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Persona 5 Strikers - Dire Shadows Locations & Strategy

By ๖ۣۜKyozo ✗ ๖ۣۜKami

Looking for Dire Shadows? You've come to the right place. This guide should serve as a complete map to all of the 8 Dire Shadows found throughout the Jails.

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Category: Achievements, Characters, Gameplay Basics, Maps or Levels, Secrets, Story or Lore, Walkthroughs, Weapons

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Shibuya Jail - Killer Teddy Bear

Sendai Jail - Snake King

Sapporo Jail - Harlot of Desire

Okinawa Jail - Wandering Reviver

Kyoto Jail - Sun's Emissary

Osaka Jail - War-Hungry Horseman

Jail in Abyss - Dark Sun

Tree of Knowledge - Heavenly Punisher

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Introduction

Hello and welcome to the complete map & strategy guide for all Dire Shadows in Persona 5 Strikers. This guide was made in order to help with the achievement "The Most Daring of All" and features a complete map for each individual Dire Shadow, as well as tips on how to defeat them with ease. The location of each Dire Shadow has been marked with this symbol:

What are Dire Shadows?

Dire Shadows are very powerful shadows that are frist encountered as part of the story in the Sendai Jail. You will be warned not to engage them. From a gameplay perspective, these shadows offer a tough challenge to players who wish to experience everything in the game, but they do not give any powerful bonuses once defeated or unique items. There are a total of 8 Dire Shadows throughout the game, 1 for each Jail.

Word of advice:
The Dire Shadows are very hard to defeat early game as they out-level your party the first time you encounter them. In order to have an easier time with defeating them I recommend coming back to each Jail after completing the game with the recommended party members and/or Personas.

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Note: This guide is part of the full achievements guide & roadmap available here:
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Shibuya Jail - Killer Teddy Bear

Shibuya: Killer Teddy Bear - Bunkamachi West checkpoint; move towards the location marked on the map above to find the Dire Shadow in Shibuya Jail. It takes the form of a normal humanoid guard shadow with a baton.

Strategy:

The boss is weak to lightning, wind and curse damage so make sure to bring Skull, Mona and use Arsene or any other Persona that has curse affinity to it. As with all of these shadows, do not attempt to fight it until you are around level 60.

Sendai Jail - Snake King

Sendai: Snake King - West Garden checkpoint; this Dire Shadow is the first one you would have been introduced to during the main storyline. It can be found in the location marked on the map above. It takes the form of a large humanoid shadow with a bazooka.

Strategy:

The boss is weak to fire, frost and bless damage so make sure to bring Panther, Sophie, Fox and use Dominion or any other Persona that has bless affinity to it. As with all of these shadows, do not attempt to fight it until you are around level 60.

Sapporo Jail - Harlot of Desire

Sapporo: Harlot of Desire - Sapporo Clocktower checkpoint; move towards the location marked on the map above to find the Dire Shadow. It takes the form of a humanoid soldier shadow with a gun.

Strategy:

The boss is weak to psychokinesis, nuclear, bless and curse damage so make sure to bring Sophie, Queen, Noir and use Arsene or any other Persona that has curse affinity to it. As with all of these shadows, do not attempt to fight it until you are around level 60.

Okinawa Jail - Wandering Reviver

Okinawa: Wandering Reviver - Lab: North checkpoint; towards the location shown on the map above to find the Dire Shadow. It takes the form of a humanoid soldier shadow with a machine gun.

Strategy:

The boss is weak to fire, wind and lightning damage so make sure to bring Skull, Mona, Panther and use Thor or any other Persona that has lightning affinity to it. As with all of these shadows, do not attempt to fight it until you are around level 60.

Kyoto Jail - Sun's Emissary

Kyoto: Sun's Emissary - Fox Couple checkpoint; head west past the Daughter Fox shrine into the most western portal. In the next area, take the portal on your left that opened up when you prayed at the Fortune Shrine during the storyline. This will take you directly to the Mother Fox Shrine where the Dire Shadow is, which takes the form of a flying drone shadow.

Strategy:

The boss is weak to fire, frost and nuclear damage so make sure to bring Queen, Panther, Fox and use King Frost or any other Persona that has frost affinity to it. As with all of these shadows, do not attempt to fight it until you are around level 60.

Osaka Jail - War-Hungry Horseman

Osaka: War-Hungry Horseman - Mt. Chashiro checkpoint; move towards the location marked on the map above to find this Dire Shadow, which takes on the form of a large canine shadow.

Strategy:

The boss is weak to lightning, bless and curse damage so make sure to bring Skull, Sophie and use Thor or any other Persona that has lightning affinity to it. As with all of these shadows, do not attempt to fight it until you are around level 60.

Jail in Abyss - Dark Sun

Abyss: Dark Sun - Entrance; move your way to the location marked on the map above. This Dire Shadow takes the form of a large humanoid shadow with a bazooka.

Strategy:

The boss is weak to frost, bless and curse damage so make sure to bring Fox, Sophie and use Dominion or any other Persona that has bless affinity to it. As with all of these shadows, do not attempt to fight it until you are around level 60.

Tree of Knowledge - Heavenly Punisher

Tree of Knowledge: Heavenly Punisher; Path of Yearning checkpoint; This Dire Shadow can be found right next to the checkpoint and it takes the form of a large humanoid shadow with a gun.

Strategy:

The boss is weak to psychokinesis, wind and nuclear damage so make sure to bring Noir, Mona, Queen and use Mithras or any other Persona that has nuclear affinity to it. As with all of these shadows, do not attempt to fight it until you are around level 60.

8 Comments

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Kushina 22 Oct, 2022 @ 2:02pm

bruh, the highest level I reached was 50 in my first run.

My first run got deleted for some reason. Stupid laptop. But I'm gonna keep going.

๖ۣۜKyozo ✗ ๖ۣۜKami [author] 15 Oct, 2021 @ 2:36am

15/10/2021 - Added images to the guide index sections. You can still use the CTR + F function to find the section you're looking for!

๖ۣۜKyozo ✗ ๖ۣۜKami [author] 29 Sep, 2021 @ 4:28am

29/09/2021 - Removed the note saying that the "Heavenly Punisher" dire shadow can only be fought after finishing the game. Thank you Uriziel & Ultimate Cookie for bringing this to my attention!

Ultimate Cookie 28 Sep, 2021 @ 10:47pm

Heavenly Punisher appeared after sending the calling card on my first playthrough.

๖ۣۜKyozo ✗ ๖ۣۜKami [author] 25 Aug, 2021 @ 1:00pm

25/08/2021 - Added a "Give an award" Ui for the introduction part of the guide. Every donation goes back into creating more useful guides for you!

The Ghost™ 18 Aug, 2021 @ 2:28pm

In a normal run you get XP and a weapon. These rewards are better in Merciless I believe.

Uriziel 25 May, 2021 @ 9:05am

Thanks for the guide, that was very useful. However, you're a bit wrong about the last shadow, Heavenly Punisher - you can actually find and fight him just before going to the final boss. I did that only a few minutes ago and I'm still on my first playthrough, here's the proof just in case: https://imgur.com/bIsJS0y .

I also kinda disagree about your level recommendation, since it makes them seem much more scary than they actually are. Personally, I was able to take out the first 2-3 of them at around level 40 without much problem at all.

๖ۣۜKyozo ✗ ๖ۣۜKami [author] 16 Apr, 2021 @ 9:11am

16/04/2021 - Small corrections to typographical errors.

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