Best Team for Each Castle Boss

[Reine Coringadas]

I’m diving into my first playthrough of Persona 5 Royal on PC, and I’m curious how you all tackle each castle boss. I’m about to face Kamoshida and have set my team at what I consider a solid level (13). For this fight, I went with Ann, Ryuji, and Mona (the only available choices), and set up Joker with specific Personas for Kamoshida: Angel, Succubus, Genbu, Orpheus (via fusion), and Mokoi, each with movesets tailored for this battle.

Even so, I feel like I haven’t fully optimized my team to maximize my chances. Especially for the final boss in Mementos—where I usually rely on my Thanatos and power through, though it feels like my gameplay could be stronger. Do you have any setup tips for characters or Personas for these key fights? How do you usually build your team for each castle?

Any advice is more than welcome!

[Mistie]

First of all discard all dlc personas for normal game, no Thanatos, Izanagi no Okomi with super powerful abilities. If you have them, why do you need a team at all? Although I myself played with dlc personas during my first playthrough, i fuse them legally, and they weren't super strong, they were only Magatsu Izanagami and Tsukiyomi, throw them away after level 50-60.

Secondly, do not be afraid of bosses, I do not know what difficulty you play. But I played on hard for the first time, and I defeated each boss in 1-3 attempts. The exception is Okumura, the hardest and broken boss 8 or 9 attempts. Don't be afraid to lose, and most of them are easy to win, you are even given conditions to help you defeat them, for example, take away their main weapon and other things.

If i remember correct:
Madarame: Yusuke, Ann, Ryuji.
Kaneshiro: Makoto, Ann, Ryuji.
Futaba's palace: Ryuji, Yosuke, And.
Okumura: Haru, Makoto, Ann.
Shido: Ann, Yusuke, Ryuji.
Mementos: Ann, Yusuke, Ryuji.
Maruki: Ann, Yusuke, Ryuji.

I just like Ryuji, Yusuke and Ann combo. Because Ryuji and Yusuke will deal big phys damage, and Ann for support, sadly she doesn't have mediarahan too heal all team.

I recommend get some needes skills in juzz club like "Charge" for Yusuke, Marakunda for Ann(if you like her in your team), "Hear riser" for someone like Ryuji or Yusuke, "Debilitate" for Ann(or other support member).

Do not miss that skills otherwise you can't get them for your party. Only one day and chance to have that strong skills. Here's the juzz club days.
https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Jazz_Jin

Buy the way i was playing blind and didn't even know juzz club can give skills. But completing P5 and his bosses not that hard, expect again Okumura he broken as hell. So common advice, update your personas, get rid of olds and get strong news, with every 5 level try to fuse new ones with powerful skills, try to get ideal persona with 1-2 elements and 25% + 50% bonus damage for elements.

Be ready to Okumura and suffer :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q69DGj0BXSc

[Arifufu]

my team is pretty basic for boss battle, 1 healer, 2 buffer

makoto has rakukaja/marakukaja + she is healer with strong magic, ryuji has tarukaja/matarukaja and has strong phys, and yusuke has sukukaja/masukukaja with decent phys

if i haven't unlock makoto/yusuke, then i simply use Ann and Mona, once i unlock yusuke then i ditch Mona, Mona only useful for his media when he reached level 11 until joker unlock media too

joker can use any possible persona, usually i use persona with highest level possible of current castle that doesn't have weakness to hama/mudo

usually ryuji + makoto + yusuke for boss battle, for mobs clean i will just use whoever i want to, because it doesn't really matter, i don't need to maintain buff for mobs battle but for boss battle yup buff and debuff are pretty handy, the one who debuff usually joker because most bosses only alone so i use rakunda from jack-o-lantern and transfer it to obariyon since obariyon has snap, snap is medium tier gun skill pretty strong for early game