Ranking the Bosses of Persona 5 Royal from Worst to Best 

Yaldabaoth is easily my favorite final boss of the series. It looks awesome, is very tense when all it's weapons are up, isn't a complete fatty like most final rpg bosses, and has a great theme. Okumura on the other hand, may be the most evil character in the series, he basically murders other companies that are competition with Shido's help, sells his daughter to an abuser, and worst of all, doesn't even have a good boss fight. Also congratulations on graduating!

Love the Maruki fight. Rest In Peace Billy Kametz

Hey, another epic ranking vid. My knowledge on Persona 5 is very limited but you explained this very well and I was able to follow the video. Keep up the amazing work lads.

Persona 5 has always been a massive hole in my gaming resume. Glad you liked it, maybe this will be the year I finally play!

Solid list as usual! My ranking: 12. *Shadow Okumura* 11. *Berserk Cendrillon* 10. *Shadow Kaneshiro* 9. *Shadow Shido* 8. *Shadow Madarame* 7. *Cognitive Wakaba* 6. *Holy Grail* 5. *Goro Akechi* 4. *Shadow Kamoshida* 3. *Shadow Niijima* 2. *Takuto Maruki and Adam Kadmon* 1. *Yaldabaoth* I know my placement of Shido is bound to raise some eyebrows, but I just did not connect with him as a character _at all,_ to the point that I'd describe him as the worst character in the game aside from Okumura. I don't even think he's a good "dickhead villain", as he's just such a bland, generic douchebag. Still, the fight itself is pretty good gameplay-wise, which is why he's still above Kaneshiro and Cendrillon.

Very good list Rivers in the desert 🔥

Great video, Alex! Out of the dozens of JRPGs I've played, Persona 5 Royal is my personal favorite, and its boss roster is one of the best in the genre in my opinion. My ranking: 1. Shido 2. Maruki 3. Madarame 4. Yaldabaoth 5. Akechi 6. Sae 7. Kamoshida 8. Kaneshiro 9. Cendrillion 10. Holy Grail 11. Cognitive Wakkaba 12. Okumura Okumura was already my least favorite boss in the vanilla version, but Royal made his fight even worse since the robots could now flee and get replaced by reinforcements. I'd almost rather slog through the Frigid Outskirts again than have a re-match with him (emphasis placed on "almost"). Madarame was one of my least favorite bosses in vanilla, but the introduction of the second phase and reduction of the first exponentially improved the battle in my eyes. Maruki put up a great final boss battle, even though the second and third phases dragged the fight down a bit. Hilariously, Joker's fist-fight with Maruki reminded me of the infamous slap-fight in FF7 between Tifa and Scarlet atop the Sister Ray. Lol. As far as JRPG final bosses go (not counting FromSoft games), Giygas from Earthbound, Kefka from FF6, and Lavos from Chrono Trigger are still my top three, but Maruki isn't too far behind. Anyway, I'm enjoying your content as always and look forward to the next upload. Also, congrats on graduating from High School!

The Persona artwork made me think it'd be cool if you covered the stages of Catherine. Idk it's something that can be broken down into bosses or stages cus they're basically both but I'd like your analysis either way

I fought Shadow Okumara today. Next time I'm gonna take some of those strong DLC Persona's to make it easier. Don't feel bad about doing something Like that for him, no one would blame you.

*Ranked higher than the Holy Grail* I HAVE THE POWER OF GOD ON MY SIDE! In all seriousness though, I agree with most of the list. I’d probably bump Maruki way down just because of the bullshit second phase where he’s unjustifiably Tanky for no reason, and I have zero understanding of the Haru hate, but overall well done. Also, as a future tip for the Okumura fight, bring Magatsu Izanagi. Mandala melts straight through the green robots.

I agree with your top rankings. Maruki's fight had the best story but was very underwhelming as a boss fight with how scripted it was. Meanwhile Shido's fight is really good for atmosphere and similarly strong for story, not nearly as nuanced as Kamoshida or Maruki, but cathartic to say the least. I wasn't actually a fan of the 1 on 1 fight, I thought it to be cheesy? I think it was added into Royal, I couldn't remember doing the same thing in base P5. Like... if you think about it, yes, he is Joker's number one enemy, but to him, Joker is just one of a million victims. I don't see Shido ever acknowledging him, much like how he never acknowledged Akechi.

I had no idea you guys were highschoolers hahaha! Great vid as always congratulations on the graduation

My ranking: 12| Shadow Okumura The obvious one. Honeslty, i like this fight more than the Vanilla P5 fight which was just straight up boring, at least it is changelling in Royal. I still hate that I have to fight the same freaking robots i've already fought 100 times in the palace. It's repetitive, annoying and lazy. 11| Cognitive Wakaba Isshiki This fight is just.. boring. It was a decent challenge in Vanilla P5 but they really oversimplified it in Royal. You can legit beat this boss fight without doing anything if you have a Persona that repel physical attacks or if you use Tetrakarn. 10| Holy Grail I don't have much to say about this. It's basically a reskin of the Kamoshida fight but worse. 9| Sumire Yoshizawa & Cendrillon 1v1 are interesting and this fight is no exceptior for me. It is true that it takes fairly long to beat tho. 8| Yaldabaoth A classic JRPG final boss. That's not a bad thing, btw, but I just don't think the fight itself is as fun as most others in the game. It would've been much better if the effects of the Seven Deadly Sins lasted for more turns, because they really don't impact the fight that much. 7| Shadow Niijima First phase is scripted but it's fun to expose Sae cheating. Second phase is a bit basic, but I like the changes they made in Royal. The elemental wheel is a really cool mechaninc and i wish it lasted till the end of the fight. If it wasn't for those scripted almighty attacks, it would be higher. 6| Goro Akechi I have one problem with the fight, which is the placement. He shows up with no warning immediately after the fight with the cleaner and he appears right near the end of the longest palace in the game so if you're low on items or want so switch out party members, well you can't. Other than that, the fight is good and really emotional, i especially love how Akechi's AI only targets Joker. 5| Shadow Kaneshiro I really like this fight because it has a lot of variety. The first phase is tanky but fun and doesn't overstay its welcome. Phase two is really well designed cause at this point of the game, no matter who you bring in the fight, you'll always have someone who can cast ailments. 4| Shadow Madarame Phase one is a bit confusing but it's fun to figure out but phase two is great. It works really well for a baton pass tutorial and even if it's a bit easy, it's really fun. 3| Shadow Shido This fight may not be as fun as some of the other fights in the game but it's second to none when it comes to epicness. It's tanky and long as you would expect from the "final boss" (even if he isn't). The new phase in Royal would've been better if Shido didn't heal me with elemental attacks or didn't kill himself because of my repel affinities. 2| Shadow Kamoshida Presentation, gameplay, emotional investment. This fight has everything and is my favourite first boss in every game i've played. It has by far the best additions to any of the fights and is extremely fun to play. 1| Takuto Maruki This boss fight is perfection. It combines great gameplay moment, with the whole first phase with Azathoth and the emotional roller coaster that is the fist fight with Maruki at the end. Phase two is pretty simple and phase three is scripted, but overall, the strategy of the first phase combined with the boss theme and the emotional impact of this fight solidified it as my number 1.

I never noticed this before but shido even gets the yujiro hanma pose at the last phase. I may have to rethink how I feel about Shido just a bit. Also idk if it was meant to be yujiros pose but it just looked really similar, idk if that came before or after either so im just wording it like that for the sake of laziness and not looking up manga dates or whatever.

3:12 Either a different environment and thus theme for her character body, or have a different character look for her mom. The skin color isn't blended well between her head and body, and maybe it's just me, but I don't think the brunette look works well here. 4:10 I appreciate it. I honestly enjoy your thoughts on the story. This review was a bit bear bones compared to the usual. 4:24 Fair enough. I can see how the design is a bit bland, especially if the fight tends to drag on for too long. Especially considering it seems to take place in a bank vault using a robot prop that takes up most of the screen, and both are the same kind of bland metallic grey. I imagine that can't be very stimulating.

Good list, also hell yeah Dokkan 🙏

Seeing the fist fight at 12:43 reminds me of the Naruto vs Sasuke fight in Storm 4.

i know this video is like a year and a half old at this point but i do want to point out that royal actively made Okumura's fight worse by adding the ability for the robots to flee from stress and reset the wave

Doesnt the okumura fight have a 30 minute limit? The wiki confirms this. It's still an obscene amount of time to waste on a single bossfight, only to get timed out anyway, but it's not as ridiculous as losing after 45 minutes like you said. Additionally they made Okumura's fight way more tedious. Previously you were able to wittle down the health of his drones, but now they swap out every time they get low in numbers or HP, massively prolonging the bossfight. I had to swap to Merciless just so I'd get the damage to destroy them.

I like to rank the bosses based on how many times they make me use Myriad Truths

12:21 congrats on graduations!

8:26 dragon ball Dolan battle boss ranking?!?? But seriously are you guys planning to do xenoverse boss ranking I have a lot of fun with those games even if they are flawed

The okumura fight is exactly like the maruki fight you just gotta use items and baton pass the weakness and its easy

Bro whipped out the Dokkan Battle account 😂😂

Okumura fight is fun; it's one of the few fights that make you actively optimize your strategy to overcome the dps threshold. Skill issue I guess?

I wonder why atlas did give the shadow kaneshiro a lil Hitler stache

Someone didn't learn the corporobo weaknesses

Kaneshiro is supposed to be the Lord of the Flies Not a Pig demon Piggytron is just a gag on a Piggybank

My rankings for Persona 5 Royal Bosses. 12. Akechi (This fight is so stupid. I don't care what anybody says, FUCK THIS FIGHT! And Im not sayingthat for gameplay purposes it's bottom soly for story purposes. ) 11. Shadow Kaneshiro 10. Shadow Okumura (I thought this fight wasn't that hard, but i still found this fight a taaaad annoying.) 9. Cognitive Wakaba 8. Holy Grail 7. Shadow Madarame 6. Kasumi ( I love Kasumi as a character and I legit didn't wanna fight her.) 5. Shadow Sae 4. Shadow Shido 3. Shadow Kamoshida (It felt so satisfying kicking his ass.) 2. Yaldaboath 1. Maruki/Adam Kadmon

Hard to believe persona 5 is coming to Xbox lol a ps exclusive coming to Xbox not only pc but XBOX lmao

What dr Maruki dead nooooooooooo

I dont like Madarame because......He is honestly SUPER easy, if you craft a Kaguya (which is super easy in his palace) you will make him regret life

For me, Wakkaba fight is the worst one, because if you fail to kill her when she fell for the second time, it only remains to scratch what remains of her life bar little by little without any other interaction and it takes a lot of time. It's really boring and broke the rythm of the fight. Maruki's fight is not that good for me too. The first part of the fight is a great boss fight, there are no problem with it. It's the second part of the fight with that giant dude which has greatly disappointed me mainly because it's a scripted fight. I hoped for a fight worthy of Yaldabaoth which was challenging and I had only that. In addition, the many cuts with the cutscenes that constantly interrupted the music really broke the mood of the fight. It looks like they cut out the scenes and glued them next to each other without making transitions between them. It was so frustrating. As for Okumura, he really is one of my favorites bosses of the game. First, the fact that it is the boss who sacrifices all his employees to save his ass is really accurate. Then, the fight is really very strategic and requires us to exploit all the mechanics of the game to succeed in defeating it, not to mention the chronometer that puts us the pressure behind. He is the only boss who pushes us to the limit and forces us to develop a real strategy to defeat him. I wish the next bosses kept at least that level of difficulty. Because Sae... Well, her first part was great but when you already know the gimmick, she is probably the weaker boss of the game. (Is it even possible to not kill her in one turn at her second part ? I never saw any of her attacks in P2...) and Shino, I was able to one shot his P2 so badly that it already killed his P3 too... So I just saw the flying lion morphing into the pyramid before dying. Thank you, special attack.😑 Fortunatly, his next phases were more interesting and save him for the garbage bin. On the other hand I think that the first three bosses were the best : Kaneshiro was actually funny. The fact that we fight a frog who morph into a fly before using a mecha-pig is absolutly hilarious for me. But he had interesting gimmick like the fact that we have to use our items as decoy to reverse the fight in our favor was great like the fact that he will pay guards to protect him. And the fact that we will win the fight not because we will beat him but because he wasted all his money and wasn't able to use any of his abilities against us was genious. Madarame, I really liked his first fight except that he was a little bit too weak, even when I had to learn all his gimmick the first time. So it was frustrating to not be able to see his special action. You really need to let him act if you want to see it and it can be dangerous because he can wipe out your time anytime. That's really his weak point. The second part can really be tedious and difficult but there are some strategies to be able to turn the tide making this fight more interesting that it seems. And for me, Kamoshida is really the best boss of the game. Because he is really the more disgusting boss of the game, makin you really furious against him. So when the time to kick his ass finally comes, you really is hyped to finally beat him but things go terribly wrong : he becomes this monstrous thing that impresses us the first time we discover it and the fight seems to be very hard and long with all his own gimmicks. So the fight really becomes epic when you will finally able to execute the special action of the fight, especially when the music is synchro and flies away at the same time. I had so many chills the first time I beat him, it was crazy. And no other boss in the game had been as intense as this one, unfortunately. For Cendrillon and Akechi, both of them were good fights for me, with lot of twists making them really enjoyable. But this is true that Cendrillon was a little bit too long for nothing when Akechi's fight had no downtime. But I really liked both of them. And yeah, Yaldabaoth was really a great and challenging fight, I really liked it even if all it took was just to debuff it, buff us and throw our most powerful attacks to defeat him without any good strategy behind. But fight was really stressfull by moment and the final was really grandiose. It's a shame they failed to do something as good with Maruki's final.

I really don't like Kasumi so being able to destroy her in battle was very satisfying

Maruki is the second worse imo his first phase is so damn annoying