How to beat Red Mist?

[Jz1207]

Hello, first time player here.

I have been playing Ruina for a while now, and for the most part rushing through it without significant issue, however I have reached a roadblock, I have been stuck on the reception of the Red Mist for days now and I can't see myself defeating her.

Things go relatively alright (albeit bumpy) until she manifests her E.G.O, at which point she wipes my entire floor in a single turn or two, I've seen various strategies and videos on defeating her but can't quite wrap my head around them.

Tl:dr: ELI5 beating Red Mist

[Star/AntianSlider]

Protection spam completely bricks her since she majorly uses the damage requirement to restore light and draw pages

[Zilloy]

personaly, i found that doing the defensive strat on binah floor can reliably take out kali in 1 floor.

the idea is: you want to not allow to kali to do enough damage to lower the cost of her cards and you want to bring her to emo lvl 4/5 BEFORE she manifests EGO.

so, what you want:
you want 3 characters that are resistant to slash. and if you have to choose between slash damage and slash stagger damage - pick slash stagger.

put +defensive dice power passives, Grit if you want to make sure she won't do enough damage on max roll on 1 of her dice.

setup decks in a way that involves many defensive dice. primarely block. 2-cost with high rolling evade dice can deal with Spear, iron wall can deal with her 2-dice attacks.

in battle:
avoid doing more attacks then neccesary, it's okay to skip a turn.

binah is build to perfectly counter kali.
put eternaly lit lamp abno card on binah, so she could redirect the infinity dice.
i also often see then people are confused by that "opponents current dice cannot be recycled" effect on pillar, what that means is that if it's classhing with the melee it can delete the first dice regardless if it wins or loses a clash. use pillar to stop "Onrush" and "Greater Spilt: Vertical"

if you see that kali is really close to the 350 hp mark - use lock, that way she won't have enough light to both mass attacks and do multipple attacks.

i also like to setup extra floor with 3 katriels + 1 denis with all full-stop office passives (+X power to dice on the first scene) just as a backup in case something goes wrong.

ok, the explanation could've been better but i'm not good at explaining :P

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[Minh]

Malkuth Floor of History.

Assistant Librarian of Malkuth Floor of History.
Stephan's Key Page.
Attributed Key Pages Oscar Wedge Office Operator's Key Page.
Passives Abilities Attribution in Use Ranged Only, Blind Fire, Speed, Piercer, Jolting Puncture, Wedge.
Combat Pages (Cards) x3 I Hate CQC, x3 Target Spotted, x3 Not Another Step.

Assistant Librarian of Malkuth Floor of History.
Stephan's Key Page.
Attributed Key Pages Meow's Key Page, Alloc's Key Page, Pamela Wedge Office Fixer's Key Page.
Passives Abilities Attribution in Use Ranged Only, Blind Fire, Speed, Meow Meow~, Bzzz Bzzz, Wedge.
Combat Pages (Cards) x3 I Hate CQC, x3 Target Spotted, x3 Not Another Step.

Assistant Librarian of Malkuth Floor of History.
Stephan's Key Page.
Attributed Key Pages Meow's Key Page, Alloc's Key Page, Pamela Wedge Office Fixer's Key Page.
Passives Abilities Attribution in Use Ranged Only, Blind Fire, Speed, Meow Meow~, Bzzz Bzzz, Wedge.
Combat Pages (Cards) x3 I Hate CQC, x3 Target Spotted, x3 Not Another Step.

Assistant Librarian of Malkuth Floor of History.
Stephan's Key Page.
Attributed Key Pages Meow's Key Page, Alloc's Key Page, Pamela Wedge Office Fixer's Key Page.
Passives Abilities Attribution in Use Ranged Only, Blind Fire, Speed, Meow Meow~, Bzzz Bzzz, Wedge.
Combat Pages (Cards) x3 I Hate CQC, x3 Target Spotted, x3 Not Another Step.



Binah Floor of Philosophy.

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Binah Patron Librarian of Binah Floor of Philosophy's Key Page.
Attributed Key Pages Bamboo-hatted Kim's Key Page, Tenma's Key Page.
Passives Abilities Attribution in Use Speed III, Binah, Incomplete Arbiter, Swordplay of the Homeland, Respiration.
Combat Pages (Cards) x3 Degraded Fairy, x2 Degraded Chain, x1 Degraded Lock, x2 Degraded Pillar, x1 Degraded Shockwave.

Assistant Librarian of Binah Floor of Philosophy.
Tamaki's Key Page.
Attributed Key Pages Pameli Wedge Office Fixer's Key Page, Oink's Key Page, Mars Streetlight Office Fixer's Key Page.
Passives Abilities Attribution in Use Ranged Only, Snipe, Wedge, Piercer, Oinkie!! Oink!!!, Speed.
Combat Pages (Cards) x3 I Hate CQC, x3 Target Spotted, x3 Not Another Step.

Assistant Librarian of Binah Floor of Philosophy.
Tamaki's Key Page.
Attributed Key Pages Pameli Wedge Office Fixer's Key Page, Oink's Key Page, Olga's Key Page.
Passives Abilities Attribution in Use Ranged Only, Snipe, Wedge, Piercer, Oinkie!! Oink!!!, Speed.
Combat Pages (Cards) x3 I Hate CQC, x3 Target Spotted, x3 Not Another Step.

Assistant Librarian of Binah Floor of Philosophy.
Tamaki's Key Page.
Attributed Key Pages Pameli Wedge Office Fixer's Key Page, Oink's Key Page, Gyeong-mi Stray Dogs's Key Page.
Passives Abilities Attribution in Use Ranged Only, Snipe, Wedge, Piercer, Oinkie!! Oink!!!, Speed.
Combat Pages (Cards) x3 I Hate CQC, x3 Target Spotted, x3 Not Another Step.

Assistant Librarian of Binah Floor of Philosophy.
Tamaki's Key Page.
Attributed Key Pages Pameli Wedge Office Fixer's Key Page, Oink's Key Page, Gyeong-mi Stray Dogs's Key Page.
Passives Abilities Attribution in Use Ranged Only, Snipe, Wedge, Piercer, Oinkie!! Oink!!!, Speed.
Combat Pages (Cards) x3 I Hate CQC, x3 Target Spotted, x3 Not Another Step.

Clash against all except Combat Pages (Cards) Onrush, Greater Split: Vertical, & Greater Split: Horizontal.

Clash against them with Combat Pages (Cards) Degraded Pillar.