5★ Fuuka Yamagishi's Oracle Shift

Thank you for playing Persona5: The Phantom X. 
We have prepared this post to clarify how 5★ Fuuka Yamagishi's Oracle Shift works.

■ What is Oracle Shift?
Oracle Shift is an effect that allows players to select 1 ally to be a Shift Member at the party selection screen, and swap that ally into the party during battle.

■ How Oracle Shift works
• The Shift Member does not count as a party member. However, the battles they participate in will count towards their number of battles in some content with battle count restrictions. They are also bound by certain rules as well as the restriction on using multiple characters with the same name.

• Shift Member actions are not counted as actions. They do not reduce the cooldown time for Elucidator skills or count towards your total number of actions.

• Effects that activate when a Shift Member is swapped in and joins the battle, or when they leave after their action ends, will activate at their respective timings.
Examples of effects that activate on entry: Effects that activate at the start of battle (activates only upon their first entry via Oracle Shift), Theurgy Gauge boosts, etc.
Examples of effects that activate on exit: Highlight gauge boosts, number of turns passed on buffs and debuffs, etc.

• After a Shift Member enters battle for the first time, their skill cooldown times will decrease as normal even after they leave. 

• While the Shift Member is inactive, they are considered not in battle, and cannot contribute to the battle or attack.
Passive abilities that apply direct effects during battle will be temporarily inactive. However, passive effects that are linked to debuffs will still be active even while the Shift Member is inactive.
Example of a passive ability linked to a debuff: Mitsuru Kirijo's Awareness 2, etc.

• While the Shift Member is in battle, buffs and debuffs applied to allies and foes will continue to take effect after the Shift Member leaves the battle if the effects still have turns remaining.

• Buffs and debuffs granted to the active character who swaps out with the Shift Member will be copied and applied to the Shift Member.
However, effects granted by the Shift Member and the active character will not be copied.
Copied buffs and debuffs are removed after the Shift Member leaves the battle.
Also, when the original character returns to battle, buffs and debuffs will not be copied over again.

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