2-18, how I beat it

[lacrimosa1206]

Tips: It's beatable with Level 11-12 base characters.
You know what EGO is yes? The ultimate individual skills of each character.
These have high dice value so it usually nicely counters boss attacks.

However, because EGO costs colour chips to use, your goal in 2-18 is to FARM COLOUR CHIPS at the first 2 stages by dragging on the fight.

How to drag the fight? Throw in some defensive skills when you're not sure whether you can absolutely win a clash, and use colour attacks that match the amount of chips you need for each character to use their EGO. In doing so, you'll be farming not only the resources you need to execute an EGO but also expand your combo bar, enabling you to DO MORE ATTACKS per turn.

As for the boss of 2-18, do not try to counter her attacks with basic skills; this will likely kill you, buff the boss, and end up wiping your party. Instead, try to meet her attacks with your EGO and defensive skills. You can figure out who she's going to target by bringing your mouse cursor to the overhead icons on her head. This indicates who she's going to target. Have those characters use EGOs and dodge/blocks.

If things look too tight (because she has those annoying 3 mustache simps), it's perfectly okay to use an EGO on the minion, but keep 2 or more for the boss. Once you get her HP down past the first bar and stun her, from then on you should be able to take her out with just your basic attacks because you have already expanded your combo bar in the opening stage of 2-18.