Overview and Guide about Bond Skills in Persona 5 Strikers
Bond Skills in Persona 5 Strikers (or Persona 5 Scramble) refers to collective perks for the Phantom Thieves as a whole. These perks are separate from each Phantom Thief’s individual skills and can range from stat boosts to battle enhancements. In addition, these perks can also be upgraded by spending Bond Level experience points acquired from winning battles. More perks will be unlocked as your progress through the game’s main story.
Trophies
| Trophy | How to Unlock |
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| Best Friend |
Reach max level with one Bond skill. |
| Eternal Bonds |
Reach max level with all Bond skills. |
How to Unlock Bond Skills
The Bond Skills will be unlocked automatically during a story cutscene on August 27th. Only 15 Bond Skills are available for upgrades but more will be unlocked as you progress through the main story.
How to Acquire More Bond Skills
In order to unlock more Bond skills, you need to raise the Bond Level using experience points. In addition, there are some Bond Skills locked in the story.
Defeat Enemies in Jail
As with individual character levels, Bond Level experience Points are gained by defeating enemies in Jails. Because of this, it is recommended to defeat as many enemies as you can while infiltrating the Jails in order to increase the Bond Level.
Interact with Special Places that Boost Bond Level
Another way to earn more bond experience is to interact with the members of the party. In addition, there are locations visited by the Phantom Thieves that can boost your bond level even further.
Bond Level Experience Boost Locations
Clear More Requests
Moreover, complement story progression by completing most of if not all Requests available in the game since these yield a huge amount of bond experience as well.
All Bond Skills
Here is a list of all Bond skills, including their effects, special points required, effects per level, and unlocking conditions:
| Bond Skill | Skill Effect | Required Pts | Effects Per Level | How to Unlock |
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| HP Boost | Increases the Max HP value of all party members. |
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Story (7/27) |
| SP Boost | Increases the Max SP value of all party members. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Strength Boost | Increases St for all party members. This affects the damage of Physical Attacks and Physical and Gun-based Moves. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Magic Boost | Increases Magic stat for all party members member. This affects the damage of Magic-based Moves. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Endurance Boost | Increases En for all party members. This affects the damage reduction (Defense) from enemy Physical and Magical attacks or moves. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Agility Boost | Increases Ag for all party members member. This affects the Criticals/ auto-evades. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Luck Boost | Increases the Luck stat of each party member. This affects the Critical Damage rate and Evasion rate from Status Ailments. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Pass Appeal | After performing a Baton Pass, the Showtime gauge will fill faster. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Harisen Helper | Increases chance to trigger Harisen Recovery. Harisen Recovery is an ability where a party member help removes a status ailment inflicted on the player character. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Oracle Recovery | Restore HP and SP to all party members at the end of the battle. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Martial Arts | Increases damage for physical Persona skills |
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Story (8/1) |
| Spiritual Arts | Increases damage for magic Persona skills |
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Story (8/1) |
| Tactical Arts | Increases chance for Persona skills to inflict status ailments |
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Story (8/1) |
| Supportive Arts | Increased duration for buffs and debuffs from Persona skills. |
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Story (8/1) |
| Joker’s Wild | Increases chance for masks to manifest. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Ambusher | Restores HP to all party members after a successful ambush. |
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Perform Ambush in Crossing, Shibuya Jail (7/27) |
| Phantom Striker | Increase damage of Phantom Dash attacks. |
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Defeat Shibuya Jail Monarch (7/29) |
| Avenger | Evading an enemy attack can grant a much stronger counterattack |
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Defeat Sendai Jail Monarch (8/4) |
| Ammo Hoarder | Raises the bullet carrying capacity |
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Defeat Sapporo Jail Monarch (8/12) |
| Proper Showman | Increases Showtime damage |
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Defeat Okinawa Jail Lock Keeper (8/17) |
| Spirit Striker | 1 More restores attacker SP, All-Out restores party SP |
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Defeat Osaka Jail Monarch (8/26) |
| Smart Shopper | Increases the items for sale and add new features to Sophia’s Shop. More item sales will occur as well. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Metaverse Medic | Increases the effects of healing items. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Bondmaker | BOND level will increase more quickly. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Highwayman | Increases the chance for obtaining equipment or items at the end of battle. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Extortionist | Increases money obtained at end of a battle. |
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Story (7/27) |
| Safecracker | Allows more difficult chests to be picked open. |
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Locate Level 1 Treasure Chest at Bunkamachi, Shibuya Jail (7/27) |
| Master Chef | Enables the creation of more food with stronger effects. |
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Story (7/31) |
| Treasure Hunter | Increases the chance to encounter treasure demons. |
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Approach Treasure Demon at West Garden, Sendai Jail (8/2) |
| Packrat | Junk pars become easier to obtain |
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Story (8/7) |
After Avenger is Ammo Hoarder instead of Magazine Stock (increases bullets based on gun), Proper Showman (increases Showtime damage), and Spirit Striker (1 More restores attacker SP, All-Out restores party SP); Parts Connoisseur becomes Packrat (Junk Parts easier to obtain); there is no skill after Packrat?
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