If you’re roaming Tartarus in Persona 3 Reload, you might find an Eternal Eagle lurking behind a Monad Door, and exploiting their weakness can make the fight a breeze.
We’ve found the Eternal Eagle above floor 100 in Yabbashah, with our latest encounter being on floor 109. The doors and their dispositions change each time you enter Persona 3 Reload‘s Tartarus, though, so your mileage can vary. You can also find the Chaos Cyclops or Nemean Beast instead. This cluster of misfits also reappears in Episode Aigis, so expect familiar faces when you’re going through the Abyss of Time.
If you encounter an Eternal Eagle at the end of a Monad Door, you’re up for a fairly easy fight if you can take advantage of its (thankfully easy) weakness. Here’s what you need to know.
What are Eternal Eagle’s weaknesses in Persona 3 Reload?
Eternal Eagle is weak to Pierce but nullifies Strike and Slash damage. This is one of the best weaknesses to have, depending on your team composition.
How to beat Eternal Eagle in Persona 3 Reload
Eternal Eagle being weak to Pierce makes it an easy target. Yukari and Aigis have intrinsic Pierce on their basic attacks, and brawlers like Junpei have their own ways of dealing Pierce damage, which makes it easy to keep Eternal Eagle on the floor.
Watch out for its Heat Riser buff, which grants stat boosts, and for all-party attacks like Blade of Fury. Masukunda can make it annoying to land strikes since it will drop your party’s accuracy, so using Fuuka’s Sylphid Aura before the battle can help make sure the fight never gets to that stage.
Because of that weakness, Mitsuru, Akihiko, and Koromaru aren’t recommended. None of them have easy ways to exploit that weakness, and as an extra downside against Koromaru, Eternal Eagle can also use Light magic. If that’s your composition, Theurgies may be your best bet to keep the damage numbers going when the protagonist isn’t using Pierce damage.
What is Eternal Eagle’s weakness in Persona 3 Reload – Episode Aigis?
You can also encounter Eternal Eagle behind a Monad Door in Caina in Episode Aigis, and it has the same weaknesses as the base game. With Aigis being a necessity in the party now, you have at least one squad member who can take easy advantage of its weakness, but having either healer–Yukari or Ken–also gives you an extra opportunity.
This fight plays out similarly to the base game, but enemies are bulkier in Episode Aigis. Watch out for Eternal Eagle’s buffs and debuffs again, which may make it harder to get this bird on the ground, but be ready for All-Out Attacks when your hits connect. You may have to spend more of Metis’ SP that you’d planned, since the anti-shadow weapon focuses on the damage types nullified by the Eternal Eagle.
