Yusuke has the ability to summon a persona, Goemon, a manifestation of his rebellious spirit based on the Japanese outlaw Ishikawa Goemon. Due to having the highest strength stat out of everybody in the game, many of Goemon’s attacks are based on physical damage that can attack multiple foes on the battle field and also has the ability to counter attacks and to cause status ailments such as confusion. He does have ice attacks and can learn the strongest attack in that element. This makes Yusuke invulnerable to ice but leaves him with a very heavy weakness to fire.

For the abilities I would bring, I wouldn’t want to bring his most powerful attacks and only a few, acting as a nerf (but let me know if that should be changed!), and would be the following:
• Mabufula. Medium Ice damage to all foes.
• Counterstrike. 15% chance of reflecting a physical attack.
• Vicious Strike. Medium Physical damage to all foes.

Yusuke has the ability to cure status ailments with Harisen Recovery with a giant Japanese paper fan and hitting people with it. He can also endure a fatal attack with only one HP left and has the ability of Artist Talk, which he can use to give you another chance to negotiate with enemies. Yusuke also can wield a katana and while he isn’t exactly a sword master, he is at least at an intermediate level and knows how to fight fairly well.

Thanks to Yusuke’s artistic ability, he learns how to replicate skill cards (cards that are used to teach Personas skills they normally wouldn’t be able to learn) onto a blank card by painting them himself. This can take him a few days to complete one, however.