how in gods name do i beat spicebush dongbaek??

[edgelord]

rn im using W yi sang seven heathcliff (gonna swap him out for multi heathcliff at some point) multi faust seven ryoshu and iccb ishmael (shes the only one with a non base ego being ardor blossom star)

[Cthulhululu]

If the bushes are giving you problems
gotta be real careful about the skills that inflict blooming on your sinners. Some attacks inflict it on hit and some inflict it on skill use or clash, so you want to play close attention to whoever already has it and make sure to redirect "inflict blooming on use" abilities away from them
if the duel is giving you issues
try someone like outis who has a consistent base EGO to clash with and try to build up the resources for it leading up to that part of the fight

[Ekimmak]

You can deploy more sinners than that (although this method does give them extra skill slots).
What part of the fight are you struggling with?

[SmallGespenst]

Originally posted by Ekimmak:

You can deploy more sinners than that (although this method does give them extra skill slots).
What part of the fight are you struggling with?

should be noted that deploying less Sinners means the Blooming is more concentrated, and more dangerous as a result. People like to preach the merits of extra skill slots and underdeploying a lot, but this isn't the fight for underdeploying.

[edgelord]

honestly i can barely get past the first 3 turns. also for some reason i forgot to say I've got ring outis too

[edgelord]

alright so update i can get to Magnificent Spring Breeze quite easily but not much longer then that

[Minh]

Borrow my Ishmael Molar Boatworks. Y298849166.

Use her solo.

Use Evade on Skill Slots with highest Speed. If they're many, use it on leftmost one.

Drop her Sanity Points to -45 in TURN 3.

[alkbattery]

Originally posted by Minh:

Borrow my Ishmael Molar Boatworks. Y298849166.

Use her alone.

Use DEFENSE Evade SKILLs on leftmost SKILLs Slots.

Drop her Sanity Points to -45 in TURN 3.

mind if I borrow too? I'm getting owned on repeat and bashing my head against a wall :c

[【Silver】]

Originally posted by edgelord:

honestly i can barely get past the first 3 turns. also for some reason i forgot to say I've got ring outis too

This fight allows up to 7 Sinners. What uptie are your ID's and are they at least Lv25?
Feels like you're trying to make use of Rupture with this team, do you have another ID to help with that?
If you can manage it, I'd try to make use of Faust's base Ego to help gain SP and deal with the tree entities that spawn after the first couple of turns if you're having trouble with them spreading more 'Blooming' to your team. Could probably even bring in another ID regardless of level/uptie just to help build up Ego resources and to tank Blooming stacks.

[Snecchi]

Alternatively you can borrow a Blade Lineage Yi Sang and put him in slot 1 with only 6 team members. His offense level and base rolls are so high that he could roll all tails and still win all but 1 clash (which you can just use an ego on).

You need your low sanity allies to clash with the plants to get sanity from clash winning, and also to kill them so Donbaek doesn't use her giga move

If anyone wants to genuinely learn how to do combat instead of cheesing feel free to add me and I can do some coaching, I've helped plenty of others with this fight and future chapters

[Minh]

Originally posted by alkbattery:

Originally posted by Minh:

Borrow my Ishmael Molar Boatworks. Y298849166.

Use her solo.

Use Evade on Skill Slots with highest Speed. If they're many, use it on leftmost one.

Drop her Sanity Points to -45 in TURN 3.

mind if I borrow too? I'm getting owned on repeat and bashing my head against a wall :c

Yes.

[TheCatLord]

Not really specific advice so it may not be useful but generally speaking just overlevel one or two 3* IDs and you should be fine. I ran a lvl 40 K Corp Hong Lu and he carried the run

[Sleekie]

I'm not being condescending here, but: why do so many people have problems with this fight? She doesn't roll very high, losing a clash isn't disastrous, and getting someone bound up in a bush isn't a huge issue whether or not you try to bust them out manually or leave them to it. Are people just underlevelled or what?

[Minh]

Originally posted by Sleekie:

I'm not being condescending here, but: why do so many people have problems with this fight? She doesn't roll very high, losing a clash isn't disastrous, and getting someone bound up in a bush isn't a huge issue whether or not you try to bust them out manually or leave them to it. Are people just underlevelled or what?

They don't prepare enough. Yes. They're underleveled.

[BeavisSaves]

I never fight this boss in MD for a reason, fear the Dongbreaker

[Birp]

Originally posted by Sleekie:

I'm not being condescending here, but: why do so many people have problems with this fight? She doesn't roll very high, losing a clash isn't disastrous, and getting someone bound up in a bush isn't a huge issue whether or not you try to bust them out manually or leave them to it. Are people just underlevelled or what?

Part of it is because they made Canto 4 a lot easier / less tedious leading up to this fight, now you can breeze through Canto 4 with ids in the low 20s for the most part.

Everything before Dongbaek you don't need to grind much for, if at all, so it is kind-of a reality check for most new players.