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Well, start with the hard part. If you've managed to beat Scorn of the Beasts yet, what was your team for Europa and the Searchers?
Lol Europa is the hard part? I can't even beat Ochu.
Yeah my issue is that I don't have a good 7* mage that can cover any elements. I have Christine, Barb, and BS Sakura. I have a 7* OK and 7* Kurasame that I am bringing.
If I spec M Ramza for evade he isn't going to be very useful for the Europa fight, right?
Lilith is strong in the arena for a couple reasons. The first is her kit, it's very good in the arena. Her AoE multihit counter is very good even if you have just one of her. She can counter up to three times based on what you hit her with. One triggers on physical, one on magic and one on both. So just hitting her with physical is enough to potentially trigger two counters. She has a bunch of different moves that can charm, though they're all low 5% chance, and one of those moves is the counter that triggers off both types of damage. If that 5% goes off on one of your units, it can really mess you up. Her LB heals herself foe 60% and gives her damage reduction, but it's mostly the heal that's annoying (the DR can be dispelled or just powered through of you have enough damage). If her counters weren't AoE, she would not be anywhere near the threat she is. Even four or five Liliths dropping two counters wouldn't be so bad if they were single target, the damage would be much more manageable and could be covered by a tank much better. My own Lilith can cover two Liliths countering right now, though it brings her very low on HP, amd that's absorbing five instances of each counter (one for each party member).
The other reason is the mechanics of the arena itself. I've noticed that, unlike regular battles, in arena there is no limit to how many LB crystals you can get in a given turn. So a Lilith countering generates a ludicrous amount of LB crystals. Two Liliths countering almost guarantees the entire enemy team has their LBs charged. And the other mechanic is how the arena AI perfect chains everything. If multiple enemies use the same move on you in arena, it's going to spark chain guaranteed. Normally it's not too bad because it's very rare for the AI to choose the same move even on the same character. But since the AI auto uses LBs, the Liliths are going to spark chain LB every turn on.
One Lilith isn't too bad, she can't chain counter and there's a limit to her damage. Two Lilitha is also manageable, but can still get dicey. Three or more and you have a problem. There are a few ways to beat multi Lilith teams. First is overwhelming power. I've OTKO'd multi Lilith teams but it uaually takes spark chaining dualcast moves, which can be haed without a macro. Second is goimg heavy on stop effects. Lilith is not immune to stop, and I've never seen the AI try to cure stop with units like Ayaka. The problem is when status effects are banned, and of the stop doesn't apply she's going to counter you. If you're going to stop Lilith, bring multiple stop moves to increase your odds. The third way is the slow way, try and kill them one at a time. This is similar to the first method of overpowering, but with chaining single target instead. This can be safer as you limit your threat of counters, but it's slow and it's very annoying to have to spend too long on an arena battle. Summoning Odin also works well if they aren't death immune.
That all being said, I think I might just GL UoC a GLS so I can have two 7* GLS in arena. A triple cast Soul Barrage chain should be enough to wipe any number of Liliths, especially with a finisher or esper summon. It also has the added benefit of wiping out pretty much any other enemies I might face. And it's only stopped by multi-ability bans, which seem pretty rare. There's no element or status effect on Soul Barrage so the ability itself can't be banned.
Actually evasion works great for Europa. It's the Bomb kids that just do basically magical elemental damage. Moving your tank to dodge will make Ochu super easy.
Sieg (evade)
Kyrla (breaks/imperils/dispel)
Kunshira (elemental coverage/breaks/imperils/buffs)
LM Fina (heals/reraise/elemental buffs)
Hyoh (lightning, machine killer)
Hyoh friend (same)
Evade works extremely well for Ochu and Europa. I tried to tank Ochu with 7* Sieg (UoC a 2nd) non-evade (22k HP, 1.2k DEF) and he was getting destroyed every round. Even with reraise, the Ochu would AOE kill the whole team while Sieg was returning to life and covering again. I was using a DEF/SPR buff too and it still was not enough on some rounds.
OK and Kurasame should work very well on the Bomb Family.
Unfortunately, budget is not possible for this boss rush.
EDIT: Welp. I just got my first STMR. I dropped a couple gold tickets on the banner to see if I could get Yubel, because hey, a killer that also has a quite good atk boost is aces as a TMR even if he's a fucking idiot - and the second ticket broke into rainbow. It's... Roy number 4! Alright, then, I'mma put this on Beryl, I think.
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I have Reberta up as fire, but I can easily switch to something else if you need. Let me know.
What did I do wrong? In any case I need to switch things up a bit... I didn't have a breaker so it took me a while to kill each stage.
She's got 4 elements covered, right? I might try her out.
Three. Lightning, Ice, and Fire. And she's using a fire weapon right now to chain with Sephiroth, but I can change that out.
Also, her LB is maxed so that's a 104% imperil and 74% def break.
Yeah even though I expect it to be garbage I always get a little heartbroken when it's 1 gold 10 blues.
All they gotta do is give him a common chaining family or two and he should be pretty good.
Edit: I didn't watch far enough, they say he can chain well with PG Lasswell. So I'm guessing A. Mirror of Equity family.
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Means I can hold off on pulling for physical DPS for awhile, then.
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And, even better, our Sephiroth already got GLEX upgrades, so he'll be in a better spot than he is in JP when his enhancements come
He's great in the Arena since he has a counter that stops everyone on the team.
Edit: You could also kill the Searchers everytime they spawn, but you have to be able to 1 shot them.