Hopefully you’ve spent some of your free evenings over the last since the last Full Moon in training your team in Tartarus, since the June Full Moon operation brings with it not one but two Shadows🤡 you’ll need to defeat. Thankfully, though, you’ll ✤have an advantage in a new teammate.

Fuuka Yamagishi has been lost inside Tartarus,𝓡 and in the process of saving her, you’ll find her navigational and scanning capabilities far exceed Mꦛitsuru’s. With Fuuka’s new powers, you’ll need to take on the Emperor and Empress Full Moon Shadows at once as they change their affinities.

This guide contains spoilers for the second Ful🎃l Moon boss battle in Persona 3 Reload.

Emperor And Empress Boss Battle Overview

For your second boss battle in Persona 3 Reload, you'll be up against not one but two powerful Full Moon Shadows - arcana Emperor and Empress, who attack Tartarus together during the Full Moon on 6/8.

Leading up to the fight, you'll have heard talk of disembodied voices summoning people into Tartarus, and without Personas of their own, these civilians don't typically fare too well against🦂 the gruesom🍌e monsters seeking to kill them inside.

As such, when Fuuka Yamagishi is trapped in Tartarus during the Dark Hour by accident, the team knows how urgent it is to rescue her before it's too late. However, in the process of doing so, they'll be attacked by the Full Moon shadows and made to fight for their lives before earning a new and more powerful navigator for the team after the fight has been won.

We recommend having your party members at or around Lv. 20 for this fight. Mitsuru and Yukari will be present, but only Akihiko and Junpei fight the Full Moon shadows with you, so if you're giv💜ing preference 🐈to anyone as you grind for EXP, give it to them.

For the most part, Empress will have a weak༒ness to physicaღl attacks, while Emperor takes damage from magic skills.

Persona 3 Reload Affinity Chart Key

Emperor Affinity Chart For Persona 3 Reload

Empress Affinity Chart For Persona 3 Reload

Just be wary of the Shadows' current affinities before or after Paradigm Shift when choosing an attack - your options for dealing dama𝕴ge outside their weakness are pretty limited.

How To Defeat Emperor And Empress

Enter Tartarus To Rescue Fuuka Yamagishi

The mission begins when your group goes to Gekkoukan just before the Dark Hour on the night of the next Full Moon, 6/8. In the real world, you'll sneak in before you divide and conquer to find the key to the gym.

You and Yukari go to the Faculty Office in search of the key, which you'll find on a rack of keys on the back wall after some dialogue. Choose any answer when prompted, and you'll meet back▨ up with the group afterward.

Except, when the Dark Hour begins and Tartarus erupts from the school, you, Akihiko, and Junpei get separated when you spawn into the Arqa block of Tartarus. As you walk around searching for the stairs to rejoin your party, you'll periodically hear a girl's voice asking if you're there and if you're human.

Thankfully, you all meet back up right near Fuuka, who's been hiding in Tartarus avoiding the Shadows this long because she can sense where Shadows are around Tartarus.

However, Mitsuru calls to say they're being attacked downstairs, and Fuuka confirms that two powerful Shadows are back at the entrance to Tartarus. However, just as you arrive to find Mitsuru and Yukari having a hard time with the Full Moon Shadows, Natsuki, the girl who'd been bullying Fuuka, enters Tartarus as wellꦉ✨.

Desperate, Fuuka awakens to her Persona, a large navigational Persona named Lucia. And not only does Lucia allow Fuuka to protect herself and Natsuki, but she's also able to ascertain the affinity charts and attacks of enemy Shadows.

Just in time, too - the Emperor and Empress don't give you long to chat before they attack, and the fight begins before your party has any actual time to regroup or strategize.

Use Fuuka's Full Scan Ability To Counteract Paradigm Shift Changing The Shadows' Affinities

Mitsuru and Yukari were having a hard time handling these two Full Moon Shadows because they each have a unique move - Paradigm Shift enables arcana Emperor and Empress to completely change their affinities in the middle of battle, which they'll usually do right after you'🐟ve finally figured out what they were weak to.

By casting Paradigm Shift on their turn in the fight, each enemy's affinities swap, meaning what was super-effective on your last turn may now deal no damage, or worse, heal the enemies. Additionally frustrating, each Shadow has its own affinities, so♐ using multi-target moves trying to take them both out at once is a waste of SP.

After one full turn has passed in battle and everyone on the field has gotten a chance to attack, Fuuka can scan the enemies for their weaknesses and present you with a full ✱affinity c𝔉hart each time you ask.

It's pretty eas🐲y to handle here, but new to P3R, Fuuka has an SP meter, and scanning costs 35SP per Shadow, so just keep this in mind for sca෴nning requests going forward.

Each time the Shadows use Paradigm Shift, have Fuuka scan them again to figure out exactly how their af🎉finity chart has changes, and don't worry too much about attacking until you've found a weaknes🤡s to exploit - other attacks won't do much.

By cycling through the Shadows' affinities, continue to exploit enemy weaknesses as they change to deal consistent damage to the Shadows until they go down for the count. Not only is this the only way they'll take meaningful damage, but you'll also be able to use All-Out Attacks to damage them both at the same time.

You'll likely defeat one Shadow a turn or two before the other, but the fight ends after both Shadows have been defeated. After the fight, you'll watch a few cutscenes with the group before heading back to the real worlꦜd at the end of the Dark Hour with your mission firmly accomplished.