Statistics

Like many role-playing games, Disgaea has statistics, numbers which represent a character's strengths and weaknesses. Everything is run by the stats and the random number generator within the game.

List of Stats

A status screen in Disgaea 5 showing various stats.

Main Stats

These are the stats that grow as a character's Level goes up.

• Hit Points (HP) - Gauge that depletes as a character takes damage. If it reaches 0, the character dies.
• Special Points (SP) - Energy consumed to use special skills.
• Attack (ATK) - Increases the damage inflicted by most physical attacks.
• Defense (DEF) - Decreases the damage received from physical attacks.
• Intelligence (INT) - Increases the damage inflicted by magical attacks.
• Resistance (RES) - Decreases the damage received from magical attacks and increases healing power.
• Hit (HIT) - Increases the accuracy of your attacks.
• Speed (SPD) - Increases your evasion against attacks.

Secondary Stats

• Move (Mv) - Maximum distance that a character can move.
• Jump (Jm) - Maximum height increase when moving to an adjacent panel.
• Range (Rng) - How far the character's normal attacks can reach.
• Throw (Thr) - How far a character can throw another.
• Counter (Ctr) - The number of counter attacks a character can perform per turn.
• Critical Rate (Crit) - Chance of attacks resulting in a Critical Hit, increasing their damage.
• Elemental Resistance - Modifies damage taken from elemental attacks.
• Weapon Resistance - Modifies damage taken from physical attacks, depending on the attacker's weapon.
• Aptitude - Multiplier to the stats gained from equipment.
• Weapon Mastery - Proficiency with each weapon. Grants bonuses as it levels up.

Other

• Experience - Points gained towards leveling up.
• Mana - Currency used to pay for upgrades.
• Evility - Passive effects that strengthen a character or their stats.
• Class Proficiency - Improvement system that grants higher stats and new Evilities.

Item Only

• Item Level - Growth from going through an item's Item World.
• Rarity - The quality of a specific instance of an item.
• Rank - The strength of an item relative to others of its type.

Modifiers

There's numerous systems that can be used to increase a character's main and sometimes secondary stats:

• Aptitude: A multiplier on the stats gained from all equipment.
• Weapon Mastery: Gives you a multiplier on the stats gained from Humanoid weapons.
• Level-based Multiplier: Multiplier on the stats from all equipment except Humanoid weapons.
• Specialists: Adds stats to equipment.
• Extra Gain: Gain stats from associated characters.
• Geo Symbols: Grant bonuses to those standing in the affected area.
• Evilities: Passive effects on each character.