Defeating Tomatello

[RubyMeow]

I've tried to beat Tomatello like 4 times now. Anyone have any tips or could tell me what they used to beat him?

[Saluki]

Hes a tough one for sure. And even in the mid game when I faced him I didn't have any sauce to counter his ridiculous Vigor stat. So I beat him by just making two really high scoring dishes taking advantage of both ingredients the judge wanted.

Gonna make the rest as a hidden answer as it involves some spoilers and my exact recipes.


So first off you have to make sure to have at least 21 aroma in your first dish so you go first in the first round to avoid his -Sophistication sauce. The dish I used was, in order of adding to the pan: Cucumber Squid, Rice, Spectral Chutney Sauce, Milk. This doesn't beat him in the first round but scores ~222pts which is at least close to the 275 he gets. Second dish it doesn't matter if you go first or not so no worries on aroma. I used in order: Pangun Meat, Marconnaise Sauce, Seaweed (which sucks as an ingredient but hits both of the judges 50 pt requests), Cuttlefish. The cuttlefish really boosts your vigor and spirit and you don't lose very much at all from the -soph you face.

[RubyMeow]

Originally posted by Saluki:

Hes a tough one for sure. And even in the mid game when I faced him I didn't have any sauce to counter his ridiculous Vigor stat. So I beat him by just making two really high scoring dishes taking advantage of both ingredients the judge wanted.

Gonna make the rest as a hidden answer as it involves some spoilers and my exact recipes.


So first off you have to make sure to have at least 21 aroma in your first dish so you go first in the first round to avoid his -Sophistication sauce. The dish I used was, in order of adding to the pan: Cucumber Squid, Rice, Spectral Chutney Sauce, Milk. This doesn't beat him in the first round but scores ~222pts which is at least close to the 275 he gets. Second dish it doesn't matter if you go first or not so no worries on aroma. I used in order: Pangun Meat, Marconnaise Sauce, Seaweed (which sucks as an ingredient but hits both of the judges 50 pt requests), Cuttlefish. The cuttlefish really boosts your vigor and spirit and you don't lose very much at all from the -soph you face.

Thank you so much, I was seriously struggling lmao.

[Vorshin]

there are actually 2 differant fights with this guy. 1 is a side quest of 2 parts (much easier to do), several ways to beat him but basically similar ingrediants (as posted above) the other is a 2 part battle in the league. Man he is soo freakin hard to beat in this one. i beat round 1 but he wipes me out in round 2 since i just could not get the go 1st always 44-48 aroma and you need 50+.
Finally beat him and after that the rest of that league was easy going, the league after that with cat people was the easiest of the 3 leagues. I believe there is 1 more but i have not yet unlocked it.

I have 1 side quest to find a smuggler, then the main mission to beat the mage's in a cooking contest.