Persona 5 Guide: How to Raise Kindness

The Kindness Stat in Persona 5 is an important social stat to raise if you want to be able to speak with certain people, get specific jobs, and perform other actions in the game.  Raising Kindness will take you from Inoffensive to Considerate, Empathetic, Selfless, and all the way up to Angelic.

How to raise Kindness is done a number of activities that you can do in your free time.

Watching Movies or Books can raise your Kindness, but not always.  There are specific books that can be found in the library or in the bookstore that will raise your Kindness after completing them.  If you’re not sure how to get books and read them, check out this guide on how to.

If you pay for dinner in Shibuya you can raise your Kindness.  Watering the plant in your room at Leblanc’s Cafe will raise Kindness, so make sure you pay attention to your green friend once you’ve cleaned up your room above the cafe.  Playing video games will also raise your Kindness.

Taking on jobs that have customer service, like working in Cafe Leblanc, will raise your Kindness.   Also once you’ve reached the Selfless rank, you can raise Kindness by doing the Burger Challenge.

Raising stats like Kindness, will allow you to do more activities and interact with certain characters throughout the game.  Paying attention to and completing these activities in your free time will make your character stronger in the end and make you more powerful in the games dungeons.