Can You Beat Persona 5 Royal Without Healing?

[@DraconisLeonidas]

I think allowing leeway on Baton Pass and Futaba is fine. Baton Pass CAN add up over time, but it's not usually going to, and Futaba is completely unreliable in terms of getting what benefits when you might want them, and disallowing both would just hinder you. If you REALLY wanted to be strict about it, then sure, you can never baton pass with Ryuji after darts, never rank up baton pass, never rank up Futaba at all, never pick up will seeds, never allow heals from being put to sleep, etc etc. But I think just disallowing healing items/skills/passives works fine.

[@Dmckenzie6]

I would argue that he should have allowed the mandatory but probably not allowed the optional upgrades. But it doesn't really matter

[@tylerbarth3113]

25:05 From what I understand Japanese tabloids would mostly go nuts over the age gap rather than the power dynamic. That's why Kenji's link in P3 is played for laughs.

[@MrVisualHigh]

I just finished my very first playthrough of P5R and I can tell you after 100 hours, I never got tired of the battle theme.

[@keyvonteleslie338]

I can't be the only one expecting a metaphor refantazio challenge run

[@bradleymoore2797]

I haven't even bought it yet. xD Please. Give me until after Christmas.

[@Linkforlife199]

Before watching, I can already assume Ann will be invaluable for her Sexy Technique confidant ability, not to mention her Persona trait to reduce SP cost of magic. Makoto will likewise also be extremely useful for her Marakukaja to reduce incoming damage on the party, not to mention her trait to increase the chances of landing Shock/Freeze/Burn. Damn, that was quite the Akechi fight, it definitely plays into what Makoto says afterwards "we only won by teaming up".

[@katieheys3007]

Can you beat Persona 5 Royal without playing? Just a little joke but I bet nobody can do that haha

[@meks3920]

I mean there was a doing nothing run...

[@ChessMate-fe6bm]

@@meks3920 Yes but it’s nearly impossible. Not completed.

[@ChessMate-fe6bm]

This is why there is the term “Persona fan that doesn’t play its games”

[@Just_an_urn]

Umm, isn't watching the video doing exactly that though? I mean, We are "playing" (experiencing) it, without playing it... Right?

[@SaintSakura17]

​@@meks3920 and luckily it failed

[@usteeen]

Love these challenge videos but an ad every 5 minutes is diabolical lmao, I put this on to fall asleep to and had to give up 😭

[@xelith6157]

Noooooooo I wanted to sleep to this 😭

[@cyndit9054]

I put this on while doing the dishes, so I couldn't skip the ads since my hands were too gross for me to be willing to touch my phone 😭

[@popfiasco]

You don't know how much i love your videos and how they're a blessing. Greetings from Spain.

[@KonkyDonk]

i didnt know equipping different school uniforms changed the battle theme to the game the costume corresponds to, neat.

[@arthurmorgan9224]

Tried watching this at work while it was members only, so excited for this. Love your challenge runs!

[@Legendaryyy77]

I’ve been waiting for this one

[@Jimmylikehalo]

Aye I love your challenge runs too man keep up the good work!

[@Legendaryyy77]

@ thanks! I got a new one soon the works bro ❤️much love

[@The-Real-Ren-Amamiya]

I knowww youuu

[@Creepo_J]

Aye

[@heartlesslyra9532]

I'd like to see a full decoration video due to me wanting to see how to get all decorations! I've yet to get them all. (W content, I've been waiting a long time for more persona content

[@swordssignature4316]

I like this challenge as it puts more emphasis on dodging and aliments in battle. I look forward to a challenge where skills can only be used once per battle, or skills can only be used once in a run. I want basic attack to be great again! (not only to remove tetra/makara karns)

[@furiouscorgi6614]

I mean, it's a useful utility option for a resourceless cleaner, and can apply ailments with some weapons

[@Linkforlife199]

I am not sure using skills in battle once per battle would be possible with the longer fights like Yaldabaoth and Shido. For basic attacks only, you would need to allow yourself some exceptions to get by certain fights (ex. the triple Rangdas in the arena, Shido Phase 1, or even the Okumura fight would be tricky), other wise, it would be impossible. Both would be fun ideas to see if people can make them work, at this point, I think they are the only types of challenge runs that have not been completed for P5R.

[@dave9515]

@@Linkforlife199 I mean technicals with fusing broken personas and having surplus items stocked up on would allow it to be possible. Depends on restrictions how doable it could be.

[@Linkforlife199]

@@dave9515 That is the kicker, it would all depend on what restrictions you put on the challenge run.

[@TDMSpeedrunning]

Early gang!! I love the videos they’re genuinely so so SO well made!

[@zoesequeira5388]

I'd watch the full decoration video personally

[@orangemandarin]

me too

[@codywhite6337]

I love these challenge run videos. Excellent work :)

[@Shadow-Joop-157]

I have an idea for a challenge run, it is not the most challenging but a fun challenge, not a normal fusion run. what I mean by that is not a fusion that Make a new persona, instead you only use Gallows Fusion and the Electric Chair to get stronger personas, with Gallows Fusion you can give each persona a lot of exp and level them up, and with the Electric Chair you can easily get skill carts. what the fun part of this challenge is is that you use persona that you normally never use in the late game, basically using pixie or base jack frost to fight the last few bosses. basically making a connection to your persona just like making connection with your pokemon and making a strong team of your favorite early game personas

[@furiouscorgi6614]

but it's still easier to power up lategame Personas- you usually have access to a skill before the respective skill card, as well, and lategame Personas have better affinities

[@boopergoober]

New Ragnar upload let's goooo

[@orang2667]

I have a suggestion: A run where you try to get joker as swole as possible (max HP) by going to the gym/training in attic as much as you possibly can

[@deathblade32]

if you do a perfect run (aka get all confidants to max asap and no wasted days), if you do the gym the rest of the free times with about half the time using protein, its possible to start the game at 500+ HP and 300+ SP at the start of a new game

[@orang2667]

@@deathblade32 What if you don't max confidants though? if your sole focus is the gym, ho much is possible

[@holyelephantmg8838]

Persona 5 Royal but now being tired after the Metaverse actually makes sense

[@artofthepossible7329]

It's one of those holdovers from Persona 3, where the mechanic itself got shafted in the name of QoL but the underlying story and world building basis for that mechanic remained. The Conditions mechanic in P4 and 5 would actually make for a good challenge idea.

[@cullenhutchison6528]

I want to see a P5R run where you aren't allowed to hit weaknesses or apply status ailments/hit technicals. On Merciless, of course.

[@SaintSakura17]

I have a suggest for a new challenge: Can you beat Persona 5 Royal without hitting enemies weakness and using technical damage?

[@SailorMusicCat]

Ooooooo. That could be really interesting. My first thought is wondering how Okamura's "Boss" fight would go given that is Very Much designed for you to hit weaknesses. But I bet there'd be some other danger points I'm not even thinking of to make it a Very Interesying run.

[@vlader1743]

​@@SailorMusicCat Some other points I'm thinking of are the madarame fight (both phases) and a few treasure demons who are weak to most elements (but those can be avoided)

[@SailorMusicCat]

@vlader1743 ooooo I hadn't even thought of Madarame but you're right! That'd probably be one of the first potential Big Issues given it's only the Second palace.

[@Tempestchron]

​@@SailorMusicCatIt is possible, but very rng dependent. In my case I got lucky fusions with good skills during alerts and prepared a good overlevelled persona with almighty boost and megidola. But of course in a challenge run they might not use Strength's ability to fuse personas above your level.

[@yasualleonandabunchofnumbers]

Yo like that sounds really interesting! Depending on the extent of the rules, you'd have to basically avoid abusing status ailments (so Kasumi's special hook ability might be bad because it gives the enemies status ailments at the start of battle) for technicals. If an enemy accidentally gets afflicted - say with Burn, Shock, or Freeze, you have to be careful not to exploit a technical, and may even have to wait until the status wears off before you can attack. You'd have to reverse your thinking and attack with everyone that CAN'T exploit a weakness, needing to look up the weaknesses of enemies beforehand to make sure you DON'T hit them. If you wanna be really mean, forbid critical hits too (so you have to reload your last save if your party gets a physical critical hit) so that baton passes are completely impossible in the challenge as a whole - but this rule isn't necessary if you wanna leave criticals as the ONLY method of baton passing in the game. Obviously none of the rules apply to the enemies because challenge duh

[@SJaigamo]

Man, I dont know how you make hour long videos like this. Props to you! (i dont have time to watch rn but promise ill give it a watch when im free!)

[@Shirker12]

Already watched the video twice, once in full when it came out early for members, and once as background when I was going to sleep. Better believe I'm happy to watch it a third time.

[@MinisculeNeeds]

I love to watch this type of videos to sleep too haha

[@xelith6157]

​@@MinisculeNeeds Lmao literally my first thought upon seeing this video was "this will be perfect for falling asleep tonight"

[@redmondthealien7840]

I know I would definitely enjoy a video on how to collect all the room decorations.

[@essixthefalcon8657]

Ah, something to listen to as I am grinding out Arknights!

[@the_xplorer_sploder]

Nothing like a good challenge run to fall asleep to

[@Streetcleanergaming]

19:55 WHAT?!?! how did I never know that did fire? I always thought it was gun element or perhaps phys

[@dbfan199]

Sorry but Run invalid for letting Dormina heal Enemy SP and HP. (this is a joke to be clear)

[@furiouscorgi6614]

Actually, run invalid for having Sleep applied by enemies and letting Dormina heal HP and SP

[@HellFlameGod]

😮 Oh hell nah! You're epic!

[@TheDeadmanTT]

Yeah ok, pretty hard. But have you tried the "Finish a workday without crying" challenge?

[@kevinhudson9190]

I just want to say that persona 5 has one of the greatest soundtracks of all time

[@ryokophreak]

Fun vid :)

[@playerback7722]

Persona 5...good times back in 2019...played the game over again and again every time i beat it

[@lavine224]

never thought you would be back lol

[@michaelhowell2809]

Need to check his community tabs, he has like bi weekly updates lol

[@virdamofromko-metru1161]

35:02 you can't proc shock on shadows that null/repel/absorb elec. Same with ice and freeze and fire and burn. Resisting the element also makes the status condition harder to apply while being weak, easier. To proc a shock with your gun on Norn, you'd have to use Elec Break first.

[@ariajohnson8107]

Here's a run idea to build off of a No Heal challenge; Can you beat P5R Without Healing OR Inflicting Status Ailments on Enemies?

[@michaelhowell2809]

Dam i thought i was following a 100 percent guide and then i find out about a jazz club wtf lmao

[@KiyanC]

i've watched your p5 runs and why exactly are tetrakarn and makarakarn banned. i've played and beat this game 3 times and they're not overpowered by any means

[@furiouscorgi6614]

Tetrakarn and Makarakarn are very good against bosses, because they have predictable patterns

[@charlescalvinfromtriplethr9712]

​@@furiouscorgi6614 Especially against Wakaba and Shido. They both have really powerful physical attack skills, and when they're repelled they end up taking an insane amount of damage. I once got around 999 of damage on Shido when he used his Tyrant's Judgement attack just because of Tetrakarn (forgot what it was called).

[@UsrnamePending]

Persona but you have 4 moveslot syndrome from Pokemon. Visually this must be the first four moves in the party member's list, but any passives your party members obtain before their actual slots are full have to be in those first slots, unless deemed useless in normal gameplay like Adverse Resolve. Could also limit Joker to 6 personas other than fusion fodder. This run I feel like would make great use of the Church to clear out passives late, and probably limit the amount of technical spam you're able to dish out. Gotta pick and choose between buffs, debuffs, actual attacks, statuses, passives...

[@LelouchOnTwi]

That feels a bit tedious, how about Passives can be allowed, and act like side-abilites.

[@UsrnamePending]

@@LelouchOnTwi I think that defeats the purpose, since lategame you can just build an Almighty Amp Megidolaon spammer with all the relevant passives

[@RosyMiranto]

I wonder though, how much of this challenge be possible in P4 Golden or P3 Reload? I imagine Golden will be the hardest one however

[@Khiash]

I would like to see a Persona 5 full decorations video!

[@theblisk5750]

If you're looking for a new challenge, try P5R with no teleporting. Meaning you have to go all the way through the dungeon and then have to walk back. I recently completed this and found it quite difficult. On the days where you send the calling card you have to walk to the boss fight. Only exception in mementoes, Early monsters will just run from you so it's just a waste of time.

[@heidtb6746]

A challenge i'd like to see someone do is to beat the game with just the Personas Base skills. No Fusing to get additional Skills, No adding Skills later, just capture and use as is.

[@codangarrison1195]

I would like an every decorations video. The only decoration I've ever gotten is the ramen bowl 😅😅😅😅

[@mirkcurry5532]

Canyou beat peraona 3 reload with only theurgy skills?

[@EidinAegis]

38:19 I thought Makoto would always fail that shot to catch her sister cheating Really you need to do a run where you must try to win without procking a single technical hit. That would be a good challenge since technical damage is literally how most of these fights, aka Mini-bosses, are clapped. And these runs are easy to beat because of technical damage.

[@Eternalwarpuppy]

Do you have static restrictions on using Special Treatment from the Wardens confidant in your challenge runs? It is pretty easy to abuse Yoshida's confidant skills to get stupid amounts of cash and then you can get level 80 personas at around the 4th palace.

[@chad4354]

you should do a run without buffing party members and debuffing opposing party

[@adriajenie6617]

I wonder if it's possible with persona 4 and 3

[@thesnowyzorua378]

Beat persona 5 with just fool personas hehe

[@arcnova]

Kawakami is the BEST romance option The only one i romance on every playthru All others get friended

[@thesnowyzorua378]

Can you beat p5 royal with just boys/girls? Joker,ryuji,yoske,Morgana, ackechi for final dugeon if you want. Girls: Ann,haru,makoto,futaba,katsumi.

[@mythicalskeleton1546]

Endure is the savior of persona and smt

[@PredicateCapeThe21St]

LETS GO LONE PRAYERRRRRR

[@RoxastheKeyofDestiny]

You should do this with Persona 3 Reload

[@davidgreen8329]

Do the room decorations video!

[@Pulpybleach]

How about beating p5 only using attacks from skill cards

[@adonis3071]

Try beating the game with only moon personas

[@feza3428]

Wow Persona 5 Royal is so easy you can beat it with no heals

[@Hybrid_W]

goat

[@littlevivigaming4822]

Why not do DQ3R challenges. Im sure there are plenty of options

[@MrEggman91]

DQ3R?

[@littlevivigaming4822]

@MrEggman91 Dragon Quest 3 Remake, just made playable a few days ago

[@UnfortunateSoul69]

Love the vid tho dont love the Kawakami hate. She's literally the best confidant.

[@Keith9446]

You should only really have one best girl in each game

[@steam-powereddolphin5449]

Life letter

[@Mawliina]

Can you beat persona 5 royal as a pacifist

[@lordanimorph]

No tetra and marka seems really stupid

[@Astral161]

I think you misspoke here you meant to say *Bestest* girl Makoto

[@ghxstr1ng6r]

23:46 did i miss "best girl" before "ohya" or what

[@kainrich6183]

Did you get the idea from primal? With his no healing ff Challenge?

[@kainrich6183]

For me you failed the Challenge. No healing means literally No healing. Joker did heal himself in the fight with the machine pig the fight after and Baton pass healing IS still healing so for me Challenge failed sry. Bit Hope you Had fun.

[@xelith6157]

😐

[@masterblaster38]

​@@kainrich6183 To be fair some of the healing was kinda obligatory/out of their control and not really made any effect. The baton pass was meh but to be honest you couldn't just not use the baton pass in this game, Okumura as a whole kinda shows it (and Maruki) the only options there would be to overlevel and make an overpowered persona. For Futaba's and Maruki's healing it is RNG and while you could tecnically reroll until you don't get any, you would basically need to not get a status effect on joker (Because of Maruki's ability) or low SP with joker (Because Maruki's SP healing happens only when low on SP) and also make sure that Futaba doesn't go "Nah do the fight again" and heals you. It would be an RNG fest. Also by the way, what heal do you mean happened during kaneshiro's fight? I just couldn't find it, or do you mean the status effect one?

[@Cieloacestriker]

Now do nocturne 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@AB-sf5lu]

allowing batom pass heal made the challenge a joke

[@mx_sunny]

its very minor, and what are you gonna do, not use baton pass?

[@VioletRM]

>no heal challenge guys >except its ok if i heal in these specific ways

[@mx_sunny]

@@VioletRM u do it then 😭✋

[@skweeb06]

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