4 hits of noted potency, and with the altered second half, deals 18.5% x 4 hits.

Surging Impulse

Icon	Name	Stat	Lv.1	Description
	Surging Impulse	Potency	320	Jet Boots Photon Art. Rapidly close in on your target and deliver a powerful kick attack. Pressing and holding the PA button will deploy several photon blades that deal damage at the cost of additional PP.
		PP	20 (10)

• Rise off the ground in the first half, then perform a gap-closing kick. If held, consume 10 PP to alter the second half to create an aura around you that will attack surrounding enemies before exploding. Aura can build up Technique Skills.
  • The gap-closing kick will change based on your input. Without input or a backward input, you will move to a position where you can use Fierce Wave effectively. With a forward input, you will remain in front of your enemy. With a left or right input, you will move in their respective direction after kicking the enemy.
  • Altered second half aura lasts for 90 seconds, and explodes after it hits enemies 10 times. Hit interval on a single enemy is 0.9 seconds.
  • The altered second half's aura will still remain active if the Jet Boots are multi-weaponed. However, the aura's damage and Bouncer's Elemental Set bonus damage will be significantly reduced with the other weapon active. Technique Skills will also not build up this way.
• Performing the altered second half again will replace the current aura.
• Effective to maintain the aura for additional damage, maintaining Elemental Decline, and faster Jetsweep Jolt build-up.
  • In addition, using the PA within a group of enemies will cause the explosion faster.
• Auto-guards from the front while approaching the enemy with the gap-closing kick. Auto-guards from all directions while transitioning to the second half until you summon the aura.
• Can be canceled in the first half (the brief rise) with Sidestep, Weapon Action, or Jump.
• Potency Notation: The unaltered second half deals 36% x 2 hits of noted potency, and the altered second half deals 1.5% x 10 hits + 85% (explosion).

Reference

PSO2 NGS Japanese Swiki: Jet Boots PAs and Actions