| “ | CON helps determine your physical defense, while MND factors toward magical defense. |
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| ~ Loading tip from Ritual of the Night |
Constitution, abbreviated as CON, is a statistic featured in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. It is a player character's "natural" defense, and their Constitution plus their equipped armor's strength make up the Defense (DEF) stat proper.
Description[]
The Constitution (CON) statistic is a numerical representation of the player character's own developed physical resistance during the course of the game, which increases as they acquire Experience (EXP) and level up, allowing them to further withstand and survive attacks from enemies.
Constitution directly affects the Defense (DEF) stat - at more CON, the DEF stat will grow higher. This, in conjunction with the player's currently equipped armor pieces, which generally also give CON and/or DEF bonuses, will increase the player's overall DEF stat, making the player character more resilient to attacks.
At some points, however, even if the CON stat is receiving a bonus (e.g.: by equipping a piece of gear that slightly boosts CON), the DEF stat may remain at its same base value. Nonetheless, the DEF stat will usually receive the respective bonus after the player has leveled up. On the other hand, equipping a piece of gear that greatly boosts CON will generally also notably increase the DEF stat. In this regard, CON can be considered to be a counterpart of the Strength (STR) stat, just focusing in raising DEF instead of Attack (ATK).
As with all stats, the CON stat will increase each time the player levels up (generally by 1 point). Additionally, as mentioned, the player can artificially further increase this stat by equipping gear or by using shards that boost CON.
In Bloodless Mode, Bloodless can improve her CON by finding shards of Blood of Tenacity in addition to leveling up.