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Persona 5 Tacticashakes up plenty of things about the basicPersonastructure, and one of the things veteran fans will need to adjust to in P5T is the game’s Skill Tree. Instead of your Personas learning new moves as you and your fellow Phantom Thieves level up, now, you’ll need to carefully choose who learns what skill and when.
Planning ahead and building your team well can make all the difference, requiring you to think carefully about unlocking multi-target attacks, HP/SP bonuses, stat boosts, and more. Below is everything you need to know about unlocking new skills in P5T.
Updated July 29, 2025:We’ve added a video version of this guide to help you figure out how to build up the skills of your party members.
What Is The Skill Tree?
In traditional Persona, you earn new abilities as your team levels up and their Personas gain more experience. In Persona 5 Tactica, however, you need tomanually choose which skills you want each Thief to unlock and when.
This time around,you don’t learn new moves just by leveling upanymore. Every new move or skill your Personas learn must be a consciouschoice you make in the Skill Tree menu, which you can vary between Thieves to create different builds for each.
Spend GP To Unlock New Skills
Though the Phantom Thieves will collectively earn EXP, this only impacts to which level you can create Sub-Personas in the Velvet Room. To build the Skill Tree, you’ll bespending GP on new skillsinstead.
GP can be earned in a variety of ways, likeplaying the main story, speaking to your teamat the hideout when the “Talk” option is highlighted, andcompleting optional Questsfor a wealth of additional GP for a few specific characters.
Every teammate has their own individual GP count. As you go through the game andcollect enough GP to unlock something new in the Skill Treefor that character, their info in the “Check Skills” menu will have ayellow exclamation markat the end.
This activates every time you have enough to buyanythingin the Skill Tree, but you may be wise tosave up your GP for more expensive skills, depending on how you’re building each Thief.
Your most expensive skills will cost 35 GP each, so be mindful of this if you’re anticipating building up to these end-game skills.
You Can Rebuild As Often As You Need
If you invested heavily into one area of your Thief’s expertise and realize mid-game that you’d rather they focus elsewhere, you’re not locked into anything -Skills can be returned to get the full amount of GP backif you’ve changed your mind.
This new ability with Persona-building allows you toperiodically change your methods with any given Thief.
For example, if you’re having a tough time with a battle and realize you need a healer along the way, you can rebuild Makoto, Morgana, or Haru to have healing skills for a couple of battles at the expense of another skill you’re perhaps not using as much.No build is set in stone, so feel free to change it up as needed.
you may do this any time you’re able to access your Skill Tree, which can be a huge help if you know you have a rough battle ahead. Make liberal use of this ability to make your team the best they can be, as you need them to be!
The Skill Tree: Attacks, Passive Moves, And Stat/Range Skills
Elemental Boosts And Major Attacks
Theleft-most columnfor each of the battle-ready Thieves will be their Persona’selemental attacks and optional defense/healing moves. It will have each Thief’s Persona’s name in the top row to help remind you.
Although the specific elements, support moves, and Voltage attacks are different for each Thief, you’llupgrade damage-dealing or healing movesby investing in the skills in this column.
Unique Skills and Voltage Attacks
Light-damage single-target elemental move(Base Skill - cannot be unselected)
Slight increase in all elemental damage
Healing or Support move(Typically single-target)
Medium-damage elemental attack
Light-damage elemental attack
Unique Voltage Skill for this Thief(Base Skill - cannot be unselected)
Moderate increase in all elemental damage
Improved Healing or Support move(Typically multi-target)
Heavy-damage elemental attack
Voltage Attack+(Typically increases range or damage)
Great increase in all elemental damage
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Voltage Attack++(Further increases range or damage)
At the bottom of this column, you’ll see alocked skillthat costs35 GP. This skill remains locked for the majority of the game for each Thief, but you’ll need tobuild up to it by upgrading the single and multi-target elemental attacksbefore buying it.
Defensive Skills And Focus Boosts
Though the name is different for each of the Thieves, based on their own unique Persona, themiddle columnis home to yourpassive battle skills.
This can cover things like their individualCharge move, their ability to perform aFollow-Upin tandem with another character during battle, and anyparty-wide booststhey imbue just by being a member of your active party in battle.
Charge
Follow-Up
Small bonus when included in the party(Base Skill - cannot be unselected)
Charge bonus when ending turn without moving(Base Skill - cannot be unselected)
This Thief may shoot a target falling from higher ground in battle(Base Skill - cannot be unselected)
Moderate bonus when included in the party
Boost for their Charge bonus
Follow-Up+(Follow-Up can activate twice during your turn now)
Large bonus when included in the party
Individual boost unique to each Phantom Thief
The final passive skill you can unlock isdifferent for each Thief, but each will cost30 GPto unlock. These are usually eitherlife-saving or status-boosting, so they’re well worth investing in!
Support: A Rebellious Resolve, And Futaba’s Support
A Rebellious Resolve
The final column is labeled the same for each of the Phantom Thieves -A Rebellious Resolvecovers allHP, SP, and movement boosts.
Again, these areindividual between Thieves, but the general progression and structure of the column remain the same for each.
HP-Related Boosts
SP-Related Boosts
Break & Recovery(Slightly recovers the team’s HP after an All-Out Attack)
Soul Repose(Regain a small amount of SP when ending a turn in Cover)
Break & Recovery+(Moderately recovers the team’s HP after an All-Out Attack)
Soul Repose+(Regain a moderate amount of SP when ending a turn in Cover)
However, thebottom five skills in this columnfor each Thief willoverall be the same, but they unlock in a different orderdepending on the Thief.
As branching skills, it doesn’t matter what the top skill is after HP and Boosts - you’ll need to unlock it to access the skills further down in the chain.
The five skills that unlock, regardless of the order in which you can unlock them, are as follows:
These arehelpful skills for any Thief you’re using actively in battles, so regardless of the order they present in for your favorite Thieves, these are critical passive skills in later levels of Persona 5 Tactica.
Futaba’s Navigation Skills
Like the regular Persona 5 games, Futaba’s abilities are a bit different from the rest of the Thieves - once again, she’s yoursupport and navigation, and her skills reflect this.
Instead of offensive and defensive moves, you’ll find thatFutaba’s Skill Tree focuses on boosting her support skillsfor the rest of the team. These skillsrequire more GPthan the rest of the Thieves' skills, butthey impact the entire partywhen used.
Futaba is able to sporadicallyreplenish increasing amounts of HP or SP for the team mid-battle, and she can evennullify a fatal attackonce per battle after unlocking her most expensive perk.
Her skill tree takes a bit more to fill out, but since they’reconsistently active no matter which Thieves are in your current partyand impact everyone on the field, it’s wise to invest in Futaba’s skills whenever possible.
