Kiwami/Black Rider

Black Rider (August 2020)

Overview

• Black Rider deals 15% of your max HP as damage each turn. This damage is lethal and can kill
• If you try to heal via skills, he will cast Soul Divide to halve your HP. This is based on current HP and cannot kill.
• Revives will not trigger Soul Divide.
• Healing sources outside demon skills will not trigger Soul Divide. This makes Seiran an excellent Dx2, as she has a chance to heal the party upon revive.
• Only Gurr has weak pierce. Black Rider and Mad Gasser do not have any form of pierce, so they can be walled with Five Elements.

Encounter

Wave 1:

Moh Shuvuu	Pixie

Resistances
Moh Shuvuu	-	Wk	-	-	Nu	-	-
Pixie	-	-	-	Rs	-	-	Wk
Battle Speed			41500

Wave 2:

Gurr	Black Rider	Mad Gasser

Resistances
Gurr	Wk	Nu	-	-	Nu	Wk	-
Black Rider	-	Wk	Rp	-	-	Rs	Rs
Mad Gasser	-	-	-	-	-	Wk	Rs
Battle Speed			35366

Strategy

Teams proven to work

Reika

Heal	DPS	Heal	Buff Control
Lakshmi A	Asura	Mahakala	Nebiros
Samrecarm	Phys Amp	Master Assassin
	Epitome of Carnage	Fire Boost

• Seiran is the preferred Dx2 as she will provide random healing on revive which does not proc Soul Divide.
• Although Lakshmi A's heal will trigger Soul Divide, the Five Elements she provides is priceless, allowing you to wall Black Rider completely. She also removes Poison from Mad Gasser which would kill you otherwise, and restores MP to the party to soften up Famine's effect.
• Asura vacuums up Gurr's random hits and takes no damage from them (since Gurr only has weak pierce). Ashura gets rid of Auto Luster Candy, and he can deal decent DPS early on.
• Mahakala is the main DPS. Not only does he provide free DPS from The Great Darkness, Wrathful Flame also debuffs the enemy, allowing your team to hit harder.
• Nebiros provides infinite revive (the boss can be cursed) for the later half of the fight, where the boss will likely auto attack and kill your demons in two hits.
• Setup Mahakala's concentrate and Five Elements on the horde wave.
• Kill Gurr first followed by Mad Gasser. Continue to put up Five Elements, ignoring the Soul Divide penalty.
• Once you kill both adds, the boss will simply auto attack you twice, either killing a demon (which gets revived by Nebiros the next turn) or missing. As long as Lakshmi A's Virtuous Prosperity can outheal the fractional damage from Famine, you can repeat this loop indefinitely until the Boss dies.
• Evasion brands and/or skills on Lakshmi A and Nebiros are appreciated, in event the boss scores unlucky crits and gets additional turns.

Sushi

Zaou-Gongen Skills Epitome of Carnage Savage Glee Brands Lead, Lead Requirements Panel 3 PAtk=1600

Huang Long Skills Enduring Soul - Brands Life, Dodge Requirements Prioritize physical evasion, and then Life

Yoshitsune Skills Epitome of Carnage - Brands War Requirements Panel 1+2 PAtk=1950

Abaddon A Skills Luster Candy Muscle Punch Brands Guard, Guard Requirements PDef=1950

• Liberator must be Kangaroo Boxer, as you have to rely on getting Position Hack on both waves(it can work even if you don't get PH on the first wave, but ideally you want as much health going into the boss wave as possible)
• Set up Five Elements on the first wave, and make sure to come into the boss wave with full MP
• Lord of the Abyss will turn the Auto-Luster Candy into a Debilitate
• AOE attack the enemies, use Luster Candy (or whatever Attack buff you have) on Abaddon A's half press turn, and continue AOE attacking
• At the end of the first turn you have to have 5E up, and the adds killed
• With 5E up, Black Rider can only physical attack you, and ideally should miss every time with Huang Long's high evasion, Sukunda, and Sukukaja up
• Now you just crit pass and whittle him down, while setting up 5E every turn, and using God's Hand/Hassou Tobi/Muscle Punch when you have enough MP
• Requires decent brands/transfers, as you have to kill Black Rider before you get killed by Famine in just a few turns
• You can make your life easier if you find space for Lydia, so you can recover HP, giving you more time to kill the boss

Suffers

Kartikeya Skills Solar Downfall Epitome of Swiftness Brands Speed x2 Requirements P2

Huang Long Skills Speedster - Brands Divine, Speed Requirements -

Zaou-Gongen Skills Epitome of Carnage Savage Glee Brands War & Lead Requirements P3

Yoshitsune Skills Epitome of Carnage Butcher Brands Divine & Aim Requirements P1+2

• Carbon Black is used for more crit damage + abusing crits for Sukunda + Sukukaja and Rakunda. Chalk Eater can also be used for extra MP and Press Hack.
• Cast 5Es before proceeding to the boss wave so HL can cast Luster Candy on T1.
• Karti for crit passing to HL + chip.
• Zaou and Yoshi are the main damage dealers. Divines on Yoshi so he can cast Hassou Tobi more frequently should the opportunity arises. P3 Red Shiva can be used instead of Yoshi for a more F2P option. Same applies for P3 red Siegfried or any Phys sweeper with a cheap hard hitting attack.
• Focus on Gurr first so you do not want to deal with bind. He can be killed easily on T1 if you God's Hand him with Zaou and just use Vorpal Blade and regular attack with Yoshi.
• 5Es must be cast every turn, but with constant crit passing you can easily get HL enough MP to cast it every turn.
• Vorpal Blades and Herc Strikes should take out Mad Gasser within 2 turns.
• You can easily get Rider down to red HP before LC runs out but by then he can be killed with a few Phys attacks.
• Poison + Famine+ will not kill the team within the 3 turns of LC and even then only Karti will die first.
• You can also try running dodge brands on HL to end Rider's turn asap once the adds are dead.