#there's whatever bullshit that ice-weak drasna has

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Kalos CSMM at long last!

Siebold: So, I was stupid and wasted one of the Healthy Healing cookies to Lodge Dawn. Finally, I replaced it with Mind Games 2, so she could kinda replicate Bede's role but as a support. She, alongside SS Brendan, hastened Hilbert's needs of debuffs and offensive buffs. The stage mostly used special attacks, but Lodge Dawn has Shielded from her trainer move to protect Brendan (she also buffs Speed a little bit to keep the gauge going), while Hilbert swept the stage after 6*EX support buff. That was easy, but mostly because the team complemented each other very well.

Malva: The instruction only told to get rid of sun and bring a tank that can take special attacks--basically SS Kris, and using SS Kris means using special attackers, so...yeah. Another easy one surprisingly, and the match ended before SS Kris' first rain ran out too (Siebold sync+May finished center). Siebold didn't even need Supereffective Up Next. The Kalos Elite Four vs. Kalos Elite Four matchup was intentional.

Drasna: +1 Attack Dragon Rush dealt 564 damage to Spring Burgh on first turn, when he was buffing crit. Yikes. SS Wally and Bede missed their crit on first sync and max move respectively. Double yikes. But as long as SS Wally used his B Dazzling Gleam, Drasna was much easier to tank (still dealt 300 damage Dragon Rush, but still much better). The matching theme skills helped Spring Burgh to survive as well. With fairy rebuffs, Bede and SS Wally could finish off sides with their attacks too. Bede took the second sync, missed the crit again, but thankfully it was enough to finish off Drasna.

Wikstrom: Before Master Mode was unlocked, I tried bringing Roxanne as main tank to this stage, but she took way too much damage. So I ended up not bringing her. Not having Aura Cynthia means I had to bring defogger, so Darach, because he could help Diantha built her multiplier as well. I spent around 5-6 minutes thinking about who I should bring for the main tank, and finally settled with Calem. Calem did take a lot of damage as well even though Darach has helped with debuffs (he had to use his Endure too), but this team finished the stage safely. I have no idea what I was doing here.

Diantha: Healthy Advantage+vulnerable to defense debuffs. If you have Colress, this wasn't so bad. I have Colress at home, it's called Tech Parasect. The gauge was a little difficult to manage that I had to reset once (because Hop got flinched and frozen a lot), but on second try, Steven managed to sync for the second time before enemy's sync, and Hop got the kill. Tech Parasect had to spread debuffs even to the sides and keep them going, because Diantha has Team Stoic to consistently buff defense and the opposing team mainly used special attacks, which wasn't good for Hop. Thankfully, everyone survived, and managed to finish the stage.