Every Skill In Nocturne

Overview

Ever have a demon and see a new skill you just have no clue what it does? Yeah, me too. This guide is here to help remedy that since Nocturne is so very secretive.Credit to: https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Shin_Megami_Tensei_III:_Nocturne_Skills

Physical Skills

• Most physical skills which target random/multiple enemies deal 1~2 hits when only 1 target is present. Otherwise 1~3 hits may distribute on a single target of 5 hits maximally.
• “E & I,” “Sacrifice” and “Andalucia” deal 1~2 hits on single target of 4 hits maximally.
• “Dodge” column denotes the likelihood of the skill being dodged by the target. The higher the dodge rate of the skill, the higher chance the target will dodge the skill.

Thrust Skills

Physical skills which can be learned by most demons with few exception who cannot “thrust” their bodies as the means of attack.

Needle Skills

Physical skills which can be learned by anyone.
All needle skills only target a single enemy and have medium to low critical and dodge rates.

Claw Skills

Physical skills which require the learner grows some sort of sharp “claw.”
All claw skills only target a single enemy.

Bite Skills

Physical skills which require the learner grow some sharp fangs as the mean of attack.
All bite skills target a single enemy.

Weapon Skills

Physical skills which require the learner carrying any kind of weapon on hand.
Damage of all weapon skills scale with the user’s maximum HP.

Exclusive Physical Skills

Physical skills which are exclusive to specific users and cannot be passed down to another demon in fusion.

Almighty Physical Skills

Almighty-based physical skills that rely on the enemies physical resistance. Cannot be voided, drained or repelled.
If the target possesses almighty resistance, the user requires the auto skill “Pierce” to ignore the resistance.

Magic Skills

• 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.
• Power of HP damaging spells take user’s current level and base level into account, but the formula is not simply the higher level the more powerful. Assuming the magic stat of the spell user and the defense of the target without modified stat are constant, as the user’s level is getting higher, the resultant damage rises gradually but begins to drop at one point. The peak level range of spell power varies between demons, but generally it is believed between level 30 to 60. The only HP damaging spells unaffected by this phenomenon are Surt’s Ragnarok, Wind Cutter and Demi-fiend’s Magma Axis.
• The recovery amount of HP healing spells (except for Diarahan, Mediarahan and Prayer) always scale with current level and does not decay like the HP damage spells.

Healing Skills

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

Fire Skills

Skills based on the element of fire.

Ice Skills

Skills based on the element of ice. They can sometimes cause freeze. A frozen unit is immobilized, has all physical resistances including repel and drain nullified temporarily and receives 100% critical damage from physical attacks. Freeze status only lasts until turn swap.

Electric Skills

Skills based on the element of electricity. May cause shock. A shocked unit is immobilized and receives 100% critical damage from physical attacks but does not suffer from nullification of physical resistances like “freeze” status does. Shock status only lasts until turn swap.

Force Skills

Skills based on the element of force.

Almighty Skills

Special skills that do not conform to any element. Cannot be voided, drained or repelled. Very few bosses in the game possess the almighty resistance which greatly reduces the damage dealt by these skills.

Expel Skills

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

Death Skills

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

Curse Skills

Skills associated with the ailments; poison and mute.

Nerve Skills

Skills associated with the ailments; bind and stun.

Mind Skills

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

Support Skills

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

Buff Skills

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/Canceler spells, or when the battle ends.

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/Canceler spells, or when the battle ends.

Cancelers

Canceler skills revolve around negating all Buff increase/Debuff penalties. Canceler skills instantly nullify all Buff/Debuff effects regardless of how many times they have been stacked. The only Buff skill that ignores Canceler skills is Focus.

Shield Skills

The main purpose of shield spells is to add a temporary repel effect for a specific attack to the party.

Attack Affinity Passives

Anti- skills do not cover innate weakness, they only reduce damage or success rate of the incoming attack.

Void- skills override innate weakness and nullify all damage of the incoming attack.

-Drain skill override innate weakness and turn all incoming damage into health.

-Repel skills take all incoming damage and reflect it toward the caster.

Status Enhancement Passives

Skills that range from adding effects to demon attacks to increasing their statistics and capabilities in battle.

Booster Passives

-Boost skills increase the potency of elemental magic by 50%

Misc.

Conversation Skills

Conversation skills revolve around requesting demons to join your ranks. Conversation skills take up a skill slot but generally do not cost any HP/MP to use. Conversation skills have a wide range of effects, ranging from recruiting demons to loaning you macca. These skills have a higher chance of working if the Demi-fiend’s level is higher than the targeted demon.

• All conversation attempts only work in random encounter.
• All demons in Bandou Shrine and Labyrinth of Amala do not respond to conversation whatsoever.
• Instant success and adverse effect of each active conversation skill have their own activating odds. If neither effect is triggered for whatever reason, the conversation will go on normally.
• During the conversation, the target may become either indecisive, unsatisfied, or angered by the party’s response. These may result in the target either making more demands, fleeing from battle (may or may not make some sort of compensation for the party), or causing instant shift to the enemy turn. Interruption skills are designed to be triggered by these situations.
• If the target requests to “share health”, it always drains HP from the one who initiates the conversation. Should the talker being killed in the HP draining demand, the conversation will end abruptly.
• Few demons have special conversations with specific targets, these also require the talkers to have any active conversation skill already learned. The special conversation of any combination is triggered the first time the party initiates the conversation and overrides the effect of the conversation skill itself. Each special conversation is one time only, attempting to initiate the same special conversation again will result in resuming the usual effect of the conversation skill, as if the talker and the target do not know each other.
• If there is more than one enemy present in the battle, one of them may interrupt the conversation attempt and cause instant turn swap, so it is safer to kill the rest of the enemies until the target remains before starting any conversation.

Recruit Skills

• Recruiting demon requires Demi-fiend’s own level to be equal to or higher than the target, otherwise the target will cut off the conversation instantly. Other than that all trade skills do not take level as a requirement of proceeding the conversation.
• Only demons of Neutral tendency respond to recruitment conversation normally, these include demons of the Beast, Brute, Divine, Fairy, Fallen, Femme, Jirae, Night, Snake and Yoma clans.
• During Full Kagutsuchi phase, all Neutral demons including some Dark demons (Foul, Haunt and Wilder) will have their response to recruitment conversation overridden. They may either completely ignore the conversation attempt, or ask a nonsensical question. If the demon is pleased by the answer which is completely random, it will join the party for free.
• Unless an instant recruit effect is triggered, the target may ask an ideological question. If the target is satisfied by the answer, it will always join the party. However, the response to ideological question seems to be random as well. The same demon can be discontented by either answers for the same question.

Demi-fiend Exclusive

Allied Demon Exclusive

• Instant recruit means the Demi-fiend may recruit the target without giving away anything or answering any inquiry if the said condition is met.
• Adverse effect means the target is enraged if the said condition is met, it instantly ends the conversation and shifts to enemy turn. However, this does not prevent the party from talking to the same demon again.

Trade Skills

• The Demi-fiend’s level is irrelevant in initiating any trade skill.
• Trade skills also work on Element, Tyrant, Vile and Raptor demons who otherwise decline recruitment conversation.
• Instant bargain means that the Demi-fiend may obtain something without giving away anything when the condition is met.
• The target would never ask any ideological question as in the recruitment conversation.

Interruption Skills

• Interruption skills are activated when certain conversational effect occurs such as the target is enraged, indecisive, requesting for Macca or attempting to leave.
• Failed interruption has no adverse effect on the conversation.

Passive Conversational Skill

Notes:

If there are any inaccuracies, format errors, or misspellings please let me know soon as you spot them. Thank you for using this guide and I hope it can help atleast a few people out there. Now if you’ll excuse me, after a couple hours of typing this up I think I’m going to go outside and touch grass for a bit.