Conjugating Persona 5 Skill Names
i love organizing things into tables that didnt need to be organized into tables
Affinity | Target | Effectiveness | |||||
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Light Slight heal |
Medium Moderate heal |
Heavy Full heal |
Severe Bless/Curse: Half |
Low insta-kill Revive 50% |
High insta-kill Revive 100% |
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Fire | One | Agi | Agilao | Agidyne | Inferno | ||
All | Maragi | Maragion | Maragidyne | Blazing Hell | |||
Ice | One | Bufu | Bufula | Bufudyne | Diamond Dust | ||
All | Mabufu | Mabufula | Mabufudyne | Ice Age | |||
Elec | One | Zio | Zionga | Ziodyne | Thunder Reign | ||
All | Mazio | Mazionga | Maziodyne | Wild Thunder | |||
Wind | One | Garu | Garula | Garudyne | Panta Rhei | ||
All | Magaru | Magarula | Magarudyne | Vacuum Wave | |||
Psy | One | Psi | Psio | Psiodyne | Psycho Force | ||
All | Mapsi | Mapsio | Mapsiodyne | Psycho Blast | |||
Nuke | One | Frei | Freila | Freidyne | Atomic Flare | ||
All | Mafrei | Mafreila | Mafreidyne | Cosmic Flare | |||
Bless | One | Kouha | Kouga | Kougaon | Divine Judgement | Hama | Hamaon |
All | Makouha | Makouga | Makougaon | Mahama | Mahamaon | ||
Curse | One | Eiha | Eiga | Eigaon | Demonic Decree | Mudo | Mudoon |
All | Maeiha | Maeiga | Maeigaon | Mamudo | Mamudoon | ||
Almighty | One | ||||||
All | Megido | Megidola | Megidolaon | ||||
Healing | Ally | Dia | Diarama | Diarahan | Recarm | Samarecarm | |
Party | Media | Mediarama | Mediarahan |
- Every affinity has its own root for its ability names
- Bless/curse insta-kills and healing revives get their own roots since those abilities are significantly different than the others. this is reasonable its fine
- Suffixes indicate attack severity or healing effectiveness
- Tier 2: -la for most things, -ga for bless and curse, -rama for healing, exceptions for elec/psy to sound better and fire is an inconsistent clusterfuck
- Tier 3: -dyne for most things (psy maintains its "o" for flow), -gaon for bless/curse, -rahan for healing
- Tier 4 abandons the normal system and just assigns cool-sounding phrases as names for everything
- One-hit kill bless/curse moves use the suffix -on for the tier 2 versions of those skills
- Tier 2 revive actually uses the prefix sama- instead of a suffix but whatever
- Almighty's "tier 1" is actually a medium-damage move rather than light, so everything is shifted
- Prefixes indicate a skill affects all enemies/allies instead of only one
- Almost always ma- or me- which is satisfying
- Almighty doesn't have single-target skills that fit into this naming scheme so there is no prefix I guess. If you want you can pretend that the me- in "megido" is a prefix and there are single-target "gido" skills that have just never been in any game ever
- Bless/curse do not have "severe damage" skills and instead have skills which cut the remaining HP of the enemy in half. These skills do not have multi-target variants
Effect | Target | Stat | ||
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Attack | Defense | Agility | ||
Buff party | One | Tarukaja | Rakukaja | Sukukaja |
All | Matarukaja | Marakukaja | Masukukaja | |
Debuff enemy | One | Tarunda | Rakunda | Sukunda |
All | Matarunda | Marakunda | Masukunda | |
Nullify enemy buffs | One | |||
All | Dekaja | |||
Nullify party debuffs | One | |||
All | Dekunda |
- Pretty much everything is perfectly consistent here actually except that "dekunda" has an extra "ku" thrown in for mouthfeel
- Nullify skills for stats do not have single-target forms and affect all stats at once
im not going to bother doing the barrier/reflect skills because theyre pretty self-explanatory. im also not gonna do the phys skills because they're terrifying or the gun skills because theres only like three and phys and gun have lots of non-standard things going on like crit modifiers
There are also definitely other skills that fit into these categories but they don't follow any sort of consistent naming convention so they don't really fit in anywhere here. The point of this was to illustrate the meaning of the names that are all similar and follow a consistent pattern and I think I've made my point with the ones that are easy to categorize into some sort of consistent pattern so I'm stopping now
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