Draft:Shiren 5 2020:Item Resonance

Resonances are basically equipment combos. When you have certain sets of items equipped, you get certain effects / benefits.

All known resonances require 2 different items in different categories to be equipped. This is usually a sword and a shield, but can also involve torches and bracelets. All known effects are good. The most common effect is to be able to equip two bracelets at the same time. There is no known way to have multiple resonances in effect at the same time, though a single item can be involved in multiple resonance pairs.

Resonances do not appear in your game UI until you activate them for the first time. After activating a resonance for the first time, the descriptions of both items change to mention the resonance it can make with its partner item. Consequently, it's not 100% clear that all possible resonances have been found. Shiren 5 gives some hints about some resonances (e.g. from Superspy Daisaku), but there are definitely many resonances that are not hinted anywhere in Shiren 5.

It's possible that other resonances were hinted in Shiren 4, though

(a) Shiren 4 was never officially translated into English and

(b) given how sparse resonance hints are in Shiren 5 it's doubtful all of them were hinted in Shiren 4 either.

(Note that this is very similar to how the game handles Runes and secret pot effects on New Items; a handful of things are hinted, and it seems you can only find the rest by experimentation or possibly via hints in a game that was never published in English.) No one yet has reported doing a massive experiment to try equipping every possible combination of two items to prove that this is the full set of resonances, and no one yet has reverse engineered the game to prove the list is complete either. If by any chance you do find a new resonance, announce it to the world and get credit!

Reportedly, new items can still trigger resonances based on their original stock base items, but this needs confirmation.

The resonance effect allowing you to equip two bracelets is extremely powerful when coupled with new item bracelets. You can have up to 8 great bracelet effects active at the same time rather than just the usual 1 bracelet effect! See Crafting and New Items for details. But other resonance effects might be more important depending on your situation. For example, in Destiny's Descent, which doesn't let you take items in and doesn't allow new items to appear, and which does experience normal day/night cycles, resonances that improve strength, equipment strength, or provide useful aids at night might be more helpful to win the run.

Weapon and Shield Resonances

Weapon	Shield	Effect
Ordinary Stick	Plain Targe	Equip 2 bracelets
Tin Blade	Tin Shield	Equip 2 bracelets
Katana	Iron Targe	Equip 2 bracelets
Beast Fang	Beast Shield	Equip 2 bracelets
Dotanuki	Wolfshead	Equip 2 bracelets
Bladite	Targite	Equip 2 bracelets
Red Blade	Red Shield	Equip 2 bracelets
Kabura Katana	Fuuma Shield	Damage +5
Fuuma Sword	Fuuma Shield	Damage +5
Fuuma Sword	Helix Shield	Damage +10
Dull Gold Edge	Gold Shield	Max Strength +3
Bright Blade	Day Shield	Can read scrolls at night
Myopic Masher	Spry Shield	Attack and defense +3
Crescent Katana	Blast Shield	Attack and defense +3
Lizard Lasher	Snake Shield	Attack and defense +3
Shoddy Dirk	Shoddy Plank	Sword and shield can't rust
Glass Dirk	Glass Buckler	Immune to magic
Dirk of Debts	Pauper's Plank	20% to make monsters drop 200-399 Gitan (replacing their normal drop)
Extreme Sword	Rush Shield	Equip 2 bracelets
Breeze Blade	Midnight Shield	Sword and shield can't rust
Burning Blade	Swap Shield	Improves fireball damage by 1 level. Fireball does 30 damage if sword is level 8 or has Blue Flame rune
Wonder Pick	Nirvana Board	Max HP +30
Pathetic Blade	Pathetic Shield	Equip 2 bracelets; if both are level 8, replaced by a chance to push back adjacent monsters
Kaburagi	Helix Shield	Damage +10

Bracelet Resonances

Sword/Shield	Bracelet	Effect
Nap Rattle	Alert Bracelet	Sleep chance +2%
Baffle Axe	Anti-Conf. Bracelet	Confusion chance +2%
Violent Blade	Mojo Bracelet	Chance to slow monsters
True Knife	Anti-Parry Brce.	Thrown items always hit
Counter Shield	Strength Bracelet	Doubles counter damage
Student Shield	Growth Bracelet	Doubles experience from Growth Bracelet

See Also

Shiren 3 resonances

Shiren 4 resonances

Magic Castle Resonances

External Souces

These excellent external references may have better and more complete information that has not yet been replicated to this wiki:

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mGBY1txjWch9mckciV7WqbcO6a5VF1P3exPNOsaK580/edit?usp=sharing