Draft:Shiren 5 2020:Shield

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Shields (Japanese: 盾) are equipable items that appears in Shiren the Wanderer 5. There are two hundred and ninety-six variants of them in total.

As swords and shields are very similar in terms of gameplay mechanics, the Swords page provides a summary for both categories.

List of Shields

Families

For a list of all shields in the game, see the main article: List of Shields.

Here are all shield families in Item Book order. Runes are equivalent to Lv.1 innate effects.

Family	Defense		Rune Slots		Exp to Lv. 8	Base Innate/Rune Effect	Lv. 8 Innate Effect	Added Runes	Resonance	Finding Tips
	Lv. 1	Lv. 8	Lv. 1	Lv. 8
Plain Targe	2	15	5	∞	28,410			Lv. 4: Lively	Ordinary Stick Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in many places.
								Lv. 8: CR Diet
Tin Shield	4	18	4	∞	34,725				Tin Blade Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in many places.
Iron Targe	6	20	3	∞	41,070				Katana Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in many places.
Wolfshead	8	22	5	∞	44,250				Dotanuki Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in many places.
Beast Shield	10	23	4	∞	50,600				Beast Fang Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in many places.
Targite	12	25	5	∞	57,000				Bladite Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in many places.
Red Shield	14	27	4	∞	63,350				Red Blade Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in many places.
Fuuma Shield	16	30	3	∞	107,700				Kabura Katana Family: Damage +5 Fuuma Sword Family: Damage +10	Lost Well (VIP shops and Pick-A-Choice shops)
Gold Shield	2	14	7	∞	31,600	Rustproof: Does not rust	No change		Dull Gold Edge Family: Max Strength +3	Common in many places.
Diet Shield	2	12	5	∞	63,000	CR Diet: Hunger rate decreased to 50%	Hunger rate decreased to 30%			Common in many places.
Heavy Shield	12	28	9	∞	54,500	Hungry: Hunger rate increased to 200%	Hunger rate increased to 130%			Common in many places.
Midnight Shield	6	15	4	∞	54,500	Nocturnal: Night defense 25%, day defense -50%	Night defense 60%, day defense -120%		Breeze Blade Family: Sword and shield can't rust Torches: Enemy attacks miss more often	Lost Well (VIP shops and Pick-A-Choice shops)
Day Shield	6	15	4	∞	54,500	Diurnal: Day defense 25%, night defense -50%	Day defense 60%, night defense -120%		Bright Blade Family: Can read scrolls at night	Common in many places.
Binary Shield	10	17	3	∞	88,800	Bit: 50% damage reduction when last digit of HP is 0 or 1	85% reduction			Common in many places.
Counter Shield	3	13	7	∞	50,800	Retribution: Counter 28% of damage taken	Counter 51% of damage taken		Strength Bracelet: Counter damage doubled	Common in many places.
Student Shield	3	15	4	∞	63,000	Tiger Mom: Gain experience equal to damage taken	It's unknown whether or not this improves		Growth Bracelet: Another experience point per turn	Common in many places.
Bowl Shield	4	13	4	∞	77,000	Pain Fueled: Sometimes refills hunger when taking damage. 6%	20% (Numbers from Japanese wiki, but I don't know how this rune works in the game)			Common in many places.
Spry Shield	2	13	5	∞	88,800	Agile: 22% evasion rate	43% evasion rate		Myopic Masher Family: Attack and Defense +3	Common in many places.
Blast Shield	5	15	6	∞	77,700	Anti-Blast (1): 50% explosion damage reduction	85% reduction		Crescent Katana Family: Attack and Defense +3	Common in many places.
Lock Shield	5	12	5	∞	44,500	Anti-Theft: Items can't be stolen by monsters	No change			Common in many places.
Safe Shield	6	13	6	∞	44,800	Anti-Burgle: Gitan can't be stolen by monsters	No change			Common in many places.
Gyadon Blocker	7	14	7	∞	77,700	Anti-Peck: Items can't be eaten by monsters	No change			Common in many places.
Snake Shield	10	17	5	∞	84,000	Anti-Fire: 50% fire damage reduction	85% reduction		Lizard Lasher Family: Attack and Defense +3	Common in many places.
Steady Shield	4	14	6	∞	44,500	Unmoving: Immunity to movement effects	No change			Merchant's Hideout (pre-placed) Hunter Pond (monster drop or regular shops)
Anti-Gaze Trge	6	13	5	∞	63,000	Anti-Hypno: Immune to hypnosis	No change			Merchant's Hideout (pre-placed) Hunter Pond (monster drop or regular shops)
Swap Shield	7	19	7	∞	77,000	Magi-Twister: When hit by magic, take 10 damage instead	Take 3 damage instead		Burning Blade Family: Increases flame damage by 1 level With a Blue Flame rune, increases blue flame damage to 30 and does not increase red flame damage	Merchant's Hideout (pre-placed) Hunter Pond (monster drop or regular shops)
Shoddy Plank	30	37	10	∞	112,000	Expendable: Every hit decreases shield power	No change		Shoddy Dirk Family: Sword and shield can't rust (but still weaken from innates)	Underground Manor (free gift for districts 5-10)
Glass Buckler	35	42	4	11	103,000	Unsound: 50% chance to break	36% chance		Glass Dirk Family: Immune to magic	Merchant's Hideout (VIP shops and Pick-A-Choice shops) Hunter Pond (monster drops or regular shops) Heavenly Lake (regular shops)
Pauper's Plank	7	17	5	∞	54,500	Costly: 15% damage reduction at the cost of 30 Gitan when hit. Without Gitan, defense drops to 0	50% damage reduction for 250 Gitan. See this external link for more info.		Dirk of Debts Family: ~20% chance to make monsters drop 200-399 Gitan (replacing their normal drop)	Merchant's Hideout (pre-placed or monster drop) Master's Footprint (pre-placed or monster drop)
Rush Shield	10	20	4	∞	127,000	Offensive: Adds shield power to attack instead of defense	No change		Extreme Sword Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Hunter Pond (monster drop)
Blazing Shield	4	11	4	∞	57,000	Grants a special non-rune ability that can't be synthesized.	No change		Torches: Full light at night	Lost Well (VIP shops and Pick-A-Choice shops)
Onigiri Shield	5	16	5	∞	31,600	Anti-Onigiri: Player and items can't be turned into onigiri	No change			Hunter Pond (monster drop) Storm Forest (pre-placed or monster drop) Primordial Chasm final reward (first time only) Primordial Chasm (pre-placed and regular shops / 50F+) Rousing Paradise (pre-placed)
Parry Shield	8	15	4	∞	127,000	Redirecting: 30% chance to redirect an incoming attack to another enemy	51% chance			Lost Well (final reward / one time only) Hunter Pond Rousing Paradise
Nirvana Board	7	18	6	∞	127,000	Unfamished: Sets max fullness to 1, but it won't deplete	No change		Wonder Pick Family: Max HP +30	Master's Footprint final reward (repeatable) Old Road (regular shop)
Pathetic Shield	2	38	1	∞	127,000				Pathetic Blade Family: Equip 2 bracelets When both are Lv. 8: Can't equip 2 bracelets, but sometimes push back adjacent monsters 1 space	Onigiri Hollow (pre-placed or monster drop) Merchant's Hideout (pre-placed or monster drop) Master's Footprint (pre-placed or monster drop)
Fox Shield	9	30	0	5	306,070					Unlock both fox sister NPC allies; one can morph into both Fox items.
Helix Shield	25	40	∞	∞	305,535				Kaburagi Family: Damage +10	Inori Cave final reward or wish (repeatable)

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