List of abilities in Dragon Quest VIII
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This is a list of all the abilities in Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King for the PS2 in alphabetical order of weapons.
| Name | Description | Notes | MP Cost | Learned by | Tension? |
| Helm Splitter | A skull-splitting smash that lowers an opponent's defense as it inflicts damage | Deals normal damage and reduces an enemy's defense by 50% (25% in 3DS) of its base defense score for 7-10 turns. | 0 | Yangus: Axe (6 points) | Yes |
| Hatchet Man | An unpredictable attack that can slay an enemy with a single blow... if it connects. | It has a 50% chance to miss, 25% chance to make a normal hit, and a 25% chance to make a critical hit. Recommended for hunting metal enemies. | 3 | Yangus: Axe (19 points) | Yes |
| Parallax | A focused strike capable of occasionally paralyzing an enemy | Deals 30% more damage than a standard attack and has a 1⁄8 chance to paralyze an enemy for 5-8 turns | 2 | Yangus: Axe (42 points) | Yes |
| Axes of Evil | Generates a vortex from your axe blade that chews into a group of enemies | Hits all enemies in a group from left to right. The first hit is slightly weaker than a normal attack and the damage lessens as the attack moves through the group | 0 (2 in 3DS) | Yangus: Axe (42 points) | Yes |
| Executioner | A powerful roundhouse strike that fells an opponent in one blow if it hits | An upgraded Hatchet Man. Instead of a 25% chance to make a normal hit and a 25% chance to crit, it's a 50% chance to crit. | 3 | Yangus: Axe (42 points) | No |
| Typhoeus' Maul | An ancient axe technique that works wonders on monsters of the beast family. | Against most enemies, this causes 50% more damage than a normal attack. Against beast enemies, it does double the damage of a normal attack | 6 | Yangus: Axe (100 points) | Yes |
| Crosscutter Throw | Traces an X in the air as it ploughs in the enemy. | Hits the first enemy with 80% normal power. The second strike on the first enemy is 10% of the first hit times the number of enemies on screen. | 2 | Hero and Morrie: Boomerang (6 points) | Yes |
| Power Throw | A full-force throw that damages all enemies equally. | Does slightly less damage than a normal attack, but deals consistent damage to each enemy. | 4 | Hero and Morrie: Boomerang (18 points) | Yes |
| Firebird Throw | Transforms your boomerang into a firebird that incinerates your enemies. | Deals consistent fire damage to each enemy in the range of 36-45 damage. | 6 | Hero and Morrie: Boomerang (32 points) | Yes |
| Super Throw | A fearsome attack that uses all your strength to cause extreme damage to all foes. | An upgraded Power Throw. Does slightly more than normal damage and damages consistently across all enemies hit. | 4 | Hero and Morrie: Boomerang (52 points) | Yes |
| Starburst Throw | Bathes all enemies in a shower of burning light. | Deals base damage of 76-84 points to all enemies. | 8 | Hero and Morrie: Boomerang (82 points) | Yes |
| Gigathrow | Pulverizes a single enemy with the force of a thunderbolt. | Deals lightning damage with the calculation of ([LVL x 2 + 125] +/- 10%) to a single enemy. | 15 | Hero and Morrie: Boomerang (100 points) | Yes |
| Sandman's Arrow | A magical arrow capable of putting a single enemy to sleep. | Deals the same amount of damage as a normal attack, but may put the enemy to sleep at the same accuracy as snooze | 2 | Angelo: Bow (6 points) | Yes |
| Cherub's Arrow | A secret bow technique that regenerates your own MP. | Deals the same amount of damage as a normal attack, but regenerates the users MP at 1⁄16 the amount of damage dealt. | 0 | Angelo: Bow (18 points) | Yes |
| Needle Shot | Capable of felling an enemy instantaneously if a vital area is hit. | Deals 1 damage, but has a 1⁄16 to instantly kill an enemy. | 1 | Angelo: Bow (25 points) | No |
| Multishot | A hail of blows directed randomly against one or more enemies. | Fires 3-4 arrows at randomly chosen targets at half the damage of a normal attack | 4 | Angelo: Bow (44 points) | Yes |
| Seraph's Arrow | A secret technique that recovers even more MP than the Cherub's Arrow | An upgraded Cherub's Arrow. Deals the same amount of damage as a normal attack, but regenerates the users MP at 1⁄8 the amount of damage dealt. | 0 | Angelo: Bow (66 points) | Yes |
| Shining Shot | An arrow that bathes all enemies in a destructive magical light. | Deals base 116-124 points of Boom-based damage. | 10 | Angelo: Bow (88 points) | Yes |
| Needle Rain | A rain of arrows that can occasionally obliterate all enemies in a single salvo. | 1|16} chance to insta-kill an enemy. If not, each hit does 1 damage. | 1 | Angelo: Bow (100 points) | Yes |
| Sarcastic Snigger | Reduces a single enemy's Tension by one level. | Lowers the Tension of a single enemy by 1 level. | 3 | Angelo: Charisma (13 points) | No |
| Angel Eyes | A powerful glance capable of paralyzing a single enemy. | Does 15-28 points of damage and has a 1⁄8 chance to paralyze an enemy. | 4 | Angelo: Charisma (19 points) | Yes |
| Chilling Chuckle | Reduces the Tension of an entire group of enemies by a degree. | An upgraded Sarcastic Snigger. Lowers a group of enemies' Tension level by 1. | 3 | Angelo: Charisma (52 points) | No |
| Charming Look | A glance so powerfully captivating that it burns all enemies in its path. | An upgraded Angel Eyes. Does 65-85 (65-105 on 3DS) points of damage to all enemies and has a 1⁄8 chance to paralyze an enemy. | 4 | Angelo: Charisma (81 points) | Yes |
| Heart Breaker | An attack that occasionally causes the target to miss a turn. | Does normal damage, but the enemy has a 25% chance to miss their turn. | 2 | Yangus: Club (19 points) Morrie: Club (20 points) |
Yes |
| Penny Pincher | A special technique that steals gold coins from an enemy. | Does normal damage but steals 10% of an enemy's money when it connects. It does not affect the money gained at the end of the battle. Small chance there is no gold dropped. | 2 | Yangus: Club (25 points) | Yes |
| Monster Masher | A powerful smash that works wonders on monsters of the material family. | Deals 50% more damage to material monsters. Occasionally does more more damage to other monsters. On the 3DS, it deals 25% more damage to normal monsters and 75% more damage to material monsters. | 3 | Yangus: Club (32 points) | Yes |
| Mind Breaker | A superior club attacks that dominates foes and renders them unable to attack. | An upgraded Heart Breaker. Does more damage than a normal attack and has a higher chance to lose a turn. | 2 | Yangus: Club (71 points) | Yes |
| Gold Rush | A powerful strike that steals an opponent's gold coins as it inflicts damage. | An upgraded Penny Pincher. It does 25% more damage and steals 20% of an enemy's money. Like Penny Pincher, it is not guaranteed to steal the money on a hit, and it does not affect the money earned at the end of a battle. | 2 | Yangus: Club (93 points) | Yes |
| Devil Crusher | An esoteric club technique effective on demon and material family members. | An upgraded Monster Mash. It does 50% damage to demons and material monsters. On the 3DS, it does 75% damage to them, and 25% damage to normal monsters. | 5 | Yangus: Club (100 points) | Yes |
| Stone's Throw | Hurls rocks at a single group of enemies. | Deals base 8-20 damage to a group of enemies. | 0 | Hero: Fisticuffs (17 points) Jessica: Fisticuffs (19 points) Morrie: Fisticuffs (7 points) Red: Fisticuffs (18 points) |
Yes |
| Knuckle Sandwich | A powerful focused and damaging bare-fisted strike. | Deals 50% more damage to an enemy that isn't resistant to the strike/rock element. Is not increased by Tension but does not expend it either. | 2 | Hero: Fisticuffs (24 points) Yangus: Fisticuffs (12 points) Angelo: Fisticuffs (35 points) Morrie: Fisticuffs (28 points) |
No |
| Defending Champion | A defensive ability that greatly reduces the damage inflicted by physical attacks. | Reduces damage done to the character by 90%. | 0 | Hero: Fisticuffs (11 points) Angelo: Fisticuffs (68 points) Red: Fisticuffs (7 points) |
Yes |
| Harvest Moon | Pummel all enemies with a chain of cartwheels and backflips. | It uses the calculation 3/(1+number of enemies) times damage to each enemy. | 6 | Jessica: Fisticuffs (45 points) Angelo: Fisticuffs (42 points) Red: Fisticuffs (60 points) |
Yes |
| Thin Air | Generates a powerful vacuum-vortex that slices all enemies to ribbons. | Damage is calculated using the calculation (((Level*2 + 30) * 0.8) +/- 10%) capping at level 60 which means its maximum damage is 108-132. | 0 | Hero and Yangus: Fisticuffs (42 points) Jessica: Fisticuffs (68 points) Morrie: Fisticuffs (42 points) Red: Fisticuffs (33 points) |
Yes |
| Multifists | A vicious four-hit strike on a random enemy. | Each hit does 1⁄3 normal damage meaning maximum damage is 4⁄3 normal damage. | 0 | Hero: Fisticuffs (70 points) Yangus: Fisticuffs (60 points) Morrie: Fisticuffs (68 points) |
Yes |
| Boulder Toss | Showers all enemies with enourmous boulders. | Deals base 72-104 damage to all enemies. | 4 | Hero: Fisticuffs (82 points) Yangus: Fisticuffs (100 points) |
Yes |
| Miracle Moon | A miraculous technique that pummels all enemies while regenerating your own HP. | An upgraded Harvest Moon. Deals the same damage as Harvest Moon but recovers a quarter of the first blow in HP to Angelo. | 6 | Angelo: Fisticuffs (100 points) | Yes |
| Warcry | A hideous battle cry that hits a group of enemies with paralysis. | Enemies may be stunned and lose a turn. | 0 | Yangus: Humanity (32 points) | No |
| Underpants Dance | Paralyses all enemies with embarrassment. | Enemies may be stunned and lose a turn. Similar to Warcry. | 0 | Yangus: Humanity (55 points) | No |
| Golden Oldies | A multi-hit battle royale with King Trode and friends. | Attack four times randomly, dealing damage equal to 1.2 times Yangus' current level. | 15 | Yangus: Humanity (100 points) | No |
| Toxic Dagger | A knife-fighting technique that envenomates a single enemy. | Deals half damage but has a 50% chance to poison the enemy | 3 | Jessica: Knife (9 points) Red: Knife (6 points) |
Yes |
| Assassin's Stab | A fearsome technique that fells an opponent instantly by attacking their vital parts. | Deals normal damage but has a 1⁄8 chance to instantly kill the enemy. | 8 | Jessica: Knife (22 points) Red: Knife (25 points) |
Yes |
| Toxic Sword | A sword-fighting technique which envenomates an enemy with each strike. | An upgraded Toxic Dagger. Does 75% of normal damage and always poisons the enemy if it can. | 8 | Jessica: Knife (66 points) Red: Knife (76 points) |
Yes |
| Sudden Death | A fatal flash that strikes down an enemy like a bolt out of the blue. | An upgraded Assassin's Stab. Does 30% more damage and has a 25% chance to kill the enemy. | 8 | Jessica: Knife (100 points) | Yes |
| Steal Sickle | Occasionally enables you to steal items from those you slash. | Deals normal damage but lowers the drop rate of items by 1⁄4. Does not work if Yangus defeats the enemy using this skill unless you are playing the 3DS version. | 0 | Yangus: Scythe (22 points) | Yes |
| Wind Sickles | Sends a whirlwind of sickles pirouetting into the enemy. | Deals Woosh-type damage using the calculation ((Level x 3 + 10) +/- 15%), capping at level 57. | 0 | Yangus: Scythe (32 points) | Yes |
| Grim Reaper | A swing of Death's scythe that can instantly kill one or more foes in a group. | Inflicts normal damage but has a chance to instantly kill enemies in a group depending on the Whack resistance of the enemy. | 3 | Yangus: Scythe (50 points) | Yes |
| Stainless Steal Sickle | An improved version of the Steal Sickle attack technique. | An upgraded Steal Sickle. Inflicts 25% more damage than normal and has a chance at stealing an item at half its normal drop rate. Like Steal Sickle, it does not work if you kill with this attack unless playing the 3DS version. | 0 | Yangus: Scythe (70 points) | Yes |
| Grimmer Reaper | The aura of Death incarnate annihilates the living and obliterates the undead. | An upgraded Grim Reaper. It has the same chance to kill a group of enemies but does normal damage but deals less and less damage to each following enemies. It does 25% more damage to zombie enemies. | 3 | Yangus: Scythe (90 points) | Yes |
| Big Banga | An enormous explosion that consumes everything in its path. | Before level 55, it will deal base 175-225 Fire damage to enemies, but after, it will deal base 300-400 damage. | 30 | Yangus: Scythe (100 points) | Yes |
| Blow Kiss | A special kiss that can temporarily prevent an enemy from attacking. | Does damage based on Jessica's attack type and has a 1⁄8 chance for the enemy to lose a turn. | 0 | Jessica: Sex Appeal (8 points) | Yes |
| Puff-Puff | Charms and excites an enemy into paralysed submission. | Has a chance to paralyse an enemy, but deals no damage. | 0 | Jessica: Sex Appeal (38 points) | Yes |
| Hip Drop | Pelvic punishment! Curvaceous hips equal big damage. | Deals 30% more damage than a normal attack. | 0 | Jessica: Sex Appeal (48 points) | Yes |
| Sexy Beam | Focus the power of passion into a beam that sows destruction and confusion. | Deals base 65-75 damage to an enemy, then Fuddles an enemy depending on their fuddle resistance. | 3 | Jessica: Sex Appeal (54 points) | Yes |
| Pink Typhoon | A sudden typhoon that rips a group of enemies into ribbons. | Deals base 70-80 Woosh damage to all enemies. | 5 | Jessica: Sex Appeal (88 points) | Yes |
| Hustle Dance | Restores at least 70 HP to all party members. | Restores 70-80 HP to each party member. | 0 | Jessica: Sex Appeal (100 points) | Yes |
| Mercurial Thrust | A lightning-fast thrust. | This attack does 80% of normal damage but always goes first. | 0 | Hero: Spear (7 points) | Yes |
| Thunder Thrust | Difficult to perform, but has a high chance of doing critical damage. | This attack has a 50% chance to miss, 25% to do normal damage, and 25% to crit. In the 3DS, it will not consume Tension. | 3 | Hero: Spear (12 points) | No |
| Multithrust | A flurry of repeated thrusts that can pierce multiple enemies. | Hits 3-4 times with each hit doing 50% damage. Each hit attacks a random enemy. | 4 | Hero: Spear (25 points) | Yes |
| Clean Sweep | Drives back a group of enemies with a sweep of the spear. | Deals strike/rock type damage and deals damage in this pattern from left to right: 100%/80%/64%/56%/40%/25%/16%. If there are more than 8 monsters, it will hit the rest with 16% as well. | 0 (2 on the 3DS) | Hero: Spear (45 points) | Yes |
| Lightning Thrust | Lands a critical hit when it connects. | An upgraded Thunder Thrust. It misses 50% but will crit 50%. Again, on the 3DS, it will not expend Tension. | 3 | Hero: Spear (59 points) | No |
| Lightning Storm | Strikes down all enemies with mighty thunderbolts. | Deals base 190-220 Zap-based damage to all enemies. | 25 | Hero: Spear (100 points) Angelo: Sword (100 points) |
Yes |
| Caduceus | A blessing from the heavens that restores a single party member's HP. | Restores 75-95 HP to one ally. | 0 | Jessica: Staff (57 points) Angelo: Staff (48 points) |
Yes |
| Dragon Slash | An attack that causes heavy damage to dragons. | Deals normal damage to normal enemies and an extra 50% to dragons. | 0 | Hero: Sword (9 points) | Yes |
| Flame Slash | Channels the power of a raging fire into the blade of your sword. | Deals damage based on vulnerability to Sizz. In order, the possible damage done are 130%/115%/75%/30% | 0 | Hero: Sword (15 points) Angelo: Sword (9 points) |
Yes |
