Best Friend

The Best Friend

Best Friend (おともだち, Otomodachi)^?, also known as Shadow Rei, is a shadow in the series.

Appearances

• Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

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Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

Best Friend is the Shadow Self of Rei and the guardian of the Inaba Pride Exhibit. Her shadow fuses with her rabbit doll, becoming a giant monstrous rabbit. Upon defeat, Rei continues to deny her shadow, who then disappears into a black smoke.

The shadow is discovered to be guarding a letter, revealing that a girl named Niko is dead. Zen then recovers all his memories and discovers he is Chronos, and had a job to see Rei off into the afterlife. After Rei regains her memories, her shadow is seen in an instant speaking though Rei, indicating that Rei has become one with her shadow.

Best Friend's appearance is based on the rabbit doll Rei owned, being the rabbit from the storybook she once read.

Strategy

Best Friend's can act twice in each of its turns. Its main attacks are all physical, so elemental weaknesses are not a major issue. Using Fang Smash should largely reduce its offensive power, and Swordbreaker or Immunity Buffer can reduce the damage the party would be suffering in general.

Its most lethal attack is Rabbit's Foot, which hits many times but is offset with terrible accuracy. However, at around 50% HP, it will start to use its entire turn to "take a deep breath", signalling that it's about to use Deafening Roar, which will cause knockdown to the party, rendering them unable to dodge Rabbit's Foot. At 25% HP it will start casting Tarukaja and Rakukaja before taking its deep breath.

When it gets defeated the first time, it will Endure the blow and restore itself to half HP, but also reset its behaviour to match its appropriate HP thresholds.

The battle will be long, and Poison and Curse will not work on this boss, so fight conservatively, and use Boost status wisely. Since it has no elemental weaknesses, critical hits from physical attacks are the only way to achieve Boost status in the fight, so skills like Mind's Eye are helpful. When it "takes a deep breath", have the entire party defend to nullify the effects of Deafening Roar. As a result, the subsequent Rabbit's Foot is highly likely to miss all its hits.

Stats

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

Level HP Attack Defense Strength 60 Magic 48 Endurance 61 Agility 51 Luck 49 61 12000 180 183 Exp Drop 1 Drop 2 Drop 3 249640 Hand-Sewn Vest - - Cut Stab Bash Fire Ice Elec Wind Light Dark Alm - - - - - - - Null Null - Sleep Panic Poison Curse Paralysis S-Bind M-Bind A-Bind Down KO Resist Resist Null Null Resist Resist - - Null Null List of Skills Skill Effect Deafening Roar A high chance of knockdown. (All Enemies) Rabbit's Foot 10 light Bash attacks at random, with low accuracy. (All Enemies) Tarukaja Raise attack for 3 turns. (1 Ally) Blade of Fury A heavy Cut attack. (1 Row) Spin Slash A heavy Cut attack. (All Enemies) Rakukaja Raise defense for 3 turns. (1 Ally) Endure Withstand damage that brings HP down to 0 with 1 HP.

Gallery

Official Artwork.

The doll's transformation

Rei's Shadow

Trivia

• When Rei continues to deny her shadow, it disappears into a black smoke, similar to Shadow Mitsuo.
• To date, Rei is the second playable character to deny her own shadow in the series, even though she leaves the party from this point onward. The first being Maya Amano.
  • Coincidentally, both Rei and Maya hold their own rabbit dolls.
• A portion of one of the BGMs for the Inaba Pride Exhibit, Looming Danger, is a remix of "I'll Face Myself - Battle", foreshadowing Rei's Shadow being the guardian of the labyrinth.