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It wouldn’t be a Persona game without the inclusion of social stats to work on outside all the dungeon-crawling and friend-making you’re doing, andPersona 4 Goldenfollows in kind. You’ll be working on your Knowledge, Expression, Courage, Understanding, and Diligence throughout the year you spend in Inaba, with five rankings for each.
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In Persona 4 Golden, Understanding is tethered to your social checks, and raising it can not only boost the affinity you earn with social links, but it even unlocks a few part-time jobs as well. For a guide on how to raise your P4G Understanding, we’ve got you covered below.
What Does Understanding Impact?
For the most part, Understanding in Persona 4 Golden impacts yourspeech checks. As you rank up social links, you might find thatcertain dialogue optionsare locked behind a skill check. While this block can cover any of the five social stats, it’s very often your Understanding stat being checked.
There arefive ranksto the Understanding social stat. They are:
Additionally, there aretwo social linksin Persona 4 Golden that cannot be started until reaching certain levels of the Understanding skill.
While you can find Naoki at school, you meetShuthe first time you take on theTutoring job. It becomes available on5/25but requiresRank 5 Understandingto accept.
Tutoring, though, is the only way to meet Shu. In addition to the cash payout, it will boost yourExpressionandKnowledgestats to work the Tutoring job.
How To Raise Your Understanding
Since it’s not quite as straightforward as Knowledge or Courage, Understanding in P4G can be worked on in a handful of different ways.
Eating At Chinese Diner Aiya (Random)
One of the easiest ways to gain not just Understanding butanysocial stat is by spending yourrainy dayseating atChinese Diner Aiya.
There, you’ll find the Mega Beef Bowl Challenge. Finishing it requires the maximization of all five stats, but each attempt will boostthree random stats.
Part-time Jobs
If you’d like to know for sure that you’re raising Understanding, though, you have options there as well: two of your part-time jobs will reward you for your work by raising your Understanding.
Both theOrigami Crane FolderandBabysittingjobs can increase your Understanding.
If you finish readingThe Easy Origami Book, the Understanding gain you earn from folding cranes will be permanently increased.
Pet The Cat
Any time Dojima isn’t around, sneak out of the houseduring the eveningtopet the cat outside the Dojima Residence. Doing so will raise Understanding.
Cleaning Up After Sports Practice
Finally, anytime you agree toclean up after sports practicewill raise your Understanding.
Books That Raise Understanding
There are also a few books that you may buy around Inaba that raise your Understanding in Persona 4 Golden. Each chapter of a book will take youone time slot to read, and you receive the stat boost after finishing each chapter.
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The Easy Origami Book*
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you may finish books faster by finishingHyperspeed Reading, which allows you to read two chapters in one sitting instead of just one.
