Ninja (Record Keeper ability type)

Ninja (忍者, Ninja?) is an ability type in Final Fantasy Record Keeper, and part of the Other category.

Mechanics

The Ninja school is a very diverse school. Unlike most other ability schools, Ninja has a mix of physical and magical attacks, and a variety of elements. Ninja magic ignores Resistance, allowing it to deal heavy damage even on a character with low Magic. Meanwhile physical Ninja skills have a recurring theme at higher levels of two pairs of abilities; one that grants the Blink status and allows it to stack, and a second ability that deals more hits the more stacks of Blink the user has. Ninja abilities also execute extremely quickly, 0.83 seconds for many of them.

A minor instance of note is that the Ninja school has the only two abilities accessible to the player that inflict the Sap status, which is occasionally needed to meet Medal conditions in some dungeons.

Notable abilities in the Ninja school include: Smoldering Fire and Raging Storm, which deal two hits of RES-ignoring damage; the mentioned pairs of Blink-themed abilities, which come in Water, Dark, and Earth varieties; and the Rank 6 ability Stich in Tim.

List of Ninja abilities

Rank 2

Users:

Record spheres:

Ability	Uses	Damage	Cast time	Power	Element(s)	Status(es)	Crafting
	Description
Shuriken	2 (+2)	Physical	1.65s	1.40	None	None	x5 x3 x3
	Deal ranged damage to one target.

Rank 3

Users:

Record spheres:

Ability	Uses	Damage	Cast time	Power	Element(s)	Status(es)	Crafting
	Description
Swift Bolt	4 (+2)	Magical	0.83s	21.00	Lightning	None	x5 x3 x3
	Deal magic lightning damage to all targets, ignoring their Resistance.
Water Veil	4 (+2)	Magical	0.83s	21.00	Water	None	x5 x3 x3
	Deal magic water damage to all targets, ignoring their Resistance.
Fire Veil	4 (+2)	Magical	0.83s	21.00	Fire	None	x5 x3 x3
	Deal magic fire damage to all targets, ignoring their Resistance.

Rank 4

Users:

Record spheres:

Ability	Uses	Damage	Cast time	Power	Element(s)	Status(es)	Crafting
	Description
Flurry of Petals	2 (+2)	Physical	1.65s	6x 0.37	None	None	x5 x8
	Deal ranged physical damage to six targets at random.
Shadowsteel	2 (+2)	Physical	1.65s	2.10	None	Sap (25%)	x5 x3 x3
	Deal physical damage to one target, with a moderate chance to Sap it.
Phantasm	2 (+2)	Magical	0.83s	39.00	None	Sleep (50%)	x5 x3 x3
	Deal magic non-elemental damage to one target, ignoring its Resistance, with a moderate chance to Sleep it.
Gust	2 (+2)	Magical	0.83s	26.00	Wind	Npne	x5 x5 x5
	Deal magic wind damage to all targets, ignoring their Resistance.

Rank 5

Users:

Record spheres:

Ability	Uses	Damage	Cast time	Power	Element(s)	Status(es)	Crafting
	Description
Doppelblade	2 (+2)	Physical	0.83s	1x 1.19	None	Sap (17%)	x10 x6 x6
	Deal two physical attacks to all targets, with a moderate chance to Sap them.
Smoldering Fire	2 (+2)	Magical	0.83s	2x 26.00	Fire	None	x10 x6 x6
	Deal two ninjutsu fire attacks to one target, ignoring their Resistance. Reduced delay before hitting.
Raging Storm	2 (+2)	Magical	0.83s	2x 26.00	Wind	None	x10 x6 x6
	Deal two ninjutsu wind attacks to one target, ignoring their Resistance. Reduced delay before hitting.
Reflecting Pool	2 (+2)	Physical	0.83s	2x 1.00	Water	None	x10 x6 x6
	Deal two physical water attacks to one target, grant the user Mirror Image, enabling them to avoid one physical attack, and grant Multiple Reflections, allowing Mirror Image to stack up to two times on the user.
Raging Waters	2 (+2)	Physical	0.83s	?x 0.70	Water	None	x10 x6 x6
	Deal three, five, or seven physical water attacks to one target. Deals more attacks depending on the number of Mirror Image stacks on the user.
Ancestral Reflection	2 (+2)	Physical	0.83s	2x 1.00	Dark	None	x10 x6 x6
	Deal two physical dark attacks to one target, grant the user Mirror Image, enabling them to avoid one physical attack, and grant Multiple Reflections, allowing Mirror Image to stack up to two times on the user.
Shadow Embodied	2 (+2)	Physical	0.83s	?x 0.70	Dark	None	x10 x6 x6
	Deal three, five, or seven physical dark attacks to one target. Deals more attacks depending on the number of Mirror Image stacks on the user.
Shifting Sands	2 (+2)	Physical	0.83s	2x 1.00	Earth	None	x10 x6 x6
	Deal two physical earth attacks to one target, grant the user Mirror Image, enabling them to avoid one physical attack, and grant Multiple Reflections, allowing Mirror Image to stack up to two times on the user.
Desert Mirage	2 (+2)	Physical	0.83s	?x 0.70	Earth	None	x10 x6 x6
	Deal three, five, or seven physical earth attacks to one target. Deals more attacks depending on the number of Mirror Image stacks on the user.

Rank 6

Unlocking access to Rank 6 Ninja abilities requires the individual character to be at Level 65 and have their second level cap broken, unlocking their Record Spheres. The player can then use Ninja Motes to unlock access to Rank 6 Ninja. Note that only characters with innate access to Rank 5 Ninja will have the Empowered Sphere that includes access to Rank 6 Ninja; characters who must use their Record Spheres to access Rank 5 have no Empowered Sphere for Ninja and cannot access Rank 6.

Users:

Ability	Uses	Damage	Cast time	Power	Element(s)	Status(es)	Crafting
	Description
Stitch in Time	2 (+2)	Physical	0.01	2x 1.50	None	ATK and MAG +30%, DEF -30% (15s)	x10 x6 x6 (Note that this ability cannot be crafted, and is received from Empowered Spheres. These are the base components as extrapolated from its honing materials.)
	Instantly deal two physical attacks to one target, and temporarily raise the user's Magic and Attack a moderate amount, and temporarily lower the user's Defense a moderate amount.

Gallery

Fire Veil.

Phantasm.

Shadowsteel.

Swift Bolt.

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