Nexus Ray

From The World Ends With You

Nexus Ray is a Negative-based psych. To activate it, press and hold the stylus in a direction, Neku will face in that direction and begin to charge a shot. Once the charge is complete, Neku will fire a thin beam in a horizontal line, damaging all enemies in its path.

[edit] Analysis

Nexus Ray has high attack power and excellent efficiency. Unfortunately, it has two significant drawbacks: charge time and accuracy. The thin beam cannot be aimed at any angle, so Neku must be directly facing the enemy before firing. It does not have any area damage, so the thin beam must touch an enemy in order to damage it. As a ranged puck finisher, it is usually better to use Burst Rounds pins instead.

[edit] Anguis vs. Big Bang/Big Crunch

Big Bang and its twin, Big Crunch have multiple uses. One use will drain both pins. Despite its enormous pin ATK, Big Bang is not a good pin due to its terrible reboot time. Kaleidoscope will deal equal or more damage if Neku has at least 180 ATK due to better psych efficiency. However, it does deal more damage than Kaleidoscope under SOS.

Anguis, a post end-game pin, has a niche role of obliterating bosses with its single shot. It can be paired up with a Turbo Gauge pin for a second use. Although it is the most powerful single shot in the game under normal circumstances, all Massive Hit pins and Black Uranus will deal more damage under an optimal SOS setup. Therefore, the best use of Anguis is in conjunction with SOS. At hard difficulty, Anguis SOS at 204 base ATK and +130% SOS ATK will deal 8439 base damage with a 5X puck. This is ~76% more than Black Uranus SOS at 201 base ATK and +100% SOS ATK (4776). It is all but a guaranteed one-hit KO at lower difficulties. With such immense power, Anguis is an excellent pin for time attacking.

Id	Name	Brand	Cls	Boot	Reboot	Limit	Uses	Psych	Action	Elm	EFF%	Power	Atk200
299	Anguis	Unbranded	R	0	0		1	Nexus Ray	P	Neg	100	999	1199
207	Big Bang	Gatito	B	---	33.3		3	Nexus Ray	P	Neg	100	250	450
208	Big Crunch	Gatito	B	---	33.3		3	Nexus Ray	P	Neg	100	250	450
245	Tin Pin Bahamut	Unbranded	R	0	16.6		1	Nexus Ray	P	Neg	100	150	350