The 10 HARDEST Persona Bosses
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The “Persona” series has had some truly grueling boss fights! For this list, we'll be looking at tough boss fights from the beloved JRPG series that you should have plenty of SP before taking on. Our list includes Madarame from “Persona 5” (2017), Nyx Avatar from “Persona 3” (2007), Contrarian King from “Persona 4” (2008), and more! Which of these bosses gave you the hardest time? Share your pain in the comments!
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Elizabeth is a lot harder than Lavenza or any boss in the franchise also where is Erebus
My dad struggled more on Okumura than Shido.
Shido took him about 5 tries. Okumura took a week and a half
Reaper tip:don't attack it let it attack you first so it gets one turn instead of two
Disappointed that persona 1 and 2 don’t get a mention
Elizabeth for the original P3. Before Orpheus Telos was added in subsequent releases, The biggest challenge was to create a perfect team that resists her attacks without absorbing, repelling, or being immune to them.
If you have a persona that absorbs, repels, or nullifies her attacks, she insta-kills the protagonist with Megiolaon that does 9999.
Afaik, she only does so if:
A: you have more than 1 Null/Repel/Drain
B: You Null/Repel/Drain whatever her next move is
All the severe elemental magic skill holders only have 1 Drain and no other resistances
She was optional though
I was easily slaughtered by Elizabeth.
She will insta kill if you either use Armageddon, You null any of her attacks, or equip the Omnipotent orb. You can use drain or null personas as long as she doesnt hit you with that type
Persona 2's Great Father Nyarlathotep. Back before these games were expected to balance their final bosses. Five turns, all of which randomly use super powerful attacks. And unlike Madarame you can't reduce his turns by killing individual pieces.
There's no use bringing up Persona 2, game reviewers don't know about its existence
fr. my team was level 65. Although I only beat him in one try, the battle was extremely long. It took me like an hour and a half to finish the battle as Maya kept falling asleep and I can't execute a combo.
I hope you mean EP Nyarlathotep, cuz IS Nyarlathotep is super easy
You think zoomers care about persona 1 and 2? PFFT HAH!
Pandora is pretty brutal to,also what's a Persona 2?????
I’m 51 years old. This is my first JRPG. I took down Yaldy last night on the first try. Normal difficulty.
To be fair, the boss fight is easy as long as you are at least level 70. I was level 72 or so on Hard and, even if quite tough, I also got to beat him first try
Impressive
Bruh from safe to hard mode sound like easy mode to me honestly Merciless >>
Lavenza easier than Madarame? No mention of Elizabeth or Margaret? How is strega harder, u literally steamroll through them wtf
On second encounter, unless you minmaxed like I did, Strega is actually pretty annoying. Takaya in particular because of how hard hos attacks can hit if he doesn't die on turn 1
This got exacerbated further on my mod, Persona 3 Blood Moon, since most of Takaya's attacks were not affected, and his attack stats were actually slightly lowered, but he still was a threat because higher Endurance + Enduring Soul
This isn’t a top 10. It is just 10
@@robertpolizu Still insanely misleading since none of those bosses are hard
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 Completely subjective
I taught Madarame was more annoying than difficult. And Okumura, while also annoying, was more stressful due to the time limit as well as the need to take down his henchmen in two turns.
The updated boss fight for the burger palace in P5 Royal is number 1 for me, because of those robots and the time limit.
I beat that one solo in exactly 10 minutes
Yea how was this not one!? Shido was easy
Well it just depends as it is not really hard in the general sense as if you have the right set up it is very easy but it more frustrating and challenging if that makes sense
@@Quinnsula5 Mad props to you for recognizing that difficulty can be subjective and/or vary on playstyles and experiences. That's something a ton of people seem to constantly forget about.
@@spectrebull yes but there is also a difference between challenging and difficult… like as much as I did struggle on the boss I was just understanding prepared and stuff and well the time was never an issue at all… but we’ll it was difficult for me on one specific phase it was more designed as a challenge your supposed to adapt to and well I think it was dumb and hard for me… it was more of a challenge that was meant to be easy as most part are but with the sp and time limit it gets hard if you mess up but was not really difficult as these other as this fight was more about remembering weakness and having the right set up… they teach you in the palace..
there is a huge difference, difficult/hard and challenging…
If Persona 1 and 2 were here, their final bosses would definitely be worthy of a mention.
(SPOILERS, read at your own discretion. I hope RUclips's chat hasn't been edited to fix enter spamming to hide stuff like this, so apologies if I spoil this.)
The Secret, New Game+, boss Philemon from Eternal Punishment, from what it seems is also a hard boss as well. It's natural though, since he is the guy that gave the ability, to the playable cast of the series to use, and summon personas. At least for the first 3 games in the series.
@@kittykornered eternal punishment is not easy lmfao
@@krivixtc Nor is Persona 1 easy, it's quite difficult.
@@basilofgoodwishes4138 yeah btw which persona did u find more difficult? I find EP hard mode extremely tough like I'm not even halfway through the game and I've died through tons of mobs already. I didn't struggle in P1 expert mode until like the dream world st. hermelin.
@@basilofgoodwishes4138 gotta say it's not till the final dungeon. I blew everything away with nuclear even on Expert. Not sure about snow queen quest
Personally I'd say both Izanami and Nyx are harder than yaldabaoth if you aren't prepared for them since they can cast all sorts of ailments on your team
Nyx can even brainwash your teammates into restoring all his health
Izanami has a move that will instantly kill anyone affected by any ailment
Yeah they are quite a bit harder
Izanami's instakill is irrelevant - just guard after Mind Charge, World's End then cannot inflict ailments
Yaldaboath wasn't overly tough for me but that's also likely because by the end of the game my full party was max level with maxed persona, specifically yoshitsune and Kazuya. With their high damage multi hit attacks it sped up progress of the fight massively and my stats made it so I was never in danger of dying. Knowing how to min/max persona can trivialize even the most challenging opponents
Yaldaboath for me wasn’t very hard, it was just a lonng fight,
Since besides Him you have to deal with his arms
And some of his status he afflicts on you are annoying
I just kept a close eye on my teammates when they were close to death and healed them
@@LuriQeciri I designed my persona squad to be immune, absorb, or repel pretty much everything by the endgame. So while my party could get hit and messed up so long as I had Joker I could dominate the fights with no issue. Honestly the Reaper still feels the most challenging enemy of Persona 5 to me. That was my benchmark in the original to prove I had an OP party, being able to defeat the reaper without issue or feeling I could just as easily die in the fight
@@LuriQeciri Not even that. I minmaxed an Arsene, ended the fight in 5 minutes
That's also what happened to me lol, tho tbf I was also on normal difficulty
The celebration my brother and I had with defeated Nyx is indescribable. Back then, we weren’t used to difficult bosses. This was our hardest boss at the time.
Another secret to the Maderame fight is that you'll eventually be prompted to grab the black paint and splash it one him if you've not beaten him after getting him out of the paintings twice.
JIN AND TAKAYA? NO WAY LMAOOO
Strega's bosses are pisstastically easy. Sure, Portable has some stuff that sounds threatening, like Jin getting to knock down your teammates after hitting their weaknesses, and the Megidolaon spam from Takaya, but those two are allergic to All out Attacks. Hell, for Jin's case, if you block out your weaknesses, he relies on status ailments which are hit or miss. Sexy Dance is the only move that sounds threatening with Stagnant Air in effect, but others like Infuriate are friggin hilarious since he's just asking to get his ass kicked! His fight is the equivalent of some dude in Pokemon trying to own your whole team with just Smeargle, but realized that he fucked up thanks to his choice of moves.
@@romariodesrosier1450 Jin actually also tries to strike weaknesses in FES as well, and Takaya does use Mind Charge after a 1-More, followed by Megidolaon on the next turn. All Portable did was inflate their Magic to 99
Psh... Jin and Takaya were PUSHOVERS. Hell, Strega as a whole were weak. Especially if you grind and have equipment that protects your weaknesses.
That said, they COULD have been more worthy foes had they been fought in any game other than Persona 3.
Though I will give you credit for including the Big Bang Burger Challenge on the list, just to show that not all the hardest boss battles are against Shadows or other Persona-users...
That said... shame for not including THE POWER OF OKUMURA FOODS! Or anything from Persona 1 or 2... or even Persona Q.
Literally anything is harder than Jin and Takaya lmaoooooooo pretty sure that any Tartarus boss would clear Jin and Takaya in difficulty
@@skyslashnova4308 Oh, I can definitely think of a few standout ones. “Sleeping Table” and “World Balance” come to mind.
@@AdamEspersona Sleeping Table is easy, and World Balance has too little HP
@@skyslashnova4308 Eh, Jin 2 and Takaya 2 can be annoying if you haven't been minmaxing (I did, so the fights were anticlimactic)
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 Jotum of Grief though.
1:12 in the vanilla version of persona 5. If you go to mementos during the flu season, there's a chance that the reaper will succumb to disease and die. That's an easy way to get experience points for your party. But in Royal version he is no longer vulnerable during flu season. Fighting Shido was much more satisfying if you did it as Joker alone. I felt this was his personal fight.
In P5R, you are even forced to solo Shido at the end
How is Shadow Okumura not on this list? He nearly made me rage quit P5R because of how unfair that last wave was. I had to use an OP DLC Persona with heavy curse damage just to take out the last wave before the giant robot
It's a gimmick fight. Once you learn what to do, it's really easy.
waiiiitt waittt. P5R was wayy to easy in my opinion. In the original Persona 5 royal it took me almost 2 weeks at attempting so much bs would happen, and happen. And I would rage so much and take breaks, eventually I memerized the pattern so well but I would die to the BS, but when I did it I was jumping of happiness.
@@isela_shiness P5R was easier overall (though I haven't finished Mementos yet), but the Okumura fight was such a difficulty spike in comparison. Took me hours to beat him because of the self-destruct bots
The first time I did Okumura, okay I'll admit I kinda "cheated" and used Izanagi No Okami for the fight. But this time I went through the fight *WITHOUT* No Okami, I didn't use the DLC Personas, AND I had it on the highest difficulty. And not only did I win on my first try but I beat him by the halfway mark. Okumura is not that hard, at least to me he's not.
@@JadenOmega on the original I didn’t use any dlc persona either idk if the original has dlc, but I mean depends do you have it on NG+?
personally, i think the hardest boss is Theodore from Persona 3 Portable, you have to fight him using specific persona, specific skill, and change you persona in specific order. and you are not allowed to equip Omnipotent Orb, is you do that, he will using Megidolaon and instantly kill you
Elizabeth falls under this category too for the male route.
Lavenza too
Okumura from Persona 5 Royal comes to mind, i put 85 hours in that game and i was loving it, until i hit that difficulty spike so i switch the difficulty to Safe Mode only to find out the exploit for Merciless, let's just say i was really mad, i'd have to start the game again and if ATLUS pulls this cheap rubbish again, i'm done with the series (the only one i'll continue to play is Persona 4 Golden because it's my favourite game of all time)
in my opinion he was wayyy harder in the original, so was futaba mother. P5R made futaba mother way to easy honestly, the original you full on had to fight her and yea with the giant bow, but it wasn't like oh half damage would begin the fight nah full on fight lol
@@isela_shiness no i don't agree, he is so cheap in Royal that it's stupid
@@James-gj8rn he literally had this one move Big Bang move or burger something in it and it would literally kill me in a single hit while blocking and defensive up. If I wanted to survive I had to survive sacrifice someone to bring down his power and even then after I would be below 100. The only way to basically not suffer after that move was you would just hope he made you hungry on purpose and hope he did the move after 1-2 tries because it he did do it while hungry it would leave me at full health again
@@isela_shiness at least you only had him to deal with in the original rather than his stupid respawning minions in Royal, it really ruined the Royal version of the game for me
@@James-gj8rn I did play royal lol. Hell I’m still on royal like on my 2nd playthrough. Don’t get me wrong I love royal way more, but difficulty terms the original was way harder. That one thing I didn’t like of royal it’s way easier. But the shit is also way to fun. I just beat the twins a few months ago, I took a break after so I don’t get burnt out of the game. Now I’m trying to do lavenza. This is all on merciless too lol
Nyx was definitely the most hardest boss and final boss out of most turn based rpg since it took me 2-3 hours straight to beat him
Not to mention that he is one of the most longest boss fights i ever had in a rpg
Yaldabaoth wasn't a difficult boss in both P5 nor P5 Royal. I never died during any parts of the battle.
The hardest ones for me were Nyx from P3, Erebus from P3 Fes; Shadows Yukiko, Kanji, and Madarame, and Izanami no Okami from P4; and Okumura from P5R. I remember beating Okumura with literally 1 second left on the timer.
P5R gave the game a better final boss tbh
12:17 I'm with you on that one, I defeat him on the easiest mode after not finishing the path to the holy grail
I was not prepared :c But I'm giving it another go soon, and this time, I'm making sure I bring a bunch of items with me!
@@spectrebull did u succeed?
skill issue,persona 5 is the easiest persona game
Dr Maruki’s boss fight was the most difficult to me
I LOVED this boss
@@christianhoogerwerff9754 it was long more than anything. Frustrating that the tentacles keep regenerating but ultimately it was just very very long
Bro I beat maruki on the first try. It wasnt "easy", but i think it was like the only boss I beat in the game the first try
@@NoMoreWhat-IfsIt’s more of an endurance test than someone like Lavenza, who punishes you harshly for any mistakes.
P4 Heaven's final boss (avoiding spoilers) and Nyx were the only bosses that humbled me. I learned my lesson. After those two the only bosses that come close in P5 were the twins in terms of difficulty, the social link perks in P5 were lowkey OP in fights.
I think you can unlock trumpeter by the time of heaven boss fight. And it's easy using him.
"The Arcana is the means by which all is revealed.."
I don't care what anyone says. P4 AND P5 have nothing on P3. I love this game. I bought P3 (limited edition) and P3:Fes when they launched.
I strongly disagree, the party isn't even controllable + male party members aren't Social Links (except for P3P, but that's the best version of 3 anyway).
Besides, P3 and P4 don't have Ryuji. So P5 at least has this.
I strongly disagree, the party isn't even controllable + male party members aren't Social Links (except for P3P, but that's the best version of 3 anyway).
Besides, P3 and P4 don't have Ryuji. So P5 at least has this.
@@CuteHimbo uncontrollable party wasn't a problem for me and I found Ryuji to he incredibly annoying. I prefer Junpei over him anyway. Other than that P5 isn't a bad game at all. I just have fond memories of Persona 3(FES) because it was around the time I really got into the SMT series and pre-ordered P3 limited edition back then.
Jin and Takaya? You can wipe floor with them like they are nothing!
Not to mention absence of Elizabeth/Theodore and bosses from old Persona games (Pandora is very demanding, since you will have to grind about 10 levels to reach level 62 at least with MC, which is 600+k of EXP!)
Jin 2 and Takaya 2 are surprisingly spongy if you're not a minmaxer. Yeah, it took Level 99 and Pralaya crits to take them down in 1 turn
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 Sheit, I was around the 80s and early 90s when I fought them. And given how All-Out Attacks are like Kryptonite, Power/Mind Charge along with any high-tier physical move and Thunder Reign wipe them out like a tidal wave.
@@romariodesrosier1450 Okay, I was a bit incorrect in what I said, cuz I didn't actually need Level 99 to do it, just 99 Strength + the Pralaya crit
@@romariodesrosier1450 Late, but, uh, don't use the Charge skills, they're not a 2.5x multiplier in P3
8. He even has "red wall," which can grant the user a resistance to fire attacks. So naturally, you think that would mean he has a weakness to fire, right? WRONG! This is just a means to trick you into using fire attacks because in actuality, the Contrarian King will heal if he is hit with fire attacks! And you better pray to whatever patron deity he doesn't use "rampage," because that's overpowered to an insane degree. Even more annoying by the fact that if the player character faints, you lose regardless of how much health the rest of your party has! That's right, you don't need ALL of your party members to fall in battle to lose like in Pokemon, just YOU! My advice, bring a persona that reflects physical attacks so that when he uses rampage, he'll hit himself instead.
7. Its not helped by the fact all of the paintings have different resistances and weaknesses. While one damage type might knock down one, it'll heal another. AND he can coat party members in paint that makes them weak to all damage types. This would've gone on for a while if not for a moment where you can slosh him with that same paint to turn the tables. Plus, in Persona 5 Royal, they add a new phase by Madarame making elemental clones of himself.
5. He has 3 phases, and every phase, he restores to full health. Phase 1 has constructs of golden people, phase 2 has you fight Shido while wearing a... gymnast's apparatus? And Phase 3 has you fighting a red roided-out Shido. And in Persona 5 Royal, when on his last legs, Shido seperates Joker from the rest of the party, making it a one on one last stand.
4. It was SOOOOOOOO SATISFYING to finally end this screaming noise violation. And in Royal, you can talk back to her. Basically the ending of the final battle from It Chapter 2, where you go "F*** you, Asshole, you're just a faker!"
Also, My ending one-liner was epic:
"SHUT THE F*** UP, FOREVER!!! GOODBYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE!!!"
1. He also has 4 arms with 4 weapons. One with a sword, one with a gun, one with a bell, and one with a book. He can also cast attacks based on the sins of the palaces of the game. Lust charms your party, vanity coats party members in paint similar to the Madarame fight, gluttony doubles the cost of your party skills, wrath enrages the party, greed casts hunger on the party, envy causes whoever is afflicted to attack your allies if you buff or heal anyone but them in question, and pride auto-counters when you attack. He also has a powerful arena nuke, thank god I maxed out my darling, Futaba. She has a skill that can shield the party from a fatal attack.
It’s so good to see so many people appreciate the persona series especially persona 4 🥰😍 it was my first persona game and I know it’s cheesy but it changed my life and made me who I am today and I’m happy to see it get the appreciation it deserves don’t get me wrong I love all the games even one and 2 and the megami tensei games it’s just persona 4 gets a lot less love than 5 because 5 was so innovative and turned so many people on to the series and 3 was the first persona game like we know it today and 4 just doesn’t see as much appreciation and I love it so I like seeing people discover or already appreciate it so to all of you here regardless of what your favorite game is I’m glad to see us all together as fans may we all work together to burn our dread face ourselves and take the worlds heart! (Sorry I haven’t played enough of persona 1 or 2 eternal punishment or 2 innocent sin to know their kinda slogan thing)
Contratrian King, Madarame, Isshiki, P5 Reaper were the bosses I had a hard time for the first time. It made me to leveling so much and preparing personas, just to beat them.
Masayoshi and Yaldaboth, I was preparing for them, leveling, items stocking and preparing personas.
As for the others mentioned, thank you for the heads up.
Elizabeth in Persona 3 and Okumura in Persona 5 Royal (in the Royal version, this boss was highly buffed). For me, these two are much more difficult than all the ones metioned in the video...
How is Maruki and updated Okumura not on this list! They are by far some of the hardest P5 bosses in the whole game!
Sadly because they choose the vanilla game instead of the royal 1.
@@insanestar3006 Okumura was a real pain even when I learnt what the game wanted me to do. I would not want to do that again on a new play through
Maruki is a joke, and people just have skill issue vs Okumuranus
1 name for those who played persona 3: Elizabeth
The entire Snow Queen quest of Persona 1 is a boss on it's own that I'm not willing to go through lol
I absolutely love Shido’s death animation. It’s as if it takes a while for him to realise how much damage the Phantom Thieves has dealt him, and he overestimates his chances of winning, and falls down.
Where the hell is elizibeth from persona 3?! And why did you give a spot to madarame out of all bosses?!
Persona 1 and 2: "am I a joke to you?!"
Don't get me wrong I love all these bosses and sure I had trouble with each one, one way or the other but for some reason I feel like persona 1 and 2 bosses are more tedious like pandora for example, pandora can take an hour or so it had 2 annoying phases, that just may be just me and my opinion tho
Same goes for Persona Q. That game had quite a few tough bosses. Captor Spider, anyone?
@@AdamEspersona oh God don't remind me of those past nightmares, i liked pq1 and 2 but I'm glad to got it over with
@@Ian-ze7ih I think that reaction alone justifies that this list is faulty... like a vast majority of Ty's lists.
I will never forgive the blatant errors in his "Resident Evil Facts" list.
@@AdamEspersona yeah, yeah you're right major point made 🤣
You missed every floor guardian of tartarus in p3
Where is persona 2 ep bosses they are hardest
So we're just gonna ignore Elizabeth from P3FES. Literally one of the most difficult bosses in not just Persona or SMT but JRPGs period?
This man hasn't heard of Minotaur, the Fiends, or Medusa
The fact that Royal Okumura wasn't even mentioned
Okumura on Royal should've been on this list that bastard was aggravating asf lol
Some of these fights like the reaper in P3 & P4, Nyx, and the velvet attendants in each game I understand but some of these bosses were honestly not that hard.
Honorable Mentions:
*Shadow Yukiko - Persona 4
-This was such a huge difficulty spike. This is in the early game too, in the game's FIRST DUNGEON! She's weak to ice and Chie has ice attacks, the problem is that Chie is weak to fire and Shadow Yukiko tends to target HER frequently. And yes, she DOES have access to fire attacks! This was so tough that she was nerfed for Persona 4 Golden, while a little easier in that version, it still feels like a arduous fight.
*Shadow Teddie - Persona 4
-I failed quite a bit fighting him, he has attacks that can hit everyone and is quite a damage sponge. And if you die, you gotta go through the last boss fight, Shadow Rise, all over again.
*Shadow Naoto - Persona 4
-Her AI is supernatural, when attacking someone, she'll target that member's weakness and will cover her own. Your best bet is to use personas with no weaknesses to exploit.
*Shadow Okumura - Persona 5
-This is easily the worst boss in the game. I can explain in 3 reasons.
1. The bosses design is JUST REALLY LAZY! Its pretty much the same standard Shadow Okumura, but just adding a mechanical throne. Since this is a Sci-Fi level, I would've expected something like a mech suit or a spaceship or even the UFO itself. But no, we get a guy in a chair. Even Baxter Stockman and the Giant Robot Piggy Bank was more creative than this.
2. The "Boss Fight" is basically just an enemy rush and not even a fun one. It can be quick if you exploit weaknesses and all-out attacks but the moment you clear them out, Okumura will just spawn a fresh set of robots IMMEDIATELY! And all Okumura does is just apply buffs and suicide orders, while ordering all of his bots to target one specific member before moving onto the rest (as is the Okumura family way). Persona 5 Royal adds on a new phase where you have to fight a robot version of Haru, which can self-destruct for a ton of damage. And when you finally get to Okumura, he barely puts up a fight.
3. As if all that wasn't bad enough, there's a time limit! 30 minutes should be enough time but the problem is that the timer DOESN'T PAUSE DURING THE INTERMISSION DIALOGUE! Meaning you gotta work fast and think fast. YOU MADE A BOSS FIGHT SOMEHOW BOTH BORING AND STRESSFUL JUS- HOW DO YOU EVEN DO THAT?!!!
You'd think that this would be fixed in Persona 5 Royal Buuuuut...
Everyone's reactions to the Okumura updated fight can best be sumed up as such:
Patchy: "That's it? That's the update to the Okumura fight? THEY DIDN'T EVEN FIX THE TIMER PROBLEM!"
Potty: "What a rip."
*Akane's Phantom Thieves - Persona 5 Strikers
-This is easily the most aggressive boss in the whole game. Fighting a relentlessly aggressive doppelganger of yourself (depending on who you are controlling). What's more, this is a one-on-one fight. Meaning you have no access to all-out attacks! And it doesn't even use persona skills! What kind of doppelganger of a Persona character DOESN'T USE PERSONA SKILLS?!!! What gives?! (Granted, this was likely due to Akane not knowing that the thieves even had Personas in the first place, but I digress.) Screw you fakers, go away and let Akane be the boss!
Fun Fact: Shadow Yukiko doesn't actually have a weakness in vanilla, her Ice weakness was only added in Golden.
I absolutely hated Okumura's reworked boss fight in Royal- they somehow made it worse. However I can overlook himself being a pushover and not having a transformation like the previous Palace rulers because that was the whole point of his character - he leaves everyone else to do his dirty work while he alone reaps the benefits.
Shadow naoto was easy for me. No weakness in my party as I maxed my social links for my party members.
Funny mustache man from Persona 2
Nyx's Avatar; last phase.
Junpei in party, he died at some point in battle (and lets be honest, he did at least twice by this point); his turn goes after Nyx's.
Nyx uses Moonless Gown.
Junpei uses Physical Attack.
Attack gets reflected.
Junpei dies.
Repeat until end of battle.
And this is while everyone else is probably dying to his twice in a row Almighty attacks (one of which was previously Mind Charged).
Nyx is so hard because it erodes your patience... 5hours later you just can't believe you killed it, even after several attempts, and 1 or 2 Charmed Full Heals. "The Arcana is the means by which all is revealed" PTSD after this fight.
First time I ever played Persona 5, I swept up Madarame so fast I didn't even see his second phase with all the different element versions of himself.
There is so much wrong with this video, that I would take longer to explain than the length of this video, Anyway who has actually play persona 3-5 can think of much harder bosses than these
They did wrong by including Strega, but having the Contrarian King cancels it out. If only they had Elizabeth and/or the Sleeping Table.
Funny how barely any persona bosses wouldn't even make a top 20 let alone a top 10 if you included SMT and the other spin offs
What the hell? Where's Elizabeth from Persona 3 or Margaret from Persona 4? Elizabeth's Megidoloan on the first turn which dealt 9999 damage to me was downright traumatic. My HP for my entire party was maxed out at 999. At that point in game, I was so powerful Nyx was a walkover. I even had all the Personas including Orpheus Telos and the best of equipment which basically nullifies all damage and makes me invincible. When I found out Elizabeth was a secret boss, I was happy there was more content after Nyx, so I went into the fight thinking it will be a walkover too, but Elizabeth legit clapped me in the first turn. I was so shocked and stunned I was speechless for a whole minute. I went online to read about her, and that is when I found out she will clap you first turn if you have any form of immunity. My over preparation was my own downfall. That said, even when immunity is removed, she is still one of the toughest boss fights, with each attack taking out a quarter or half my life. She can even heal herself for lots of hp. The worst thing is the boss fight is on a timer countdown, so you have to beat her before a specific number of turns or she will cast Megidoloan to wipe the floor with your party.
I was mad too on this
Cause she also changes persona and if you have a resistance to that personas type or even a reflect then she claps you or if any of your personas have more than 1 resistance/reflect she claps you it was absolutely brutal
@@AnthonyHernandez-qx4ml Resist is allowed. You cannot have more than 1 Null/Repel/Drain out at once though
Takaya and Jin are hard ? I can pick literal random encounters in Persona 3 that gave me more trouble than both of them
Elizabeth/theodore are on a different scale for you need specific persona, items, and equipment (orpheus telos, messiah etc. ) , it has battle requirements for you to respect or else they would just one hit megidolaon you (like not equipping your persona with drain skills, limited number of turns etc.) Plus towards the end you kinda need some rng to spam armageddon. Just the sheer amount of grinding and planning is nuts. Most of the bosses mentioned in the video are cakewalk if you know what you're doing. I solo margaret, Nyx just took about a couple of minutes, solo'd the reaper in p3 and p4 etc
Let me say something about the Persona 3 Reaper. It will only appear, if you get a cursed card in shuffle time, You're good to go otherwise. I also Highly disagree with this list. For one, Strega is so easily destroyed with the correct things done, secondly, Cognitive Wakaba Isshiki is not that bad if you know what you're actually doing. Shido is not bad if you're properly built up and you use a team with stat buffs. I would definitely say the Velvet room assistants are considered to be the hardest Persona bosses.
Nyx... I remember fighting that (under leveled) that boss for close to 2 hours. When my party was running out of resources, Nyx charmed Yukari and she full healed him. ... I rage quit and didn't bring her into the next fight.
Brooooo this shit happened to me too
@@noobslayer5932 thankfully I played portable and so I missed out on this annoyance
Yaldaboth was by far the easiest final boss in p3-5 wtf 😭
elizabeth? philemon? margaret? (in P3P and P4) nyarlathotep? (in both P2 games)
what is this list lol
Madarame strangely was a boss I never had an issue with. I struggled with the first place boss until I grinded a few levels but only Okumora gave me a real headache out of all the P5R bosses. Most of the bosses on here that I’ve done have been ok. Having said that I literally just got hammered by the Contrarian King.
the last boss of P5R is way harder than some of those listed here, getting rid of the tentacles and shit, that boss should've been in the top 10
I actually got another ending for the game where the school counselor is actually the final final boss for persona 5 Royal that is
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The Sleeping Table from Persona 3 should've been on this list.
Edit: For the Nyx fight, he can charm your party and one of your charmed teammates end up fully healing Nyx and that's where the charm salt is real.
Sleeping Table is easy if you have Mediarama
I like how this list doesn't consist of any bosses from P1, P2IS or P2EP...
Nyx is for me the hardest. it took sheer luck on the brink of party death to beat him , i wish i was kidding. yes the reaper is hard but im sorry pharos or Nyx whatever you want to call him was just nuts!
Eh, Nyx was easy, I just minmaxed an Orpheus and went ham with Pralaya and double boosted Agidyne
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 Oh yeah i had forgotten about that strategy lol. oh well i got him but thanks anyway.
The fact that everyone ignores everything before Persona 3 saddens me.
strega fights are a cakewalk
Okumura was the hardest boss in my first play through of Persona 5 Royal.
Ikr, he was the only boss to give me genuine trouble. Anyone eho claims "He's not that hard" is full of crap.
@@mistydolphin2524 he really isn't that hard, just get good lol
@@mistydolphin2524 I died a billion times to kamoshida and madarame because they require specific skills to beat or it's super rng, but okumura is just a matter of using marakunda and baton passing
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Let’s not forget the toughest boss ever than P5R’s Okumura boss. The DLC! Why locked Raoul who is basically Joker’s 3rd Persona!
Nyx is such a "Oh you think this ain't SMT huh" boss fight.
You will grit your teeth and follow the phases, you will be one bad turn from dying, and you will do the marathon tightrope if you want to win.
LOVE it.
Yeah, in vanilla P3, that is not the case, I beat him without much trouble. But in Persona 3 Blood Moon? Man, he's actually a scary boss
Contratrian King is not just a difficult boss. It's very unbalanced. Even if you are overleveled.
You can have a normal (even deceptively easier) boss fight.
Until it decides to just splatter your entire party with that one move of his.
Whether you survive it is simply down to luck.
where’s shadow mitsuo from p4 ? of all the bosses in that game, i think i struggled the most w that one 😭😭😭
Tbh, if you can knock down the hero form, he is a meme
What about Okumura? That was chaotic boss battle
Yaldabaoth actually isn’t that hard with the right setup and with the Royal edition of the game, that fight can be over in in less than 5 party turns and I’m not talking about Myriad Truths but rather, Hassou Tobi with Undying Fury trait and Morning Star with Will of the Sword Trait and passive boosts (Magic Ability, Almighty Boost, and Almighty Amp).
I hard a harder time against Lavenza; she was owning me left and right and that’s with max level Personas that had their stats maxed out.
Okamura took me two tries as the time limit beat me the first time. Okamura's palace spells out all the weaknesses if you pay attention to all the robots you fight to get to the boss. The only real tension was the timer and keeping enough SP to last the fight out. It helps if you treat Persona like Pokemon and grind it out to get Persona's that are up to the challenge.
But it's not a hard fight.
I defined took advantage of baton pass
Why do you people refuse to acknowledge that Persona 1 and 2 exist? Those games were way better and harder than these stupid modern Persona games.
I respect your opinion for number 1 but, Personally I wouldn’t think Yaldabaoth is the hardest boss. I’d give that more towards shadow Okumara or Nyx. For Okinawa his debuffing and robots are just obnoxious to deal with. This honestly takes so many tries to beat for a first gameplay
Nyx has so many phases to deal with for his arcana change. Sometimes he can heal himself leaving the duration of the battle to last even longer. Like no matter how much grinding I did for Persona 3, it always turned out the same.
Honestly, the boss rhat actually made me hate to play was Rampage Drive. Repel Strike? Check. Has Mazio? Check. Resists Fire? Checkarooni
Meanwhile me and my monke brain "BY THE MYARID TRUTHS!"
That last boss didn't feel to bad, I won him on hard difficulty. The only boss that made me go "F this I'm turning the game on easy just for that guy" was okumra. I still hate him! He spons hordes of minions that become more and more difficult to kill in only two turns! Especially that he also buffs them, inflict status on your team AND massive damage if you don't deal with the self distrust one. HATE HIM
I was NOT prepared for that Yaldabaoth bullshit. I got home from work one night thinking: "I have the next few days off! I can finish Persona 5 tonight! I already beat Shido, what else is there POSSIBLY to DO? lol." Next thing I know it's, like, 3am and I want to kill myself.
The fact that not all 10 are tartarus bosses is wrong
Watchmojo: final boss = hardest boss.
Smt4 Minotaur: am I a joke to you??
In my experiences
You know you’ve played this game more than enough times when all mainline bosses in both Golden and royal when you can beat them in less than 2 minutes at best
Hardest Persona boss for me would either be Nyarlathotep from Persona 2: Innocent Sin, or JOKER Ulala from Eternal Punishment. I had trouble with every boss that had the "Old Maid" spell, but for some reason the Ulala fight was particularly frustrating.
IS Nyarlathotep is easy if you've been minmaxing Dexterity and such
My sister threw the controller across the room when she fought nix. She never played it again.
Bro if the p5 boss is the hardest then the p3 final boss should be a cake walk (I’m playing reloaded)
MY MAN PRONOUNCED CARLINE AS CARO-LIN LMAO
I OHKO-ed Shido's first phase w/ dlc 1st playthrough plus Elizabeth is just ridiculously hard. Yaldabaoth spammed all his ailments on Joker, which was also annoying
12:12 There is nothing to be ashamed about, I could not even beat persona 5 without setting it onto the easiest setting either. You are not alone my friend.
I have only played P4G and P5R but none of the normal, first playthrough bosses gave me any difficulty. I didn't fight any of the super bosses on a NG+ yet. I thought for a JRPG the bosses were generally super easy, particularly with a little modification of tactics like Madarame once you figure out the fight's gimmick.
That said, I thought a lot of them, like Yaldabaoth were AWESOME fights. Very cool. Just not hard.
I want to go back for a NG+ on hard mode actually for that reason.
Did you beat the Reaper?
Saying spoiler alert and meanwhile showing the last boss of persona 3 is peak.
My man has never played a persona game that came before the third one.
Society needs either remakes or ports of Persona 1 and 2 so lists like these actually include some of their bosses
Philemon on Persona 2 Eternal Punishment is harder than all of these
I like that this list isn’t actually ranked as I feel like Persona bosses are too debatably difficult depending on the games you played.
Personally I’ve only ever played a Persona game to completion with 5 and 5 Royal so I have no idea how to truly gauge where each of these bosses could rank.
I’ve only ever experienced the other games while my older brother took the dive (before P5 I felt I couldn’t take the dive to play the games for myself but now that was older and smarter by the time P5 released I’m now confident enough to take the plunge and 100% (any) SMT or Persona game.
Where is Okumura?? It was really insane to defeat him, and in the Royal version it was even worse.
HE IS LITERALLY STRESSING ME OUT AS WE SPEAK
@@fireuser11 Look, my tip if you're playing on Hard like I was before and refuse to change the difficulty mode is to use and abuse the Baton Pass. Each wave of robots that this unfortunate Okumura summons has a weak point, so use personas with Joker to hit the weakness and leave one in the group corresponding to the robots' weakness and if you have it in your inventory, use items that affect the robots' weak point with the other members of the group. The Baton Pass does more damage and the last one to attack doesn't charge SP, so if you can, leave the Joker or the member who has the persona corresponding to the weak point for last to cause more damage and not spend SP. That's how I defeated this wretch. Did it take a while? It took a while, but it worked! I'm currently struggling to defeat Elizabeth from P3, she's on the same difficulty level as Okumura.
@@leviathan964 thanx man....def gonna try that....to me it's the only way to beat this dude....and yea...I am in HARD mode so its gonna take some trying!
@@fireuser11 Good luck, bro, Okumura is a pain in the ass but don't give up! If you need any tips, let me know and I'll try to help as much as I can, or you can look on RUclips for more tips, there are probably more methods that are more effective than mine.
So, at 1:35 you mentioned that the reaper was meant to stop the progress of the player, to keep the player from progressing too far (or as you said it, you are not supposed to reach the final boss of tartarus until the end of the game). Except, the game already stops player progression; Persona 3 by means of the full moon bosses, Persona 4 by means of each individual brush with the metaverse and Persona 5 with the palaces. The reaper actually comes out when you are not going fast enough in at least P3 and P5 on a per floor basis.
Believe it or not, I was able to beat the majority of the bosses mentioned in the list without numerous retries let alone the first time beating them.
It might be because it’s at the end of the game where I’ve levelled up the most, but I don’t find Yaldabaoth that challenging. At most I only die 2 or 3 times. The Okumara boss is the hardest in 5. Nearly took me 2 days to beat!
Yaldabaoth fight is basically war of attrition where you have to make sure you do not run out of resources.
Or..just spam Megidolaon with anything minmaxed
If you struggled with Jin & Takaya you should probably stop playing games cuz that's clearly not for you LOL
Jin 2 and Steega 2 took some grinding. Not because they were legit hard, but because I wanted to troll them by killing them in a single turn, and I needed a Pralaya crit at 99 Strength to do so
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 Not to mention how Jin in his second fight is stuck with using one move over and over again, and even then you have ample time to power charge and God Hand his ass. Takaya, same deal.
@@romariodesrosier1450 Jin is especially funny cuz he auto loses if he lands Rage on everyone
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 Pretty much. He screwed himself over when he overcompensated with all those moves, relying on status ailments and weak almighty attacks. Like, seriously? Megido? At this point of the game?
I only came here to see if the Metal Trio is in this. I have no fucking clue how I won that one.
Though in base persona 5 the reaper can easily be cheesed. Unfortunately you can’t do that in royal
Where’s Lavenza ? 😂
I’m confused I encountered the Reaper on my FIRST playthrough of Persona 4 Golden.
Yeah. P4 golden lets you encounter it on your first playthrough.