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Persona 4 Golden: Solo/Izanagi Only/No Skills (Very Hard)

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Challenge Rules:

1. Solo - Except in Yukiko's Castle where teammates can't be removed the entire game must be done solo. When a team member is present they must guard and All out Attacks are disabled in those fights in the event I crit/item knockdown all enemies. An extension to this rule is all allies in Yukiko's castle must only have their base equipment so I can't give them better accessories to give them higher survival chances.

2. Izanagi Only - This is essentially a No Persona run so I am limited to only ever having Izanagi. Other personas may be in my slots but never used. I can pick them up in shuffle times for sweep bonuses but they must be removed. If I forget it's okay as long as I'm not gaining any benefit like gaining exp from growth to allow for skill cards from Chagall Cafe or actively using them.

3. No Skills - No Skills are ever allowed in battle or out of it, this means attacks, buffs, heals, ailments etc. None can be used. The exception to this is Passive Abilities are allowed. There is 1 instance where I allowed skills*

4. No Velvet Room - Allowing the use of the Velvet Room would mean I could re-fuse Izanagi allowing him to get more passives earlier. Instead I must rely on shuffle times for skill cards and magician cards to skill morph.

5. All Optional Bosses - All Secret Bosses that appear after a dungeon has been finished must be beaten and the Reaper as well. (The superboss is discounted since she is NG+ exclusive but there will be a video on her soon hopefully)

6. No Social Links - No Social Links can be started except for mandatory ones, the one exception to this is Marie to unlock her dungeon which also must be completed. This means No Rise so she doesn't buff or revive you and Hermit is stuck at rank 1.

7. True Golden Ending - I must get the best ending in the game and do the extra dungeons. I can't just fail to guess the culprit and end it there.

8. Very Hard Difficulty

*It is technically possible with godly luck to beat Shadow Yosuke on Very Hard never using a persona skill however this relies on too many dodges to be realistically done. Anyone can feel free to attempt this and prove me wrong but I never got close and due to lack of freedom this early you cant devise a strategy and are limited to 3 medicines only and thats if you get lucky in the tutorial fight so officially the challenge starts on entering Yukiko's Castle.

Aside from a few specific bits of the game this challenge was more tedious than hard. Bosses were often easier than random encounters. Particularly at the beginning I had to gather vanish balls and grind off specific encounters where I was safe for endurance cards. Being unable to save my game until Chie was saved I overgrinded too much out of fear of dying and losing so much progress. A huge part of the game involved swapping floors back and forth to grind for chest only items. Then whenever I got lucky enough for a shuffle time if I were to get a sweep bonus I'd immediately exit the dungeon and save by the tv and go back in then every fight I would do would give me a sweep bonus. Every few fights I would use a Goho-M to save and preserve my sweep bonuses. If I lost it I'd reload. This allowed me to get skill cards faster and in the later dungeons Magician cards to morph my passives to better versions.

You can obtain the 4 base element dodge cards in Yukiko's Castle which is very useful. By Kanji's dungeon you can get the physical dodge and regenerate. When you get access to magician cards these can all turn into evade variants and I ended up with regen 2 and 3 stacked. As soon as you hit Void Quest resist cards are obtainable so you can immediately start mutating those into Nulls which was my setup for basically the rest of the game. Other than endure cards there was nothing any better until Magatsu Inaba where you can finally obtain Absorb Skillcards.

Since I wasn't doing much in the real world most of my free time was dedicated to working in my room for money so I could buy new equipment and elemental items/heals. I did try to complete quests when possible but most of them didn't really help at all. The pinned comment will talk about the individual boss fights and do a brief overview of them but if you have any questions feel free to ask as always!

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