List of Shin Megami Tensei IV Skills

This page is a list of skills from Shin Megami Tensei IV.
 * Similar to Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, all physical and gun skills consume a flat amount of MP instead of a percentage of max HP.
 * Ice and electric skills no longer cause freeze and shock ailments, respectively.
 * Unlike the series tradition in which only one status ailment can be applied on each character if the newly inflicted ailment has higher priority than the existing one, in this game, multiple ailments can be in effect on one character at the same time.
 * Single targeted elemental spells (e.g. Agi) are slightly more powerful than the all targeted counterparts (e.g. Maragi) unless dealing damage to Horde enemies.
 * Pierce type skills can never penetrate the repel attributes, including the temporary repelling effect granted by Tetrakarn, Makarakarn, Attack Mirror and Magic Mirror.
 * Damage power only refers to the power of each single hit. This means attack doing multiple hits will multiply the resultant damage.
 * The inflicting chance of ailment and instant kill is different than hit rate. The former is varied by the difference of luck stat between the caster and the recipient, the latter is governed by agility stat.
 * All auto skills cannot be learned by Flynn. Other non-enemy exclusive active skills which cannot be taught via Whisper event are marked with a cross†.

Force skills

 * All force skills performed by the enemy on allied demons has 1% chance of causing the "lost" (迷子, maigo) ailment. A lost demon will be unavailable temporarily. There is some chance the enemy on the field to be the lost demon and will return once encountered in battle. The returned demon may carry a random item for the player. Player can never make an enemy "lost" in the normal gameplay.

Ailment skills

 * Sick (風邪, kaze) is a new ailment to the series which weakens attack damage by 25% and evasion to zero. The ailment is contagious. If a sick unit is left untreated, after anyone has completed an action, the infected will spread the ailment to an ally with 5% chance. Sick does not wear off automatically.
 * Brand (烙印, rakuin) is a special ailment which is only accessible by purchasing the related DLCs. It reduces the intake of HP and MP recovery to only 1 point. It cannot be cured by skills but the ailment can be countered by Nerve resistance and will fade over time and be removed automatically after battle.

Stat modifiers

 * Each type (Taru-/Raku-/Suku-) of stat enhancement (-kaja) and penalty (-nda) can stack 3 times.
 * While the game states that any modifier related to Suku- type affects hit rate and evasion rate only, if the Suku- level is uneven among the combatants, the action order will change as well, which is primarily dictated by agility stat.
 * Smirk has the temporary effect of maximizing Tarukaja. When the smirk status wears off, the unit is reverted to its previous stat modified state.

Auto skills

 * If a unit possesses more than one resistance attribute of the same element, only the one of highest priority will be in effect: drain (highest) > repel > null > resist > normal > weak (lowest).

Enemy exclusive skills

 * Unless stated otherwise, the rest of the attacks does one single hit.