Lost Judgment: every Special skill
Skill catalogue, part 3 of 3
These are all 36 Special skills, covering food, investigation, drinking, smoking, extract crafting, and Dice & Cube. They cost 343,400 SP altogether, before buying the required books. This final part completes the 184-skill base-game catalogue.
Each price is for that individual skill or level. Unless a requirement is listed, no earlier skill or book is needed once the menu is available. Book prices are separate from skill prices; all eight book routes are listed below.
Food, shopping, and recovery
149. Conscious Eater: 600 SP
Restaurant meals restore 10% more health.
150. Healthy Eater: 2,500 SP
Requires: Conscious Eater.
Restaurant meals restore 20% more health.
151. Enlightened Eater: 20,000 SP
Requires: Healthy Eater.
Restaurant meals restore 30% more health.
152. Lucky Gourmand Lv. 1: 600 SP
Increases the chance that restaurant menus contain more Lucky Bonus dishes.
153. Lucky Gourmand Lv. 2: 2,500 SP
Requires: Lucky Gourmand Lv. 1.
Further increases the chance that restaurant menus contain more Lucky Bonus dishes.
154. Lucky Gourmand Lv. 3: 10,000 SP
Requires: Lucky Gourmand Lv. 2.
Gives the best chance of extra Lucky Bonus dishes in restaurant menus.
155. Blame Shifter: 10,000 SP
Lets you continue using a shop after wrecking its interior during combat.
156. Auspicious Gourmet: 20,000 SP
Requires: Superstitious Eater's Guide.
Shows which types of Lucky Bonus each restaurant offers on the map.
157. Bottomless Stomach: 40,000 SP
Requires: The Art of Gluttony.
Allows you to order restaurant food even when your health is full.
158. Music Appreciation: 600 SP
Gradually restores health while you listen to music on a record player.
Investigation skills
159. Target Locked: 1,200 SP
Highlights targets and other people you need to watch during tailing and stealth missions.
160. Silent Destroyer: 1,200 SP
Makes targets and other people less likely to notice you breaking objects during tailing and stealth missions.
161. Mental Momentum Lv. 1: 600 SP
Adds five seconds to find a lost tailing target before failure, for 25 seconds total.
162. Mental Momentum Lv. 2: 2,500 SP
Requires: Mental Momentum Lv. 1.
Raises the extra time to find a lost tailing target to ten seconds, for 30 seconds total.
163. Mental Momentum Lv. 3: 10,000 SP
Requires: Mental Momentum Lv. 2.
Raises the extra time to find a lost tailing target to fifteen seconds, for 35 seconds total.
164. Master of Deception Lv. 1: 2,500 SP
Extends how long you can maintain Act Casual while tailing.
165. Master of Deception Lv. 2: 5,000 SP
Requires: Master of Deception Lv. 1.
Further extends how long you can maintain Act Casual while tailing.
166. Master of Deception Lv. 3: 10,000 SP
Requires: Master of Deception Lv. 2.
Extends Act Casual to its longest duration while tailing.
167. Takedown Master: 2,500 SP
Requires: Surprise Backhug.
Makes the target less likely to notice you before a takedown during a stealth mission.
168. Photo Op Sense: 600 SP
Makes the controller vibrate just before a photo opportunity during Photo Missions.
169. Photo Master: 1,200 SP
Extends Focus Time, the slow-motion ability used during Photo Missions.
Drinking and smoking
170. Barfly: 600 SP
Raises your maximum drunkenness level from 6 to 7.
171. Boozehound: 2,500 SP
Requires: Barfly.
Raises your maximum drunkenness level from 7 to 8.
172. Borderline Alcoholic: 20,000 SP
Requires: Boozehound.
Raises your maximum drunkenness level from 8 to 9.
173. Liquid Courage: 600 SP
Increases EX Gauge gain in combat while you are drunk.
174. Liquid Bravery: 2,500 SP
Requires: Liquid Courage.
Further increases EX Gauge gain in combat while you are drunk.
175. Liquid Valor: 20,000 SP
Requires: Liquid Bravery.
Gives the largest EX Gauge gain bonus in this branch while you are drunk.
176. Social Smoker: 600 SP
Fills one EX Gauge segment when you smoke in a designated smoking area.
177. Chain Smoker: 2,500 SP
Requires: Social Smoker.
Fills two EX Gauge segments when you smoke in a designated smoking area.
178. Walking Fumigator: 10,000 SP
Requires: Chain Smoker.
Fills three EX Gauge segments when you smoke in a designated smoking area.
Extract skills
179. Extract Virtuoso: Conservative: 10,000 SP
Requires: Ramblings of a Hermit.
Gives extract crafting a chance to consume no materials.
180. Extract Virtuoso: Double: 20,000 SP
Requires: The Walkin', Talkin' Hermit.
Gives extract crafting a chance to produce two extracts at once, provided you have two empty vessels.
181. Extract Master: 40,000 SP
Requires: Extract Virtuoso: Conservative and Extract Virtuoso: Double.
Extends the duration of extracts you consume.
Dice & Cube skills
182. High Roller: 10,000 SP
Requires: Unofficial VR Strategy Guide 2021.
Adds one star to your starting total in Dice & Cube.
183. Elevated Roller: 20,000 SP
Requires: Unofficial VR Strategy Guide 2021 [Append] and High Roller.
Adds another starting star in Dice & Cube, for two extra stars total.
184. Exalted Roller: 40,000 SP
Requires: Unofficial VR Strategy Guide 2021 [True] and Elevated Roller.
Adds another starting star in Dice & Cube, for three extra stars total.
The eight skill books used here
Buying or finding a book unlocks the purchase. Return to the Skills menu afterward and spend the skill's SP cost.
- Superstitious Eater's Guide: complete Squirrels Just Wanna Have Fun to receive this book. It unlocks Auspicious Gourmet for 20,000 SP.
- The Art of Gluttony: buy it from Onodera's Wares in Ijincho's homeless camp for 50,000 SP. Bottomless Stomach costs another 40,000 SP, so budget 90,000 SP for the book and skill together.
- Surprise Backhug: buy it at Coming Boon in Ijincho for ¥3,500. Takedown Master then costs 2,500 SP.
- Ramblings of a Hermit: exchange 250 points at Open Road Shogi by the homeless camp. Extract Virtuoso: Conservative then costs 10,000 SP.
- The Walkin', Talkin' Hermit: inspect the squirrel in the window display opposite Smile Burger on Northwest Theater Square Road in Kamurocho. Use the Detector on the lantern above the vending machine in front of Smile Burger. Extract Virtuoso: Double costs 20,000 SP afterward.
- Unofficial VR Strategy Guide 2021: buy it from Onodera's Wares for 100 SP, then learn High Roller for 10,000 SP.
- Unofficial VR Strategy Guide 2021 [Append]: summon Ranpo around Hills Garden in Kamurocho, north of Ikinari Steak, and follow him to the pickup by the manhole. Elevated Roller costs 20,000 SP and also requires High Roller.
- Unofficial VR Strategy Guide 2021 [True]: inspect the squirrel on the sign in the dead-end lot east of Sushi Zanmai on Taihei Boulevard in Kamurocho. Call Ranpo and follow him north to the light post. Exalted Roller costs 40,000 SP and also requires Elevated Roller.
For the two squirrel books, finish Squirrels Just Wanna Have Fun before following the drawings. The two later VR books continue the same branch: the full three-skill Roller chain costs 70,100 SP including the first book, and gives three extra starting stars in total.
Final 184-skill check
The complete base-game checklist is:
- Stats: 39 skills, 708,600 SP.
- Abilities: 28 skills, 196,700 SP.
- Tiger: 27 skills, 288,600 SP.
- Crane: 25 skills, 165,400 SP.
- Snake: 29 skills, 229,800 SP.
- Special: 36 skills, 343,400 SP.
That is 184 purchases and 1,932,500 SP in skill fees. The 28 required books add their own SP, yen, or minigame-point costs. The optional Boxer DLC tree is separate and is not required for Skill Master.
If Skill Master has not unlocked, check every category for a skill you have unlocked but not bought. For a locked skill, check both its book and its earlier-skill requirements. Include EX Flying Blow: Sky Dancer in Crane's 25, and make sure the Excerpts of a True Crane reward has been collected from the office mailbox in your completion save.
Buying the last book is not the last step. Return to the Skills menu and purchase every remaining skill. The next appendix covers the 30 optional Boxer street skills.
Lost Judgment: every Special skill
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