Thanks for all the comments and support y'all! It's been really fun reading all of your different thoughts and reasonings for why you would have different characters higher or lower, the new perspectives are definitely a treat to hear. Really just goes to show how balanced the game is party member option wise :) Over the months since this video, I'm not sure if I'd change much of this. I'm still fairly confident in my own judging, but I think I'd swap Teddie and Yosuke though. The real challenge comes for making a video like this for P5R and P3 though, just y'all wait for those ones

Rise in Arena: Man It sucks I'm not as good as Fuuka with my Navi skills. Also Rise: Lemme just buff the party while also bringing you back from the brink of death like nothing happened.

My final team was yukiko, chie, yosuke. They’re the first ones to join and my attachment to them was too strong to let any other member finish the game

Hearing "bearsona" made me flinch

kanji jumps from D to A the moment he learns power charge, THE DAMAGE DISHES ITSELF (also having matarukaja and extra magic helps)

I always end up using Yukiko, Kanji, and Naoto. They've just synergized for me. And Yukiko was easily my MVP aside from Rise.

It's funny that you have the experience of Chie going down first. I never had that problem outside of bosses which spam fire Magic. Her evasion rate is just extremely solid imho, especially when buffed.

Honestly, it is amazing how much Rise has going for her even beyond what you said. One very important thing to note is that *because* she's not a traditional party member, she doesn't take up a spot in your recruitment, which means she's present in every single fight you partake in after you get her. I also seem to remember that her AI for what she actually does when she appears for support can actually be manipulated somewhat. If you manage to keep everyone buffed and at high health throughout a fight, she will be more consistent in providing SP restoration and those free charges, which is just nuts.

When I saw Chie on the bottom spot, I immediately thought, “Did they really just forget about galactic punt?” Sure, it counts as a physical attack, so you can’t follow up on enemies that have null/deflect physical, but it is the best follow up attack that you can get and you get it very early on in the game. I knew before watching, there was going to be one party member I wouldn’t agree with, but I didn’t expect to disagree so early in the video.

For me i've always had yosuke, naoto and yukiko on my team so this list makes me feel even prouder of my team choice.

Chie’s galactic punt was so broken in my play through it was great.

The thing about Yosuke is that he is always good at all points of the game, and fully available. He's never the best, but he can always contribute, so you will never regret bringing him along. His shear consistency is his greatest asset.

Yukiko is a beast, really handy during the entire game, healing and then fire amp + fire spells. Agree with your list in general.

i will always regret not getting rise to rank 10…

Mind Charge + Burning Petals and Power Charge + Hassou Tobi and BOOM! The boss is nowhere to be found.

Bro… Chie punted a boss out of the arena in the first round. She was forever best girl after that. 😂❤

What's even better about yukiko, is you can give her a full sp build, which pushes her max SP to 650+. Combined with Rise's passive SP heal, every fight started with a burning petals for me in endgame lmao

I’m not gonna lie I skipped through this video to see if Yukiko was at the top (YOU DIDN’T LET ME DOWN!), I feel like people don’t give her her dues enough because they don’t like her as a character when she’s undeniably an EXCELLENT party member, she was carrying my team the whole way through I’m only a *bit* biased cause she’s my favourite girl also haha Same thing happens to Rise with people not acknowledging how good she is, although I guess if somebody disliked her enough to not do her social link, they also wouldn’t reap all the great benefits of her as a navigator

this is a great video! really well researched! love your stuff! I disagree about Teddie being so low, because I really just think the parties purpose in Persona ends up being buffing the protagonist, as the amount of damage he can do is LEAGUES above everyone else. Usually Teddie is so busy buffing/healing for me, it doesn’t really matter that he falls short in other regards! Just my take tho

chie will always be my favorite character, and she and yukiko will always be in my team. Her thing with not feeling as if she is not good enough makes her my favorite party member to use. Even if she isn't good early game, imma still use her because it feels like a betrayal of her character to me.

Didn't know Kamui Miracle could do so many things! You learn something new every day, great video :)

where adachi on this list wtf

Thanks for this video. I recently begun with Persona 4 Golden as my first Persona game, and I really wanted to know who were some of the better party members.

1) Yu (of course) 2) Yosuke (Most versatile party member. Good magic, support and healing abilities, a complete party member). 3) Yukiko (Kinda tied with Yosuke, best healer in the game and really good magic damage). 4) Chie (Best physical party member in my opinion. Good physical attacks, HP and endurance and 3rd skill is OP, even tho it's expensive but if you have the item that halves your SP, there's no problem). 5) Naoto (When it comes to random encounter, she is the best party member. She also has almighty damage but it's hard to build her and using her in boss battles). 6) Kanji (Highest physical strenght and endurance but his attacks only target a foe, so there's not really a reason to use him over Chie. You also need to do his social link for him to have power charge, while Chie only needs to level up). 7) Teddie (He's outshown by literally everyone. He has Ice skills, but Chie already has those plus good physical skills, he supports, but Chie, Kanji and Yosuke can do that as well and his physical attacks are lacking.) Bonus rank) Rise: She's not a real party member but she's probably the most useful besides the main character

We shall watch your career with great interest. But for real tho keep up the good work

Having yukiko on your team makes this game too easy

I cant wait for you to cover other megaten games after this, great vid

Got me with that Kamui miracle self-insert. Bursted out laughing when I took like 3 full seconds to realize that it wasn't a cut out from the wiki . +1 sub my guy

My first play through I finished with Yukiko, Naoto, and Teddie as my main party members. For NG+ I thought about just going utility rather than straight damage considering how fucking fast Yukiko destroyed the bosses

Having played Persona 4 quite a bit, I kinda question having Chie so low. Sure, Dragon Hustle costs quite a bit of SP, but that can easily be downplayed with a Chakra Ring which in my experience, helps Naoto minimally, and is a complete OVERKILL on Yukiko with her bountiful ocean of SP, so it's generally better to put something like that on characters who need it. Especially when you can be better off giving Naoto a +10 Magic accessory. Also, the resist on physical only serves to balance physical to some degree to magic, because the power coeficciency on Physical skills in 4 is outrageous. How outrageous? Well, let's take Persona 3, a game in which your magic users were freakin' nuts because the power coefficiencies between physical and magic were equal...ish. Sever Magic had higher power, on top of you being able to buff it with passives. What's worse? Black Viper could do more damage than an amp'd and boosted elemental magic skill. Now let's look at 4. Black Viper got the absolute nerf hammer with half it's original power, and magic also didn't fare off too well. Mean while physical skills were scaled through the roof, so in Golden, I'm sure they had to add resistance to physical so your magic casters could hold even a tea light to your physical peeps. Yes, this is how outrageous physical became people. And on Golden, you could even crit bosses for extra damage, but no knockdown, making Chie still overall stronger and crit builds using Yoshitsune absolutely broken...and you CAN'T tell me Hassou Tobi isn't broken. I'm sorry, but Chie is by far not the least useful party member in Golden. Even in my experience, Naoto and Yukiko could not do the damage of Chie nor Yoshitsune.

Why did I only get this recommended now? Cool content man! Def subscribing

I'm glad someone realizes how broken Rise is, just another reason she's best girl

Already hyped for 3,5 lists if they come out.

Welp dude I’m glad I watched this video. I just started my play through of P4G about a month ago and I recently got rise but I wasn’t too bothered on upgrading her social link at all bc I didn’t really care abt her lol. But after watching this I’ll DEFINITELY be doing that next time I get on bc MAN she’s broken! She’ll definitely make my hard play through a little less painful

Great video man! Your pacing and editing was super well done! I actually found you off UKposts Studio's "Your Viewers Also Watch" and I'm glad to see my small community has lead me here. Keep up the great work man!

My dream team is Naoto, Kanji, and Yukiko. I usually make up for what the other members lack, so it ends up being pretty well rounded. Maybe there are better party combinations out there, but I haven't found it yet.

my endgame party was yosuke, teddie, and naoto, and then my MC having thor, so we covered every element. i know yukiko is the best for dps, but by the time i learned this she was already FAR too underleveled and i just didn't feel like grinding to get her on par with everyone else

My final team for my first play through was Chie Kanji and Yukiko 😳. Their synergy was pretty good overall, only issue was the Marie boss battle. It would have been Naoto instead of Kanji but I wasn’t able to max out her social link by the end of my first play through.

My party for the last third of the game was yukiko kanji and naoto, yukiko is a great healer, naoto is an all rounder, and kanji has a huge health pool so he can do some big physical attacks while keeping a lot of health and can still use his elec attacks

The Chie downplay is crazy here. Her late and even mid game damage is crazy as long as you just invest in her. Sure Kanji has the higher atk but Chie gets the far better physical move pool, weapons and way better luck stat for crits. She also takes magic damage better than Kanji while also having far better evasion. Dragon Hustles SP requirment honestly isn't even that bad considering you're probably only gonna use it once after you're first set of AOE buffs go away. She even has her team attack with Yukiko which is good since she has synergy with the character you'll almost never end up benching.

I always feel like people who think Chie is not a good team member just don't know how to use her at first because she's dependant on her physical skills and her health can get low pretty quick, and then people don't care to keep leveling her up cause it's easier to use the other members. But she becomes really great only later on and it's completely worth it. I always made sure to have my whole party around the same level. I find it more fun to mix combinations than use the same people all the time

List adds up, as I never switch out Yosuke, Yukiko nor Naoto. Only two downsides to this roster: 1) No team up attacks. 2) Hardcore Risette Fan remains to be my only locked trophy in over *7 Years!*

In vanilla P4, I had Yukikko knock off 800 HP off the final boss with just a fire spell. 10% damage right there. Sure, I might have overgrinded somewhat .... but pretty good for a supposed healer xD

Just gonna say this here but Chie and Kanji really carried me in the Margaret boss fight

I think the list changes a bit when we consider runs without the bike skills, since those require giving up time to max everything in a casual run. The craziest part is that Yukiko is still one of the best characters even without Mind Charge. Chie meanwhile can’t even learn tier three magic spells without the bike dates which is terrible. Yosuke also spends a lot of levels waiting for phys skills to be a available, but using him with kitchen knife set pays off in third semester.

In my experience with this game, Chie has always been the most OP character. There's a gap where she goes several levels without learning relevant skills, but once you get past that, she becomes a complete BEAST (if you've properly invested in critical damage, power charge, God's Hand, etc)... My endgame party was full girls: Chie, Naoto and Yukiko. Chie took care of physical damage, Yukiko provided support and used fire spells, and Naoto was the most versatile, using the remaining elements and almighty. This was the most satisfying party of any RPG I've ever played, and Chie was my favorite character (mainly because of Galactic Punt, who always got me a good laugh). My only regret was not being able to teach Yukiko Mind Charge in time, but she was still very powerful and essential.

Honestly, the best part about Rise isn't even what she can do. It's that she does it without interfering with your action economy. Like, if all she could do was Media(rama) and the full party -kaja skills, she'd still be contending for best party member *specifically* because you really can't compare what she offers to anyone else in the party.

I like having Yosuke on my team cuz I'm a dumbass who forgets to bring support personas and dekaja is awesome

i used kanji yukiko and naoto to finish the game. overall very solid list, honestly I would probably swap teddie and kanji just due to the amount of space u can cover in terms of support. even in late game kanji’s magic did wonders for me, idr if I had any equipment buffs but he stuck with me through the entire run, only struggling to mitsuo

Kanji's Primal Force does about 2.3x as much damage (before critical hits) as Yukiko's Burning Petals or Megidolean before any Elemental Boosting equipment is applied, so Kanji will still generally deal more damage than other characters even when the boss has 50% Physical Resist. Yukiko's magic stat is competitive with Kanji's strength, comparing 88 MAG vs. 95 STR at level 99. Naoto, however, is a different story, having weaker spells, a weaker MAG stat (Kanji's 69 MAG vs Kanji's 95 STR at Level 99), and more difficult access to Elemental Boosts/Amp, although she still can have them, as she has a weapon with Ice Boost and can wear an accessory that also gives Ice Amp, for a max of +75%. Teddie and Yosuke can both get +100% elemental boost and similar MAG to Naoto, which makes them overall similar for boss DPS to Naoto, as Mind Charge, is effectively a 25% damage increase. Chie is really awkward as her STR and skills are weaker than Kanji's and gets Power Charge later, and her magic is only good enough for knockdowns. Her critical rate isn't actually higher either as compared to Kanji's, as Primal Force just has a higher base critical rate as compared to God Hand. This means that generally speaking, boss single target damage chart goes like: MC > Kanji > Yukiko > Naoto = Yosuke = Teddie > Chie. Of Naoto, Yosuke, and Teddie, Teddie is the best support, having both better healing and buffs. Naoto's ability to delete random encounters is strong, but the MC does it better and you generally don't need 2 people to deal with random encounters.

that is the thing i love the most about persona 4, every party member is useful in their own way, in the end i tend to change them around for different battles and dungeons, but man, i gotta love my team of yukiko, kanji and naoto, yukiko healing and doing massive amounts of damage, kanji buffing attack and debuffing hit while also doing insane amounts of damage with power charge and decent amounts of ziodyne damge while naoto absolutely destroys every random battle.

I really like this kind of RPG games discussion even every people have different opinion, it's nice to see how we both giving info and what we think about it.

Idk why everyone is so low on Teddie. He's the mvp GOAT in my opinion. He does strong magic damage and has all the healing and buff skills you could want.

If we just need to kill Boss quickly, then Yukiko, Kanji and Chie as a team can deal so much damage, granted the boss is not Marie stage 2 that repels physical. MC starting with auto mataru, maraku, and masuku and debilitate (trumpeter) definitely helps. Though Chie has a big gap of level up by 23 levels before she got her end game skills. But support definitely belongs to Yosuke, Teddie and Naoto. Naoto just had to many good skills which is really hard to decide her build.

I just finished my first playthrough of Persona 4 Golden recently, and I'm going to start a New Game+ playthrough pretty soon. Your video will really help. Also, best girl is #2, yay!

I use Yosuke, Chie, and Yukiko. Yukiko's a good healer and magical attacker, Chie has strong physical skills, and Yosuke is a good balance of physical attacks and magic, he can Masukukaja the party and can dispel enemy buffs.

I really like yosuke BC youthful winds just helps a ton

commenting before watching the video, but On my first playthrough of p4g my main team by the time I had everyone was Naoto, Teddie, Kanji. I was a bit stupid and got rid of hama/mudo on naoto so naoto was mainly used for megidolaon and knockdowns. Shield of justice also kind of carried me through the final boss because I was severely underleveled. Kanji was there for physical damage and because he just had the most hp. Teddie was there for buffs and healing. I didn't have any sort of strategy in mind when picking these, they're just the characters I liked the most.

I used Yukiko, Kanji, and Teddy. I didn’t have any guide, I just used who I liked. I was smart enough, however, to level up Rise’s confidant without a guide lol She is amazing

We must've played very different games if you have Chie on the bottom. She's across the board one of, if not the best party member for clear, bosses, golden hands, and reaper. Toss her a Chakra Ring after she gets her party wide heat riser and she's bananas. But whatevs :)

Funny, my main team was Kanji, Chie, and Yuki. smoked the game no problem. I didnt bother using Naoto because she came so late in the game. When I do another run 20 years from now im gonna use the benched heroes

I ended up kanji, Chie, Naoto. Yukiko was an alternate but I found that I made the Hero a way better healer and attack mage than she could ever be

maybe it’s because i was over leveled for the last couple palaces but chie is my personal mvp. she deals a crazy amount of damage and when i am going through regular battles she can kill most shadows in one hit. i’ve never had a problem with her going down either. usually yukiko is the first to get downed in battles for me

I've played a lot of Persona 4 Golden so here are some of my thoughts: I tended to use Chie in dungeon encounters because of her crit chance and the fact that Kanji for some reason doesn't get a good physical move that hits more than one enemy besides The Man's Way I guess which is unreliable as hell. Prefer Kanji for boss fights tho for the reasons you stated. Tbh though I have no idea why Chie's magic skills got handled the way they did because I wasn't gonna take her on bike rides for Bufudyne and I also wasn't gonna keep Bufula when she was high-level so I just turned her into pure physical with crit stuff Yukiko has always been my go-to healer/mage and I didn't use Teddie for a long time because of that. I started mainly also using him in random dungeon encounters because he has Marakunda for tough enemies and golden hands and he's pretty good for that. I never really used him in boss fights Yosuke has always been a go-to member partially because I like him and partially because Dekaja and Masukukaja/Youthful Wind are helpful in both normal encounters and miniboss/boss fights. Naoto is weird. Like her moveset is really deep but actually I think in some ways (similar to Haru in P5) that kind of makes her harder to use. No matter what you do, you won't be taking full advantage of all the skills she gets, so you kind of have to pick and choose with her in a way that you don't have to with any of the other party members which feels like you're limiting what she can do but there are only so many moveslots for her. I guess similar to Haru they wanted something to set her apart so they gave her unique damage skills (almighty/light/dark) while also giving her the magic skills that other party members already get plus a bunch of stuff that seems cool in theory but is kind of hard to use in practice due to limited moveslots (physical/magic reflects, mudo/hama boost, shield of justice, invigorate, vorpal blade) Also yeah Rise is busted. She saved my ass so many times in the NG+ boss fight. Her skills are tooooo good

I benched teddie tryna do hollow forest when I used kamui miracle for the first time and he ruined a 5 golden shadow battle. Never picked him up after that dungeon.

Literally every female party member is op. And sense I always had a healer the physical attack’s hp cost. Also Chie was may favorite character so she was always on my team, which led to seeing her insta kill follow up a lot.

My final party was Yosuke Kanji and Yukiko. Yosuke for support, Yukiko for healing and damage, and heat riser + debilitate + power charge + primal force Kanji for around 2000 damage lol

my final build was Teddie, Yukiko (my girlfriend dont touch her dont look her) and Naoto. It was funny cuz even tho my party members boost their stats a lot and charge and stuff, The protagonist with Wind amp and Garudyne was my main DPS

I think the funniest part of this video for me is that in my first playthrough Yukiko was literally the first person I dropped. (Ended up being Kanji, Naoto, and Teddie in the end). I just never used her. So seeing her so high up and two of my 3 party members near the bottom had me laughing

My list: 1. Yu (kind of a no duh, he can do whatever you could possibly want with him) 2. Rise [free stuff in a series infamous for its brutal turn economy (less so than its mother series, but still), also protection from lethal for the whole party and free one-time Yu revive are omegalol, only real thing you can say kinda sucks is it's a bit random when she gives the free stuff, but it's often enough that she definitely trivializes most of the challenge this game has to offer] 3.Yukiko (Mediarahan, Amrita, her Agi spells for most of the game, and Burning Petals for True Endgame are all she really needs to be a dominant character throughout the game, but while she has insane DPS, since she herself isn't the sturdiest bunch, there may be times where she's forced to stop her DPS) 4. Yosuke (A jack-of-all-trades that can really do it all, though he suffers from the problems of being one, but is still very much a universal team pick, especially for True Endgame with Youthful Wind) 5. Naoto (access to Megidolaon and both AoE instakills makes her the best Golden Hand farmers not counting a Yu with Megidalaon and/or double AoE IK himself, but comes very late into the game and, by nature of her moveset, is not the best for bosses) 6. Chie (of the two physical-oriented characters, Chie is weaker against bosses, but is much better in dungeon crawling thanks to access to AoE and the best follow-up attack in the game with Galactic Punt, and dungeon crawling comprises about 90% of your time inside the TV, though Dragon Hustle is a bit overpriced relative to her SP pool, but hey, Beads and Bead Melons exist) 7. Kanji (basically a bosskilling version of Chie, and as I've said, most of the game isn't bosskilling, though he has absolutely insane damage against bosses) 8. Kuma (Teddie) (if Yu doesn't get to switch Personas for free, I'd rate him higher, but the fact Yu can literally switch from DPS to Support with a few button presses makes Teddy pretty redundant, especially when Yukiko can simply sub him out for Amrita/Mediarahan and Yu can either temporarily act as a medic when Yukiko herself is inflicted with turn-stealing debuffs, or as a team buffer if somehow none of his Personas can deal more damage than the rest of the party, it doesn't help he has the worst Ultimate Skill in the game, which is basically a one-in-two chance to get absolutely fucked because lmao your luck sucks fuckers) but hey tf do i know

Me watching this knowing damn well I’m still only gonna use characters I like

Kanji even though most of his skills are tied in physical it’s far from useless. Kanji has the ability to deal massive damage to bosses that are knocked down. Also kanji can buff the entire party’s attack and debuff all enemy’s accuracy and evasion. I’m level 60 with kanji right now and he was able to hit 800 damage fighting that optional boss in naotos lab. Any boss that can be knocked down in some form kanji can just waste most of its hp as long as he’s got his power charge ready available at rank 6 of his social link. I see so many people saying they never use kanji and I don’t know why. He’s got the physical dps chie has minus the fragility. I even bought this thing off the shopping channel called the red battle suit which reduces melee damage against kanji paired with his triple evade for wind skills it makes him an insanely strong tank.

As much as I love Rise, it’s kind of odd to me to this day how she’s the one to be navigator. I really don’t understand the character purpose, as compared to other navigators, it doesn’t really suit her much. If she were the only character to “see” herself, that would be different, but since that character arc occurs for nearly all party members, it doesn’t really fit imo.

For me I’d my best team was Yosuke,teddie and yukiko. I switched chie in and out. And although kanji and naoto are my favorite characters I wouldn’t develop them enough. Teddie always gave easy buffs and was too easy to grow as well as Yosuke and yukiko. I’d also like to nominate rise as the absolute beast of a navigator. Futaba is definitely one of my favorite characters but I’m pretty sure she never was THAT consistent as rise is.

naoto kanji, and teddy will always be my go to

I dont know how, but something Rise dis in my game was she would MAKE the enemies weak to what we have, unless all of them are weak to every skill, that is REALLY op lol.

Yukiko, Chie and Naoto for me, did a harem dungeon party and now its time for only bros on 2nd playthrough.

Bruh, I just went with the harem party late game. Chie and Yukiko been on the party since til I get Naoto (Yosuke is my temporary before Naoto)

Chie’s gameplay can best be described as “get in, beat up the enemies, and get the hell out” Chie, while not being the best party member, still has things that make me prefer her over Kanji. While she doesn’t gain access to many ice skills thanks to Teddy sapping them away from her (thanks you dumb bear), biking with her 5 times you get bufudyne, and that shit hits like a freight train if you’re willing to keep ice boost. I also think the preference between Kanji and Chie is similar to Payday 2 with tank builds and Dodge builds. Do you want more damage and health at the expense of having low accuracy and low evasion (Kanji), or do you want less health and slightly less damage in exchange for much higher accuracy and evasion. If you want pure bulk, Kanji is definitely the way to go, but if you wanna roll the dice with dodging so you can land your attacks more reliably, Chie might be more suited to your needs. Since I use Yosuke who can also increase his and Chie’s already high evasion, I find Chie to be more just slightly more efficient than Kanji. This is all from the personal experience of a guy who only just finished his 2nd playthrough, so take it with a grain of salt, but I do find Chie more helpful for my personal style of play

idk if i can consider Rise the best party member the same reason i cannot Yu, they are fixed party members and you cant pick them out, i mean you do have to "go out of your way" to buff both of them but you should always try to improve party members that are always active

I was always so many lvls ahead so I never used Teddy/Kanji and Naoto. Imo the party should all level up, since there's no real reason to switch them out.

You need to start uploading more man 😂

I have a question, Rise ability to revive Narukami it's exclusive for the golden edition or is in the ps2 version too?

Yukiko remembering me a lot of yukari from P3 Have A high stat of magic and can become a support as well (Have a heal skill)

Kanji is easily top tier for me, his Power Charge + any physical attacks is so goddamn powerful. He also has -dyne attack unlock with ranking up unlike Chie which is locked behind bike skill (so dumb honestly...). His only downside is his third awakening skill, it sucks so bad!!!! I've actually never used Teddie in my playthroughs (played 3 times) since I'd rather use my own ice personas and Yukiko is pretty much the superior healer. Shame since his non-bear outfit running animation when exploring the dungeon is kinda cute :(

My main problem with Persona 4's party system is that the characters won't level up based on the overall level of your party. In final fantasy 7, for example, if you don't play with some characters but want later on they will be only a few levels lower than your main party, making the grinding less boring. I only played through the game with Yukiko, Chie and Kanji the characters that interested me the most, but when I got Naoto, I thought on switching them, but since she was lv50, while my mains were around 70, I just didn't bothered. I don't really like grinding in Persona 4.

Idk why this video got recommended to me now, but here's my team : - Clearing wave : Yu, Yosuke, Yukiko, and Naoto (you can replace Naoto with Teddie if you want to build elemental team) - Boss fight : 1. Yu, Yosuke, Kanji, Teddie (Heat riser for all, since Yosuke learn Masuku, Kanji learn Mataru and Teddie learn Maraku) 2. Yu, Yosuke, Yukiko, Teddie (Yukiko could focus on attacking with mind charge and burning petal, while Teddie and Yosuke could support the team by healing, buffing and removing enemy buff, and also do some damage) 3. Yu, Yukiko, Chie, Naoto (Chie to spam dragon hustler and Naoto to spam shield of justice with chakra ring, while Yukiko do some damage and healing when needed) 4. Yu, Kanji, Chie, Yukiko (Yukiko for healing and Kanji + Chie do crazy amount of damage with power charge. My opinion : Yosuke and Yukiko is OP in this game. Yosuke learning dekaja and Yukiko having the best healing and magic skill make them both must have for your team. Naoto with Hama and Mudo skill make clearing wave a lot easier, and don't forget Naoto also learn Megidolaon and mind charge to farm golden hand. Teddie is actually good if you want Yukiko to focus on attacking, i mean he has buff and healing like Yukiko, and don't forget he also has a better bufu skill than Chie. Chie and Kanji kind of okay I guess, I mean Chie has Apt pupil and dragon hustler which make her better than Kanji, since you don't need to put omega drive for your accessories and Kanji is good in boss battle since he learn primal force, which has the highest damage in single target physical skill compare to god's hand, combine it with omega drive and power charge, you can see some of those damage to bosses.

I think that the P4 golden cast was one of the most balanced parties. You could make an argument for every teamcomb and even members like Yosuke, who are considered to be early game focused, can have their purpose. Even in the late game. On my first playtrough, I made Naoto into the perfect dungeon unit where I could destroy the random encounters with ease. On another playtrough, Yosuke allowed me with his "I am good on everything but perfect at none" kit to make the main MC as a sec damage dealer and melt every boss with ease.

in yosuke you forgot all the status he can cause, makajam and tentarafoo are pretty good agains the annoying shadows with no weaknesses. i would even put him above naoto since she comes so late. but otherwise great list, although i think chie is better than kanji by a small margin.

I'm wondering if mind and particularly power charge may be overrated because 1) the attack can miss and you will have wasted 2 turns and hp/sp, 2) rise can charge up the party after used meaning a wasted turn and sp, and 3) may be missing out on extra physical crit chances. I think consistent damage, versatility with turn usage, and allowing a different useful skill to slot in is better.

Will you do the same for Persona 5 Royal?

These are my team composition. I base them in order of who’s useful in the moment and their overall style of contribution to a fight. Slot 1 yosuke or naoto. Both are good at single target dps physical and magical though yosuke is more useful at magic and support while naoto is better at physical and defense. Slot 2 kanji or chie They are both easily the best physical dpsers in the game on top of both having their own style of magical dps Chie excels at landing critical hits while kanji excels at dps per turn when it comes to physical attacking both are very useful when killing golden hands. The last slot is teddie or yukiko. Teddie and yukiko are both support roles that can remove bad status effects, deal magic based dps and heal the party when they are in danger. Yukiko is a better healer while teddie is a better dpser/buffer. If you want your party to have survivability bring yukiko but if you want to end a fight faster bring teddie. Those compositions should have all you need to keep your bases covered.

Chie can be quite nice if you throw a chakra ring on her and get Bufudyne from maxing out her Bike rides.

My problem with Teddie is I can often throw a support persona on Yu that had better skills than Teddie for most points of the game, and why would I use a party slot for setup every 3 turns when Yu can just setup and switch back whenever I need it.

My final team was naoto, yukiko and teddie. I originally had chie, yukiko and yosuke until I unlocked teddie where I replaced chie with him. I then replaced yosuke with naoto. Ended up skipping kanji entirely

Yukiko being in the number 2 spot is highway robbery.

Bruh Chie at the bottom!? She gets what is essentially Luster Candy! Also yeah she's a physical attacker, but a REALLY strong one! She's usually a staple in my runs.

my final party are yosuke naoto and yukiko they're the best, i keep chie as main party before naoto join for tarukaja, revolution, and of course galactic punt

Thx to Rise, i gain more confident when solo-ing the boss

Chie was god in the first dungeon I had a persona with bufu and i leveled her to have bufu as well We all out farmed shadow yukiko