If players want to dominate battles in Digimon Story: Time Stranger, they should learn all about the Cross Arts, one of the main combat mechanics that is critical to beta the most challenging encounters in the game. The Agent's own active ability that is deployed using their Digivice, comes in various shapes and unleashes tremendously useful effects on the battlefield.
Learn everything you need to know about Cross Arts in Digimon Story: Time Stranger with this comprehensive guide. From how to unlock, to how many of these abilities exist, and most important: How and when to use them efficiently.
How to Use Cross Arts in Digimon Story: Time Stranger
To use Cross Arts in Digimon Story: Time Stranger players need to accumulate CP by attacking enemies or healing their Digimon party. The amount of CP gained depends on certain unlocked passives from the Agent Skill Tree. However, attacking enemy Digimon's weak spots or using attacks efficiently (taking advantage of types and attributes) will lead to charging the Cross Arts Bar Faster. Once the Agent's special move is completely charged, it will be displayed in the bottom left corner in the action menu during combat as 'X-Arts.'
Players then need to activate it by tapping E/RT/R2 (Pc/Consoles) and targeting either enemy Digimon or their allies. Cross Arts offer a wide array of effects, from canceling status effects to causing true damage to enemy Digimon. Next, we will take a look at how many Cross Arts exist and how to unlock them.
How to Unlock All Cross Arts in Digimon Story: Time Stranger
The starting Cross Art that players will have (since it unlocks during the Introductory Mission Kuwagamon Boss Fight) it's called Cross Art: Field, and can be used to boost all allies' stats by 50% during 2 turns. After using it, it will enter cooldown, and players will need to accumulate more CP in order to use it again. Now, for the rest of the Cross Arts available in Digimon Story: Time Stranger, here's a detailed list with their names, effects, and their unlock cost in the Bonds of Loyalty Skill Tree:
|
Cross Art |
Effect |
Unlock Cost |
|---|---|---|
|
Cross Art: Burst |
Targets all enemies dealing Massive Damage (never misses) |
30 |
|
Cross Art: Reverse |
Targets all enemies dealing Moderate Damage and applying Reverse (never misses) |
40 |
|
Cross Art: Strike |
Targets a single Enemy, dealing Extreme Damage (never misses) |
40 |
|
Cross Art: Aura |
Targets all allies, recovering a Moderate Amount of HP, applies Status Abnormality Immunity and Status Reduction Immunity |
40 |
|
Cross Art: Heal |
Targets a single ally, recovers 100% of HP and SP, and overheals by 200% of target's max HP and SP |
50 |
|
Cross Art: Revive |
Targets a single ally, reviving it with moderate HP and applying Guts (the target will not take fatal damage and remain with 1 HP) |
50 |
|
Cross Art: Field |
Targets all allies, boosting ATK/DEF/INT/SPI/SPD by 50% for 2 turns |
Already unlocked |
|
Cross Art: Break |
Targets all enemies, dealing minor damage and applying a 25% reduction in ATK/DEF/INT/SPI/SPD for 4 turns. It never misses. |
50 |
|
Cross Art: High Field |
Targets all allies, boosting ATK/DEF/INT/SPI/SPD by 50% for 3 turns, and nullifying magic/physical damage for 1 turn. |
100 |
To unlock each and every Cross Art in Digimon Story: Time Stranger, players might need to acquire a few hundred Anomaly Points and climb those Agent Ranks, but these incredible abilities are critical to overcome the hardest difficulty modes (Hard, Mega, and Mega+) so, players should pick them up as soon as possible and get used to them.
Digimon Story: Time Stranger
- Released
- October 3, 2025
- ESRB
- Teen / Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol
- Developer(s)
- Media.Vision
- Publisher(s)
- Bandai Namco Entertainment
WHERE TO PLAY
- Genre(s)
- JRPG, RPG, Creature Collector
