Reiwa Descended! Solo Skill Up Run

If you ran out of King Tans to skill up Reiwa, or somehow can't farm the Annihilation diffulty reliably, this might be a good way to skill up Reiwa. Mind you that she needs 50 skill ups so you will need to run this a lot and spend so many stamina but we have her dungeon up for almost a week so even it's good if you get 8 skill up each day. You'll have to spend some badpy or rainbowpy to complete the process if you don't want to spend some stones for stamina refresh.

• My leader of choice is still Demon Yusuke, with 3 machine killer latents and L-Unlock assist/equip to erase Antares' locked poison skyfall. Don't worry about her poison since you will get so few due to minimal combo needed to clear each floor. He has VDP Super Awakening.
• First sub is Awoken Ariel. She creates 4 light orbs on a fast cooldown (4 turns) so she can be used twice for the whole run. Light Cotton is good too. She has Jammer resist equip.
• Second sub is Scheherazade. She makes 10 Light orbs on the last two columns that can be split so we could use the remaining light orbs for the next floor. She carries Jammer resist equip.
• Third sub is Rushana because she has 2 Blind Resist and 2 Skill Boost. You can replace her with another Reiwa if you wanted to max skill two Reiwa. Make sure Reiwa's Super Skill Boost awakening is unlocked. Doesn't have to be max level.
• Fourt sub is Reiwa with her Super Skill Boost awakening unocked. Doesn't have to be max level but she carries Blind resist.
• Friend's Demon Yusuke has attacker killer latents and attacker killer equip with VDP Super Awakening.
• 15% ATK Badge used in this run.

Please leave a comment, good luck and have fun. See you next time!

Reiwa Descended! Demon Yusuke Farming Team

For farming purposes, I choose Demon Yusuke as leaders. The team will be relying mostly on bicolor board and making VDP to clear each floor. Demon Yusuke's power is big enough that one VDP will kill all floor leading to the boss.

Here's the team:

• Yinyang Swordpair isn't mandatory. Could use assist for boosted stats instead
• Fenrir can be replaced with Agydine or Spirit Ally, Tokagero
• Superman can be replaced with any Light card that has exactly 3 Skill Boost or Yusuke's assist (Attacker Killer) will come up sooner if it has more than 3 SB. Orpharion is good
• Avalon Drake and Ilm can be replaced with any bicolor board with Light such as Sheena or Yog. Make sure it come up in time
• NY Tsukuyomi can be replaced with multi-turn Time Extend skill such as Enoch or Awoken/Reincarnated Tsukuyomi
• Shinji Matou can be replaced with Bufu Skill Card

The team gotta have 100% Blind and Jammer resist to resist Shadow Dragon Knight Super Blind and Wee Jas' bombs

The run itself is pretty fast with minila effort. The only time some combo needed is when Earth Dragon Knight spawns, then you gotta make 5 or more combo with at least one Light row. Pretty easy with bicolor board.


For the boss, I can't be bothered to make 10 combo and pass her test so I just do 0 combo, eat her spinners and use Shinji Matou or Bufu Card to lock all orbs.




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Reiwa Descended! Observer of Upheavals - Whole Sky

We have a new Descended dungeon. This time, it's Reiwa Descended! A bit of a background story; Reiwa is a name of an era in Japan. When a Japan emperor descended from the throne and the new successor ascends to the throne, that's when a new era begins. Since Japanese still believe in their emperor, this is a big thing in there. 

So, Puzzle and Dragons commemorates this thing by having a dungeon with the boss named after the new era; Reiwa.

This dungeon is full of surprises, especially if you're doing it blind. But as it's almost considered as a rule of thumb; have a hazard, especially poison, resist ready, an awoken bind clear and FUA. With that in mind, I decided to run this blind but every time I'm going on a blind run in a dungeon, I tend to have a full poison and blind resist, FUA, awoken bind clear whenever I have one or two subs that aren't bind proof and maybe a VDP if I can fit it in. Doing it in blind makes it more interesting and fun (for the first time clear only of course).

This is my team:

• My leader of choice of course is Valkyrie-CIEL. This time she's wearing Dorothy's Silver Shoes as her equip.
• Light Cotton has Yog assist
• Cruz carrying Emperor Thundersword equip
• Anna Kyoyama carries Kralice Rapier
• Yuna brought Avidya Saber
• Friend's CIEL has Trojan Horse

Overall, the dungeon wasn't too difficult for my team. The boss will test you out whether you can meet her combo requirement or not. Luckily I passed her combo test. I found out later that she will casts up to four spinners when you failed to do 8 or more combo. When you're able to make 10 combo, she won't put up a damage void. Make my run slightly easier but just slightly since I didn't have any Attacker or Machine killer sub on my team. I wish I had Rei Sirius for this.

Precaution: You may or may need a Fenrir or Agydine to overwrite Antares' poison skyfall. I don't have any of those but I have Anna with L-Unlock so I could erase her locked poison skyfall, leaving only poison skyfall which could be bad but I managed to be able to escape unscathed.

After that, you will meet Myr and Wee Jas. Myr is the same as her dungeon so I had to stall her damage void since I don't have any VDP sub while Wee Jas is a completely new. Different from Wee Jas in Myr Descended. He will change maximum HP to 1 million, greatly reduced your orb move time and spawned some locked bomb orbs. Just clearing his bomb orbs is okay but you'll have to deal with his 7 combo shield and Jammer skyfall afterwards.






Farming Reiwa Descended!

- soon -

Fixed Leader & Helper Challenge! [5] - Spirit Numen Inner Mysteries

This last challenge of the Fixed Leader & Helper challenge is the hardest one for me. Still prefer to going in blind for more fun and surprises (I found more surprises than fun though lol). We'll be using a pair leaders of Zapan and Sumire.

Zapan's Leader Skill is "2x HP & ATK for Water att; vastly reduces RCV for non-water attribute (this including sub attribute, so any non Water/Water or Water/X will have their RCV reduced to only 25% of their original RCV); 7x ATK for matching 5 orbs including enhanced"

Paired with Sumire, whose Leader Skill is "5x ATK for attribute erasing 5 orbs including enhanced; 1.5 ATK & halve damage erasing Heal orbs in a cross formation".

So, we will need to match 5 orbs including enhanced (preferably water orbs of course) and heal cross for slightly added damage and 50% damage reduction.

Team's HP is okay with Zapan giving 2x HP for Water attribute cards and you can take only half damage when making heal cross. The problem is the healing power. If you don't field your team with all Water/Water cards, your recovery power will suffer. Escalated by Sumire having Light sub attribute so she only gives a quarter of her RCV to the team.

I had a pretty rough runs in this, mainly because I didn't expect to face Helheim before the boss. He is very tough and will kill your team when he attacks unless you have damage void skill.

I gotta revised my team's composition a bit before settled with:

• Mizutsune with King Bradley's Sword equip
• Reincarnated Andromeda with Spirit Ally, Kororo equip
• Reincarnated Idunn & Idunna with Trojan Horse equip
• Kiri with PAD Academy Student's Handbook

Kiri's main purpose is to kill Helheim before he attack. Idunn & Idunna is to provide an enhance for the boss, Takeminakata.

Mind you that you have to be able to make 5 match including enhanced and do some combo on some floors with combo shield. First floor and the boss all have combo shield of 5 combos and 4 combo so you need to make 6 combo on the first floor and 5 or more combo on the boss, including making FUA, 5 match and possibly a heal cross. Pretty hard to do.

First floor is Red Sonia. 5 combo shield so you have to make 6 or more combo. You don't have to make a heal cross here to defeat her. Just a 5 match (or an L) of water and 6+ combo and you'll clear the floor.

Second floor is Sherospada. Skill delay can be annoying especially with both leaders don't have any assist or SDR latents. You can take a hit or two here. You can also blast him without making FUA if you don't have enough heal orbs and take his resolve hit and reduced move time.

Third floor is Zeus. He will lock some orbs but Zapan has L-Unlock awakening so when you make an L of 5 water, all orbs should be unlocked. He's not that tough and you could defeat him just by making a 5 match of water orbs.

Next is Kuramitsuha. Another Skill Delay. If your team doesn't have full blind resist, don't stall on her. She will super blind some orbs when she attacking. That could be annoying and time consuming. Kill her immediately.

Then we have Helheim. A dragon type with 75% damage reduction for 3 turns and will kill you if you give him a chance to attack. That's why I have Kiri. 5 match of water orbs and some light combo will clear him.

The boss. He has 50% resolve, 2 turn attack cooldown (if I remember correctly, will haste his turn to 1 when being pushed to a certain HP threshold), a 4 combo shield and will attack for 79,748 damage. If you made a heal cross on his attack your team should be able to survive his hit provided your team is at full or near full HP. At halved damage, your team should only took 39,874 damage. I don't know how many HP he has so I just use all of my available skills including enhance from Idunn & Idunna to melt him. A 5 match of water orbs, FUA and 5+ combo ends him even without making heal cross.



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Fixed Leader & Helper Challenge! [4] - Gilgamesh & Odysseus Pairing

This challenge, for me, has the same difficulty as the third challenge because with bigger board, courtesy of Odysseus, I tend to move slower than usual because there are so many orbs to navigate. So, my strategy to overcome this is the same as the third challenge: filling my team with heavy Time Extend sub.

We will be using Gilgamesh as Leader and Odysseus as Helper.

Gilgamesh's Leader Skill is "4x ATK with 5+ linked Fire or Light orbs; ATK increases with 4+ combos, up to ATK x6 at 8 combo"

Odysseus' Leader Skill is "[7x6 Board], 4x ATK and reduces damage with 9+ combos; 3x ATK with 5+ linked orbs"

So, to fully activating both leaders we have to make 9+ combo while making a match of 5+ linked Fire or Light orbs. When fully activated, they're proven to be very powerful at 280x ATK multiplier.

My chosen sub for this are:

• Nergigante. Even though he isn't a Fire or Light attribute, but he has two Super Time Extend and his skill creates a pre-made FUA. He also has pretty big HP being a dragon from Monster Hunter Collab. He has King Bradley's Sword equip for Poison Resist.
• Hexazeon. He has the biggest HP in PAD, has useful resist awakenings and brings 2 seconds on his own courtesy of his Super TE Super Awakening and General Tamamuramaro Card equip.
• New Year Tsukuyomi with Trojan Horse equip.
• Yuna with Avidya Saber for Blind Resist.

If you're doing this blind, you might be surprised when facing Spica (the hehehe girl). She will greatly reduced your orb move time and then bound your awoken skills the next turn. Within those two turns, you'll have to be able to bring her HP lower than 95% or else she will obliterates you. Luckily I have NY Yomi so she isn't a problem.

Pretty smooth run up until I got to the boss: Zeus Vulcan. He has 8 combo shield and damage void preemptives. I was like "Oh great now I'm screwed because I don't have any card with VDP on my team". Turns out, he doesn't hit too hard and my team can stay under his damage void threshold (he voids damage of 10 millions or more) by not making any 5+ linked Fire or Light orbs. Just the usual three or four match combo. I was also surprised that he casts a column of cloud on the right-most column because I don't have any card with cloud resist, but I could (and you could too) ignore that last column and just combo the rest.



Please leave a comment, good luck and have fun. See you next time!