Best Stats to Level Up | Can You Respec?

In Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (SMT V) Stats determine a character's strengths and weaknesses in battle, separate from their Elemental Weaknesses and Resistances. Learn what each stat means, what they affect, and how to increase your stats to max out your characters!

Best Stats to Level Up in SMT V

Stats Priority Rating

Stat	Priority Rating
Strength	★★★★★
Vitality	★☆☆☆☆
Magic	★★★★☆
Agility	★★★☆☆
Luck	Magic: ★☆☆☆☆ Physical: ★★★☆☆

Strength and Magic Are Both Strong Options

We recommend pooling majority of your stats into Strength or Magic to progress the game. If you wish to specialize in physical moves, choose Strength as your main stat. If you wish to use elemental attacks to hit weaknesses, choose Magic as your main stat.

We Recommend Going with a Strength Build

Many of the Nahobino's unique skills coming from the Aogami Husks are Strength-based moves so we ultimately recommend to build a Physical-leaning Nahobino.

Magic Builds Are Now Viable in the Late Game

A new skill called Heavenly Ikuyuni from the Aogami Type-D Essence allows Nahobino to use Magic based builds in the late game. Do note, however, that this can be worse than Murakumo since the damage scaling is reliant on the amount of debuffs on the enemy.

How to Get Essences in SMT V

Can You Respec Your Stats in SMT V?

In Vengeance You Can Now Respec Stats

New Testament Tablet in Vengeance

In Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, they introduce the New Testament Tablet that allows player to redistribute stat points gained through levelling up or through Demon Haunt conversations with Aogami. This allows players to tweak their builds and stat distributions in the event that they wish to try out a new playstyle in the middle of the game.

You Cannot Respec Stats in Base SMT 5

The base game of SMT V does not feature the New Testament Tablet or any other way to redistribute stat points in the game. Make sure to plan your build accordingly!

Stat Effects Explained: What is Luck?

List of Stats

Stat	Definition
Strength	Increases the damage of attacks with the physical attribute.
Vitality	Reduces damage received from enemy attacks.
Magic	Increases damage of magic attacks.
Agility	Determines the success rate of escaping battles, your chance to hit when attacking, and your chance of evading when attacked.
Luck	Improves chance-based results to being in your favor.

What is Luck?

Affects Rates for Critical, Item Drop, and Ailments

The Luck stat in Shin Megami Tensei V increases chances of inflicting Critical hits, chances of Ailments and Instakill abilities (Light and Dark skills), and affects the drop rate of items post-battle.

Resistances

Below the Conditions section, players will be able to find the Resistances section, which shows a characters Elemental strengths and weaknesses. Below each Elemental icon, there will be an indication of whether a character is resistant, weak, or neutral to a particular element.

These will show whether or not a character, once hit by an Elemental attack, will resist, be greatly affected, or simply receive normal damage from such an attack.

Conditions

The Conditions section of a character's information sheet denotes a character's current status on the field. This section includes the character's current HP (Health) and MP (Mana). These condition stats do not replenish outside of combat unless you use an item.

Stat	Definition
HP	A character's Health – once it reaches zero, a character will be K.O.d until revived.
MP	The pool of Mana a character has remaining, which governs over their ability to cast Skills in combat.

How to Increase Your Stats in SMT V

Earn Stat Points to Use By Leveling Up

Upon leveling a character up, you will receive a point (shown beside the Stats header in the character info screen) that you can spend on any stat to increase its value by one (or more if multiple points are available).

These points are specific to the character that has leveled up and cannot be shared between characters. This means that if you want a powerful team, you will need to level up each Demon separately.

Demon Haunt Conversations with Aogami

At certain points in the story, Aogami will ask to have a conversation with you in Demon Haunt. After recapping recent events, he will give you three stat points to distribute to your Nahobino. Make sure to use these points wisely!

Using Balms on Nahobino

Throughout the game, you will receive balms either through enemy drops, or throught treasure chest or quest rewards. Balms allow the player to raise a specific stat of Nahobino's instantly so make sure to use these items wisely.

How to Increase Your Demon's Stats in SMT V

By Levelling Up

As your demons level up, they will randomly gain a stat upgrade. There's no guarantee on which demon will earn what stat so it is up to RNG.

Using Incenses on your Demons

Throughout the game, you will receive incenses either through enemy drops, or throught treasure chest or quest rewards. You will also gain the ability to buy incenses through trading with Attis or Queen Medb. Incenses allow the player to raise a specific stat of a demon instantly so make sure to use these items wisely.

Demon Haunt Conversations

Your demons can ask you to have a conversation with in Demon Haunt. They can raise their stats randomly, among the possibilities of learning a new skill or raising skill potential on an affinity.

Shin Megami Tensei V Related Guides

Tips and Tricks | Beginner's Guide

Vengeance Guides

How to Use Magatsu Rails	Carry-Over and Save Transfer Bonuses
Virtual Trainer: How to Unlock and Location	How to Start Canon of Vengeance
List of New Demons	Take Her Hand Guide
Demon Haunt	Magatsuhi Demon
Shakan Dungeon	Consecutive Encounters Explained
All Da'at: Shinjuku Features	Innate Skills
Demon Group Skill Explained	Guest Characters
Sky View Guide	List of Cadaver's Hollow Items
All Story Choices and Alignments	Beginner's Guide
How To Unlock Godborn Mode	Post Game Guide: What to Do After the Story
100% Guide	All Demon Navigators (1.0.3 Update)

Game Mechanics

Press Turn System Guide	Battle System Explained
List of Difficulty Modes	How to Fuse Demons
List of Affinities	Effects of Skill Potential
List of Status Ailments	How to Use Magatsuhi Skills
Moon Phases Effects	How to Fast Travel
Interactable Objects	How to Get Essences
All Miman Locations	Demon Statues

Stat and Build Guides

All Stats Explained	Best Nahobino Builds
Strength	Vitality
Magic	Agility
Luck	-

Farming Guides

How to Level Up Fast	How to Farm Macca
How to Farm Glory	How to Farm Mitamas

Tips and Tricks

Best Names for the Nahobino	Best Demons to Use
Best Miracles Tier List	All Abscesses Locations
All Cironnup Locations	All Aogami Essence Locations
List of Special Fusions	All Trophies List
All Missables

FAQ

Apsaras or Leanan Sidhe	What Carries Over in NG+
Principality or Lilim	Should You Eat the Golden Apple?
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