• First, I’ve given Makoto Skanda Socks for +10 Agility (and Haru Sonic Socks for +5), which will give her a whopping +20 Agility in total when we factor in her +10 boost to all stats from Judge of the Dead. Despite how it may sound, this won’t end up helping us that much, because Makoto is going to be pretty much a dedicated healbot on nearly every single turn of this fight, and also because the Twins have an absurd ninety-nine in all stats. They’re going to hit us a ton, and they’re going to dodge us a ton.
  
• There are ways to mitigate this. We could bring Akechi, as he learns Debilitate at level 70 to lower all three of their battle parameters. We could even bring Yusuke, even if he’s a bit redundant with Ryuji, to keep up Masukukaja. In fact, everyone has something to contribute. Morgana has Masukunda and Ann has Concentrate, Matarunda, and Blazing Hell. We’re still gonna stick with the good ol’ dependable party of Ryuji, Makoto, Haru. This may end up being a mistake.
  
• I should probably have brought a good Persona with Masukukaja. The only one I had with it was Seth, who was a rather low level and weak to Bless. This meant our only source of Agility boosts was Futaba random boosts and Haru’s Heat Riser, which is single-target. So again, we’re going to miss a ton.
  
• My Haru build is a bit… unconventional, trading Psiodyne and Psy Amp for Tetrakarn and Makarakarn to reflect Physical and Magic attacks respectively. This might have been a mistake. I thought I would use them to reflect weaknesses, but the fact that the twins attack twice with multi-target attacks most of the time negates the usefulness of this (because the shields can only block one attack), and I realized it immediately.
  
• Haru also lacks Dodge Nuke because she ran out of skill slots, which is going to bite me in the rear end hard.
  
  Let’s also review what we’ve learned about their attack patterns, with some additions for context.
  
  
• The Twins will move through a series of phases. This will start with lower-damage Physical and Gun strikes, before moving on to heavy Magic attacks. These will go in the order of Fire, Ice, Electricity, and Wind. This is as far as we have gotten.
  
• Each phase lasts exactly five turns, no matter how much damage you do.
  
• Failure to get the twins to the next HP gate by the time the corresponding phase starts will cause them to lose patience and wipe the party.
  
• When they pass 50% HP for the first time, each twin will cast Diarahan on each other, fully restoring their HP.
  
• Unlike Margaret, the Twins can break their own cycle of attacks to hit a specific party member’s weakness, as long at the element they use is within their current repertoire (so no Psy attacks during the first magic phase, or Fire attacks during the second). They can also break the cycle to use Technical attacks on an ally with an ailment. These opportunistic attacks will always be single-target, as opposed to their regular attacks which are always multi-target.
  
• They will always use a single-target attack to hit a weakness rather than a multi-target of the same element if available.
  
• Each twin uses a different set of elements. Both have Dekaja, Dekunda, Recarm, and Diarahan (all of which come from Pixie), but Caroline has the Physical (Slime), Fire (Jack o’Lantern), Electric (Agathion), Psy (Mandrake), and Bless (Shiisaa) attacks, while Justine has the Gun (Bugs), Ice (Jack Frost), Wind (Sudama), Nuclear (Onmoraki), and Curse (Bugs again) attacks. This means that to knock your party members down, they will have to do the actually-somewhat-involved-for-AI routine of knocking down every party member they can, Baton Passing (because they can only do that once), and then having their partner knock down the others. Also almost all their Personas are really low level for some reason. I guess they just wanna style on us.
  
• If there are buffs or debuffs active, they will end every set of knockdowns by removing them with Dekaja or Dekunda. It’s very annoying to reapply them, but still much better than not having them up at all.
  
• I’m just going to tell you now because you undoubtedly already know or have figured it out and I’m not rerecording this thirty minute fight just to show it off, but we have to kill them both on the same turn, or the survivor will revive the other with half health. So we have to use multi-target attacks to try to keep their HP about even. Ryuji might be something of a hindrance in this fight because of his low Agility and the fact that Agneyastra does not have a consistent number of hits, so we’ll try to keep him on Matarukaja duty.
  

Arist fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Jul 11, 2019