Hunter Skills are special attacks in Castlevania: Harmony of Despair which consume MP and have a limited effect. Four of these can be assigned to the Hunter Skill button, one for the button itself, and one for pressing ↑, → (←), or ↓ at the same time as the Hunter Skill button. Each character has a different kind of Hunter Skill:
- Soma - Bullet Souls
- Alucard - Dark Magic
- Jonathan, Julius, Richter, Simon - Sub-Weapons
- Shanoa - Glyphs
- Charlotte - Bound Spells
- Yoko - Elemental magic (unofficial term)
- Maria - Guardian beasts (unofficial term)
- Getsu Fuma - Japanese mysticism (unofficial term)