Persona 5 Strikers

Persona 5 Strikers

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Farming BOND EXP with Metatron Sidequest (Post Game)
By ness
Hello everyone,

This guide will be for all of you that are trying to attain the "Eternal Bonds" achievement. In case you aren't aware, this is the most time-consuming achievement in the game. This guide will help to cushion the blow of spending dozens of hours killing standard end game shadows with something that works better.

Just a spoiler warning for you who have not yet beat this great game yet, this guide will include content from the end game of Persona 5 Strikers.

Now there are only two strategies for this achievement so far, personally I believe this strat is the easiest but if you want to try a different one and want to decide which one is better for you, check out this guide right here -> https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2404439060


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Preparation

Now, for the actual strategy

The first thing you are going to want to do is make sure you are right before the true final boss.

Also make sure you set your game to easy difficulty to make the grinding faster. You will want to do this trust me.

-Now what you are going to want to keep doing without stopping is completing the POST GAME quest called "Angel of Contracts Descends". This is a quest located in the last Jail, Tree of Knowledge.

If you are hung up about the post game quest part, you just have to load your completed game save data to resume right before the final boss. You will have new quests.

-This quest will require you to defeat the Shadow of God "Metatron", the reward is 25,000 yen.
You can get to this quest very fast by hitting up, left 2x, and up 4x on the location tab to get to the quest very quickly. Now the Shadow of God can be found at the last checkpoint before the final boss Hall of Contracts, it should be selected by default when choosing a checkpoint.
Fighting Metatron without Yoshitsune
-When it comes to your team composition, there's two thieves you will need at most. Ryuji and Zenkichi. It's also recommended you have a healer. Ann, Makoto, Morgana, and Sophia get the job done.


-Metatron has two weaknesses, both Zio and Eiha family skills. You are going to mainly be spamming both of these at first at first depending on your level. Also having the passive skill "Shock Boost" helps a lot. By the end you will be able to handle the boss solely with Joker.

-At the beginning of the fight, instantly cast Debilitate (or Rakunda if you are poor). the only party member to naturally obtain this skill is Zenkichi. The next step you will want to take is to cast Matarukaja with Skull/Joker

-After buffing and debuffing, the strat is easy, Cast Ziodyne/Thunder Reign until you can use Technicals. You are allowed to use 1 more and showtimes if you get them. Make sure you are charged before you are able to get technical attacks (or shocked state, same thing). Spam charged physical skills, make sure you have at least severe damaging skills like Megaton Raid. You should be able to get at least 2 charged skills off before the shock state wears off, by then you should have accumulated a good amount of damage.

Keep in mind that shock state can carry over after an All Out Attack, so don't be afraid to perform one.

-Also keep in mind that if you ever run out of HP, heal and if you ever run out of SP with Ryuji, Joker can usually finish the job.

After you defeat Metatron, you should get an okay to decent amount of Bond exp (at least 25%).
Leave the jail and claim the quest rewards, accept the quest again, and rinse and repeat.

I feel as if it would be foolish of me not to make recommendations of bond skills to level up while grinding. First you should definitely go for the Bondmaker skill. It increases the rate at which you earn bond exp. The next would be any of the following. Any skill that gives you more ST stat, increases physical skill damage, and crit chance, followed by skills that give you more HP and/or SP.

High Level Joker w/ Yoshitsune, Technical Adept
Now this is not a radically different strategy but one that is much faster

-When you are level 99 with Joker, you most likely have the potential to fuse Yoshitune. Yoshitsune is usually one of the most powerful demons in any SMT game, because of his vicious attack stats and his unique move Hassou Tobi. He can also learn many buffs and debuffs by himself making him the ultimate physical persona.

Now I am not actually sure if Hassou Tobi has any edge over any other Colossal damaging skills but fuse him just to be safe.

-The recipe for Yoshitsune is a Level 70 Siegfried, Level 60 Yatagarasu, and both Level 50 Arahabaki and Oukuninushi.

-Once you fuse Yoshitsune, he won't have all of his best abilities but as long as you have Hassou Tobi you should be fine. As long as you have debilitate, attack buff, and charge on other personas, you're good. If not, level him up with persona points. You should get most of the required skills.

At this point in the game and have not been using every skill card you get, you should have at least 1 Technical Adept skill card. This is a passive skill that raises the damage of technical attacks. You see where we're going?

I also recommend using any Strength Incense you have left on Yoshitsune. Also use any incense that boosts HP and SP on Joker.


Once you have the lord himself, your battles should go a little something like this.

Debilitate -> (Any attack buffing skill) -> Charge -> Zio family skills until physical skills have a technical next to their icon -> Use a charged Hassou Tobi -> Charge -> Charged Hassou Tobi -> All Out Attack -> Metatron loses around at least 1/3 of his HP -> repeat until he is dead.

Conclusion
Sorry if this achievement is an absolute slog to get through. This will take hours and hopefully I provided ways to achieve this faster. Anyways, I hope you enjoy Persona 5 Strikers as well as the rest of the Persona and Megami Tensei series. Hopefully we get more Atlus JRPGs on Steam in the near future.


Have a good one.
16 Comments
threemar 12 Mar, 2023 @ 7:30pm 
It's been a year or two since I actually did this, but isn't is easier to just do a merciless play through? Yeah merciless is tough, but with the right personas, every fight is a cake walk.
Pexl 22 Jan, 2023 @ 3:54am 
I remember doing this on PS4 after launch, I used a max level Alice with maxed stats and like 500-600 SP on Joker so I could literally just spam curse skills the entire fight without having to worry about resources for it. One entire cycle (accepting the contract to claiming the rewards in the van) took about 2 minutes, and it took a 12 consecutive hour grind session to max out the BOND level. Just bought the game on Steam again a couple days ago, absolutely dreading having to do the grind again for all achievements
birdfoot 3 Jan, 2023 @ 5:46am 
For anyone who intending to do merciless NG+ eventually, it's a lot faster to farm bond XP using the dire shadows (which are repeatable in merciless). The dire shadow I did was the one in Sendai jail, using a Inferno-focused Cerberus build (which you can find on Youtube). I started the runs at around bond level 76+ and it levels up after every 2 fights. So you can pretty much hit level cap within a few hours. It also has the additional benefit of farming random incenses at the same time, which are used to increase persona stats. That said, Metatron farming is still relevant for those playing on other difficulties.
Kushina 22 Oct, 2022 @ 2:07pm 
Whoever actually got Yoshistune, I admire you.
VILLAIN 23 Mar, 2021 @ 5:49pm 
Just letting you all know, this will take a long time, so i suggest splitting it between days. I did mine in 5 hours for each day, and a grand total of 3 days. it really did feel like a drag, and by the end of it i was almost able to do an entire run without looking at the screen~ i was watching youtube vids instead
ness  [author] 5 Mar, 2021 @ 3:28pm 
I don't think so. When testing the fortune strat in Sendai. I had to get through the entire first dungeon on NG+. Now I know I shouldn't get much exp because of level scaling but at the end of the first dungeon I got like 1/5 of a level on bond level like 70 or something. That took around 30 minutes and while I know later dungeons will yield a lot more exp, I'm doubtful the time sink of skipping cutscenes, cooking meals, and everything else would be worth this constant stream of bond exp. I will do more testing on this though.
Lolle man 5 Mar, 2021 @ 11:00am 
honestly isnt it better to just go into NG+ merciless and play through it normally
cuz u get alot more xp for all the fights and its alot more fun instead of just grinding one enemy
ness  [author] 3 Mar, 2021 @ 10:05pm 
You can farm quests that are repeatable through the whole game, but this specific quest is in the post game (loading back in after a completed save). You keep your bond level and skills in NG+ as well.
Leinad 3 Mar, 2021 @ 5:25am 
Bond lvl stacks for NG+?
Or the game has a post game "mode" where you can farm all this things and finish requests?
Hoopryfien 2 Mar, 2021 @ 11:53am 
This was the last achievement I obtained, I wish I knew about this last week since it is definitely more engaging than rubbing that statues feet over and over again in Osaka lmao.