List of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Skills

Below are a list of skills present in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, all sorted by their element.

Physical Skills

Basic physical attack skills. Damage varies depending on enemies' physical resistances.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Lunge	Light physical damage to a single enemy.	10% HP
Needle Rush	Light physical damage to a single enemy.	10% HP
Stun Needle	Light physical damage to a single enemy. May cause stun.	6% HP
Toxic Stung	Light physical damage to a single enemy. May cause poison.	7% HP
Arid Needle	Light physical damage to a single enemy. May cause stone.	12% HP
Feral Claw	Light physical damage to a single enemy. (Demons with claws only)	6% HP
Stun Claw	Light physical damage to a single enemy. May cause stun. (Demons with claws only)	17% HP
Venom Claw	Light physical damage to a single enemy. May cause poison (Demons with claws only)	18% HP
Hell Thrust	Moderate physical damage to a single enemy. (Demons with weapons only)	12% HP
Feral Bite	Moderate physical damage to a single enemy. (Demons with fangs only)	12% HP
Stun Bite	Moderate physical damage to a single enemy. May cause stun. (Demons with fangs only)	18% HP
Venom Bite	Moderate physical damage to a single enemy. May cause poison (Demons with fangs only)	18% HP
Charm Bite	Moderate physical damage to a single enemy. May cause charm. (Demons with fangs only)	18% HP
Stone Bite	Moderate physical damage to a single enemy. May cause stone. (Demons with fangs only)	22% HP
Mighty Gust	Physical damage relative to user's current HP to a single enemy. (Demons with weapons only)	14% HP
Brutal Slash	Physical damage relative to user's current HP to a single enemy. (Demons with weapons only)	13% HP
Guillotine	Physical damage relative to user's current HP to a single enemy. May cause stun. (Demons with weapons only)	17% HP
Dark Sword	Physical damage relative to user's current HP to a single enemy. May cause mute. (Demons with weapons only)	22% HP
Stasis Blade	Physical damage relative to user's current HP to a single enemy. May cause bind. (Demons with weapons only)	17% HP
Iron Claw	Heavy physical damage to a single enemy. (Demons with claws only)	15% HP
Hell Fang	Heavy physical damage to a single enemy. (Demons with fangs only)	15% HP
Rebellion	Heavy physical damage to a single enemy. High chance of critical. Dante's exclusive skill.	9% HP
Divine Shot	Heavy physical damage to a single enemy. High chance of critical. (Hito-Shura only)	13% HP
Spiral Viper	Heavy physical damage to a single enemy. High chance of critical. (Hito-Shura only)	18% HP
Berserk	Light physical damage to random enemies.	13% HP
Deathbound	Physical damage relative to user's current HP to random enemies. (Demons with weapons only)	36% HP
Tempest	Moderate physical damage to all enemies.	25% HP
Andalucia	Moderate physical damage to all enemies (multi-hit). Matador's exclusive skill	6% HP
Oni-Kagura	Moderate physical damage to all enemies. High chance of critical. (Hito-Shura only)	30% HP
Deadly Fury	Moderate physical damage to all enemies. High chance of critical. (Hito-Shura only)	32% HP
Javelin Rain	Moderate physical damage to all enemies. May inflict mute. (Hito-Shura only)	40% HP
Xeros Beat	Moderate physical damage to all enemies. May inflict bind. (Hito-Shura only)	40% HP
Heat Wave	Physical damage relative to user's current HP to all enemies. (Demons with weapons only)	16% HP
Hell Spin	Physical damage relative to user's current HP to all enemies. Hell Biker's exclusive skill	25% HP
Hades Blast	Heavy physical damage to all enemies. High chance of critical.	32% HP
Hassohappa	Physical damage relative to user's current HP to all enemies. High chance of critical.	35% HP
Gaea Rage	Mega physical damage to all enemies. High critical odds. (Hito-Shura only)	35% HP
E & I	Multiple light physical damage to a single enemy. Dante's exclusive skill.	3% HP
Bullet Time	Moderate physical damage to all enemies. May cause panic. Dante's exclusive skill.	10% HP
Terrorblade	Physical damage relative to user's current HP to random enemies. May cause panic. Red Rider's Exclusive skill.	10% HP

Almighty Physical Skills

Almighty-based physical skills that rely on the enemies physical resistance. Cannot be voided, drained, or repelled.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Last Resort	Kills user to cause almighty damage to all enemies and allies.	1% HP
Kamikaze	Kills user to cause heavy almighty damage to a single enemy.	1% HP
Sacrifice	Kills user to cause heavy almighty damage to all enemies.	1% HP
Freikugel	Mega almighty damage to a single enemy. (Hito-Shura only)	17% HP
Stinger	Heavy almighty damage to a single enemy. May cause death. Dante's exclusive skill.	12% HP

Magic

Apart from a few special skills, most magic-based skills are cast with an MP, or Mana Point expenditure. The damage inflicted by Magic-based attacks are based on a demon's Magic stats.

Healing Skills

Skills that heal allies' HP, as well as any status ailments.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Dia	Heals HP moderately to a single ally.	3 MP
Media	Heals HP moderately to entire party.	12 MP
Diarama	Heals HP greatly to a single ally.	7 MP
Mediarama	Heals HP greatly to entire party.	20 MP
Diarahan	Heals HP fully to a single ally.	15 MP
Mediarahan	Heals HP fully to entire party.	35 MP
Holy Melody	Instantly restores enemy or ally with the lowest HP to full health. Trumpeter's exclusive skill.	1 MP
Posumudi	Cures Poison to a single ally.	5 MP
Mutudi	Cures Mute to a single ally.	5 MP
Paraladi	Cures Stun to a single ally.	5 MP
Petradi	Cures Stone to a single ally.	5 MP
Patra	Cures Bind/Sleep/Panic to a single ally.	5 MP
Me Patra	Cures Bind/Sleep/Panic to entire party.	12 MP
Recarm	Revives an ally with some HP.	20 MP
Samarecarm	Revives an ally with full HP.	35 MP
Recarmdra	User sacrifices self to fully heal HP/MP to entire party.	1 MP
Prayer	Heals HP fully and cures all ailments to entire party.	50 MP

Fire Skills

Skills based on the element of fire.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Agi	Light fire damage to a single enemy.	3 MP
Agilao	Moderate fire damage to a single enemy.	6 MP
Agidyne	Heavy fire damage to a single enemy.	10 MP
Maragi	Light fire damage to all enemies.	8 MP
Maragion	Moderate fire damage to all enemies.	15 MP
Maragidyne	Heavy fire damage to all enemies.	25 MP
Fire Breath	Light fire damage to random enemies.	9 MP
Hellfire	Medium fire damage to random enemies.	20 MP
Prominence	Heavy fire damage to random enemies.	25 MP
Ragnarok	Mega fire damage to a single enemy. Surt's exclusive skill	30 MP
Hell Burner	Heavy fire damage to all enemies. Hell Biker's exclusive skill	8 MP
Magma Axis	Fire damage relative to Magic to a single enemy. (Hito-Shura only)	30% HP

Ice Skills

Skills based on the element of ice. They can sometimes cause freeze, making any enemies' defense to drop down to zero until the end of the allied turn cycle.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Bufu	Light ice damage to a single enemy. May cause freeze.	3 MP
Bufula	Moderate ice damage to a single enemy. May cause freeze.	6 MP
Bufudyne	Heavy ice damage to a single enemy. May cause freeze.	10 MP
Mabufu	Light ice damage to all enemies. May cause freeze.	8 MP
Mabufula	Moderate ice damage to all enemies. May cause freeze.	15 MP
Mabufudyne	Heavy ice damage to all enemies. May cause freeze.	25 MP
Ice Breath	Light ice damage to random enemies. May cause freeze.	9 MP
Glacial Blast	Heavy ice damage to random enemies. May cause freeze.	25 MP

Electric Skills

Skills based on the element of electricity. May cause shock, which makes all physical attacks critical until the end of the attacking party's turn cycle.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Zio	Light electric damage to a single enemy. May cause shock.	3 MP
Zionga	Moderate electric damage to a single enemy. May cause shock.	6 MP
Ziodyne	Heavy electric damage to a single enemy. May cause shock.	10 MP
Mazio	Light electric damage to all enemies. May cause shock.	8 MP
Mazionga	Moderate electric damage to all enemies. May cause shock.	15 MP
Maziodyne	Heavy electric damage to all enemies. May cause shock.	25 MP
Shock	Light electric damage to random enemies. May cause shock.	9 MP
Bolt Storm	Heavy electric damage to random enemies. May cause shock.	25 MP
Roundtrip	Heavy electric damage to all enemies. May cause shock. Dante's exclusive skill.	25 MP

Force Skills

Skills based on the element of force.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Zan	Light force damage to a single enemy.	3 MP
Zanma	Moderate force damage to a single enemy.	6 MP
Zandyne	Heavy force damage to a single enemy.	10 MP
Mazan	Light force damage to all enemies.	8 MP
Mazanma	Moderate force damage to all enemies.	15 MP
Mazandyne	Heavy force damage to all enemies.	25 MP
Wing Buffet	Light force damage to random enemies. (Demons with wings only)	9 MP
Tornado	Heavy force damage to random enemies.	25 MP
Wind Cutter	Mega force damage to a single enemy.	13 MP
Hell Exhaust	Moderate force damage to all enemies that removes all -kaja effects. Hell Biker's exclusive skill.	15 MP
Wet Wind	Moderate force damage to all enemies. May cause stun. Pazuzu's exclusive skill	25 Mp
Whirlwind	Heavy force damage to all enemies. Dante's exclusive skill.	25 MP

Almighty Skills

Special skills that do not conform to any element. Cannot be resisted. voided, drained, or repelled.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Deathtouch	Drains a small amount of HP from the enemy.	5 MP
Mana Drain	Drains a small amount of MP from the enemy.	2 MP
Life Drain	Drains a small amount of HP and MP from the enemy.	10 MP
Meditation	Drains a moderate amount of HP and MP from the enemy. Daisoujou's exclusive skill	10 MP
Evil Melody	Instantly kills the enemy or ally with the lowest HP. Ineffective on boss enemies. Trumpeter's exclusive skill.	1 MP
Megido	Moderate almighty damage to all enemies.	30 MP
Megidola	Heavy almighty damage to all enemies.	37 MP
Megidolaon	Mega almighty damage to all enemies.	50 MP
Pestilence	Moderate almighty damage to all enemies and may cause poison. Instant death to enemies already inflicted with poison. Pale Rider's exclusive skill.	16 MP
Showtime	Heavy almighty damage to all enemies. Dante's exclusive skill.	40 MP
Beast Roar	Heavy almighty damage to all enemies and user restores a little HP. Mother Harlot's exclusive skill	37 MP
Death Flies	Mega almighty damage to all enemies. Causes instant Death to any enemy not immune to Curse/Death. Beelzebub's exclusive skill	50 MP
Fire of Sinai	Mega almighty damage to random enemies. Metatron's exclusive skill.	50 MP

Expel Skills

Skills associated with expelling evil. Generally used to reduce HP by a certain amount or kill the enemy.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Violet Flash	Moderate expel damage to a single enemy.	10 MP
Starlight	Moderate expel damage to all enemies. Kurama Tengu's exclusive skill	22 MP
Radiance	Heavy expel damage to all enemies.	30 MP
Thunderclap	Chance of reducing an enemy's current HP by half.	12 MP
Holy Wrath	Chance of reducing all enemies current HP by half.	36 MP
Godly Light	Reduces all enemies current HP by 80%. Amaterasu's exclusive skill	10 MP
Hama	Low odds of instantly killing an enemy.	6 MP
Hamaon	High odds of instantly killing an enemy.	10 MP
Mahama	Low odds of instantly killing all enemies.	15 MP
Mahamaon	High odds of instantly killing all enemies.	25 MP
God´s Bow	Guaranteed kill of any enemy not immune to Expel. White Rider's exclusive skill	20 MP

Death Skills

Skills associated with evil and death. Generally used to instantly kill a target.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Stone Gaze	Chance of inflicting stone on the enemy.	6 MP
Evil Gaze	Chance of reducing an enemy's HP to 1.	8 MP
Hell Gaze	Low odds of instantly killing an enemy.	10 MP
Mudo	Low odds of instantly killing an enemy.	6 MP
Mudoon	High odds of instantly killing an enemy.	10 MP
Mamudo	Low odds of instantly killing all enemies.	15 MP
Mamudoon	High odds of instantly killing all enemies.	25 MP

Mind Skills

Skills associated with the ailments; sleep, charm and panic.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Lullaby	Chance of inflicting sleep on the enemy.	6 MP
Dormina	Chance of inflicting sleep on all enemies.	9 MP
Eternal Rest	Instant death to all enemies inflicted with sleep	16 MP
Sexy Gaze	Chance of inflicting charm on the enemy.	5 MP
Marin Karin	Chance of inflicting charm on all enemies.	5 MP
Allure	Chance of inflicting charm on all enemies.	13 MP
Death Lust	Heavy mind damage to all enemies. May cause charm. Mother Harlot's exclusive skill	15 MP
Pulinpa	Chance of inflicting panic on all enemies.	5 MP
Panic Voice	Chance of inflicting panic on all enemies.	8 MP
Sonic Wave	Chance of inflicting panic on all enemies.	9 MP
Intoxicate	High chance of inflicting panic on all enemies. Mada's exclusive skill.	15 MP
Wild Dance	High chance of inflicting panic on all enemies. (Hito-Shura only)	18 MP
Tentarafoo	Moderate mind damage to all enemies. May cause panic.	15 MP
Preach	Moderate mind damage to all enemies. May cause sleep, charm or panic. Dasoujou's exclusive skill.	15 MP

Nerve Skills

Skills associated with the ailments; bind and stun.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Shibaboo	Chance of inflicting bind on the enemies.	5 MP
Binding Cry	Chance of inflicting bind on all enemies.	14 MP
Stun Gaze	Chance of inflicting stun on the enemies.	5 MP

Curse Skills

Skills associated with the ailments; poison and mute.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Toxic Cloud	Light curse damage to all enemies. May cause poison.	8 MP
Mute Gaze	Chance of inflicting mute on the enemy.	5 MP
Makajam	Chance of inflicting mute on the enemy.	4 MP
Makajamon	Chance of inflicting mute on all enemies.	11 MP
Dismal Tune	Moderate curse damage to all enemies. May cause mute.	30 MP

Miscellaneous

Support

Support Skills are used to navigate through obstacles in certain dungeons, as well as assisting in battle.

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Buffs

Buff spells revolve around improving all allies' Attack, Magic, Defense or Agility stats. All Buff effects can be stacked up to four times only. For example, casting a fifth Tarukaja will not have any effect, as the limit has already been reached. Buff effects will persist until it has been nullified with Debuff/Canceller spells, or when the battle ends.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Tarukaja	Increases all allies' physical-based attacks.	12 MP
Makakaja	Increases all allies' magical-based attacks.	12 MP
Rakukaja	Increases all allies' Defense.	12 MP
Sukukaja	Increases all allies' Agility.	12 MP
Red Capote	Maximizes own Agility stats (Sukukaja x4), Matador's exclusive skill.	36 MP
Focus	Charges own potential damage by 2.5 for the next Physical skill used.	15 MP

Debuffs

Debuff spells revolve around decreasing all enemies' Attack, Magic, Defense or Agility capabilities. All Debuff effects can be stacked up to four times only. For example, casting a fifth Tarunda will not have any effect, as the limit has already been reached. Debuff effects will persist until it has been nullified with Buff/Canceller spells, or when the battle ends.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Tarunda	Decreases all allies' physical-based attack.	12 MP
Makanda	Decreases all enemies' Magical-based attack.	12 MP
Sukunda	Decreases all enemies' Agility.	12 MP
Rakunda	Decreases all enemies' Defense.	12 MP
War Cry	Drastically decreases all enemies' attack/magic capability; equal to casting Tarunda/Makanda twice.	25 MP
Fog Breath	Drastically decreases all enemies' Agility; equal to casting Sukunda twice.	30 MP
Taunt	Drastically lowers enemies' defense and raises their offense; user recovers a small amount of MP; equal to casting Rakunda twice, and Tarukaja four times on all enemies.	20 MP
Provoke	Drastically lowers enemies' defense and raises their offense; user recovers a large amount of MP; equal to casting Rakunda twice, and Tarukaja four times on all enemies. Dante's exclusive skill.	N/A
Debilitate	Lowers enemies' offense, defense, and agility.	48 MP

Cancellers

Canceller skills revolve around nullifying all stats increase/decrease penalties. Canceller skills instantly nullify all Buff/Debuff effects regardless of how many times the Buff/Debuff skills have been stacked. The only Buff skill that ignores Canceller skills is Focus.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Dekunda	Cancels -nda effects.	10 MP
Holy Star	Cancels -nda effects. Dante's exclusive skill.	10 MP
Dekaja	Cancels -kaja effects.	10 MP

Passive Skills

Passive skills are ablities which are innately active and will alter a demon's elemental affinities and make them more effective in battle.

Conversation

Conversation skills revolve around requesting demons to join your ranks. Conversation skills, unlike normal skills takes up a slot in the skills command during battle, and generally does not cost any HP/MP to use. Different conversation skills have a wide range of effects, ranging from recruiting demons to loaning you macca. Conversation skills have a higher chance of working provided that Hito-Shura's level is higher than the targeted demon.

Skill	Effect	Cost
Anti-Phys	Imparts resistance to physical attacks.	Passive
Anti-Fire	Imparts resistance to Fire attacks. Overrides weaknesses.	Passive
Anti-Ice	Imparts resistance to Ice attacks. Overrides weaknesses.	Passive
Anti-Fire	Imparts resistance to Fire attacks. Overrides weaknesses.	Passive

Skill	Effect
Talk	Requests Demon to join your ranks. (ineffective towards Haunt/Wilder/Foul clan demons)
Scout	User recruits enemy to join your party (effective if user is an 'elder' demon)
Kidnap	User recruits enemy to join your party (effective should ally is on high level)
Brainwash	User recruits enemy to join your party; High success rate.
Wooing	User recruits enemy to join your party; effective against female demons; reverse effect against male demons.
Seduce	User recruits enemy to join your party; effective against male demons; female demons are immune.
Dark Pledge	User recruits enemy to join your party; most effective during New Kagutsuchi.
Intimidate	User persuades an indecisive demon; conversation interrupt skill.
Nag	User persuades an indecisive demon; conversation interrupt skill.
Flatter	User persuades an indecisive demon; conversation interrupt skill; effective if user demon is female and opposing demon is male.
Arbitration	User soothes an angry demon.
Pester	User requests Macca or Items.
Trade	Requests demon to barter.
Begging	User requests Macca or Items.
Haggle	User requests demon to lower bribe cost; conversation interrupt skill.
Detain	User prevents demon running away with items; conversation interrupt skill.
Loan	User borrows Macca. Don't abuse this or else...
Stone Hunt	Demon requests gems from enemy.
Gonnection	User becomes more persuasive with enemy of same race.
Charisma	Raises negotiation success rate.
Jive Talk	Allows user to recruit. Foul/Haunt/Wilder to join your party.
Maiden's Plea	User persuades an indecisive enemy; effective if user is of the Megami or Lady clan
Soul Recruit	User recruits enemy to join your party; most effective if user is Valkyrie.
Death Pact	Forces enemy to choose whether to join your party or die; Mithra only, demon petrifies occasionally should they refuse.
Wine Party	Soothes an angry demon; Dionysus only.