Hopefully your team didn’t take too much damage during the fight against the Hieropha🐈nt Full Moon boss Shadow in - you won’t be afforded the chance to change out your party members before you’re on to fighting Lovers. You’ll have time to heal, but your party is coming along.

Ahead of you all is Arcana Lovers, the fifth Full Moon Shadow y𓆏ou’ll face in P3R, and it’s not going down as easily as Hierophant. With some powerful Fire magic and the determination to Charm the pants off the party, you’ve got quite a fight ahead of you

This guide contains spoilers for the Lovers Full🐼 Moon b𓂃attle in July of Persona 3 Reload.

Break Mirrors Without Reflections To Find Lovers

The battle with Lovers begins immediately after you've defeated Hierophant on 7/6 - so immediately that you can't change your party betw꧃een the battles. Check out our guide to the Hierophant Full Moon battle for full party ❀recommendations.

After defeating Hierophant and finding that the door is locked, you'll need to investigate the mirror nearby and acknowledge that there's a difference between the two - in one, you don't have a reflection. Keep this in mind, as it'll help after a long series of cutscenes, but for now, break the mirror to proceed on.

You'll find yourself in a hotel room with Yukari on the first floor, so exit as soon as you're able to go back to the hall to rejoin the rest of your party so that Fuuka can tell you all that the Lovers arcana is still in the room where you fought Hierophant, but that now, you'll need to regain access to the room.

To do so, you'll need to explore the third floor of the hotel and find other mirrors that don't have a reflection in the rooms. The tutorial for this is in Rooms 204💃 and 205, with chatter be෴tween teammates about which mirror to break.

Break the one that doesn't have a reflection to be allowed to move upstairs to the third floor again,ꦬ where you'll need to find another mirror without a reflection to break in order to geಌt into the room where the battle will take place.

The mirror you're looking for is in Room 304, so dispell it and return to the boss room.

Lovers Full Moon Boss Battle Guide

Lovers Full Moon Shadow Affinities In P3R

Battle Guide

While the Hierophant Shadow was intent to inflict your party with Fear, Lovers, on the other hand, if you couldn't guess by the heart motif, has plenty of ways up its sleep to inflict Charm onto the party.

Not only do Charmed teammates attack the party or heal the Shadow, but to make things worse, Lovers has a move that can insta-kill those who've been Charmed. Throughout the battle, Lovers focuses on inflicting Charm over damage for the majority of the battle, using Heartbreaker after inflicting Charm to insta-kill anyone with Charm.

For the most part, it will try to inflict Charm on the party and then immediately follow it up with Heartbreaker to capitalize on the Charm, so be sure to keep the party in good health throughout. Once its HP begins to run low, though, Lovers will start tossing Agidyne into the mix of its moves, switching focus to outright damaꦕge-dealin𒐪g.

If Mitsuru is in the party, Lovers seems to target her𝔍, so hopefully, you've left her back outside with ꧑Fuuka.

Once again, Patra is an essential skill to have f꧙or 🌟dispelling Charm for your teammates, so be sure to heal Yukari with priority if limited on items to allow her to use Patra to cure other Charmed teammates on her turn.

Finally, just remember to use your Theurgy attacks liberally as soon as they're ready and your teammates are able, but k💝eep in mind that you'll lose h🔴alf your Theurgy gauge if you're KOed, so use them sooner than later. Outside that, the battle will be an outright damage exchange until finally, Lovers is defeated and the Full Moon mission ends.