Persona 5 X tier list

A single-target Curse attacker who stacks Lovesick on one foe and then cashes it in: My Beloved Prince gains 7.7% per stack and adds a bonus hit at 10 or more.

Knocks foes down regardless of their Electric affinity.

A max-HP healer who also boosts damage: every ally she heals gets 15% more damage for a turn, up to 30% with Blessing stacks.

A navigator who cycles party buffs on short cooldowns.

A healer with one big hit: Gentle Fist trades 20% accuracy for 30% more crit rate and a single 845% Physical strike.

A Speed-scaling debuffer.

A Highlight enabler.

A navigator who fills Analysis Progress (starting at 50%) and, once it hits 100%, gives the whole party Data Storm: up to 20% more damage, doubled on weakness hits, plus a shield.

Builds Moon Phase stacks with Melody of Flames or Nocturne of Battle, then dumps them into Scarlet Hades: one 91.5% hit per Moon Phase, plus one 150.7% hit per Full Moon from his Theurgies.

An HP-trading Bless attacker.

A healer who also powers Highlight and Theurgy teams: just being in the party adds 45% Highlight and Theurgy damage, and Arrow of Life heals everyone while feeding Theurgy gauge to its main target.

Spreads random elemental ailments with a five-hit Nuclear skill, then gets stronger for each different ailment on the field: 15% Attack per type, plus an extra Technical hit per ailment once Nuclear Fury evolves into Thermonuclear Fury under Crash Out.

A shield tank whose shields and damage all scale off Defense.

An Electric attacker whose skills all hit every foe.

A Speed-scaling buffer: nearly every number in her kit grows with Speed, topping out at 52.8% party Attack from Power Setup and 36.6% party damage from Shockwave.

A 4-star navigator who covers the party in shields.

A 4-star single-ally booster built on Power of Friendship stacks.

A 4-star Wind attacker who deals damage in bursts of small hits and builds Right to Strike stacks; at 3 or more, Saber Surge and his Highlight each gain an extra hit and Saber Surge gets 20% more crit rate.

A Fire attacker who mostly hits all foes and builds Passion with every Fire skill.

A Fire debuffer who stacks Defense cuts and damage-taken increases, most of them scaling with her ailment accuracy.

A healer-buffer for one main damage dealer.

A 4-star HP-based tank.

Works one target in two modes.

A navigator who runs on Cocktails.

A single-target Physical attacker who plays around Rebound.

A 4-star navigator who buffs party Attack and damage, restores 12 SP to everyone with Intermission, and turns every 8 Beat stacks into a free elemental ailment on the healthiest foe.

Mixes Psy AoE skills with a single-target Gun shot and loads up her ranged attacks: with Target Audience, her skills grant Painpoint and Spillover Shots that add extra Psy damage to her next ranged attack, and her Highlight can add an Overload Shot for crit rate.

Alternates Bless and Curse AoE skills to stack a party damage buff (Deduction) and a Defense cut on all foes (Stratagem), then cashes in with Rain of Justice, which deals fixed Almighty damage based on what his Arrow of Truth stacks recorded.

An Ice counterattacker.

A Nuclear debuffer who piles different elemental ailments onto foes, cuts one target's Defense with Diving Ray, and makes Bullseye Bomber's damage-taken debuff grow with every unique ailment on the target.

A single-target Bless attacker who works with one partner.

A buffer who collects Childish Heart stacks, mostly from allies dealing damage under her Affection buff, and spends them all on her next skill for 8% party Attack per stack, up to five.

A follow-up attacker.

A 4-star single-target Ice attacker whose damage grows as the target loses HP.

A 4-star Electric attacker who keeps foes Shocked and makes them take more Electric damage, both from her Highlight and from a 6.7% debuff on each skill's main target that stacks twice.

A 4-star support who builds Greenleaf stacks with a Psy AoE, then spends them on Cheer Song (an Attack buff for one ally) or a Sleep attempt that makes the target's next hit land harder.

A 4-star Fire debuffer who scales off max HP: his Fire damage rises 1% per 300 HP, and Crimson Summon puts Sacred Flame on Burning foes, dealing Fire damage worth 16.3% of his max HP every time they act.

A 4-star Curse attacker whose skills load different Verse stacks (Hate, Passion or Healing) that Sonnet of Fate spends for Curse chances, bonus Almighty damage or small heals.