Welcome to TheGamer’s Persona 5 Royal walkthrough. Here, we’re gonna be guiding you through all ten playable months of the game, making sure you’ll make it to the true ending with all confidant ranks and social stats maxed out— not to mention popping that shiny platinum on your first run of the game.

Going month by month, each guide will include:

• Month overview
• Notes on restricted/limited time events
• Daily activity guide
• Mementos and Palace notes
• Recommendations/tips for combat optimization.

A few things to note going for this walkthrough:

• This walkthrough is a modified version of this guide, optimized for further efficiency and combat effectiveness.
• All confidant rank ups are dependent on you bringing a persona of a matching arcana when spending time with them. With the exception of Rank 1 and Rank 10, if you forget to do this even once it’ll set your schedule back— sometimes catastrophically, depending on the confidant. Make sure you’re keeping track of your personae. Reminders will be included when your only opportunity to prep a persona for an event is the night before.
• This walkthrough is based on normal difficulty— you might find yourself having a hard time keeping up on higher difficulty modes.
• As it’s not possible to 100% the Thieves Den achievements on your first run, we’ll be guiding you through popping as many of them as possible, but it will not be a main focus like the PS4 trophies.
• This guide will be running on the assumption that you’re choosing a platonic route with all the romanceable characters to accomodate for everyone— if you find yourself progressing faster with your romanced confidant than the guide plans for, use the extra day as a free slot.
• Story-locked confidant ranks will not be included in the monthly exit stats.

At this point, we’ve already gone through April, so May is the next month.

PREVIOUSLY: TheGamer’s Persona 5 Royal 100% Completion Walkthrough: April

May

In May, the game gradually stops holding your hand. After the Madarame Palace that takes center stage this month is over, the game will stop grabbing your ankles to explain a new mechanic as often.

The two things to keep in mind that you MUST stay on schedule for the Chariot and Temperance confidants. The rank 7 event for Chariot is only available at night on specific dates, so if you’re behind schedule you might be stalled on this confidant line until as much as two weeks later.

Temperance doesn’t have restricted dates, but it is essential to get it maxed out as soon as possible as night confidant events will be unavailable until you do so. As this confidant requires Guts rank 3 to initiate, this also means keeping on track for leveling up your Guts stat as well.

May 1st

• Check TV for home shopping (Optional, Muscle set recommended)
• Daytime: Get Aojiru (Proficiency +1). Death 2 (Guts +1, requires Guts rank 2):
• 2, 0, 0
• 2, 0, 0
• 2, 0, 2
• Nighttime: Yongen Bathhouse (Charm +3)

May 2nd

• Daytime: Story segment
• Nighttime: Solve crossword (Knowledge +1). Study (Knowledge rank 2)

May 3rd

• Daytime: Story segment
• Nighttime: Watch Wraith (Kindness +2)

May 4th

• Daytime: Story segment
• Nighttime: Craft infiltration tools (Proficiency +2)

(Note: There are four locked chests in Madarame’s palace, and a randomly generated number in Mementos. You may save your game and reload for the extra proficiency point if you’d like, but it might get tedious as there’s a long story segment the day after.)

May 5th

• Daytime: Story segment

• Nighttime: Feed plant (Kindness +2). Save your game. Watch Wraith (Kindness +2)

May 6th

• Class event (Knowledge +1)
• Reload until you successfully dodge the chalk (33% chance of success, Charm +2)
• Daytime: Buy every book available at the Shibuya bookstore. Send in Wraith and borrow Bubbly Hills 90210. Lovers 2 (requires Kindness rank 2):
• 3, 3, 2
• 2, 3, 2
• 2, 3
• 3, 3
• 2, 2, 2
• Nighttime: Apply for beef bowl part-time job. Talk to the man making a speech at Central Square. Work at beef bowl (Proficiency +2, Sun confidant prerequisite event)

(Note: Nighttime activities outside Yongen unlocked.)

May 7th

• Class answer: Femme fatale (Knowledge +1)
• Daytime: Mementos tutorial.
• Nighttime: Study at Leblanc (Knowledge +2)

May 8th

• Home shopping (Optional, Plant Nutrient set recommended)
• Daytime: Story segment
• Nighttime: Get Aojiru (Guts +1). Work at beef bowl, reload until you succeed the prompts (Proficiency +3, Sun prerequisite event)

(Note: The beef bowl orders are randomized, and you’re unable to access the log once prompted for an answer. Take the time to write down the orders if you’re not confident.)

May 9th

• Receive Mementos mission from Mishima
• Daytime: Death 3 (Guts +1):
• 0, 0
• 0, 0
• 2, 0, 2
• 2, 0, 0
• Nighttime: Accept Panther’s invitation for a study hangout (Knowledge +3)

May 10th

• Class answer: Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Knowledge +1)
• Daytime: Lovers 3 (Inokashira Park unlocked):
• 0, 0
• 0, 0, 0
• 0, 0, 0
• 0, 0, 0
• 2, 2, 3
• 0, 0, 0
• 0, 0
• 2, 3
• 0, 2
• 2, 0, 0
• Nighttime: Solve crossword (Knowledge +1). Accept Skull’s invitation to study (Knowledge +3)

Midterms

May 11th

• An optical illusion.
• Visual information, Brain, They have different cognitions

May 12th

• Magistrate’s patronage.
• The name of a sum of currency.

May 13th

• Ignorance.
• Four.

May 14th

• Daytime: Last day of midterms
• Nighttime: Watch Bubbly Hills (Charm +2)

May 15th

• Home shopping (optional, no recommendations)
• Daytime: Story segment
• Nighttime: Study at Leblanc (Knowledge +2)

May 16th

• Class answer: Van Gogh (Knowledge +1)
• Daytime: Madarame Palace introduction
• Nighttime: Unavailable

May 17th

• Daytime: Story segment
• Nighttime: Save game. Craft infiltration tools, reload until you make extra (Proficiency rank 3)

May 18th

• Stalker sighting (Shujin Academy first floor)
• Daytime: Death 4 (Guts +1):
• 0, 2
• 3, 2, 2
• 2, 0, 0

(Note: From today until June 8th, a stalker will be tailing you at certain locations on certain days. Bother her for some funny dialogue.)

• Nighttime: Solve crossword (Knowledge +1). Talk to Yoshida at Central Square (Sun confidant prerequisite)

May 19th

• Stalker sighting (Shujin Academy first floor)
• Class answer: Hokusai* (Knowledge +1)

(* Unofficial translation, most likely unhelpful as the English localization’s class answers are quite different from the original— we will update this as soon as possible upon the game’s release. For now, google is your friend.)

• Daytime: Study at the diner, order the sandwich set (Guts +1, Knowledge +2)
• Nighttime: Answer TV quiz, “Make noise to cause neurosis” (Knowledge +1). Bathhouse (Charm +2, Guts +1)

May 20th

• Test results (Charm +2)
• Stalker sighting (Shibuya Underground Mall, conversing with some students near the sports shop)
• Daytime: Buy medicine and equipment as you see fit. Madarame Palace infiltration route part 1 (until the roadblock at the central garden)
• Nighttime: Study (Knowledge +2)

(Note: You will encounter your first Treasure Demon today: Regent. It is weak to Nuclear attacks, so make sure you pick up a Makami beforehand.)

May 21st

• Train reading: Alluring Dancer (Charm +3)
• Class answer: Silver ratio (Knowledge +1)
• Daytime: Madarame Palace part 2
• Nighttime: Feed plant (Kindness +2). Watch Bubbly Hills (Charm +2)

May 22nd

• Home shopping (optional, no recommendations)
• Daytime: Aojiru (Kindness +1). Chariot 4:
• 3, 0, 0
• 0, 3, 0
• 2, 0, 0
• Nighttime: Bathhouse (Charm +3)

May 23rd

• Stalker sighting (Shujin Academy first floor)
• Class answer: Together, Senses (Knowledge +1)
• Daytime: Secure infiltration route at Madarame’s Palace
• Nighttime: Save. Craft infiltration tools, reload until you get the bonus (Proficiency +3)

May 24th

• Train reading: Buchiko
• Stalker sighting (Shujin Academy first floor)
• Daytime: Buy equipment and medicine as needed*. Return Alluring Dancer, take out Gallant Rogue. Send calling card.
• Nighttime: Study (Knowledge +2)

(*Note: make sure your persona can cover the elemental gap of whichever party member you’re not using, as the boss battle will require use of all four basic elemental attacks: Fire, Ice, Electricity, and Wind.)

May 25th

• Daytime: Madarame Palace cleared.
• Nighttime: Study (Knowledge rank 3)

May 26th

• Class answer: Arsene Lupin (Knowledge +1)
• Stalker sighting (Shujin Academy first floor)
• Daytime: Receive Mementos mission. Talk to the old man listening to the radio by the bathhouse, near the end of the alley in Yongen-Jaya to receive target name. Chariot 5:
• 2, 3
• 2, 2, 0
• 2, 3
• 2, 0, 0
• Nighttime: TV Quiz show “Queen of evidence” (Knowledge +1). Solve crossword (Knowledge +1). Talk to Yoshida (Sun 1)

May 27th

• Stalker sighting (Ginza Line Gate)
• Daytime: Death 5 (Guts +1)
• 0, 0
• 0, 0
• 3, 2, 0
• 2, 0, 0
• Nighttime: Story segment.

May 28th

• Stalker sighting (Ginza Line Gate)
• Daytime: Talk to Kawakami on second floor in front of the faculty office (Temperance prerequisite). Lovers 4:
• 3, 0, 2
• 2, 3, 0
• 3, 2, 0
• 3, 2
• 0, 0, 3
• 2, 0, 2
• Nighttime: Make sure you have a chariot and a lovers persona. Attempt Big Bang challenge (Guts rank 3, Knowledge +1, Charm +1, Proficiency +1).
• Accept Skull’s invitation.

May 29th

• Daytime: Harajuku date with Chariot, Lovers, Moon:
• Moon +3, 0, Moon +1
• Lovers&Chariot +3, Lovers&Chariot +2, Lovers&Chariot +3
• Home shopping (optional, amulet set recommended)
• Nighttime: Aojiru (Knowledge + 1). Call Kawakami (Requires Guts rank 3, Temperance 1)

May 30th

• Daytime: Story segment.
• Nighttime: Study at diner, order steak (Knowledge +2, Kindness +2).

May 31st

• Class answer: William Kidd (Knowledge +1)
• Stalker sighting (Shujin Academy second floor)
• Daytime: Buy equipment and medicine as you see fit. Enter Mementos.

(Note: Clear both targets and reach the end of the area. Make sure to talk to Jose at least once to receive upgraded versions of the accessories gained from Will Seeds. We recommend grinding until you’ve gathered all the stamps in the area and invested them in increasing the money gains of Mementos, as there are a few big expenses coming up. Try to walk out with at least 80,000 yen, if not more to be safe.)

• Nighttime: Solve crossword (Knowledge +1). Study (Knowledge +2).

May Exit Stats

• Knowledge 3, Guts 3, Proficiency 3, Kindness 2, Charm 2
• Hierophant 3, Lovers 4, Chariot 5, Death 5, Temperance 1, Moon 2, Sun 1, Faith 1, Consultant 2

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