Persona 5 Phantom X Best Marian (Minami) Build

Minami Miyashita, a 5-star Phantom Idol, is a sophomore with dreams of becoming a nurse. You meet her through the "Steel Your Heart" side quest. Her abilities and Persona focus on keeping the team healthy, clearing status effects, and dealing Bless damage to enemies.

If you're lucky enough to pull Marian from the Gacha Banner and want to add her to your squad, this guide covers her skills, passives, Awareness Perks, best Revelation Cards, ideal team setup, key stats, and how to play her effectively. Let's start with her abilities and passives.

All Marian Skills & Passives in Persona 5: The Phantom X

Marian and her Persona, Thalia, are Bless-aligned, meaning they're weak to Nuclear attacks but take less damage from Bless. This is great since there aren’t many Bless options in the game (except for Wonder with specific Personas). While Marian’s main role is healing, her Nurse's Light skill and follow-up attacks deal Bless damage, which is handy against Curse enemies.

Marian’s core mechanic revolves around Diagnosis stacks, which she can build up to 10. These stacks boost her Compassionate Cure skill, healing one ally based on stacks used and giving the whole team extra HP tied to Minami’s max HP. The more stacks spent, the stronger the effect. She starts with one Diagnosis stack at the beginning of a fight and gains more by using skills like Nurse's Light and Healing Grace.

Here’s a breakdown of Minami’s skills, passives, and Awareness Perks:

• Nurse's Light: Hits one enemy with Bless damage (37.3% of Minami’s max HP), gives the party 1 Blessing stack, and adds 1 Diagnosis stack.
• Healing Grace: Restores HP (11.4% of Minami’s max HP + 112) to the ally with the lowest HP and one chosen ally, clears 2 debuffs, and gives 1 Blessing stack to healed allies. Minami gains 1 Diagnosis stack. For 2 turns, healed allies recover HP (9.1% of Minami’s max HP + 89) at the start of each turn. (Flat HP scales with skill level; Heal% scales with Minami’s max HP).
• Compassionate Cure: Uses all Diagnosis stacks to heal one ally (10.3% of Minami’s max HP + 101) and the lowest-HP ally twice. Each stack adds one more heal and boosts all allies’ (except Minami) max HP by 7.5% of her max HP for 2 turns (up to 112, scaling with skill level).
• Thief Tactics: Minami’s Highlight heals the party (11.5% of Minami’s max HP + 113), clears 1 debuff, and boosts party max HP by 16.5% of her max HP (up to 247) for 2 turns. After an action, restores HP (4.3% of Minami’s max HP + 41) for 1 turn. One More: Deals Bless damage to one enemy.
• Health Comes First: After healing an ally, boosts their damage by 15% + 3% per Blessing stack (up to 30%) for 1 turn.
• Peace of Mind: At battle start, increases party max HP by 10% of Minami’s max HP (up to 500, scaling with skill level).

Values and mechanics may change based on Minami’s Awareness rank, which you improve by using Cognitite in the Training menu. Skills like Nurse's Light and Healing Grace get much stronger as she approaches max Awareness (Rank 6).

Focus on leveling Compassionate Cure first, as it’s her main skill, then Thief Tactics, Healing Grace, and Nurse's Light, in that order. Prioritize stats like Flat HP, HP %, HP Recovery, and SP Recovery (since Marian uses a lot of SP). Alternate between Nurse's Light and Healing Grace to build Blessing and Diagnosis stacks, then unleash Compassionate Cure when the stack is full. Focus healing on fragile allies like Assassins and Sweepers to keep them in the fight.

Awareness Level

Higher Awareness levels make Marian an even better healer, with added attack buffs for armor penetration. At Rank 6, she can revive a fallen ally once per battle, making her a must-have. Even at base level, she’s top-tier, but a maxed-out Minami outshines healers like Lufel and Mona by a mile.

Blessing gives 1% of max HP recovery to the target for 2 turns and can stack infinitely.

Best Marian Weapons in P5X

Angel Heart is Minami’s best 5-star weapon, a heart-shaped nurse kit that supercharges her abilities. It boosts her max HP by 30%, increases healing by 10% when she has Diagnosis stacks, and gives the party a 25% damage boost for 1 turn when spending Diagnosis. It’s a premium weapon, so you’ll need Salamander Coins or a ton of Platinum Milicoin to pull it from the weapon gacha.

Hymn of Life is a more affordable 4-star option, available with Gecko Coins at the Airsoft Shop. It’s not as strong but boosts healing by 8.7% and continuous healing by 28.5%. After a healing skill, there’s a 26% chance to grant Blessing to the main target.

Best Marian Revelation Cards in P5X

Love & Faith is the go-to Revelation Card set for Marian. It boosts overall healing by 9% and adds 23% extra healing for allies below 50% HP, stacking with her own bonuses. This makes her a lifesaver in tough fights like Shadow Miyazawa (Aegipan), where the boss wears down the team with damage-over-time and Curse effects. The Faith effect increases healing by 1% per 800 HP Minami has (up to 20%, capping at 16,000 HP).

Best Team Composition for Marian in P5X

Marian fits into most teams but shines with heavy hitters like Joker, Skull, Mont, and Closer. The best setup is Wonder (Ice Build), Soy, Mont, and Okyann (Elucidator). This team handles most enemies (unless they’re immune to Ice) with Mont’s high damage. Soy buffs the team’s max HP, which boosts Minami’s healing, while Minami enhances Soy’s HP-scaling abilities. This creates a strong cycle of HP buffs, shields, healing, and status recovery.