The Objectively Correct Persona Tier List

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I do imagine Ryuji would be happy with all the fans he has overseas. I also wonder how Morgana would react to seeing his reputation in the west (Not well liked) and how the girls themselves would react to all the comments criticizing that one scene after Shido’s palace (Where they beat up Ryuji)

I really felt surprised for Akechi tbh, when I used him, I didn't think he was THAT bad... Guess he got checkmated😂

This is super well done I feel like P5’s cast surprised me way more than I expected

Wow man, this is so informative and will definitely be useful for my next playthroughs (Im still only gonna use the characters that I like)

I'm gutted about Yosuke and Naoto, but I think all points are valid.

9:50 something to point out for Yosuke is that enemies are coded to prioritize attacking him over anyone else. If you can, try to build him into a tank because P4 shadows don't pull their punches.

Finally, a tier list I can cite as an Empirical Source

I have high hopes that Yukari will go Yukiko levels of crazy in Reload. Even if her stats end up generally untouched, she'll definitely learn the boost/amp skills this time around, maybe even Concentrate, though they will probably save that for Mitsuru. Her unique theurgy trait halves the cost of her healing skills, and she only needs to heal to charge her theurgy faster. I'm so excited. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

I find it hilarious how he glossed over Makoto’ gun by just saying it boosts magic. Makoto gun in the most broken weapon in the entire game not only does it boost every stat up 10 or 11 if it created during fusion alarms but do to a glitch doubling all stat buffs it makes her gun give a buff of 20 or 22 on all stats. Her melee weapon also gives her a high crit rate. So with good jazz club usage Makoto can also become a great magic attacker in addition to her support role

During my P5R playthrough early this year, I followed a guide for the "best" party members for each Palace, and I definitely regret it. Sure, it was nice having the right elements per dungeon, but I really don't remember any of the team comps I ended up with. Meanwhile, for my P4 and P3 playthroughs later on, I used the party members I liked best and I can clearly remember my team comps for the endgame: Yosuke, Yukiko and Naoto for P4, and Yukari, Akihiko and Koromaru for P3. They're far from the best comps, it ain't exactly unknown that Koromaru is one of the weaker party members for P3 and apart from Yukiko neither of my P4 teammates are exactly high tier, but Koromaru is the bestest boy and Yosuke is my second favorite Persona character tied with Ryuji and second only to Sumi, so of course I'm gonna throw them in there. Moral of the story, pick the party members you want to and not who you're told to. Sure, you can pick party members based on who's best for a given dungeon, but at least don't follow a guide that tells you who's best, it takes away any meaning to the team comps you use, when you should be attached to these characters in and out of combat considering you're playing an RPG.

I kind of appreciate the story telling meta to some of these stats. Morgana quickly feels overshadowed and made redundant by other characters your team picks up. Makoto is a more capable strategist, Futaba is a better meta verse navigator. Likewise, his stats are quickly overshadowed by characters that can heal and magic better. Akechi presents as an ace detective but it comes from him having meta knowledge of the things he's "deducing" not because he's genuinely clever at making connections. Likewise, he projects as if he's strong but his stats are mid.

You are absolutely wilding when it comes to Shinji, he's so strong for the short period of time he's in your party, he absolutely annihilates enemies

What I love about Royal is that you can even make the worst characters really good by giving them specific Skills they can't learn from leveling such as with accessories and the Jazz Club. Giving Yusuke access to Charge made him way more useful than in vanilla.

One thing to mention is that Makoto + Haru is easily the best combination for killing encounters, because if Makoto uses Makajam on the enemies it has a high chance of hitting, and then Haru's magic is technical, and technical just kills everything even without playing on merciless.

I'm that one player that prefers to just play with the characters I like regardless of skills even if it makes the fights harder lol

Ryuji Sakamoto is SSSSS+ tier. He is the best character in P5R for me. Max Mittleman did an amazing job with his voice acting! Also, just got Tactica for Christmas.

Akihiko is a total must have, only thing i could ask for him to have is maybe to have atleast 1 Physical persona move like he starts with, and maybe a power charge if it worked how it does in current games. He'd be god tier at that point. And Yosuke getting shafted I feel. A not full heal isn't too important if healing from half health, and keeping your accuracy/evade buffed I feel is underrated tbh. But idk, i tend to find a good use and comp with any character as I use all characters, as i love grinding and like to keep all playable party members an equal lvl. And got all party members in my first and newgame+ run to lvl 99 both times. Same with my P3. Hopefully when P3R comes out, they're combat kits will be somewhat udjusted for the way that mechanics have changed in the current games. My own first dive into doing Persona content is P3 playable character tier list and even starting doing deep dives into individual characters. I love how all characters are viable and still useable, but look forward to seeing how you end up placing them all. Love your content Johne, keeo it up. 🙏

The only reason to use Morgana late game is Salvation which is also can be gotten through Itemization or Tanaka

I did not realize Akechi was that bad LOL