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Challenging the colossal Jotun of Authority and its minions requires a well-thought-out strategy, a versatile team, and the right Persona alignments. In this guide, we will detail the roles and tactics your team inPersona 3 Reloadshould adopt to ensure victory against this daunting adversary. From exploiting weaknesses to casting defensive spells, our instructions will furnish you with the prowess needed to tactically dismantle the boss’s strength.
We’ll outline how to utilize Junpei’s Counterstrike ability to your benefit, the versatile role Akihiko brings to the battle, and the strategic importance of selecting the correct Persona – especially considering the absence of Yukari in this fight. Whether it’s support, healing, or dealing devastating blows, each part of our guide is constructed to bolster your team’s effectiveness and guide you to triumph.
Jotun Of Authority Affinity Chart And Skills
The Jotun of Authority’s physical move set iscatered towards knocking down your teamand pummeling them until their health has depleted.
Affinities and Weaknesses
Attacks and Skills
Gigantic Fist
The boss slams its fist into a single team member inflicting severe Strike damage
Swift Strike
This move deals low Strike damage to all team members but has the chance to hit more than once
Herculean Strike
The enemy deals heavy Strike damage to the whole team
The floor guardian, Jotun of Authority, is onlyweak to Icewhile alsonullifying all Fire attacks.
Slash attacks will heal this boss.Be careful when selecting the attack option.
This bossonly uses Strike physical attackswhen going in on the offensive. Two of these skills are area-of-effect, Swift Strike and Herculean Strike, so expect to take a bit of beating going into this fight.
Purging Right Hand Affinity Chart And Skills
The Purging Right Hand is a trickster whose sole purpose is todisrupt your team with its crowd control.
Eerie Sound
This move has a 50% chance of inflicting Distress on your whole team
Poisma
The hand will attempt to poison one of your team members. This move has a 70% chance to hit
Purging Right Hand has only one weakness: Electricity. It will alsorepel all Dark damageback at the attacker.
Strike-based physical attacks are absorbed by Purging Right Hand,healing it instead of dealing damage.
Purging Right Hand uses only two moves during the encounter, but each one is designed to make you or your teammates lose a turn to neutralize it. If you ignore the status ailments that these apply to your team, then you will lose far more than just a single turn trying to cure them or just playing catch-up with all the ensuing healing.
Subservient Left Hand Affinity Chart And Skills
The Subservient Left Hand is theenemy team’s supportand needs to be taken down immediately.
Matarukaja
Increases the entire enemy team’s attack.
This little foe isweak to fireand nothing else. Hitting it witha light-type attack will just repel the attackright back at you.
Do not hit this enemy with a Piercing physical attack. It will heal it instead of dealing damage.
Subservient Left Hand is exactly what it is named after: subservient. This enemy’s prime directive is tobuff the floor guardian, Jotun of Authority.
Jotun Of Authority Battle Guide
Thefloor guardian of the 136th floor of Tartarusis the Jotun of Authority and its two minions, the Purging Right Hand and the Subservient Left Hand. This fight presents a unique challenge in that each of these enemies hasdifferent elemental affinities, but they complement one another. For example, while Subservient Left Hand is weak to Fire, Jotun of Authority nullifies Fire.
Each of these three enemies also plays a quite defined role on the enemy team, and you will have to deal with them according to these roles.
You will want to take care of these enemies in aspecific orderto deal with the ebb and flow of their buffing and debuffing strategy.
Your party will want toconsist of team members who can specialize in one of the following elements: Fire, Ice, and Electric. If you bring the right team, you can continuously Down each of these opponents, chaining All-Out attack into All-Out attack until there is nothing left.
Since the opponent will be using Marakukaja and Matarukaja, it would be well worth it to bring someone withDekaja.
With the Purging Right Hand throwing out so much crowd control, you will want to bring a healer who can reliably cure each of them. You should also stock up onBaisudi Gems, Patra Gems, Amrita Gems, and Amrita Sodafor this fight.
Mitsuru Will Be The Ice Queen
Mitsuru and her Persona haveBufulato keep the Jotun of Authority Downed and ready for the All-Out attack. She can also useRakundato lower the boss’s defense for three rounds.
Akihiko Is Amazingly Versatile
Akihiko takes on a versatile role,zapping the Purging Right Hand with Ziongawhenever the team has offensive momentum, debuffing the colossal Jotun of Authority, and healing the party when they need some rest and HP.
Start the match with a swift Tarundato lower the Jotun of Authority’s attack power for three whole turns.
Junpei Sets Fire To The Left Hand
With Junpei’s Persona Hermes, you get a strong fire user with access to Agilao.Use Agilao on only the Subservient Left Handto keep it from being able to take any action and taking it out of the fight as soon as possible.
Junpei also has the passive Counterstrike and has the chance to reflect all of Jotun of Authority’s attacksright back at it. If you sense that any of your teammates are in danger, you can also choose to forgo an Agilao for a turn ofRakukajato bolster your defenses.
The Protagonist As The Support
The current team setup could benefit most from aPersona with the Me Patra skillsince Yukari won’t be coming along for this one.
This table includes all of the Personas that canlearn Me Patra below level 50:
Level 24
Empress
If you have access to theMoon Arcana Persona, Kaguya, you should level it up to 38 and use it for this fight. Kaguya knows Mediarama innately, which is the only thing your team is lacking, and it is the only Persona that can learnAmrita Showerat this low of a level. Amrita Shower can cure the Poison and the Distress from every single party member.
