Talk:Challenge the Great Count

Team: Rem (7*), Dark Knight Cecil (7*), 2x Lucius (7*), Chow and Illusionist Nichol

I was struggling quite hard finding a good team for this battle. The tips on the event page have been quite useful, however, it always depends on the units and espers you have ...

Some key things which have been important for me:

- Breaker,

- physical provoke tank,

- MP battery,

- charm-resistence for the whole party,

- overall ailment-resistence for provoke tank

Breaker: At first, I was considering CG Lid because her breaks are so strong, but apart from breaking, my team could not benefit from her. Therefore, I checked other options for breaking at least 50% ATK and MAG. There aren't much. The breaks of Delita are strong, too, but I didn't have him on level 100 (dual-casting the breaks), with abilities awakenings... I used Illusionist Nichol as breaker! With his ability awakenings, he breaks ATK+MAG with 50%. And I could dual cast it with Illusion - Redirect! With that, I wouldn't need a pure provoke tanker like Cagnazzo or Wilhelm. To make things short: Use a breaker for both stats, you can also use for something else. It is an option to use a unit as breaker who can also chain with anybody else in the team. I suggest to use this page in order to find a suitable breaker for this fight. Just sort from best to lowest for ATK and/or MAG-debuffs: https://exvius.gamepedia.com/Category:Stats#Stats_Breaks

Physical provoke tank: As written above, I abdicate to use a pure provoke tank. I wanted to make a unit the provoke tanker, I needed for charm-resistence for the whole team. Since I don't have Lakshmi 3*, yet, I could only go with Chow. I gave him a 100% evasion kit and used him not only for charm-resistence, but also for Auto-revive and ATK-buff for the final slash.

MP-battery: Choosing Rem was not a wise choice, because she could not use her MP-battery skill in the first turn. She needs LB-crystals for that. But you don't want to attack in the first round, because of the Death-counter of the count. Since my Rem had high MP and SPR, she had over 100 MP left after the preemptive strike. And I realized that an Ayaka with high MP and SPR would have been even better for the MP-replenishment... However, there is no need to rush in regards of MP-regeneration. The next MP-drain your team will encounter, is the 50% threshold.

The killing strike: There are of course a lot of options to kill the count. My suggestion: Bash him down to almost 50%, start a good chain and let the finisher do the job. For several weeks now, Dark Knight Cecil is my favorite finisher. Lucky me, the count has no elemental resistence to darkness. I could therefore give Dark Knight Cecil his TMR. I used Soul Eater in a prior round to imperil dark resistence. And as soon as my chainers were ready, I used Soul Over. But also without 7* form: You can finish the count with Soul Eater. The damage is still high! As chainer I needed to look what my friends were offering. I decided to go for Lucius because I was not only hoping for a good chaining partner, but also some chain counters. That worked quite well. But I think, it doesn't really matter which units you choose for chaining. Just keep in mind: Magic won't be very efficient due to the high SPR of the count.

I hope that my thoughts will help you to assembling a good team for this fight. Good luck.

User: Tomml, rank 157 --95.90.232.35 21:24, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

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Easy win -3rd try final party - reraise setup by FalconX

> Party: 7*Mercenary Ramza (moogle plushie/producer jacket/ yellow balloon), Barbariccia (mag982 +3* laskisha charm resist), Chow (spr706 +dualcast +ribbon), Lotus mage fina (spr727 +refresh gear +lb fill gear). 7*Rem (mag1277) friend: Hyoh (atk2k+)

Basic strategy: mercRamza is Blade of Justice +2 break & chainer dmg help, he is 100% death so need to keep reraise on fulltime. Chow doesnt really need to keep magic cover up, he helps w/ dual raise or curaga + charm resist + atk/mag+ buffs. Barbariccia is 2nd charm guard if chow is used, or mp refresh. Lotus mage fina is reraise on merc.Ramza + curaja + mp buff.

> Just used Ramza Blade of Justice + hyoh x2 mp52 move. Put tornadoes chain 1st then hyoh for finish, took off about 75% hp dmg cause hyoh so buffed up.

Had to refill mp, chows lb, or rems mp party refill saved. I kept rems reraise party up if needed, but finas lb reraise worked well. MVP: Hyoh for super dmg. Have fun! got ma esper kill & book drop. --Gogamer2018 (talk) 08:08, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

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