Auction is a new mechanic introduced in v2.4 of the game. In Chapter 1 of the Episode “The Lost Tome and the Silver, Unfading Flower”, you gain access to Iota District in Elzion where the Auction House is located. There are 5 skills you can learn in addition to the 4 you start with. This guide seeks to help meet the conditions for learning the extra auction commands; which also unlocks an in-game achievement.
Auction Introduction
Different moves have different effects on the opponent’s Motivation and the bid price. Try to win the Auction Battle quickly before the price gets too high. If your winning bid is higher than expected price, you will get a “Disappointing” rank; getting par or a little under will get you “Good”, and getting a great discount from expected gives you “Excellent”. The price changes the images of the coins on the bid display at the top of the screen. Finishing with 1 stack of coins is “Excellent”.
There are 5 skills you can learn in addition to the 4 you start with. The condition for a chance to obtain a new skill is to get the opponent to display the skill, and win the auction with a Good or Excellent result. The auction skills you can learn from the opponents are:
- Vigilance – Wealthy Old Man
- Finishing Stroke – Impatient Man
- Hold Ground – Prudent Lady
- Self-help – Serene Young Man
- Pacify – Strange Madame
Wealthy Old Man – “Vigilance” Command
- T1: Breakthrough Move (Wealthy Appeal)
- T2: Standard Move (Rich Move)
- T3: Vigilance (Super Rich Move)
- T4: Breakthrough Move (Rich Move)
- T5: All-in Move
win with Excellent result, 84.5% of recommended price
- T1: Breakthrough Move (Rich Move)
- T2: Finishing (Rich Move)
- T3: All-in Move (Super Rich Move)
- T4: Hold Ground
win with Excellent result, 77% of recommended price
- T1: Self-Help Move (Underhanded Move)
- T2: All-in Move (Finishing Stroke)
- T3: Standard Move (Furious Attack)
- T4: All-in Move (Underhanded Move)
win with Good result, 94% of recommended price
If you have not learned “Self-Help” yet, this also works:
- T1: Breakthrough Move (Underhanded Move)
- T2: Standard Move (Finishing Stroke)
- T3: All-in Move (Furious Attack)
- T4: Standard Move (Underhanded Move)
- T5: Standard Move
win with Good result, 92% of recommended price
After that, use following 2 strategies based on the command he uses in turn 1.
- T1: Breakthrough Move (Finishing Stroke)
- T2: Finishing Stroke (Underhanded Move)
- T3: All-in Move (Furious Attack)
- T4: Standard Move
win with Excellent result, 80% of recommended price
- T1: Breakthrough Move (Underhanded Move)
- T2: Finishing Stroke (Finishing Stroke)
- T3: All-in Move (Furious Attack)
- T4: Hold Ground
win with Excellent result, 77% of recommended price
- T1: Breakthrough Move (Rest)
- T2: Standard Move (Rest)
- T3: All-in Move (Hold Ground)
- T4: Breakthrough Move (Rest)
- T5: Standard Move (Rest)
- T6: All-in Move
win with Excellent result, 83% of recommended price
After that, there are 2 possible routes.
- T1: Standard Move (Rest)
- T2: Standard Move (Super Vigilance)
- T3: Standard Move (Rest)
- T4: Standard Move (Logical Expression)
- T5: All-in Move (Rest)
- T6: All-in Move
win with Excellent result, 85% of recommended price
- T1: Standard Move (Rest)
- T2: Standard Move (Rest)
- T3: Breakthrough Move (Logical Expression)
- T4: Finishing (Rest)
- T5: All-in Move
win with Excellent result, 77% of recommended price
- T1: Standard Move (Crude Remark)
- T2: Standard Move (Self-Help)
- T3: All-in Move (Restrained Words)
- T4: Standard Move
win with Excellent result, 77% of recommended price
You need to watch for his action in turn 1 and turn 2 to determine the strategy to win over him.
- T1: Standard Move (Safe Move)
- T2: Breakthrough Move (Restrained Words)
- T3: Finishing Stroke (Crude Remark)
- T4: All-in Move
win with Excellent result, 72% of recommended price
- T1: Standard Move (Crude Remark)
- T2: Standard Move (Safe Move)
- T3: Vigilance (Restrained Words)
- T4: Breakthrough Move (Safe Move)
- T5: All-in Move
win with Excellent result, 78.5% of recommended price
- T1: Standard Move (Crude Remark)
- T2: Standard Move (Crude Remark)
- T3: Vigilance (Restrained Words)
- T4: Breakthrough Move (Safe Move)
- T5: All-in Move
win with Excellent result, 80.5% of recommended price
- T1: Breakthrough Move (Crude Remark)
- T2: Finishing (Self-Help)
- T3: All-in Move
win with Excellent result, 62% of recommended price
Note: there is chance that this pattern will fail. Only use this to bid on high price items. When it does not work, reset game app.
Strange Madame – “Pacify” Command
- T1: Standard Move (Without a Care)
- T2: Standard Move (Grinning Move)
- T3: Breakthrough Move (Grinning Move)
- T4: Finishing Stroke (Pacify)
- T5: All-in Move
win with Excellent result, 80% of recommended price
- T1: Finishing Stroke (Pacify)
- T2: Breakthrough Move (Grinning Move)
- T3: Standard Move (Grinning Move)
- T4: All-in Move (Serious Restraint Word / Furious Attack)
- T5: Hold Ground
win with Excellent result, 75% of recommended price
This one has too many patterns. The strategy against her depends on her action on turn 2 and turn 4.
- T1: Standard Move (Without a Care)
- T2: Standard Move (Grinning Move)
- T3: Standard Move (Grinning Move)
- T4: All-in Move (Serious Restraint Word / Finishing / Logical Expression)
- T5: Hold Ground
win with Excellent result, 79% of recommended price
- T1: Standard Move (Without a Care)
- T2: Standard Move (Grinning Move)
- T3: Standard Move (Grinning Move)
- T4: All-in Move (Serious Crude Remark)
- T5: Hold Ground
win with Excellent result, 78% of recommended price
- T1: Standard Move (Without a Care)
- T2: Standard Move (Grinning Move)
- T3: Standard Move (Grinning Move)
- T4: All-in Move (Serious Standard Move / All-in Move)
- T5: Hold Ground
win with Excellent result, 74% of recommended price
- T1: Standard Move (Without a Care)
- T2: Standard Move (Grinning Move)
- T3: Standard Move (Grinning Move)
- T4: All-in Move (Serious Wealthy Appeal)
- T5: All-in Move
win with Excellent result, 77% of recommended price
- T1: Standard Move (Without a Care)
- T2: Standard Move (Grinning Move)
- T3: Standard Move (Grinning Move)
- T4: All-in Move (Serious Super Rich Move)
- T5: Hold Ground
win with Good result, 89% of recommended price
Additional Considerations For General Auction Battling
- T1: Breakthrough Move
- T2: Standard Move
- T3: All-in Move
- T4: Repeat until the fight is over (which is around one more rotation)
Some things to note though, if you’re opponent has a small amount of Motivation but Standard Move won’t take all that away, just use Breakthrough Move and then Standard Move. Chances are the opponent may recover some Motivation and it will cause the fight to drag on for even more time.
- Strange Madame may lock your skills towards the end so Standard Move should be enough but use Hold Ground if need be.
- Impatient Man will also bring you to low Motivation but as long as you just keep to the rotation you should be fine (Use Hold Ground if not).
- If you get stuck with the Prudent Lady using “Guard” or “Super Vigilance” constantly, use Pacify to clear her status, then All-in Move or start a new Breakthrough cycle.
The rest of the opponents shouldn’t be too much trouble with this rotation.
Credits
The original information is obtained from a Japanese write-up[m.gamer.com.tw] and translated by Reddit user u/vaiduakhu