I really like how Merciless works, it goes beyond just battle mechanics, it also makes the ability to fuse Persona's and level up social links much harder, thing is I don't think most people stay on it to see that
It makes fusions harder?? What does that mean? Less EXP from Arcana Burst? Cause I never noticed a difference (I only play on Merciless really) . It definitely doesn't affect SLs, the amount of points you get is a set amount whether you have the Arcana persona or not.
@@Danewd98sChannelgaming you get less XP from arcana bursts, that's why when most players are trying to make a persona reach lvl 99 through gallows they temporarily put it on easy mode. And as for the social link thing yeah I don't think it affects that to
This is actually good. I was expecting just a video of getting oneshot which tbh, to me that just feels like cheap difficulty. Glad to see it was a difficult fight that you could actually have a chance in
one time i was doing p3 personas only and since i didn't take out some weakness to make it a bit challenging Skadi ended up almost killing me bc two of my party actually ran away which was the first time that happen to me
This isn't as bad when it comes to Madarame phase 1 on merciless mode where it goes Joker than Madarame and he instantly targets my party memebers weakness and it's only after Joker turn he says "You are already dead"
A Spotlight on Joker with the Crystal of Vanity (and/or a Persona like Shiisaa) can mitigate that first-turn wipe hazard as long as Joker can tank the damage (and healing from the Crystal/Ring of Lust is helpful as well). If you have access to an attack like Rampage, it's very much possible to take down 3 paintings and keep down the one that keeps getting revived, making The Artist's Grace basically nonthreatening as long as Joker guards through it.
Quite interesting for me how in the "only palace" Akechi attends, he's constantly owned by weaknesses and less often tha n not delivers the bane of foes.
The fact that the guns replenish every battle helps as well, these gun upgrades helped me a lot when it comes to conserving sp. Also spamming technicals is quite satisfying.
Use technicals. If an enemy is immune to ice, freezing won't work. If the enemy is weak to ice, it will be easier to freeze them. Whenever I had to fight Skadi I always try to inflict either shock or mental ailments such as forgot (makajama), Tentarafoo confuse), and then use Haru (you can also use another character) and/or Joker to inflict technical damage on them.
Damn, i'm a SMT player and P5R was my first Persona game, i just finished a couple days ago in merciless without any guide and i couldn't max 5 confidents at the end of the game, i didn't know that was harder collect shadows but i spent like days in the velvet room with the demon calculator for get the 100% compendium but i just reach only the 95% cause theres some demons that u just can fuse them when u max the social links or unlock them in ng+
Miss RNG is the only thing that makes the difficulty a pain IMO. Most of the time, shadows never get a turn because you do insane damage. Vanilla P5 was better on Merciless because of the EXP and money cap that was lifted in Royal. I'd be lucky to reach level 10 by the end of the Kamoshida plot in Vanilla P5. I was level 15 in Royal going at the same pace.
I assume you didn't have any personas that could heal all ailments at once, or were just not wanting to use Morgana that particular moment because OOF that despair is ROUGH
Tbh Merciless should've removed the player 3X damage multiplier on weakness to make it truly the Hardest difficulty to play in... 95% of the time (Granted you have a little bit of brain) even with the infamous Okumura it's much easier than Normal.. Only Lavenza and the Twins will really give you a hard time (Probably Kamoshida's palace as well in fresh NG) but I guess by that time you will use Izanagi no Brokenbro or YoSHITsune to cheese them anyways so it just evens out..
Yes it can makoto is correct when no weakness I think you can make it dizzy the ai characters are very smart in this game in regards to identifying certain things
I dunno, I have Counseling leveled up, so most of times I just X-Detox myself. To me Challenge difficulty is more of an idiot test, than actual difficulty. It's not impossible, it's not hard, it's annoying most of all
How did you manage to keep arsene until this point of the game??? The game basically forces you to fuse him pretty early with how fast he becomes under leveled
@@neoncreator ah I see. Just the other day I was wishing to myself that Arsene was actually useable in game as I love its design, but ig you just proved to me that it is lol
@@neoncreator sorry, it may come off as rude, but I don’t see why you you would give that to a teammate what you could have joker make a persona with full elemental coverage
To be fair Skadi is annoying even on Hard. Which is why I just go for Hama plays against her.
... Unless your whole team has shock guns
I really like how Merciless works, it goes beyond just battle mechanics, it also makes the ability to fuse Persona's and level up social links much harder, thing is I don't think most people stay on it to see that
Been using it through my Ng + run. I knew about making fusions harder, but I honestly didn't know it makes maxing out socal links harder lol
@@neoncreator Yeah, it makes it harder to collect shadows so no extra points for social links unless you hold back a lot
It makes fusions harder?? What does that mean? Less EXP from Arcana Burst? Cause I never noticed a difference (I only play on Merciless really) . It definitely doesn't affect SLs, the amount of points you get is a set amount whether you have the Arcana persona or not.
@@Danewd98sChannelgaming you get less XP from arcana bursts, that's why when most players are trying to make a persona reach lvl 99 through gallows they temporarily put it on easy mode. And as for the social link thing yeah I don't think it affects that to
Wait it does
I was expecting the Evil Smile+Mabufudyne Technical combo that has sent me to the Game Over screen in one turn
I think only the main characters can do that not the enemy
@@YaBoiJogoat ennemies can do technicals
@@lenyetThey can't do the bonus technicals you get from Knowing Your Heart
Lavenza can.
Dude I swear Flash Bomb on Queen has a 25% hit rate even with Sukukaja buffs and debuffs
lol for real
She probably blinds herself using it
@@ShadowOfMassDestruction 😂😂😂
That went bad really fast
As long as enemy has no weakness, but you do and enemy has moves that hit your weakness, merciless is truly the hard.
This reminds me of my first SMT V run on a NORMAL difficulty :) overworld enemies just casually wiped my entire party.
@@FR20855 you should definitely try it! The story was meh but the combat is God tier.
Megami tensei moment
After playing persona 5 original 2 years ago, baton pass in this game is like : HOLY SHIT
I feel this as well,I'm about to go to Sae's palace on NG+ merciless and honestly if I encounter skadi I'll just use Hama skills since I alr got her
This is actually good. I was expecting just a video of getting oneshot which tbh, to me that just feels like cheap difficulty. Glad to see it was a difficult fight that you could actually have a chance in
one time i was doing p3 personas only and since i didn't take out some weakness to make it a bit challenging Skadi ended up almost killing me bc two of my party actually ran away which was the first time that happen to me
this is why i carried my resist phys -> null phys -> repel phys across my entire playthrough from fusion alarms
This isn't as bad when it comes to Madarame phase 1 on merciless mode where it goes Joker than Madarame and he instantly targets my party memebers weakness and it's only after Joker turn he says "You are already dead"
A Spotlight on Joker with the Crystal of Vanity (and/or a Persona like Shiisaa) can mitigate that first-turn wipe hazard as long as Joker can tank the damage (and healing from the Crystal/Ring of Lust is helpful as well). If you have access to an attack like Rampage, it's very much possible to take down 3 paintings and keep down the one that keeps getting revived, making The Artist's Grace basically nonthreatening as long as Joker guards through it.
Quite interesting for me how in the "only palace" Akechi attends, he's constantly owned by weaknesses and less often tha n not delivers the bane of foes.
Null curse/bless
If anyone has issues with red enemies, just have the Yakuza guy customize your guns with shock/freeze ailments and they turn into a joke.
The fact that the guns replenish every battle helps as well, these gun upgrades helped me a lot when it comes to conserving sp. Also spamming technicals is quite satisfying.
That's why I don't use crit strategies in royal. They capped at 60% making it a gamble everytime unlike in vanilla
These are the times I miss vanillas broken crit rate
Yep neither do I you rely on doing technical damage I made my ultimate persona team focus as a technical damage team not weakness.
This was the only mob encounter I ever had issues with since I almost always had Yusuke on my team and relied on freezing/technical physical.
Man seeing futaba panicking really made me feel like that as well that and the fact that missing 4 attacks had me like this: “💀 we are doomed”
Skadi moment
Use technicals. If an enemy is immune to ice, freezing won't work. If the enemy is weak to ice, it will be easier to freeze them. Whenever I had to fight Skadi I always try to inflict either shock or mental ailments such as forgot (makajama), Tentarafoo confuse), and then use Haru (you can also use another character) and/or Joker to inflict technical damage on them.
absolutely love the critical clutch
Damn, i'm a SMT player and P5R was my first Persona game, i just finished a couple days ago in merciless without any guide and i couldn't max 5 confidents at the end of the game, i didn't know that was harder collect shadows but i spent like days in the velvet room with the demon calculator for get the 100% compendium but i just reach only the 95% cause theres some demons that u just can fuse them when u max the social links or unlock them in ng+
Miss RNG is the only thing that makes the difficulty a pain IMO. Most of the time, shadows never get a turn because you do insane damage. Vanilla P5 was better on Merciless because of the EXP and money cap that was lifted in Royal. I'd be lucky to reach level 10 by the end of the Kamoshida plot in Vanilla P5. I was level 15 in Royal going at the same pace.
Vanilla p5 merciless was BRUTAL in terms of money and XP
This fight took me so fucking long 😂
Lucky Crit to the rescue
Imagine it's miss at last attack 😂
It's painful
I hate Skadi with every fiber of my being, I’ve never used so many items in one battle in my life🥲
Thats an average SMT ad fight loo
"good work everyone"
Weeeelllll...
Played on merciless and it was a cakewalk until Skadi glad someone agrees. Fafnir pretty annoying too.
I assume you didn't have any personas that could heal all ailments at once, or were just not wanting to use Morgana that particular moment because OOF that despair is ROUGH
I'm actually kind of on a arsene only run
This enemy gave me trauma in mementos with its dispair insta kill. Not sure if it was royal or vanila p5
I'm guessing it was royal it wasn't this strong in vanilla p5
First Nocturne then this!?
I've already got an almighty by this point, otherwise it's instant game over for me
I got crit hit with Morgana and finished the fight didn't have much trouble with her
As soon as you hit level 75 bully the reaper until you hit 99 that’s what I did it didn’t take that long tbh
Skadi is so annoying lol
Samsara or Hamaon saved me from this battle haha
very hard difficulty is very hard...... surprised.
Tbh Merciless should've removed the player 3X damage multiplier on weakness to make it truly the Hardest difficulty to play in... 95% of the time (Granted you have a little bit of brain) even with the infamous Okumura it's much easier than Normal..
Only Lavenza and the Twins will really give you a hard time (Probably Kamoshida's palace as well in fresh NG) but I guess by that time you will use Izanagi no Brokenbro or YoSHITsune to cheese them anyways so it just evens out..
It should have only given the multiplier to the shadows and not to the player in my opinion
@@high440 yeah the enemy behavior is the exact same
Are there any difficulty mods for this game on Steam that make it about as hard as P3R or P4G? Most of the time modders go overboard.
I'm not really sure since I play on PlayStation
thats not merciless thats unfair 🤣
Statuses are OP. Why don't you run a Sleep persona with Ailment Boost, for example.
Yeah true, I just wanted to end her with arsene I guess
Can Skadi even be inflicted with ailments for that sweet technical damage?
Yes it can makoto is correct when no weakness I think you can make it dizzy the ai characters are very smart in this game in regards to identifying certain things
I dunno, I have Counseling leveled up, so most of times I just X-Detox myself.
To me Challenge difficulty is more of an idiot test, than actual difficulty.
It's not impossible, it's not hard, it's annoying most of all
considering how easy it is to get persona’s immune to curse and phys…I’d say this your fault…
I will say, hard is harder than merciless for me, merciless rewards good strategy but hard just says F you
How did you manage to keep arsene until this point of the game??? The game basically forces you to fuse him pretty early with how fast he becomes under leveled
I'm on new game plus so I leveled him up to lvl 99 in my previous playthrough
@@neoncreator ah I see. Just the other day I was wishing to myself that Arsene was actually useable in game as I love its design, but ig you just proved to me that it is lol
You can resummon him from the compendium for a small price
what… is that arsene…
Yessir
@@neoncreator how did you breed this one
But like why does makoto have garula
Probably from jazz club
I got it by using a accessory that gives you access to the skill
@@neoncreator sorry, it may come off as rude, but I don’t see why you you would give that to a teammate what you could have joker make a persona with full elemental coverage
Hey Neon
When will you get a discord?
@@simonchocolover9429 soon very soon
No for me its this bad...on easy