Dancing Monkey vs Angry Tortoise vs Lazy Bear

[Anvil]

Hi! Which path is your favorite?
I just finish a game with Dancing Monkey and by mid/late game I became invincible cuz no one could hit me, 100% recommended

[grail666]

How did you deal with opponents that reflected damage done to them back onto you?

[MoreEvilSquid]

Originally posted by grail666:

How did you deal with opponents that reflected damage done to them back onto you?

Not sure what OP did, but I've had success using counter-attacks in this case, and reducing the attacks I do (choosing only one attack skill, the rest recovery skills) - at least if it looked like I'd "kill myself" via attacks.

But yes these types of enemies can easily catch you out by getting you to punch yourself in the face, effectively...

[Yo]

Against other dodgers aka agi users you can use the strength modifier Feint with 1 initiative attacks and the modifiers for pushing them back, you will push them back to the rope and then they can't dodge and you win this way, combine this with the dodge that returns 60% dmg back

Against strength users that don't block or dodge you have a modifier that increases damage by 40%, plus an attack that drains their initiative at the end of the tree means they never get to take a turn

And against stamina aka blockers you have two modifiers that reduce block chance by 15% and 20% and an attack that reduces their blocking effectiveness meaning it deals higher damage when blocked, there's also a modifier that reduces their blocking effectiveness by 15%, if you use those you will win

[Yo]

I have only completed a playthrough with agi build because it takes a lot of willpower to go through the game for a 2nd and 3rd time due to how grindy it is, i will eventually do it but with agi build i almost never lost the only thing i disliked is just how much tonic the later dodges use, 4 slots * 2 tonic = 8 tonic per round just for ur dodges, obviously training with gold can help but somehow i never unlocked that on my first playthrough, maybe i missed the call and he never called again not sure

[Yo]

Also there's no way to beat Jai with agi build, as far as i analyzed

[Yo]

You can beat him with str and stamina builds but don't think you can with agi

[Yo]

Agi is just all revolved around dodging and his -40% dodge combined with you having 150 hp while he has 450 hp and regens each round makes it impossible i think

[Dahaka]

Lazy Bear is aptly named. Just beat the game with strength and it was honestly disappointingly easy. Damage reflection and the sheer amount of HP you can get with high strength makes most fights trivial.

I think I had 39 strength, 28 agility, and 31 stamina by the time I was done.

Stamina fighters I just wailed on the oppoent while making sure that every other attack was either "wait" or stamina recovery while fighting in Smasher.

Agility I used Flycatcher and they killed themselves from reflected damage and the dodge reduction + attacks that have high hit rates makes those fights trivial with how much damage I was doing per hit even on basic attacks.

Against other strength fighters I just used Beserker and fights were over in a round.

I think I only lost twice the entire game. Once in the beginning because I didn't know what I was doing with the fighting styles or how to counter different styles and to Jai because I wasn't expecting that fight at all.

[Yo]

you had 98 stats when you finished the game, you spent ages on training when the last guy Jax only has 65 stats i think

[Yo]

Ofc that ure gonna win when u have +30 stats on top of the enemy