Persona 5 Royal Palace Tips: Learn efficient leveling strategies, how to farm specific items like Aluminum Sheets, and counter tough enemies.
Efficient Leveling
- Spam your normal gun attack against enemies weak to Gun, as ammo replenishes fully after every battle for knock downs.
- Use ailments and Phys skills with ailment effects to buy time in random encounters if they deal a lot of damage, then follow up with Technicals.
- Avoid challenging flaming shadows until you are close to securing the Treasure Route to ensure you have enough SP and level gains.
- The 3rd Will Seed in every palace is guarded by a mini-boss with a short skill cycle you can exploit.
- Specific Treasure Demons are easier to find in their source palace with a Treasure Trap rather than crawling Mementos to catch them later on.
- At Lv. 18, you can fuse Shiki-Ouji, which nulls Phys, Gun, Bless, and Curse, useful for solo rushing troublesome encounters.
- Death Rank 7 sells Invigorate 3 accessories for Y50,000 each, allowing more generous SP usage.
- Near late game, combine Chariot Rank 7 with Jose's Mementos changes to continuously ambush and instant kill enemies for fast leveling, money, and items.
- In late game, level your Technical rank to 5 for guaranteed knockdowns against random encounters without weaknesses.
Castle Palace
- To get the "Expert Lockpicker" award early, save-reload the locked chest in front of the Safe Room.
- Get the timing right on the rooftop flaming shadow patrol to avoid futile encounters.
- Angel spawns near the end are weak to Gun.
Mementos Palace
- Time your visits to clear multiple requests at once while advancing your confidants.
- Make it all the way to the next locked stairs before returning.
Museum Palace
- Equip the Atomic Ring to knock down Regent in the scripted Treasure Demon encounter.
- The Will Seed mini-boss follows up Flash Bomb and Brain Jack with Psi attacks, aiming for Technical damage.
- Exploit weaknesses during phase 2 of the boss fight to Baton Pass chain, ending with Joker for maximum damage.
Bank Palace
- The backups in phase 2 of the boss fight protect the boss and are vulnerable to ailments.
- Spam Dormin Rush and Lullaby to prevent them from covering the boss.
- Follow up with Technical damage to quickly finish the battle.
Pyramid Palace
- Farm Anzu spawns near the beginning for Aluminum Sheets, needing 20 for the Eternal Lockpick. Anzu is weak to Gun.
- The flaming shadows only know Bless and Curse attacks, easily countered with Shiki-Ouji.
- If you get Attack Mirrors or Tetrakarn on the entire party before the boss drops, you can counter with massive damage as Phys is extra effective against her.
Space Port Palace
- Farm Decarabia spawns near the beginning for Liquid Mercury, needing 10 for the Eternal Lockpick. Decarabia is weak to Phys.
- Mothman spawns near the middle are weak to Gun.
- Arahabaki and Girimehkala repel Phys and Gun.
- The Will Seed mini-boss only knows Phys and Bless attacks, easily countered with Shiki-Ouji.
- The boss starts with waves of 4 robo enemies each that will restart with full health if not defeated in 2 rounds. Maximize damage output to clear waves efficiently. Prepare single-target attack items for every element. Fuse Personas with all-target element spells and boosts, and a Concentrate buffer for Joker. During a wave, Joker leads with Concentrate, the rest of the party knocks down a single robo with an element item for a Baton Pass chain, and Joker finishes with 2 casts of a max-buffed zero-cost all-target spell exploiting the current wave weakness.
Casino Palace
- Hold Third Eye down the entire time to see enemies in darkness.
- The mini-boss rush telegraphs their attack moves, allowing you to counter in time with the right persona resistances.
Cruiser Palace
- The cleaner mini-boss only knows Phys and Curse attacks, easily countered with Shiki-Ouji.
Depths of Mementos
- Your best chance to encounter Hope Diamond is to save at the first Safe Room and reload the outside encounter until Hope Diamond appears.
Qliphoth World
- Your best chance to encounter Crystal Skull is to reload for a Mara encounter where one of the Slimes is replaced with a Crystal Skull.
Research Lab Palace
- The flaming shadows repel Phys and Gun and have no weaknesses, meaning Technical attacks are your only way of reliably knocking them down.
Tips
- Look for enemies weak to Gun and spam your normal gun attack for knock downs since ammo replenishes fully after every battle.
- Use ailments and Phys skills with ailment effects to buy time in random encounters if they deal a lot of damage and follow up with Technicals.
- Avoid challenging flaming shadows until you are close to securing the Treasure Route to ensure you have enough SP and level gains.
- The 3rd Will Seed in every palace in guarded by a mini-boss with a short skill cycle you can exploit.
- Specific Treasure Demons are a lot easier to find in their source palace with a Treasure Trap rather than crawling Mementos to catch them later on.
- At Lv. 18 you can fuse Shiki-Ouji which nulls Phys, Gun, Bless, and Curse, which you can use to solo rush some otherwise troublesome encounters later on.
- Death Rank 7 sells Invigorate 3 accessories for Y50,000 each allowing you to be much more generous with SP afterwards.
- Near late game the fastest way to gain levels, money, and items is to use Chariot Rank 7 combined with Jose's Mementos changes to continuously ambush and instant kill enemies.
- In late game level your Technical rank to 5 so you get guaranteed knockdowns even against the random encounters without weaknesses.
- If you want the "Expert Lockpicker" award early on you can save-reload the locked chest in front of the Safe Room.
- Get the timing right on the rooftop flaming shadow patrol to avoid futile encounters.
- Angel spawns near the end are weak to Gun.
- Time your visits so you can clear a bunch of requests at once while still advancing your confidants.
- Make it all the way to the next locked stairs before returning.
- Equip the Atomic Ring so you can knock down Regent in the scripted Treasure Demon encounter.
- The Will Seed mini-boss follows up Flash Bomb and Brain Jack with Psi attacks aiming for Technical damage.
- Exploit the obvious weaknesses during phase 2 of the boss fight to Baton Pass chain ending with Joker for maximum damage.
- The backups in phase 2 of the boss fight will protect him whenever possible but are also vulnerable to ailments.
- Spam Dormin Rush and Lullaby to prevent them from covering the boss.
- Follow up with Technical damage to quickly finish the battle.
- Farm Anzu spawns near the beginning for Aluminum Sheets. You need 20 for the Eternal Lockpick. Anzu is weak to Gun.
- The flaming shadows only know Bless and Curse attacks, easily countered with Shiki-Ouji.
- If you get Attack Mirrors or Tetrakarn on the entire party before the boss drops you can counter with massive damage since Phys is extra effective against her.
- Farm Decarabia spawns near the beginning for Liquid Mercury. You need 10 for the Eternal Lockpick. Decarabia is weak to Phys.
- Mothman spawns near the middle are weak to Gun.
- Arahabaki and Girimehkala repel Phys and Gun.
- The Will Seed mini-boss only knows Phys and Bless attacks, easily countered with Shiki-Ouji.
- The boss starts with waves of 4 robo enemies each that will restart will full health if not defeated in 2 rounds. Need to maximize damage output to efficiently clear waves. Prepare a spread of single-target attack items for every element. Fuse a spread of personas with all-target element spells and boosts and a Concentrate buffer for Joker. During a wave Joker leads with Concentrate, rest of party knocks down a single robo with an element item to maximize Baton Pass chain, and Joker finishes with 2 casts of a max-buffed zero-cost all-target spell exploiting current wave weakness.
- You can hold Third Eye down the entire time to see enemies in darkness.
- The mini-boss rush telegraphs their attack moves so you can counter in time with the right persona resistances.
- The cleaner mini-boss only knows Phys and Curse attacks, easily countered with Shiki-Ouji.
- Your best chance to encounter Hope Diamond is to save at the first Safe Room and reload the outside encounter until Hope Diamond appears.
- Your best chance to encounter Crystal Skull is to reload for a Mara encounters where one of the Slimes is replaced with a Crystal Skull.
- The flaming shadows repel Phys and Gun and have no weaknesses, meaning Technical attacks are your only way of reliably knocking them down.
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