Edit: So looking back at this after 2 years, I was definitely being lenient on whether this run is possible or not. The run is definitely impossible to beat with just the girls since you have moments like Joker only being able to fight Shido in the final phase or that one area in Niijima’s palace.

Honestly I was also thinking of the rule that the MC can only use feminine Personas/Persona only of the arcana as the females, but this was a fun watch nonetheless

The boys: are not allowed to do anything other than revive Ann until queen joins the party. Also the boys: *guard*

Megidolaon gets triggered when you take too long in the bossfight, it happened with me and M****** on the last palace too, basically just a team wipe to reset you

If you take to long on any given boss fight they start spamming megidolaon. Happened to me during the third semester boss fight.

WTF!? first i found out that you can actually be rejected by some of the female confidents and now i learned Wakaba can use megidoloan????? How much shit is hidden in this game?

12:25 i think that unlike base Persona 5, Royal doesnt allow many uses of the ballista since Futaba now reflects attacks on the boss

EXCUSE ME SHE CAN DO THAT!? I've never ever seen her use that skill even after getting platinum in both games and doing over 10 runs each

The Cognitive Wakaba thing happened to me the first time I played Royal. It seems like the ballista not spawning is a glitch exclusive to Royal.

I think i actually saw Wakaba use Megidoloan in my first Royal play through since that boss took me absolutely forever to beat

One thing to say: COFFEE. You can't use Joker, so literally just grind out Lovers and Hierophant confidant or whatever else will help provide benefits to the girls and brew coffee every night you can't do anything else helpful for the girls. SP will never be a problem if you have over 40 master coffee or even regular coffee. It becomes a joke lol it makes things super easy, making 1 day Palace runs very possible

I was going to say "Damn you went into the Holy Grail fight at lvl 90? Overleveled much?" And then I remembered (I forgot for only half a second) that you were playing with only half your party and Joker isn't one of the two. ..... yeah you're definitely going to need some levels

when i did the Yaldabaoth bossfight in P5 i lost when i had the boys, but i won when i had all the girls. Makoto's Marakukaja and Ann's Matarunda saved me too many times

Surprised no one knew about megidolaon since that happened to me in my ng+ run, but I thought it was some sort of ng+ exclusive ability so I never thought much of it till now

This was a really fun video to watch! Looking forward to more challenge runs! :)

I died to Maruki's Megidolaon, even though I just needed one more round! I later got an Endure skill, whcih have me the one more turn I needed. I think many SMT bosses use a buffed Megidolaon if you take too long to beat them.

Once the fifth rule is introduced, it turns from girls only to lesbian third wheel

An all girl team, which was just a coincidence, is how i beat merciless lavenza. Haru with ring of greed for setting up joker in phase 1, technicals in phase 2, crits in phase 3 and barriers if needed in phase 4 shes something of the mvp, kasumi for crits and baton passes to whoever needs it (but especially to haru on phase 2 so she can ring of greed herself for big technical hits) all fight but also phase 3 crit buff with brave step, makoto to buff defense and heal, with pulinpa ring to set technicals for phase 2 and joker to deal high damage in phase 1, support by buffing haru and debuffing lavenza with debilitate in phase 2, crits in phase 3 and wind damage in phase 4(she swaps between two personas and each have different resistance, though niether are resistant to wind. I used vishnu.) with a persona that has endure/soul in case you dont do enough and she uses her 1 shot, in phase 4 endure procs on it and youll live letting you finish the fight trivially. Of course, futaba taken to jazz club a bunch for the maximized chance of using abilities

This game has a weird obsession with Megidolaon nuking when you take too long🤣

Sowwy! :) 12:38 Again, you can show what you did in your version of run. Cause my version is a literal Saw trap.

So hyped for this!

"Having all three of them is normal" - after all, nobody actually wants Skull, Fox, or Mona in the party.

I didnt even know that was a thing against Madarame. Learn something new every day.

You had the perfect set up for a 2 girls one cup joke......... lol the first video I've ever an of yours... instant sub lol.

I actually did it and recorded it in P3P for funzees, it was not too hard but I had fun. I also only used female personas because it makes more sense. I honestly want to do BOYS only in P4, since I feel it would be more challenging than girls only in P4 in particular

thanks man your videos really helped get my mind off things

Rewatching this, I realized there was an easier way of dealing with Maruki. Haru could use her 3rd awakening skill, Life Wall, and reflect his Raining Seeds ability back at Maruki and Azathoth since reflect damage does not get reduced by the tentacles.

Awesome work keep going

Ay great vid u got a new sub

Bro you content is highly underated ! >:(

I have over 800 recorded hours in Persona 5: Royal alone, and an additional 300+ in base P5. Not once in ANY playthrough had Wakaba used Megidolaon once. What kind of sorcery did Futaba pull out of her palace to do this is beyond me to be honest.

Right so I had something similar happen to me with maruki where after a while he ended up using megidoan and my freind told me that he apparently does that after around 50 turns so maybe other bosses have that feature cause when I saw the megidoan answer I immediately thought of that so it might be a thing to kill u off if your just rushing the bosses

I never knew wakaba could use megidolaon

13:38 I remembered this happening out of nowhere on my third playthrough of the game 😂😂😂 like I don’t even think I was stalling for time I was just fighting the boss like I normally did and boom MEGIDOLAN 😭😭😭

Bang with another banger

just curious but would anyone know if there is a button on the ps4 controllers that makes you start scrolling in the inventory without even touching the controller and makes it so you aren't able to press on any persona skills in battle because other than the scrolling and personas the game is playing normally i've redownloaded the game as well to see if that works but it's still doing it

NOW we're asking the real questions.

How about a challenge using the weaker stats? An example would be like using Pixie-mostly a magical user, using strength and vice versa with a physical user with magic skills. That way it’d be a bit harder and have to really think outside the box for it 😂 If you’re gonna use party members, use their weaker stat: Ann with Strength (so regular attacks or the accessories with physical skills), or Ryuji with Magic (same thing applies like Ann). Or even One Element per Persona. Example- Oni with Physical skills and only physical skills, no healing, elements, etc., but passive skills are fine. Can’t wait to see what you’ll do next! 👍👍

towards like the final half of the game my team was literally joker, makoto, ann, and haru. It worked surprisingly well for a while, and the only reason i changed it for the final 2 bosses (final 2 for royal) was because i kinda needed ryuji’s physical attacks

Honestly this run could have been more interesting if items and additional skills weren't allowed. Just seems like that alone would balance out using 3 girls near the end.

Joker: “Ya know, I’m something of a girl myself” 😏

Heh, thought this would've been Persona 3 portable run, but was suprised:)

Here are a few Tipps you could have done to make the run more optimal. Both of those tricks also mean you should delay doing Futaba’s palace until near the end of the month. The Wakaba fight can easily be cheesed by just spamming the tertakarn spell. Which can be bought at Takemi’s as a consumable once you max out her confidant. You can unlock this once you get charm 4 and do the mementos request during the moth where Futaba’s palace would be done. You should try to speed run the Justice confidant, since at rank 4 it unlocks the Jazz club. Not just is it a great idea for a date but the extra stats and moves really help any run where you focus more on specific teammates to do the heavy lifting

The Waka thing might be similar to the Velvet Twins/Lavenza Bossfights If you haven't dealt a certain amount of damage at a certain trigger, your party gets one shot. I don't understand the purpose behind doing it in the Wakaba fight, but she clearly can't use an AOT like the blue girls

Nice video bro

what a great challenge

The funny thing is if u just use physical ointment she does 1000's of damage to herself so just keep spamming tetrakarn/physical ointments

The wiki got updated and added megidolaon to her moveset list

Queen, Noir, Violet were pretty much my endgame party.

I was like "dlc is allowed? Damn that's broken, you can just myriad truths your way through the game..... waaait a minute"😂

If you allow boys to revive they are doing something and it makes this challenge easier. Still there was no much doubt you would manage. Just a little 'cause okumura.

I played on easy difficulty for my first playthrough of this game, and during the Wakaba fight I never got a second ballista shot at all. That fight took me over 6 hours and numerous attempts

I lost to the final Royal boss so many times in my original playthrough in 2020 to megidolaon. It was so annoying, didnt realise Wakaba and the other bosses could use it too

P5 challenge runs are SO fun

You made this a lot harder then it could have been since you never took your female teammates to the jazz club for the buff/debuff spells or concentrate.

I purchased P5s Last year and didn’t try it yet (got distracted by work, universal and Pokemon masters EX/Brilliant Diamond) I’m glad I didn’t need to pay attention to every member but are persona bonds with some males important ? and do I need specific shadows for the endgame cause I personally want to keep using Arsane and Carmine.

There is one quest in royal that I think would be a challenge to complete with this I don't know if you did it I haven't watched the video yet

Here's a modded twist on this run: Joker is allowed thanks to the P5R Female Protagonist mod. However, to compensate for the advantages this provides: only 1 additional party member is allowed to act/be deployed in most fights (instead of 2 in this run), Joker herself may only use Pixie when possible, and DLC/Gift content is banned (with the possible exception of cosmetic-only costumes and battle BGM). Skill Cards are allowed, but Velvet Room access is at runner discretion. The run starts with Joker's awakening; however, Morgana is given a free pass up until Ann's awakening due to having forced actions in multiple tutorial battles...and most likely being necessary for healing in the battle *after* the scripted defeat against the Bicorn bunch.

Question, if you allow DLCs, then why don't you use the DLC accessories to help Ann especially through the early Palaces, like the Adhesive Accessory, and maybe one of the DLC ones also give Endure which might help Ann's survivability. Edit: okay, so there's none that give Ann Endure, but there are those that give her evasion against crits and magic. Hm... And... I admit i thought when it's Girls Only, it also means that you only do the Female confidants (i.e. no Ryuji and his Ambush)

I'm surprised you didn't do the Physical Ointment strat against Wakaba. That probably would have done enough damage, even without the second ballista.

guess who updated the wiki for ya

I forget how op ailments are

Sometimes I’m so stupid not to use utility abilities enough in characters. I’ll make sure I start using dormina more. Now that I finished the first palace.

I played boys only a while back. It’s cool to see the opposite. Edit cause I posted early. Just for funsies cause you get the 4 boys in palace 2, I banned female social links unless mandatory.

The Megadolan is just in case people get softlocked on any enemy who nulls or drains phys.

Makoto can use forget to cancel big bang order on okumura boss fight

13:38 -Margaret in P3P Flashback intensifies -

This was a challenge??? I already did this on my first play through on “accident”

Eyyy, glad to see my joke idea becoming reality. Can't wait to see the end result of all this. Ann for life!

“Can you beat it with only the girls?” well I sure hope so because once I finish the medjed arc that’s what my team will be

Do ,,Beating P5 while only using Morgana,Ryuji and Anne"

chad yu is proud of you.

dont quote be but i think its like after 40~ turns she casts megidolan

6:50 um WHAT. Since when coukd u paint over the paintings??? I spent a good ten minutes dealing damage and getting rid of those things…. What is this

God almighty this type of video sounds funs but girls only doesn't really change from how i see people teams in final battles

After watching this I went to check the wiki about Wakaba using megidolaon Yay its in the wiki now

i am on my 7th playthrough of persona 5 i did not knew SHE COULD DO THAT

Ann Makoto Haru is already busted, if only we could change Joker for Violet that would be perfect

It’s Girls Night!

but how are you going to do that if have joker as your permanent member.?

It's funny, when I fought against Sphynx Wakaba, the ballista didn't shoot her a second time. Maybe it's a Royal thing?

I think Joker needs to attack in order for the ballista to work. Every other time you described that the ballista didn't work, Joker was not allowed to do anything. But when you finally desided to let him attack, the ballista worked.

Wait....what about the nue fight that you are forced to play with ryuji and joker only in madarame palace?

The ballista not going twice is a royal thing. Makes the fight much more difficult since it was pretty easy before since you literally just had to stall. I have no clue why it went again. its not supposed to. you broke it congratulations 👍

Alternate name for the run: The Simp Run

funny how you can encounter stuff like wakaba doing that by limiting yourself

I wonder if you can do this in P3P useing femc

wakaba has megidolaeon? what the heck? was that a turn timer?

Bosses use megidoloan as a time limit of sorts, if you take to long they insta kill you because yes

The 1v1 against Shido doesn't count because I can't do anything about this? I don't remember that exception in your initial rules.

Dude I got that ballista glitch on my first playthrough to.

I'm currently doing a run that's the exact reverse of this

remember when kamoshida uses myriad truthes

You didn’t need that 5th rule because even once you got to shido.the run would be over

MEGIDOLAON? IN FUTABAS DUNGEON?

Why can she use that in the fourth place

I never even knew karen could use megidol 😂 in p5 and royal I've never seen that 😂😂

You should try this challenge in FFXV!

i have never heard of wakaba using MEGIDOLAON LMFAOO

Great video dude! Also does anyone know the name of the song used at 15:11?