Satan (Shin Megami Tensei)

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|-|Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse=
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==Summary==
Satan is the most powerful among the servants of YHVH, acting as God's judge and executioner, and the arbiter and prosecutor of all in heaven and earth. Sharing his Creator's ruthless attitude and black and white outlook on morality, and desiring nothing more than to enforce Law onto humans, he stands firmly against Lucifer, being the Fallen Archangel's sworn adversary. Due to his role, he often acts as one of the player's last challenges in the Shin Megami Tensei games he appears.
Although playing the same established role as God's Judge and Arbiter, Satan's origins and personality shifted considerably in Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse. In Apocalypse, Satan is the true leader of the Monotheism faction, having split his essence into Lucifer and Merkabah under YHVH's commands in order to perpetuate human suffering through the endless war between Law and Chaos, and thus ensure His master a seat above reality. In contrast to his previous appearances, who possessed a strict black-and-white view on morality and a desire to enforce law and order upon humans like his Creator, Satan is portrayed as a neutral and reasonable figure in Apocalypse, being completely willing to help the cast in their goal of dethroning God, even with full knowledge that the death of the Creator will mean his own.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: | 
Key: Regular Incarnations | True Self
Name: Satan, The Ancient Angel, The Judge of God, The Arbiter, The Angel of Judgement, The Adversary, Zayin, Seth
Origin: Megami Tensei
Gender: Genderless, though his human forms are Male
Age: Inapplicable. Exists beyond the concept of time.
Classification: Primordial Angel, Avatar of YHVH, Instrument of Destruction and Punishment, Judge of Heaven and Earth
Powers and Abilities: Cognitive Physiology (Archetype), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1), Curse Manipulation, Death Manipulation, Durability Negation, Elemental Manipulation (Fire, Lightning, Ice and Wind Manipulation), Empathic Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Existence Erasure (Can use the "Megido-" line of skills, which exerts control over the light of destruction that engulfs all in its range into the "annihilation beyond death," leaving no trace of the opponent behind), Explosion Manipulation, Healing (Can fully heal himself with Diarahan, and is capable of restoring both his vitality and magical energy to their fullest), Light Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Magic, Probability Manipulation, Power Nullification (Completely nullifies all statistics amplifications from all foes with Dekaja), Resistance Negation, Summoning, Status Effect Inducement, Statistics Amplification and Reduction, Shapeshifting, Transformation
Attack Potency: Outerverse level (The strongest angel of Heaven and most powerful servant of YHVH, being stated to be the one who stands the closest to His glory and held in extremely high regard even by the likes of Lucifer, who perceives Satan's awakening as a severe threat and notes that a potential battle against God's Judge could mean his death, and states that even beings who surpass his own power only have a slim chance of emerging victorious against Satan) | Outerverse level (Immensely superior to both Merkabah and Demon Lord Lucifer, holding them both as divided aspects of himself, and did battle against Nanashi and his party for a considerable amount of time while considering it all to be a simple test. Can access the plane of existence in which YHVH's Throne resides, and is capable of doing battle against his Creator, directly assisting Nanashi against him in the Anarchy Route, and indirectly by splitting into Walter and Jonathan in the Peace Route)
Speed: Immeasurable while incarnated. Omnipresent otherwise | Immeasurable
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable
Striking Strength: Outerverse level | Outerverse level
Durability: Outerverse level | Outerverse level
Stamina: Infinite. Capable of sustaining his physical form indefinitely without needing to consume magnetite, with divine energy itself being described as a limitless source of power due to being unbound by the laws of physics, and his own reserves of magical power never falter (Shown in gameplay terms by having infinite MP), allowing him to cast spells indefinitely.
Range: Outerversal
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: Likely Nigh-Omniscient
Weaknesses: None notable
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
More detailed information on this character's skill list can be found in the Megami Tensei wiki
Buffs and Debuffs: A set of skills that, as the name implies, allows the caster to greatly amplify their own physical attributes and reduce that of their foes, thus allowing one to stand up to much stronger opponents by closing or even reversing the gap in power between them. Outside of gameplay limitations, they can be stacked indefinitely, and sufficient usages of buffs allow the caster to survive attacks that would otherwise obliterate them with only minor injuries and amplify their speed to the point of completely outspeeding opponents that could previously predict all of their movements, while debuffs have a directly proportional effect on the enemy's statistics.
* Luster Candy: Increases all statistics of an entire party (Strength, speed and durability) by one rank.
* Debilitate: Decreases all statistics of an entire party (Strength, speed and durability) by one rank.
* Dekaja: Removes all buffs from all foes.
* Dekunda: Removes all debuffs from himself and all allies.
Almighty Attacks: The highest class of spells in the Megami Tensei franchise, consisting largely of powerful non-elemental attacks that have the special property of completely bypassing any resistances or immunities that a target may possess, be them innate or magically enforced, with the latter of which including anything from reflective barriers to items that distort the very laws of the universe in order to protect the user from all forms of damage, and they are likewise unable to blocked, drained or generally defended against.
* Megidolaon: Satan taps into the pale light of divinity, which reigns absolute over destruction itself, and unleashes a wave of energy that deals immense damage to all foes, engulfing those without appropriate resistance into the "complete annihilation beyond death."
* God's Judgement: Satan points to an opponent and calls upon his absolute authority to judge and punish all in Heaven and Earth given to him by YHVH Himself, instantly killing the foe in question even if their power surpasses his own.
* God's Breath: A more powerful version of the above technique, which instead targets a whole group of enemies.
==Notable Matchups==
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