Persona 5 Royal Confidant Guide: Tower – Shinya Oda

Shinya Oda is the holder of the Tower Arcana and a Confidant in Persona 5 Royal. He is an avid gamer famous for his impressive skills. Oda is introduced on 09/04 and you can begin his Confidant on the same day after failing to defeat the boss of the ‘Winners Don’t Use Cheats’ Mementos request. He is available during the day on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday and can be found at the arcade in Akihabara.

As with most Confidants, there isn’t a limit on when you can rank Oda up. As long as you achieve Rank 10 before reaching an ending, you can complete the Tower Confidant. Be aware that you don’t get access to Oda’s social link until relatively late on, so you will have less time to finish it than other social links.

Persona 5 Royal: Shinya Oda Confidant skills

Below are the skills and benefits acquired from ranking up the Tower Confidant. The best skills are Bullet Hail, Laced Bullets, Cheap Shot, and Electric Slug. When combined with the Hanged Man Confidant, Oda’s social link gives your guns both spectacular damage and utility. Although this isn’t a must-do, Confidant it would be unwise to ignore it entirely.

• Rank 1 – Down Shot: Allows you to knock down an enemy with a special shot once per infiltration.
• Rank 2 – Bullet Hail: Chance to enter a gun-based All-out Attack after a successful ambush.
• Rank 3 – Warning Shot: Able to scare enemies in negotiation to make it easier to obtain a Persona.
• Rank 5 – Laced Bullets: Increases the success rate of an ailment-inflicting gunshot.
• Rank 6 – Cheap Shot: Allows you to use Down Shot three times per infiltration.
• Rank 8 – Electric Slug: Increases the damage inflicted by Bullet Hail.
• Rank 10 – Oda Special: Allows Joker’s gun attacks to ignore resistances and hit the enemy.

Persona 5 Royal: Shinya Oda Confidant answers

These are the best answers to give during hangout events with Shinya Oda. The answers listed were either chosen because they give the most social points or because they are required for specific unlocks. If a chosen answer doesn’t matter it will be listed as ‘ANY,’ so feel free to pick whatever you want.

• Rank 1 (Requires partial completion of the ‘Winners Don’t Use Cheats’ Mementos request)
  • ANY
  • ANY
  • Call me when it’s game time.
• Rank 2
  • Don’t compare me to you.
  • What a rude employee.
  • Do you admire them?
  • “So do I,” or “I’ll let them know.”
  • “I’ll work hard,” or “So then I can beat you?”
• Rank 3
  • ANY
  • That’s the spirit.
  • Sure.
• Rank 4
  • Yeah, you tell him!
  • Get your revenge.
• Rank 5
  • It was pretty weird.
  • I’m sure you can do it.
  • You need a new strategy.
  • “I’ll be cheering you on,” or “Think you can take him?”

Persona 5 Royal Oda confidant Rank 1 event. Screenshot by PC Invasion

• Rank 6
  • ANY
  • ANY
  • I believe in you.
  • Not at all.
  • Of course I won’t.
• Rank 7
  • ANY
  • ANY
  • ANY
  • ANY
• Rank 8
  • “No she’s not,” or “Is that what you think?”
  • Believe in them.
  • ANY
  • ANY
• Rank 9 (Requires completion of the ‘A Mother’s Aggression’ Mementos request)
  • I’m glad to hear that.
  • “No, that makes sense,” or “It means you’ve matured.”
  • He wants to win at all costs.
  • ANY
• Rank 10
  • Thanks to my teacher.
  • You made new friends.
  • ANY

Note: For information on the other confidants in Persona 5 Royal like Shinya Oda check out our Confidant guides hub.

Persona 5 Royal can be purchased on Steam.

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