Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Demi-fiend Boss Hard Mode

Featuring the new Masakado, Konohana Sakuya, Beelzebub's Biondetta passive, and Nahobino's new Moonlight Frost and Luminescent Mirage - Intercalation skills.
No cheese, no status ailments, magic build, and everyone with just resist phys.

[@jaffinator2166]

So from beating him (normal) it seems like the demons are far more tankier than before. Cerberus specifically. Demi specifically seems unchanged and you can even cheese him with Lilith’s unique skill

[@AchmadBadra]

15:58: lets restart the battle :)

[@max-lee1203]

Here some tips from personal experience:
1. Have at least one demon resist physical and have the rest of your team Null/Repel/Drain physical to avoid Javelin Rain and Freikugel spam
2. Make sure to always kill one of his allies to avoid his Gaea Rage attack
8. Have a Garuda in stock for Accursed Poison. Around certain intervals Demi Fiend will either use Chaotic Will or Mediarahan.
20. Never use Tetrakarn or Mirrors. Demi Fiend will end your whole career if you try that
44. Never use Fierce Roar or Taunt. Demi Fiend and his allies will spam Almighty skills

[@aokyoutsuki7744]

Chaotic will is periodic, and mediarahan is once the turn he reaches under 50% if stopped via ailment he doesnt try mediarahan again

[@max-lee1203]

@@aokyoutsuki7744 I think he does Chaotic Will when he's at 75% of health and 25% of his health

[@aokyoutsuki7744]

@@max-lee1203 yeh, jus found out, he uses it a max o 3 cuz he heals, so reaching the 75 threshold twice

[@tractor5887]

In the vengeance update, the raptor/avian mediarahan skip seems less consistent. I've only gotten it to successfully seal him a few times.

[@max-lee1203]

@@tractor5887 Yeah it happens even in Vanilla. You sometimes Charm him or Poison him instead

[@bacd-nn2lg]

This fight on hard mode tested out my skill to the limit, but having him on your team helps a lot.
Ps. I run the strength build.

[@calebpool7714]

Nice job bro. Keep up the good content. Also, I would love to see some more SMT V Vengeance.

[@xelldincht4251]

1 hour to fight him? Well, fuck me. How many JRPGs exist where defeating a boss takes that long?
A friend of mine who played SMT 4 told me the urban legend that Atlus is using the sweat and tears of SMT players as a coolant for their office. There is some truth to it i guess (or maybe it was always a scheme to sell controllers?).

[@DDRMANIAC007]

Nobody tell him about the DDS Demi-Fiend fight

[@myau9912]

To be fair at least 20 minutes of this hour was him slowly scrolling back and forth between each enemy unit over and over.

[@steam-powereddolphin5449]

​@@DDRMANIAC007 It's possible to beat him in under 20 minutes, but Jim Reaper's low-level completion of the fight is basically a feature-length movie!

[@ypcys]

W

[@thegodslayer8685]

Is it me, or did the boss theme for the Demi-fiend change?

[@night104]

Sounds the same to me

[@RaijinsTower]

It's a remix of the normal battle theme from SMT: Nocturne. In other words, you're a random encounter, to him, lol

[@Glansi-kq3cu]

@@RaijinsTower In correct words this is wrong and in reality he sees you as a being of the taya of YHVH and Lucifer since this is the demi fiend in his strongest form and yet when he sees you the boss music of SMT 3 plays so in In reality, he sees you as a boss, that is, as a rival at his level, and he also throws you freiku hell and chaotic, not even jokingly does he see you as a random combat

[@RaijinsTower]

@@Glansi-kq3cu Respectfully disagree. The battle music indicates that and he's still stronger than us, you merely survive the encounter/battle and don't outright slay him.

[@Glansi-kq3cu]

@@RaijinsTower Well, obviously, these two survive by fighting more for fun and he is not stronger, in fact, he is weaker than the Nahobino since canonically Nahobino is just as strong as Yhvh and Lucifer from his initial state and it is canon that Demi Fiend is weaker. Lucifer said that is why he remains as his general since in SMT 4 a version of Demi Fiend could be seen who refused Lucifer's offer and that resulted in Lucifer killing him without any problem.