Persona 3 Reload Solo/Merciless Thebel Bosses

[@lordraiden1038]

Holy cow! Never thought one of these vids could reach this many people. I truly appreciate everyone that stopped by and chose to give it a gander. Makes doing these types of challenge runs all the more rewarding. Thanks for 20k! Edit: Did I say 20k, I meant 30k. Not the greatest with numbers lol. All jokes aside big thanks to everyone for giving me your time. Means more than you know.

[@ryanalley5495]

I like how mitsuru’s reaction is basically “no clue why you did that solo, but great job!”

[@massimilianodelrosso5495]

Well, if you're alone it means that Yukari and Junpei are with her, so...

[@nuspas]

What the hell Mitsuru has lines for when you beat bosses solo??

[@lordraiden1038]

I was pretty surprised when I saw that pop up. They put something in the game for crazies like me lol.

[@ownedwfactsnlogic]

Persona 3 being all about "Bla Bla bonds Bla Bla teammates Bla Bla friendship" meanwhile, the protagonist does all of the game solo thus not needing any partners or support to save the world It's actually canon, trust fr fr, Mitsuru having these lines proves it

[@X1erra]

well... you need to see the wizardy the SMT fans can do by themselves. xD The trick is to never expose your weakness to the enemy.

[@nuspas]

@@X1erra why are you telling me this like ive never played smt before😭

[@infoniwceniocwdhvredidhave8126]

@@ownedwfactsnlogicbut here’s the thing: power of friendship becomes based because then thunder reign can go brrrrr

[@Jekunda]

It honestly feels so much easier on your own w/o having to worry about other parties weakness or them always MISSING!

[@lordraiden1038]

Some of them are pretty easy tbh. A few early bosses can be rough since you don’t have access to better personas that can resist or nullify attacks and you have relatively low health compared to how much damage they deal. However a lot of these encounters are pattern based, and you can build a team that basically negates their entire setup.

[@TheMattVis]

Bro when I was playing P4, fighting the Reaper was easier to do it alone lol Reviving my teamates is just a burden at that point lol

[@lordraiden1038]

@@TheMattVis Yeah solo Reaper is always a more chill experience. Might take longer to kill him, but you don’t have to deal with micromanaging your teammates and making sure they stay alive and don’t get cooked by weaknesses or instakill moves. Solo you can form a party that forces him to go for almighty damage since you can nullify most of his other moves with the right Persona group. Haven’t fought this one yet, but that’s how it has been for the other games at least.

[@ChaosTheory419]

I started soloing bosses from the point I picked up Siegfried With auto rebellion plus apt pupil and the crit boosts I'd be oneshotting mid game bosses on Merciless - it was just way less time consuming than bringing a whole team

[@sainttan]

It's easy if you have prior Intel about enemy strategy and weaknesses.

[@jetblackchamp]

"Lookin' cool, edgelord."

[@littleguystar]

Not surprised this has been done so soon, I did all of Swift Axel on Merciless WITHOUT SP. It was literally just MC using items, Junpei blocking, and Yukari doing basic attack and it worked lol. Not efficient but it worked for me.

[@lordraiden1038]

Yeah it feels like some of these encounters give you a bit of leeway which is appreciated. Some of them can be honestly obnoxious though, as you’ll be seeing in the Arqa Block.

[@o1theunknown]

Especially if you got Yukari’s poison (med) bow, it’s absolutely destroys early game then you can upgrade that to Distress so you can just keep hitting crits or as a buffer for heals/buffs since distress lowers dmg output too

[@lordraiden1038]

@@o1theunknown Distress is strong as hell here. Definitely getting a ton of mileage out of it so far. That attack debuff and high crit odds with physical attacks being as strong as they are here is 👌.

[@juliantapia1407]

That last battle was Super impressive, and very lucky 👏🏼

[@SkyGuardianSkyfall]

Not gonna lie, I’m playing the game myself on normal difficulty with a full team, and I seemed to have that same amount of difficulty. But the issue was I didn’t have many personas, so for the barbaric beast wheel, I had to rely on spamming Garu with Yukari, and I believe I had angel at the time too. You really played it smart by debuffing the bosses strategically and making sure you’re using sukukaja to buff yourself. I felt kinda stupid, because my whole strategy for the axle specifically was spam garu with Yukari and whatever with Makoto, while I tried to find its weakness and attacked with Junpei (which sucked, because the axle resisted slash, and power slash was his strongest move at the time) I didn’t even realise it was weak to electricity until in the middle of the battle 😂

[@lordraiden1038]

Yeah one thing I like about these kind of runs is it forces me to get creative through limitations. I have to think ahead of what Personas I’ll be needing in future areas and boss encounters. Also thankful they put those Garula cards in chests right before that encounter. I learned from doing solo runs on Nocturne just how important patience is in runs like this. So long as you take your time and setup properly, you’ll generally be able to overcome most encounters with time. For me the Axle was actually the easiest of these 3 due to the fact he was all by himself. Not having to deal with jobber enemies on the side and being able to focus solely on the boss made him much more manageable. It’s funny I’ve done that before where I had no idea there was an enemy weakness or gimmick to the fight until I’ve already died like 15 times lol. There’s a certain boss in Arqa where that was the case.

[@jorgexd8385]

Its normal if its your first persona game.

[@bensuguneri]

the fact that he has personas immune to wind and ice, it could be a good trick

[@lordraiden1038]

Gotta rely heavily on those resistances to carry me through these early game bosses. Some of them can 1 shot you with ease here without the proper setup.

[@CatOfExplo]

I swear I've seen you on a Aleks post... Are you the guy who has Twitch blocked?

[@bensuguneri]

@@CatOfExplo first of all, I’m a female and however he didn’t block me the whole website is blocked in our country

[@CatOfExplo]

@@bensuguneri I apologize, I often use "Guy" as gender neutral as a force of habit... And I'm sorry to hear that

[@bensuguneri]

@@CatOfExplo it’s ok

[@anathema2718]

As for Lilim's character design, I like the one in the white one-piece swimsuit from Shin Megami Tensei 3.

[@Jermaine2099]

Mitsuru was DRIPPIN after seeing that

[@azeva01]

come on man

[@DrPepperFan]

​@@azeva01?

[@zerosaga5949]

Imagine being a part of the team where the newbie kid who can summon multiple personas cleared the first block in a day where the VETS took three years and never made it through lmao

[@jorgexd8385]

To be fair yukari didnt help them until you came so it was akihiko vs the world since mitsuru needed to guide him on the entrance Lmao

[@zerosaga5949]

@@jorgexd8385 oh, it wasn't Yukari. It was Mitsuru, Aki and another person you find out about later in the game

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

Rampage Drive is somewhere else entirely. This is a different Drive, for one, and is called "Swift Axle", iirc

[@lordraiden1038]

Yeah I was playing a bit of Portable again before this released. Good catch. I also wrote down Garula as Gurula lol.

[@leothelion6323]

Going solo into tartoras never even crossed my mind lol Guess i still have much to learn Btw good job

[@tengetsu0618]

After i beat merciless, imma try this too, so i can hear it in Japanese

[@LuisRuiz-jq5er]

I got something similar with fuuka later on, i try my oni crit strategy alone and went like " omfg how did you do that!? Everyone is so hyped with your combat, did you need to come back?

[@XKingGhostYoutuber]

I did this same challenge but with only using orpheus. Most mini bosses weren’t too bad but I did struggle a lot with the lovers boss fight.

[@dani-ok5al]

I think that using forget on some of them would've been easier, if you can find forget that early

[@MrMrkman98]

Why did you decide to put "ATLUS SEGA" in the bottom right corner of the video?

[@inanewbugatti]

how did u get garula so early

[@lordraiden1038]

Got a skill card from the chest right before the wheel boss.

[@gamerhero9559]

I don't remember this. New endgame content?

[@jishan6992]

Omg doesn't all that callouts by mitsuru gets annoying

[@flaminginferno6641]

About as annoying as every other Navigator in the Persona games? So not really?

[@jishan6992]

@@flaminginferno6641 I just got into the persona series so I never played persona 3, what is the navigator mechanic? Do they just keep calling out like that for every little thing, if so that's just makes it annoying to play

[@moomer2675]

@@jishan6992Persona 3, 4, and 5 are the same. You gonna stop playing because of callouts?

[@jishan6992]

@@moomer2675 nah I just found it annoying in this video and this was the first time I am seeing it, it just seemed ridiculous that mitsuru called out for every move the mc made lol, its was just funny! I am playing persona 5 right now and there is no call outs to this extent.

[@Jekunda]

​@@jishan6992yet.