Disaster Shadow

Disaster Shadows are a special type of Shadow in Persona 5 Royal. They may randomly appear in normal enemy encounters.
==Appearances==
* Persona 5 Royal
==Details==
Disaster Shadows are special Shadows that can be encountered in Palaces and Mementos, and are signified by a purple-blue aura around them. They are parallel to certain regular Shadows, and their parameters such as moveset, stats and resistances are identical to their normal Shadow counterparts, although they are programmed to take 30% more damage, even from fixed-damage items or skills (like Divine Judgment and Guiding Tendril). Disaster Shadows cannot be negotiated with or recruited, and they never attempt to escape. Since they are not negotiable, talking to them will not cure them of Burn, Dizzy, Forget, Despair, Rage or cause them to flee if they have Fear.
A Disaster Shadow may randomly have Sleep ailment at the start of the battle.
===Retaliation===
These Shadows spend their turn to "mutter oddly" and do not attack, but will retaliate once hit as their "eyes rage." If the attack that enrages them also causes a One More, the Disaster Shadows will not start retaliating until the One More chain is over. If they are provoked by an attack but get knocked down by a different attack before being able to retaliate, they will do the retaliation in their proper turn, after recovering from Down. This can be avoided by hitting them while they are Downed with a Critical or an attack they are weak against, as this cause them to calm down when they get up.
The attack does not have to land for the Disaster Shadow to become enraged, the only requirement is for them to be targeted with an attack regardless of it missing (this includes multi-target skills or skills that target all enemies).
Life Drain and Ghastly Wail will enrage them, but not Spirit Drain or other non-damaging Almighty Skills like Foul Breath. They will retaliate against the protagonist's party even when hit by a fellow Shadow (via brainwash or Self Destruct).
* Disaster Shadows do not retaliate against attacks that knock them down or target them while they are knocked down, or while having an ailment that prevents them from acting, such as Freeze, Shock, Confuse, Sleep or Despair.
** However, they will retaliate if hit by an attack that also removes those ailments, as long as they are not knocked down in the process.
* If inflicted with Rage, Disaster Shadows will attack both on their turn and after being attacked, each with a chance for them to "explode with rage" and make a second attack in a row.
* If inflicted with Brainwash, Disaster Shadows cannot retaliate and will behave like a standard brainwashed Shadow.
* When the Disaster Shadows are provoked, their "eyes raging" is considered an action, thus, if they have Burn, they will take damage twice, when they get enraged and when they perform an attack.
===Explosion===
If their HP is fully depleted, a Disaster Shadow will instead explode and heavily damage nearby Shadows but do zero harm to the protagonist's party. This explosion is Almighty-type, and the damage is influenced by how powerful the lethal attack was, so it is recommended to use a strong skill to defeat them. This is especially effective in conjunction with Baton Pass, and can be strong enough to end a fight by itself, so prioritize attacking these Shadows when they show up. However, if they are killed by Despair, a repelled attack, or an Insta-Kill effect such as Hamaon, it will count as defeating the Shadow normally, with no explosion at all.
If the explosion Downs a fellow Shadow through Technical, a One More will be given to the combatant who triggered the Disaster Shadow's explosion.
===Drops===
After being destroyed, the Shadow will drop a valuable item (instead of normal materials,) usually an itemization tool, if not a rare consumable or a powerful Incense for the Velvet Room.
There are at least 3 (to a maximum 4) types of items a Disaster Shadow can drop: 2 of them are the regular common items that can be received in regular negotiation, if not the Sooty armor substitute that can be washed (meaning rare items and skill cards do not apply,) and the 3rd is a rare item unrelated to other means of acquisition.
For instance, while a normal Bicorn can give a Devil Fruit, Muscle Drink, (rarely) a Revival Bead and a Lunge skill card in negotiation, a Disaster Shadow Bicorn can only drop a Devil Fruit, a Muscle Drink and rarely a Bead. A regular Cait Sith that can only drop Sooty Boots, (rarely) a Soul Drop and a Cleave skill card has its counterpart instead drop only Sooty Boots and an Air Cannon.
== List of Disaster Shadows ==
=== Palaces ===
Palace 	Shadows
Kamoshida's Palace	Bicorn, Incubus, Angel
Madarame's Palace 	Koropokkuru, Hua Po, Koppa-Tengu, Onmoraki, Inugami
Kaneshiro's Palace	High Pixie, Nekomata, Orobas ,Yaksini, Rakshasa
Futaba's Palace 	Sandman, Naga, Anzu, Isis, Lamia, Andras
Okumura's Palace 	Mothman, Decarabia, Lilim, Thunderbird, Kaiwan
Niijima's Palace 	Queen Mab, Ose, Kushinada-Hime, Kikuri-Hime, Unicorn
Shido's Palace 	Narcissus, Sarasvati, Barong, Parvati, Hanuman
Depths of Mementos	Melchizedek, Moloch, Lilith, Chernobog
Qliphoth World 	Dominion
Maruki's Palace 	Loa, Nebiros, Macabre, Byakhee, Bugs
===Mementos===
Path 	Shadows
Qimranut 	Jack-o'-Lantern
Aiyatsbus 	Jack-o'-Lantern, Cait Sith, Incubus, Angel
Chemdah 	Hua Po, Koropokkuru, Onmoraki, Koppa Tengu, Inugami
Kaitul 	High Pixie, Nekomata, Rakshasa
Akzeriyyuth 	Naga, Anzu, Isis, Lamia, Andras, Pisaca
Adyeshach 	Mothman, Decarabia, Lilim, Thunderbird, Kaiwan, Legion
Sheriruth 	Queen Mab, Kushinada-Hime, Ganesha, Rangda, Norn
Sheriruth (post-Shido's Palace) 	Sarasvati, Barong, Parvati, Hanuman
Da'at 	Lilith, Chernobog, Melchizedek, Dominion, Torn King of Desires
* Shadows in bold are exclusive to Mementos.	* Shadows in bold are exclusive to Mementos.
==Trophies & Awards==
Trophy 	Icon	Description 	For 	Reward
Let's Blow It Up 	 	Defeated enemies via Disaster Shadow explosion. 	P5R trophy 	
The Phantom Bombers	 	Defeat 100 enemies by using Disaster Shadow explosions.	Thieves Den	50P
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