Dark Skills (Affinity)

Dark, formerly known as Death , also known as Darkness / and Curse 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" is Japanese for "Shadow Wave" , 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===
* All Dark skills in Persona 5 are instead classified as Curse type. All common Curse skills in Persona 5 do not inflict any ailment.
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
Dark Icon P3P.png|Persona 3 Portable
Darkness Icon PQ.png|Persona Q
Dark Icon P5.png|Persona 5
TMS Dark Icon.png|Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE
==Iconology==
The glyphs which are employed in the visual effects of the Mudo spells and Magatsu Mandala are . It is commonly seen in " Seed Mandala" (胎蔵界種子曼荼羅).
Category:Spells and Skills by Type