Light Skills (Affinity)

Light, formerly known as Expel , is a spell type in the series. In other cases, the skills are also known as Light , Holy , and Bless in Persona 5 .
In most cases, as Expel spells, the skills are a sub-branch of Light Skills. Like its dark counterpart, Dark, Light skills tend to focus on inflicting instant death, though exceptions do exist.
Expel spells still count as defeating enemies in most respects; unlike comparable spells in some other games, one will earn full experience and money for opponents defeated using these spells.
==General spells==
Hama is the general spell for the Light element in the series, though its power, number of targets and accuracy change depending on the game:
*In Shin Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei II and Shin Megami Tensei: if..., the spells differ in the number of targets.
*In the Devil Children series, they inflict damage like normal spells.
*In the Digital Devil Saga series, the spells reduce the enemy's current HP by a specific percentage. Humans (both party members and enemies) are immune to Expel (even under Berserk Mode).
*In Megami Ibunroku Persona, Hama spells deal damage equal to a certain amount of the enemy's maximum HP and inflict the same amount of damage at the end of every turn, with the amount being determined by the target's resistance to it (100% for Grave Demons, 50% for weakness and 12.5% for neutral damage). Kouha spells deal normal damage and reduce the enemy's current HP by a certain percentage at the end of every turn, using the same percentages as Hama spells. The Expel "ailment" cannot be cured and affects the character until the end of the battle or the character dies and is revived.
* In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, the protagonist is immune to Expel by default, unless he equips an armor that makes him weak to it.
*In Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse, Light skills do regular damage, but will instantly kill enemies during Smirk. If a boss is targeted by a Expel skill from a character with Smirk, it will do critical damage instead of instantly killing it.
* In Shin Megami Tensei V, Light skills do regular damage, but will instantly kill enemies upon hitting a Weakness. If a boss is targeted by an Expel skill, they cannot be instantly killed even if they are weak to it.
*In the other games, Light spells deal instant-kill and differ in both accuracy and number of targets. 
*Light 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 Light damaging skills are Expel skills such as in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey and Persona 3, all bosses will have an innate void against Light.
** In games where Light damaging skills (Bless) and Expel skills are separate (such as Persona 5 or Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth), all bosses will block Expel as if it were a status condition. Bless skills will still affect them unless dictated otherwise.
** In games where Light damaging skills can inflict Expel, the Expel effect will only activate under certain circumstances, and is either replaced with another or completely nullified if the skills were used against bosses (See above).
The following table is relevant to Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne and all games released afterwards except for the Digital Devil Saga series.
Name 	Japanese/Romaji 	Power 	Target
Hama 	ハマ/ハンマHama/Hanma 	Low odds fatal 	1 enemy
Mahama 	マハンマMahanma 	Low odds fatal 	All enemies
Hamaon 	ハマオンHamaon 	High odds fatal	1 enemy
Mahamaon	マハンマオンMahanmaon 	High odds fatal	All enemies
===Specific spells===
Name 	Power 	Target
SamsaraJudgement Light	Very high odds of Fatal	All enemies
Violet Flash 	Medium 	1 enemy
Radiance 	Heavy 	All enemies
==Game Specific==
===Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Exclusive===
*Holy Wrath deals almighty damage to enemies of the opposite alignment as the caster.
*The skill "Godly Light" is only available to Amaterasu.
*The skill "Starlight" is only available to Kurama Tengu.
*The skill "God's Bow" is only available to White Rider.
Name 	Power 	Target
Thunderclap	Halves HP 	1 enemy
Holy Wrath 	Halves HP 	All enemies
Godly Light	80% HP damage	All enemies
Starlight 	Medium 	All enemies
God's Bow 	100% Fatal 	1 enemy
===Megami Ibunroku Persona specific===
*"Kouha" is Japanese for "Light Wave" , in contrast to Eiha (Shadow Wave).
* In Megami Ibunroku Persona, Makouha dealt heavy Death damage each turn, in Persona 5 this was changed to light damage each turn, its old role being replaced by Makougaon.
Name 	Japanese/Romaji 	Power 	Target
Kouha 	コウハKouha 	Light 	1 enemy
Baikouha	バイコウハBaikouha 	Medium	Area
Makouha 	マハコウハMahakouha 	Heavy 	All enemies
===Persona 2 series Exclusive===
*Hieroglyphein is the Egyptian holy glyph, which originally appeared in Megami Ibunroku Persona as a nonelemental spell.
Name 	Power 	Target
Light 	Medium 	All enemies
Nirvana 	Medium 	All enemies
Bright Judgement	Heavy + fatal 	All enemies
Alpha Blaster 	Special, persistent damage	All enemies
Hieroglyphein 	Special 	All enemies
Nova Kaiser 	Extremely Heavy 	One enemy
Bloody Honeymoon	Extremely Heavy+Confuse 	All enemies
Cross Fortune 	Extremely Heavy+Ailments 	All enemies
Foamy Lover 	Extremely Heavy+Charm 	All enemies
Crescent Mirror 	Extremely Heavy+Freeze 	All enemies
===Persona 5 specific===
* All Light skills in Persona 5 are instead classified as "Bless" type, not to be confused with the curative skills classified as Bless type in Megami Ibunroku Persona.
Skill 	Japanese/Romaji 	Effect 	Target
Kouha 	コウハKouha 	Light Bless damage each turn 	One enemy
Kouga 	コウガKouga 	Medium Bless damage each turn	One enemy
Kougaon 	コウガオンKougaon 	Heavy Bless damage each turn 	One enemy
Makouha 	マハコウハMahakouha 	Light Bless damage each turn 	All enemies
Makouga 	マハコウガMahakouga 	Medium Bless damage each turn	All enemies
Makougaon	マハコウガオンMahakougaon 	Heavy Bless damage each turn 	All enemies
===Digital Devil Saga series Exclusive===
*Seraphic Lore is a reference to the celestial beings of that order.
Name 	Power 	Target
Damnation 	Reduces HP by 80% (high odds). * 	All enemies
Punishment 	Reduces HP by 80% (high odds). * 	All enemies
Xanadu 	Heavy damage. 	All enemies
Seraph Lore	Reduces HP by 80% with 100% accuracy.	All enemies
===Giten Megami Tensei Exclusive===
Name 	Subtype	Power	Target
Harihara 	Hama 	Weak 	All enemies, wide
Holy Lights	COMP 	??? 	Up to 6 enemies, wide
Expel Arrow	Arrow 	??? 	One enemy, focused
==Gallery==
;Game Icons
Expel Icon P1.png|Megami Ibunroku Persona
Expel Icon IS.png|Persona 2: Innocent Sin
Light Icon P3P.png|Persona 3 Portable
Light Icon PQ.png|Persona Q
TMS Light Icon.png|Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE
Light Icon P5.png|Persona 5
==Trivia==
* Generally the effect animations of most Hama spells use paper charms with "破魔" written on them spread on the target, and then the charms emit strong light. This is a reference to oriental exorcism in which such paper charm is stuck on the face of the evil spirit or zombie to immobilize or exorcise them.
** In Shin Megami Tensei V, Hamabarion and Mahamabarion use the instead of paper charms. The glyphs are previously used in Mudo spells.
Category:Spells and Skills by Type