New son

Aparently he had a pixie as a wife and a whole demon race under him

That would be so much fun Demifiend deserves a collab....

Imagine Devil May Cry featuring Demi-Fiend from the Shin Megami Tensei series

@@verdethestarwarrior1088 and then vergil goes around collecting candelabrums

I always wondered why they use a German word for that skill.

Rip van winkle shot some of those bullets to Alucard :)

@@brotbrotsen1100 because Japanese likes Deutsch for some reason.

@@centphilipjumawan4560 especially noticeable in Attack on titan

@@brotbrotsen1100 Also during the 40s

And even magma axis is a magic skill that scale up with STR stat

@@starfish5599 bro that is so annoying.

@@starfish5599 yeah it's similar to how Surt's Ragnarok works. Tho without the fire element damage I think They need to have more physical or magic skills that scale off the opposite stat, several skills in Dx2 work like this also, but I want that applied to the main games

@@starfish5599 Wait, what?

@@starfish5599 its a magic skill with fire dmg that actually scales with magic not strength. It not exactly good tho it does save mp since it uses hp instead of mp but i dont think mp is rly a problem by the time its available to you.

On the other hand. Spiral viper is the bottom rpg combat animation

@@starfish5599 Demi-Fiend literally A-poses on demons to kill them. How’s that not swagger enough?

xeros beat too, i love when people like close themselves up to then open up when thry attack, kinda like raja naga throwing a spell

Hey is javelin rain good? Should I get it?

@@kertchu as mid-game skill, it's good. Altho you might want to switch yo deadly fury when it's available to you

Phys build for life in nocturne

i hope so much they do kickass stuff like that for SMT 5

Cause Phys build is king

WURLD OF STR

Xeros beat looks so cool

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You basically become a super Boss by the end of the game with how overpowered you are

@@everettwatsonrazorearcwolf6553 (drains almighty)

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@@Prim3MavericK i hope smtv has something to do with demi fiend

I didn't notice those convulsions at all. using that must be painful

@@dynamiteroshin yeah I always felt like it was painful to use. The convulsions and the fact it shoots out of his cranium

it seems they stop using your hp in smt v

@@MakenaForest yeah I'm not liking a lot of these changes to the gameplay personally, sad to say

EmFi same goes for IV and Apocalypse as well

oh shit did we forget to deequip our res and absorn

Have you also noticed that they got the animations for Xeros Beat and Javelin Rain backwards in DDS?

@@awesomehazimex7410 shit fuck the dormina missed

999999999

@@vuumfiredog Cielo, you're weak to ailments. How can Dormina miss?!

8 out of 10 actually since Freikugel is almighty physical damage. The main reasons strength is better though are, focus being an equivalent to charge and there being no mind charge/concentrate equivalent, physical damage scaling with level while magic damage falls off at around level 50 except for magma axis I think, Peirce exists late game and only works for physical damage, pretty low max mp in general with high mp costs for spells, and several other reasons.

The only real reason for going phys is to beat Lucifer but other than that, going phys makes you deal consistent damage without too much mana management.

@@Xeroxthebeautiful Magma Axis scale until LV101 IIRC, the funny thing is that until you reach LV101 Magma Axis is actually stronger than any Physical Skills, the only reason physical surpasses it is because of Focus.

@@Xeroxthebeautiful Focus is, without context, actually inferior to the element boost skills. You spend 2 turns dealing 2.5x damage, but 2 turns with element boosted skill would be 3x. You're mostly right about everything else. I'm pretty sure magic level scaling actually starts going down somewhere in the 20s though.

@@Xeroxthebeautiful the Pierce skill also works for magic, like in the Raidou Cronicles version. Also, Wind Cutter is also unaffected by spell decay.

I've said the said thing for awhile too friend :3

I know right? I think there's a video somewhere on KZfaq where a guy talks about what his moveset could be if he got in, can't remember what it was called though. Edit: I remember now, it was by AShadowLink on Source Gaming, here's the link if you want: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/baiofdRpvbrLk4E.html

Noo, el demi-fiend es demasiado épico para estar en smash

@@storm7870 You can kind of see that moveset in action thanks to a Japanese fan who already made a Demi-fiend MUGEN char with basically all the attacks displayed here and more in top quality. It would be awesome if he appears in the future as a guest character in an actual official fighting game.

@@storm7870 In case you haven't seen the MUGEN char and want the link, here it is: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLaDi7JnzKeyaJ8.html

That also includes future Megaten protags

As he should 👌🏽

H- HOW MANY!?

Mugen?

@@Thurmanator oh boy

@@Thurmanator A program to develop your own custom fighting game characters.

Vergil, yelling at Dante from a distance: That guy over there is Motivated!

The laser sword is kinda like summon swords

-Light blue glow -"equal" in strength to Dante -Half demon/half human -Summons glowing "swords" A fiend is approaching.

@@rokechikan4481 Vergil: I have fans good

Demi fiend using masakados can null and even repel fire

I disagree, by that logic, having fire and ice-breath should cost health too

It also scales with health, so maybe, like, he throws it extra hard?

Literally generates the magma with his own lifeforce and not spiritual energy like generic magic skills.

Gotta hit them with the Kung Fu double palm before blasting them point blank. It also looks cooler since other lasers moves in the game attack from afar.

Goku vibes

it is to be sure that his enemy is indeed incinerated xD

Point blank kamehameha x10 Makes it cooler

He does that so he can run over to the guy and lose HP in order to count it as a Phys skill on his skill write-offs.

Also a pain in the ass if used against you

@@SaltyMon Phys resist

@@eatanotherzio6811 You obviously don't know what fight I am talking about

@@SaltyMon When all resist Gaea rage goes Brrrrrr xD

@@lacreatura4737 i find it more fitting to call it Javelin rain since the projectiles are LITERALLY raining on you

It cost your health not your mana but the power is magic

@@fluxthemagician7928 and it scales with strength apparently.

Scales with str doe lmao

@@KabutoGatack009 scales with Ma.

@@Darth_Bateman it scales with MA.

That's not a Judgment Cut

@@pktr3964 I don't know is like, Drive more accurate?

Nah it should be demi fiend that has PTSD

@@cidredwood6170 more like Rapid Slash though

Hes actually break dancing off screen. Its too awesome for our mortal eyes

I think he's making the enemies dance wildly by confusing them?

Demi-fiend dance crazy

@@maskedgamerjoker6148 I was waiting for this comment lol

Mild dance.

I would say ambi right-handed, he punch with his right

TIDES TURNING

Vergil got more kids

Also Demi Fiend: UNTIL THE END!

I was wondering when someone would mention it 🤣🤣🤣

Ignatz?

The Ignatz energy is strong, and I love it.

@@brandoncherry6264 So he is Ignatz? That voice fits him, I guess

Also more unique skills for demons so they can be more than just your average all -dyne spells + a buff and healing. I really like what Dx2 has done in this regard by giving many demons a signature skill or passive. This way you can specialize demons in a specific role and encourage fusing certain demons that would go unnoticed otherwise.

Lol doesn't nanashi get Pierce everything though

@@MILDMONSTER1234 Oh yeah that's true, tho he doesn't get any unique offensive skills. I kinda wished he could learn more Enemy exlusive skills tho, he can only learn Surt's Ragnarok and Mara's Hell thrust to my knowledge. BTW, does Ragnarok scale off of Physical stat in Apocalypse?

Flynn has a unique skill. Godslayer's Sword

@@MILDMONSTER1234 Yeah, Nanashi has the unique passive skill Awakened Power. It increases attack power for all skills and gives them pierce.

Javelin rain looks like it's a reference to the Gae Bolg from the ulster cycle. And if that's the case, that attack is really really scary

From the looks of it, his eyes seem like the best bet

It's apparently based on a Chinese demon who could kill lesser demons by just looking at them but I've yet to find a source on that being true

It's also a variant of the original Heavy Gun skill to better fit the character, Riot Gun

from his mouth, he actually looks derpy when he does it lol (can be seen if your game lags)

Always seemed like a super sneeze to me.

The thing I really miss is daisoujou's high cackle being gone :(

@@anonymous71207 I miss Black Riders “click click hehehe”

I believe it's Grant George doing the grunts and yells

@@chaosyeshua1137 it's Christian LaMonte

Apparently just making one Demi-Fiend is hard enough. A whole army would make Lucifer wet himself.

@@EmptyMan000 exactly. Lucifer cares more about holding on to power than he does about anything else. I find it hard to believe that he doesn't have at least hundreds of magatamas at his disposal.

@@christopherbravo1813 I've been on the on the impression that Naoki is the only living Demi-Fiend success since it seems this is not Lucifer's first rodeo in making one; it is just that so many simply did not survive his trials to become as strong as he wished them to be.

@@MarkATorres1989 oh? this is interesting. where did you get that idea from?

@@christopherbravo1813 Mostly groundless theory and a lot of coincidental 'evidence' but going with the first idea: Starts off with the content from the DLC of SMTIV Apocalypse. The one with the four heroes from the previous games. The way how Naoki mentions about being killed by Lucider (I think I'm wrong on who killed him). Though we see in the many possible endings of Nocturne that none of the endings really showed Lucifer killing Naoki. The most depressing one is just him being stranded in the vast deserts of the vortex world that has become dead. The second bit of coincidental 'evidence' is from Naoki's friends in the game. Why did Kagitsuchi claim that Naoki had no ambition or will? Why his two friends and the other guy (forgot his name) were able to obtain both reasons and the surge of power that literally turned them into fiends or demi-fiends. Especially look at the horrific transformation from the two friends while they were still more or less humanoid, they looked like monsters. The third bit, now I'm going on a limb here. It is how the other Fiends, like Matador, Daishou, the Riders, etc, were given their own Candelabrum and told to fight each other in a battle royal to become the next demon born or something like it. Yet, we see none of these fiends fighting each other and instead focus purely on Naoki whenever he is within their range. In fact, for some of them; Naoki had to go out of his way to seek them out. Also why did the Riders claim it as a test while Matador and Lady Harlot see it as a means to gain more power? Plus they all made it clear that to fail this test, equals death. Though Daishoujo and Hell Rider definitely just wanted you dead for their own reasons. Trumpeter's intro dialogue before his battle definitely made it seem like you were among many to be tested, but only you made it this far. The last bit of coincidental evidence, is from the very beginning. When Lucifer made Naoki into the demi-fiend; the moment he implanted the magatushi into his head. Yes, from my view and thoughts, Naoki is not the first person of the 'multiverse' that Lucifer implanted that weird larva thing into. The 'kid' literally looked like he had practiced this before and most likely not many survived the initial implant. Granted the only other reason I'm stretching for this is because of where we start in. A hospital. A surgery room. Look at the other rooms and you see remains and chunky bits about. I am suspicious that those parts were to hint a possible 'other' attempts of Demi-Fiends but the larvae and the host did not mesh well and resulted in a messy death. Though these are just wild theories in my head that I've been playing around with since the trailer of SMTV and our unknown being in the beam of light.

Iron Claw:Am i a joke to you?

​@ryanp7546 yes so long as you keep missing maxed buff and enemies debuffed

what do you mean?

The movement is similiar to oni kagura, and the beam is similiar to spiral viper

Its the classic

Yep

Thank you Aogami essenses

That's because He has the pierce skill equipped. It. Makes physical attacks ignore all damage resistances except for repel. Also is only available during a True demon ending, if I remember that correctly

Ok I did remember that when he uses Heat Wave, it's in his right hand, but that move is weaker... So he's... Holding back? :P

@@IcyDragonRB deathbound? Regular punch? Avangen? Encounter?

The animations are switched in DDS.

Nope. The animation for those moves were switched in the fight against him in Digital Devil Saga.

@@JonnyEternal so the one who's wrong is DDS?

More like its Atlus saying "Fuse prayer and life drain onto EVRYTHING"

Magma Axis is a Fire skill it just uses HP instead of MP (similar to Freikugel being Almighty type) and it can be strengthened by Fire Boost

While Demi-fiend does have an unique animation for Iron Claw, the skill itself is not exclusive to Demi-fiend. I do wish that he made an "All Demi-fiend's skill animations" instead.

One of the folks who was making the game thought it would be cool to include Dante. The higher ups thought it would be interesting, so Capcom let it happen in return for the SMT demon designers designing Dante and Vergil's DT forms for DMC 3

Storywise, he was hired to hunt down the Demi-Fiend.

@@ysaacaerora1113 It fits since at the end of DMC2 Dante rides a motorcycle through Hell Which the Vortex World is very reminiscent of

Makes me think of that teddy bear with the dentures

haven't played the remaster yet but for my last save on the original version i went with his IV:A build (Freikugel, Gaea Rage, Deadly Fury, Magma Axis) in addition to Focus, Pierce, Mediarahan and Fire Boost.

@@ghostlanceryderwilson Nice I have to say Gaea rage and Magma axis are my favorite animations they look like boss moves.

@@hydogens2333 yeah Magma Axis is one of my favorites as well... and Atlus thought the same about Gaea Rage, so they made it into an actual boss move lol

Masakados magatama Pierce Repel fire, ice, force and electricity Focus Freikugel

Gaea Rage is strongest for raw numbers, yes. Magma Axis isn't the only high damage spell he has, though. He gets Tornado, a high tier wind skill.

@@Thentavius yeah, I’ve had Tornado for a while (I’m running a mixed build that I eventually intend to max most stats on). My final skill set plan is Freikugel, Gaea Rage, Tornado, Magma Axis, Focus, Pierce, Endure, and either a debuff (likely Debilitate), Mana Drain, Mediarahan, or Megidolaon.