Lvl 1 challenge (spoilers, be warned)

[Karaage]

Hey there, everyone.

I recently got this game and it's been so fun that I spent last few days doing nothing else but playing it :$ good thing it's summer so I had lots of free time.

Beating every single (secret) boss in game wasn't enough to satisfy me, so I had a thought: if Ralph could do it at lvl 1, why not everyone else? Let's all be lvl 1 and beat the game ;)

So yeah, the rules of lvl 1 challenge I took are as follows:
-everyone stays at lvl 1 and are not allowed to gain exp
-no stat boosting for anyone (not even ralph)

How do You stay at level 1 for girls? Just go to Monster House and donate all Your exp till You level down. Also You need to have no exp accessory equipped at all times (found in pub).

With these restrictions, everyone but Ralph will be able to use only the 2 starting skills for the whole game (Reflect Magic and one character-specific) :) Finally Ralph becomes strongest member of the team, yay

I'm including some screenshots from my challenge, mainly from the end of the game (yes, it is possible to beat whole game at lvl 1).

If You want to challenge the game Yourself, don't watch them and invent Your own strategy :)




Final Boss

I had more trouble with this boss in my normal run rather than in lvl 1 challenge >.<

Here's my team for the fight (all lvl 1s, surprisingly)
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And here's the end of the fight
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My total stats at the end (strategy-spoiler free screenshot)
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It took me about 6 hours to complete the game this way (strategy spoilers in pic)
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And right after I finish the challenge, the girl asks me if I enjoy being level 1 (she's psychic o.o)
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Final Secret Boss

Final Boss done, so let's get overconfident now and challenge the not-so-secret boss of the final dungeon, shall we?

I didn't change my roster for the fight
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Aaaand, I got obliterated (no screenshot for that).
I changed my members, grinded for more equipment and after many failures nearly lost hope :(
But lo and behold, I finally succedeed~

My team
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End of fight
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Secret Bounty

After secret boss, let's challenge secret bounty.

My team
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End of fight
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Secret Bounty Again

Frankly, secret bounty was easier than secret boss. What about the secret bounty - the Otherworld buffed version?

My team
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End of fight
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Next Challenge

So, what are Your thoughts on the lvl 1 challenge? All that's left is to do the 9999 Challenge Tower, though I'm not too keen on climbing it again anytime soon :/

[RobotParty]

...It seems like it's nigh impossible because of stats being a requirement. How do you even do more than 1 damage?

[Karaage]

Originally posted by Robot Death Party:

...It seems like it's nigh impossible because of stats being a requirement. How do you even do more than 1 damage?

The hint is certain status effects that deal % of enemy health~

[Gorilla]

I'm about to try this, I'm thinking for gear everyone uses crows clothes, to the point, dodge rune, and murderous bracelet?

[Karaage]

Originally posted by Gorilla:

I'm about to try this, I'm thinking for gear everyone uses crows clothes, to the point, dodge rune, and murderous bracelet?

I went through my old save, don't remember my strategy but I'll write all I can.
First, all my girls wore EXPointless for 0 Exp gain, so no accessories for them. Ralph wore Skill Rune (TP Regen).
For rest of equipment, everyone had some kind of TP Regen on Rings and Armour, HP Regen on Helmets. Weapons didn't matter, except Parasite (50% chance to Poison). I think HP Regen was only required for Final Secret Boss, since my strategy involved not getting hit at all.
Also used Chouchou for the above Boss (300% Targeted Rate), the only fight that required it.

[Gorilla]

Two things:

The general strat to down Deste is to use Dieh to curse her -CCing and doing % damage, use yomi's sap to % damage her, Apil to tank, and Ralph to use potions for all from Felice's memory to buff Luk.

however
After hours of testing, using your teams, it's almost impossible to take down Deste with your current set up, Yomi and Dieh have around a 1% chance to land their debuffs and in order to get past Destes 50k heal a turn you need both debuffs on at the same time.

It might be possible to do this if you take the lvl 1 girls to the casino and unlock their higher tier skills by making them fight each other (which in itself is a good way to get the girls end game skills at lvl 1) - in order to get Dieh's Luk buff and Yomi's AOE to deal with the substitute totems.

however even with the extra skills unlocked there's still around a 2% chance to land both debuffs at the same time, and you'd need to have these land twice within 5 turns.

So I guess what I'm asking is, what was your strat to down Deste? because with your set up it seems very unlikely to take her down.