Having a hard time with Stage 3.

[Cloudcolinクラウドコリー]

I tried Minato Aqua but I find it very hard to get through especially when the healer with lightstick appears. Eventually the group of monsters gets larger and larger and I can't deal with that. I tried other characters too, but this is a whole new level of difficulty spike. Any advice please? Thanks in advance.

[takerukain]

Is this the normal stage or hard? Either way focus on balancing the items. Having at least the nurse hat will help a lot. You can always use character with innate healing skills for their kit (either from skills or ulti). Some recommendation is Fauna, Mel & Sana. Fauna & Mel has the innate healing skills, while Sana is just easier once you have her unique weapon awakened . Also, try maxing their G Rank (caps at 21) and buy upgrades from the store too

[domingni]

Also make sure you are purchasing stat upgrades at the shop. The stages have a recommended level for your attack and speed stats visible when you select the stage. Stage 3 normal has them recommended at Lv. 3, while hard mode has them recommended at Lv. 7.

[Sithrex]

Play as Fauna, Grab every item that lets you take hits but doesnt hurt you, grab revives. Only do special attack when your about to die, so you can heal up, and DODGE most enemy attacks.

[Cloudcolinクラウドコリー]

Replying to takerukain :

It's the Stage 3 (Normal)

Replying to all :

I see 2 recommendation for Fauna. Let me see if she is recruited or not.
Thank you for all your advice and reply.

[seaechiowai]

If you want to stick with Aqua, I personally use her with Eldritch Horror(curse + cooking) and Light Beam (beam + stick) with Holy Fire supercollab, Focus Shades, and Projectile Up stamp.

[AI]

For me: mumei, her awakened weapon is an auto target with screen clear special attack, while her skill also scales atk based on how many enemies is on screen, perfect for hit and run tactics, just gotta make sure you can heal and take some hits

For example: full meal and bandage gonna make sure you fully heal a damage you take when you brush enemies while running from groups of enemies

You can also try jingisukan super collab(spider cooking+lava bucket+Uber sheep) with piki pikman for aoe attack that also heals when you got inside of it, it's my personal favourite super collab for afk build, and since it also gave 100 bonus hp, piki pikman gonna boost your main weapon further

Stamp also gonna really helpful in this case, one that I really like to use is the nousagi(rabbit) stamp for aoe, iofi's paint colour palete(marking stamp) to focus damage on one enemy that has good synergy with the rabbit, and the bat wing for healing since mumei's main weapon gonna homin on enemies

imma stop here before i yap way more than i should -w-')