To answer the common question of the chains being heard before 20 chests, do remember that your first time doing this will include previous chests that you've opened in the other dungeons you have visited. The 20 chests count starts after a previous trigger of the chains (whether in Yukiko's Castle or another dungeon). So to make things simple, open chests until you hear the chains, leave the dungeon your on, save your game, THEN start doing this method.

Young Dojima and his maid harem

I miss how the reaper chased us if we stayed too long on one floor (persona 3)

I heard the chains a couple of times. I always thought it was because I was taking too long on a floor

Hmm, about the random piece of gear, the SMT Wiki says for Persona 4: "Defeating the Reaper may grant the respective characters their strongest weapons per defeat; however, should all of the in-battle characters have received their strongest weapons, the Reaper instead drops the strongest armor. If all of those have already been received as well, the Reaper drops the Omnipotence Orb, an accessory which voids all attacks excluding Almighty." So it's not random, except if it's different in Golden

okay I finally found an answer and it solved my issue completely. Its long so I apologise in advance but there are still people out there confused and this will seriously help; "Basically, there is info scattered all over the net regarding the Reaper, and none of it really accurately describes how it spawns, what affects it, resets it etc. If there was such a informative post, i would have likely saved hours messing about with the.Reaper spawning mechanics. Anyway, i will state here a fail proof guide, but first i want to clear up the myths surrounding the Reaper spawn that i have tested myself. * After opening 21 chests, you will hear chains, the 22nd chest MAY spawn the Reaper. * The 22nd must be a red chest that has a chance containing a shadow. If you are lucky and the 22nd chest spawns the Reaper then in any other circumstances, that chest would have spawned a shadow! * Opening a chest at the exact moment you hear the chains rattling DOES NOT guarantee that the Reaper will spawn from that chest (if it does and to the person who this happened, its just coincidence)! * Gold chests will not spawn the Reaper because they cannot contain a Shadow. However, Gold chests DO NOT reset the meter as almost all players believe. ( I tested this by opening a Gold Chest as my 21st, after I could hear the chains). * Nothing resets the meter, leaving TV world, using Goho-M etc, NOTHING. In fact, the only thing that resets the meter is opening 21 chests consecutively, * Exiting the floor by any means while you can hear the chains resets the meter, and opening the 22nd chest resets the meter, NOTHING ELSE!! * Engaging enemies DOES NOT affect the meter! * The Reaper can spawn on any difficulty on any playthrough (I just spawned him on Very Easy in NG, and in my 1st dungeon, I defeated him as level 24)!! Because of this and because he takes so long to kill at this level, he may be good for farming lines for HRF, havent tested yet though. * Doesnt matter if you have Teddy or Rise with you. * Players are going wrong with viewing guides because the guides always states 1st 'open 20 chests'! Problem is, you dont know how many chests you have opened already so this doesnt really help other than tell what chest count is needed! Here is my failproof Guide (it is failproof because it works no matter your chest count and doesnt assume that your count is at 0); (Make sure you have Goho-M) 1. Enter Yukikos Castle. 2. Speedrun to Floor 5. Do not open any chests, and avoid fights if possible. 3. Use Goho-M to leave dungeon. 4. Return to entrance and save. 5. Re-Enter Yukikos Castle 1st floor. 6. IMPORTANT,.open each chest on this floor, but.each time you open a chest, listen for the Chains rattling before you open another. If you opened a chest and now hear a Chain rattling sound, dont open anymore and proceed to STEP 8. If you opened every chest and dont hear the Chains, proceed to STEP 7. 7. Press square, and return to the entrance. Now Save your game, then re-enter 1st floor and repeat STEP 6. 8. Remember how many chests you opened upon THIS visit to the 1st floor until the Chains began rattling! Did they begin rattling after you opened the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th chest? The chest the Chains began rattling after was your 21st chest!! 9. Re-load your most recent save. 10. Now you know where your chest counter is at, the 21st may be your next chest or the 18th may be your next chest. You need to save the game so that the 21st will be your NEXT chest. This may mean you already have the save you need or you may have to proceed back to 1st floor and open 1 or 2 more to get and then save (Hope thats understandable)! 11. Now with a save where you know the next chest will cause the chains to rattle, proceed to Yukikos Castle and enter at 5th floor (from the menu when you attempt to enter the Castle). 12. They are only 2 red chests on this floor and either can spawn a shadow. Basically open both chests hoping the Reaper spawns. 1st chest here will.cause Chains to rattle, 2nd chest will hopefully spawn the Reaper (which originally would have spawned a Shadow). If not reload your most recent save and repeat STEPS 11/12 until you encounter the Reaper (I believe there is approx a 20% chance of that 22nd chest on that floor spawning the Reaper, so shouldn't take you to many attempts)! "

Great guide, was able to do it first try, thanks!

I figured this out by accident. This is a huge pain in the butt when farming physical mirrors to beat Contrarian King early.

I've tried this a few times, but never heard the chains after chest 21.

if you hear the reaper noises before enter 5f you have to do all again

The first time im playing this, suddenly get reaper out of knowhere, now trying to find 1, goddamn

when i was on yukiko's castle when i was like lvl 5, i accidently caused the chains to appear and i was not only on the 6th floor, i also ran out of goho-ms and thought it was gonna spawn like the normal shadows i think like in persona 5

Was able to consistently get the chains on PS4 by opening 28 chests from the 1st floor (7 runs). Go back out and save at the hub, then return to the 5th floor, open the 29th chest, which should activate the chains sound effect to start playing. The reaper then has a chance to spawn on the 30th chest. Got him on my 2nd reload attempt. The 22nd chest reaper spawn seems to only work on the PS Vita and Steam versions. So odd that it's different on PS4 but whatever glad I figured it out. Hope this helps someone out in the future.

Thank so much. I have been getting really irritated because I couldn’t find him During the time I did find him I was way under lvl to challenge him. Now that I’m ready it’s like the game doesn’t want me to find him

Thanks a lot!! I'll try this method tonight.

Thank you for the tip! You’re the best!❤

I tried this for 2 hours until I gave up and searched for a guide, thanks

Is this the only method to spawn him? Damn, why they couldn't let it be like P3...

Dude the thing I do here is reset the reaper timer to 0 and go to 5f to get the two chests, go to 6f/4f and then back to 5f to grab the 2 chests

Accidentally did the first floor like 7 times instead of 5

I made this method,but when i opened the 21 th treasure there were no chains noises

i think yoshitsune alone is enough 😂

I jus ran into him with zero knowledge of his existence at level 45. So imagine my surprise.

For you folks using cheat engine start the 5F at 12 chests opened so the west room spawns the reaper. 13 is a bad luck number in japanese culture hence, reaper spawn

So I fought the reaper on mitsuo kubo's dungeon in new game plus, thinking I can beat the reaper with the satan persona. Words cant describe how heavily I underestimated the reaper. I was around lv 60 so maybe that is the reason I got whipped bad Edit: this was in newgame+, so that's why I had satan at lv 60, sorry for not mentioning that

do you have to leave and come back another day if you get more than 20 chests or is there a way to reset it's spawn conditions?

This guide helped me so much. Now I can easily clap Marie and Final Dungeons coming up. Izanagi-no-Okami is a freaking tanky boi because I feel nothing while my teammates are struggling. I just want best weapons and I can call it a day. I want the game to still be challenging a bit.

So this is how it's supposed to do. I've seen hundreds of the same video and no one explains better. They just say, go and open 20 and then you hear chains and have the chance. Even seen ppl saying to open all the chests in 5F instead of other floors like you said. It made me think it was necessary to open all the chests in the same floor first. OMG! Seriously... how rare is this encounter? Did they change or above 1/20+ reloads or more is normal? I'm reloading game for like an eternity now, at least 15x and never once this fk reaper appears. I hear the chains, open box, nothing happens and the sound disappears.

I was wondering what those sounds of chains clanking were!

i heard the chains first time playing this level and was confused as hell. Good thing i didnt find out what it was

Now this is helpful now to farming

thanks bro reaper farm driving me nuts

Damn, I have tried reloading 7 times still no sign of the reaper =(

Thanks bro

Its best if you have that card where you aviod shadows to increase you odds

Has anyone done this on 03/20? I've tried like 30 times with no luck. The chests on F5 always drop the exact same 2 things, 1 pinwheel and 3 Goho-M 😭

I tought it was like persona 3 where you will encounter him if u stay inside a floor too long, man, kinda disappointed that is this rng thing

Does raining make it have a higher spawn rate? edit: I managed to beat him. For some reason he wasn't spawning on 5F so I decided to try another location. I went to heaven 9 and just did the same as 5F and I got him in 2 tries. I am also playing on PC so they may have changed it.

After you've beaten him once can you just go to 5f again or do I have to get all 20 chests on 1f beforehand

What if you hear the reaper chains before 20 chests?

Was this patches done something? I followed this step by step and isn't working.

I unintentionally got Reaper to spawn when I was grinding for specific quest items. I was way under leveled, so I escaped cuz there was no way I'm losing all my progress. It was my first time seeing Reaper in this game. He never spawned once in my one PS Vita playthrough I did some years back

I accidentally Spawn The Reaper while saving Rise in her dungeon in 1st floor actually. Im re-playing the game and this is ny first time encounter

off topic but i finished the game without even seeing the maids costume smh. I equipped them but they're not allowed on the last dungeon

I’ve redone the floor 5 method and have reset over 25 times. I hear chains every time. Do I need to have something else or is it just bad luck?

what happens if you hear the chain in 1f before going to 5f

what is omnipotent orb? accessories?

can you hassou tobi the reaper? how to use japan VO in p4g?

I head the chain 2 or 3 times and I check the chest

I was doing this cause I thought it was a glitch I could exploit, so the chains weren’t part of the ost 😭

I don't know the rattling chain was supposed to be the reaper at this rate:")

How many attempts does this usually take? I’ve been reloading but never get the reaper to come out the chest on floor 5 when the chains are rattling.

Are there any other specific requirements? I've been doing the exact same thing from the video, but he never shows up. I've tried for like more than an hour, still no luck

Weird,i already try exactly like the video, but nothing happen to me. Already try 4x try, but only normal shadow jump from the 22th chest

I hate the reaper, it just feels like reload after reload after reload! I've reloaded over 30 times now and still no reaper , I've done everything this method says to do

im not hearing the chains after opening the 21st chest, anyone knows why?

Ok but how are you able to continue from floor 5 despite clearly having beaten her shadow

The reaper does not play around.

Jesus- this guy was annoying to find. I hate rng crap like this. Thankfully Persona 5 does away with the rng crap for bringing the big guy.

I can't find him

i'm following a 100% guide and having trouble getting the reaper to spawn, i HAVE to assume that you were using the same guide because i looked up and we were on the exact same date, 1/18. that's the date the guide tells you to fight the reaper, no chance that's a coincidence right??

I've heard that for this method to work, you needed to at least have played the game twice (meaning that in the first run he doesn't appears). Indeed, I've heard the chains for many times but never ended up meeting the Reaper. Is this true then?

?? All i did was vibe and he would appear

How did u get the voice to Japanese?

Yeah followed this video to a T and didn't hear any chains my guy yet you do don't use mods for an info vid if you're not gonna be serious

This fight isn't too hard if your at level 95 with Yoshitsune xd

I can confirm that this doesn't work on the ps4 version sadly... been at it for hours

Does opening golden chests reset the chest count?

I got the reaper to spawn first try

Stop Rise, you're not Dababy

Doesn't work

Man its 1h30m their is no reaper

Is this method patched? I keep on getting the same drops from both chests on floor 5

no cause why do you have those outfits

I would say this was fun but that ****** had way too many kill moves, good thing I had a persona that nulified both before I faced it sweet sword though, even the design was good

I Heard chains noises before the 21 treasure,it's normal?

My fellow Vita players; it takes only 18 chests.

Imagine using red subtitles ffs

Not working

Yeah I'm not going to bother with this I've spent nearly an hour looking for him I'm done

By chance does this this work?, thank you for any response

Can this be done on the first playthrough

can we get weapon for inactive member?

dying

Rise voice in Japanese is slow torture ffs

Yea but the money and exp is just, bleh

Cryptic…pretty dumb addition to the game

....why did you dress them up in maid outfits?

goofy ahh game