Your veryfirst boss Shadow battlein the third door of the Abyss of Time inPersona 3 Reload: Episode Aigiswon’t be an easy one, since both Harem Dancer and Natural Dancer are going to be coming at you with a plethora of different status ailments they’re trying to inflict.
While one of these strong Shadows is weak to Ice magic, the other has no weaknesses and will need to be dealt with using brute force. Make sure you’ve brought either a teammate capable of healing status ailments or items to do the same - you’re going to need them!
Harem Dancer And Natural Dancer Affinities And Attacks
When you locate Harem Dancer and Natural Dancer onCaina B7(with the recurringcheckpoint floor beforehandallowing you to head back to the Desert of Doors to save or regroup if needed), these two Shadows might not look like much off the bat, but you’ll be dealing with a pretty big headache in this fight:they want to inflict status ailmentson your team to throw you off your game.
Affinities and Weaknesses
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Attacks and Skills
Holy Arrow
Light Pierce damage to one foe, with a chance to inflict Charm.
Weak Slash damage to all foes that lands 2-4 times.
Fatal End
Medium Slash damage to one foe, with a chance to inflict Fear.
Dodge Ice
Chance to evade Ice attacks.
Naturally, you’ll want to come into this (and any) Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis boss battle witheveryone’s Theurgy gauges charged. Mitsuru can deal excellent Ice damage this way, Orgia Mode with Metis is helpful in this fight, Yukari’s Wind magic Theurgy is useful when she’s not healing status ailments, and you’ll have a few different multi-tagret Theurgy attacks unlocked for Aigis by now if you’ve been diligent about fusing Personas for her Compendium.
How To Beat Harem Dancer And Natural Dancer
As mentioned above, you’ll need tobe mindful of status ailmentsduring this fight, since both the Dancer Shadows seem pretty intent on inflicting them on your team throughout the fight.Unless Aigis has a Personathat resists status ailments, she and everyone else on the team will be susceptible, and the Dancers will use these attacks quite a lot.
As such, you’ll want tokeep Yukari healing the party’s status ailmentsthroughout the fight if you’re using our recommended team for the Harem Dancer fight, since the last thing you want is your teammates helping the other team while they can’t help themselves under Charm’s spell.
Offensively, it’s fairly easy toexploit Natural Dancer’s Ice weaknessto keep piling on extra attacks for any party member with Ice magic. We recommendfocusing on Natural Dancer first, since it’s generally easier to knock out. A good strategy to use here is, if Metis' Theurgy isn’t charged, have Aigis use an Ice magic attack and then shift to Metis as a rapid-fire way to charge her Thergy gauge. She’s got medium-damage Ice magic by now, so it’s a strong one-two punch as well.
This isn’t always possible with the other Shadow in the fight, though, sinceHarem Dancer doesn’t have any weaknesses. As long as youavoid Ice and Wind magicattacks on it, since these heal Harem Dancer, you’ll be good to go. This is also where Metis comes in, since she’s got a wealth of powerful physical damage moves by now that compliment her raising strength stat nicely.
Your Theurgy attacks have a higher chance of dealing critical damage, so it’s not a bad idea to focus them on Harem Dancer specifically in an attempt to knock it down, since you may’t exploit any elemental weaknesses to do so.
Rewards For Defeating Natural Dancer And Harem Dancer In Episode Aigis
Hopefully you’ve collectedseven Twilight Fragmentseither inthe Dorm or Paulownia Mall, or from the breakables around the Caina door inthe Abyss of Time, since your rewards are once again locked inside these rarer chests.
Opening each of them provides you with:
You’re amassing quite a pile of Major Arcana cards by now, and defeating Harem Dancer and Natural Dancer adds another: theLovers Major Arcana card. When choosing this from your Shuffle Time deck, you’llincrease your odds of finding rare Shadowslike Golden Hands or Greedy Hands until you next leave the Abyss.
