Question about SS rank requirements

[Zanameth]

For the life of me, I cannot find this information anywhere on the net.
What are the exact requirements to get an SS rank during a chapter, specifically, during deathmatches?

• Does taking damage during a deathmatch prevents you from getting SS?
  
• Does missing a perfect dodge during a deathmatch prevents you from getting SS?
  
• Does missing a noise slash during a deathmatch prevents you from getting SS?
  
• Does slashing normal (white) words with your sword prevents you from getting SS?

I'm honestly tired of quitting the game and reloading every time I miss a dodge or slash.
Also it's weird, during the fight against Zilch in chapter 0, some white words cannot be dodged. Tried every timing possible but nothing works.

Thanks.

[William Shakesman]

I honestly think the only people playing Mystery Labyrinth for rank are out of their minds. The game doesn't share criteria beyond "Do more perfect dodges for a better score" so I couldn't tell you.

That said I don't think I've ever had undodgeable words in RDM when I played this on switch. You can jump AND duck, and sometimes the words try to fake you out or otherwise have more creative patterns in later chapters but there should to my knowledge always be SOME dodge that works.

[Zanameth]

Originally posted by William Shakesman:

I honestly think the only people playing Mystery Labyrinth for rank are out of their minds. The game doesn't share criteria beyond "Do more perfect dodges for a better score" so I couldn't tell you.

That said I don't think I've ever had undodgeable words in RDM when I played this on switch. You can jump AND duck, and sometimes the words try to fake you out or otherwise have more creative patterns in later chapters but there should to my knowledge always be SOME dodge that works.

Hmm. And from my understanding there's an achievement if you get SS in every chapter. Sounds like pain if we don't know the scoring rules.

[William Shakesman]

I DO want to say you don't want to be dodging in RDM unless you have to. There are a lot of flight patterns that I found get confusing if you're dancing around because they target where you are fairly early on and do their silly flying patterns before finally attacking you. Naturally I don't think you need to perfect dodge everything, but I've seen nothing and know nothing to tell you if you have to no-damage or if you can recover from it or even how much of a penalty it is whiffing the answer.

It can't be THAT strict as I think I got perfect SS rank on my first run through the school case and there's no way I figured out all the trickery there the first time considering it took me 15 minutes to figure out how to get the one girl to leave the room during the investigation phase.