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You’re so close to finally saving the group’s collective little sister,Nanako, when you reach the final floor of the Heaven dungeon inPersona 4 Golden, and only one fight stands in your way. But Taro Namatame isn’t going to give Nanako up that easily – instead, he fuses with several other shadows to become the powerful and allows Kunino-Sagiri to take over, believing it to be the savior of man.
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The boss fight against Kunino-Sagiri is renowned for its difficulty, though, so if you’re looking for tips on how to fight Kunino-Sagiri in Persona 4 Golden, we’ve got you covered.
This guide will contain spoilers for elements of Persona 4 Golden.
Strength in this Fight
Heavy electric damage to one foe
Boosts damage done by electric magic by 25%
Vile Assault
Heavy physical damage to one foe, doing additional damage to foes who are downed
Raises the party’s attack for three turns
Regenerate 1
Kanji regains 2% of his max HP before every turn he takes in battle
Restores one ally’s HP to max
Restores all allies' HP to max
Revives one fallen ally to full HP
Heavy fire damage to one foe
Boosts damage done by fire magic by 25%
Heavy wind damage to one foe
Boosts damage done by wind magic by 25%
Medium physical damage to one foe
Boosts the party’s hit and evasion for three turns
Erects a barrier to reflect one magic attack per use
Heavy physical damage to all foes
Megidola
Heavy almighty damage to all foes
- While Naoto makes a great teammate for herMakarakarn, which has thesame effect as Magic Mirrorswithout consuming a rare item, shedoesn’t learn Makarakarn until Lv. 64.
If she’snot at Lv. 64before the battle with Kunino-Sagiri, double down onfindingMagic Mirrorsandbring Yosuke instead. He’s gotWind Boost, while Naoto is lacking the Fire Boost that’d make her hit as hard with Agidyne.
What Level Should You Be For Kunino-Sagiri?
Although Kunino-Sagiri is only Lv. 65, we’d suggest grinding your protagonist toaround Lv. 70for this fight.
It may sound overpowered, but there are plenty of factors at play here. Not only will you need to endure the high amount of damage from Kunino-Saigiri, but you also need tosurvive damage done to you by your teammates.
Kunino-Sagiri will use a skill exclusive to this fight,Control, to seize direct control of your party members and use them to attack Yu.Your party’s strength is turned against youin this stage of the fight.
Therefore, thehigher your level, thebetter chance you have to survivethis odd onslaught. The team will useboth magic and physical skills against you, essentially handing their skills list over to Kunino-Sagiri entirely while they’re under his control.
The more resistances you have, the better. You’ll need tobe mindful of repelling damage, however, as while this is helpful when fighting Kunino-Sagiri directly, it willhinder you when your team turns against youin the late stages of the fight.
Trumpeter
Debilitate
Lowers one foes' attack, defense, hit, and evasion for three turns
Heat Riser
Increases one ally’s attack, defense, hit, and evasion for three turns
Severe almighty damage to all foes
Boosts damage done by electric magic by 50%
Tam Lin
Enduring Soul
Revives Yu to full health upon knockout in battle(once per battle)
Triples the user’s evasion against physical attacks
Power Charge
The user’s next physical attack des 250% damage
We recommendusing Trumpeterwhen you’re dealingonly with Kunino-Sagiri, and savingTam Linfor afterKunino-Sagiri uses Control on the party.
Not only does it have great stat boost and offensive moves,Trumpeter’s affinitiesgrant it plenty of protection defensively.
Trumpeter repels both light and electric magic, and Kunino-Sagiri will be using both against your team, so you can turn this damage back around. Additionally, itabsorbs ice, meaning thatif Quad Control boosts ice magic, Kunino-Sagiri will heal youby a large amount instead ofhurtingyou for the same.
AfterKunino-Sagiri has control of the party, though, we’d recommend switching toTam Lin.
You’ll still havepowerful offensive movesat your disposal withDeathbound(especially if you usePower Chargefirst) to use on Kunino-Sagiri, but itsdefense is better for not also hurting your partyin this stage of the fight, or getting hurt yourself.
Tam Lin isstrong against physicaland even learnsEvade PhysicalatLv. 58. Even if a physical attack does land, it’ll be ineffective.
Tam Lin does also haveHigh Counter, which has a20 percent chance to repel physical attacks, so your party members may injure themselves during this phase.
On the chance they do manage toknock Yu out, Tam Lin knows the passive skill,Enduring Soul. This movefully revives Yu to max HP once per death in battle, giving you a second chance to finish the fight.
Explanation
Str
This shadow is strong against this element, and attacks of this element dealless damage.
Wk
This shadow is weak against this element, and attacks of this element dealmore damage.
Rep
This shadow will repel attacks of this element,reversing the damageonto you.
Nul
This shadow will nullify attacks of this element, and as such, they dealno damage.
Drn
This shadow will gain health from attacks of this element, so attacks of thisheal the shadow.
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Affinities and Weaknesses
Skills and Attacks
Heavy fire damage to all foes
Heavy ice damage to one foe
Heavy ice damage to all foes
Heavy electric damage to all foes
Heavy wind damage to all foes
God’s Judgment
Chance to reduce each foe’s HP by half with light magic
Negates one foe’s resistance to fire magic for three turns
Negates one foe’s resistance to ice magic for three turns
Negates one foe’s resistance to electric magic for three turns
Negates one foe’s resistance to wind magic for three turns
Negates a foe’s use of Makarakarn
Negates a foe’s use of Tetrakarn
Cancels all stat bonuses applied to the opposing party
Cancels all stat decreases on the party
Life Leech
Drains a significant portion of HP from one foe and applies it to the user
Steals 100 SP from one foe
Quad Convergence
Boosts the effectiveness of one element, while simultaneously reducing the effectiveness for all other elements(applies to everyone on the field)
Control
Assumes control one or all of the members of the Investigation Team(except Yu)
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Kunino-Sagiri Battle Strategy
If you don’t already play this way,this fight should be done with Direct Command on.
You’re already in for a challenge against Kunino-Sagiri in P4G, sodon’t let your teammates waste timeon moves that aren’t as effective as possible!
Stage One: Outright Damage
The fight with Kunino-Sagiri in P4G begins straightforwardly enough, with Kunino-Sagiri using its variousheavy-level elemental damage movesto attempt to chip away at your team’s HP.
The answer to this is to do the same, having your teamuse heavy damage-dealing movesagainst it in return.
If you useMakarakarnduring this stage of the fight, Kunino-Sagiri will immediately answer this defensive move by usingSpirit Drainon someone on your team, followed byDekajato cancel any of your status boosts.
UsingTetrakarninstead sees Kunino-Sagiri opt to useLife Leechin place of Spirit Drain, takinga good amount of HPfrom someone on the team.
He’ll continue trying with this patternuntil roughly 1/3 of its HP, before opting to switch tactics.
It’s then that he castsQuad Convergence. This move willsharply increase the power of one element at random. At the same time,all other elements have a sharpdecreasein power.
The game willnot tell you outright which element has been boostedwhen Kunino-Sagiri casts Quad Convergence.
However, you may tell which it is based onwhich element it begins to use against youon its following move.
Once you’ve identifiedwhichever element is boosted, have the teammate capable of that kind of damageuse heavy damage-dealing moves of the element that got the damage increase.
This makes for a great chance tohave everyone else heal and buff, as all other elemental moves will amount to chip damage during this time.
If you’ve gotNaotowith you, this is the time to have her useMakarakarn. With an element boosted, Kunino-Sagiri will skip its usual Spirit Drain in favor of continuing to attack.
During this stage,casting Makarakarnor using aMagic Mirrorwill immediatelyrepel the boosted attack back at Kunino-Sagiri, effectively making it deal a massive amount of damage onto itself.
Stage Three: Control
After you’ve taken downroughly 2/3 of its HP, Kunino-Sagiri will cast a truly frustrating move:Control.
This skill seesKunino-Sagiri take control of every Investigation Team member except for Yu, using them against you andhaving them attack Yuon their turns.
Thankfully, they focus onusing their physical attacks, whileKunino-Sagirikeeps laying into youusing elemental damage.
With aPersona strong to physical attacks, you should be able to survive your teammates’ onslaught, while still focusing ondoing damage to Kunino-Sagiri until this wears off.
Stage Four: Unerring Justice
Once the fight has worn on long enough andKunino-Sagiri has roughly 1,000 HP remaining, he’ll begin to use his strongest move:Unerring Justice.
This move is unique to Kunino-Sagiri and inflictsheavy almighty damage to the party. This is tricky to handle becausealmighty damage is incredibly hard if not impossible to block.
It guarantees Kunino-Sagiri will be dealing a good amount of damage to everyone left, so be sure you’rehealing as neededto counter the damage.
Once Kunino-Sagiri begins to use Unerring Justice, he won’t stray from doing so in something of a last-ditch effort to swing the fight.
From there,focus on offensefor the most part to hammer out the last bit of damage needed to end the fight with Kunino-Sagiri in P4G and finish the Heaven dungeon.
