Shin Megami Tensei 5: How To Beat Lucifer (Secret Ending)
Killing Lucifer is no easy feat. I mean, he’s literally Satan who has murdered - and then absorbed - actual God. Guy’s a total beast in combat. Thankfully a few firm Hell Thrusts from Mara does the trick. The thing is, Lucifer isn’t the final boss of Shin Megami Tensei 5 - well, not the one you fought the first time around.
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To fight Lucifer at full strength, you must first obtain the Secret Ending, which is easier said than done. Your reward for all that busywork is a truly monstrous New Game+ foe who will slap you around something rotten if you aren’t prepared for his overwhelming damage. Needless to say, you will need more than a dingus on wheels to best him this time.
We’ve got a guide covering the standard Lucifer battle if you have come to the wrong place.
The above list of Potentials is not a typo - Lucifer really is that good at using everything. Because Lucifer has some of the highest potentials in the game, and those potentials are in everything, you need to go into this fight with a team that is weak to as little as possible. Best case scenario? Your team is straight-up weak to nothing.
As you can imagine, very few demons are up to the task, and many demons you’ve relied on up until now, are not going to make the cut. You have two options - spend a lot of time and resources transferring skills to craft the perfect demon(s), or, spend a lot of time fusing a whole new team.
Lucifer has a whopping THREE phases, with each phase being substantially more powerful than the last. Looking at his phase one skill list, he isn't messing around and is planning on overwhelming you with elemental damage.
Few bosses in any game have a first phase as
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