Party/Chie Satonaka

This article covers information on Chie Satonaka as a party member, including uses and strategies in Persona 4 and Persona 4 Golden.
==Overview==
Chie joins the party on April 17th after Shadow Chie has been defeated on the early floors of Yukiko's Castle.
Although more fragile than other party members, Chie has moderately high offense, wielding physical attacks to back it up. Her offense can further be sharpened in accuracy from her Agility stat, and she can land Critical hits more often due to her higher Luck.
Chie has a mild Ice specialization, being the party's first access to Bufu skills. She upgrades to Bufula and Mabufu while complementing them with Ice Boost but largely abandons this in favor of her physical repertoire once Teddie takes over as the Ice specialist of the group. Her support lineup is sparse, as she only has Tarukaja to her name but she can pick up Power Charge to make her one of the most devastating physical attackers of the Investigation Team.
One of Chie's biggest weaknesses is her midgame, where she has a large 23-level gap between Gale Slash and Heat Wave and a larger 29-level gap between Black Spot and Rainy Death. The moment she earns Power Charge is where her physical damage goes through the roof, with Rainy Death and God's Hand soon to follow.
Chie is strong against Ice and is weak against Fire.
If the protagonist maxes out Chie's Social Link, her Persona Tomoe will evolve into Suzuka Gongen. This will nullify her weakness to Fire and will let her block Ice. Additionally, her Agility will be mildly buffed.
Chie competes with Kanji Tatsumi over the role of physical DPS - Kanji regularly puts out more raw damage with a higher Strength stat and can boost it with Matarukaja, while Chie can deal out devastating numbers from her Power Charged God's Hand. Who to use would generally be up to the player's preference and the boss's skill set.
Pool 	Pool 	Explanation
God's Hand 	Power Charge	Purely variety-based Physical combatant. Specializes in techniques, such as exploiting weaknesses to utilize Down and fight off Physical combatants with Counter skills. Chie makes the most out of her environment.
Agneyastra 	High Counter	Purely variety-based Physical combatant. Specializes in techniques, such as exploiting weaknesses to utilize Down and fight off Physical combatants with Counter skills. Chie makes the most out of her environment.
Rainy Death	Bufula 	Purely variety-based Physical combatant. Specializes in techniques, such as exploiting weaknesses to utilize Down and fight off Physical combatants with Counter skills. Chie makes the most out of her environment.
Heat Wave 	Ice Boost 	Purely variety-based Physical combatant. Specializes in techniques, such as exploiting weaknesses to utilize Down and fight off Physical combatants with Counter skills. Chie makes the most out of her environment.
===Persona 4 Golden===
In Golden, Chie gains additional skills to open up different avenues for combat performance. She picks up Auto-Tarukaja and Apt Pupil to give her more consistent damage-per-turn and crank up her critical rate. Bufula and Ice Boost are now tied to her Social Link, and advancing the link also bestows Rebellion and Revolution to solidify her status as a crit-dealer to contrast Kanji's raw physical repertoire. Her Bike Skills grant her Hama and Hamaon as an alternate way to exploit weaknesses, and rounds off her Ice lineup with Bufudyne.
If Chie's Social Link has been maxed out, during Winter, it's possible to talk to Chie and evolve her Persona to Haraedo-no-Okami. This will make her able to absorb Ice and block Light. However, her weakness against Fire returns, even with Suzuka Gongen in this version. Chie also learns Dragon Hustle, which buffs the Attack, Defense, and Hit/Evasion of all allies for 3 turns, effectively acting as a (very costly) party-wide Heat Riser.
Since Chie and Kanji now share access to Power Charge, there is greater competition between them over the physical bruiser role. Chie does have multi-target physical attacks that Kanji lacks, a greater critical rate, and can hit two elemental weaknesses as opposed to Kanji's one; however, Kanji carries a better supportive repertoire for boss fights given his access to Matarukaja, Masukunda, and Mediarama.
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Pool 	Pool 	Explanation
God's Hand 	Power Charge 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Mabufu is used purely to exploit weaknesses. Rainy Death combined with Apt Pupil is handy for fishing for crits to knock down enemies.
Agneyastra 	High Counter 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Mabufu is used purely to exploit weaknesses. Rainy Death combined with Apt Pupil is handy for fishing for crits to knock down enemies.
Rainy Death	Apt Pupil 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Mabufu is used purely to exploit weaknesses. Rainy Death combined with Apt Pupil is handy for fishing for crits to knock down enemies.
Mabufu 	Auto-Tarukaja	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Mabufu is used purely to exploit weaknesses. Rainy Death combined with Apt Pupil is handy for fishing for crits to knock down enemies.
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SL=
Pool 	Pool 	Explanation
God's Hand 	Apt Pupil 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Bufula is used purely to exploit weaknesses.
Agneyastra 	High Counter	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Bufula is used purely to exploit weaknesses.
Bufula 	Ice Boost 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Bufula is used purely to exploit weaknesses.
Power Charge	Evade Fire 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Bufula is used purely to exploit weaknesses.
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Bike only=
Pool 	Pool 	Explanation
God's Hand	Power Charge 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Bufudyne and Hamaon are used to strike enemy weaknesses.
Agneyastra	High Counter 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Bufudyne and Hamaon are used to strike enemy weaknesses.
Bufudyne 	Apt Pupil 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Bufudyne and Hamaon are used to strike enemy weaknesses.
Hamaon 	Auto-Tarukaja	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Bufudyne and Hamaon are used to strike enemy weaknesses.
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Bike+SL=
Pool 	Pool 	Explanation
God's Hand	Power Charge	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Bufudyne and Hamaon are used to strike enemy weaknesses.
Agneyastra	Ice Boost 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Bufudyne and Hamaon are used to strike enemy weaknesses.
Bufudyne 	Apt Pupil 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Bufudyne and Hamaon are used to strike enemy weaknesses.
Hamaon 	Evade Fire 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, while Bufudyne and Hamaon are used to strike enemy weaknesses.
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3rd Persona+SL (Bike or no)=
Pool 	Pool 	Explanation
God's Hand 	Power Charge 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, and the Ice and/or Light skills are used to strike enemy weaknesses.
Agneyastra 	Apt Pupil 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, and the Ice and/or Light skills are used to strike enemy weaknesses.
Bufula/Bufudyne 	Dragon Hustle	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, and the Ice and/or Light skills are used to strike enemy weaknesses.
Ice Boost/Hamaon	Evade Fire 	Physical combatant with a side of Ice attacks. Power Charged God's Hand is your bread-and-butter, and the Ice and/or Light skills are used to strike enemy weaknesses.
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==Base Stats==
Note: These are the base stats for Level 99.
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===Second Awakening Stat Changes===
===Extra Skills===
Category:Persona 4 Party Members