RAIDOU Remastered: 10 Best Summoner Skills

One of the additions in RAIDOU Remastered compared to the original game is the Summoner Skills. Split between Combat Skills and Sword Skills, they’re nothing less than active and passive abilities for battle, respectively.

Our charming Devil Summoner, Raidou, can equip three active skills at once, being able to swap them anytime midbattle, and six passives—which increases to eight after finishing a Case File. However, not all of them are useful or match your playstyle.

Since RAIDOU Remastered puts a bigger focus on your demons, allowing you to bring two into battle, I saw huge potential in relentlessly striking enemy weaknesses. To do that, I needed to keep my MAG reserves full and equipped with skills that reflected that goal.

In the end, the choices depend on how you prefer to play and your style. But if you’re anything like me, then these are the best summoner skills in RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army.

10

Resist Elements

Defense Is Not The Best Offense

Let me get four Sword Skills out of the way at once. These are Resist Phys, Resist Fire/Elec, Resist Ice/Force, and Resist Mind/Death. As the name suggests, each one increases defense against a specific type of attack.

In fact, their effect cuts the damage taken in half, which sounds great on paper. The problem is that they’re extremely situational.

Sometimes, you’ll fight a boss that uses fire, so Resist Fire/Elec would be nice. But what if that boss also throws Wind attacks? You’d need to swap your passive or even forge another weapon.

Forging weapons isn’t as cheap as it sounds, especially the stronger ones. A lot of the time, you’ll end up with a Resist that doesn’t match the boss. So, as straightforward and effective as they seem, circumstances push these skills to the bottom of the list.

9

MAG Drainer

For Sword or Axe Users

MAG Drainer recovers MAG for every enemy hit after using the final hit of a heavy combo or a charged attack. If you’re the kind of player who prefers dealing damage yourself instead of using light combos to recover MAG through your demons, this Sword Skill is essential.

The only catch is that this skill is only worth it if you’re wielding a Sword or an Axe, since the charged attack of both weapons has a bigger area of effect. If you hit more enemies, you recover more MAG.

Spear’s last heavy attack, on the other hand, only hits one enemy, making the passive way less effective. It’s situational, but in battles like the Trials of a Hundred Demons to unlock Beelzebub, I had unlimited MAG just by spamming sword-charged attacks.

8

Heat Wave

Hotter Than Hell

Most of the time, combat is going to be a mix of light and heavy combos, casting a spell to hit an enemy’s weakness and stunning them while your demons beat the crap out of them for free.

However, at some point, some fodder enemies really started to wear me down. Then, I learned Heat Wave, one of the few physical Combat Skills with an area of effect.

Heat Wave deals severe damage with what the game calls unlimited reach. The reach may be, but the AoE isn’t since it hits a rectangular area wherever Raidou is aiming. Still, it’s enough to inflict some serious pain.

Even better, it’s super easy to unlock, requiring just forging the third spear in the game. Ever since I learned Heat Wave, it never left my loadout.

7

Elemental Signs

Pyro, Frost, Volt, and Wind

As we get older, it feels like everyone learns the lesson that there’s happiness in simplicity, right? And here in RAIDOU Remastered, that applies, too.

Right at the start, we learn Pyro Sign, which is the most basic—and only—way for our protagonist to deal fire damage directly. As the story goes on, we automatically unlock the other elements, like ice, electric, and wind.

I’m grouping all the Elemental Signs together because they work the same way, and the effect is equally good. When you hit an enemy’s weakness, they get stunned, and you can bash them to your heart’s content. Simple but efficient.

By the end of the game, I wasn’t using the Signs as much, because my two demon partners were handling enemy weaknesses for me. But that doesn’t change the fact that these spells are a Devil Summoner’s best friends.

6

Capricious Miracle

Doubling Down On RNG

Capricious Miracle is the only RNG-dependent ability in the game, which makes sense considering how good its effect is. Having a chance for your demons not to spend MAG when using their skills is very tempting.

The problem is that Atlus was stingy with the descriptions and never tells you exactly how much “a chance” really is. I’m not a math guy, but I’d love a specific number so I could create the best Devil Summoner build ever.

Still, considering the chaos of battle and how I can barely manage my MAG while spamming light sword attacks, I’m taking any RNG that promises me benefits. Even if, in the end, it’s just a placebo effect.

5

Shield Breaker

Destroy Those Pesky Shields

The alternative when your MAG is not keeping up with your Demon’s spell spamming is to make each of their spells stronger. In this case, it’s not damage-stronger, but with a greater potential to break enemies’ shields.

Some annoying enemies, mostly bosses, come to battle with a shield gauge. This means hitting them with their weakness won’t stun their asses immediately. Instead, it will take a bit of work at their shield bar. Once their shield is gone, the next spell aimed at their fragility will finally freeze them in place.

That’s why the Shield Breaker is a powerful asset to your (ok, my) build. Once an enemy is stunned, every light slash will recover double the usual MAG for Raidou, which, as you may have already learned by now, is how we cheese our way to victory by stunlocking every enemy into a void existence of uselessness.

4

Infallible Command

Protection Against Elements

Following the same logic as the previous Sword Skills, here we have a Combat Skill, meaning it’s used in battle and has a cooldown. But this time, defensively.

Called Infallible Command, this skill temporarily nullifies any elemental damage against the whole party. It’s mind-blowingly good, because this leaves you only vulnerable to physical – and almighty – attacks.

And yeah, we’ve got a Null Phys Combat Skill if you want to go full-on invincible.

The effects last 20 seconds, and since both skills have a cooldown of 45 seconds, you’ll be vulnerable for only 25 seconds. That is, unless you equip Martial Instinct, which reduces the cooldown to 35 seconds.

3

Martial Instinct

No Cooldowns, No Problems

Our protagonist, Raidou, can equip three Combat Skills at any given time, being able to swap even midbattle. None of the skills cost MAG and only rely on cooldowns, which encouraged me to spam them whenever possible.

And the most practical way to spam them is by lowering their cooldown, which is what Martial Instinct does. Again, I don’t know exactly how much it reduces cooldowns, but by my manual calculation, skills with a 45-second cooldown dropped to 35-ish.

That’s why pairing Martial Instinct alongside Infallible Command and Null Phys is such a powerful combo, as I mentioned earlier. The only problem is forging all the weapons that contain these different skills.

2

Blessing of Mercury

Gatling Gunner Demons

If you’re not that big a fan of randomness but still want to optimize your demons’ MAG usage, then Blessing of Mercury is your go-to. The effect is simple, but remember my whole speech about simplicity and happiness?

My strategy, as I’ve repeated incessantly by now, was putting two demons with strong spells targeting enemy weaknesses, abusing light sword attacks to keep my MAG reserves high, and stunlocking every enemy.

Blessing of Mercury played right into that, letting my demons fire off offensive spells one after another (they have no cooldown) or spam healing magic to keep me standing.

Want to crank it up even more? Pair Blessing of Mercury with Capricious Miracle and watch your MAG gauge stay full at all times.

1

Magnetize

More MAG, More Destruction

By now, you’ve probably figured out I’m a MAG addict. Besides items, one practical way to restore MAG is by using light sword attacks. But what if your HP is low, you’re too scared to get close to enemies, and your MAG gauge is bone dry?

Enter Magnetize, the best Combat Skill. Magnetize restores 50% of your total MAG, and that’s it. I can’t recall how many times I was about to die to a boss, and then I started spamming the dodge button until Magnetize came off cooldown and used it on the spot.

With my MAG restored, my demon healed me, and I was ready to jump back into the fight. Magnetize is also easily learned by crafting one of the earlier weapons, so it’s a great way to keep your MAG topped up while you haven’t unlocked other passives yet.