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| - Monster Skills are various abilities available only to enemies in the Golden Sun GBA games, which have a variety of effects. Differentiating these from Psynergy abilities is that none of these subtract from their users' PP meters and the enemy can still use them even if their Psynergy has been sealed. Contrast with List of Psynergy used by enemy Adepts. It is possible to tell the difference between Psynergy and Monster Skills in-game because the battle text says that enemies "use" or "unleash" Monster Skills and "cast" Psynergy. All of the monster-only abilities in the two GBA games are listed below, categorized by effect. All offensive effects in the game that damage multiple targets at a time use any one of three ratios that determine how much of the force the targeted enemy takes will enemies standing to the side of the targeted enemy take if the range of the area-of-effect attack include them in in its range. The various area of effect abilities in the tables below will be marked with these three symbols: [N]: The "Normal" ratio, in which an enemy standing one space away from the target takes 80% of the area-of-effect attack's force, an enemy standing two spaces away takes 60%, three spaces away 40%, four spaces away 20%, and finally five spaces away 10%. [D]: The "Diminishing" ratio, in which an enemy standing one space away from the target takes 50% of the area-of-effect attack's force, an enemy standing two spaces away takes 30%, and any enemies standing three, four, and finally five spaces away take 10% of the damage as the target. [S]: The "Summon" ratio, in which an enemy standing one space away from the target takes 70% of the area-of-effect attack's force, an enemy standing two spaces away takes 40%, three spaces away 30%, four spaces away 20%, and finally five spaces away 10%.
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