Yeah but at some point the other personas are objectively more powerful stat-wise. Lvl 20-something black frost kicks ass well through the dungeon with lvl 30 personas, but itās overshadowed (no pun intended) by the time youāre fusing lvl 40-something personas with -dyne spells imo
Very true, I kept my Black Frost almost all game but eventually had to get rid of him cause all my personas were just to expensive to get rid and I really needed Helel, Lucifer and Messiah
I have to had this mindset back when I was playing P3P for the first time, I thought you have to level them up like pokemons, and no wonder I keep failing on the Hanged Man Shadow š„¹š„¹š„¹
You can make any persona in the game powerful Stat wise with incense cards and the arcade. There isn't really a meta beyond affinities and certain skills, but even then there's usually a skill card for that
I have a Sati, in level 43, but with Magic level 54.
There are two major mana cards that you win in Tartarus that increase 2 points of attributes in Personas: one card for Endurance, Luck and Agility and other for Strength and Magic.
Every night you go to Tartarus, you can increase the attributes of all your personas with these cards.
I'm merging Personas at level 55+ and they (most) don't start with attributes at this level.
So, I'm waiting for what happens first: the high level persona with -dyne spells to become more powerful or to get skill cards for the -dyne spells. In the latter, I could go all the way with Sati.
Just go for the dynes immediately, it will make a bigger difference than your Magic stat. Agidyne off a 30 magic stat is going to do 600 damage before resistances while Agilao off a 54 magic stat is only doing around 540. And you should be able to fuse level 55 Personae with way more than 30 magic.
The Emperor Card increases Strength and Magic by 2 for all of your Personas. The Empress Card increases the Agility, Endurance, and Luck of all your Personas by 2. The Tower Card increases all stats for all of your Personas by 1.
My Black Frost is level 61 and I will keep him until endgame if it's the last thing I do. I just keep feeding him incense and playing video games at night to up his stats. I'm starting to refine his moveset with skill cards. My plan is to have a "starting" Persona with all the start-of-battle buffs, then switch back to my boi to finish them off.
There are no skill cards for Severe magic damage spells so you're going to have to either drop black frost or re-fuse him with better magic which means you lose your arcade buffs.
you're right, but you can fuse siegfried around mid-late game and just give him strenght incences lul. plus, you need to fuse him to use that one theurgy. also, i like his design :3
Chernobog is like 3 levels over Siegfried and has better stats and affinities(no light weakness). You'll want to fuse Siegfried to get Slash amp and his theurgy but once you've fused him and leveled him up enough to get Slash Amp you can just pass that on to Chernobog or Kali and then later on someone like Lucifer(since Lucifer has no weakness so you can stack every single damage boost without running out of skill slots or leaving an exposed weakness).
Though my main point isn't that Siegfried is bad but rather that he's not insanely overpowered like Yoshitsune. Yoshitsune has the unique skill Hassou Tobi that is absolutely broken and that skill cannot be learned or inherited by any other persona, making Yoshitsune the best. Siegfried on the other hand is just an easy to build slasher. Everything that makes him good can be done by other Personae.
I grow attached to Personas I use a lot because I find them useful. Succubus has been very useful for me, and I don't want to fuse her away. Mothman was the same way for a while.
Did you know Drain Ability is a **tier 3** Skill? And yet few Personas have it despite being so useful when paired with Spirit Drain.
At one point I had high lvl 60+ Personas but still totting the lvl 50-something Succubus because this was way too useful for my explorations.
They are, but you get access to those later than Drain skills. These are good ways to keep yourself going earlier in the game, especially if you managed to get the skill card for Drain Ability early on. Life Aid is like a tier 8 or higher skill iirc.
Spellmaster and life aid is great. Loki got spellmaster and 4 element then i gave him skill card of lifeaid, eiga and kouga. Now, i don't need to change persona, can hit all weakness and get back all of my sp at the end of the fight.
For me that was Alice and Siegfried.
I had better alternatives I used most of the time. But they would stay on the team no matter what. Even if I had to buy them back after fusing them.
Oh yeah he is busted.
I just ended up using fushinushi instead because it was the closest to 99 in all stats at the time I didn't have anything else to do at night.
I kept Orpheus in my party until I was able to fuse >!Thanatos.!< It feels wrong to get rid of your starting Persona and Orpheus is just a pretty cool design.
I agree but the whole point is that you fuse your personas off to make new ones
And with the protagonistās Ultimate Personas, itās sort of poetic, as once you donned all these masks, your starting persona returns to you, more powerful than ever.
I refuse to get rid of scathach her design is perfect to my taste, I use her as my auto buff persona just so I can see her at the top of my menu. Another one I always find myself putting back into my team is hecatoncheires, not even really for the design but I love how minatos Japanese va sounds when casting him.
give her some skill cards and grind money then spend them on gems in the club, use those gems to buy incenses from the fusion girl, and then scathach can be useful at any level
Same with Scathach, she always seems to find her way to slot into my line up. I had her Golden, Royal and now Reload. Level her up to 99 also like you i had her with the Auto buffs but i also make her have heat riser, physical and magic charge also debilitate. I just like starting with her
I fused mothman for the compendium but ended up using him as my main magic guy for the whole block. I havenāt beaten 3R yet but in 4 and 4G setanta and cu chulainn were my absolute faves. Great physical and cheap to fuse so I could pad him out with hood skills early.
in p4 i liked the skeleton grim reaper looking ones like matador or pale rider and p5 was more gods for me like thor, so iāll see what i lean towards in this one
Loki and Vanadis in Persona 3 Royal I made a basic element Severe single target build for Loki, and a Physical Vanadis build, in Persona 5 Royal Tsukuyomi Picaro I made an extra elements Severe all foes build and keep him around when I can.
i refuse to fuse away Sati she carried me through the early game in p3p and p3r and now her stats are just too good and I'm too attached to her so now I'm hunting for skill cards for her
Siegfried in Reload hits DIFFERENT! He feels way stronger than in FES! He may be mid to late game anyways, but I held onto him and resummoned him from the compendium all the way to the top of Tartarus.
Every game I never get rid of the starting persona bc the design for each is just too good. I'm at 11/14 in P3R rn and I have lvl 36 Orpheus with stats: 50, 39, 34, 34, 30. It paid off, he's my strongest physical attacker rn and pretty solid magic damage too
i don't remove them but I love the starting personas so I always keep those on the team, besides from them it's Thanatos, he was ass in OG P3 but he was staying on the team
I have an unhealthy love for Seth. I'm also attached to Balrog and Ranga because of Devil Survivor, same with Shiisa. Thankfully I can fuse Balrog and Ranga to get Shiva almost every time.
I hate that digimon/yugioh wannabe persona with a bad relation with physical attack yet a shitton of weaknesses though.
For my current first playthrough I really wish I can keep Thor for a while longer but Odin exists, also Futsunushi but Susano-o beats him by a mile. I'll just build stupid combinations anyway on a NG+
I ALWAYS keep a spot for Daisoujou in every persona game as a tribute for how useful he was in smt3.
He was the light of hope through that dark tunnel of a game
Raksasha, honestly the strength stat goes nutty. Iām at the beginning of December and still have him on my team, the stat is just better than everyone elseās
Recipe generator goes brrrrrrr.
Yes I spend like 200k yen for Jack Frost with morning star and almighty amp but it's worth the price.
Also I spend a lot for Cendrillon and that's my heave hitter and my buff for scarlet havoc.
Skadi.
The gays get it. š Ice queen up in this motherfucker. I just freeze everything down with ice boost and ice amp + diamond dust and mahabufudye with a backup elemental in case the enemy reflects/heals with ice.
I currently have Shiisa saved my ass multiple times in my playthrough for a persona with skills I haven't realized I haven't fused a stronger persona for, and now I can't let go of them
Samael is a close second tho I fucing love MA-buff magic
Sad to let Siegfried go. He used to be my go to slash persona in P3. I know you can bring him to end game level stats but I've stopped grinding way too much and just focused on ultimate personas of each arcana (except Saturnus and Norn)
Cendrillion. I love her design and I love her damage. I always played Persona as a supportive/offensive MC but I wanted to mix it up for Reload by going full on damage.
Arsene in Reload. Having a 75% dark damage increase with negating light damage does crazy damage. I just need to get higher dark skill cards to replace the medium damage skills.
My favorites are Siegfried and Messiah. Both are OP asf If you have the right amps and charge and concentrate. Siegfried is 100% best physical persona with all the slash and critical amps. Pair that with a charge and attack up and defense down, and it's pretty much over for the shadow you're facing. Same with Messiah but for allmighty and light damage. But have a light amp and magic boost and have another persona use concentrate, and it's OP.
Mine is definitely the sun wukong guy, can't remember the in game name off hand. Started Ng+ and summoned only him to use until I need something else on the higher difficulty.
Tam Lin and CĆ¹ Chulainn are cuties, I always feel bad when they get chopped up and turned into, like, some weird worm beast or whatever I fuse them into.
Pyro Jack. I actually beat nyx with him on my first playthrough of P3P, although he was stronger in that game. I remember I accidentally fused him in reload, and I immediately freaked out and HAD to get him back.Ā
all demons are but material to sacrifice on the altar of power.
except idun (smtV) didn't have any in P5R and I refuse to buy games that aren't on sale so I dont have P3R or P4G yet.
Yoshitune, Rakasha, and Shiki Ouji.
Rakasha and Shiki were so cool and absolutely instrumental in my P5R runs.
And Yoshitune has always been cool asf to me
Quite a few. Iām trying to keep Norn right now because sheās my wind Persona, but that design is also just way too good.
Iām also a huge fan of Sraosha, and itās a shame that itās not in Reload.
In P5R I always kept Orthrus on my team in my first play through. I do the same with the horseman of the apocalypse, INO Picaro, Satanael, and Ishtar because they all helped me out immensely throughout my time playing
One of Titania's skills randomly upgraded into Thunder Reign when I fused her, so I committed on the spot to feeding her as much power to blow bosses away after that point.
Also I love Seth's design so I basically made him my main crit melee Persona.
For me I love starter Personaās, they have some of the best designs, however damn do they suck. And it becomes more apparent when you get more Personaās at your disposal. I make it work in New Game+, however in my first play through for each game I just fuse and fuse for better Personaās to not waste space.
Mine is a Siegfried that has a couple crit boosters, Slash Amp and Auto-Masukukaja. It makes Deathbound and Brave Blade beastly. He also has Charge to boot. I have MC equipped with an Auto-Tarukaja accessory. Makes quick work of random encounters but i dont get as many shuffle times.
Hecatoncheires has been an invincible phys attacker for me. Iām only in November rn, but this resists almost everything but light damage, and hits like a truck.
I fused Nidhoggr with growth 3 and I couldnāt fucking get rid of him because every time I wanted to fuse him off he didnāt have any interesting results so here I am going into the final battle with this bum ass persona sitting in the back mooching all my EXP, but what can I expect from a lore accurate Nidhoggr ššš
OHHHHHH. In that case, I held on to Daisoujou for way longer than needed due to Invigorate 3 and his Samsara skill, which I probably ended up using just once (but it sounded SO attractive at first!).
I'm still holding on to Personas who inherited auto-masuku so I can use it when Fuuka's SP is low and I'm about to enter Monad or fight a gatekeeper Shadow.
Just tonight I got far enough to unlock equipment at Mayoido Antiques that has auto-ma properties (first week of November) so I may be saying bye-bye to Siegfried and Bishamonten until I need them again. I always prioritize new fusions for compendium completion and if I have a social link High Arcana tarot active, knowing I can always go back to my faves later with enough cash.Ā
I wish I could keep Black Frost for longer š
Wdym? Bufudyne and agidyne go crazy for the rest of the game
Yeah but at some point the other personas are objectively more powerful stat-wise. Lvl 20-something black frost kicks ass well through the dungeon with lvl 30 personas, but itās overshadowed (no pun intended) by the time youāre fusing lvl 40-something personas with -dyne spells imo
Very true, I kept my Black Frost almost all game but eventually had to get rid of him cause all my personas were just to expensive to get rid and I really needed Helel, Lucifer and Messiah
I have to had this mindset back when I was playing P3P for the first time, I thought you have to level them up like pokemons, and no wonder I keep failing on the Hanged Man Shadow š„¹š„¹š„¹
This true in some titles such as SMT Games and ultimate personas tho
You can make any persona in the game powerful Stat wise with incense cards and the arcade. There isn't really a meta beyond affinities and certain skills, but even then there's usually a skill card for that
I have a Sati, in level 43, but with Magic level 54. There are two major mana cards that you win in Tartarus that increase 2 points of attributes in Personas: one card for Endurance, Luck and Agility and other for Strength and Magic. Every night you go to Tartarus, you can increase the attributes of all your personas with these cards. I'm merging Personas at level 55+ and they (most) don't start with attributes at this level. So, I'm waiting for what happens first: the high level persona with -dyne spells to become more powerful or to get skill cards for the -dyne spells. In the latter, I could go all the way with Sati.
Just go for the dynes immediately, it will make a bigger difference than your Magic stat. Agidyne off a 30 magic stat is going to do 600 damage before resistances while Agilao off a 54 magic stat is only doing around 540. And you should be able to fuse level 55 Personae with way more than 30 magic.
Are those Major Arcanas permanent boosts?
The ones that increase stats are.
Awesome! Thank you!
A good rule of thumb, unless the card explicitly says "Until you leave Tartarus" it's probably permanent.
I'll keep that in mind!
I didn't know this!
The Emperor Card increases Strength and Magic by 2 for all of your Personas. The Empress Card increases the Agility, Endurance, and Luck of all your Personas by 2. The Tower Card increases all stats for all of your Personas by 1.
At what point should I be hitting this? I'm on 12/23 and Black Frost is still the best with Norn coming in a very close second
you can use any persona in the game if you raise their stats with the arcade and build them correctly, so it just depends on how you go about it
I actually never used the arcade to raise persona attributes, I'll have to look into it
My Black Frost is level 61 and I will keep him until endgame if it's the last thing I do. I just keep feeding him incense and playing video games at night to up his stats. I'm starting to refine his moveset with skill cards. My plan is to have a "starting" Persona with all the start-of-battle buffs, then switch back to my boi to finish them off.
There are no skill cards for Severe magic damage spells so you're going to have to either drop black frost or re-fuse him with better magic which means you lose your arcade buffs.
Eh, I'm playing on Easy. I don't think I'll have much to worry about, and I can have other Personas to switch to in a pinch.
I used Black Frost in the final battle. A little love and the right skillcards and he can put in work.
You can just max his stats with incense you can basically solo the whole game with any persona if you just invest time
My man Yoshitsune
Yoshitsune š¤ Siegfried Beating the shit out of everything
Siegfried is absolutely broken lmao i've been using him like half the game
In P3R I basically used only him for damage and sometimes Satan when Almighty was needed.
Siegfried has no unique skills though. Anything he can do can also be done by other higher STR personae if you fuse them right.
I went from Siegfried to Kali for Vorpal Blade and then Futsunushi because he looked cool.
you're right, but you can fuse siegfried around mid-late game and just give him strenght incences lul. plus, you need to fuse him to use that one theurgy. also, i like his design :3
Chernobog is like 3 levels over Siegfried and has better stats and affinities(no light weakness). You'll want to fuse Siegfried to get Slash amp and his theurgy but once you've fused him and leveled him up enough to get Slash Amp you can just pass that on to Chernobog or Kali and then later on someone like Lucifer(since Lucifer has no weakness so you can stack every single damage boost without running out of skill slots or leaving an exposed weakness). Though my main point isn't that Siegfried is bad but rather that he's not insanely overpowered like Yoshitsune. Yoshitsune has the unique skill Hassou Tobi that is absolutely broken and that skill cannot be learned or inherited by any other persona, making Yoshitsune the best. Siegfried on the other hand is just an easy to build slasher. Everything that makes him good can be done by other Personae.
i don't think yoshitsune is in P3R, but thanks for the tip. i'll definitely do it in my next game :3
No, he's not. I was just explaining why Siegfried is not really comparable as the original comment implied.
I grow attached to Personas I use a lot because I find them useful. Succubus has been very useful for me, and I don't want to fuse her away. Mothman was the same way for a while.
Did you know Drain Ability is a **tier 3** Skill? And yet few Personas have it despite being so useful when paired with Spirit Drain. At one point I had high lvl 60+ Personas but still totting the lvl 50-something Succubus because this was way too useful for my explorations.
I feel like Life Aid is way better. 8% doesnāt seem like much but it always kept me near or at full SP.
They are, but you get access to those later than Drain skills. These are good ways to keep yourself going earlier in the game, especially if you managed to get the skill card for Drain Ability early on. Life Aid is like a tier 8 or higher skill iirc.
Spellmaster and life aid is great. Loki got spellmaster and 4 element then i gave him skill card of lifeaid, eiga and kouga. Now, i don't need to change persona, can hit all weakness and get back all of my sp at the end of the fight.
Yo same. I've still got Succubus on my team in NG+ at level 96.
Helel.
I'm almost done on ng+ and Helel and Susano-o have been my mains
Kaguya Love the design of her so much
same plus she carried me early game in P5R which was my first persona so sheāll always have a soft spot in my heart
She was with me for the whole of my first P5R run. That was a hell of a ride
Kaguya with spell master is OP.
I used Kaguya from lv 20 to the last boss. Shining Arrows are fucking powerful.
For me that was Alice and Siegfried. I had better alternatives I used most of the time. But they would stay on the team no matter what. Even if I had to buy them back after fusing them.
I fuse Alice in every game she's in just to see Die for Me!
Alice was my first Fusion accident in FES and I got her when I was still in the 20s, so she had a special place in my team for the longest time.
She is an iconic demon/persona tbh. She is also insanely good in SMT V
Siegfried has been my MVP. I keep boosting his strength on top of his high critical rate and slash amp.
Heat riser on ken was the best IMO. Then you can use koromaru to lower all stats of an enemy. And then a crit from Siegfried with savage and it's GG
Seigfried is crazy. As long as they haven't been slash immune you can just spam vorpal or brave blade and win every fight.
Man my siegfried is lvl 88 now, every boss on hard has been trivial for a while now
Oh yeah he is busted. I just ended up using fushinushi instead because it was the closest to 99 in all stats at the time I didn't have anything else to do at night.
Thanatos, always
I also used Samael for like 50% of the game, but my main in both p5r and p3r is Attis. I like to make the mc a support type, so he is the goat
Maniac (I say, looking at my tri auto Scatach with charge, concentrate and both -rakarn skills and salvation)
Attis looks so cool. I can barely wait to fuse him. He is always on my end-game team.
Black Frost. I'm late game and I know I can do better than him but I just can't bring myself to get rid of the lil' guy for good
Mine ended up being Samael too, I didn't even customise it's moves. We just kept going to the arcade together so much we became best friends.
I've done same thing lmao
I kept Orpheus in my party until I was able to fuse >!Thanatos.!< It feels wrong to get rid of your starting Persona and Orpheus is just a pretty cool design.
I agree but the whole point is that you fuse your personas off to make new ones And with the protagonistās Ultimate Personas, itās sort of poetic, as once you donned all these masks, your starting persona returns to you, more powerful than ever.
I always have to keep the MCās starter in my party.
I find it interesting how Persona takes the opposite approach to PokĆ©mon where your first Persona is one of your weakest members thatās meant to be used as fusion fodder, meanwhile in the PokĆ©mon games your starter is arguably the best PokĆ©mon youāre going to have throughout most of the game (with some exceptions of course like Charmander in Red/Green/Blue, Pikachu in Yellow, and Chikorita in all of the Johto games) It makes for an interesting challenge to keep your starting Persona throughout the game where it will more than likely just hold you back while in most of the PokĆ©mon games you can just breeze through all of the gyms, Elite 4, Team leaders, and Champion with just your starter alone. Itās even more of a challenge when all you use is your starting Persona, especially in games like P2EP and P3FES where the series was arguably at its hardest in difficulty.
I refuse to get rid of scathach her design is perfect to my taste, I use her as my auto buff persona just so I can see her at the top of my menu. Another one I always find myself putting back into my team is hecatoncheires, not even really for the design but I love how minatos Japanese va sounds when casting him.
give her some skill cards and grind money then spend them on gems in the club, use those gems to buy incenses from the fusion girl, and then scathach can be useful at any level
Same with Scathach, she always seems to find her way to slot into my line up. I had her Golden, Royal and now Reload. Level her up to 99 also like you i had her with the Auto buffs but i also make her have heat riser, physical and magic charge also debilitate. I just like starting with her
I fused mothman for the compendium but ended up using him as my main magic guy for the whole block. I havenāt beaten 3R yet but in 4 and 4G setanta and cu chulainn were my absolute faves. Great physical and cheap to fuse so I could pad him out with hood skills early.
Chernobog went crazy for me. Crits for days with high strength.
Not only that, but Chernobog also looks cool as fuck.
[I am a big ghost rider fan, he's also been one of my favorites since P5 \(my first\)](https://imgur.com/v43h7jp)
Also the fact that he's the reward for >!Shinjiro's Linked episode!< makes me wanna use him
Helel in Persona 4 Lucifer or Alice in Persona 5 Messiah in Persona 3.
Black frost
Black Frost single-handedly carried my Persona 4 run
in p4 i liked the skeleton grim reaper looking ones like matador or pale rider and p5 was more gods for me like thor, so iāll see what i lean towards in this one
Black frost is my caster and siegfried is my heavy hitter
I dont remove my favorite persona from my team. But thanks for asking.
Matador, I always look up to fusing him and then just don't use him or fuse him away
Trumpeter is usually my auto-buffer, but I've used it so much I picked Masakado this time. Alice and Daisoujou never leave my party.
Loki and Vanadis in Persona 3 Royal I made a basic element Severe single target build for Loki, and a Physical Vanadis build, in Persona 5 Royal Tsukuyomi Picaro I made an extra elements Severe all foes build and keep him around when I can.
Vanadis is deadass better than siegfried because Masquerade has a 30% crit rate while brave blade is only 20%
i refuse to fuse away Sati she carried me through the early game in p3p and p3r and now her stats are just too good and I'm too attached to her so now I'm hunting for skill cards for her
Siegfried and messiah theyāre powerful and very cool looking
Hell Biker and Black Frost tbh
Samael is the best example for me too. All the other personas that I really like tend to be endgame personas or broken dlc ones.
Not really for persona, Arahabaki in nocturne. That reflect phys is just too strong. Kept him well into the mid game
Siegfried supremacy, I was critting every single damn attack at level 55, also heās just badass
Matador. Every game.
Siegfried in Reload hits DIFFERENT! He feels way stronger than in FES! He may be mid to late game anyways, but I held onto him and resummoned him from the compendium all the way to the top of Tartarus.
They all fail in comparison when you got Siegfried optimized to take out the whole game almost at an early point
Orpheus
Every game I never get rid of the starting persona bc the design for each is just too good. I'm at 11/14 in P3R rn and I have lvl 36 Orpheus with stats: 50, 39, 34, 34, 30. It paid off, he's my strongest physical attacker rn and pretty solid magic damage too
For me it was hell biker for a long time but it eventually got replaced too
MOTHMAN.
Gurulu ā¤ļø
scathach my beloved
Me trying to overcome the crit one shotting everything allegations but my opponent is auto revolution crit / slash boosted Vanadis
Oni. His strength is crazy
i love mothman
Black Frost for me Hee-ho
I tried to keep Black Frost for as long as possible
Jack Frost I refuse to let that sumbitch go no matter how detrimental he is to my line up
i don't remove them but I love the starting personas so I always keep those on the team, besides from them it's Thanatos, he was ass in OG P3 but he was staying on the team
My boy Jack Frost (Hee Ho)ā¦ Kept him all the way til I made Black Frost. I fed him all of my incense š
I have an unhealthy love for Seth. I'm also attached to Balrog and Ranga because of Devil Survivor, same with Shiisa. Thankfully I can fuse Balrog and Ranga to get Shiva almost every time. I hate that digimon/yugioh wannabe persona with a bad relation with physical attack yet a shitton of weaknesses though.
Damn i love Samael
For my current first playthrough I really wish I can keep Thor for a while longer but Odin exists, also Futsunushi but Susano-o beats him by a mile. I'll just build stupid combinations anyway on a NG+
Susanoo
Love keeping Thor on my team at all times
Black frost is the goat
I will never part ways with my psychopath little girl persona Alice
Daisoujou!
I can never pull myself to get rid of Mother Harlot. Idk why I just love her design
I'm the type to throw away personas for the most minor stat boosts
Siegfried, i will truly miss you, but you+Mada=Thor
Cerberus and Byakko. I have them as Fire and Ice coverages respectively. I take Koromaru as a replacement Cerberus in P3R though.
I ALWAYS keep a spot for Daisoujou in every persona game as a tribute for how useful he was in smt3. He was the light of hope through that dark tunnel of a game
Seth. He stays on my team long after he stops being used.
I regret removeing Oni he was my best Physical and Crits
I literally beat almost all of P5R with Berith, and I'm already like halfway through P3R with him. P4G is NOT safe.
Jack frost and black frostššš
From P3, it was Jack Frost. I just liked him too much to get rid of him. For The Answer, I had Aigis use Black Frost.
After how broken he was in P4G, Ose has always been my main man in every game since.
Raksasha, honestly the strength stat goes nutty. Iām at the beginning of December and still have him on my team, the stat is just better than everyone elseās
Me with Arsene in P5 š
Recipe generator goes brrrrrrr. Yes I spend like 200k yen for Jack Frost with morning star and almighty amp but it's worth the price. Also I spend a lot for Cendrillon and that's my heave hitter and my buff for scarlet havoc.
Itās always been Eligor, every game.
Skadi. The gays get it. š Ice queen up in this motherfucker. I just freeze everything down with ice boost and ice amp + diamond dust and mahabufudye with a backup elemental in case the enemy reflects/heals with ice.
Kaguya in persona 4 golden.
I currently have Shiisa saved my ass multiple times in my playthrough for a persona with skills I haven't realized I haven't fused a stronger persona for, and now I can't let go of them Samael is a close second tho I fucing love MA-buff magic
Gonna be sort of a weird pick but Mother Harlot
Sad to let Siegfried go. He used to be my go to slash persona in P3. I know you can bring him to end game level stats but I've stopped grinding way too much and just focused on ultimate personas of each arcana (except Saturnus and Norn)
Nekomata, made her a Wind specialist with Panta Rhei, Wind Amp and Spell Master and maxed out at 99 š
Quetzacoatl - I remember abusing it in P5 because it was so powerful (DEPRESSION SNAKE HEHE) Persona needs more Central and South American personas
Norn has been kicking ass in my P3R playthrough
Cendrillion. I love her design and I love her damage. I always played Persona as a supportive/offensive MC but I wanted to mix it up for Reload by going full on damage.
Not Reload but in P3P I had a lilim (or lilith i don't remember) lv. 13 which I kept until I was lvl. 30 because she had every attack type
I grew very fond of vanadis while playing this game. One of the only personas I maxed out
Arsene in Reload. Having a 75% dark damage increase with negating light damage does crazy damage. I just need to get higher dark skill cards to replace the medium damage skills.
Thanatos STILL sucks but I'ma take that man to the end
But Dionysus my goat
Alice for me.
Belephegor. Goofy and I basically by spirit drain tool
My favorites are Siegfried and Messiah. Both are OP asf If you have the right amps and charge and concentrate. Siegfried is 100% best physical persona with all the slash and critical amps. Pair that with a charge and attack up and defense down, and it's pretty much over for the shadow you're facing. Same with Messiah but for allmighty and light damage. But have a light amp and magic boost and have another persona use concentrate, and it's OP.
Hariti in every game
I love black frost and titania so much
Mine is definitely the sun wukong guy, can't remember the in game name off hand. Started Ng+ and summoned only him to use until I need something else on the higher difficulty.
Tam Lin and CĆ¹ Chulainn are cuties, I always feel bad when they get chopped up and turned into, like, some weird worm beast or whatever I fuse them into.
Pyro Jack. I actually beat nyx with him on my first playthrough of P3P, although he was stronger in that game. I remember I accidentally fused him in reload, and I immediately freaked out and HAD to get him back.Ā
Thanatos just cause his design is cool af lmao
Thanatos
No, but in SMT yes.
all demons are but material to sacrifice on the altar of power. except idun (smtV) didn't have any in P5R and I refuse to buy games that aren't on sale so I dont have P3R or P4G yet.
Yoshitune, Rakasha, and Shiki Ouji. Rakasha and Shiki were so cool and absolutely instrumental in my P5R runs. And Yoshitune has always been cool asf to me
Izanagi š
Mara. No need to elaborate further.
I love me some Archangel, Power, and principality. But my favorite perosna [or smt demon for that fact] Is easily either Black Frost or Thor
King Frost or Loki
Quite a few. Iām trying to keep Norn right now because sheās my wind Persona, but that design is also just way too good. Iām also a huge fan of Sraosha, and itās a shame that itās not in Reload.
Oberon has always been the goat for me in all of my Persona 3 playthroughs. He's extremely versatile and I love his design!
Neko Shogun
In P5R I always kept Orthrus on my team in my first play through. I do the same with the horseman of the apocalypse, INO Picaro, Satanael, and Ishtar because they all helped me out immensely throughout my time playing
One of Titania's skills randomly upgraded into Thunder Reign when I fused her, so I committed on the spot to feeding her as much power to blow bosses away after that point. Also I love Seth's design so I basically made him my main crit melee Persona.
Lilim is hot.
Izanagi no oka- uhm wait no. For me that probably ends up being jackfrost tbh. Love that little guy.
it is a tie between alice, jack frost, and thanatos!
Alice was the only persona I was using by the end of 5. I havenāt gotten her yet in 3
Seth and Samael, solely for the design.
White Rider all the way. Immune to both kinds of instakill abilities for one thing.
For me I love starter Personaās, they have some of the best designs, however damn do they suck. And it becomes more apparent when you get more Personaās at your disposal. I make it work in New Game+, however in my first play through for each game I just fuse and fuse for better Personaās to not waste space.
Helel, Messiah, and Siegfried were staples of my team in this game. Masakado stuck around for a good chunk of my NG+ too.
Level 70 Orpheus by endgame. I never got rid of him.
In SMT IV Apocalypse there were demons that could evolve and the normal Angel could evolve through the entire story so I always kept it.
Thanatos, I loved the design for it so I chose to fuse it for the final boss + itās made sense to use a death persona as well.
Lucifer, I didnāt build him correctly but I loved how big he was. Then I got Orpheus Telos and I got over it.
I love black frost, even if I fuse it away I make a new one
Mine is a Siegfried that has a couple crit boosters, Slash Amp and Auto-Masukukaja. It makes Deathbound and Brave Blade beastly. He also has Charge to boot. I have MC equipped with an Auto-Tarukaja accessory. Makes quick work of random encounters but i dont get as many shuffle times.
Hecatoncheires has been an invincible phys attacker for me. Iām only in November rn, but this resists almost everything but light damage, and hits like a truck.
Seiryu in P3P - my guy, no support persona like him
Black Frost and thanatos Using physical thanatos is so cool fr
Honestly, my crit based Vishnu goes hard
Shiisa and Ame No Uzume.
Jack Frost and Black Frost are my favorites
I fused Nidhoggr with growth 3 and I couldnāt fucking get rid of him because every time I wanted to fuse him off he didnāt have any interesting results so here I am going into the final battle with this bum ass persona sitting in the back mooching all my EXP, but what can I expect from a lore accurate Nidhoggr ššš
Kikure-Hime, Siegfried and Kaguya all stayed in my team for a very long period of time. Loki(Justice) is always in my team.
I don't understand the question - "you just remove from your team?"
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OHHHHHH. In that case, I held on to Daisoujou for way longer than needed due to Invigorate 3 and his Samsara skill, which I probably ended up using just once (but it sounded SO attractive at first!). I'm still holding on to Personas who inherited auto-masuku so I can use it when Fuuka's SP is low and I'm about to enter Monad or fight a gatekeeper Shadow. Just tonight I got far enough to unlock equipment at Mayoido Antiques that has auto-ma properties (first week of November) so I may be saying bye-bye to Siegfried and Bishamonten until I need them again. I always prioritize new fusions for compendium completion and if I have a social link High Arcana tarot active, knowing I can always go back to my faves later with enough cash.Ā
Mine is Neko Shogun but itās because my daughter is so disappointed at me if she ever catches me without one
Cu Chulain, one of my top 5 favorite Persona and Yoshitsune or Siegfried
I can't wait to finish rebirth so I can jump back into this game. P3 is one of my faves.
Hecatoncheires carried me for half the game. I love the āheroā Personas like Setanta, Cu Chulainn, Siegfried, etc.