how to spend your evening in persona 5, have a cat tell you you're too tired and wont allow you to go anywhere but your bed. sighhh

you forgot one more, make as many lockpicks as you can

Not bad suggestions, but here's my take: 1. Raise guts. The best early way to do this is to eat at the diner in the afternoons, since this also raises knowledge, which will help you prep for exams (these take place shortly after the dungeon and can really blindside you.) There's a few incredibly valuable confidants blocked behind your Guts progression. Renting the X-Folders DVD will let you continue Guts training into the night as well. 2. Build lockpicks, there's four locked item chests in the dungeon. The game forces you to build one lock pick, and you can grind out material for three more when you venture into the dungeon. This also raises proficiency. Assuming you have enough parts, you can build three lockpicks in a single sitting, giving you all that you need. 3. Don't bother with SP items. I know that sounds weird, but all the SP recovery you need can be found in the dungeon. If you play smart and exploit weaknesses, you can finish the dungeon in 3 days without ever using a SP recovery item. Technically two days, but since the game forces you out before the boss, three. 4. Before day 2 in the dungeon, flip any excess items for cash and buy armor and a weapon for each party member. The better equipped your party is, the more likely they'll be able to do a deep dive on the second day. You should find a gold breastplate in the dungeon before then, it's worthless to equip this as the stat boost is pathetic, but it sells for 5k yen. 5. Last, buy some plant food. It's hella cheap and feeding your plant is a non-time consuming way to build kindness. Everything the video lists you should do, but these will give you really nice bonuses in the early game. Especially guts. Takemi's is blocked from progressing until you rank up, and afterwards when you participate in her clinical trials, it helps build Guts. Kawakami requires a moderately high level of Guts to begin, but upon unlocking and progressing her confidant chain, you will unlock methods of saving time (letting you make tools with impunity, or completely freeing up nights after dungeon crawling, for example.)

I disagree with training. I mean reading books, coffee, curry, hierophant I feel are all better than a few hp. The only times I've died have been instant kill moves.

Persona 3: First (and only) dungeon is a castle-like tower Persona 4: First dungeon is a castle Persona 5: First dungeon is also a castle I smell a pattern...

What I found really annoying is how often you don't get the option to do anything at all. I've been wanting to make lock picks for days now, but due to the story line I couldn't. And Morgana won't let me make any, saying I'm too tired to do so. I find that really annoying. Leaving the locked treasure chests in the castle is frustrating.

Buy SP sodas in the courtyard and shibuya central street vending machines. They restock every monday.

Weapons are actually quite unimportant this early on. Not to say that it isn't a good tip, if you find yourself struggling the small bit of extra damage is definitely worth trying. But for the most part, all money should go to the healing/SP items. Also, I know the game encourages the weakness system, but Mona get Media quite early on. Basically as soon as this happens, switch Ryuuji/MC to spamming their phys moves in normal combat. You SP is better saved for challenging sub-bosses/bosses.

I just started playing this. I was able to complete the palace 60% on day one that is after the heavenly punisher. I finally died near the guillotine. Thus game is superb!! and a lot of fun on merciless. I also seem to have wasted a lot of days after that by hanging out and doing nothing too productive. Really nailed the humongous lead I had.

I'm not so sure these are particularly good tips. If you level up the clinical trials (Death arcana) she will sell accessories that restore SP every round in battle, the sooner you get this the better. The accessory makes completing the palaces trivial in on sitting and also Money and SP items become irrelevant as you can grind indefinitely in palaces/mementos, so i wouldn't ignore that arcana, i would actually raise it asap. As there is no way to get more bullets in Palaces and there are far more effective ways to attack upgrading guns is a waste of money, i'd only ever use guns to exploit enemy weaknesses and initiate a hold up. Weapons and armor also aren't super helpful as you can get nice items as drops, but they are still better than guns. I'd also never waste time on training in your room, the 5hp boost is nothing, there are plenty of other useful things to do even early game that raise your social stats, Studying, reading and DVDs are available inside the cafe, and the bathhouse in the neighborhood give a 2-3 boost to charm. One thing i agree with is cleaning the room asap, it'll reveal a plant that you can feed every 16 days for a 1-3 boost (dependent on plant food used) to kindness, feeding the plant also doesn't use up time. As for jobs, you have to do them a couple of time each to unlock missions for Mementos, but these aren't available until a while later and there are other activities that are far better to spend your time on. Some lockpicks are nice but don't stockpile them, eventually you can craft an item that is an infinite lockpick

I would strongly suggest, especially early in the game, to only buy melee weapons. You only use guns when they are weak to them, and they'll grant a 1 More no matter the how strong/weak the gun. Using a stronger melee weapon allows you save save a lot of SP too. You'll find several Soma medicine throughout the game, they sell for 50k each, to your model gun dealer. That will buy each character the best melee weapon, and will make you strong enough to complete the castle in 1-2 days. Lock picks are a early must have too. As soon as you can the confidant No Spoilers! with the roof garden is your best SP recovery medicine, and it's free.

Is it just me or is the conveince store a waste of time? I make 5 times more yen with one trip to a palace or momentos. I focus on social skills but I'm trying my hardest to level them up as fast as possible.

Never knew you did this video Oli. Not bad tips. Having to fight some powerful shadows at a low level makes this palace tough IMO. Stock up on as many healing items as possible from Takemi and always try to exploit shadow's weaknesses as much as possible!

Another way for sp recovery drinks is the 100¥ drinks next to the bath house. They only recover 5sp each, but you don't use up time so those are good early game as well.

Thank you for this video I really need it!!😁

Ummm quick tip coffee aren't the only recovery items, every week vending machine restock, the machine next to laundry and school court yard has two types of soda that recovers sp, shibuya and later Akiba also has sp recovery vending machine

this was the video I was looking for, awsome tips for beginners

Actually, you can get the treasure in the first 2 days after you got ann in your party. Proper conservation of SP + the full sp on party item midway will suffice in merciless mode. You'll be under level though.

the thing is you don't need to do everything the first time through, if you grind through the game the first time and work on maxing out specific confidants (recommended ones Ann and Mishima for later) when they rejoin the list you get bonuses that definitely help with Sojiro as well since the coffee (and later curry) has a greater effect

I feel training for HP is a complete waste of time. I never used it and o get by hard mode without difficulty. I'd rather spend the time on social links and stats building.

My first persona game and I feel like such a noob 😂 but thank you for the tips 👍

to play this game isn't a relaxed one since there are so many things to do before the deadline hits you.. and that's the charm of this game.. oh gosh this brings back old memories of old Shin Megami Tensei series..

You can complete the palace by Friday of the second week (first unscripted week), choosing to search for the treasure room on Wednesday. You don’t need to have too many SP items.

It makes sense you have a lot of free time before May 2nd butI storm into the castle first to reach Kamoshida's meda at lvl 7 on normall. lol But I guess I could always spend the extra days to boost up stats and party before facing Kamoshida himself.

I'm sorry to say but I don't see the points of the video, at all. I mean first of all you can do the boss and send the calling card way before the date and still do theses activities after doing so since you still have to wait for the deadline for the change of heart. Second since it's the very beginning of the game the choices are so limited that you can hardly do anything wrong and lastly you recommend among other things to do training in the room. I think it's by far the worst way to spend any evening in the game. A +4hp increase on Joker is just not worth it at all, spending time with all confidants is so much more important.

great video, really helped me the game can be so confusing sometimes.

Thanks this really helped me

Money was a bit hard to come around for me before gaining access to Mementos. I think the best thing to do early on is to raise social stats to at least rank 2. especially guts so you can do Takemi's social link. And also get kindness up so you can do Ann's after the Kamoshida. Getting to rank 2 doesn't take long at all so I think it's good to focus on that first

Thank you so much! I haven’t played this game in forever because of his damn castle and fantasy’s. This is a fantastic game from the little I played I can’t wait to explore more people castles.

Am I the only player here who knew nothing but raided the palace and finish it in 1 day until you're on the last part then realized "oh so you can go back to reality, I thought you'll be stuck in the palace till you finish it" smh

i really had fun exploring the palace and fighting. i mightve grinded too much and was a bit OP when it came to the boss fight. still a fun fight though

What's the recommended level? I've gotten to the tower in the palace at level 8 and it was a bit tough but the enemies afterwards are kicking my ass. I would try grinding but the exp is so small that I'll be grinding for hours

Thanks for the video i haven't played a persona game since persona 4 golden

How do you get home after school? Morgana keeps stopping me so how did you get to the clinic during the day?

I've just started playing P5 Royal, this helps a lot thank you

So I followed this guide and ended up missing the deadline in kamoshida’s palace. Keep in mind that the palace requires at least 3 days to complete with sending a calling card. Now I have to redo it from the start lol.

Appreciate your advice here. Please be careful though, because Atlus, is handing out channel strikes like candy over this game.

Thanks for this

As somebody who just beat the game for the first time, you do NOT want to mess around whenever the deadline for a new palace comes up. Annoying as it may seem at first, its better to focus solely on getting to a Palace's treasure room from Day 1 and 2 then stealing it ASAP so that you have oodles of free time to spend with friends and raising your stats/preparing for future palaces. So long as you don't waste too much SP in one trip, you should be making substantial progress even this early in the game when not many options exist for restoring SP.

Thanks a lot for the advices, a good start is important!

Dont forget the 5 sp restore items you get from the school courtyard, life saver in the first dungeon.

Strange I've beat this game twice and i was told the opposite, i was told to find the treasure as soon and defeat kamoshida as soon as the palace was available so you can use the remaining days working on stats, confidant,etc. And to never train unless Mona doesn't allow you to leave Leblanc, it's quite refreshing to hear a different point of view

Appreciate your advice here. the biggest problem i had was it a good or bad idea to hurry up and finish the castle. I am not fully familiar with

Will you be doing more persona 5 tips videos?

Great video however I would argue against grinding for weapons as you get a new weapon for joker and ryuji in the dungeon...

I think it's things you really don't need to do in first palace (except many lockpicks - 4 for first palace, more for future Mementos and start part of second palace before mission). Seems author like player too hasty one. All listed you can do after completing first palace. Still you need Takemi and Sojiri confidants before fusing personas. If you want use fused personas in first palace's tower then get confidants before tower. You can farm money (and ingredients for lockpick and sp recovery) in palace, when lvl up initial personas (Jack-o-Lantern, Pixie to start, Arsen to level 5) to maximize their skill count. More money then at job and not use timeslot. When fuse 2 personas with 5 skills you can inherit 3 skills instead of one. And get arcana burst experience bonus for agathion and mandragora they learn extra 1 skill, so you get personas with 6 skills. Level up them to learn 7th skill (and Arsen to level 7 for 5th skill) so you can inherit 4 skills in next fuses and get more powerful personas. For example (and for fun), I fused Berith (for longer usage with Sojiro confidant) with 3 healing skills and Growth 1; Succubus with zio, bufu, garu, Growth 1 skills (learn agi with level up). You can easily heal Joker using Jack-o-Lantern persona vs Jack-o-Lantern shadows. Bargrain with agathions for soul drops (coffee replace - less sp but not using timeslot). Usually they give fruit but have chance give soul drop. Kelpi can summon friends so really useful to farm tin things for lockpics. When your sp run dry don't return from palace. Instead, go to beginng of palace and use basic melee attacks and healing items to level up without spending sp. Level up adds your SP. More max SP you have when return from palace - more SP when you go to palace next time. So earlier you level up - more SP for palace visits. More tips: searchable items (but not chests) has respawn time. If you visit palace again in 2-3 days you can get more items to sell. You not get them if storm palace in one day or skip beginning of palace. Entrance hall also has 2 unlocked treasure chests so dont't skip examine it. School food for 10/20 hp costs less, buy at least 30-40 for lvl up farm. Using healing items with 50 hp recovery in first palace more like critical action, better load last save and replay if happens.

I honestly didn't start buying weapons until the 4th palace XD but I did fine honestly

Yeah this is really good advice. My thanks!

I delayed doing this dungeon almost to the deadline, damn I feel stupid, my knowledge level is oblivious, barely have any guts, proficiency, kindness and charm... plus I heard there were exams shortly after beating the dungeon, which I will most likely fail. GO ME!!! WOOOHOOO!

Thank you, I was starting my first Day in Dungeon to grind but after that will do all of that :)

Love this game I had it two weeks eariler. Amazing

But how I get the chair for training in the cafe leblanc?

Would this guide also apply to Persona 5 Royal?

You can buy SP items from 3 vending machines (Near the bathhouse, Shujin Academy Courtyard, and Central Street Arcade) every Monday. They're only restore 5 SP, but it's better than nothing

Special massage does wonders.

Good guide I’m waiting to buy persona 5 royal because I was done playing and almost completed the first dungeon then I didn’t save so my only save is as a level 1

Thanks man had a hard time on P5R!

It's not too late right? Because I already in madarame's case and almost in the event sending the card

thanks for The tips, dude pls, make this persona 5 videos spoiler-free, cuz i still don't get the game, but I wanna get as much information as possible, and your videos are perfect for that

Well... I should have watched this before the palace. I'm just vibin in the palace now.

Thx i was so lost on how to get a job and there's so many things to do like I wasted my time studying until the 25 th this help

I got destroyed by some mini bosses trying to get to Kamoshida’s treasure, I’m going to prep some more and try again.

So it's normal to go to k's palace on multiple days? Cuz I got demolished by the green horse after he created 7 multiples of itself.

0:05 "6 things you should do..." *looks at video title* *scratches head*

How can i start brewing coffee?

How do you find the weapons shop?😅

Awesome tips, but I gotta ask, why spend time on a part time job making money when you could make money progressing through the dungeon and selling the treasure you find? I just started P5, but have played P3 and P4, so I'm still trying to get a hold of the new systems. Awesome tip about the cheap medicine though, had no idea that existed.

This should be called what to do after Kamoshida’s castle

man i ended up basically fighting the end game boss with almost no sp running off fumes. i had one soma and used it in a fight earlier and screwed myself, but somehow survived to the end XD i think it was like 66% luck and 34% skill lmao. then again i had some op stuff i had prepared a bit beforehand in the metaverse and fusing.

I didn’t know you could leave the palace and did the entire thing in one game day with very little healing on merciless. All the way to the calling card.

Rank the Death confidant up as soon as possible and buy your team some SP regeneration acessories.

I have cleared Komoshidas palace early and have now 8 days left.

If anyone wants a more detailed breakdown on how to maximise your time, KillScotKill's guide is better for a more optimal playthrough. He also explains why he structured it that way which is why I am baffled that the channel owner would suggest wasting time on doing pull ups and doing the convenience store job over the beef bowl shop or florist. If you have the free DLC item pack, sell the Soma item for 50k if you are strapped for cash. As for healing items, keep an eye on the convenience store near the cafe as certain items dedicated to the season will be available and will also be discounted on Sunday (I think). I bought the strawberry seasonal packet (spring) for around 700-800 when it is usually 1,200 or so and will restore up to 70-80hp for the entire party. You can only buy one during the sale however.

I rushed in, got to the treasure the first day and wiped him out after.

They pressured me and I folding. Now I'm low on SP and I'm here

I want to disagree with coffee and training. You don't really need SP recovery items if you play carefully, it's much better to move between safe rooms IMO. And it's waste of time to train that early. Link with Sojibro must be prioritised, and if it's not available, make tools, they will increase proficiency which is important. Overall it's better to clear dungeon ASAP, you'll have much more free time

Man I made a mistake I went into the castle without any sp

I just got this game and went back at the castle... So upset the game didn't notify me that once u go in u can't go out.... -_- >_>

If you want to max confidant first run, disregard everything he says bar Takemi, and just grind like hell in the palace when you get low and ask for items from holdups in the first part. Your first job you can get gives you no stat increase, and should be avoided. Training isn't a good idea until you get to the point in Ryuji's or Ann's confidant that the gym is unlocked, and any time that you spend doing for just one thing is a waste of your time unless you have no other options. To put it simply, time is far more valuable than money- don't waste it.

I'm restarting me playthrough I'm still at the first palace so I dont mind :)

im in 1st dungeon, when using 3rd eye to highlight enemies, is it better to avoid the red ones??

Can do first then do these things?

Btw, is there anything truly useful that part time jobs do? When you go to the dungeon you can kill enemies and get 20k + yen as well as levels and come back home to sleep. Part time job does the same but way less money and no xp?

wow, never knew this. I'm a p5 first timer. And as being utter dumb i literally went to kamoshida's castle palace to steal his heart without any preparation at all.

I disagree with most of these advises. The coffee brewing especially is an extremely bad time investment. Brewing one cup takes one time slot and only gives back 30 SP. On the other hand, going to the dungeon takes 2 slots, meaning that, as long as you need to brew 2 or more cups to finish in one go, it's more efficient to simply take one more day to finish the dungeon. And sure, it gives a small relationship boost with Sojiro, but since the coffee isn't gonna make much of a difference, it's more effective to simply spend time with him. Training is also pretty bad. The health gain can make the difference in a battle, but even if you lose, you're just sent back to the latest Safe Room and don't lose any in game time, only RL one. Training should really be your absolute lowest priority all through the game. Making tools is a more efficient use or your time (notably lock picks) but the other social stats buffs are also a better use of your time in prevision for later. Reminder for the new players : study when it rains and go to the bath on monday and friday. Jobs are also pretty iffy, especially the convenience store one, which is probably the only one available to you at this stage of the game. The pay isn't nearly good enough to justify a time slot and unlike the others, you don't get social stats. The only interest is that a later request requires you to work twice there to get the name of your target, so you can work there once if you really feel that the money will make a difference so that finishing that request is easier once you get it. Still, this is very skippable. The only good point is that the clinic isn't the right place to buy healing items. In fact, I'd go farther than the video and say that you should never buy anything there until you get the half price reduction at confidant rank 7 (except for the SP patches 3 if you can afford them at full price). Sure, these items heal for more at once, which can be useful in battle, but dia heals for roughly 50 which is more than enough at this stage of the game. Instead, your money is better invested in melee weapons and armors which will help you finish fights quicker and save you the SP on healing. I'd say even for a beginner, finishing the castle in two days (tutorial parts excluded, of course) is reasonably easy even without spending too much time on preparation and should be your goal but taking three days isn't an issue. Finishing it in one day is possible, although really hard if you don't know precisely what you're doing and will force you to skip a lot of fights, leaving you under-leveled, which might make further encounters needlessly difficult. There is no need to rush too much early on, especially if you're new to the game.

You can go in whenever. It's not like you have to finish the palace in one go

This video may be old but I didn't understand a lot of these tips, kamoshida is easy to get through without any of this so it's more of a "do it if you want" thing, SP items aren't really a big deal especially in kamoshida as you don't have any really good persona unless it's dlc which you probably can't handle until after madarame or during madarame but SP items aren't even a big deal as long as you can actually exploit weaknesses and not just spam magic moves repeatedly, the other thing I found that was a bit weird was only having about 500 yen when you just got a part time job and have the ability to mug the shadows which is honestly enough to cover a part time job sense you can get money every visit to the palace during the palace and probably way more than a job will give you if you keep mugging shadows I personally only used jobs for the skills, also training isn't at all useful unless you are desperate to get a bunch of health which either way won't help due to the deadline being there and you will still need atleast maybe 4 days if you don't know how to play very well

Also, before the boss hit level 10

Well crap.... I can still leave the Castle and do this before deadline right???? I actually just entered Kamoshida's Castle

Why *BEFORE* ? Couldn't I just beat Kamoshida's palace (which is easy) and then take my sweet time to do all these things?

interesting pronunciations, id love to know where this guy is from to have an accent like that

Fuck, I should have watched this before playing. But I never got the option to train doe, nor brew coffe

i wish my real life like persona 5 life

Don't waste your time working. You should grind for money and experience at the same time. You get more money from dungeons than working. Only work when you need to advance a confidant or gather intel on a momento target. Also, the curatives at locals stores heal HP but they also decrease stats, so don't be cheap with your curatives.

New to Persona. Got to the end of the dungeon on 5/1. I Didn’t realize the calling card takes a whole day away. When I saw that the game took me back an entire week and took away all the shit I worked towards, I rage quitted and deleted the game. I was fuming, not sure if I’m pick it up again.

Why am I watching this only after beating the palace 🤦🏻‍♀️

Interesting that MatPat hasn't done a game theory on this franchise

How to get a lot of starting yen in the beginning of the Game: Go to the PlayStore and Get the free Healing item set that includes Soma, go to Untouchable and sell it for 50,00 Yen!

Claro si eres un novato en la serie lo haría pero como ya tengo experiencia en P3 y P4 no los necesito

Well, these advises are quite bad. 1st dungeon is not that difficult, no need to waste so much time on increasing HP and brewing coffee. focusing on improving social stat and confidant level is the real deal.