Persona 5 Confidant Answers and Rank Guide

The following is IGN's Confidants guide for Persona 5. Confidants are Persona 5's version of Social Links. Building relationships with your confidants will give you more abilities, bonuses, and items as you progress and they are a cornerstone of the Persona series.

Spending time with your confidants will be your primary source of game time outside of Palaces. Use your time well as you don't have forever. Some days, confidants will be around in their locations, but you won't be able to spend time with them.

In most cases, you'll get a text from someone who wants to hang out with you, usually to progress your social link with them, but sometimes you have to go and look for them. The best way to do that is by bring up your map to see which areas have the blue card icon and then hitting Square over the location to see who is available. If it says "Up!!" over their name, you can rank up with them. If their name is greyed out, that means you either have not reached a requirement of their social link or you haven't spoken to them since you reached the requirement. If you just see a blue card, that means you need to spend time with them before you can get to the next rank.

Unlike previous Persona titles, confidants are not on set schedules. We have listed the days they are typically available, but their availability will vary due to the month, your rank with them, weather, and where you are in the story. Make sure you finish Palaces early because Phantom Thief confidants will usually be too on edge to want to hang out until after you've stolen a Palace's treasure.

Selecting a fun hangout spot is a good way to earn bonus reputation with someone when you're in between rank ups. Learning hangout spots can be a huge benefit to ranking up with all your confidants.

Sometimes a confidant or the story will take you to a location that you can bring others to later, such as with Ryuji when he takes you to his favourite ramen shop, but you can also read about hangout spots in magazines and books. Going to a hangout spot with someone can yield unique rewards, but no such rewards or dialogue options will be available upon going to the same location more than once.

When hanging out with a confidant after any automatic/initial ranks, be sure to have a persona in your inventory that shares the same Arcana as their social link. This will provide a bonus point for all rewarding dialogue options.

Without Shared Arcana Persona	With Shared Arcana Persona
0	0
1	2
2	3
3	3

Additionally, you can give items to female confidants in between rank ups. Different women like different items, so be sure to give them something that matches their tastes.

For all social links that involve a first rank that needs to be initiated by the player, such as with Yusuke or Makoto, the answers you select in the first rank do not yield any points, so you can pick whatever you want.

To explain the chart, the Arcana column is the confidant's designated arcana. Ranking up with them will give you specific rewards and grant bonus experience when creating a Persona via fusion of the same arcana. The name is the name of the confidant involved. "First Rank" is for social links that consist of automatic first ranks while "Available Starting" is the first day you can pursue or continue a social link with the designated confidant.

For example, you automatically get Ann's first rank on the 15th of April but she isn't available for further non-automatic ranks (of which she has no others) until May 6th, on which you can unlock Rank 2 with the lover's arcana by asking to hang out with her. She also has the requirement of having a Kindness rank of Considerate. You'll find such details by clicking on the name of the person you're interested in. Click on the arcana to see the Personas of that type.

You can pursue a romance with all female Confidants with the exception of Sae (Judgement).

Arcana	Name	First Rank	Available Starting
Fool	Igor	4/12	Automatic
Magician	Morgana	4/15	Automatic
Priestess	Makoto N.	Player Initiated	6/24
Empress	Haru O.	Player Initiated	10/30
Emperor	Yusuke K.	Player Initiated	6/18
Hierophant	Sojiro S.	Player Initiated	4/24
Lovers	Ann T.	4/15	5/6
Chariot	Ryuji S.	4/12	4/19
Justice	Goro A.	6/10	Automatic
Hermit	Futaba S.	8/31	9/2
Fortune	Chihaya H.	Player Initiated	6/19
Strength	Justine & Caroline	Player Initiated	5/18, Conditional
Hanged	Munehisa I.	Player Initiated	5/6
Death	Tae T.	Player Initiated	4/18
Temperance	Sadayo K.	Player Initiated	5/27
Devil	Ichiko O.	Player Initiated	6/25
Tower	Shinya O.	Player Initiated	9/5
Star	Hifumi T.	Player Initiated	6/26
Moon	Yuuki M.	5/6	Conditional
Sun	Toranosuke Y.	Player Initiated	5/6
Judgement	Sae N.	7/9	Automatic

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