shinji was by far the most fun character to use while we had him for me. was spoiler free so i basically spent all my money giving him the best possible stuff and immediately ended up feeling done so dirty
I never played the original but I knew most of the big story moments before actually playing reload, I knew he was gonna "Leave SEES" and I shouldn't play as him much, but he was the most fun character in the game and i couldn't not use him
I even gave him several incenses I loved him so much. I was so ready to carry him to the late game. But I don’t regret any of it because it made the story hit that much harder combined with just my love for him as a character.
I wasnt spoiled because of Shinji and till it happened he was my favorite party member. I played him with Mitsuru and Yukari and tried to buff/debuff the first Turns and then hit hard with his Theurgy. It was so fun I one shotted like every Monard Door Boss at the time he was available.... RIP Goat
A part of me hoped that there was some way to save him like in P3P, but at the same time, it goes against everything his character stands for does if he does live and it sucks that there’s nothing that can be done to get both him surviving while his character has the same level of meaning and integrity.
@@normalpersonlivingtheirlife Yes I like and understand the decision for his character. I only spoke for him as a party member. So far I think with his death, he is my favorite Character from P3, but Im only at the end of October and have some gameplay left to finally decide, but I think at least he will be up there somewhere.
lol, same. i just got access to Shinji a few days ago. started using him and thought he was pretty OP, so i got both of his combat characteristics and used a bunch of strength incense on him, thinking him/yukari/mitsuru were gonna be my party til the end aaaaaaand… 😭
I’m always picking Yukari with me since her healing skills can sync with her theurgy well. Koromaru is by far another first pick as well since he can auto eva/acc reduce enemies and it allows me to melt golden hands with little issues. Ken is arguably my first pick since even though he does not sync well with his theurgy, his overall skill usages is still a great choice. Your video is a fair review, so I’ll sub you! Btw, I played Persona series since 3 so I guess it is with me for 17 years lol
@@ManuPlays05Unless healer is dead, I won’t rely on healing persona. But your suggestion is a good idea, so yeah, I have 2 reserved healing personas with some buffs in case of getting big oof
@@ManuPlays05 I prefer letting MC focus on Damage since they generally pump out the most possible damage at any given point in the game past midgame, and since Yukari can also pump out full heals of the party for only a fraction of the sp cost while also curing ailments and dealing good damage, she's a must have
Junpei went from Zero to Hero in Reload. The character skills he gets (by bonding with him in the dorm) is actually nuts. My first clear on Merciless: Yukari, Mitsuru and Akihiko but I used Junpei on some bosses that aren't immune to slashes. Mitsuru becomes pretty OP with Theurgy Deabilitate and Akihiko is just there for debuffs and since I don't really have any persona that had Lightning Skills. but the endgame is kinda open for everyone. I'm planning to use Amada, Junpei and Koromaru on my next playthrough cause I heard good things about them
@@shanecash7582 Personally i used : Brave blade / vile Assault / Gigantic fist / vorpal blade (so he can do try to crit even if slash immune) / agidyne (no maragidyne if multiple ennemies are weak to fire he downs one and give turn to MC or even koromaru if you are using him) / high counter / regenerate 3 (didn't use it that muchtbh especially i got trismegistus) / Shift boost -- looking back at it i would have put marakukaja instead of regenerate 3 to lift some weights off of aigis shoulders (my team was mitsuru / junpei / aigis) (Dragon boots / omega drive - last sword that i forgot the name of to get apt pupil) Pairing him with a very fast mitsuru and having him super fast but slower than mitsuru made them two man pretty much any mob group as mitsuru would inflict ailment with either neuroslash / eerie sound or diamond dust on single target and greatly increase his chance to crit on top of all the reste :D
Messiah -Thunder Reighn -Elec boost -Elec Amp -Magic Ability -Single-Target Boost -Concentrate -Spell Master -Null Phys Purpose Of Skills Gives your Thunder Reighn 115% boost passively and icreases its damage more than 2 times thanks to Concentrate. Null Phys makes Messiah have atleast resistance to every element. Lastly decreases cost of everything by half with Spell Master. How to Obtain To get this build you fuse Odin and Inugami to make Mot. You pass Thunder Reighn, Concentrate and Elec Amp to Mot. Then you make Thanatos. Fuse Thanatos and Orpheus to make Messiah and pass the aforementioned 3 skills to him. You can get Elec Boost from chests that require twilight fragments on early floors. You can get Single-Target Boost guaranteed from floor boos chests that require twilight fragments. You can get Spell Master from antique shop. Lastly Messiah learn Magic Ability and Null Phys by level up.
I basically did the same thing but with ice. Also replaced Magic Ability with Enduring Soul since Lucifer's Blade gives Magic Ability now so it's kind of a dead skill.
@@amenoma9648 Yup. Akihiko was the best team member for debuffing enemies in FES. Ken has Debilitate now instead. They REALLY buffed Ken up compared to FES, as was Junpei. The two of them are much more viable now.
Something to clarify since the games description of it is just wrong, but Akihikos Theurgy bonus IS NOT when he buffs himself. He gets a bonus every time he starts a turn while already buffed. A much MUCH better condition than whats actually written there
Everything about Akihiko's unique characteristics are so horrendously misworded in-game for some reason. Makes him sound super underwhelming on paper when he's actually pretty strong.
He also gets bigger bonuses from the stat boosts, this along with having elec boost and amp makes his theurgy spam insane. One of the best and most slept on characters honestly
Thanks for the information. My team in FES was MC,Yukari,Akihiko, and Mitsuru. It’s good to see Koro and Ken get some deserved buffs because those light and dark skills they had on FES were useless unless used on mobs. Pretty good review I’m going to experiment and roll with a new team.
People are sleeping on Junpei. On the surface it doesn't look like he brings much to the table but his damage potential is insane. His Theurgy synergizes well with his kit as he can spam moves (with crits) and then Theurgy himself back to full. He's an incredibly powerful, self sufficient damage dealer. I unlocked his ultimate weapon (which gives him apt pupil) and his upgraded characteristic gives him him crit boost/amp and the man never misses at least 1 crit with Vorpal Blade. He outdamages the rest of the team (save for MC) easily. My team for final boss was Yukari, Junpei, and Aigis.
Save all the people missing in Tartarus and you get an accessory with Apt Pupil which just makes him even more insane. Give him the weapon that gives him crit amp and you got a MONSTER
Junpei just takes too long to properly get going. When people put him towards the bottom, it doesn’t mean that he’s bad, it just means that the other broken characters in P3Reload are better. Every character is extremely strong by the time Junpei gets going, so deciding how good characters are based on the (very) late game is a flawed assessment. No character in P3Reload or P4 is truly bad. You can make any party work in both games, it’s just that others are better.
Junpei, Ken, & Koro in your party just melts virtually everything in their way. Ken's ult is literally FFXIV's Heal LB3 + Five Elements in the Dx2 mobile game, and in-between those he has heat riser and reflects. Koromaru debilitates stuff while his ult is a party wide Best Friends, which synergizes with Junpei and the MC with Akasha Arts. And Junpei? I went through both Jin and Takaya's fights with the dude doing nothing but crit. In the Nyx fight he one shot every arcana until the one that nulled phys skills.
in regards to the belief of ken being a healer, it's more so how he was in the older versions of P3 where the only notable difference is a subjective choice between a healer who can cure status ailments or a healer who can hit better as Ken had spear master and could put in some a offensive work. in reload they did make him less of a healer as they gave him less heal skills to trade off having acess to bless skills and passives which makes him to be more of an all-arounder then previous
Imo being weak to dark was also much easier to ignore than being weak to electricity. Yukari is probably ultimately better than Ken in fes and portable, but I've often found Ken easier to use.
I think the only issue with akihiko is that late game (lvl 70+) he just gets outpaced by mc in terms of damage. And he wants to be played as the main carry. For the majority of the game he felt great it was only the last 1 and a half sections of tartarus that he felt replaceable. An interesting idea would actually be a full magic team making use of yukaris theurgy with mitsuru and akihiko as akihiko actually has the third highest magic stat (assuming it's the same as fes) and both elec amp and elec boost.
My only issue with Akihiko was that by the end of the game he was simply far too frail. Mitsuru had less Endurance than he did and yet she’d survive getting hit by basically anything, while Akihiko just kept dying over and over. Hell, I was tempted to leave him dead during the Reaper fight since he was just free turns for it, but decided he needed the EXP. Honestly, Mitsuru, Yukari and Ken might just be the best team, with Junpei, Koromaru and Aigis being not far behind against anything vulnerable to Phys. Poor Akihiko man, went from one of the single best in the team to dead weight.
@@reaperofthings ok but that’s kinda what happened to me. Idk if he was weak to pierce or something but during the lovers shadow fight he died twice via holy arrow. Besides the mc (died cus they charmed everyone and we all killed each other), nobody else died. He def helped with his attack down debuff, but couldn’t do much damage compared to mc, Junpei, and Yukari. He was 2 levels behind, but it’s not like his next skill was a higher damage move either. Maybe he was really that low leveled cuz we might all have been. I was consistently underleveled compared to the average since I do Tartarus like twice a month in game.
Heat riser isn’t that great unless you’re soloing or your entire team is basically dedicated to support one party member. Aigis will service you a lot better as a buffer. Debilitate, on the other hand, is one of the best skills in the game and is always useful for bosses.
@@yassin9782 unfortunately aigis got mega nerfed by losing one of the mass buffs. In the original she could keep the buff rotations constantly going and now thats not possible they force you to use her as a dps in the remake
As I reach endgame I've found that Akihiko, Koromaru, and Ken work really great as a team I'm thinking of going into the final boss with this set up too.
Shinji was my favorite. Man, if you combine Koromaru’s dmg buff theurgy + shinji’s dmg and crit buffs + his theurgy, you can one shot bosses. Not only that, but his crit aoe dmg was insane too.
In FES, I primarily used Aigis, Ken, and Koromaru because that specific comp had a max of one weakness (Aigis with electricity) since there wasn't an option to gaurd. They were also my personal favorite characters In portable, I chose Akihiko, Mitsuru and Aigis because I was more confident in the members with direct controls. I also wanted a different team comp from what i had in FES For Reload, I plan to definitely use Yukari and Junpei (because i haven't used them in a team in a P3 game before) and most likely Aigis because that'll mark her as the P3 member I've kept in my final team from every game
@@megaspacewaffles i felt that ken was better suited as either a backup if yukari ran out of sp (which hardly happened) or as a complimentary piece with yukari if a boss was giving me trouble. The rest of his utility feels wasted if hes the only healer in the party. plus yukari plus crit bow goes hard.
Ken does just outclass her coz he can spam his Party Wall + Mediarahan + 2 Full Revive every 3 turns. On top of that he has more utility and does more damage (Kougaon 350 power to Garudyne 220). His Characteristic also effectively reduces the cost of Mediarama to only 2 more Sp than Yukari.
Yukari having Heals and highest Ma stat on the entire gang is already insane enough , and they give her that second theurgia on top of it is just overkill.
Yes!! Her being given wind amp and her ultimate weapon giving her auto concentrate as well being able to equip a wind boost accessory, her theurgy can hit over 10k with the right set up!!
For Mitsuru, I removed Ice Break for Freeze Boost while Replacing Eerie Sound with Neural Slash or Marin Karin. Did you know, Freeze Boosts Crit Chance on the Enemy by 100%? And oh look, Junpei Benefits on Crits, What a great Synergy :D
It's so messed up that according to the move descriptions, Tentarafoo has a "Medium chance of confuse" (45%) while Neuro Slash has a "Low chance of confuse" (50%). Like yeah sure, Neuro Slash can miss or be nulled, but they didn't have to disrespect it like that.
I cleared a decent amount of Tartarus using those 3, Mitsuru and Junpei are such a killer combo. I swapped Junpei for Koromaru later on, as I liked Koromaru's innate de-buff characteristic. I also gave Koromaru a weapon that gave him a temporary crit boost, that combined with distress ailments (from Ambush attacks) and Mitsuru in the party (plus him always being first in the turn order) was a pretty lethal combo. With him getting nearly guaranteed crits and then shifting to everyone else just destroyed regular encounters.
Yukari is a good character to use and is one of the best remake character so I do agree she needs to be a main team member and the other two members is who yall like the most as for me I usually rock with "best girl" mitsuru I'm put it that way cause everyone has a best girl lol and my second usually is Koro cause a lot of monsters is weak to dark and outside of the MC he can deal damage to that weakness
Mitsuri is good for defence debuff, which is the best debuff. But she is slashing and ice. Like....okay. MC is already slashing, so her only real coverage is ice. Her tier 2 theurgy is good, but it's not gonna be a reliable way to debilitate. She's just mid
@@DamnDaimenwhat a lame point to make 😭 she still has arguably THE best move pool in the entire game being the best magic damage dealer + being the only one to learn concentrate None of that speaks mid
@@smokedsanjl How many enemies are immune to frost? Thats 1/8 of her skills slots for a lame spell, and 1/3rd of her turns to recast the break. She's the definition of mid.
@@DamnDaimen like I said outside of Yukari it's up to yall who to bring I just like mitsuru the best out of all the playable characters some will see her as mid where others will see her as good take Yukari for instance I don't like her and think she come off as a B but for battles she is a must and I know others will disagree with that take and it's cool
I love how they changed up all the characters in the game and made them all viable since ESPECIALLY ken and koromaru were not useful In the older versions. I find using ken in reload is great if you want to play it safe since his theurgy res/heals/and casts barriers. But his theurgy takes a sec for it be cast since of his requirements and ken uses alot of sp from all his skills. As well as ken support skills are mostly for single targets. Idk I always found having two healers a bit redundant in the party since it's just overkill, but Yukari excels with sp management, support, and offense. The other party members all have group wide kaja or kunda skills so all of them can really benefit and boost the party up. Yukari 2nd theurgy can boost the whole party with concentrate, so pretty much everyone who has an element except aigis and shinji, would be able to dish out even more massive damage especially those without concentrate like akihiko and koromaru. I loved being able to mix and match but i found having Yukari mitsuru and akihiko my favorite to use since they can all synergize the best with eachother and be able to clear tartarus floors relatively with ease. Still there's so many variations you can assemble since overall every party member is useful, ken is just incredibly safe but i would say doesn't stand out as much compare to the others for damage output and group wide buffs.
My final team for my first playthrough was Ken, Koromaru, and Aigis, since then aigis and koro could cover buffing with attack, defense and agility as needed, Ken covered any healing and barriers, koro could cover debilitate, and that still left my team with 2 very solid magic dealers and aigis to wipe the floor with physical damage. And of course Makoto could cover anything else in terms of support or damage output.
ive found yukari/mitsuru/aigis to be the best for bosses because they just have clearly defined roles that they do well at. But when exploring Tartarus I run Junpei and Koromaru over Yukari and Aigis because I just want to click multi-target physical moves with a crit-stacking Persona from Makoto and those two are the best at getting crits to baton pass into Makoto
I just got to October and was think pretty much like your with my party comp. I swapped aigis with Aki personally but I can understand it. I was very on the fence of benching aki for koromaru and now I feel like I should do it. Thank you
I agree with every placement, but endgame Aigis is better than Mitsuru, Ken and Koromaru just because of how insane Resist Phys, Enduring Soul and Insta Heal is.
Her lack of elemental skills kinda screws her over however. Ken and Koromaru have coverage in 3 elements and have good support/healing skills on top of that. Not to mention their theurgies are so much better than Aigis'.
My party in any persona game is usually love interest party member, one of the best in the game and one of my favourite characters. I finished the game last night and finished the game with Yukari, Akihiko and Aigis.
If you're going to use Junpei, he's probably best with Koromaru. The accuracy buff/debuff plus revolution sets junpei up for hitting and critting in a way that he can't accomplish on his own. I'm not sure if the devs meant for this to be some kind of callback to the fact they worked together in the answer, but it really doesn't make sense at all why junpei can't do anything to help his own theurgy.
I mean, his personality gives him innate Apt Pupil, so he does have something, but I agree about him and Koromaru, they are fucking Beasts together, especially since Junpei only gets singler target fire skills and Koromaru only Multi-target ones, they really do complement each other.
Hrm... Yukari, Ken, and Aigis is pretty frontloaded with 3x Pierce damage, and has a 2x Electricity Weakness. My ideal party is swapping Yukari for Koromaru. Yukari is outstanding, but I like party members with backup roles in this game. It means I have balanced weaknesses, can generally hit physical weaknesses, have Heat Riser and Debilitate, as well as Dekaja and Dekunda. Also means my party can hit everything but Ice and Wind, which I quite like.
From the info given I think that the best early team I MC,Yukari,Akihiko,Aigis just because you can team buff and team debuff very easily. But once end game starts is the time you pull all of the leveling to Ken and Korumaru just for the ultimate Heat riser + Debilitate + Concentration/Charge on the MC strat for most end game bosses.
My endgame team was: -Makoto focused on Physical Personas, Raphael as starter with the 3 Auto-Makaja skills, and then Susano-o as the main Phys damage dealer, and Thanatos and Loki as elemental dealers. I must specify that I finished the game at lvl 78, as I had to nerf myself because the game was pretty easy, so I didn't had the most broken Personas in my first playthrough (supposing Susanoo-o is not fucking broken lmao) -Yukari for obvious reasons, the indispensable healer, and her Concentrate Theurgy. -Koromaru with Revolution and Masukukaja, his Charge Theurgy is absurdly broken for my composition and has decent Magic stats to do Fire and Dark damage, AND now also has Debilitate. -Finally Aigis, the backbone of raw damage and buffing, with Mataru and Maraku, and both Theurgies. Activating Orgia Mode with both Koromaru's Charge and Revolution... it's so funny to see so much Critical hits.
At the end of the day, the best party members matter little since you cannot use them in the game's hardest fight. Use whoever you want to for the campaign.
I've been using the og FES team, Yukari-Aigis-Akihiko, im at the end of October, and i can already feel Aki falling behind, and now im building Koromaru to swap Akihiko, him plus my Sigfried with AutoRebellion, Aigis and Yukari, tf enemies gonna do LMAOOO
I agree, Yukari and Ken were my staples! Especially Ken's late game weapon which grants him mental ailment immunity. Ken also has Heat Riser and healing, and I still kept semarecarm. His 2nd Theurgy is too OP tbh especially in boss battles but you gotta time it right. I just equipped him with a Null Dark accessory and he is good to go. I had Mitsuru as my third team mate and yeah she did need a lot of setting up with Def shred and Concentrate but her 2nd Theurgy with Debilitate was a great addition to my team - especially with Yukari's magic damage buff I had my MC focus on Dark and Physical and unlocking Messiah felt like a cheese but it is what it is lol
I went with Junpei, Yukari and Koromaru/Mitsuru Junpei built out is basically guaranteed crits every time (even without rebellion). Yukari is just free healing, Mitsuru is kind of meh with ailments imo and focusing on her damage and freeze potential is much better as like half the enemies don't even take ailments, only conditions/elemental effects. Koromaru is awesome for buffing though. I really didn't want to use physical personas with MC because I wanted to focus on light/dark nulls and preserving HP. so I stuck with Junpei dealing with phys and crits (P3R is so easy to farm SP items anyway)
For me personally, I’ve only gotten to August and Floor 91 of Tartarus, so I haven’t used Koromaru, have gotten Ken, and the GOAT of Persona characters is still here, but I love using Mitsuru because of her defence debuff and her mass distress move (I got lucky and got Apt Pupil+crit rate boost from a fusion so now any Persona that has good Strength is a monster), Yukari because she gets fucking Spell Master but for healing skills which synergies well with my dumbass mashing Herculean Strike whenever I can, and I haven’t decided on my last spot but I’ll probably use someone who gets either Heat Riser or debilitate or whatever fits my needs Also one small detail about Mitsuru’s review is that her Combat Condition increases the parties crit rate on statused enemies, so you can just try to play as an Uber status/dubuffer+dps rather than just dps, which would allow you to still provide use even against ice block enemies. And if it’s that big of a problem, well you have 12 persona slots, surely you can dedicate one of them to an element breaker?
My old in fes team is yukari, akihiko, and mitsuru cus the spread of element and attack but with dark and element addition from p5, its really bring ken and koromaru to its shine. But now my main is yukari, mitsuru and aegis and sometime do party switch just to have fun and i think reload really give so much easy way to lvl up party member
It would be much better if Akihiko’s Theurgy charged faster after casting or receiving a buff, Akihiko would benefit much more from this, especially if debuffs would to be replaced with team buffs
It actually does kind of work like that! His theurgy gauge increases if he enters his turn already buffed, and these buffs can be applied by anyone. You can test this by seeing how much his gauge fills when he starts his turn unbuffed, vs how much it fills when he enters his turn with a buff applied to him :)
God yukari just so good. Ken i find i always go for him as a "healer" for when yukari sp runs low and i dont want to spend resources having her recover sp. The fact each character can have several different styles of play is really nice.
It’s interesting to see how you went about this…if you are taking a “who works the best as a party member” type stance, then yeah, of course characters like Koromaru, Ken, and Yukari would rise to the top while Akihiko and Aigis sink. But if you’re talking about“which character could carry the team and slaughter on their own,” suddenly Akihiko and Aigis shoot way up to the top. I do tend to side more with the second stance when deciding party members on a first playthrough, but once you are looking at level 90+ and NG+, your version is absolutely more optimal overall. The protagonist is always going to be the best, so whoever synergies the best with him gets a massive boost in viability.
I can agree with you pick even if I play Ken a little different. I was Yukari, Ken, +1 when I finished. Having Yukari as main healer and Ken as a secondary healer for when you need to buff, use items, or are stunned/ko'd with Yukari is very nice. You only need to spend 1 move slot for a full team heal so he doesnt miss out on too much to have it. That duo can carry any +1 you need for the situation.
Is depend on your playstyle mostly on how you built your Makoto like if you built him support and rely on others team member damage like Akihiko, Mitsuru and Junpei you can go for a team like: -Junpei; Koromaru; Amada/Aigis for Junpei Hyper carry with Koromaru constantly debuffing the enemy and Amada/Aigis for buff/poke-damage and Makoto focus on Healing and status cure the same go for the other two (Mitsuru and Akihiko) but if you go Makoto main Damage dealer the best team is Yukari; Amada and Koromaru
I had a Late game party and an Early/Mid game party. Early on I had Yukari, Junpei, and Mitsuru. Mitsuru and Junpei's chareristics worked so well together and Yukari was the healer. Much later it slowly became Ken, Yukari, and Junpei as my main force, with Koro or Mitsuru swapping in when necessary. (Usually with Yukari when a Mini-boss resisted or Nulled wind.)
For anyone wondering - Shinji is easily S-Tier. Bloody charge combined with Mitsuru’s Rakunda, Yukari as healer and MC as support (Matarukaja / Matarunda) was absolutely INSANE for the short amount of time he was in our team. RIP Shinji. You a real one.
Not to mention his passive characteristic you unlock by spending time with him at the dorm is fucking Auto-Heat Riser. My man is here for a good time, not a long time.
You can have this combo late game with MC + Yukari + Koro + Aigis. MC with Futsunushi (with Vorpal Blade + bloody charge + slash boost/amp + all critical boosts + arms master) and an auto buff persona (auto -kaja and rebellion on a Persona in the beginning to boost the advantage) absolutely SHREDS enemies into pieces. Combining that with Koro's Debilitate, Revolution and Theurgy, Aigis' Matarukaja, and Yukari's heal is just perfect. You know what's even better? You can bloody charge + debilitate and use Siegfreid's Theurgy (Scarlet Havoc) to deal even more damage. Every Strega fight and most late game border bosses were trivialized by this bullshit and it's pretty funny.
I went with Yukari, Aigis and Koromaru, opting for a very physical playstyle. Koromaru's Theurgy helped buff Aigis and whatever physical attacking personas the protagonist had, and I kept Revolution on Koromaru to boost crits. Combining that with Apt Pupil and Crit Rate Up on some of the personas I fused, I was dealing crits with protagonist every 2 or 3 turns. Yukari was the staple healer too, and her second Theurgy helped Koro and protagonist deal lots of magic damage
Seems like that team is very close to the ryuji, Ann and makoto team in royal where you have a hybrid of magic and physical and the mc can alternate between the two when needed
I never needed to rely on a healer because healing items in this game were so plentiful. Rather than forcing a healer on my team, I focused on damage and buffs. If I needed a heal/revive, the items that I passively picked up were more than enough to carry me through the game at the benefit that any of the party could use them.
Personally rn im running myself (obviously), Koromaru (for debilitate and accuracy buff), Aigis (defence + damage buff) and Ken (Heat riser). When I pull off a lot of the buffs mid fight i can end up either 1 shotting bosses or two shotting them (like the reaper)
Akihiko's theurgy is mistranslated. He gains gauge from being buffed during his turn. So if you run him you want someone with auto-ma skills. There is an accessory that gives auto-matarukaja so you don't even need to run it on MC. But it's why people had a hard time with him since he just gets sukukaja and masukukaja. But with his kit he honestly should have come with tarukaja for better synergy, but having someone run an auto skill for him isn't too bad. But the way I use him because of auto-ma skills he gains theurgy pretty fast. And even without theurgy buff amp godhand pumps out a lot of dmg. The team I run is him, Ken, Koromaru with the B team being Junpei, Mitsuru, Yukari.
I've been running Koro, Ken, and Yukari using a self auto buffed Siegfried with slash boost and amp, auto matarukaja and auto rebellion, great crit boost and charge with vorpal slash and the severe slash single(forgot name). Debilitate into charged slashed has dropped bosses instantly unless they resist or immune. The highest hit yet was 10050 damage, which I didn't know if the game had 9999 max damage or not until then 😂. Best part of this is Im not using endgame gear yet as I've kinda farmed reaper using this setup and everyone is at 99 before even getting Shinji into group.
Honestly, After finishing the game myself though I didn’t use the team comp I think the best team comp you could possibly use is: Aigis Junpei Koromaru Having Koromaru do a rebellion to raise the parties crit rate will just make Junpei and Aigis excel at their jobs with Junpei always being able to fall back onto fire damage and Koromaru having 3 skill types. The reason I don’t have any healers listed is because Protag can fuse some of the best Personas for support especially with Messiah in late game. This allows Protag to tank hits and Salvation when necessary. This comp can be made especially good if you grind out Luck Incenses for Aigis and Junpei
The only problem is that you are forced to heal with MC, if the enemy blocks physical you are royally fucked and Aigis can only crit with Akasha Arts and her single target Theurgy.
@@hansschmidt1888 There aren’t many enemies that Null Phys and the ones that do are usually Tartarus Bosses that you probably already have Theurgy ready for. Even something like Tetrakarn isn’t a worry coz you can just use a basic attack and take a tiny of damage to remove. Also you dont need the Mc to be the healer because Items exist and are both common and cheap so use Items on the turn of someone who you don’t mind not doing damage with for the moment.
Koro was in my party the entire time. Had the highest level (besides Makoto) - highest gear - and was an overall badass. Then I had to keep Aigis in the party so she could translate for him. I also own a Husky soooooooo - the idea of having a closely resembled dog is SOLD for me.
Junpei really just needs the right equipment to become a Physical DPS GOD Shoes that grant Tarukaja and Rebellion on battle start + a Revolution from a Party Member and enemies with no weaknesses fall like chumps to his Crits every other turn
Ken’s second Theurgy is great but it’s not nearly as good as it reads. It reads as a hard reset but there are two vital flaws. First, Makoto *needs* to survive that massive turn, so at best it’s two revives. Second, unless you’re heavily SP depleted or down two allies, it’s usually the same to spend a turn reviving and Mediarahan. The barrier is the only real advantage to it. Also while you did a good job going over strengths and weaknesses, in a long game like P3 Reload, I think it’s very flawed to go based purely on late-game. Junpei and Koromaru are insane late-game but take too long to get going. Akihko and Mitsuru are so good in the early-mid game that they should be ranked higher, same with Aigis’s dominance in the mid game and early late game.
I like how they’re all balanced in this game, and I feel like personally I’m leaning towards one of two party ideas: -Yukari - Mitsuru - Ken Taking full advantage of the three best magic users though pretty reliant on Yukari’s concentrate all theurgy and mitsuru’s for debilitate if Makoto doesn’t have it - Yukari - Aegis - Koromaru More of a physical focus to take advantage of Koro’s charge all theurgy, but importantly having all of the buff-all skills covered via Aegis + Koro and debilitate on Koro as well so that Makoto is free to be a better damage dealer. I like this idea more as it feels significantly more versatile and doesn’t rely on theurgy as much
Ken and Aigis are both staples on my team. I pick the third person based on the situation. I usually dedicate my main character as a duel attack/healer so that I have a reason to keep swapping his personas back and forth to boost his theurgy. This way I don't need Yukari, especially since Ken also acts as a secondary healer when need be.
Junpei's skills synergize just fine. I have him spam aoes since the crit chance is per enemy and all you need is one crit to be able to just do another aoe. Give him slash boost or amp as an accessory and he regularly double hits for it, which usually ranges from chunking enemies hard to sweeping the fight entirely. I've had him get three one mores in a row just spamming the AoEs so I love him.
I just wished his actual move set supported his play style more. I don’t think the gap between anyone in this game is too large especially with how well people can work together.
In my opinion I use Korumaru over Ken for the sole reason of rebellion. What I noticed is crits also builds Koru’s theurgy. Also he’s the only member with debilitate so I pretty much always take him for boss fights too. Yukari is a must need member just cause her characteristic giving her 25% healing costs. She gets so much free value it’s hard to say you’ll give her up. Also Aigis is my main physical damage dealer, while Junpei is also a good option he didn’t really feel as good even though he works better with Korumaru. Sometimes I’ll even run a more Aigis carry team cause I love Aigis as a character lol.
- junpei is very good for bossing at endgame since the first three turn of the fight you're pretty much garanteed to crit if built correctly (dragon boots & bis sword)(dealt 16k theurgy crit eheh) The big plus for junpei is that he can do every typê of physical attack so if someone resist repl drn whatever on slash he's not useless - Mitsuru is an insane support for mobbing, pretty lackluster on bosses since most of them can't be affected by ailments, therefore her passive is rendered useless but pairs VERY WELL with junpei for mobbing (ambush -> full crit -> go next), i didn't use icebreak/concentrate to put freeze boost/ neuroslash so she's entering into the fight she either freezes or confuse mobs => junpei goes next and wipe it all (apt pupil + auto tarukabellion on gear). - aigis is pretty much the oppposite of junpei, more stable, don't rely on crit and can buff on downtime - Yukari is bad at mobbing good for bossing, since once you figured out weaknesses of ennemy you shouldn't really take damage from shadows while mobbing - Akihiko is the most lackluster character in my opinion, his theurgy is so long to charge even if you spend all your time buffing yours (i'm not sure if i read it correclte to be honest>.
Oh yeah my favorite party member are mitsuru even though she's not that useful in lategame fights in my opinion and junpei and how they synergize together, i wish they would learned more advanced spells
You can't even crit with tempest slash, since it doesn't have a crit chance. You are supposed to use Getsu-Ei which has a 15% crit chance and always does more damage than tempest slash except when you hit all the 4 hits, which you obviously won't.
My Junpei ended the game with 99 STR and 90 LUC because I would just dump my spare stat cards onto him and turn him into a bloody monster. Balmung gets rid of his main weakness late game, which is his damage type. I gave him the armor that gives him Anti-wind Master and the Accessory that gives Apt Pupil and watch him fly lmao. I'm considering using Junpei+Aigis+Koro as my main team for full buffs+Debilitate while Junpei goes off and Arisato main heal/magic damage.
It is good that they included actual attack spells from P5 for Ken and Koromaru, since the insta-kills are kinda useless because of their low accuracy rates.
Never played a Persona game before and after discovering the series through someone playing P3 music in the background a few years ago, I’m glad to see that Persona 3 Reload is real 🙏🏼🔥 It may not be the remake that most people wanted (ALL of the original, FES and Portable all in one game) but for what it’s worth, I’m okay with that, the game looks really fun but I’m ngl im kinda scared that I won’t like the gameplay which sounds absolutely Stupei but hope I’m just wrong. sometimes I want to take my time and fully immerse myself in a game but life/responsibilities get in the way which is annoying but unfortunately necessary so I can relate with “time is of the essence” which is basically a theme of Persona 3 and IRL - makes me want to breeze through at least the battles and take my time with the story/interactions/relationships side. I haven’t bought P3R yet - Since my all in one PC is dog shii and I’ve never owned a modern console beyond the Wii and 360, I’m looking to upgrade my PC soon. I’ve seen videos of P3R running well on Steam Deck OLED and even on the latest MacBook Pro, so I’ll probably just buy those and play it on there 😹 I wouldn’t be surprised if Atlus “reloads” Persona 3 Reload in the future which would be really funny, if rumors are true that The Answer will be DLC then there really isn’t a need for Atlus to make another Persona 3 unless they plan to bring back FEMC Kotone Shiomi…? Everyone looks so cool and ready for battle, I’ll be happy to have Yukari, Mitsuru and Ken on the team! Ken is broken it’s truly a blessing he’s safe IYKYK 🤭😭 I can’t wait to play, did you see that Shinji? Wait, where is Shinji? 🤨😲😱🤦💀🙏🏼🔥
my party for endgame ended up being yukari, junpei and aigis. i had insta heal accessory on yukari for obvious reasons and as for junpei i gave him an accessory with apt pupil which made him crit like crazy. this combined with asura with gods hand and strike amp with crit rate amp, boost, bloody charge and apt pupil led to a nyx fight that ended rather fast on hard difficulty at level 89. not to mention i used Armageddon on him, it was too tempting to pass up lol. honestly even without Armageddon i feel like final phase would have ended quick because fuuka kept charging and concentrating the whole party and theurgys were dealing like 2000 damage per hit along with the crits from asura and junpei , theurgys are kinda busted in this game. doing a merciless run now and so far its much harder but its still early game so its possible it could get easier later on due to having better skills and such.
I played the whole game with everyone on Act Freely/Merciless(wanted it to be as hard as possible without making a very strict challenge run), and my rankings would be: 1: Yukari 2: Ken 3: Aigis 4: Junpei 5: Koromaru 6: Akihiko 7. Mitsuru Not sure what it would be if I played the game as intended, but I did feel like Ken and Koromaru got better in reload, and Akihiko and Mitsuru got weaker in reload.
Junpei has vorpal blade and brave blade, the two phys moves that have some of the highest crit rate, then his best weapon also grants him apt pupil, you can see that each characters best weapon grants the character something they need like aigis’ weapon granting her arm master, add the arm master accessory to Junpei if you wish as well, besides it’s not like Junpei needs a passive crit boost in his slots cause he has em already in his personality, it’d be like giving yukari spell master.
Yes of course, I just don't like how most of his potential can't be realized without things outside of his skill set. With the others' they still have a decent tool kit even without combat characteristics or gear with special effects
@@KDThreeSixty but that’s the thing apt pupil is a luxury, completely unnecessary with how easy it is to crit enemies, highest dmg amongst party members with the luxury of not needing any so so he can just buff with marakukaja constantly as well making him an incredibly well rounded member.
I like Shinji, Koromaru, and Ken which is weird because I rarely used them in FES. 2 debilitates in case an enemy buffs its team and heat riser. MC is always my main damage dealer anyway. Koro auto-debuffing accuracy/evasion for the first 3 turns is great too. Mitsuru, Ken, and Koromaru late game. Having to use ice break again some enemies is annoying, but she can fill up her theurgy gauge really fast and her first theurgy is an ice attack that pierces resistance. Concentrate also affects theurgy skills, so toss that in while building up her gauge and she does even more damage.
Koromaru is literally a superior party member on your team. He is Null to Dark and Fire Damage. While being weak to Light, his insane Agility Stats plus Evasion Buff compensates his weakness, so he is literally less likely to be hit. Unlike Junpei and Akihiko who have weakness to common elemental magic. Now, perhaps I’m crazy or something. But for me, Koro lands more crits than Junpei. So if you want him to be a Crit Monster, he can be.
Yukari actually has 75% off healing spells as it stacks with the previous 50% boost the same as the other personality boosts so yeah she's pretty OP as a healer for sure lol
Potentially a hot take but I think Aigis is one of the weaker party members. Junpei has better coverage, can actually cast magic, still has marakukaja, and his crit specialty and better physical skills in late game make him equal to if not better than Aigis as a damage dealer. There’s also the issue of overlapped electric weaknesses with Yukari and loss of control during orgia mode that can be problematic sometimes. Matarukaja is great, but even that can be replaced with items or the MC. She’s still good, but her shortcomings stuck out more than other characters imo. I think your other rankings outside of Aigis and Junpei are pretty spot on though.
Yo! Hear me out. What if you took this video idea, but instead of how you've presented it you broke it into multiple videos. Video# 1: Best early party (Thebel & Arqa) Video# 2: Best mid-game party (Yabbashah & Tziah) Video# 3: Best late game party (Harabah & Adamah) Video# 4: Best end game party Video# 5: Best party and strategy for bonus bosses Video# 6: Best party for reaper, at all times where it's reasonable to kill it Other videos: tips for each party member, including who they pair best with Maybe trim some of the rambling to keep each video to under 10min. Show the character status screen once at intro of each party member, then again when you run through to summarize at the end, then just show actual combat footage in the background as you explain the spells/abilities . More work, but I feel like the payoff will be massive. I'd for sure watch it.
My endgame team was Yukari (I don’t need to explain why) Koromaru (why is the dog so powerful and why does he have debilitate?) Akihiko (Emergency healing + good damage and amazing theurgy) Dishonorable mentions: Ken (you caused what happened on October 4th.)
my team was Yukari, Aki, and Koromaru, I kept Masukukaja on Aki so MC and him could buff defence and speed in one turn, usually had koromaru using debilitate and revolution and my whole plan was just critting out every boss, I had Aki hit 3k damage with his God's Hand it was wild
When i play p3fes 3 times (answer and journey), you can't build the party skills. So seeing this looks really fun since a lot of the party members has 2 play styles (aigis, aki, yukari= support/damage). I can't wait to play this game
and i just found out about Yukari other combat characteristic "Healing Master" and it reduces SP cost for recovery skills to 50% of the normal cost! i think you have to watch DVD with Yukari 3 times to get this 🙌🏻
Something even crazier is that Ken can put out his 2nd Theurgy every 3 Turns at no cost. Thats Mediarahan + Party Magic/Phys Repel + 2 Full Revives every 3 Turns.
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Where is shinji?
I don’t know, where is Shinji???
Oh no
he leaves after september
Um....
Um....
shinji was by far the most fun character to use while we had him for me. was spoiler free so i basically spent all my money giving him the best possible stuff and immediately ended up feeling done so dirty
I never played the original but I knew most of the big story moments before actually playing reload, I knew he was gonna "Leave SEES" and I shouldn't play as him much, but he was the most fun character in the game and i couldn't not use him
You can get the equipment you gave him back if you go into his room before finishing your playthrough.
I gave him mjolnir lol
I even gave him several incenses I loved him so much. I was so ready to carry him to the late game. But I don’t regret any of it because it made the story hit that much harder combined with just my love for him as a character.
Yeah Shinji was actually godlike
I wasnt spoiled because of Shinji and till it happened he was my favorite party member. I played him with Mitsuru and Yukari and tried to buff/debuff the first Turns and then hit hard with his Theurgy. It was so fun I one shotted like every Monard Door Boss at the time he was available.... RIP Goat
A part of me hoped that there was some way to save him like in P3P, but at the same time, it goes against everything his character stands for does if he does live and it sucks that there’s nothing that can be done to get both him surviving while his character has the same level of meaning and integrity.
@@normalpersonlivingtheirlife Yes I like and understand the decision for his character. I only spoke for him as a party member. So far I think with his death, he is my favorite Character from P3, but Im only at the end of October and have some gameplay left to finally decide, but I think at least he will be up there somewhere.
lol, same. i just got access to Shinji a few days ago. started using him and thought he was pretty OP, so i got both of his combat characteristics and used a bunch of strength incense on him, thinking him/yukari/mitsuru were gonna be my party til the end aaaaaaand… 😭
I’m always picking Yukari with me since her healing skills can sync with her theurgy well.
Koromaru is by far another first pick as well since he can auto eva/acc reduce enemies and it allows me to melt golden hands with little issues.
Ken is arguably my first pick since even though he does not sync well with his theurgy, his overall skill usages is still a great choice.
Your video is a fair review, so I’ll sub you!
Btw, I played Persona series since 3 so I guess it is with me for 17 years lol
Same, bro ✌
You really don't need a dedicated healer if you use a persona slot for healing
Koromaru based
@@ManuPlays05Unless healer is dead, I won’t rely on healing persona.
But your suggestion is a good idea, so yeah, I have 2 reserved healing personas with some buffs in case of getting big oof
@@ManuPlays05 I prefer letting MC focus on Damage since they generally pump out the most possible damage at any given point in the game past midgame, and since Yukari can also pump out full heals of the party for only a fraction of the sp cost while also curing ailments and dealing good damage, she's a must have
Junpei went from Zero to Hero in Reload. The character skills he gets (by bonding with him in the dorm) is actually nuts.
My first clear on Merciless: Yukari, Mitsuru and Akihiko but I used Junpei on some bosses that aren't immune to slashes.
Mitsuru becomes pretty OP with Theurgy Deabilitate and Akihiko is just there for debuffs and since I don't really have any persona that had Lightning Skills.
but the endgame is kinda open for everyone. I'm planning to use Amada, Junpei and Koromaru on my next playthrough cause I heard good things about them
That’s one of my favorite things about this game. They all work so well together
His STR stat alone was bonkers early on. And the dude is a crit machine. I only bench him because his personality is annoying
Can I ask what moveset you have for him endgame wise?
@@shanecash7582 Personally i used : Brave blade / vile Assault / Gigantic fist / vorpal blade (so he can do try to crit even if slash immune) / agidyne (no maragidyne if multiple ennemies are weak to fire he downs one and give turn to MC or even koromaru if you are using him) / high counter / regenerate 3 (didn't use it that muchtbh especially i got trismegistus) / Shift boost -- looking back at it i would have put marakukaja instead of regenerate 3 to lift some weights off of aigis shoulders (my team was mitsuru / junpei / aigis) (Dragon boots / omega drive - last sword that i forgot the name of to get apt pupil)
Pairing him with a very fast mitsuru and having him super fast but slower than mitsuru made them two man pretty much any mob group as mitsuru would inflict ailment with either neuroslash / eerie sound or diamond dust on single target and greatly increase his chance to crit on top of all the reste :D
Messiah
-Thunder Reighn
-Elec boost
-Elec Amp
-Magic Ability
-Single-Target Boost
-Concentrate
-Spell Master
-Null Phys
Purpose Of Skills
Gives your Thunder Reighn 115% boost passively and icreases its damage more than 2 times thanks to Concentrate. Null Phys makes Messiah have atleast resistance to every element. Lastly decreases cost of everything by half with Spell Master.
How to Obtain
To get this build you fuse Odin and Inugami to make Mot. You pass Thunder Reighn, Concentrate and Elec Amp to Mot. Then you make Thanatos. Fuse Thanatos and Orpheus to make Messiah and pass the aforementioned 3 skills to him. You can get Elec Boost from chests that require twilight fragments on early floors. You can get Single-Target Boost guaranteed from floor boos chests that require twilight fragments. You can get Spell Master from antique shop. Lastly Messiah learn Magic Ability and Null Phys by level up.
I did something similar but with fire its pretty damn good
you can also put concentrate on a different persona to save a skill slot and put null dark on him
@@vinicius8644 in this game messiah repels dark
I basically did the same thing but with ice. Also replaced Magic Ability with Enduring Soul since Lucifer's Blade gives Magic Ability now so it's kind of a dead skill.
Akihiro got whacked hard with the nerf bat haha, he was indispensable in FES
Yeah he got gutted
I really felt like he deserved the debilitate and a debuffing bulding theurgy
@@YammattiHE USED TO HAVE DEBILIATE??
@@amenoma9648 Yup. Akihiko was the best team member for debuffing enemies in FES. Ken has Debilitate now instead. They REALLY buffed Ken up compared to FES, as was Junpei. The two of them are much more viable now.
@@DevilHunterJax ken?
Not koro?
Ken has heat riser
Something to clarify since the games description of it is just wrong, but Akihikos Theurgy bonus IS NOT when he buffs himself. He gets a bonus every time he starts a turn while already buffed. A much MUCH better condition than whats actually written there
That’s good to know
Everything about Akihiko's unique characteristics are so horrendously misworded in-game for some reason. Makes him sound super underwhelming on paper when he's actually pretty strong.
He also gets bigger bonuses from the stat boosts, this along with having elec boost and amp makes his theurgy spam insane. One of the best and most slept on characters honestly
@@Bladehound83 also with ken
Ken has gotten such a step up compared to FES it’s crazy
He's now the new Akihiko, the Jack-Of-All-Trades who is great at everything.
He’s really no that good, he has one of the less sp usage and his skills are all magic
Still average tbh, encourages a really defensive playstyle + is a boring character
I find him the most fun, and him on defence allows everyone else to go full offence way safer thanks to his walls. God I love his second theurgy
@@elvisboafo446his skills aren’t all magic tho
Thanks for the information. My team in FES was MC,Yukari,Akihiko, and Mitsuru. It’s good to see Koro and Ken get some deserved buffs because those light and dark skills they had on FES were useless unless used on mobs. Pretty good review I’m going to experiment and roll with a new team.
People are sleeping on Junpei. On the surface it doesn't look like he brings much to the table but his damage potential is insane. His Theurgy synergizes well with his kit as he can spam moves (with crits) and then Theurgy himself back to full. He's an incredibly powerful, self sufficient damage dealer. I unlocked his ultimate weapon (which gives him apt pupil) and his upgraded characteristic gives him him crit boost/amp and the man never misses at least 1 crit with Vorpal Blade. He outdamages the rest of the team (save for MC) easily.
My team for final boss was Yukari, Junpei, and Aigis.
For real though, Junpei is truly HIM in this game it's insane.
Save all the people missing in Tartarus and you get an accessory with Apt Pupil which just makes him even more insane. Give him the weapon that gives him crit amp and you got a MONSTER
@@BIackingOutand the tarubellion boots 😭😭😭
Junpei just takes too long to properly get going. When people put him towards the bottom, it doesn’t mean that he’s bad, it just means that the other broken characters in P3Reload are better. Every character is extremely strong by the time Junpei gets going, so deciding how good characters are based on the (very) late game is a flawed assessment.
No character in P3Reload or P4 is truly bad. You can make any party work in both games, it’s just that others are better.
Junpei, Ken, & Koro in your party just melts virtually everything in their way. Ken's ult is literally FFXIV's Heal LB3 + Five Elements in the Dx2 mobile game, and in-between those he has heat riser and reflects. Koromaru debilitates stuff while his ult is a party wide Best Friends, which synergizes with Junpei and the MC with Akasha Arts. And Junpei? I went through both Jin and Takaya's fights with the dude doing nothing but crit. In the Nyx fight he one shot every arcana until the one that nulled phys skills.
in regards to the belief of ken being a healer, it's more so how he was in the older versions of P3 where the only notable difference is a subjective choice between a healer who can cure status ailments or a healer who can hit better as Ken had spear master and could put in some a offensive work. in reload they did make him less of a healer as they gave him less heal skills to trade off having acess to bless skills and passives which makes him to be more of an all-arounder then previous
Imo being weak to dark was also much easier to ignore than being weak to electricity. Yukari is probably ultimately better than Ken in fes and portable, but I've often found Ken easier to use.
I think the only issue with akihiko is that late game (lvl 70+) he just gets outpaced by mc in terms of damage. And he wants to be played as the main carry. For the majority of the game he felt great it was only the last 1 and a half sections of tartarus that he felt replaceable. An interesting idea would actually be a full magic team making use of yukaris theurgy with mitsuru and akihiko as akihiko actually has the third highest magic stat (assuming it's the same as fes) and both elec amp and elec boost.
Yeah he’s definitely still strong
My only issue with Akihiko was that by the end of the game he was simply far too frail. Mitsuru had less Endurance than he did and yet she’d survive getting hit by basically anything, while Akihiko just kept dying over and over. Hell, I was tempted to leave him dead during the Reaper fight since he was just free turns for it, but decided he needed the EXP. Honestly, Mitsuru, Yukari and Ken might just be the best team, with Junpei, Koromaru and Aigis being not far behind against anything vulnerable to Phys. Poor Akihiko man, went from one of the single best in the team to dead weight.
@@reaperofthings ok but that’s kinda what happened to me. Idk if he was weak to pierce or something but during the lovers shadow fight he died twice via holy arrow. Besides the mc (died cus they charmed everyone and we all killed each other), nobody else died.
He def helped with his attack down debuff, but couldn’t do much damage compared to mc, Junpei, and Yukari. He was 2 levels behind, but it’s not like his next skill was a higher damage move either.
Maybe he was really that low leveled cuz we might all have been. I was consistently underleveled compared to the average since I do Tartarus like twice a month in game.
Debilitate and heat riser are too useful. Ken and koro are a must
Facts
Heat riser isn’t that great unless you’re soloing or your entire team is basically dedicated to support one party member. Aigis will service you a lot better as a buffer. Debilitate, on the other hand, is one of the best skills in the game and is always useful for bosses.
Debilitate>> Heat riser
@@yassin9782 unfortunately aigis got mega nerfed by losing one of the mass buffs. In the original she could keep the buff rotations constantly going and now thats not possible they force you to use her as a dps in the remake
And dekaja!!! But, I preferr koromaru
As I reach endgame I've found that Akihiko, Koromaru, and Ken work really great as a team I'm thinking of going into the final boss with this set up too.
Amazing break down on the the strengths and weaknesses each party member has. Keep it up!
Keep up the grind man, I finally got to play more today and I am loving every moment of it!
Thank you brother, glad you’re having fun
Shinji was my favorite. Man, if you combine Koromaru’s dmg buff theurgy + shinji’s dmg and crit buffs + his theurgy, you can one shot bosses. Not only that, but his crit aoe dmg was insane too.
Yeah Shinki was actually insane. But it's always a recurring theme that strong characters get packed up.
In FES, I primarily used Aigis, Ken, and Koromaru because that specific comp had a max of one weakness (Aigis with electricity) since there wasn't an option to gaurd. They were also my personal favorite characters
In portable, I chose Akihiko, Mitsuru and Aigis because I was more confident in the members with direct controls. I also wanted a different team comp from what i had in FES
For Reload, I plan to definitely use Yukari and Junpei (because i haven't used them in a team in a P3 game before) and most likely Aigis because that'll mark her as the P3 member I've kept in my final team from every game
i legitimately dont understand how people play without yukari in the party. shes one of the best healers ive used in any rpg.
Can name a couple reasons.
I don’t personally use her, I prefer Ken to her.
Plus items are crazy helpful
@@megaspacewaffles i felt that ken was better suited as either a backup if yukari ran out of sp (which hardly happened) or as a complimentary piece with yukari if a boss was giving me trouble. The rest of his utility feels wasted if hes the only healer in the party. plus yukari plus crit bow goes hard.
Ken does just outclass her coz he can spam his Party Wall + Mediarahan + 2 Full Revive every 3 turns. On top of that he has more utility and does more damage (Kougaon 350 power to Garudyne 220). His Characteristic also effectively reduces the cost of Mediarama to only 2 more Sp than Yukari.
Yukari having Heals and highest Ma stat on the entire gang is already insane enough , and they give her that second theurgia on top of it is just overkill.
Yeah she’s super busted
Yes!! Her being given wind amp and her ultimate weapon giving her auto concentrate as well being able to equip a wind boost accessory, her theurgy can hit over 10k with the right set up!!
For Mitsuru, I removed Ice Break for Freeze Boost while Replacing Eerie Sound with Neural Slash or Marin Karin.
Did you know, Freeze Boosts Crit Chance on the Enemy by 100%?
And oh look, Junpei Benefits on Crits, What a great Synergy :D
Yes, lots of insane combos so all of them are useful
It's so messed up that according to the move descriptions, Tentarafoo has a "Medium chance of confuse" (45%) while Neuro Slash has a "Low chance of confuse" (50%). Like yeah sure, Neuro Slash can miss or be nulled, but they didn't have to disrespect it like that.
I used junpei with mitsuru alot.
Theurgy farming goes hard.
Yukari healing for theurgy as well is nuts
Yeah they build theurgy like crazy
I cleared a decent amount of Tartarus using those 3, Mitsuru and Junpei are such a killer combo. I swapped Junpei for Koromaru later on, as I liked Koromaru's innate de-buff characteristic. I also gave Koromaru a weapon that gave him a temporary crit boost, that combined with distress ailments (from Ambush attacks) and Mitsuru in the party (plus him always being first in the turn order) was a pretty lethal combo. With him getting nearly guaranteed crits and then shifting to everyone else just destroyed regular encounters.
i love how good Yukari is as a healer but also for offense as well. Shes has been in my party since day 1
Same she is perfect
Yukari is a good character to use and is one of the best remake character so I do agree she needs to be a main team member and the other two members is who yall like the most as for me I usually rock with "best girl" mitsuru I'm put it that way cause everyone has a best girl lol and my second usually is Koro cause a lot of monsters is weak to dark and outside of the MC he can deal damage to that weakness
Mitsuru is queen
Mitsuri is good for defence debuff, which is the best debuff. But she is slashing and ice. Like....okay. MC is already slashing, so her only real coverage is ice.
Her tier 2 theurgy is good, but it's not gonna be a reliable way to debilitate.
She's just mid
@@DamnDaimenwhat a lame point to make 😭 she still has arguably THE best move pool in the entire game being the best magic damage dealer + being the only one to learn concentrate
None of that speaks mid
@@smokedsanjl How many enemies are immune to frost? Thats 1/8 of her skills slots for a lame spell, and 1/3rd of her turns to recast the break. She's the definition of mid.
@@DamnDaimen like I said outside of Yukari it's up to yall who to bring I just like mitsuru the best out of all the playable characters some will see her as mid where others will see her as good take Yukari for instance I don't like her and think she come off as a B but for battles she is a must and I know others will disagree with that take and it's cool
I love how they changed up all the characters in the game and made them all viable since ESPECIALLY ken and koromaru were not useful In the older versions. I find using ken in reload is great if you want to play it safe since his theurgy res/heals/and casts barriers. But his theurgy takes a sec for it be cast since of his requirements and ken uses alot of sp from all his skills. As well as ken support skills are mostly for single targets. Idk I always found having two healers a bit redundant in the party since it's just overkill, but Yukari excels with sp management, support, and offense. The other party members all have group wide kaja or kunda skills so all of them can really benefit and boost the party up. Yukari 2nd theurgy can boost the whole party with concentrate, so pretty much everyone who has an element except aigis and shinji, would be able to dish out even more massive damage especially those without concentrate like akihiko and koromaru. I loved being able to mix and match but i found having Yukari mitsuru and akihiko my favorite to use since they can all synergize the best with eachother and be able to clear tartarus floors relatively with ease. Still there's so many variations you can assemble since overall every party member is useful, ken is just incredibly safe but i would say doesn't stand out as much compare to the others for damage output and group wide buffs.
Yeah that’s definitely one of my favorite things about this game
My final team for my first playthrough was Ken, Koromaru, and Aigis, since then aigis and koro could cover buffing with attack, defense and agility as needed, Ken covered any healing and barriers, koro could cover debilitate, and that still left my team with 2 very solid magic dealers and aigis to wipe the floor with physical damage. And of course Makoto could cover anything else in terms of support or damage output.
ive found yukari/mitsuru/aigis to be the best for bosses because they just have clearly defined roles that they do well at. But when exploring Tartarus I run Junpei and Koromaru over Yukari and Aigis because I just want to click multi-target physical moves with a crit-stacking Persona from Makoto and those two are the best at getting crits to baton pass into Makoto
I use Aigis/Yukari/Koromaru and i will never change. Aigis hits like a tank, Yukari is the perfect healer and Koromaru is there for headpats
I just got to October and was think pretty much like your with my party comp. I swapped aigis with Aki personally but I can understand it. I was very on the fence of benching aki for koromaru and now I feel like I should do it. Thank you
I agree with every placement, but endgame Aigis is better than Mitsuru, Ken and Koromaru just because of how insane Resist Phys, Enduring Soul and Insta Heal is.
Is Aigis a good boy though? I didn't think so.
Koro-chan supremacy.
Her lack of elemental skills kinda screws her over however. Ken and Koromaru have coverage in 3 elements and have good support/healing skills on top of that. Not to mention their theurgies are so much better than Aigis'.
Great video! Very helpful thank you
My party in any persona game is usually love interest party member, one of the best in the game and one of my favourite characters.
I finished the game last night and finished the game with Yukari, Akihiko and Aigis.
Ok akihiko as your love interest right? Right???
@@azizulrahman766I wish 😭
If you're going to use Junpei, he's probably best with Koromaru. The accuracy buff/debuff plus revolution sets junpei up for hitting and critting in a way that he can't accomplish on his own. I'm not sure if the devs meant for this to be some kind of callback to the fact they worked together in the answer, but it really doesn't make sense at all why junpei can't do anything to help his own theurgy.
I mean, his personality gives him innate Apt Pupil, so he does have something, but I agree about him and Koromaru, they are fucking Beasts together, especially since Junpei only gets singler target fire skills and Koromaru only Multi-target ones, they really do complement each other.
Hrm... Yukari, Ken, and Aigis is pretty frontloaded with 3x Pierce damage, and has a 2x Electricity Weakness.
My ideal party is swapping Yukari for Koromaru. Yukari is outstanding, but I like party members with backup roles in this game.
It means I have balanced weaknesses, can generally hit physical weaknesses, have Heat Riser and Debilitate, as well as Dekaja and Dekunda.
Also means my party can hit everything but Ice and Wind, which I quite like.
The new mechanics make mitigation way more optimal than ever before it seems. Love that in comparison to how easy it was to steam roll in royal
From the info given I think that the best early team I MC,Yukari,Akihiko,Aigis just because you can team buff and team debuff very easily.
But once end game starts is the time you pull all of the leveling to Ken and Korumaru just for the ultimate Heat riser + Debilitate + Concentration/Charge on the MC strat for most end game bosses.
Yeah akihiko is amazing for the early game
My endgame team was:
-Makoto focused on Physical Personas, Raphael as starter with the 3 Auto-Makaja skills, and then Susano-o as the main Phys damage dealer, and Thanatos and Loki as elemental dealers.
I must specify that I finished the game at lvl 78, as I had to nerf myself because the game was pretty easy, so I didn't had the most broken Personas in my first playthrough (supposing Susanoo-o is not fucking broken lmao)
-Yukari for obvious reasons, the indispensable healer, and her Concentrate Theurgy.
-Koromaru with Revolution and Masukukaja, his Charge Theurgy is absurdly broken for my composition and has decent Magic stats to do Fire and Dark damage, AND now also has Debilitate.
-Finally Aigis, the backbone of raw damage and buffing, with Mataru and Maraku, and both Theurgies. Activating Orgia Mode with both Koromaru's Charge and Revolution... it's so funny to see so much Critical hits.
Nice team you got there
At the end of the day, the best party members matter little since you cannot use them in the game's hardest fight. Use whoever you want to for the campaign.
I've been using the og FES team, Yukari-Aigis-Akihiko, im at the end of October, and i can already feel Aki falling behind, and now im building Koromaru to swap Akihiko, him plus my Sigfried with AutoRebellion, Aigis and Yukari, tf enemies gonna do LMAOOO
I agree, Yukari and Ken were my staples! Especially Ken's late game weapon which grants him mental ailment immunity. Ken also has Heat Riser and healing, and I still kept semarecarm. His 2nd Theurgy is too OP tbh especially in boss battles but you gotta time it right. I just equipped him with a Null Dark accessory and he is good to go. I had Mitsuru as my third team mate and yeah she did need a lot of setting up with Def shred and Concentrate but her 2nd Theurgy with Debilitate was a great addition to my team - especially with Yukari's magic damage buff
I had my MC focus on Dark and Physical and unlocking Messiah felt like a cheese but it is what it is lol
Would you end up doing a video on the best equipment/accessories for each character?
I went with Junpei, Yukari and Koromaru/Mitsuru
Junpei built out is basically guaranteed crits every time (even without rebellion). Yukari is just free healing, Mitsuru is kind of meh with ailments imo and focusing on her damage and freeze potential is much better as like half the enemies don't even take ailments, only conditions/elemental effects. Koromaru is awesome for buffing though. I really didn't want to use physical personas with MC because I wanted to focus on light/dark nulls and preserving HP. so I stuck with Junpei dealing with phys and crits (P3R is so easy to farm SP items anyway)
For me personally, I’ve only gotten to August and Floor 91 of Tartarus, so I haven’t used Koromaru, have gotten Ken, and the GOAT of Persona characters is still here, but I love using Mitsuru because of her defence debuff and her mass distress move (I got lucky and got Apt Pupil+crit rate boost from a fusion so now any Persona that has good Strength is a monster), Yukari because she gets fucking Spell Master but for healing skills which synergies well with my dumbass mashing Herculean Strike whenever I can, and I haven’t decided on my last spot but I’ll probably use someone who gets either Heat Riser or debilitate or whatever fits my needs
Also one small detail about Mitsuru’s review is that her Combat Condition increases the parties crit rate on statused enemies, so you can just try to play as an Uber status/dubuffer+dps rather than just dps, which would allow you to still provide use even against ice block enemies. And if it’s that big of a problem, well you have 12 persona slots, surely you can dedicate one of them to an element breaker?
My old in fes team is yukari, akihiko, and mitsuru cus the spread of element and attack but with dark and element addition from p5, its really bring ken and koromaru to its shine. But now my main is yukari, mitsuru and aegis and sometime do party switch just to have fun and i think reload really give so much easy way to lvl up party member
Yes it does thank goodness
Man Akihiko got nerfed hard in reload
Yeah they gutted him
Facts and it pains me
He doesn't need to buff himself. He just needs to be buffed to increase his Theurgy. Even having Auto Matura, Raku, and Suku Boost his Theurgy.
It would be much better if Akihiko’s Theurgy charged faster after casting or receiving a buff, Akihiko would benefit much more from this, especially if debuffs would to be replaced with team buffs
It actually does kind of work like that! His theurgy gauge increases if he enters his turn already buffed, and these buffs can be applied by anyone. You can test this by seeing how much his gauge fills when he starts his turn unbuffed, vs how much it fills when he enters his turn with a buff applied to him :)
God yukari just so good. Ken i find i always go for him as a "healer" for when yukari sp runs low and i dont want to spend resources having her recover sp. The fact each character can have several different styles of play is really nice.
It’s interesting to see how you went about this…if you are taking a “who works the best as a party member” type stance, then yeah, of course characters like Koromaru, Ken, and Yukari would rise to the top while Akihiko and Aigis sink. But if you’re talking about“which character could carry the team and slaughter on their own,” suddenly Akihiko and Aigis shoot way up to the top.
I do tend to side more with the second stance when deciding party members on a first playthrough, but once you are looking at level 90+ and NG+, your version is absolutely more optimal overall. The protagonist is always going to be the best, so whoever synergies the best with him gets a massive boost in viability.
Everyone is so strong that's not even my main team anymore. I was absolutely wrong about Mitsuru
I can agree with you pick even if I play Ken a little different. I was Yukari, Ken, +1 when I finished. Having Yukari as main healer and Ken as a secondary healer for when you need to buff, use items, or are stunned/ko'd with Yukari is very nice. You only need to spend 1 move slot for a full team heal so he doesnt miss out on too much to have it. That duo can carry any +1 you need for the situation.
They’re too good
Is depend on your playstyle mostly on how you built your Makoto like if you built him support and rely on others team member damage like Akihiko, Mitsuru and Junpei you can go for a team like:
-Junpei; Koromaru; Amada/Aigis for Junpei Hyper carry with Koromaru constantly debuffing the enemy and Amada/Aigis for buff/poke-damage and Makoto focus on Healing and status cure the same go for the other two (Mitsuru and Akihiko)
but if you go Makoto main Damage dealer the best team is Yukari; Amada and Koromaru
My party
Aegis
Koromaru
Ken
Thank you!!
Glad I could help
I had a Late game party and an Early/Mid game party. Early on I had Yukari, Junpei, and Mitsuru. Mitsuru and Junpei's chareristics worked so well together and Yukari was the healer. Much later it slowly became Ken, Yukari, and Junpei as my main force, with Koro or Mitsuru swapping in when necessary. (Usually with Yukari when a Mini-boss resisted or Nulled wind.)
My team was Yukari, Aigis, and Koromaru. Koromaru surprised me with just how powerful he really was.
For anyone wondering - Shinji is easily S-Tier.
Bloody charge combined with Mitsuru’s Rakunda, Yukari as healer and MC as support (Matarukaja / Matarunda) was absolutely INSANE for the short amount of time he was in our team.
RIP Shinji. You a real one.
Not to mention his passive characteristic you unlock by spending time with him at the dorm is fucking Auto-Heat Riser. My man is here for a good time, not a long time.
You can have this combo late game with MC + Yukari + Koro + Aigis. MC with Futsunushi (with Vorpal Blade + bloody charge + slash boost/amp + all critical boosts + arms master) and an auto buff persona (auto -kaja and rebellion on a Persona in the beginning to boost the advantage) absolutely SHREDS enemies into pieces. Combining that with Koro's Debilitate, Revolution and Theurgy, Aigis' Matarukaja, and Yukari's heal is just perfect. You know what's even better? You can bloody charge + debilitate and use Siegfreid's Theurgy (Scarlet Havoc) to deal even more damage. Every Strega fight and most late game border bosses were trivialized by this bullshit and it's pretty funny.
I went with Yukari, Aigis and Koromaru, opting for a very physical playstyle. Koromaru's Theurgy helped buff Aigis and whatever physical attacking personas the protagonist had, and I kept Revolution on Koromaru to boost crits. Combining that with Apt Pupil and Crit Rate Up on some of the personas I fused, I was dealing crits with protagonist every 2 or 3 turns. Yukari was the staple healer too, and her second Theurgy helped Koro and protagonist deal lots of magic damage
Seems like that team is very close to the ryuji, Ann and makoto team in royal where you have a hybrid of magic and physical and the mc can alternate between the two when needed
Yukari is the only party member who was never switched out of my party, ever.
She's too good!
I never needed to rely on a healer because healing items in this game were so plentiful. Rather than forcing a healer on my team, I focused on damage and buffs. If I needed a heal/revive, the items that I passively picked up were more than enough to carry me through the game at the benefit that any of the party could use them.
Personally rn im running myself (obviously), Koromaru (for debilitate and accuracy buff), Aigis (defence + damage buff) and Ken (Heat riser). When I pull off a lot of the buffs mid fight i can end up either 1 shotting bosses or two shotting them (like the reaper)
also ken has a fully party heal so its good
Akihiko's theurgy is mistranslated. He gains gauge from being buffed during his turn. So if you run him you want someone with auto-ma skills. There is an accessory that gives auto-matarukaja so you don't even need to run it on MC.
But it's why people had a hard time with him since he just gets sukukaja and masukukaja. But with his kit he honestly should have come with tarukaja for better synergy, but having someone run an auto skill for him isn't too bad.
But the way I use him because of auto-ma skills he gains theurgy pretty fast. And even without theurgy buff amp godhand pumps out a lot of dmg.
The team I run is him, Ken, Koromaru with the B team being Junpei, Mitsuru, Yukari.
I've been running Koro, Ken, and Yukari using a self auto buffed Siegfried with slash boost and amp, auto matarukaja and auto rebellion, great crit boost and charge with vorpal slash and the severe slash single(forgot name). Debilitate into charged slashed has dropped bosses instantly unless they resist or immune. The highest hit yet was 10050 damage, which I didn't know if the game had 9999 max damage or not until then 😂. Best part of this is Im not using endgame gear yet as I've kinda farmed reaper using this setup and everyone is at 99 before even getting Shinji into group.
Honestly, After finishing the game myself though I didn’t use the team comp I think the best team comp you could possibly use is:
Aigis
Junpei
Koromaru
Having Koromaru do a rebellion to raise the parties crit rate will just make Junpei and Aigis excel at their jobs with Junpei always being able to fall back onto fire damage and Koromaru having 3 skill types. The reason I don’t have any healers listed is because Protag can fuse some of the best Personas for support especially with Messiah in late game. This allows Protag to tank hits and Salvation when necessary. This comp can be made especially good if you grind out Luck Incenses for Aigis and Junpei
My only regret is not figuring this out the day before the final boss
The only problem is that you are forced to heal with MC, if the enemy blocks physical you are royally fucked and Aigis can only crit with Akasha Arts and her single target Theurgy.
@@hansschmidt1888 There aren’t many enemies that Null Phys and the ones that do are usually Tartarus Bosses that you probably already have Theurgy ready for. Even something like Tetrakarn isn’t a worry coz you can just use a basic attack and take a tiny of damage to remove. Also you dont need the Mc to be the healer because Items exist and are both common and cheap so use Items on the turn of someone who you don’t mind not doing damage with for the moment.
Fun fact: Their are about 35 team combinations (exlcuding Shinji, Fuuka, and MC)
Junpei + Yukari & Akihiko
Junpei + Yukari & Mitsuru
Junpei + Yukari & Aigis
Junpei + Yukari & Ken
Junpei + Yukari & Koro-Chan
Junpei + Akihiko & Mitsuru
Junpei + Akihiko & Aigis
Junpei + Akihiko & Ken
Junpei + Akihiko & Koro-Chan
Junpei + Mitsuru & Aigis
Junpei + Mitsuru & Ken
Junpei + Mitsuru & Koro-Chan
Junpei + Aigis & Ken
Junpei + Aigis & Koro-Chan
Junpei + Ken & Koro-Chan
Yukari + Akihiko & Mitsuru
Yukari + Akihiko & Aigis
Yukari + Akihiko & Ken
Yukari + Akihiko & Koro-Chan
Yukari + Mitsuru & Aigis
Yukari + Mitsuru & Ken
Yukari + Mitsuru & Koro-Chan
Yukari + Aigis & Ken
Yukari + Aigis & Koro-Chan
Yukari + Ken & Koro-Chan
Akihiko + Mitsuru & Aigis
Akihiko + Mitsuru & Ken
Akihiko + Mitsuru & Koro-Chan
Akihiko + Aigis & Ken
Akihiko + Aigis & Koro-Chan
Akihiko + Ken & Koro-Chan
Mitsuru + Aigis & Ken
Mitsuru + Aigis & Koro-Chan
Misturu + Ken & Koro-Chan
Aigis + Ken & Koro-Chan
Which one did you do? I did Mitsuru, Akihiko, and Aigis
Also, for the Answer, just replace Aigis with Metis
Koro was in my party the entire time. Had the highest level (besides Makoto) - highest gear - and was an overall badass. Then I had to keep Aigis in the party so she could translate for him. I also own a Husky soooooooo - the idea of having a closely resembled dog is SOLD for me.
Junpei really just needs the right equipment to become a Physical DPS GOD
Shoes that grant Tarukaja and Rebellion on battle start + a Revolution from a Party Member and enemies with no weaknesses fall like chumps to his Crits every other turn
Ken’s second Theurgy is great but it’s not nearly as good as it reads. It reads as a hard reset but there are two vital flaws. First, Makoto *needs* to survive that massive turn, so at best it’s two revives. Second, unless you’re heavily SP depleted or down two allies, it’s usually the same to spend a turn reviving and Mediarahan. The barrier is the only real advantage to it.
Also while you did a good job going over strengths and weaknesses, in a long game like P3 Reload, I think it’s very flawed to go based purely on late-game. Junpei and Koromaru are insane late-game but take too long to get going. Akihko and Mitsuru are so good in the early-mid game that they should be ranked higher, same with Aigis’s dominance in the mid game and early late game.
I like how they’re all balanced in this game, and I feel like personally I’m leaning towards one of two party ideas:
-Yukari
- Mitsuru
- Ken
Taking full advantage of the three best magic users though pretty reliant on Yukari’s concentrate all theurgy and mitsuru’s for debilitate if Makoto doesn’t have it
- Yukari
- Aegis
- Koromaru
More of a physical focus to take advantage of Koro’s charge all theurgy, but importantly having all of the buff-all skills covered via Aegis + Koro and debilitate on Koro as well so that Makoto is free to be a better damage dealer. I like this idea more as it feels significantly more versatile and doesn’t rely on theurgy as much
Yeah the characters aren’t too far apart in terms of strength and there’s a lot of crazy combos that work super well.
Ken and Aigis are both staples on my team. I pick the third person based on the situation. I usually dedicate my main character as a duel attack/healer so that I have a reason to keep swapping his personas back and forth to boost his theurgy. This way I don't need Yukari, especially since Ken also acts as a secondary healer when need be.
Junpei's skills synergize just fine. I have him spam aoes since the crit chance is per enemy and all you need is one crit to be able to just do another aoe. Give him slash boost or amp as an accessory and he regularly double hits for it, which usually ranges from chunking enemies hard to sweeping the fight entirely. I've had him get three one mores in a row just spamming the AoEs so I love him.
I just wished his actual move set supported his play style more. I don’t think the gap between anyone in this game is too large especially with how well people can work together.
In my opinion I use Korumaru over Ken for the sole reason of rebellion. What I noticed is crits also builds Koru’s theurgy. Also he’s the only member with debilitate so I pretty much always take him for boss fights too.
Yukari is a must need member just cause her characteristic giving her 25% healing costs. She gets so much free value it’s hard to say you’ll give her up.
Also Aigis is my main physical damage dealer, while Junpei is also a good option he didn’t really feel as good even though he works better with Korumaru. Sometimes I’ll even run a more Aigis carry team cause I love Aigis as a character lol.
I did not know Koromaru’s theurgy built up from crits as well. Thanks for sharing
Bro I got shinji and he immediately became my favorite party member. WHY BRO WHY
- junpei is very good for bossing at endgame since the first three turn of the fight you're pretty much garanteed to crit if built correctly (dragon boots & bis sword)(dealt 16k theurgy crit eheh) The big plus for junpei is that he can do every typê of physical attack so if someone resist repl drn whatever on slash he's not useless
- Mitsuru is an insane support for mobbing, pretty lackluster on bosses since most of them can't be affected by ailments, therefore her passive is rendered useless but pairs VERY WELL with junpei for mobbing (ambush -> full crit -> go next), i didn't use icebreak/concentrate to put freeze boost/ neuroslash so she's entering into the fight she either freezes or confuse mobs => junpei goes next and wipe it all (apt pupil + auto tarukabellion on gear).
- aigis is pretty much the oppposite of junpei, more stable, don't rely on crit and can buff on downtime
- Yukari is bad at mobbing good for bossing, since once you figured out weaknesses of ennemy you shouldn't really take damage from shadows while mobbing
- Akihiko is the most lackluster character in my opinion, his theurgy is so long to charge even if you spend all your time buffing yours (i'm not sure if i read it correclte to be honest>.
Oh yeah my favorite party member are mitsuru even though she's not that useful in lategame fights in my opinion and junpei and how they synergize together, i wish they would learned more advanced spells
You can't even crit with tempest slash, since it doesn't have a crit chance. You are supposed to use Getsu-Ei which has a 15% crit chance and always does more damage than tempest slash except when you hit all the 4 hits, which you obviously won't.
My Junpei ended the game with 99 STR and 90 LUC because I would just dump my spare stat cards onto him and turn him into a bloody monster. Balmung gets rid of his main weakness late game, which is his damage type. I gave him the armor that gives him Anti-wind Master and the Accessory that gives Apt Pupil and watch him fly lmao. I'm considering using Junpei+Aigis+Koro as my main team for full buffs+Debilitate while Junpei goes off and Arisato main heal/magic damage.
If you can get ambush stutus ailments landed alot on your enemies and get Junpei's agility up a bit, he shines dude. He's a critical beast.
Personally, Ken is probably S or A tier. His 2nd theurgy is perfect for if you want to kill the reaper
I am still recovering from the ending cant play this for some days
Understandable
Man’s telling the truth, he be at the end of the game and Junpei only level 18 😂
Yukari my beloved, she’s a must pick for me in every fight once she unlocks her characteristic
She's too good
It is good that they included actual attack spells from P5 for Ken and Koromaru, since the insta-kills are kinda useless because of their low accuracy rates.
Never played a Persona game before and after discovering the series through someone playing P3 music in the background a few years ago, I’m glad to see that Persona 3 Reload is real 🙏🏼🔥
It may not be the remake that most people wanted (ALL of the original, FES and Portable all in one game) but for what it’s worth, I’m okay with that, the game looks really fun but I’m ngl im kinda scared that I won’t like the gameplay which sounds absolutely Stupei but hope I’m just wrong.
sometimes I want to take my time and fully immerse myself in a game but life/responsibilities get in the way which is annoying but unfortunately necessary so I can relate with “time is of the essence” which is basically a theme of Persona 3 and IRL - makes me want to breeze through at least the battles and take my time with the story/interactions/relationships side.
I haven’t bought P3R yet - Since my all in one PC is dog shii and I’ve never owned a modern console beyond the Wii and 360, I’m looking to upgrade my PC soon. I’ve seen videos of P3R running well on Steam Deck OLED and even on the latest MacBook Pro, so I’ll probably just buy those and play it on there 😹
I wouldn’t be surprised if Atlus “reloads” Persona 3 Reload in the future which would be really funny, if rumors are true that The Answer will be DLC then there really isn’t a need for Atlus to make another Persona 3 unless they plan to bring back FEMC Kotone Shiomi…?
Everyone looks so cool and ready for battle, I’ll be happy to have Yukari, Mitsuru and Ken on the team! Ken is broken it’s truly a blessing he’s safe IYKYK 🤭😭
I can’t wait to play, did you see that Shinji? Wait, where is Shinji? 🤨😲😱🤦💀🙏🏼🔥
my party for endgame ended up being yukari, junpei and aigis. i had insta heal accessory on yukari for obvious reasons and as for junpei i gave him an accessory with apt pupil which made him crit like crazy. this combined with asura with gods hand and strike amp with crit rate amp, boost, bloody charge and apt pupil led to a nyx fight that ended rather fast on hard difficulty at level 89. not to mention i used Armageddon on him, it was too tempting to pass up lol. honestly even without Armageddon i feel like final phase would have ended quick because fuuka kept charging and concentrating the whole party and theurgys were dealing like 2000 damage per hit along with the crits from asura and junpei , theurgys are kinda busted in this game. doing a merciless run now and so far its much harder but its still early game so its possible it could get easier later on due to having better skills and such.
I played the whole game with everyone on Act Freely/Merciless(wanted it to be as hard as possible without making a very strict challenge run), and my rankings would be:
1: Yukari
2: Ken
3: Aigis
4: Junpei
5: Koromaru
6: Akihiko
7. Mitsuru
Not sure what it would be if I played the game as intended, but I did feel like Ken and Koromaru got better in reload, and Akihiko and Mitsuru got weaker in reload.
Junpei has vorpal blade and brave blade, the two phys moves that have some of the highest crit rate, then his best weapon also grants him apt pupil, you can see that each characters best weapon grants the character something they need like aigis’ weapon granting her arm master, add the arm master accessory to Junpei if you wish as well, besides it’s not like Junpei needs a passive crit boost in his slots cause he has em already in his personality, it’d be like giving yukari spell master.
Yes of course, I just don't like how most of his potential can't be realized without things outside of his skill set. With the others' they still have a decent tool kit even without combat characteristics or gear with special effects
@@KDThreeSixty but that’s the thing apt pupil is a luxury, completely unnecessary with how easy it is to crit enemies, highest dmg amongst party members with the luxury of not needing any so so he can just buff with marakukaja constantly as well making him an incredibly well rounded member.
I like Shinji, Koromaru, and Ken which is weird because I rarely used them in FES. 2 debilitates in case an enemy buffs its team and heat riser. MC is always my main damage dealer anyway. Koro auto-debuffing accuracy/evasion for the first 3 turns is great too. Mitsuru, Ken, and Koromaru late game. Having to use ice break again some enemies is annoying, but she can fill up her theurgy gauge really fast and her first theurgy is an ice attack that pierces resistance. Concentrate also affects theurgy skills, so toss that in while building up her gauge and she does even more damage.
Koromaru is literally a superior party member on your team.
He is Null to Dark and Fire Damage. While being weak to Light, his insane Agility Stats plus Evasion Buff compensates his weakness, so he is literally less likely to be hit.
Unlike Junpei and Akihiko who have weakness to common elemental magic.
Now, perhaps I’m crazy or something. But for me, Koro lands more crits than Junpei. So if you want him to be a Crit Monster, he can be.
Poor Shinji 😢
☠️
Lets be honest, Shinji was prolly the best character in the game. Def would've been in my final party, RIP the GOAT
"And Fuuka's Fuuka" 💀
Yukari actually has 75% off healing spells as it stacks with the previous 50% boost the same as the other personality boosts so yeah she's pretty OP as a healer for sure lol
Junpei level 18 is insanity. My guy didnt use him ONCE after he got Mitsuru.
It was new game plus 💀
Potentially a hot take but I think Aigis is one of the weaker party members.
Junpei has better coverage, can actually cast magic, still has marakukaja, and his crit specialty and better physical skills in late game make him equal to if not better than Aigis as a damage dealer.
There’s also the issue of overlapped electric weaknesses with Yukari and loss of control during orgia mode that can be problematic sometimes.
Matarukaja is great, but even that can be replaced with items or the MC. She’s still good, but her shortcomings stuck out more than other characters imo. I think your other rankings outside of Aigis and Junpei are pretty spot on though.
Doesn’t seem too hot of a take to me. I may have just held Aigis in too high of a regard.
Yo! Hear me out.
What if you took this video idea, but instead of how you've presented it you broke it into multiple videos.
Video# 1: Best early party (Thebel & Arqa)
Video# 2: Best mid-game party (Yabbashah & Tziah)
Video# 3: Best late game party (Harabah & Adamah)
Video# 4: Best end game party
Video# 5: Best party and strategy for bonus bosses
Video# 6: Best party for reaper, at all times where it's reasonable to kill it
Other videos: tips for each party member, including who they pair best with
Maybe trim some of the rambling to keep each video to under 10min. Show the character status screen once at intro of each party member, then again when you run through to summarize at the end, then just show actual combat footage in the background as you explain the spells/abilities .
More work, but I feel like the payoff will be massive.
I'd for sure watch it.
My endgame team was
Yukari (I don’t need to explain why)
Koromaru (why is the dog so powerful and why does he have debilitate?)
Akihiko (Emergency healing + good damage and amazing theurgy)
Dishonorable mentions:
Ken (you caused what happened on October 4th.)
He really did that
I will never forgive him
mitsuru has rakunda which is one of the best skills you dont wanna be stuck casting with MC imo
We don’t cast with MC out here
my team was Yukari, Aki, and Koromaru, I kept Masukukaja on Aki so MC and him could buff defence and speed in one turn, usually had koromaru using debilitate and revolution and my whole plan was just critting out every boss, I had Aki hit 3k damage with his God's Hand it was wild
I had Yukari, Junpei, Aigis. It worked very well for me.
Yeah Junpei and Aigis can be a deadly combo
When i play p3fes 3 times (answer and journey), you can't build the party skills. So seeing this looks really fun since a lot of the party members has 2 play styles (aigis, aki, yukari= support/damage). I can't wait to play this game
and i just found out about Yukari other combat characteristic "Healing Master" and it reduces SP cost for recovery skills to 50% of the normal cost! i think you have to watch DVD with Yukari 3 times to get this 🙌🏻
if you cook with her 3 times as well, or should i say if you watch movies with her 3 times and cook with her 3 times its reduced to 25%
DVD or cooking. To unlock both characteristics you have to do both
If you cook 3 times with her too it drops down to 25% cost. She gets to throw out Mediarahans for 11 fucking SP each. Crazy.
Something even crazier is that Ken can put out his 2nd Theurgy every 3 Turns at no cost. Thats Mediarahan + Party Magic/Phys Repel + 2 Full Revives every 3 Turns.
Akihiko's characteristic is mistranslated, he just needs a buff from anyone or himself for it to work