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This article is about the the affinity of skills. For for the major branch of skill types, see Dark Skills (Branch).
Mudoon SMT5

Kumbhanda casting Mudoon in Shin Megami Tensei V

Death Icon IS Dark, formerly known as Death (呪殺?, lit. "curse kill"), also known as Darkness (暗黒, Ankoku)? / (闇, Yami)? and Curse (呪怨, Juen)? in Persona 5, is a spell type in the series and the most recurring line of Dark Skills. Like its light counterpart, Light, Dark skills tend to focus on inflicting instant death, though exceptions do exist.

In most cases, as Death skills, they are a sub-branch of Dark Skills.

General Spells[]

Mudo is the general Dark elemental spell.

Dark skills are always in some way or other automatically blocked by bosses, in order to prevent them from being used to instantly kill the bosses.

In games where the only Dark damaging skills are Death skills such as in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey and Persona 3, all bosses will have an innate void against Dark.

In games where Dark damaging skills (Curse) and Death skills are separate (such as Persona 5 or Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth), all bosses will block Death as if it were a status condition. Curse skills will still affect them unless dictated otherwise.

In games where Dark damaging skills can inflict Death, the Death effect will only activate during certain circumstances, and is either replaced with another or completely nullified if the skills were used against bosses.

  • Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse: Dark skills do regular damage, but will instantly kill enemies during Smirk. If a boss is targeted by a Dark skill from a character with Smirk, it will do critical damage instead of instantly killing it.
  • Shin Megami Tensei V: Dark skills do regular damage, but will instantly kill enemies if they hit a weakness. If a boss is targeted by a Dark Skill, they cannot be instantly killed even if they are weak to it.
Name Japanese/Romaji Power Target
Mudo ムド
Mudo
Low odds fatal 1 enemy
Mamudo マハムド
Mahamudo
Low odds fatal All enemies
Mudoon ムドオン
Mudo'on
High odds fatal 1 enemy
Mamudoon マハムドオン
Mahamudo'on
High odds fatal All enemies

Specific spells[]

Name Power Target
Die For Me! Very high odds of Fatal All enemies
Paral Eyes Paralyzes target 1 enemy
Petra Eyes /
Stone Gaze
Petrifies target 1 enemy
Death Road /
Hell's Eye
Kills target 1 enemy
Bael's Curse Inflicts Fly ailment 1 enemy
Blood Thief /
Blood Suck
Inflicts Bat ailment 1 enemy

Game Specific[]

Shin Megami Tensei: if... Exclusive[]

Name Effect Target
Wire Breath Inflicts Bind ailment Multiple enemies
Sol Cluster Kills target 1 enemy

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Exclusive[]

  • The status ailment "stone" is affiliated with the Death element.
Name Power Target
Evil Gaze HP reduces to 1 1 enemy
Hell Gaze High odds fatal 1 enemy
Death Flies Almighty heavy damage + 100% Death fatal all enemies

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Exclusive[]

Name Power Target
Darkness 100% Fatal, Mem Aleph Only Entire Party

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Exclusive[]

Name Power Target
Glimmering Eye Chance to petrify Lowest level enemy

Megami Ibunroku Persona specific[]

  • "Eiha" (エイハ*)? is Japanese for "Shadow Wave" (影波, Eiha)?, in contrast to Kouha (Light Wave).
  • In Megami Ibunroku Persona, Maeiha dealt heavy Death damage each turn, in Persona 5 this was changed to light damage each turn, its old role being replaced by Maeigaon.
Skill Japanese/Romaji Effect Target
Eiha エイハ
Eiha
Light Death damage each turn 1 enemy
Baeiha バイエイハ
Baieiha
Medium Death damage each turn Area
Maeiha マハエイハ
Mahaeiha
Heavy Death damage each turn All enemies

Persona 2 series Exclusive[]

Name Power Target
Stagnant Air Light All enemies
Curse Medium All enemies
Dark Verdict Heavy + fatal All enemies
Omega Cluster Special, fatal All enemies
Chaos Element Special All enemies

Persona 5 Exclusive[]

Skill Japanese/Romaji Effect Target
Eiha エイハ
Eiha
Light Curse damage each turn 1 Enemy
Eiga エイガ
Eiga
Medium Curse damage each turn 1 Enemy
Eigaon エイガオン
Eigaon
Heavy Curse damage each turn 1 Enemy
Maeiha マハエイハ
Mahaeiha
Light Curse damage each turn All enemies
Maeiga マハエイガ
Mahaeiga
Medium Curse damage each turn All enemies
Maeigaon マハエイガオン
Mahaeigaon
Heavy Curse damage each turn All enemies

Digital Devil Saga series Exclusive[]

Name Power Target
Curse Inflict ailment - cursed 1 enemy
Blood Curse Inflict ailment - cursed All enemies
Wicked Curse Medium + cursed All enemies
Millennia Curse Instantly kills or curses all enemies.
(3 Death or Mudo Skills)
All enemies
Stone Gaze Petrifies target 1 enemy
Petrifier Chance to petrify all enemies.
(Combo is Stone Gaze + -nda skill)
All enemies

Gallery[]

Game Icons

Iconology[]

The glyphs which are employed in the visual effects of the Mudo spells and Magatsu Mandala are Siddhaṃ script. It is commonly seen in "Womb Realm Seed Mandala" (胎蔵界種子曼荼羅).


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