It's because you're not playing on a first playthrough Merciless difficulty Pixie only run, get to it

No I am but you get waaaaayyy higher multipliers to the point where its just unfair towards the opponent. but pixie only hmmm? How about team mates are thay allowed? And if not can I add rijuji since he isnt a phantom thief?

IS RYUJI A PIXIE

EXACTLY

Who knows. Maybe he is a pixie in disguise? You know a mask apon a mask.

It is until you get to particular bosses that abuse the damage multipliers really hard (big health+no weakness+immune to ailments=long fight with plenty of time to roll a lmaosupercrit and end you from full health)

Of course if you know what's coming you can pull out a couple of personas that null their big attacks and it doesn't matter, of course you're too low a level to get any phys immunes before Kamoshida so he's just a stupid diceroll as to whether you win or not, everything else, meh