Persona 4 Golden: What Does Riding Scooters with Friends Do?

While it might sound strange, scooters are one of the biggest additions to Persona 4 Golden. Riding around with friends is incorporated heavily into both the story and the gameplay, and a part of that is the new ability to spend after-school hours with party members riding bikes.

Persona 4 Golden adds a lot of new features relative to the original Persona 4 released on the PlayStation 2. While many of these are fantastical or intense like new romance options, there are some lighter elements.

Foremost among them is riding scooters with friends. The opening cinematic from the game pushes this with a lighthearted sequence showing each character riding their bike around, and there are story moments where the team takes trips together. There’s an extra gameplay element to this as well, where Yu Narukami can invite teammates to ride with him.

What Does Riding Bikes with Teammates Do in Persona 4 Golden?

Riding bikes with teammates in Persona 4 Golden unlocks new skills for their Personas that they don’t otherwise have access to. This can allow certain characters to function in new ways, opening up the potential for new strategies and team compositions.

Players can get new abilities for a party member up to five times, with each outing offering up a new skill. Each character has a different set of skills, but not all these abilities are unique to the character.

For example, Naoto can learn abilities like Bufudyne and Ziodyne that allow her to cover all four basic elements. This makes Naoto particularly fearsome while progressing through dungeons.

Bike Skills for All Persona 4 Golden Characters

Each character in Persona 4 Golden learns up to five skills by biking, with a new skill coming after each trip. These skills are learned in order, with the skills generally improving over time. Here are the bike skills learned by each character:

	Yosuke	Chie	Yukiko	Teddie	Kanji	Naoto
1	Confuse Boost	Hama	Valiant Dance	Dekunda	Media	Bufudyne
2	Megido	Mind Slice	Marakunda	Life Drain	Atom Smasher	Ziodyne
3	Green Wall	Hamaon	Red Wall	Mustard Bomb	Blue Wall	Tetraja
4	Makara Break	Tetra Break	Spirit Drain	White Wall	Fast Heal	Myriad Arrows
5	Diarahan	Bufudyne	Mind Charge	Evade Physical	Mediarama	Angelic Grace

What Does Biking with Rise Do?

Biking with Rise does not offer any new skills. Instead, it increases the amount of damage the team deals during an all-out attack. Each party member is strong in their own right, but Rise gets the biggest improvement by biking, making the reward for biking with her greater than the party members that actually fight.