What Does Guts do in One Piece Odyssey? – Answered

One Piece Odyssey is a JRPG, and that means there are lots of numbers to contend with. For the most part, this game has pretty standard, universal stat values. But there is one that doesn’t fit the JRPG “everyone does this” list, and that’s Guts. We have seen players searching for what exactly Guts does in this game, and we have the information for them. I mean, the game does too, but that’s neither here nor there.

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One Piece Odyssey has five different stats. These stats are HP, TP, ATK, DEF and GUTS. There’s also EXP depending on what menu you’re looking at. Anyway, the Guts stat in One Piece Odyssey is basically “special defense.” It’s a value that brushes up against damage done by enemy skill attacks. The regular DEF just applies to regular attacks. That’s it, really.

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For the record, this is information you can find in the game, as I mentioned before. So let’s use the rest of this space I am obligated to fill in with directions. To find various explanations on the various elements in One Piece Odyssey, pause the game and head over to the Settings menu.

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From there you can use the triggers to tab over to the Help section, marked with a little question mark. There’s a lot of decent information here, such as the very topic of this article explaining how each stat works. There’s stuff listed in there that you can look at before the game even introduces things in tutorial form. So it’s a pretty handy resource if you’re just wondering about some random aspect of One Piece Odyssey. It could save you some Google time, at the very least.