Every Story Boss you’ll have to fight during Full Moon Events in Persona 3 Reload
Persona 3 Reload is a massive RPG with over 70 hours of gameplay. It is a mix of turn-based battles involving monsters known as Shadows that you defeat using your Personas and social simulation that fans of the series love.
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That’s right, you fight monsters at night while balancing school, relationships, and extracurriculars during the day. This tandem of battle and time management makes up the gameplay loop of Persona 3 Reload.
The turn-based action goes beyond simple grinding to level up your characters and involves a lot of strategy. Each member of your party has strengths and weaknesses and fill various roles and niches during combat, including damage dealing, debuffing and buffing, healing, etc.
Furthermore, Persona 3 has a number of unique and tough bosses that require careful preparation to take down. It’s a good idea to level your party members before Full Moon events, where the powerful story bosses of the game appear.
This guide looks at the story bosses you’ll have to fight during Full Moon events, offering strategies on how to take them on effectively.
**Disclaimer**: This article will receive future updates, including all the Full Moon Bosses in the game.
Full Moon Bosses
Priestess
- Date:
- 4/9 Thursday
- Weakness:
- None
- Recommended Party Members:
- Protagonist
- Yukari
- Junpei
- Strategy:
- Avoid using Ice skills as the Priestess repels Ice Attacks
- Use physical skills such as Power Slash as well as skills like Agi and Zio
- Use Personas with Ice Resistance, such as Valkyrie and Jackfrost, as the Priestess’ Ice Storm skill deals damage to the entire party. Thus, also make sure to avoid using Personas with an Ice weakness.
- Debuff Priestess using skills like Tarunda, which the persona Orpheus can learn, and Rakunda, which the persona Valkyrie can learn. These skills decrease the target’s attack for 3 turns and defense for 3 turns, respectively.
- Near the end of the fight, Priestess will summon some shadows to attack you. When this happens, use fire skills to quickly take down the shadows before attacking Priestess again.
Emperor and Empress
- Date: 5/9 Saturday
- Weakness:
- Emperor: Fire, Ice, Electric, Wind (Changes using Paradigm Shift Skill)
- Empress: Pierce, Strike, Slash (Changes using Paradigm Shift Skill)
- Recommended Party Members:
- Protagonist
- Akihiko
- Junpei
- Strategy:
- Use Fuuka’s Full Analysis skill frequently throughout the fight. Both bosses can change their weaknesses by using Paradigm Shift, and targeting their weaknesses is crucial for this fight.
- Buff your defenses using skills like Rakukaja
- In addition to switching their weaknesses, both the Emperor and Empress can nullify a lot of attack types. Therefore, make sure to learn a wide range of physical and elemental skills in advance.
Hierophant
- Date: 7/7 Tuesday
- Weakness:
- None
- Recommended Party Members:
- Protagonist
- Akihiko
- Junpei
- Yukari
- Strategy:
- Hierophant’s Makouga skill deals light damage to all party members. So use Personas that are good defensively against light damage, such as Principality and Shiisaa.
- Hierophant’s Doomsday Doctrine skills inflict fear. So make good use of Yukari’s Patra skill, which can cure fear. The Protagonist can also have a Patra skill on hand, this can be useful if Yukari is afflicted with charm.
- In addition to switching their weaknesses, both the Emperor and Empress can nullify a lot of attack types. Therefore, make sure to learn a wide range of physical and elemental skills in advance.
Lovers
- Date: 7/7 Tuesday
- Weakness:
- None
- Recommended Party Members:
- Protagonist
- Akihiko
- Junpei
- Yukari
- Strategy:
- Lovers’ Holy Arrow skills inflict fear. So, make good use of Yukari’s Patra skill, which can cure charm. The Protagonist can also have a Patra skill on hand, this can be useful if Yukari is afflicted with charm.
- In addition to Holy Arrow, Lovers can also use Sexy Dance to inflict Charm on all party members. In addition to Patra, make use of Dis-charms and Patra Gems.
- Lovers’ Heartbreaker skill deals damage to all party members and triple damage to party members afflicted with Charm. Therefore, make sure that none of your party members are afflicted with Charm.
- Using debuffiing skills such as Rakunda, Tarunda, and Sukunda.
Chariot and Justice
- Date: 8/6 Thursday
- Weakness:
- None
- Recommended Party Members:
- Protagonist
- Junpei
- Yukari
- Aigis
- Strategy:
- The boss fight starts as the Tank-Form Shadow. Use powerful attacks such as Theurgy skills to quickly separate it into Chariot and Justice.
- After Chariot and Justice separate, defeat both bosses on the same turn or at least one after the other. This is crucial because both bosses can use Restore to revive the other, leading to a stalemate. Thus, you should use multi-target attacks such as Vacuum Slash, Maragi, and Mabufu.
- The Tank-Form Shadow has two charged attacks, Armor-Piercing Shell and High-Explosive Shell. Both of these deal a lot of single-target damage, so always make sure to order any party member targeted by these to Guard.
- Justice can cast Mahama, which targets the entire party and has a chance to insta-kill. Make sure to have a Homunculus, which guards against instakills. Furthermore, Mahama is a Light attack. As such, make sure the Protagonist equips a Persona that nullifies Light attacks.
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