Persona 3 Reload: The Reaper Level 16/Single Persona/No NG+ (Merciless) [No DLC]

[@Ziroikabi]

A lot of people don't seem to know what skill mutations are or how it works. It's briefly in the description but I'm making this a pinned comment so I can just keep referring people to it. I will explain the full strategy in order to mutate anything you want at any level and how the Reaper AI works so anyone can try this for themselves. First just know it will take a lot of saving and reloading and second a lot of money. I did this at minimum level so up until this area it was a mandatory fights only run, with the occasional fight to gain skill cards once I hit Arqa. The Reaper spawns F62 first so you cant fight him lower level so by missing all fights possible I could stay low levelled. Once I beat Emperor and Empress I used the guardian skip method showcased in my other video to stop gaining exp from any guardian in the 2nd half of Arqa. Doing all this meant I barely gained money so in order to get money I worked jobs and smashed breakables to sell materials. 99x of all Thebel materials can net you over 100k yen in a single tartarus trip and that's excluding other chest items and when you hit Arqa you can get even more. After accumulating a ton of money you then fuse 2 personas. Any 2 it doesn't matter since the 4 skills I wanted are passives any persona can inherit them. You can use skill cards you have to fill empty slots in your personas to allow the full 4 moves to pass down. Essentially you save and fuse until a tier 1 skill mutates into a tier 2. Then you take this new persona and fuse it with anything else until that tier 2 skill mutates into a tier 3. Then 4, 5 and 6. Any time a mutation did not happen I simply reloaded to save money. Repel Passives are tier 7s so at this point it becomes a bit more tedious in that you need the mutation to be the exact skill you want but its the same thing you reset until the tier 6 mutates into Repel Strike for example. Now you can mutate another skill upwards and as long as every fusion you make sure to pass down Repel Strike you will keep it. Eventually after hours of resets you will get Repel Strike, Repel Slash, Repel Pierce and Null Dark. Null Dark is tier 6 so it's the same you just need to do it lower than the repels. Once you have all 4 moves I just found a fusion combination that ended with the result being Archangel and pass all 4 of them down and there is your triple repel Archangel. It's impossible to mutate more than 4 this low level but with special fusions you can do 5. But anymore than 5 is strictly not possible. The other 4 moves were put on via skill cards that are obtainable at this point in the game. Now for the fight itself. Essentially if you are under the fear condition (or any conditon that increases the probability of crits) the reaper will try to exploit you by ALWAYS using a physical move. He picks his move before his target so when solo it is exceedingly rare he will target your weakness normally. However when exploiting you his AI doesn't look for passives so here we use Weird Takoyaki in an attempt to keep ourselves under a constant state of fear. The 2 issues are it's a low chance to happen so this is very rng based even if you have the setup correct and if you are at full hp you cannot use the item. To mitigate the first one we enter the fight at 1hp to allow us 3 uses of Weird Takoyaki and give ourself a physical move, we use this when at full hp in order to drain it back down to allow us another use, there is luck in this too in that when under the fear condition you have a chance to not act. Any other time we have a free turn we use Rakunda to debuff the Reaper to make him take more damage. The first half of the fight he will use 2 single target physical moves of any type randomly with the highest chance being a Slash at 50.5%, Strike being 25% and Pierce being 24.5% except on a 1 more he will always Primal Force in this scenario. When you hit the last half of his hp he will use either Vorpal Blade or Akasha Arts with Vorpal Blade being a 50.5% chance and Akasha Arts being 49.5% meaning Pierce Repel is not needed at this part of the run since he will never use it. The problem with choosing a persona for this section is his second move per turn he will use an Instant Kill move which will always hit you. This isn't the end of the world as homunculus will save you, however doing so will remove your fear condition and that creates a ton more rng having to reapply fear every single turn so here I used Archangel as he naturally Nulls Light. Remember I can only mutate 4 skills maximum so my 4th skill is Null Dark to prevent insta kills from removing my status ailment. Then it's just pray that rng is in your favour. Hope that clears up anything ♡

[@math_skill1]

Just curious, did you reset for every single fusion that didn't mutate? The chance of mutation on a given fusion is multiplied depending on how many fusions you've done on the current day (up to 5x after 50 fusions), so it should actually save you time/money if you allow some failures.

[@Ziroikabi]

I kept going if a different skill mutated so like say I was at tier 6 going for a repel and a tier 2 mutated to tier 3 I kept that since that would help with another. I knew about the mutation and accidents increasing every 10 fusions in increments but CTOBN who originally datamined it all told me it resets after a success so that would just mean more money wasted but potentially faster mutations since I wouldnt need to reset and could gain the multiplier. But honestly got a bit lazy and tired of smashing items to sell for money since that took such a long time and since I had a "low" amount I really need each fusion to have a mutation and count for something

[@math_skill1]

@@Ziroikabi Hmm, the counter resets after a success? Strange, that hasn't been my experience... I can definitely relate to the "smashing items sucks" part though 🙃

[@cantthinkofbettername5065]

A few small corrections. For one, the counter resets each in-game day. I'm not sure when I gave the impression that it was after a success (or if it was before or after I figured out what the counter was), but I apologize for that. Second, a bit more detail on the Reaper's AI targeting. It will specifically check for if a party member has "Confuse" or "Fear" (though the distinction between that and what Ziro said is only relevant for getting Frozen/Shocked randomly or being dizzied after a knockdown, as you cannot self-inflict Distress). If that condition is met, despite only doing this behavior in response to Fear and Confuse, he will then lock himself into a physical move that targets a party member with any standard ailment (if above half HP, otherwise it's AoE anyways. Also "Standard ailment" in this case means excluding Downed, Dead, Orgia Mode, and Overheat). This means that (for example), if you have just a party member with Poison, he will not do this behavior. However if you have a party member with Fear and another party member with Poison, then he will do this behavior, but can target either of those party members.

[@TheFakeMakotoYuki]

Is fear the only debuff that weird takoyaki can give?

[@tuvieeclips]

the fact that reaper fully went ballistic on mitsuru after her cool intro screen is so funny to me lol

[@Ziroikabi]

His AI seems to prioritise her first so 9/10 she'd die first before even getting a turn. Unsure as to why but sometimes it would let Mitsuru have a turn before the reaper it was rare but it happened this attempt. I wonder if it is due to her never having used her persona by this point but not sure. And that Junpei counter was amazing, the only time it ever triggered in all attempts

[@cantthinkofbettername5065]

@@Ziroikabi To speak from my PoV on this, this isn't a "seems to" thing. When the reaper attempts to target weaknesses (which he always does action 1 of turn 1), he will always check if Mitsuru is present before checking for anyone else, and if he detects someone when checking for weaknesses he will go for that weakness 51 times out of 101 (except for Ken, who he will always go for). In addition to that, if he fails the 51/101 all 3 times (which can only happen if Ken isn't present), the random attack he does instead is more likely to incidentally be fire than anything else (aside from Slash or Strike I guess), though the target for it in that scenario would be just non-null rather than Mitsuru specifically.

[@jajathenewking6131]

​@@Ziroikabinah the Reaper just targets her first, It happened to me just the other day.

[@Majeedz93]

she's just a girl

[@feefington]

"Let me show that i haven't lost my touch. LET'S GO! PENTHESILE- ⚰️"

[@aerodynamo4874]

The hilarity of the start holy shit, seeing Mitsuru have her initial "I'm far stronger than you'd ever believe" cutscene while casting Rakunda, and then being fucking annihilated with Agidyne for like 1600 damage 😭😭

[@Ziroikabi]

I'm not quite sure why but occasionally Mitsuru would outspeed the reaper. It only happened a few times in all my attempts, I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact she hadn't used her persona by this point but it's hilarious that both that and Junpei counter happened on the winning try

[@hk-47droid64]

The "I'll Totally Crit Him This Time" Reaper.

[@marioagainsttheworld6248]

I can only imagine being in Mitsuru's place: You just go back to the front lines, your field of expertise. The so called leader decides its a good ideia to fight a mighty enemy, you get knocked the fuck out and he somehow wins. I'd be flabbergasted 😂

[@ZorkasIshmael]

Imagine Fuuka watching the whole thing confused between being horrified and grabbing the popcorn...

[@REXZero00]

I be fearful of Doorkun.

[@secondaegis9190]

"How? Everyone was knocked down, but you somehow managed to beat Death itself..." "I'm not sure myself. I was scared the whole time when he started hurting himself"

[@JoaHosoi]

Fuuka: you genuinely stand no chance! you need to run! Ziro: "give me 7 minutes."

[@toasterfighter]

"I only have 7 minutes to spare to play with you"

[@saidbrizzo2187]

Seven minutes, seven minutes is all i can spend to play with you

[@toasterfighter]

@@saidbrizzo2187 7 minutes ago

[@NaotoShirogane-ig6jz]

​@@saidbrizzo2187 If I am correct, that's a villain protagonist named "Albert Wesker" reference...

[@saidbrizzo2187]

@@NaotoShirogane-ig6jz yeah you are correct naoto

[@cantthinkofbettername5065]

Im still genuinely stunned that it worked out exactly how i thought it would.

[@Globbaglobglob]

Im so confused lol how does archangel reflect all physical damage, block light and dark, and what does the takoyaki have to do with this? 😂

[@Globbaglobglob]

OH lol nvm im dumb. I just dont understand how you got all those moves so early on and what the takoyaki did, does fear manipulate his AI somehow?

[@Globbaglobglob]

Lol. Nvm again. I see the video description 🤦‍♂️

[@namieblinker5922]

​@@Globbaglobglob Being inflicted with fear and dizzy prompts the reaper's AI to use physical moves on the aflicted target to do a knockdown, you can get mutations for passive moves by doing fusions, so for example if you have a "dogde pierce" passive, it has a chance to evolve into "evade pierce", if you keep evolving it, it will reach "repel pierce", that process can be repeated for other 3 skills (since archangel is a low level persona, it can only evolve a max of 4 skills, but high level personas can evolve 5).

[@Neltharak]

The reaper hitting you with evil smile while on 1 hp and unfeared was clutch, what a bro, lmao

[@Ziroikabi]

I honestly thought this attempt was going to fail he usually tentarafoos quite a bit in the first half but I never had him evil smile me at all then twice in the same fight was pretty insane

[@saidbrizzo2187]

Actually thats good If you are inflicted with and ailment The reaper will always use an physichal attack

[@Ziroikabi]

@@saidbrizzo2187 yeh thats why i was lucky lol. The whole strategy was about getting feared on purpose. He doesnt do it if you have any ailment. It MUST be either distress, fear or confusion. Any other and he won’t

[@AriOfTheStars]

Nah, I’d reflect.

[@CalWhimsical]

hi ari :3

[@todeckeri]

btw he actualy didnt die, so he stronger tham strongest

[@SupremeLordBruv]

Imaginary technique: megidolan

[@todeckeri]

reverse technik, helel cursed technik, satan hollow armagedon

[@YukiSnow75]

Not funny

[@cringeposting435]

"why are you hitting yourself? why are you hitting yourself?"

[@alwayschill4522]

this comment

[@Jimmeeehhh]

Your barrier's the one hitting me!

[@kingcrimson2615]

“Orpheus clip that sh!t” 🗣️🔥

[@airam1721]

"This reaper come in my Tartarus 24/7, with a shuffle card, getting countered thousands of times on a fight" 🗣️🔥

[@somecrappyname]

Lvl 99 fuuka is so actually nice!!! Cause a lot of sp for scans and full access to her abilities

[@Ziroikabi]

We don’t understand how rng works in reload yet but if we found a way to manipulate skill mutations like in persona 5 and 4 this could become part of the speedrun. Not just for level 99 early on and access to Siegfried but also like you said all Fuuka abilities early would make tartarus much faster as well!

[@lenblackquill8608]

​@@Ziroikabiwhy Siegfried?

[@Ziroikabi]

@@lenblackquill8608 Siegfried is easily the best middle tier persona in the game. He competes with all the level 80+ super personas while just passively learning good skills for a slash build. He absolutely destroys bosses and takes little time to make so the speedrun just levels up his social link and boom you use him for the entire game once you get him

[@thunderstar7682]

@@lenblackquill8608also he’s a necessary unit for unlocking one of the best theurgy moves in the game.

[@Shotgungunshot1]

@@lenblackquill8608No idea if the speedrun does it… But Siegfried with the right build and the Scarlet Havoc Theurgy (which he helps unlock) just straight one shots every border floor boss. Plus you can get him much earlier than the other busted Personas

[@Patameuh]

When developers rewards you for making the impossible. Bro really went from lvl 16 to lvl 99

[@Thelowestofthelowtiers]

Fuuka leveled up to 99 as well. You got a maxed leader AND a maxed navigator with a useful therugy.

[@witheburning8756]

How is that possible ? I beat the reaper at lvl 80 and I got only 10 lvl

[@heeho8929]

@@witheburning8756 experience is split among each living party member, so finishing the fight solo basically quadruples the experience gained

[@witheburning8756]

@@heeho8929 oh ok thank you I didn't know, maybe I should use this to get lvl99

[@canaldeumdesucupadoaleator853]

Wow, i still didn't fight him in reload. Thats a hell loat of xp is more than the otter games right?

[@Lukeepoo69]

That 9 damage from junpei carried you holy shit. They don’t call him Da Man for nothing

[@mismis3153]

Gigachad junpei countering the reaper though...

[@dinaradisaputra6021]

He's da man

[@howisthis8849]

i was level 60 fighting the reaper and Junpei *killed* him with a counter never took him out of the team afterwards, he's DA MAN

[@Eternal_light85]

common junpei w

[@Freakymonkey78]

Lasted way longer then I expected he would lol. He do be the goat

[@LordShaggy97]

All on a days work for Junpei Iori, Ace Detective.

[@C4AZ3_Kaze]

Fuuka just casually watchin as makoto uses 1% of his power

[@andytan2960]

By eating food, sure enough

[@hexy_boi]

The skyrocket to lv 99 is crazy (ik you get ridiculously more xp from fights where you underleveled but its still wild)

[@russellhtf6969]

You really made Mitsuru's first fight back in the field against the Reaper ☠️

[@DeadByDaz]

Love the thumbnail

[@Ziroikabi]

CTOBN made it for me, who also datamined the game he did such a great job of it!

[@Jafsey]

“Let me show you that I haven’t lost my touch” *dies instantly*

[@brendansage6876]

Fuuka: "No! You don't stand a chance!" Makoto: "Don't worry, Fuuka. I have an ace up my sleeve..." _pulls all three Repel Phys skill cards out of his jacket sleeves_

[@hoangvu6326]

Eat some weird ass takoyaki, fight the embodiment of Death, and win by doing nothing. Truly a gun Jesus moment.

[@TreyDobe]

Sounds like something Luigi would do.

[@waves2378]

Wait, I thought *TAKAYA* was gun Jesus.

[@sonario0074]

​@@waves2378important distinction: Takaya is revolver Jesus.

[@waves2378]

@@sonario0074 OOOOOOHHHHH, I remember now.

[@Shiroyasha2704]

It's crazy to see this level of thinking and AI manipulation, I loved this. Congrats for making it doable!

[@Shotgungunshot1]

Your strategy here was really impressive, and the amount of prep to do this is insane… That being said I think Junpei was the real MVP of this fight.

[@tuviaso]

from a simple idea to an actual doable strat, this is wild

[@Haleazy]

bro's arcana is an uno card

[@horrormaster8578]

The Reverse Arcana

[@jionmallick5902]

Damn not getting a Megidolaon spam after all the Repels is insane. Crazy good manipulation of the Reaper's AI.

[@Ziroikabi]

Fun fact he will only Megidolaon in 2 situations (that i know of) If the first move his turn was Virus Breath the second will always be Megidolaon. Or if he used Concentrate the prior turn. But since we are feared which gives a high chance for him to crit us the AI will try to exploit that and only spam physical moves. His AI actually picks its move before the target so it never checks for passives or attack/magic mirrors. Even with my strategy it involved getting lucky with self fear and took around 25 attempts total

[@jionmallick5902]

@@Ziroikabi I've seen that his AI is a lot more forgiving in Reload. In FES if you used Tetrakarn or Marakarn he would immediately cast Megidolaon to bypass that, and while I never used Tetra/Mara or Attack/Magic Mirror in Reload due to being single member-only, Ken's Divine Intervention Theurgy in Reload doesn't trigger Megido despite essentially fulfilling the same purpose.

[@Ziroikabi]

Yeah in FES you can just use Thunder Reign or Thunder Call to cheese him then. But that requires you be a high enough level to get Thor or Odin. Mutations work a bit different in FES compared to Reload but I may try and do a minimum possible level reaper win on that too

[@osamah5498]

​Giga chad fes' reaper vs negative infinite iq royal's reaper​@@jionmallick5902

[@keetosyamba7]

​@Ziroikabi, what is mutation? I didn't understand even after reading the description.😅 Is it a shuffle time that gets you cards or what?

[@Majeedz93]

Fuuka: Our leader is in danger! didn't realize the reaper is their leader...

[@candlecord]

Makoto: I AM the danger!

[@KaptainFalkon]

I love how brain dead the comments on this video are. Yes, the game is extremely easy if you "exploit" the extremely rng heavy Skill Change system in fusions with a less than 1 in 20 change rate while constantly rerolling skills until you miraculously get the THREE skills you absolutely need for this to work (which took 25 attempts according to the video) so a ton of save scumming is required for this strat. PLUS, knowing the weird datamined ai shenanigans of The Reaper and how he interacts with very specific ailments that you couldn't know without a tremendous amount of trial and error without looking it up. You guys are definitely 5D chess masters and aren't pulling shit out of your asses. I swear to god SMT fans think they are the greatest RPG players who ever walked the earth and when someone comes up with a genuinely impressive workaround that took hours and hours to do your first thought it "GAME EZ. GAME BROKE 👎🏼"

[@Ziroikabi]

@@KaptainFalkon the battle itself took about 25-30 attempts with the setup. Mainly due to Weird Takoyaki having very low odds to self fear. The save scumming mutation chains took hundreds if not thousands of resets, basically more time than 99% of the player bases entire game time just to get these mutations. (Literally over 100 hours) First had to do minimum battles possible which was easy, then when this section of tartarus unlocked because this floor is the earliest the reaper spawns. I had to do the alt tab pc skip I showcased in my other video that allows you to skip past all the tartarus guardians of that zone by inducing lag to bypass the fight triggers. I could have done it for Thebel guardians too however due to exp scaling if you do 0 fights before Priestess and Emperor & Empress using the skip you actually get more levels in the end So then i needed to get over 100,000 yen without doing any battles for all the fusions I was going to need to do and rebuying personas back from the compendium. 99 of every thebel material from breakables gives around 130,000 from selling. Then generally if you get a mutation it goes up 1 tier. (Not always sometimes it can go up 2 in rare circumstances or sometimes it will drop a tier or stay the same tier but most often it increases a tier) Because I’m a low level eventually the persona im mutation chaining on reaches my mc level so I then need to actually stop chaining 1 fusion before then fusion accident and pray i get a very low level persona i can chain again. Accident results are entirely based on -10 -> +1 of MCs level (ingredients dont matter) Sadly due to the save loads I don’t have an accurate exact time this took but I’d argue this is more impressive than my challenge run when i beat the game solo, orpheus only, mandatory fights only, merciless.

[@KaptainFalkon]

@Ziroikabi That's what I was thinking as someone who did a second playthrough, actually delving into min maxing this time around and holy balls the rng is so bad for so many skills. I cannot imagine how long it would've taken at such a low level with limited resources. The tedium had to have been the hardest part of the challenge for sure.

[@gamewhenbored9437]

Best Persona Player Ever :)

[@Ziroikabi]

Thanks Ash lmaoo ♡

[@3xbt7]

i decided to look at your channel after seeing this vid and like… man i thought i was starting to get somewhat knowledgeable in persona and your channel completely humbled me 😭 great job though!

[@Ziroikabi]

Lmao thanks I appreciate this a lot! I just feel like 99% of popular persona videos are generic build videos or min max things which, while cool to see isn't really impressive at all. I'm not exactly great at content creation but I just like doing dumb challenges that nobody else will do and comments like this always make my day and motivate me to do more!

[@samufranco995]

Mitsuru: I'll show you that I haven' t lost my touch Reaper: So survive my agidyne

[@Not_Alanius]

The irony of the Cups Minor Arcana card after the battle is just-I can't put it into words.

[@hahapoorguy]

I like that reaper helps you with fear by himself

[@Xevailo]

Impressive! And I salute you for actually taking the time to explain everything about this setup, so others (like me) can learn from it! :)

[@SolidArc91]

For anyone who doesn't know, you can use Arahabaki to pull off a complete repel phys. It's a bit of a late game on top of said persona having a level requirement, but it'll definitely take less time than this.

[@kershkomlev4440]

Fuuka going completely insane while all her friends getting annihilated. And Door-kun (while under fear): "trust the process"

[@fatherburroughsliker]

So impressive !! Good job !

[@Faraway_97]

So now I have a plan. Thanks for the video and info in the discription and pinned comment. I thought I'd have to go to ng+, but now I havr hope

[@earthswillgaia]

the fact that death kept attacking MAKOTO ONLY while he kept countering death's attacks

[@ShioSatou]

p3r really is the game of all time.

[@the.creature.has.escaped]

I'd like to imagine after this, everyones just looking at the mc like '... how?' and hes just as emotionless as always.

[@KhaosMerX]

As is tradition, Mitsuru dies in one hit to fire no matter the equipment...

[@jhxe]

Nah, I'd [Repel Slash]

[@Rusted71]

Bro said stop hitting yourself 💀

[@outcast5732]

“Wow, you destroyed that guy without even touchin him 😵”

[@BallBreakerFr]

Bro took all the exp for himself

[@jj209th6]

So i can tell you manipped the ai into using physical moves with fear. But would you have lost if he'd used 1 more magic attack? Still crazy that this is possible though, and Mitsuru dying immediately like that after her cutscene is hilarious

[@Ziroikabi]

Yeah. I had earrings of grit which endures 1 hit but it got used up. As long as I kept feared it was fine he would only use physicals (insta kills as well if he was in phase 2) whenever it wasnt on I was at risk of dying essentially

[@Deadude_]

you do the most insane things and i’m all here for it

[@lautael5299]

Congrats, that's a great strategy

[@cpctheshinymew5381]

“No, you don’t stand a chance! You need to pull back!”

[@Cinsvids]

Seven minutes. Seven minutes is all I can spare to play with you.

[@brendansage6876]

GOATed Resident Evil reference

[@drbustdown3417]

That thumbnail could just be used to describe what the entire plot of the game is like

[@UltearM]

This is actually insane wtf. Completely new game and vanilla

[@derrickmacklin9458]

This video is absolutely marvelous

[@shadowldrago]

You are a madman.

[@revenge425]

You stand no chance Mitsuru: I am far more in my element here, let me show you that I havent lost my touch proceed to die 2 seconds later 😂

[@iamiqq]

Reaper: You lose run away from me Zero: Nah I’d win

[@flop47]

So that I know I've understood right - If a party member is afraid (or otherwise afflicted with a crit up status ailment), the Reaper will always prioritise trying to crit on them with a phys skill and then follow up with an instakill, regardless of resistances? So the goal for this challenge is to stay afflicted with fear for as long as possible, lowering defence when you can and using physical skills to allow you to heal yourself with the odd morsel in hopes of re-afflicting fear before the Reaper's next turn, and letting the repel skills do the rest? Is there any risk that the Reaper will pull out a magic skill while you're afraid and wreck your shit anyway? Or is the only risk that you won't get fear back before it hits you twice in a row with magic skills? Either way - really interesting strat! I don't even want to think about how long that skill mutation abuse must have taken.

[@Ziroikabi]

Yeah pretty much! no matter what he will always physical. This is my only attempt another member got into the second half of the fight but notice Junpei only died because he confused us and somehow I dodged it so then he tried to exploit him whereas he could have just used magic but didnt. The first half the fight he will double phys from a selection of moves Gods Hand, Brave Blade, Primal Force and then at half hp he will do a Insta Kill + Physical. From then on he will do either Akasha Arts or Vorpal Blade + Insta Kill. The endure is really helpful not just surviving but getting your hp back low for more fear chances and the lower luck stat you have the more turns you can be feared, at this point its 2-4 turns usually 4. Homunculus can be used for the Insta Kills but it will remove your ailment meaning you’d have to reapply fear every single turn eventually being full hp so either would have to pray he ailments or gives you time to drain your own hp. Or you somehow dodge a passive boosted Insta Kill with only 6 luck stat so Archangel or Gurulu are the best bet for this early on

[@Guppys_hair_ball]

"Finally hes almost dead- GOD DAMMIT"

[@sonario0074]

Mitsuru after the fight: "Your tactics confuse and frighten me sir"

[@inanewbugatti]

"persona 3 reload is a hard game" persona 3 reload:

[@redhood7778]

Other versions weren't either. Persona 3 is the easiest in the franchise.

[@CantHandleThis6]

​@@redhood7778Cap

[@xaviersejour9183]

Reload is Brain dead. Never really see the game over screen unless bad luck

[@adopted996]

Think I only saw the game over screen in the original like 3 times, maybe I'm misremembering but I don't remember it being very difficult apart from some bosses​@@xaviersejour9183

[@cryptidcloud]

delusional ​@@xaviersejour9183

[@Persona-Fan-n6c]

This is surprising me a lot. Honestly I could never do this!!!. Keep up the great work!!! ❤❤🎉🎉

[@TigeriPlaysGames]

the reaper is super susceptible to AI abuse! on my first time, i realized i could keep a team member poisoned the whole time so he wouldnt use any other status moves that could rob me of a turn, just do his very managable damge

[@btarg1]

Our leader's in danger! Our leader's in danger! Our leader's in danger!

[@DeepFreier]

Mitsurus first time back is against the reaper and dies first turn

[@ARCEUS493ZELDA]

and here we thought reaper flu in the original persona 5 was funny

[@TheAzulon]

Meanwhile in the background you can hear "stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself"

[@back8056]

IS THAT THE GRIM REAPER!?!?!?!?!

[@phillippeandpheather5379]

You could say that he decided to REFLECT on his actions.

[@ZI5H4N]

Active suicide risk makes a reaper unalive himself

[@Fellow_internet_surfer.08]

You on merciless difficulty You are a beast!

[@SilentVinyl]

Certified "why are you hitting yourself?" build

[@delifresh221]

we must now acknowledge that archangel is the new mf who repels physical

[@SaviorOfEdge]

5:04 "Haha, one!"

[@YIPPEECREATURE2]

I’m not gonna sugar coat it: Reflect

[@Kamui_Merc]

Bro that was so badass

[@cryptidcloud]

bro is a god

[@AzukalexixEvolution]

Arahabaki is proud

[@MrPanda4441]

What is Junpei doing? His best.

[@Ziroikabi]

He did a great job. That counter activating near the start was actually the only time it ever happened in all my attempts at it haha

[@typhlosino6426]

The ammount of brain power this took was so clever I was surprised

[@joanheredia6302]

It would be nice to have a list of all the skills by tiers, to make the process easier, since I can't seem to find a list anywhere on the internet :P

[@Ziroikabi]

The fusion calculator has them here: aqiu384.github.io/megaten-fusion-tool/p3r/skills

[@joanheredia6302]

@@Ziroikabi Oh, thank you so much ^^

[@joanheredia6302]

@@Ziroikabi Ok, now I understand why I didn't see it there originally, my PC's google chrome somewhy doesn't show the "rank" tab, while my phone and other PC browsers DO show it, very weird

[@ReksSlater]

Omg that lucky with the last evil smile

[@Luzent]

Babe wake up, new reaper cheese just dropped

[@broderickbusch9641]

Dude this dude made the reaper embarrass himself with skill issues. That’s mad skill and dedication for max swag

[@caeruleumluna9630]

This is interesting. How’d you get a tier 7 skills to mutate for, when the earliest you can get a Tier 7 skill-having Persona is on level 40 (Vidyaraja’s Blessing from DLC’s Cendrillon)? This is according to the fusion calc’s skill list table ofc

[@Ziroikabi]

Skill mutations. Fuse 2 personas to upgrade the tier by 1. Fuse off the result to something else till that upgraded move mutates again to higher tier. Lots of save scumming and time was involved obviously. And you can only pass down 4 moves at once so the maximum I could have is 4 moves being the 3 repels and 1 null dark. The other 4 moves were skill cards obtainable that early

[@VypxQ]

Junpei did his share

[@IrvingIV]

Thank you stranger. That button will eventually be mine.

[@swame]

Wow! @cantthinkofbettername5065 is the real Fuuka, isn't it?

[@stoogie375]

holy wow, that's insane!!1

[@yash3576]

Somebody get the reaper therapy Bri just keeps hurting himself 💀

[@Swig4578]

Nah bro definitely paid the reaper.

[@lewis9s]

I’m guessing having a status effect causes the Reaper to use physical attacks which then allowed you to repel them and with Archangel naturally having null light, you just needed null dark to complete the build that would nullify his light and dark spells. A surprisingly effective strategy indeed.

[@Ziroikabi]

Yeh any ailment that gives increased crit chance like fear/confusion/distress. We use fear since you cant have full hp to use any heal item and confuse would mean you never get a turn to act so you need turns to use a hp cost move to drain your own hp on purpose. And distress while good cannot be self inflicted. Luckily weird Takoyaki gives fear while only healing 100 unlike every other ailment heal. You dont need to null light and dark since homunculus work but insta kills remove ailments which creates more rng. So either Archangel with Null Dark or Gurulu with Null Light work here

[@emperorkiva8063]

Me watching the video: USE A MAGIC ATTACK OR SOMETHING YOU STUPID AI

[@Ziroikabi]

We purposefully fear ourselves so the AI tries to exploit your vulnerability with a physical move to crit you so as long as fear is active he will never ever use magic

[@emperorkiva8063]

@@Ziroikabi Ohhh I see it now

[@howisthis8849]

theres a similar exploit in P5R, where you use a ring of gluttony to force the reaper to spam megidolaon every turn.

[@Ziroikabi]

@@howisthis8849 a lot of bosses have that. It’s not really an exploits its just ring of gluttony gives you a mirror for an attack. A lot of secret bosses will just spam almighty if you have a mirror up to bypass it

[@MIDO44444]

I just got my ass beat by the reaper and now I see a lvl 16 beat it, never felt like having a massive skill issue as much as this one xD

[@maicee7603]

IS THAT THE GRIM REAPER?!!

[@jijithirdeye]

"Stop hitting yourself!"

[@howisthis8849]

fuuka isn't a true believer😔

[@Arkaine197]

Wasn't* I think she might be after that XD

[@tuney7319]

I was about to say you must’ve gotten so much hp, boy was i proven right.

[@icookchildrenandeatthem9085]

Brokeback Tartarus

[@SaviorOfEdge]

Man of culture