Persona 3 - Low Level Part 9: Furious Gigas & Fanatic Tower

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Published on March 15, 2014 2:42:54 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izN8PBjB9JM

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Persona 3 (2006)

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Our next Tartarus visit after the Full Moon events shown in the previous video, where our party is seriously bolstered by having Aigis as a playable character. Her level advantage is enormous over the rest of the party, especially if compared to largely ignored guys like Junpei (I'm actually wondering if I shouldn't be training Junpei alongside Akihiko for longterm, considering he's healthy, durable and learns a full-party defence buff really early... Missing out on Hermit experience due to being Stupei, his level will be really low for endgame, so I'll probably have to train Koromaru as my third member... Akihiko and Ken seem to be fixed in stone at this point, but I'll have to decide between Aigis and Koromaru concerning the third longterm member of the party).

Aigis also has the Orgia Mode, making her offence even better during midgame (her level advantage is no longer really an advantage a month or so afterwards), so attack up on Aigis and defence down on the boss are some of the good strategies to try out for a while (I fused her a Nihil gun for +Tarukaja effect after this Tartarus visit).

Orgia Mode is surprisingly good in this challenge, letting us beat some bosses quickly before Aigis burns out and starts skipping turns after being overheated. We can't really afford standing around and trying to tank hits, so ending the midgame battles quickly is the way to go.

It's not really Aigis that trivialises the first encounter against the 3 Furious Gigas however. Though these folks specialise in single-target physicals, meaning Attack Mirrors would do a decent enough job here, there's still no guarantee they won't attack the same unit and, who knows, it could be the MC (I'm pretty sure my Fool SL is high enough for allies to take hits for the MC at this point, but I've passed this point of the challenge a while ago so I'm not quite sure but I think this is the case).

I mentioned that I tried skill morphing for hours to get some very specific skills (like Wind Break) but ended up getting completely different ones. Well, some of them start being useful now.

I got Charm Boost and Sexy Dance on a Ghoul, letting me try charming the whole enemy party at once (on a regular run, Narcissus can accomplish the same without any morphing but I'm not high-levelled enough to summon him just yet), and this can have varying degrees of success depending on the attempt.

The Gigas are all wind-weak, can be knocked down and dizzied. When charmed, dizzying them is counterproductive because they really contribute a lot of damage while hitting one another, though less so if High Counter keeps kicking in. Between hitting each other, eating Aigis's hits and AoAs, they should fall soon enough.

Then we have Fanatic Tower (Strago, are you there?), and that's a much harder battle, mostly because of how ridiculously resistant the boss is.

The boss reflects all magic except for wind (and you can imagine how powerful Garu is coming from underlevelled Yukari) and resists all physicals except for strike, which he often dodges with Dodge Strike... Yeah, it's quite bad.

My strategy here is to defeat him with Aigis crits and knockdowns springing from criticals before Orgia Mode is over and Aigis burns out, throwing in some Garula Gems for extra damage.

Magic Mirors are a must to reflect FT's Zio spells back at him. He doesn't absorb them, so this isn't counterproductive. Said Zio magic completely destroys Aigis, so this is definitely a must if we want her to keep attacking.

Ideally, we want Kill Rush from Aigis to not miss, hopefully crit and get 2 strikes rather than one, so it's somewhat luck-reliant. I manage to defeat the boss on Aigis's last turn in Orgia Mode.

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