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Defeating the formidable floor guardian, Invigorated Gigas, inPersona 3 Reloadrequires strategic planning and an understanding of its unique strengths and weaknesses. This guide provides insights into the boss’s devastating abilities and how to exploit its limitations for a quick victory.
By leveraging a specific Persona and capitalizing on the boss’s singular attack type, you can turn the encounter into a manageable battle. Learn how to navigate the challenging fight against Invigorated Gigas on the 171st floor of Tartarus to progress further in the game!
Invigorated Gigas Affinity Chart and Skills
The Invigorated Gigashas the raw attack power and move pool to deplete your entire team’s healthbars in just a single turn. When you add that together with its affinities and powerful buffing skills,this boss proves to be troublesome for most teams.
Affinities and Weaknesses
Attacks and Skills
Heat Riser
The boss will increase its attack, defense, accuracy, and evasion for 3 turns
Revolution
Invigorated Gigas will greatly increase the critical hit chance of everyone in the fight for 3 turrns
Gigantic Fist
This skill does heavy Strike damage to a single foe with a small chance of critting
Herculean Strike
This heavy Strike attack will hit every person on your team with a small chance of missing
Heat Wave
This is also a heavy Strike attack, but does more damage than Herculean Strike and does not have the built-in miss chance.
The floor guardian, Invigorated Gigas has no innate weaknesses, and isresistant to Ice damage,while also nullifying both Light and Dark damage.
During the fight, it will havetwo buffing moves,Heat Riser and Revolution, which will be used at the start of a battle. It also has three extremely powerful physical skillsthat have decent chances to critically hit after the boss has used Revolution.
The deadliest part about the Invigorated Gigas fight is thatit can chain one powerful critical into another since two of its three attacks hit the entire party, something that will let it use multiple skills in a single turn and send your team packing. At the same time, its biggest downfall is thatit only has access to attacks of a single typing, and you can use this to your advantageto make this boss fight one of the easiest in the game.
The recommended level for this fight is level 55.
Invigorated Gigas Battle Guide
The boss of the 171st floor of Tartarus is the incredibly strong Invigorated Gigas. This colossal shadow bars your entry into the next block of the game, and you must defeat it to gain entry into Harabah.
There are no teleporters in this room for you to regroup, but remember that you can now use theEscape Route skill for 24SPto return to the entrance of Tartarus,where you can save or make changes to your team composition.
When crafting a team for a fight against bosses with no weakness, you should consider team memberswho facilitate a buffing and debuffing strategy that maximizes physical attack critical strike chance.Thisboss would be similar if not for the fatal flaw mentioned earlier:the boss only uses Strike damage, soyou must equip the Protagonistwith a Persona that allows him to trivialize the boss’s skill set.
You can bring alongany other team members that you would like, butremember that they are most likely going to perish to the floor guardian’s indiscriminate strikes.Do not revive other members as it is a waste of your items.
Invigorated Gigas Hit Itself In Confusion
The second part of the Tziah Block gives the Protagonista chance to recruit the level 45 Chariot Arcana Persona, Shiki-Ouji, whichinnately repels all Strike damage. Since the boss is only capable of hitting with Strike damaging attacks, it will be unable to do damage to the Protagonist andwill only be able to deal damage to itself.
Once the battle has begun, you’ll be free to just attack the boss normally every turn, andeven though it will take quite a few turns, the boss will just fall over.To make the fight go by much quicker, and since there are no bosses right after this one, you should use yourJack Brothers Theurgyon the bossto do severe Almighty damage and inflict down on the bossfor a follow-up All-Out Attack by your team.
