Persona 5 Royal Trait Inheritance Explained: All Traits, How It Works, What It Does

With the release of Persona 5 Royal, Atlus has included new story content, along with quite a few new gameplay tweaks and additions as well. Here’s how the new trait inheritance system works in Persona 5 Royal.

Trait Inheritance System in Persona 5 Royal Explained

Persona 5 Royal includes quite a few gameplay changes, including mini dungeon expansions, and a brand new trait inheritance system for your Personas.

Here’s how it works: each Persona is tied with a few basic traits, and as you get into the fusion process, you can pick and choose from these traits and select one to be passed on to the new Persona that you’re trying to fuse.

This is called trait inheritance, and allows you to pass on traits that you feel would be best suited to your new Persona and your own needs. These traits can range from decreasing the SP cost of certain types of spells, to increasing skill damage and the effectiveness or duration of specific skills.

How to Use It

Whenever you’re about to fuse a new Persona in the Velvet Room, aside from just choosing the skills you want to pass on, you’ll also be able to choose from three traits. These traits seem to be random, and will be tied to the base Personas you’re using for the fusion process.

Once you’ve selected the trait you want to pass on, go ahead with the fusion process as per normal. The trait will automatically activate in battle whenever you use the relevant skill type associated with it.

All Traits in Persona 5 Royal

• Skillful Combo: Increases damage after a Baton Pass.
• Foul Odor: Increases change of inflicting ailments after a Baton Pass.
• Thermal Conduct: Increases change of inflicting Burn after a Baton Pass.
• Intense Focus: Strengthens magic skills targeting one foe by 20%.
• Mighty Gaze: Strengthens magic skills targeting all foes by 20%.
• Striking Weight: Strengthens Phys skills by 20%.
• Skillful Technique: Increases Technical damage by 25%.
• Gluttonmouth: Increases amount of HP restored to self by 50%.
• Internal Hypnosis: Increases effect period of support skills cast on self by one turn.
• Potent Hypnosis: Increases effect period of support skills cast on allies by one turn.
• Frigid Bloodline: Decreases SP cost of Ice skills by half.
• Psychic Bloodline: Decreases SP cost of Psy skills by half.
• Atomic Bloodline: Decreases SP cost of Nuke skills by half.
• Relief Bloodline: Decreases SP cost of support skills by half.
• Wind Bloodline: Decreases SP cost of Wind skills by half.
• Savior Bloodline: Decreases SP cost of healing skills by half.
• Heated Bloodline: Decreases SP cost of Fire skills by half.
• Rare Antibody: Decreases chance of being inflicted by ailments.
• Retaliating Body: Doubles Counter damage.

That’s all you need to know about how the trait inheritance system works in Persona 5 Royal. Be sure to search for Twinfinite for more tips and information on the game.