​@this is not me damn.

If you can't end it in one turn, it might already be too late

I'm in my first playthrough of vanilla Nocturne (No Chronicles because the first time i started the game the option New Game Chronicles didn't show up lol) and this is exactly why my team right now consists on every demon with as many elements as possible, mana refill, 1 buff/debuff and anything that could be useful lol.

Yep. I always know when to move on from an area when I’ve leveled up enough to take out every encounter in one turn of autobattle. Do that and you’ll be good as gold in literally every Atlus RPG. 😂

if you couldn't one turn it you weren't prepared

This comment made me lol

I keep nearly killing myself because of the auto attack button.

thats the shin megami tensei experience!

"We get off on your tears." --Some Atlus employee.

Thanks to ATLUS. And salute the masochist player.

And Oni's Berserk is like No No No

Debilitate on turn one, then smack everyone with a Elec Boosted Maziodyne (works well in the final story dungeon where those annoying ass Repel Phys Rangadas will spawn like roaches, as they are weak to electric). Demi-fiend then absolutely trashes the entire enemy party with a Gaea Rage that does damn near 1000HP damage after a single Debilitate and no buffs; or if they have Repel Phys I just smack the specific demon with a Freikugel and use Bishamon (Hassohappa) or Trumpeter (Megidolaon) to finish them off. Guaranteed one-round kill, enemy doesn't get a chance to do shit. Plus I always grind close to the healing fountain lady so burning through my MP means little when I can cheaply heal it all.

@@Apollo-iq1vx I'm glad you can oneshot random encounters with an endgame min-maxed build, I guess? And try Hard mode where regardless of your agility, the enemies will get the first turn of combat in most encounters.

@@LoudWaffle what's with the slightly passive aggressive reply? Lmao

@@Apollo-iq1vx because you deserve it. yours was such a moronic comment. you're talking about gaea rage and shit repels do you genuinely think the player could have access to end game builds at this point lmao. do you also go tell people to just use megidolaon against matador?

Said no one ever

if only people said that...

@@adachivineboom I say that, before a mudoom makes me clench up and hyperventilate in fear of loosing all my progress.

Persona: *misses* "No biggie, I should buff next time." Shin Megami Tensei: *misses* "I just lost the whole fucking battle." *enemy uses Dragon Eye, buffed/debuff themselves, uses Focus and uses Deathbound to kill the entire party in one hit*

@@BalanceHeroSMTwhich one do you like better?

@@pn2294 SMT

I have a video on my channel of me dying to it too lmao, you're not alone

Thats just intended The game was designed to make that a legitimate possibility

If I recall you actually have to heal at least once? People probably like "Nah it's the tutorial, I probably don't actually have to heal" lol

Dude , I litteraly just experienced the same . Fucking second kalpa . With his phantoms and flauros

Someone didn´t do his homework kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNSDZtGIvZ_NpWg.html

he didn’t use a debuff though and debuffs can’t fail, do you mean he used shibaboo?

It won't help you on their turn.

Fr, Trafuri is basically necessary (especially since Estoma is hot garbage in this game).

Like literally tho

he should’ve rakukaja-ed when he had the chance too

Nah that's a waste of mp, you don't waste MP on encounters

@@ThomasOwOD I might be still rather new to Megaten but I have this instinctive reaction to where if I fucking whiff an attack I'm de/buffing immediately because I'm not about to get my ass handed to me from random mobs today. That or I just have a demon with Trafuri.

@@Goolian761 well that's a good strat but ooga booga I conserve sp because my first megaten game was persona q

The worst thing in hard mode is everything costs x3 more than in normal mode (even healing and magatamas).

@@nr2676 Tbh that's what really annoyed me since I like collecting all magatamas as soon as possible, but I couldn't even buy the necessary ones

@@Kafka_Garezerra They should remove this thing in HD Remaster, ofcourse they didnt :D

@@nr2676 They didn't want to lose their recognition as one of the most hard and unfair games I guess (at least they finally let you manually select the skills you inherit

@@Kafka_Garezerra The 3xhigher healing/shopping cost only forces the player to grind. Remaster should have a option to turn -off this thing.

Imagine using debuffs on a normal fight.

@@manuelmateo3392 you know I rather that than taking chances at getting oneshot

@@manuelmateo3392 You will eventually. And by end game you should be able to throw around loads of skills every fight. Or at least that's how it's on Hard Mode.

They weren't playing.

A single Fog Breath and the outcome of the battle could have been radically different.

you can do the same, that s why it s fair

NEVER have a build with a light or dark weakness in ANY SMT game. The games are already hard enough without BS instakills coming out of nowhere.

all it took was one early game hamaon to convince me to put anti-light and anti-dark on the demi-fiend

@@AloisAgos Most dungeons only have either hama or mudo, so you can be weak to one.

@@AloisAgos It's not BS if it's taking advantage of a weakness. Also, while the sentiment is somewhat correct, having a weakness to either Death or Expel often confers plenty of bonuses in stats and other positive properties. It's up to the player if they want to roll around with the risk of getting instakilled as a a result.

@@YOTSUBA_desu Somewhat true, but you will often find demons in this franchise that pack both. However, Expel is not always instant death depending on the game.

The fact that I saw fog breath on jack o lantern here and they didn't use it made me want to cry. I'm blind to nocturne for the most part but I'm in first kalpa now and lord I'm scared for the future lol

The actual AGI stat does close to nothing, but not throwing Fog Breath was a death waiting to happen

I beat the game with 6agi

@@The_PolterGhost agi does do a lot like keep you from being back atk or having first turn but ye its not rly an all insanely important stat since sukuja and fog breath are still way more significant in dodging/hitting

@@Akita23 I can tell, since nobody uses buffs or debuffs in regular battles. It's a complete waste. "Fog Breath" is not the magical problem solver you think it is, it's use is revealed only during bosses, and many bosses can be comfortably beaten without it.

It's pretty good! This is on hard mode, so don't be too discouraged

THERE'S A PASS BUTTON?

@@jonm5894 atleast on playstation. Its square there.

Damn right

Shibabo is OP in SMT 1

Was it?

@@brothir no.

Oni is weak to them and it usually hits what can I say

Only time I ever went into a battle intending to use status effects was the Troll, every time besides that it's just never seemed worth it.

This was my basic-attack-and-sometimes-status-effects-only run

@@jonm5894 that sounds like a grim challenge, did you manage it?

@@jamesharrison658 I actually failed at the start of the video when I used mabufu and had to promptly delete my save after this

@@jonm5894 lol

Replace lunge? Is there any single target phys skill in early game beside lunge?

Cturne

@@jonm5894 trafuri is your friend. reg encounters are mostly ass and dont give you much i run from them till my high pixie runs out of mana. if i need to level i just get attract bells from rags shop and choose easy farm locations like underpass of ginza cause maragi is all you need to one turn encounters and there is a save point and shop there. or if you get mamudo there are multiple areas in the game that only have angel encounters.

@@wellfarekoon This game can be beaten without grinding, literally if you run from as few encounters and fill in as much of the map as possible, only bosses will provide any significant danger. Running from battles that end in three rounds max is crazy, and what in the world does this even do for the dungeons that you can't even comfortably leave in this game. Grinding in general is boring, grinding near the Underpass of all places sounds mind-numbing.

I asked KZfaq nicely

@@jonm5894 Hahaha. It's funny because this is like the 3rd video I have seen from this channel in just a couple days. Mind as well just subscribe and leave a like.

Imagine using buffs or debuffs in a regular fight, nobody does this.

@@manuelmateo3392 Persona_Fan.png

Tornado shock and analyze are my favorite physical skills I take them in every smt game

A single Fog Breath would have changed the outcome of the fight easily.

Go to a casino my guy.

@@the_og_alpha i probably should, my gacha luck is also kinda nuts

@@hitagisenjougahara4677 hit up the lottery

@@danhue2682 yooo, maybe I should gamble my wife away

Honestly so long as you debuff/buff in fights the game is a cake walk most of the time (getting hit by insta-kill moves notwithstanding).