This is a walkthrough for the boss, Abdiel, found in Tokyo after clearing the Demon King’s Castle in Shin Megami Tensei V. All of her weaknesses, resistances and skills to avoid.

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Abdiel wants to get rid of you once and for all

Stats and Resistances¶

Icon	Name	Lv	Weakness	Resistances	Location
	Abdiel	58		/ (RESIST), (REPEL)	Tokyo

Skills¶

Type	Skill	Effect
	Light’s Descent +5	Severe Light attack to all foes. Chance of instakill when striking weakness.
	Pierce Armor +2	Weak Physical attack to 1 foe. Lowers target’s Defense by 1 rank for 3 turns.
	Dark Sword +2	2 medium attacks to 1 foe. Chance of inflicting Seal.
	Myriad Slashes +2	5 weak Physical attacks to 1 foe. Low accuracy.
	Agidyne	Heavy Fire attack to 1 foe.
	Maragidyne	Heavy Fire attack to all foes.
	Mighty Cleave +2	Heavy Physical attack to 1 foe. Low accuracy, but hits are always Critical.

Recommended Party¶

Icon	Name
	Cybele
	Dominion
	Atavaka

Abdiel can be quite the challenging boss, as she is a step up over Arioch. She is weak to Dark, while being resistant to Electric and Force, and reflecting Light. By far, her most dangerous attack is Light’s Descent, a severe Light attack that will hit your entire party. You want to make sure that mostly every has immunity, or resistance at least, to Light. Even with just resistance, it is possible that Light’s Descent will still do a good bit of damage. You can always use Tarunda to debuff Abdiel’s attack power, while using Marakukaja to buff your defense, which will help your survival. Abdiel doesn’t have any means to remove debuffs or buffs, so you don’t need to hold back with those.

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(1 of 2) Abdiel can debuff your defense with Pierce Armor

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Abdiel can debuff your defense with Pierce Armor (left), Light’s Descent can really hurt a lot if you don’t have protection against Light (right)

In terms of the other moves in Abdiel’s skillset, there are a lot of Physical skills, although two of them have a lot accuracy. Those are Myriad Slashes and Mighty Cleave, both of which can be bad if they actually connect, since Abdiel has pretty good Strength. Dark Sword shouldn’t be too dangerous, but it has a chance to inflict Seal, so make sure you cure that if it happens to connect. Likewise, Pierce Armor isn’t a bad attack, but the fact it lowers the target’s defense doesn’t help in the long run. Counter this by using Marakukaja, or just Dekunda. You will also see Agidyne from time to time, so just make sure no one is weak to it.

Maragidyne is reserved for when Abdiel charges Magatsuhi, so you can simply use a Fire Dampener to completely negate it. Sukunda works well in this fight, as will Masukukaja, which would make Abdiel miss with the two Physical attacks mentioned above very often. Those are definitely the more dangerous Physical attacks, too. It’s a good idea to have a healer, just in case, even moreso if not everyone is immune to Light. The battle should unfold fairly normally, like most other bosses, though, so along as you continue playing intelligently.