#nuca bullshit stages

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Beating Conferring the Crown 03 this time

Here's how it went

1. Nothing special, just Morvay to soak up Sinister steps and the followup this guy does. That being said, this was a battle of attrition. It took 38 fucking turns and on the last cycle, I had to start guarding my strikers because healing was getting pretty low. That shield that the new Yakumo gives did wonders for my survivability here, but it would have been less scary if he or Kuya were pot 9 or 10 for sure.

2. This was the easiest one. Two cards that ult pretty hard, one healer, one buffing, and Blade doing both. For this thing to be viable, though, I defended with Blade for two turns after Sinister Steps. I did this for every other attempt from this point on because it's not hard to do and it takes care of the issue of the fight slowly lowering the party's recovery rate to anxiety inducing degrees.

3. Okay so I was not sure I was going to be able to beat this one on this account because my only good nuke here is Quincy and by now I see that you either want two guys that nuke hard, or just one but with heavy ult support. I went with CS Edmond because he reduces the enemy defense, which is great because this dude raises it for the shield. Timing was super important here. Oli and TC Edmond had to ult on the turn before you have to break the shield to maximize the damage that's done to it. CS Ed defends in the same pattern as before and then ults with Quincy. Blade is constantly ulting because that's his gimmick. This comp has high survivability, but it breaks the shield just barely. Healer, nuke, and Oli are all max pot, the other two are at pot 11 with all attack multipliers already unlocked.

4. Another one that was just barely enough but that confirmed my suspicions that the best tactic is probably two supports, two nukes, and one healer. Yakumo's potential is almost maxed out (only missing some health) and Quincy is on potential 12 with one investment into atk. Oli's atk can't go any higher either. The main issues here are Edmond at pot 10, and Garu at pot 11, and the fact they their passive skills and ults are really a good fit for this stage. This account is really poor when it comes to healers and buffers...

Takeaways:

-Anyone who has not invested in Quincy should look inside their soul and ask themselves why. We know this game loves dps checks. This was inevitable.

-Bringing a guardian is a waste of time and patience. Sorry Morvay, but when a guarding striker/buffer/sabo can do your job by defending, you're gonna have to warm the bench. Anything above 6700 HP is damn solid, although I think it's possible to get away with closer to 6000 if it's a support (unless it has elemental weakness, obviously)

-Max pot Oli is love, max pot oli is life.

-This one is a number's game. If you can't bruteforce it, bring out the calculator. Even then, it might not be enough. It wasn't designed to be fair.

-Also this was the first event that didn't let me throw OG Eddie and DN Yaku at the problem and just get it done with. I deeply resent it for that...

[androideql-deactivated20210312]

Since my free time is spent playing nuca, I'm gonna talk about my time playing nuca. Here's a fun (?) aspect of my experience with the game: having four accounts means that I have to figure out four different ways to beat these bullshit stages.

Anyway, here's the four combinations that worked out for me for the second challenge this event:

1. DoT focus plus Quincy for a little extra oomph. Picked my usual supports for this account with zero thought behind it. I don't have better nukes in this account.

2. Ult multipliers out the wazoo. This could have been done with another support in place of AO kuya since Blade's a dark unit at 4 stars, and he already had two other guys that hit fairly hard boosting his ults. AB Oli is there mostly to just raise the multiplier a little more. Went down quickly.

3. Damage multipliers plus as strong ult. Could have been done without Kuya. AP Yakumo is there cause he hits well enough while not having any gimmicks that would ruin the whole thing (a lot of my best strikers in this account inflict true damage...) CL Yakumo was the real mvp here; hit really hard and made SL hit like a mfer afterwards. Timing Oli properly helps a lot (I hope you guys have been ulting one turn before breaking any shields for full use of his damage stacks). This one was a little on the slower side because I panicked over Yakumo bleeding and I started defending him after he ult'd.

4. This one was focused on increasing elemental damage while also stacking DoT.

For the shield break, I went Edmond->Princess Kuya-> Rei->Oli->Zaza Kuya. It went down FAST.

My takeaways are:

-Having good DoT helps circumvent gimmicks a lot of the time.

-Yakumo-based accounts are so fucked trigger skills-wise...

-AO Kuya is incredibly useful considering that so many of these things involve breaking shields.

-4 stars units are massive investments, but extremely worth the shards I used to get there. By all means, CL Yakumo should have been retired by now. He's a grandpa unit, he should not be fucking carrying, but here is... breaking the shield before prince snake gets a chance to ult.

-Speaking of geriatrics, KD Kuya is still as ridiculous as he was when he came out.