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Shin Megami Tensei V

How to defeat Anahita

By
Jarrod Garripoli

During Subquests, you will sometimes have to fight a boss while doing the quest. This page will pertain to the fight against Anahita.

Anahita will challenge you to a fight before she cures the Mermaids

Where to find Anahita

Anahita is a part of the subquest, The Demon of the Spring. Far to the north of the Tokyo Tower Leyline, you’ll find the Kamiyacho Leyline. From there, you want to take the eastern path and follow it around until you find the Onarimon Leyline. When you get to the Onarimon Leyline, exit the area to the south, and follow it around until you reach an open area. From there, turn to your right, and go up the sand ramp until you reach the top. If you turn to the south, you’ll notice a rocky platform which leads south. When you get to the end, jump off to the southern path, and follow it all the way south until you reach the water. Here, you’ll see Anahita, who will ask you to battle her before doing what’s asked of her.

Stats and Resistances

Icon Name Lv Weakness Resistances Location
SMT_V_Anahita_Icon.jpg Anahita 18 Fire_Icon_Shin_Megami_Tensei_V.png, Electric_Icon_Shin_Megami_Tensei_V.png Ics_Icon_Shin_Megami_Tensei_V.png (ABSORB), Light_Icon_Shin_Megami_Tensei_V.png (BLOCK) Minato - Onarimon

Skills

Type Skill Effect
Ics_Icon_Shin_Megami_Tensei_V.png Hellish Spurt +4 Medium Ice attack to all foes.
Support_Icon_Shin_Megami_Tensei_V.png Rakunda +1 Lowers Defense of 1 foe by 1 rank for 3 turns.
Ics_Icon_Shin_Megami_Tensei_V.png Bufu +4 Weak Ice attack to 1 foe.
Light_Icon_Shin_Megami_Tensei_V.png Mahama +2 Weak Light attack to all foes. Chance of instakill when striking weakness.
Support_Icon_Shin_Megami_Tensei_V.png Matarunda +1 Lowers Attack of all foes by 1 rank for 3 turns.

Recommended Party

Icon Name
Mokoi_Icon_Shin_Megami_Tensei_V.png Mokoi
Zhen_Icon_Shin_Megami_Tensei_V.png Zhen
Angel_Icon_Shin_Megami_Tensei_V.png Angel

Anahita is definitely one of the more challenging encounters thus far in the game, as you will see some powerful skills coming from her. For example, you probably can’t counter the Matarunda at this point in the game, so it’s better to not worry about it at all. However, you can do something like use Sukunda, Rakunda and Tarunda to debuff Anahita. Oddly enough, Neko Shogun has all three, so it’s a good idea to probably fuse him into a higher level demon to pass on the skills. Now, you could probably forget about Tarunda, as Apsaras has it, so that’s one less thing to worry about and Tarunda is one of the more important ones.

You have to contend with Ice and Light skills in this battle, so you don’t want to have anyone weak to those elements. None of the ones mentioned under Recommended Party will be weak to those elements, so that’s a good thing, and Apsaras actually is resistant to Ice. Mokoi and Zhen will have access to Zio, once you level them up once or twice, which will help a lot in gaining extra turns during your round. If you have the Divine Amalgamation Miracle, then you could probably default to the Nahobino’s normal resistances, since that would give him resistance to Light.

(1 of 2) There’s nothing you can really do to counter Matarunda at this point in the game

There’s nothing you can really do to counter Matarunda at this point in the game (left), Yoiu can debuff Anahita here in this battle, to help out in the long run (right)

Anahita has a single target Ice spell (Bufu) and a party-wide Light spell (Mahama), which means that Mahama has the potential to deal a lot more damage to the party. You shouldn’t need to worry about Hellish Spurt, as Anahita only uses it as her Magatsuhi skill, so you can negate it by using an Ice Dampener. Leanan Sidhe is the lowest level demon to have access to Media, but she is weak to Light and would be a potential burden. If you can build up Angel, though, then he could be a potential replacement, as his Humble Blessing is like a Media and he is immune to Light. You would just need to give him a Fire or Electric skill if you want him to participate in the offense.

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Guide Information
  • Publisher
    Atlus, Nintendo, Sega
  • Platforms,
    Switch
  • Genre
    Action Adventure, Action RPG, RPG
  • Guide Release
    5 November 2021
  • Last Updated
    18 February 2022
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