Battle plan for Akron?

[Kenji]

Not quite there yet on this go (I accidentallly saved over the file i had where i was standing in front of him with all my gear and i cried) but i'm looking for strategies for a normal/easy playthrough and one for Epic since i want all the medals. Speaking of all the medals, i was sorely disappointed when i realized that Death won't move if you have 50 medals, which i thought was the limit. u^u

[ArchlordPie]

You need all 60 medals to get rid of Death. Have fun with those minigames >_>

As far as Akron goes, he'll use his turn to change abilities and weaknesses/resists every so often. IIRC the elements he attacks with will be the same as his resists, so scan him then check him every turn so you know what's up.

A lot of people are going to tell you to flee and restart the fight until you get an Earth weakness, then buff up and spam Tera Drill and ignore the adds until he dies, relying on the claws and other minions to keep buffing Akron's defense so he keeps taking obscene damage from the drill. Is this feasible? Absolutely. Is it the ONLY way to kill Epic Akron? Not at all. I didn't use Tera Drill whatsoever in my Epic fight. If you understand the fight mechanics, you don't need that almost-cheese strat to win on Epic.

Every time he switches to Big Angry Face form he summons an Evil Worm and Evil Tail in the outermost slots in the enemy formation. Every time he switches to Spooky Demon form he summons two of those Rune Claw things in the middle two slots in the enemy formation. Switching forms wastes his turn. Basically, if he's in Big Angry Face form and you have some firepower to spare on a multi-target attack, you can kill off the Worm and Tail and have less incoming attacks to deal with until he switches to Spooky Demon and back, which wastes two of his turns. Also note that the Worm and Tail do not resist Poison.

You won't see very many passive boss spawns because he's usually pretty good about keeping his formation filled out by switching forms every so often, but they CAN happen and they can potentially be even worse than his usual spawns. I happened to get him stuck in Spooky Demon for a while and a Cosmic Monolith popped up in slot 4 (a Claw slot) at one point during my Epic fight. My entire team had 100%+ Dark Resist so I left the thing there and let it wreck the rest of his minions every 3 turns for me.

As far as battle strategy goes, don't use your defensive buffs or Regen unless both Rune Claws are dead and Akron is not currently casting Earth abilities. The Claws have a party-wide dispel they can use and I'm pretty sure Akron can cast Tera Drill. Natalie will probably be stuck casting Healmore every turn as a result of this, so you'll be relying on Lance for magic damage. If you had Natalie learn Dispel, you're gonna have a bad time...

Limit Breaks... Don't bother with Kyun unless your battle situation fulfills both conditions for being able to cast defensive buffs as discussed one paragraph above. I popped Cleaver basically whenever it was up with one use of Ragnarok when I somehow found myself in a situation where I could Debilitate (or whatever Lance's Defense-lowering move is) and then pop Ragnarok and clear the field of minions entirely (minus that Cosmic Monolith that was no threat whatsoever). Natalie sat on hers until my turn rolled around and everyone had poison and doom and random lowered stats all stacked up and I went "you know, maybe it'd be easier to clean all this up if I just let everyone DIE" and popped Genesis. It grants Autolife if you cast it on not-dead allies, and Autolife can't be dispelled, so if you ever need to clean up your status and blast the enemy line with Holy damage on the same turn, Genesis is your go-to.

Lance came into the fight with his and never used it until the very end. It was kind of mean, really. Akron had like 10k health left and pretty much anything would've killed him, but I noticed he had a nice Fire weakness going at the time, so I Screamer'd him with Matt, Natalie Blessed Lance, then Lance hit the big red button and blasted Akron with 130k Fire damage to finish him off. Five medals popped from just that attack (the three for beating Akron on Epic and everything below, the one for a >100k damage hit, and the one for using Nuke in the first place) and I finished off my Epic run in style.

Aside from all that, there isn't much else I can tell you. Being good at general battlefield analysis will get you much farther than any list of moves to use or cheesy strats ever will. Every turn you need to ask "who do I heal with" and "who do I attack with". As long as you have some form of assurance that Akron is not going to get healed substantially on a turn, it's OK if you spend that turn on only healing and buffing. I got lucky with my Cosmic Monolith spawn because Akron never swapped to Dark resist, so I had assurance that he and the rest of his minions would get chunked every third turn even if I didn't attack at all.

Just make sure you have plenty of Coffee and Pizza and some MP regeneration and you're good to go. He's actually easier than the dragon if you know what you're doing.

[Vogel100]

I didn't actually have a lot of trouble with Akron. Use magic defense and regular defense buffs and armor with dark resistance. Make sure to have some coffee and possibly a couple of pizzas. You should have max level and max skills, not sure if that matters, I got it automatically from killing everything which I was doing anyway. Then just attack him and use buffs/items as you normally would. I beat him without a real strategy twice, once on normal and once on epic. I wouldn't bother learning complicated strategies until you're sure you need them. Don't know if other people have more trouble with him.

[TSense]

Back when EBF3 came out for the first time i used posion and survive.
Good old times...

[Kenji]

Thanks, you guys, and Big Scary Face Form is actually called Hillmonster xDDD aside from that i know that having all the Officer gear on Lance with the Shadow Blaster gives him like 140% dark resist and therefore dark regeneration, so hoping to have that and a Cosmic Monolith going as well... if i'm lucky... unfortunately i spent all m Cakes on Natalie so Lance is suffering for magic damage. Considering the run i'm doing is on Easy lol i think i can just wing it from what y'all said, though the Tera Drill strat sounds enticing for later runs. And yeah i hatei t that Death takes 60 medals to move >_< i literally had to cheat to get the Card Wizard medal and i've been routinely getting 5 or 10 short of the 2nd medal with the skeleton-slashing game and rock-dodging game with NoLegs, though I do have all the other minigame medals which were substantially easier.

[Vogel100]

I'm starting to think everyone cheats to get Card Wizard. :P

[NewOctav]

Originally posted by Vogel100:

I'm starting to think everyone cheats to get Card Wizard. :P

To be honest, I cheat at that too lol.

[LordAziki]

I personally went for a mix of dark and death immunity and 2/3 people with stun immunity when I killed Akron on epic. Natz being immune to stun was more important then anyone else being immune because every turn I had to use pizza or coffe, either Matt wasn't buffing lance's attack and the party's evasion and defense, or Lance wasn't piercing the heavens with his drill. I got everything I needed to use to rank 5 before starting the fight.

Matt-ninja armor, gas mask, rune sword
Natz-cat armor, pope hat, obsidian scepter
Lance-officer armor, magic hat, dark blaster

I had Matt keep reflex up at all times, buff Lance's attack for Tera Drill, and keep a defense buff up when Akron entered his worm-vomitting form to avoid being wiped by the super OP gun in his mouth. If an enemy got a magic attack buff, I would have Matt buff Lance's attack, have Lance Tera Drill, then have Natz dispel last so Tera Drill would hit while Akron still had defense.magic defense buffs. Natz mostly cast Heal More and Revive, sometimes using Regen in case Akron would freeze somebody. Limit breaks were almost exlusively Ragnarok, Genesis, and Ion. I used Kyun once after dispelling magic attack buffs because he didn't have any defense buffs to worry about cancelling out at the time. I just ignored the Doom status because it kills people with a 100% chance Death proc, which everyone had 100% resistence to anyway.

[Vogel100]

Originally posted by AWotKing:

Originally posted by Vogel100:

I'm starting to think everyone cheats to get Card Wizard. :P

To be honest, I cheat at that too lol.

Exactly. So do I. I wonder if anyone even gets it without cheating.

[Kenji]

Originally posted by Vogel100:

Originally posted by AWotKing:

To be honest, I cheat at that too lol.

Exactly. So do I. I wonder if anyone even gets it without cheating.

A minute and fifteen seconds sounds like a lot but it's really unforgiving T^T especially since the timer starts as soon as you open the game. i had to have the game window and a screenshot of the cards in MS Paint side by side to get it, and even then i only got it with a few seconds to spare

[Atari]

I got card wizard on first try. A really lucky layout mind you.

As for the final boss, that Tera Drill strategy sounds pretty awesome. Wish I had tried it!

I just used the tried and true strategy of of killing the additional monsters and bashing the main dude when I had a chance. It was not an effective strategy since the last battle took forever, but it worked!

[Kenji]

Yes, I did the strat you used on my Easy playthrough, and I have to easy, with 100% dark resist on Natalie and Matt, and a bit of dark regen on Matt, when I knocked out the Rune Claws and Evil Worm/Tail and had 2 Cosmic Monoliths going that would damage Akron every turn because he never had the brains to turn dark resist, and Lance getting regen'd every few turns, it made my playthrough long and tedious, but relatively easy. I take just a sliver of pride in mentioning also that when I was listening to the soundtrack, I didn't recognize the Game Over music until I looked at the title. Buuut i was also on easy. xD