Shadow Maya

Shadow Maya, as the name implies, is the Shadow Self of Maya Amano that appears in the Persona 2 duology.

Appearances

 * Persona 2: Innocent Sin: Boss
 * Persona 2: Eternal Punishment: Boss

Innocent Sin
After the incident with King Leo, Maya suggested that the party should split up because a rumor spread about a group of five people roaming around Sumaru City suspected to be terrorists, which it was most likely to be Tatsuya and the rest, and decided to regroup at the Kuzunoha Detective Agency. After Tatsuya and Lisa arrived together, Eikichi and Yukino were already there with only Maya remining but arrived in a short period of time.

When the party decided to go to Mt. Iwato at Lisa's request, Maya was starting to act strangely by saying things that didn't match her personality every time they see past events on each Mirror Spring. Yukino was the first one to notice and then the rest but they ignored it.When everyone reached the last Mirror Spring they saw how "Big Sis" was locked up by the kids in the Araya Shrine. When Lisa interrupts the event, "Maya" attacks the party while looking at them with a sinister look on her face telling them that she was Big Sis and how she hated them beacuse of the hell she went through and that they will suffer the same terror that she had to. When she is about to strike the attack that will kill Tatsuya and the others, another Maya blocks the attack. The other Maya tells them that the Maya that attacked them was an impostor, said impostor didn't denied and revealed herself as Maya's Shadow. Joker appears saying that the plan of killing them wasn't going well. Maya tries to talk to Joker which she revealed that it was Jun a childhood friend of Tatsuya, Maya, Lisa and Eikichi. She tried to convince Jun that she didn't died in the fire caused by Tatsuya Sudou so he doesn't have to suffer anymore on believing that she died. Jun yelled that that wasn't possible because Tatsuya killed her, Maya then says that Tatsuya and Jun shouldn't fight anymore and tried to remind him of the promise the two of them made of protecting Maya no matter what. Jun fell to his knees clutching his head in pain and ordered the Shadow to kill her leading to start the battle with Shadow Maya.

After the battle ends, the Shadow didn't understand how Maya can be so strong if she was so eager to die, but Maya denies this last statement by telling that the Shadow is wrong and says goodbye to her Shadow.

Eternal Punishment
Unlike Innocent Sin, Shadow Maya wasn't created by rumors but by Nyarlathotep to taunt Maya and the others. She first appears in Monado Mandala with the other Shadow Selves created by Nyarlathotep taunting their own real selves.

When the party arrives at the World of Conviction they see Lisa floating with her hands tied with some sort of spell and unconscious, Tatsuya tries to set her free but Shadow Maya and Shadow Baofu prevents him from doing so and attacks the part leading to fight both Shadows. The difficulty of this boss battle depends on the decisions the player makes in the Room of Knowladge and the Room of Emotion.

After the battle ends tha Shadows dissapear and Lisa is set free, Tatsuya then begs Philemon to take Lisa back to the real world which Philemon does instantly.

Strategy
In both games is always a good choice to use Fusion Spells against her, physical are a good choice. In Innocent Sin is recommended to be at level 36 or higher. Have Maya be the main healer with any Media spell. Eikichi and any other character needs to do the fusion spell Earth Slice EX or any other physical based fusion spell that deals two strikes, the former needs an Earth Spell and Straight Slash. The attack will deal a good ammount of damage and an extra hit. Physical attacks does more damage to Shadow Maya and Eikichi is by default the character that has a higher strength stat in the game so the player needs to make him attack Shadow Maya either with a physical fusion spell or with a normal attack. Her spell Dark Dimension deals an instant kill to a character if it hits, unlike Maya this spell may have 75% of chances to hit a character and kill him or her instantly so it's good to have a character with a Persona that has a reviving spell or have numerous reviving item.

In Eternal Punishment, Shadow Maya is weak against physical attacks and reflects magic attacks. Tatsuya and Ulala are a good choice to attack her with either a strong physical attack like Apollo's Gigantic Fist or with a regular attack. Maya uses Dark Dimension again in Eternal Punishment so be sure to have a Persona with a reviving skill or numerous reviving items. She also has Mediarama to heal herself and Shadow Baofu but she doesn't cast this spell often. In the case of Shadow Baofu, he is strong in physical attacks but weak to lightning attacks, his most dangerous attack is Level Trap which consists to damage all characters based on level, the character with the highest level is killed instantly. Again, a regular lightning attack or a fusion spell is required for him.

Trivia

 * The way Maya faces her shadow in Innocent Sin is the most special one among the rest of the playable characters (including those from Persona 4) in that Maya has never admitted her Shadow is a part of her, but is always denying it even after her Shadow's defeat because she does not want to admit that she hates the kids for the incident ten years ago.