It's no secret that every Devil Arm in dmc3 changes the look of the Devil Trigger. But that's not all, as each appearance is complemented by different passive abilities. I myself noticed that only after many years of play and it feels like a deep elaboration on the part of the developers.

Personally I find these buffs quite interesting, although it's not super something game changing and won't help you with SS run. But it makes me fall for this game even more.

And I want to share it with you.

Also I'll list enemies with elemental weakness to the corresponding Devil Arm.


Rebellion – attack increase, armor increase, attack and movement speed increase; HP regeneration; damage reduction; ability to hover in the air. From now on I'll refer to the Rebellion buffs as ''DT base'' except hover ability. I won't mention multiplier difference in 0.05, you can see all in-depth differences in tables below.




About armor: whenever you are hit by enemies there is an animation with which your actions are interrupted as you can see on the gif below. And as your armor increases, enemies will need more attacks to interrupt you.
Note: I use the word ''armor'' for simplification. But in fact it's just almost the same thing as enemies' knockback and stun values.


Agni&Rudra - ''DT base'', a little bit more armor, slightly bigger damage reduction and HP regeneration, fire damage increase.







Enemies with bigger damage multiplier (take more damage): Arachne(x1.05), Cerberus(x1.2), Gigapede(x1.05), Leviathan's right organ(x1.2).



Cerberus - ''DT base'', slightly bigger HP regeneration, even more attack speed.




Enemies that take more damage: Agni(x1.2), Leviathan's left organ(x1.2), Nevan(x1.2), Geryon(x1.1), abyss(x1.5).



Nevan - ''DT base'', greatly increased HP regeneration, ability to fly.







Enemies that take more damage: Cerberus(x1.2), Heart of Leviathan(x1.05).



Beowulf - ''DT base'', armor and attack is greatly increased, even more damage reduction.
Enemies that take more damage: Hell Vanguard(x1.05), soul eater(x1.2), Nevan(x1.05), Doppelganger(x1.2).

Note that regardless of armor increase you still will be knocked down from powerful attacks such as Geryon chariot.

Interesting fact: when using the Sparda costume, the DT appearance will change to Sparda's, but the passives are the same as Rebellion's DT even if you switch Devil Arms.