Putting together the right team is pivotal to making it through the combat sections of Persona 3 Reload, with a constant barrage of enemies awaiting you as soon as you step inside Tartarus for the night. Over time, your friends grow pretty strong, but you can enhance their abilities even further.
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PostsBy helping your friends awaken to their battle characteristics in Persona 3 Reload, you'll equip your teammates in SEES with all sorts of critically helpful new perks related to their primary roles on your team. Doing so requires a time slot, but awakening a teammate's characteristics can be game-changing.
What Are Personality Characteristics?
In Persona 3 Reload, characteristics are traits your teammates can be given to use in battle, almost always passive perks that make your life a little easier as the leader on the battlefield. Each of their battle traits tend to make it easier to boost their Theurgy gauge, meaning they'll be able to use their special moves more often in battle.
In the base game, you'll need to hang out with someone three times to fully awaken their combat characteristic. When you return to the dorm at night, you'll often see one of your teammates with a blue smiley face icon over their heads (as well as on the mini-map). This icon means you can make progress toward awakening their characteristics.
If you don't often include someone in the team, you never have to improve their P3R combat characteristics - if you have another use for the evening time slot, use it!
Once you decide you're hanging out with that character, you'll see an interactive cutscene with them, which are known as Linked Episodes. Not everyone is available all the time, but if you see them with that smiley, chat with them to trigger a Linked Episode.
During them, you can do things like:
- Watch movies in the dorm lounge. This teammate will be waiting in the lounge on 1F, where you begin your evening time slot.
- Make coffee or cook together in the kitchen, though they'll be standing or sitting near the bar to start the scene.
- Read in the sitting area on 2F, where they'll typically be waiting for you.
- You can see them here on your minimap without going upstairs yourself to check if someone is around.
- Garden up on the roof, which buffs not only your friendship, but helps your crops as well. They'll wait at the bottom of the stairs on 1F, and you'll go up to the roof together.
You'll typically see a character awakening to a basic version of an ability early on into spending time with them, and then on the third time you opt to spend your nighttime time slot with them, their battle characteristics will evolve into a better version of that ability.
No matter who has awakened to a new combat characteristic in Persona 3 Reload, they'll be able to use it the very next time you venture into battle. You may even earn points for their social link if the teammate in question happens to have one, too!
In the Episode Aigis DLC, you'll still be spending time with teammates as Aigis to ensure they awaken to the same characteristics, but you need special items to trigger the scenes. These items are obtained from Twilight Fragment chests as boss battle rewards in the Abyss of Time.
Your Protagonist Also Has Characteristics
Like his teammates, the protagonist receives combat characteristics throughout the game as well. Unlike them, though, there aren't special activities for him to do - those are mostly saved for building your social stats.
Instead, your protagonist unlocks combat characteristics in Persona 3 Reload by filling the Compendium by fusing new Personas to use in battle. Elizabeth remarks on your Compendium completion once you've logged one third and later two thirds of all Personas. She'll also drop the price to summon Personas from the Compendium along the way.
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PostsAll SEES Combat Characteristics
In the table below, we've detailed the combat characteristics for everyone in SEES in both Persona 3 Reload, including the name and exactly what each perk does.
In the base game for Persona 3 Reload, when you unlock these depends on when you choose to hang out with that character, with no set dates for when these combat characteristics unlock. For Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis, we've included which boss fight unlocks the item necessary to unlock everyone's combat characteristics.
All Combat Characteristics In Persona 3 Reload
Character
First Combat Characteristic
Second Combat Characteristic
Protagonist
Weakness Boost
Deals more damage when hitting an enemy's weakness.
Weakness Amp
Deal even more damage when hitting an enemy's weakness.
Yukari
Healing Master
Healing skills cost 50% less SP for Yukari to use.
Healing Apex
Yukari's healing skills cost 25% their original cost.
Junpei
Critical Boost
Increases Junpei's crit rate and the strength of critical hits.
Critical Amp
Increases Junpei's crit rate and the strength of his critical hit even further.
Mitsuru
Ailment Burst
When Mitsuru is in battle, enemies impacted by a status ailment are more likely to take a critical hit.
Ailment Surge
Increases the critical hitrate on enemies impacted by status ailments even further when Mitsuru is on the team.
Akihiko
Buff Boost
Increases the strength of buffs Akihiko uses on himself.
Buff Amp
Increases the potency of Akihiko's buff moves on himself even further.
Fuuka
Weakness Buffer
Reduces the damage taken when an enemy strikes your team's weaknesses.
Weaknesses Mitigator
Further reduces damage taken from enemies striking weaknesses.
Aigis *
Phys Boost
Strengthens all of Aigis' physical attacks.
Phys Amp
Koromaru
Auto Sukunda
Automatically lowers one foe's accuracy and evasion for three turns when the battle begins.
Auto Masukunda
Automatically lowers all foes' accuracy and evasion for three turns when the battle begins.
Ken
Spirit Refresh
Ken recovers 5 SP after every battle he's in.
Spirit Restore
Ken now recovers 10 SP after every battle he's in.
Shinjiro
Auto Bolster
Shinjiro's attack or defense stat is boosted at the beginning of each battle.
Auto Heat Riser
All of Shinjiro's stats are boosted at the start of each battle.
Metis (DLC Only)
Sister Boost
After Aigis shifts to her, Metis receives a 20% attack boost.
Sister Amp
After Aigis shifts to her, Metis receives a 430% attack boost.
* In the base game, Aigis has her own combat characteristics. In the Episode Aigis DLC, she inherits many things from the protagonist, like their combat characteristics, losing her innate access to Phys Boost and Phys Amp.
How To Unlock All Combat Characteristics In Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis
Item Required
Inside Door
After Which Boss Fight
Characteristics Unlock For
Martial Arts 101
Cocytus
Cowardly Maya
Junpei
Best Bouts DVD
Akihiko
Budget Tracker
Caina
Harem Dancer
Ken
Hardcore Shoot 'Em Up
Mitsuru
Foreign Drama DVD
Harmony Giant
Yukari
Large Bone
Koromaru
Math Workbook
Antenora
Frivolous Maya
Fuuka and Metis
Masters of Strength
Ptolomea
Spastic Turret
Akihiko
Dog Toy
Mitsuru
Nonfiction Novel
Acheron Seeker
Yukari
Spice Set
Junpei
Effortless Workout DVD
Judecca
Killer Twins
Fuuka
Tattered Book
Ken
Premium Dog Food
Reckoning Dice
Koromaru
Profile Book
Metis
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