Each of the Phantom Thieves inPersona 5 Tacticahas their own skill tree, allowing players to customize their abilities in combat. While certain skills, like Follow-Up and Follow-Up+, can be found in every character’s skill tree, other skills are only available to certain characters. This includes a unique spell, passive ability, and special move.
Morgana, who also goes by the codename “Mona,” is the Phantom Thieves' infiltration expert and served as a fast damage dealer and healer in Persona 5. InPersona 5 TacticaMona retains this niche, gaining access to healing spells, wind magic, and skills that enhance his spellcasting and movement. This guide will break down the best skills available in Mona’s skill tree.
Best Skills for Morgana
When it comes to setting up Morgana for success, players should begin by grabbing the first levels of “Break & Repose” and “Soul Recovery.” These two are ideal for every character, providing reliable group healing and a method to restore SP to fuel Persona skills. As a character with a lot of powerful spells at his disposal, Mona makes excellent use of “Soul Recovery.”
After grabbing those two, Mona’s next priority should be Magaru and Sweep Amp from the leftmost skill tree. The Amp skills allow a character to deal more damage with a given type of spell, without raising the costs of those spells in any way. This makes it more valuable than upgrading to higher tiers of that spell during the early-midgame, where characters tend not to have a lot of SP to spare, so upgrading to the next Amp skill where possible is always a good idea.Magaru provides Mona with a spell that can hit a large area and blow enemies out of cover, which is helpful for dealing with enemies behind fortifications. Unlocking the more powerful spells should be saved for when Morgana has enough SP to use them consistently and reliably.
Next up, Morgana’s rightmost skill tree is full of passive bonuses that enhance his mobility, range, spellcasting, and even shore up his defenses a bit. The most important skills here are “God-Like Speed”, “Magical Mastery”, “Stop & Go”, and “Hawkeye.” “God-Like Speed” and “Stop & Go” help Mona move across the battlefield with incredible swiftness, flanking enemies and using his magic to knock them out of cover for his allies. “Magical Mastery” and “Hawkeye” extend the range of his attacks and spells to further facilitate this. Picking up “Iron-Clad Guard” will improve Mona’s defenses when in cover, helping with his survivability.
Back to the middle-skill tree, picking up all the ranks of “Soul Synergy” will help the entire party make consistent use of their spells and skills. Boosting the maximum SP of the entire party can be huge, especially when fielding characters with low SP like Ryuji. “Lightning Speed” and “Essence of Sorcery” extend Mona’s movement range and attack skill/spell range after charging, helping him dart around the battlefield. Upgrading “Follow-Up” to “Follow-Up+” once it becomes available is a worthwhile investment that can make missions with raised platforms easier.This is important in some quests.
Despite healing being very important toPersona 5, it has reduced significance inPersona 5 Tacticadue to the inherent healing granted by Triple-Threat attacks and the full healing between missions. As such, Mona’s healing skills become less crucial to success, though they are still handy for emergencies.
Mona’s unique passive skill, “Lucky Punch,“allows him a chance to down an enemy when striking them with melee attacks.Mona’s movement makes it fairly easy for him to get up close, but this skill is inherently luck-based and thus can’t be relied upon when planning strategy. It’s a useful bonus, at best, though when it does trigger it can turn the tables on foes and allow Morgana to reset and keep moving after what would otherwise be the end of his turn.
Morgana’s unique skill, “Winds of Time,” deals damage in a huge area while blowing foes away. This can be useful for dealing with large groups and setting them up for attacks from allies, but upgrading it is probably overkill during the early stages of the game. Later on, it greatly improves in utility, especially as enemies get smarter about using cover and manipulating the environment to their advantage, since it can sweep entire groups of foes out of cover and right into the firing line of the Phantom Thieves.
