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Viper Rune
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Type

Command

Element

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The poison comming from the snake this rune sprung from is deadly to most creatures. Embedded to your skin, deadly hits can be landed onto your target. That is, if your strike was successfull. The rune lowers your hitting percentage to merely 33% resulting in a lot of misses. Unless you fight enemies with many hit points which are not invulnerable to instant death attacks you might reconsider bringing this rune into battle.

The Viper Rune was introduced in Suikoden 2 along with many other new command runes. In every game the rune shows it's appearance, it is sold in shops and therefore hardly to miss. Suikoden Tactics features both Poison and Instant Death attacks to portion the runes effect into three different commands. Watch out for Lelei and Keneth bringing the Viper Rune into combat by default. - Celes

Suikoden 2 Data
   5000
Inflicts Instant Death (100%) / 1 enemy.
Hit% = 1/3 for that turn / self.
Equipped Sold Dropped Found
 Two River: Rune ShopMelonzoo - 2% (Greenhill Forest #1)

"Guardian Deity" - UDUU

Suikoden 3 Data
   5000
Inflicts Instant Death (100%) / 1 enemy.
Hit% = 1/3 for that turn / self.
Equipped Sold Dropped Found
 Brass Castle: Rune Shop

Guild Hall: Rune Shop
Rabit Rabbit 

Suikoden 5 Data
   10000
Inflicts Instant Death (100%) / 1 enemy.
ACC = 1/3 for that turn / self.
Equipped Sold Dropped Found
Lelei - RH

Raftfleet (Southern Warf): Rune ShopKiller Bunny

Zahak/Alenia - 100% (after the second part of "Sol-Falena Siege" War Battle)
 

Suikoden Tactics Data
   1000
For 1H-sword users only.
1
Poison Slash (1 unit)
DMG x1 / 1 unit.
Inflicts Poison / 1 unit.

Range: 1
Casting time: Instantaneous
2
Viper Bite (1 unit)
DMG x1 / 1 unit.
Inflicts Instant Death / 1 unit.

Range: 1
Casting time: Instantaneous
3
Hydra (8 surrounding areas)
DMG x1 / all units in range.
Inflicts Poison / all units in range.

Range: 0
Casting time: Instantaneous
Equipped Sold Dropped Found
Keneth - RH

Red Mercenary - RH

Razril: Rune Shop

Obel: Rune Shop

Na-Nal: Rune Shop

Merseto: Rune Shop
Red Mercenary (Terana Plains)