Jin and Takaya Boss Guide: Weakness and Resistances

Jin and Takaya are Storyline bosses in Persona 3 Reload (P3R) that can be fought at Moonlight Bridge. Read on to learn how to beat Jin and Takaya, know their location, weaknesses and resistances, as well as the recommended party and Personas for defeating Jin and Takaya.

Jin and Takaya Boss Overview

Jin Overview

Boss
Jin Shirato Arcana: Fortune
Date ＆ Location
Date: Novermber 3rd Location: Moonlight Bridge Recommended Level: 53+

Takaya Overview

Boss
Takaya Sakaki Arcana: Fortune
Date ＆ Location
Date: Novermber 3rd Location: Moonlight Bridge Recommended Level: 53+

Jin and Takaya Weaknesses and Resistances

Jin's Weaknesses

Slash				Strike				Pierce
Normal				Normal				Normal
Fire			Ice			Electricity			Wind
Repel			Normal			Normal			Normal
Light						Dark
Normal						Repel

Takaya's Weaknesses

Slash				Strike				Pierce
Normal				Normal				Normal
Fire			Ice			Electricity			Wind
Normal			Normal			Normal			Normal
Light						Dark
Repel						Drain

Jin Shirato Recommended Party Setup

Character	Best Skills	Explanation
Protagonist	・Recarm ・Matarukaja ・Dekaja ・Heat Wave	We want our main character to be dishing out huge physical AoE damage while also supplementing the team with buffs and debuff removal.
Yukari	・Magarula ・Magarudyne ・Mediarama ・Recarm ・Me Patra	Not much is needed from Yukari especially as neither Jin and Takaya nor the Hanged man have any weaknesses. However, Takaya is capable of using Mudoon so having Yukari ready with healing and revival skills are recommended.
Koromaru	・Revolution ・Virus Breath ・Getsu-ei	Koromaru can raise the party's critical hit chance with Revolution. As we're going for a physical attack composition, this is going to be our main method of knocking down both enemies.
Aigis	・Dekunda ・Cruel Attack ・Myriad Arrows	Aigis will be our secondary or main damage dealer depending on the main character's Persona setup. Aigis will mainly use AoE physical skills or further deal damage to downed enemies with Cruel Attack.

Jin Shirato Recommended Personas

How to Beat Jin Shirato

The following tips can help you beat Jin Shirato in battle.

1. Bring Homunculus
2. Focus Jin First
3. Go All out on Damage

Bring Homunculus

Takaya will be using several instant kill light and dark moves. Instead of drafting a team to counter these, we highly recommend bringing a Homunculus instead. This will also allow you to focus on bringin Persona with a high Magic or Physical stat for your main character.

Focus Jin First

Your primary goal in the fight would be to take down one target first to avoid getting obliterated by coordinated attacks. However, we highly recommend focusing your attacks on Jin if you need to target one over the other.

Jin will be using several debuffs and buffs which can make the fight harder than necessary so removing Jin out of the equation first can reduce the fight's difficulty.

Go All out on Damage

As the duo will focus on using combos on your team, we highly recommend allocating all your resources to dishing out your own damage to them as opposed to playing defensively. Allocate one party member to using recovery spells (mainly Yukari) then let the team continue on dishing out damage to finish the fight.

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