2nd Lieutenant Lorence

[thomaskuznicki]

Is 2nd Lieutenant Lorence vulnerable to any status effects?

[Berahlen]

Stat-downs. Nothing else.

[Stabbey]

He deals out three nasty status effects: Confuse, Faint, and Mute. You can only protect against two of them (unless you had enough BP to get a Grail Locket). Confuse is a must, the other two have arguments either way.

Your best chance is to keep Clock Up EX going on all your characters, and try to wear him down most of the way, then burst him down with S-Crafts. Might take a couple tries.

[Berahlen]

Also you have a rather prominent stat-down available, as well as a mass heal that clears status effects.

[Evil Gambio]

Here's the full strat:
Btw, you can buy anti status accessories from the guy on the airship (you can go back to the airship and buy stuff from him)

Everyone: needs Clock Up EX. Are we clear? I hope so.
Estelle/Schera: Confuse+Mute immunity needed. Will also be using blue impact on him with a Mind quartz.
Kloe: Gladiator belt + Grail locket
Fight starts like this:
Kloe: debuff
Estelle and Schera: one of them uses Clock Up EX on Kloe and the other uses it on either of them.
Kloe keeps debuffing with Kaempfer for the rest of the fight unless Lorence s-crafts in which case she will s-craft herself, she then keeps debuffing (which she can thanks to the belt). Then she keeps debuffing. Under debuff Lorence will do 0 damage with everything but his s-craft even on nightmare (nice)
Estelle and Schera spam arts until he's at low enough health to be s-crafted.

[EdgarAllenSwole]

Just make tons of tomato sandwiches for the CP recovery. S-Crafts are the fastest way to end the fight and minimize his healing.

[Ghaleon]

He loves cancelling arts, which you can use to your advantage by having one dedicated arts-tank stand away from the other 2 and provoke th at attack over and over by intentionally using a long cast-time artes not finish by the boss' turn... your other 2 characters will need to heal that tank often. should be doable though because heals have less cast time than other artes, and between 2 options, you should be able to manipulate the turn bar so that one can do it in between the boss' turns.

Kloe's stat down craft is just stupid good in this game. They nerfed it so 75% of the bosses you want to use it on are immune though in the 2nd game , doh.

[Berahlen]

Or you can just debuff him so the cancel does 0 damage, at which point it's basically just handing you free CP because you'll finish your cast on the next attempt anyway.

[Ghaleon]

Maybe it was just on nightmare but IIRC it still hit you for damage... or he just moved so fast that he'd wear it off before kloe could re-apply it.. or something.

[Berahlen]

You must've given him downtime. His normal attack and S-break are the only things that do damage if debuffed on any difficulty, and the former does very little even then. The multipliers on his attacks are super low.

[SkyKing]

Originally posted by Evil Gambio:

Here's the full strat:
Btw, you can buy anti status accessories from the guy on the airship (you can go back to the airship and buy stuff from him)

Everyone: needs Clock Up EX. Are we clear? I hope so.
Estelle/Schera: Confuse+Mute immunity needed. Will also be using blue impact on him with a Mind quartz.
Kloe: Gladiator belt + Grail locket
Fight starts like this:
Kloe: debuff
Estelle and Schera: one of them uses Clock Up EX on Kloe and the other uses it on either of them.
Kloe keeps debuffing with Kaempfer for the rest of the fight unless Lorence s-crafts in which case she will s-craft herself, she then keeps debuffing (which she can thanks to the belt). Then she keeps debuffing. Under debuff Lorence will do 0 damage with everything but his s-craft even on nightmare (nice)
Estelle and Schera spam arts until he's at low enough health to be s-crafted.

I have followt your strat. with two differences that makes easier. I have cloe sitting in the Front and the other 2 sit on the connors. And i give Estelle for more damage the Belt and Cloe becomes from me the Headband. And i figured out when your beats Laurence on the Rim of his side with cloe he stops his ulti(i think he will more than one person ultiing).

[Berahlen]

If you're debuffing him there's no reason not to stack up, because the only thing that hits for more than 0 damage is immediately countered by an S-craft. The extra hits are just free CP for the whole party, and if he targets anyone else with a ranged attack and doesn't hit Kloe then she risks running dry.

Taking any status accessory off any character is extremely hazardous. Lorence has three different status effects, any of them will completely neuter that character, two of them are spammable, and the third has to be countered with an S-craft.