Welcome to the Persona 4: Arena Ultimax Wiki

Developer

Arc System Works / Atlus

Genre:

1-on-1 2D Fighting game

Platform:

Arcade, Playstation 3

Release:

Japan (Arcade): 11/28/2013

Japan (Console): 08/28/2014

North America (Console): September 30th

Europe (Console): Unknown

Persona 4: Arena Ultimax

Persona 4: Arena Ultimax is the sequel to Persona 4: Arena and takes place a few days after the events of the first game. A red fog appears in town and a new tournament appears on the Midnight Channel called the P1-Climax that shows Mitsuru, Aigis, and Akihiko getting crucified...

In Japan this game goes by the title Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold.

New Characters

In addition to all the playable characters from Persona 4: Arena, six new characters have been announced:

Yukari Takeba is a zoning character that uses wind magic and arrows to quickly move around and fill the screen with arrows and wind.
Junpei Iori uses his baseball bat to attack the opponent and level himself up scoring 'points' in his baseball meter.
Ken Amada & Koromaru fight together as a team. Ken uses a Spear and his Persona Kala-Nemi while Koromaru supports him using a Kunai and his Persona Cerberus.
Rise Kujikawa uses the power of music and her Persona to power up and attack the opponent.
Tohru Adachi is a DLC character that fights with a gun and his Persona Magatsu Izanagi.
Marie is also a DLC character that fights with weather, contents of her bag and with her Persona Kaguya.
Margaret is also a DLC character that fights with multiple Personas.
SHO Minazuki fights with dual swords and without a persona. This version of Sho has 3 buttons for normal attacks and a dodge button.
Sho MINAZUKI. This version of Sho fights with a persona named Tsukiyomi, can quickly teleport behind the opponent, and has attacks that drain the opponent's health and SP.

Yukari, Junpei, Ken and Koromaru are originally from Persona 3, Rise, Adachi, Margaret, and Marie are from Persona 4/Persona 4 Golden and Sho is a new character to the series.

Shadow Type

Almost every character in the game has a Shadow Type that plays slightly differently from their normal versions.

See this section for more details.

System Changes

Enhanced Super attacks that cost 75 SP called SB SP Skill Attacks

Done by using two buttons at the same time instead of one. Similar to Skill Boost Attacks (aka: EX Attacks)

Short Hop can be cancelled into and has less startup but...

... any attack performed from a short hop cancel can be blocked both high or low.

Characters have different numbers of Persona Cards

For example, Akihiko has 2, while Elizabeth has 6!
This is a double edged sword. It's harder to enter Persona Break with more cards, but Persona Break state lasts longer the more cards you have!

Guard Cancel Roll added

Similar to Guard Cancel Attack, this is is canceling a guard into a roll for 50 SP.

S Hold System Added

Hold the A button to charge a meter that appears on screen.
- Depending on how long the button is held, you will get a Special move with different properties, Super, Awakening super, or Instant Kill on release
- Must be in Awakening to charge an Awakening Super.

Fatal Recovery State added

All characters now have certain attacks (e.g. Yu's 214D) for which getting hit by any attack during the Counterhit state of the move will force a Fatal Counter.