Shin Megami Tensei 5: How To Beat Zeus
Shin Megami Tensei 5’s Taito region is the last of the vast open-world segments the game has to offer. Containing some of the hardest enemies, strongest bosses, and the most difficult Abscesses, simply surviving is a tall order.
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Taito is home to three tremendously powerful, titanic bosses who oversee the majority of the map - Odin, Vasuki, and Zeus. Zeus, being the Greek God of thunder, is pretty easy to figure out on paper. Even with that foreknowledge, however, he is no pushover and will flatten you if you don’t prepare adequately.
As is fitting for the almighty Zeus, he has some of the highest Potentials in the entire game, specifically when looking at his Electric Potential. Whilst this is his most powerful form of attack, his Physical prowess is not to be underestimated, nor is his sneaky inclusion of Almighty.
Zeus backs this up with a fantastic statline, coming with a 75 in Strength, and 70 in Magic. It doesn’t matter how Zeus hits you, he is probably going to hurt.
As you can see from Zeus’s attacks, he is no pushover. He deals single target and AoE damage, he can buff and debuff with ease, and he can punch through your defenses with any of his attacks. Even bringing the ideal party along, there is no guarantee Zeus won’t just use Impaler’s Animus and ruin your day.
Of all of his attacks, Keraunos is Zeus’ most dangerous. Not only does it deal Severe damage, but it natively ignores resistances and has piercing. Thankfully, it’s a single target attack, but that doesn’t diminish its strength. You will want to make sure your party - especially Nahobino - can take a hit from this.
Impaler’s Animus is the wild card in his kit. When Zeus uses this
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