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Much like previous installments of the series, Persona 5 Royal utilizes a Social Stat mechanic that sees you strategically raise five of Joker’s qualities: his Knowledge, Guts, Charm, Proficiency, and Kindness. There are five levels for each skill, and players will need to accrue a certain number of points for each stat to be able to rank up.
Persona 5’s Kindness stat is a meter of many things. It can help you unlock certain Confidants, boost rankings with ones you’ve unlocked already, and just make Joker’s year in Tokyo that much better. Here’s a guide for how to increase kindness in Persona 5 Royal.
Updated on December 19, 2022 by Gabrielle Castania: With Persona 5 Royal launching earlier this year for new consoles, we wanted to go back to our older P5R guides to give them a little polish and TLC, including this guide on how to increase your Kindness in Persona 5 Royal.
Spending Time Inside Leblanc
There are a few ways in which you can raise your Kindness social stat by spending time inside of Leblanc, which is handy, as there are times in which you are restricted to staying there, normally as Morgana says it's too late to go out.
To take advantage of a couple of these, you'll need to first purchase the TV and retro game console from the second-hand store Yumenoshima in the Yongen-Jaya area. Firstly, you can play the "Train of Life" video game, which can be bought at the Akihabara Retro Game Shop. Failing the game will increase your Kindness by +1, while winning the game will increase your Kindness by +2.
Alternatively, you can rent a DVD from Central Street, Shibuya, with the following two DVDs granting increases to Kindness stats: Wraith raises your kindness by +2, and ICU raises it by +3.
In Persona 5 Royal, you can earn an additional point from watching DVDs by reading the book “Cinema Treasures.” We have a full book location guide to help you find it.
Lastly, once you've tidied your room, a plant will appear that you can tend to. Every 16 days, you can give the plant some nutrients, which will raise your Kindness stat.
Plant Nutrients In Persona 5 Royal
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Nutrient |
Kindness Boost |
|---|---|
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Garden Energy |
1 |
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Bio Nutrients |
2 |
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Mega Fertilizer |
3 |
Nutrients can be bought at the Discount Store in Shibuya, the Flower Shop in the Shibuya Underground Mall, and the Flower Shop in Shinjuku's Red-light District.
Leisure Activities
Raising your Kindness stat in your free time is easily done with a couple of leisure activities available to you. For example, if you order a nostalgic steak while studying at the diner, you'' increase your Kindness by +2, with an additional Knowledge increase of +2 on clear days and +3 on rainy days.
One of the biggest sources of increasing Kindness, certain movies at one of the movie theaters will increase your Kindness by +3.
Movies That Increase Kindness In Persona 5 Royal
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Film Title |
Month |
Theater |
Company |
|---|---|---|---|
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The Cake Knight Rises |
May |
Shibuya |
Ryuji |
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Mes Miserables |
August |
Yusuke |
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Clean Hard |
December |
N/A |
|
|
The Duhvengers |
October |
Shinjuku |
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Popo's Nest |
November |
Yongen-Jaya |
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The Good Father |
February |
Visiting the Maid Cafe in Akihabara will also increase your Kindness by +1 if you choose to forgive the maid when she makes a mistake, as well as increasing your Charm social skill by +2.
There are also a couple of miscellaneous activities that you can do to help increase your Kindness. One of these is reading, however, the stat increase is only earned on the completion of the book. Books take more than one session to complete, and reading the Speed Reader book can make this go by quicker, as it allows Joker to read two chapters at a time.
You can read on the stool in Leblanc, at the school library, or during train rides if you manage to get a seat. Each of the following books increases your Kindness by +3:
- Zorro The Outlaw
- The Illusory Popess
- Buchiko’s Story
- Call Me Chief.
Lastly, every Sunday, you can drink some juice at the Shibuya Underground Walkway, which randomly raises any of the five social stats.
Fastest Way To Boost Kindness: Part-Time Work At The Rafflesia Flower Shop And Crossroads Bar
Two of Joker’s four potential part-time jobs are able to raise his Kindness stat.
The first is Rafflesia Flower Shop at the Shibuya Underground Mall, which requires Rank 2 Charm to begin. You gain +2 Kindness for each shift but can gain +3 if you choose the correct flower combinations when making custom bouquets.
For help with the job and the bouquet requests, we’ve covered it all in our guide to working at Rafflesia.
Additionally, though it begins a bit later in the game, Joker can also work at Crossroads Bar in Shinjuku. However, there’s much to do before you can begin the job, like starting Ichiko Ohya’s Confidant, as well as raising several skills. You need Rank 4 Proficiency, Rank 3 Charisma, and Rank 3 Guts before you can begin.
We’ve also got a guide to working at Crossroads Bar for you as well.
Part-time work is one of the most efficient ways to boost Joker’s Kindness. While Crossroads is a night job only, Joker can work at Rafflesia either day or night most days, making them invaluable sources of Kindness.
Spending Time with Confidants
Shinya Oda
Shinya Oda is the Tower arcana Confidant, and spending time with him will increase your Kindness stat by +3 each time. He can be found during the daytime in the Gigolo Arcade in Akihabara, and he is there most days.
Spending time with him will also improve your social rank with him, with the Tower arcana giving Joker more gun attack abilities as they rank up.
Sojiro Sakura
Sojiro Sakura is the Hierophant arcana Confidant, which improves your abilities to brew coffee and cook curry, items that can be used to restore SP when in Mementos and Palaces.
You can only spend time with Sojiro in the evenings when there are no customers, with this occurring more often during rainy days. Joker can help him to clean Leblanc, brew coffee, or make curry, which increases your Kindness by +3 each time.