Can I beat Shadow Yukiko at lvl 12?

[Kakihara]

Can I? I'm on the 27th April just now. Also is there any point in keeping loot from monsters of will I just sell everything for better gear?

[Scorpix]

Sell everything. You can beat her at 12, but can you say on which difficulty are you playing?

[mimizukari]

selling it makes it so the blacksmith guy is able to produce more weapons/armor for you depending on the monster loot you give him. sell all monster dropped unique items!

[MUSA]

if you want to make it more easier, keep level up to level 18

[mimizukari]

don't feel compelled to beat dungeons in 1 day, in the early game you're probably going to spend 3-4 days on it. After you beat a dungeon you get tons of free time, so get the dungeon out of the way FIRST and then do other stuff.

[Kakihara]

Originally posted by Scorpix:

Sell everything. You can beat her at 12, but can you say on which difficulty are you playing?

I was on hard but have put it down to normal now.

[David]

if you change the difficulty to very easy, the yes

[Shinigami Miroku]

Make sure you buy TaP Soda from the machine in the South Shopping District, as well as Dr. Salt NEOs from the ones on the north end, every week (you get 5 per week of each, as well as a possible bonus for the set in the northern end), and as other people said, if you went in at an earlier time and got lots of monster drops, sell those to Daidara to get better weapons and armor.

Beyond that, one thing I would suggest is fusing an Eligor with Resist Fire (I also gave mine Resist Elec and Resist Wind from Omoikane) so that the MC doesn't take as much damage from any of the boss' skills - since if he dies then it's Game Over. If you can give him Dia/Media, then all the better, but his job is basically dish out heavy physical attacks and tank hits with his high Endurance. You can get Resist Fire from Ukobach, in case you don't know (and there are a number of Personas around that level that would benefit from getting that skill). If you can get to level 16, Jack Frost can potentially receive Resist Physical, Fire, Elec, and Wind, making him the ideal Persona to take on the boss, since he gets Bufula to deal major Ice damage to the boss (which it's weak to in this version).

[DaBa]

Originally posted by David:

if you change the difficulty to very easy, the yes

Why would you do that? It's perfectly doable on hard, it all depends on how good your personas are. All you need is media and a persona with fire immunity or at least resistance. From there it's smooth sailing.

[DaBa]

Originally posted by Shinigami Miroku:

Make sure you buy TaP Soda from the machine in the South Shopping District, as well as Dr. Salt NEOs from the ones on the north end, every week (you get 5 per week of each, as well as a possible bonus for the set in the northern end), and as other people said, if you went in at an earlier time and got lots of monster drops, sell those to Daidara to get better weapons and armor.

Buying those is completely pointless, you can easily farm for SP recovery items in the dungeons, and those are much better than the sodas. And if you don't want to farm those, SP management is going to become a non issue by the second dungeon anyway due to a certain social link. And later you will basically have unlimited SP anyway and won't have to use any items or waste any money on it once a certain person joins the team.

[Dopey Shepard]

Lvl 12 is optimal cuz iirc you get Yukiko at lvl 11, also dont bring Chie into the fight. 2 people is much better than handling Chie's fire weaknesses

[Kakihara]

Originally posted by DaBa:

Originally posted by David:

if you change the difficulty to very easy, the yes

Why would you do that? It's perfectly doable on hard, it all depends on how good your personas are. All you need is media and a persona with fire immunity or at least resistance. From there it's smooth sailing.

I've got the little imp persona with fire defence up. How is it useful when Yukiko can use her super move and hit my whole party?

[DaBa]

Originally posted by Dopey Shepard:

Lvl 12 is optimal cuz iirc you get Yukiko at lvl 11, also dont bring Chie into the fight. 2 people is much better than handling Chie's fire weaknesses

Why would you handle her weakness? Or do you not know that you can defend and the weakness doesn't matter then? There is absolutely no reason not to bring Chie...

[DaBa]

Originally posted by JimmyJonesII:

Originally posted by DaBa:

Why would you do that? It's perfectly doable on hard, it all depends on how good your personas are. All you need is media and a persona with fire immunity or at least resistance. From there it's smooth sailing.

I've got the little imp persona with fire defence up. How is it useful when Yukiko can use her super move and hit my whole party?

Yes it hits the whole party. And you are a part of that party. Losing less HP or not losing it at all is an obvious advantage. Helps you stay at high HP and avoid one shots from the double fangs ability, and gives you more HP to use on physical skills.

[Dopey Shepard]

Originally posted by DaBa:

Originally posted by Dopey Shepard:

Lvl 12 is optimal cuz iirc you get Yukiko at lvl 11, also dont bring Chie into the fight. 2 people is much better than handling Chie's fire weaknesses

Why would you handle her weakness? Or do you not know that you can defend and the weakness doesn't matter then? There is absolutely no reason not to bring Chie...

Dude, leaving Chie out of Yukiko's fight is a really old strat. She is a handicap. Yukiko fires with fire all the time, if she hits Chie, she gets a 2nd turn. You will either spend 90% of time defending with chie or you will die hard unless you are playing on easy that is, idk how much easier the game is now compared to PS2 version but on PS2 hard version Chie is a no-go, I'm sorry. 2 teammates instead of 3 is much better than having yukiko get a turn for free

[P-O-T videa burger]

yeah TBH this is the most easy persona game at least for me some endgame bosses may have you grind a bit tho