Persona 5 Strikers - Thief Challenge Requests Guide

Thief’s Challenge Requests

Thief’s Challenge Requests are special Phantom Thief missions with objectives that focus on stealth or eliminating specific enemies.

Request List

Clearing Thief Challenge Requests rewards you with a various useful items, including Band skill upgrades, equipment, and ingredients.

A Thief’s Challenge: Panther

Strategy

From the starting location, move forward and Phantom Dash to the bus ahead. Afterwards, move along the two traffic signals to your right until you are just in front of the path to Miyamae Park. Wait for the flying drone to pass by the bus in front of you before moving to it.

Afterwards, you will want to move to the traffic signal in front of the exit to Shibuya Station: West. When you get on it, feel free to ambush the flying drone below before exiting to Shibuya Station: West.

In the next area, Phantom Dash to the bus just ahead and to the one on your left afterwards. Jump down on your left and run to the white gift box platforms. Move along the gift boxes going south until you see the traffic signal up ahead. Jump up and Phantom Dash to it and ambush the flying drone in front of the staircase.

After taking out the drone, move to the left of the staircase to reach the Underground Waterway. From here on, it is just a matter of following the linear path while taking out the patrolling enemies on the way. Note that as long as you can hit or ambush them before they trigger the alarm, you will remain undetected. Be sure to use Phantom Dash to get up to vantage points, especially in the areas patrolled by both police and drone shadows.

A Thief’s Challenge: Fox

Strategy

At the starting location, jump down the overpass to the west and Phantom Dash to the police car in front of the golden statue. Face west and ambush the shadow standing below the overpass.

Move towards the ice crystal ahead and ambush the the flying drone in the air before taking the exit to Aoba Street 1st Ward.

In the next area, Phantom Dash to the police car ahead and ambush the flying drone in the air. Afterwards, move along the street while sticking close to the buildings on your left all the way to the exit to West Garden.

At the West Garden starting location, move forward until you see an ice crystal to your left. Get on it and ambush the patrolling shadow there. After taking care of the enemies, look upward to west (in front of the open building) to find a cover point that you can move to. Go up and follow the path to an ice crystal in the air. When you are on it, ambush the patrolling shadow below.

Make your way south towards the checkpoint until you come up to an open area with flying drones. Wait for one of the drones to come near enough for you to hit in mid air (the alarm will not trigger if you time your attack and hit the shadow).

Finally, move east to the platforms and take the upper path along the floating gems to reach the target destination. Be careful of the search lights that aim at the walls before you proceed each time.

A Thief’s Challenge: Wolf Part 1

Strategy

Good areas to clear this request is in front of the open building with ice crystals at West Garden (from the area’s starting location, move forward and left when you see the ice crystal). Another is the north path at the Hirose Street intersection from the section’s starting point.

A Thief’s Challenge: Wolf Pt. 2

Strategy

At the starting location, run south to the far end of the map until you are only able to go west or east. From there, take the east path, and ambush the patrolling shadow ahead. Continue east and take the exit to the Shipping Railway Area.

In the next area, Phantom Dash to the cover point on the side of the stack of containers in the northeast to get up. You should come behind a flying drone and some patrolling shadows to ambush them.

Before using Phantom Dash on the wire going east to reach the next platform, wait for the flying drones to turn around. When the coat is clear, cross the wire. Go up the ledge and you should see a flying drone patrolling on your right (southeast on the map). Move to the edge of the platform close to the flying drone to find the path that you can shimmy across (by moving along the wall) to go further east.

Drop down to the east after crossing and you should be near the checkpoint. Keep moving east and exit to Juoji Station.

In the next area, go north to find two shadows patrolling. Phantom Dash to the Maddice logo and ambush the shadow just standing near the room’s exit.

In the hallway that stretches west (and a room with a chest to the east), walk west and ambush the shadow near the cart. You can use the cart to easily take out the enemies when they appear.

Afterwards, walk east to the room with the chest but be ready to shoot a strong shadow waiting at the southwest corner. Take him out and get the item from the chest. Move to the partition glass and jump through it. Go west to find a room with several shadows. Shoot the closest one and take out the enemies.

Move to the partition glass in the west end of the room and jump through it. Go north and ambush the back-turned shadow. Go through the partition glass and ambush another shadow in the next room. Jump through yet another partition glass to the north and move east to the exit leading to the Loading Bay.

For the side-scrolling section that goes from right to left, go up the stack of containers and up the cover point. You should be in front of two search lights on the wall (the top one will be appearing at an interval). Wait for the top one to go out before jumping over the one at the bottom. Drop down the gap ahead near the cover point all the way to the ground level and you should find the target location just a little ways to the left.

A Thief’s Challenge: Noir

Strategy

From the starting location, Phantom Dash to the police car just ahead of you. Afterwards, face the cover point to the northwest and move there before ambushing the patrolling shadow on your right.

From there, move east towards the path leading to the shops but be careful of the patrolling shadow and flying drone. Hit the patrolling shadow before it triggers the alarm. Look upward to the northeast to find forks that you can Phantom Dash to. When you reach the roof, ambush the patrolling shadow.

Go to the next building by moving on the electrical wire and ambush another patrolling shadow. Walk west and drop down the building to the exit going to Odori Park.

In the next area, go east to the exit to Sapporo Tower. At the area’s starting location, attack the flying drone nearest to the west wall. When the enemies have been cleared out, walk north to the mountain of ice and use the cover points to go up. Once at the top, get on the snowboard and slide down to the target location.

A Thief’s Challenge: Skull

Strategy

Valkyries and Nagas can frequently be encountered at Mt. Chashiro. Attack them with strong Physical skills and they should go down quite easily. Avoid using Elec skills on Naga as they are immune to it.

A Thief’s Challenge: Queen

Strategy

At the starting location, head east and go through the door. Continue moving east until you come to a room with broken partition glass. Phantom Dash to the one on your right and perform an ambush on the enemy in the other room. Afterwards, go through the vent on the southeast corner.

In the next room, go north and Phantom Dash to the partition glass ahead. Ambush the shadows in the next room and continue going east. When you come up to the hallway, Phantom Dash to the partition glass and quickly jump through the room on your left. When the shadow in the middle of the hall runs south, follow him and hit him (this should prevent him from triggering the alarm).

Start moving west and Phantom Dash to the partition glass in the next room and ambush the shadow there. Go through the vent in the west wall to reach the next room with the containers. Move forward and Phantom Dash to the scaffolding ahead. Look northeast and Phantom Dash to the moving hook rail and work your way along the scaffoldings to reach the vent above the stacked containers on the southwest corner (you can choose to ignore the shadow in the room if you want).

Go through the vent and proceed to move west. Phantom Dash to the partition glass and jump through it before quickly Phantom Dashing again to the vertical lights above. Ambush any of the two shadows block the stairs to the west. Go up the stairs and continue west before turning south up another set of stairs. Pass through the hall and go through the vent in the next room.

When you come out the other end, the camera will shift to a side scrolling. Move forward (to your right) and proceed while grabbing on the hook rails ahead. At the end of a path is a partition glass. Move to it and jump through to the next area.

At the entrance to the next room, Phantom Dash to the scaffolding above. Face east and move to the next scaffolding. Ambush the shadow on the southeast corner (just before the path to the area with the checkpoint). Move east to reach the large room where the target location is.

Phantom Dash to the moving hook rail above. You want to move north and then east using the hook rails and scaffolding to reach the target destination.

A Thief’s Challenge: Sophie

Strategy

At the starting location, head east until you come to an two connected open areas with two shadows patrolling. Shoot the one patrolling near the middle of the two connected sections and defeat the enemies.

Continue east as the path turns south. In the next open area, wait for the flying drown to turn around and move to the other direction before Phantom Dashing to the lantern and ambush the patrolling shadow below. Proceed further south toward the Fox Couple statue checkpoint and shoot the patrolling shadow west of the area (be careful of the flying drone above near the checkpoint).

Take the south exit that warps you to the next area and follow the linear path to the target location.

A Thief’s Challenge: Mona

Strategy

At the starting location, move north and Phantom Dash to the mysterious box on your left to ambush any of the shadows in the area. Afterwards, follow the path north and then east by sticking close to the east wall to avoid alerting the big shadow standing in the northwest corner.

Drop down east and then south. Head down south a second time and Phantom Dash to the cover point just before the group of shadows in the hallway. Ambush one of them and take them out.

Keep going south down the hall and you should see a birdcage above and a flying drone patrolling the area. Phantom Dash to the cage and ambush the drone.

Walk to the edge to the east and you should see several shadows in the lower area. One of them is a strong shadow mini-boss (Killer Teddy Bear). Shoot the strong shadow and clear out the enemies.

After taking out the shadows, walk to the edge to the east and shoot down the flying drone to engage it. Afterwards, go north and ambush the big shadow ahead. Keep moving north toward the checkpoint and take the exit to the Bridge of the Abyss and to the Hall of the Ark: Rear Area.

Take the exit to the Depths of the Abyss. In the next area, go north and Phantom Dash to the Atomic Gem. Quickly move to the Atomic Gem next to the shadow and ambush it before it notices you. Afterwards, go north past the checkpoint and you should come up to a platform overlooking two shadows and two mysterious boxes. Phantom Dash to the mysterious box and ambush one of the enemies.

As the path turns east, look down the lower area to find some dog shadows that you can shoot and take out. Afterwards, continue going east and Phantom Dash to the birdcage ahead and to the other one near the ledge to the south. Just below is another shadow that you can ambush from this vantage point.

Go south as the path descends to find more shadows patrolling. They should be easy to ambush, either by sneaking up on them or shooting them so take them out.

As the path goes east, two more shadows will come into view on the lower area near a chest. You can choose to shoot them from your current position or Phantom Dash quickly to the Atomic Gems to get closer for an ambush.

Follow the path as it goes north to find more shadows near some mysterious boxes and another group just before the target location. Deal with them in standard fashion to take them out. Walk just a little ways east to clear the request.

A Thief’s Special Challenge (Post-game)

Strategy

The request simply requires you to reach the end of the area (Hall of Contracts) just before the final boss fight without fast traveling or raising the alert level. You are basically required to run through the entire dungeon again with similar enemy placements and cover points but without being triggering the alarm.