Beating Ahab in RR3

[Electron]

How did you all beat Ahab? I heavily relied on N-corp Meursault + chains of others passive to tank Ahab's attacks while trying to defeat Queequeg. Is there a faster and more efficient way to beat Ahab?

[KӨMӨDӨ]

Burst Starbuck in 2 turns, then focus most effort on Ahab. As long as the single coin skill from Queequeg is not doing much damage, don't clash with it.

If you kill Ahab first, you don't have to deal with Quee. Ahab regens to full after getting to half for the first time, but overall she is a lot more squishy than Quee, just bring a heavy pierce team which you may have been doing anyways to deal with ads and Starbuck. Just be sure to break Quee's shield when she's guarding Ahab and continue *whaling* into Ahab

[Minh]

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Use E.xtermination of G.eometrical O.rgan O-02-10-11 Alleyway Watchdog Don Quixote Telepole Awakening Skills then use her for Unopposed Skills. Yes.

[A5G_Reaper]

Killing Ahab twice is the fastest way. Still took me 10 turns because I'm not restarting a billion times to get the perfect sequence. Quick Suppression into Mind Whip and a couple other regular attacks on the side to stagger her off the bat, once she heal whittle bit by bit until she's staggered again and nuke her down with DDEDR and Rip Space. Would've been faster if I got a second Quick Suppression early, but it never shows.

[SIGNAL]

What was already said above, try to kill Ahab because taking her out also gets rid of the other guys

If you want to focus fire Ahab more without getting beat to death by her lackeys in the process, a good evade can help eat up their attacks while you get to work, though there is some luck involved for the targeting (Remember to set that evade on the fastest skill being dodged)

I didn't do so well on my attempt, 20 turns with N Faust, N Sinclair, Cinq Don, W Ryoshu, Bullet Outis, and K Hong Lu (Gave him the Uptie 4 solely for this)

[A5G_Reaper]

If I'm to redo the whole railway I'd definitely run Cinq Outis for this stage. Aggro, pierce resist, and fat dodge should make it so much easier.

[Atma]

Originally posted by KӨMӨDӨ:

Burst Starbuck in 2 turns, then focus most effort on Ahab. As long as the single coin skill from Queequeg is not doing much damage, don't clash with it.

Get ready for your nether regions to be bad touched if you use this tactic.

The correct way here is to simply fully commit to Ahab, right from the first turn she appears. Use defensive moves if her butt buddies are going for a lot of damage. Deal something like 150-200 damage to Ahab on the first turn, she will heal to full. On the second turn USE EVERYTHING you have to stagger her. If you don't stagger her, she'll become untargetable on turns 3 and 4 and you'll lose at least one character. After staggering just continue the tactics of attacking her, with maybe some defensive moves. Your goal is to not give her the opportunity to hide behind QueeQueg's back and burst her down.

[infantMajesty]

Bursting Starbuck doesn't work, Queeg blocks and everyone dies.
Bursting Queeg is impossible, too much defense and shield.
Bursting Ahab doesn't work, she heals up and everyone dies by Queeg and Starbuck, and then there's the block phase.

I have no idea on what to do.

[Minh]

Originally posted by infantMajesty:

Bursting Starbuck doesn't work, Queeg blocks and everyone dies.
Bursting Queeg is impossible, too much defense and shield.
Bursting Ahab doesn't work, she heals up and everyone dies by Queeg and Starbuck, and then there's the block phase.

I have no idea on what to do.

Kill him. Focus on 3rd. Clash against 2nd if needed. Don Quixote WARP CORP.ORATION Wing of the World LEVEL 3 Cleanup Agent with E.xtermination of G.eometrical O.rgan O-02-10-11 Alleyway Watchdog Don Quixote Telepole Awakening Skills can survive.

[infantMajesty]

If I kill Starbuck, then comes the block phase.
Don doesn't survive, I don't know what you are drinking.

[teamol]

I am small brain so i didn't burst ahab. Took like 15 rounds. I brought pierce and blunt,blunt for queen eggs. Beat her shield down with blunt, so the taunt goes away. Fluid Sac if Ahab is hurting too much.

I pierce Starbuck first, i also bring W don and W Ryoshu for bursting them down pro-stagger.

[infantMajesty]

Taunt goes away when Queeg breaks shield, I know, but then I fail to break it in a round and it doubles on the next, all while I can't even try to dodge Ahabs attacks.

This fight is pure ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Minh]

Originally posted by infantMajesty:

If I kill Starbuck, then comes the block phase.
Don doesn't survive, I don't know what you are drinking.

Use her against Skills Exhale! & Veteran's Harpoon. That IDENTITYies is Ineff.ective [x0.5] to Attack Types Pierce. She's Endure [x0.75] to SIN AFFINITyIES Pride & Ineff.ective [x0.5] to SIN AFFINITyIES Envy if use that E.xtermination of G.eometrical O.rgan.

[Mithridate]

The fastest way to do this reasonably is to get Ahab to activate her self heal on the first turn when fighting against the trio and then stagger her on the second and killing her on the third. This however requires a lot of E.G.O resources or well lined up DPS skills. The more drawn out but save way to do this fight is to get prey mark on someone with a decent dodge, leaving Starbuck unstaggered for the third turn and using chains of others on Ahab during turn 2. That way you can use Starbuck to trigger your dodge to activate against Ahab's attacks. After that you only have to worry about bursting down Queequeg's shield with the right attacks. You can also just tank Ahab's attacks even without debuffing her, for example Molar Ishmael, (any pierce resistant Ish ID due to base E.G.O resistances), can take the entirety of the onesided attacks without dying and sometimes without even getting staggered.

[teamol]

Originally posted by infantMajesty:

Taunt goes away when Queeg breaks shield, I know, but then I fail to break it in a round and it doubles on the next, all while I can't even try to dodge Ahabs attacks.

This fight is pure ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

What's your blunt roster? I used Liu Ish, church Rodya, Regret Faust iirc. Kinda enough, and even if i cant one turn the shield, people still can survive

[A5G_Reaper]

Originally posted by infantMajesty:

Bursting Starbuck doesn't work, Queeg blocks and everyone dies.
Bursting Queeg is impossible, too much defense and shield.
Bursting Ahab doesn't work, she heals up and everyone dies by Queeg and Starbuck, and then there's the block phase.

I have no idea on what to do.

The fast way is to burst Ahab twice. If you cant do that, the slow way is running multiple pierce-resistant sinners and some sort of heal spammer.