Many Persona 5 players overlook The Velvet Room, but mastering it is essential for building powerful Personas, optimizing battle strategies, and making the game significantly easier. If you don’t take advantage of it early, you may find yourself struggling—especially against Okumura and later bosses.

This guide will teach you everything you need to know about the Velvet Room, including fusion strategies, skill inheritance, strengthening techniques, and using the Fusion Alarm effectively.

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1. Fusion Is Key – Don’t Be Afraid to Experiment

Why You Should Fuse Constantly

• Fusing Personas isn’t just for filling the Compendium—it ensures you have access to a wide variety of skills and traits.
• Every 25% of the Compendium you complete gives you discounts when summoning Personas.
• If you don’t fuse regularly, future battles will become significantly harder.
• Use “Fuse by Result” to explore all possible Persona fusions.
• If you mess up, you can always re-summon from the Compendium.

Tip: Always check the Fusion Calculator (linked in descriptions or fan sites) to see the best Personas to fuse and inherit skills from.

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2. Rank Up the Strength Confidant (Caroline & Justine)

Why Strength Confidant is Important

• One of the best buffs in Persona 5 Royal is that Special Treatment (which allows you to fuse Personas above your level) was moved from Rank 10 to Rank 5.
• Unlocking this early breaks the game, allowing you to create high-level Personas much earlier.
• Many endgame Personas require advanced fusion techniques, which this Confidant unlocks.

How to Rank Up Strength Confidant Faster

• The Strength Confidant is task-based, meaning you must create specific Personas with certain skills.
• Use Skill Cards and Fusion Calculators to speed through their requests.

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3. Persona Stats, Skills & Traits – Build Smarter Personas

Stat Allocation Matters

• Each Persona has an intended role:
  • Attackers: Focus on Strength (Physical) or Magic (Elemental damage).
  • Supports: Specialize in healing, buffs, and debuffs.
• Don’t just throw random skills onto a Persona—synergize with their strengths.

Building an Effective Magic Persona

Let’s assume you’re building a Fire-based Persona:

• Essential Damage Skills:
  • Fire Boost & Fire Amp → Increase fire damage by 75%.
  • Magic Ability (via Network Fusion) → Boosts all magic damage by 25%.
• Setup for Technical Hits:
  • Dizzy or Sleep → Fire gets Technical bonuses against these ailments.
  • Use Dormina (single target) or Lullaby (AoE sleep).
• Extra Buffs:
  • Tarukaja / Matarukaja → Boost your own damage.
  • Concentrate → Doubles next magic attack’s damage.
  • Spell Master → Halves SP cost for magic skills.

Building a Support Persona

• Equip healing spells, buffs, debuffs, and ailment-inflicting moves.
• Make use of Gallows Fusion to increase Vitality & Agility.

Traits Matter More Than You Think

Traits are often overlooked but can greatly improve your Persona’s abilities. Examples:

• Heated Bloodline → Halves SP cost of Fire skills (great for Fire-based Personas).
• Foul Stench → Increases ailment success rate (useful for Technical setups).
• Mighty Gaze → Boosts multi-target magic attacks.

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4. Skill Inheritance & Fusion Strategies

How to Maximize Inheritance

• When fusing, inherit skills that complement the Persona’s strengths.
• If a Persona lacks a crucial skill, use Gallows Fusion to add it.
• If the inherited skill isn’t what you want, reload your save and try again.
• Use Skill Cards from itemization to save time.

How to Transfer the Best Skills

• If you don’t want to keep fusing, use the Gallows to pass on skills.
• Save before using Gallows Fusion and reload until you get the skill you want.
• Advanced Tip: If you create a Persona with skills it normally can’t learn (due to Fusion Alarm mistakes), use it as a skill donor.

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5. Using Fusion Alarms for Maximum Benefit

What Is a Fusion Alarm?

• After battle, there’s a chance of triggering a Fusion Alarm.
• During an alarm, every function in the Velvet Room becomes stronger:
  • Personas gain better stats.
  • Itemization creates stronger weapons & skills.
  • Gallows Fusion provides larger EXP and stat boosts.

How to Use Fusion Alarms Effectively

✅ Fuse Personas during an Alarm for boosted stats. ✅ Itemize Personas for better weapons & armor. ✅ Strengthen Personas via Gallows for insane stat increases. ✅ Be careful: Using a Persona created during an Alarm may cause Fusion Accidents, which can result in unexpected but sometimes amazing Personas.

Fusion Accidents Can Be Useful

• Accidents can produce Personas with incredible stats and skills they wouldn’t normally have.
• If an accident results in a Persona with rare skills, use it as an inheritance donor.

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Final Tips for Mastering the Velvet Room

✅ Fuse as often as possible – Don’t hoard Personas that aren’t useful. ✅ Rank up the Strength Confidant early to break level restrictions. ✅ Pay attention to stats, skills, and traits – Build Personas that synergize. ✅ Use Gallows Fusion & Fusion Alarms for stat boosts and high-level fusions. ✅ Experiment with Fusion Accidents – Sometimes mistakes create overpowered Personas.

Once you’ve mastered these mechanics, Persona 5 becomes significantly easier. Even the Okumura boss fight—notorious for being a major difficulty spike—will feel like a breeze with the right Persona builds.

Now go forth, fuse like crazy, and create the ultimate Persona team!