Help with Okumura boss fight

[Sircookie]

I have been bashing my head against the 5th wave of this boss. I did follow the guide to focus on using single spell and baton pass, however, the problem is that I couldn't finish all the robot after the final pass the the buffed robot just sacrifice himself, dealing damage and let the other robots run away so that they all spawn again and again. What can I do to prevent the bot from running or exploding ? or do I need to grind more so that I can finish them all in one baton round ?

note: I played on normal and my joker level is 42.

[Mistie]

I think you need personas who has 25% or 50% bonus damage to Psy or Curse skills. If we talk about Green Robots, because with them many players struggled.

And did you play darts to increase damage of team member? If yes try to have in team Ann, Makoto and Haru(i fight Okumura with this team, and switch one of them to Yosuke after green robots, because you need big phys damage). And you should try do a trick that Joker attack last and gaining highest damage from batton pass.

Example: Makoto attack first she use 50-150 psy or curse item damage to 1 robot, switch to Ann 50-150 damage to 1 robot, switch to Haru she use Psy skill to 1, then All psy, then last button to Joker who deal Curse damage.

And don't forget to use items to increase damage to team and decrease enemy's defense. Also "dekaja" skills if Okumura increase defense one of the robots. By the way you should start with Dekaja if Okumura increase defense one of the robots.

Robots run away if you not end them in 2 turns, batton pass not count as turn because you having 1+ more attack and switching them around your team with batton pass. And i might mistaken but if Okumura start self-distract before green robots. He start self-distract straightaway if green robots appear. So you should end all waves in 1 turn before green robots, so Okumura don't start self-distract on first turn.

[FoGsesipod]

Ideal pattern is to use skills and items that only hit 1 target, targeting the bots weakness and baton passing the last time to someone who has a skill to hit all weaknesses, which spreading the damage should be enough to kill them all in 2 turns. If not, either grind more or switch to merciless difficulty for the 3x weakness damage multiplier.

[Cuddle_Rat]

Yeah this fight is rough if you haven't been strengthening not only your personas but team dynamic as well.

My personal suggestion is to focus on the twins tasks until you get the ability that allows you to fuse personas higher than your level to fill in any weaknesses you may have in stats/skills/traits.

I know I mentioned team dynamic, but that's not something you can fix unless you have a much earlier save you're willing to go back to.

[King Of Lolis]

borrow dlc izuna and just keep nuking it all
ez win

[Don_Pablito]

A lot of master coffee plus Izanagi with almighty boost is an easy win

[NecroMaster]

5 tips

This is the party you want
Ryuji: for his damage buffs
Makoto: for her defense buffs and heals
Haru: for psy damage


Tip 2 tanakas shady commodities will sell items that allow party members to get value from baton pass increasing your damage output.

Tip 3 the robots will always dog pile one party member when they get a turn have that member guard.

Tip 4 the robots are all weak to 2 elements and resist all other elements but they are surprisingly neutral to gun damage.

Tip 5 one of the best personas to bring for damage the green robots is pazuzu he knows multi target curse so increasing your relationship with ohya and fusing this persona will increase the damage he contributes in the fight.

[Like Button]

swallow pride and use dlc personas, that fight is the most poorly designed fight in persona/smt history

[Mistie]

Originally posted by Like Button:

swallow pride and use dlc personas, that fight is the most poorly designed fight in persona/smt history

I don't think the word "pride" is appropriate in this situation, the word "principles" would be more appropriate here. Because people like the author of the topic and me have principles: Never use the Pay to Win system, cheats or other methods that give you an unfair advantage, no matter where the games are single or multiplayer, at least on the first playthrough. Because the game doesn't make sense if you solve all the problems with things like DLC. If the author asks for advice, it means he hasn't given up on his beliefs, only because he faces strong/unbalanced boss.

I agree that the boss fight with Okumura is very unbalanced, but that doesn't mean that he can't be defeated with the capabilities you have. And defeating difficult bosses that you've been struggling with for a long time gives you pleasure equal to how much you've lost against him.

[WhitePhantom]

Originally posted by Like Button:

swallow pride and use dlc personas, that fight is the most poorly designed fight in persona/smt history

This is the right answer. The fight is objectively poorly balanced with a huge difficulty spike out of nowhere.

I personally cruised through hard mode on a completely blind run with no real issues until this one battle. It would at least make sense if it were setting some sort of standard or expectations of battles to come, but it doesn't. Next dungeon you'll go right back to destroying everything.

Use the DLC personas/turn down the difficulty and get back to having fun.

[monkeyjesus]

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