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you may defeat the Tziah Block’s second floor guardian, Dancing Beast Wheel, inPersona 3 Reloadby using strategic team-building and precise tactics. Learn how to counter its high attack stats, deadly skill pool, and resistance to Ice and Light. Craft a team with Aigis, Akihiko, and Koromaru, utilizing their unique abilities for buffs, debuffs, and critical hits.
Discover the secret steps to making the Protagonist immune to all physical damage using specific Personas. Master the art of Downing the boss for an All-Out attack while managing Heat Riser buffs. Prepare to face this challenging foe on the 155th floor of Tartarus with expert guidance.
Dancing Beast Wheel Affinity And Skills
Dancing Beast Wheel hits like a truck with its skill set.
Affinities and Weaknesses
Attacks and Skills
Heat Riser
Dancing Beast Wheel will increase its attack, defense, accuracy, and evasion for 3 turns
This single-target ability hits multiple times for light Slash damage
Blade of Fury
This is a multi-target light Slash attack that can hit multiple times
A heavy Slash attack with a high critical hit rate
Herculean Strike
This heavy Strike attack will hit every person on your team
Dancing Beast Wheel is a tank of an enemy,having no weaknessesin its affinity chart and having wildly high attack stats.Ice damage has no effecton this boss, and it is alsoresistant to Light damage.
Dancing Beast Wheel has a deadly skill pool tailored towardbuffing itselfto make it unkillable while also making it strong enough to kill a single team member in just one move.Heat Riseris a dangerous buffing move that is Tarukaja, Sukukaja, and Rakukaja all in one.
The remaining four moves - and the only ones that do damage - are all physical-based damage skills of either Slash or Strike typing.
The boss willcycle through each of its four physical moveswith seemingly no order to them, but once Heat Riser has been applied, any one of them can be lethal.
Dancing Beast Wheel Battle Guide
The floor guardian of the155th floorof Tartarus is the massive Dancing Beast Wheel. It is recommended that you bearound level 50when attempting this fight.
As with any boss with no weakness, you will want to take the fight nice and slow, using buffs and debuffs to your advantage. This is especially true when fighting the Dancing Beast Wheel, as Heat Riser will keep you and your team busy with constantDekaja and other debuffing skills.
Even without Heat Riser, this boss is so strong you will have touse buffs like Marakukajajust to withstand its powerful physical moves.
Dancing Beast Wheel nullifies Ice and is Resistant to Light, soleave Mitsuru and Ken behindfor this fight.
Craft a team where every member can perform two different actions: the ability to buff or debuff and the ability to hit with a strong or multi-hit physical attack. That is because to perform an All-Out attack on this boss, you will have to Down it with a lucky crit or with the Jack Brothers Theurgy.
Aigis Fits The Role Perfectly
Aigis has the exact skill set you are looking for when crafting a team for this floor guardian. Her Persona, Palladion, gives her access to bothMarakukajaandMatarukajaso that you can buff your whole team’s attack and defense.
Aigis also gets Myriad Arrows, Swift Strike, and Arrow Rain, all of which arephysical attacks that can hit multiple times, giving her more chances at a critical strike each turn.
At the start of her first turn, use Marakukaja or Matarukaja- whichever your team is lacking. All turns after that should be spent using her physical skills to fish for a crit; the only exception to this is if the fight ends up lasting longer then you’re able to reapply her buffs on following turns or use her spot healing with Diarama.
Akihiko’s Versatility Shines
Akihiko is very much like Aigis in that his skills are very well aligned toward this kind of fight. He has the buffMasukukaja,which will give your whole team a boost to your Accuracy and Evasion. The evasion helps your team stay alive through the fight, while the Accuracy can counter the evasion provided by the boss’s Heat Riser.
He also hasGigantic Fist,a very strong physical attackhe can use to get lucky crits. Other than that, he can also use his combined passive Shock Boost and Electric skill Zionga to attempt toshock the boss, further disrupting it.
When the fight starts,cast Masukukaja with Akihiko to keep your team’s agility boosted. On proceeding turns,cast Ziongato try shocking the boss; or if Revolution is active, use Gigantic Fist for the incredibly high critical chance.
Koromaru Increases Critical Hit Rate
The choice for the final member of your team should go to Koromaru.Koromaru can use Revolution, which will increase everyone’s critical strike chance significantly.
Revolution also increases Dancing Beast Wheel’s critical strike chance. Be careful; this strategy could get your team downed in the first round if you are very unlucky.
Koromaru shouldstart the first turn by using Revolution. Afterward, follow up on each turn with Getsu-ei to try for a critical. The fight should be over before you have to Revolution again, but if the buff falls off, reapply it immediately.
How To Make The Protagonist Immune To All Physical Damage
As mentioned in the skills section, the Dancing Beast Wheel can only use physical attacks; in particular, it can only use Strike and Slash attacks. With this in mind, there are several very good options for Persona choices.
If you choose a Persona with Dekaja, your priority is to use it when the boss has Heat Riser buffs going. Otherwise, prioritize buffing your team with whatever buffing skill is available or use physical attacks and the Jack Brothers Theurgy to attempt All-Out attacks on the boss.
Becoming Immune To Physical Damage
This requires just a bit of setup, but you will havea Persona that will reflect Slash damage, Strike damage, and nullify Pierce damage.
This will result in a Shiki-Ouji completely unharmed by - and even reflects most - physical attacks.
If youequip this Persona before the Dancing Beast Wheel fight, then you will win without any harm coming to the Protagonist. You could even choose not to hit it every round, and the boss will eventually kill itself with its own attacks.
