Draft:Shiren 5 2020:Shield

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

For a list of all individual shields, see 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	Rune	Innate Effect		Added Runes	Resonance	Finding Tips
	Lv. 1	Lv. 8	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 (elite 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 (elite 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	(Test 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	6% chance to recover 1 fullness when taking damage	20% chance			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 Hunter Pond
Anti-Gaze Trge	6	13	5	∞	63,000	Anti-Hypno	Immune to hypnosis	No change			Merchant's Hideout Hunter Pond
Swap Shield	7	19	7	∞	77,000	Magi-Twister	Nullifies magic bullets and you 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 Hunter Pond
Shoddy Plank	30	37	10	∞	112,000	Expendable	Every hit decreases shield power	No change		Shoddy Dirk Family: Sword and shield can't rust (still weaken from innate)	Underground Manor (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 (elite shops) Hunter Pond Heavenly Lake 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, 250 Gitan per hit.		Dirk of Debts Family: ~20% chance to make monsters drop 200-399 Gitan (replacing their normal drop)	Merchant's Hideout Master's Footprint
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
Blazing Shield	4	11	4	∞	57,000	N/A	Burns items to illuminate surroundings. Cannot be turned into a rune.	No change		Torches: Full light at night	Lost Well (elite shops)
Onigiri Shield	5	16	5	∞	31,600	Anti-Onigiri	Player and items cannot be turned into onigiri	No change			Primordial Chasm final reward (first time only) Found in Hunter Pond, Storm Forest, Primordial Chasm, Rousing Paradise
Parry Shield	8	15	4	∞	127,000	Redirecting	30% chance to redirect an incoming attack to another enemy	51% chance			Lost Well final reward (first 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 shops
Pathetic Shield	2	38	1	∞	127,000					Pathetic Blade Family: If both are Lv. 8: Sometimes push back adjacent monsters 1 space Otherwise: Equip 2 bracelets	Onigiri Hollow Merchant's Hideout Master's Footprint
Fox Shield	9	30	0	5	306,070				Energizing (Lv. 2), Adaptive (Lv. 3), Ability Regen (Lv. 5), Critproof (Lv. 7), Curative (Lv. 8)		Unlock Koharu
Helix Shield	25	40	∞	∞	305,535					Kaburagi Family: Damage +10	Inori Cave final reward or wish (repeatable)

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