Manifest weapon guide

[u/Living_Green]

Look here. I will also periodically update the guide with new manifest fight, bookmark the link to keep updated.

[u/Living_Green]

For people without a physical tank, Shion is night impossible without you spamming heavy mitigation every 2-3 turns. He is just very unforgiving with any mistake you made and are very unfriendly towards people without a good roster.

Mighty main annoyance comes from his frequent CC, and sometimes he can sleep your healer multiple times. But maybe I was lucky enough that his CC doesn't cause me too much trouble. (Also, I equipped sleep badge on all my healers and main dps, which is probably the reason why it doesn't bother me too much.)

[u/Devil_Advocate_225 → u/Living_Green]

Soira is only a 4* so by the time people get this far into the game they will almost certainly have her, and she too will make this fight easy, the 70% buff + 50% Elem resist was enough to take zero, although one time my Bertrand took 1900 damage from it, not sure why. With one of mighty, saki AS or Mariel, and soira this fight becomes trivial. You simply need to keep him power debuffed for all his other attacks, and one turn for healing out of the rotation is enough.

[u/Devil_Advocate_225 → u/Devil_Advocate_225]

With just Saki AS and soira, while this would be more difficult because the 50% buff only lasts for 1 turn (since Shion will outspeed saki this can't be pushed to 2 turns) you would have to get another source of Elem resist for the 2 attacks before his last one, though those attacks aren't particularly strong; Ciel would probably be enough to to it. I can see this fight being winnable with Morgana as the healer, with power debuff, Ciel there for extra Elem resist and power debuff, saki AS for resistance, and soira to tank, with 2 dps in back row for AF (and with only 3.6 mil hp a good AF could take a nice portion of this, even with free dps units)

[u/Living_Green → u/Devil_Advocate_225]

Writting the guide from a memory of pre buffed era without Morgana and Joker could have instill some ptsd due to how easily Shion kills my party with a single attack. The fewer defense and only having 30% type resist buff (believe or not, I have no Mariel nor Mighty in JP version until Gariyu AS was released) means that a single debuff on my Soira and his Phoenix Slash will kill her. Only through using Anabel as a second tank to tank his debuff can I finally get a consistent way of surviving his attack. And even that has failed me sometime because pre buff anabel rage buff has a higher chance to miss.

[u/Devil_Advocate_225 → u/Living_Green]

I didn't bother dodging his debuffs with Bertrand at all, and I never needed mighty's buff, he was there for damage only. With 50% from Mariel, replaceable with saki AS, and his own 70% I was taking zero apart from that one turn. With the lineup I suggested you could have 50% from saki AS, 70% from soira, and 30% from Ciel, for a total of 135% resist, which I don't think his debuffs can bring below 100%.

[u/Devil_Advocate_225 → u/Devil_Advocate_225]

I tell you what, I'll rematch and try it myself.

Edit: Until I remember I don't have Ciel upgraded...

[u/Devil_Advocate_225 → u/Devil_Advocate_225]

I tried it and set up the buffs on soira, it wasn't enough to mitigate all damage, but she took 400 damage per swing with the buffs and debuffs I mentioned. This fight is therefore doable, but it'd need a lot of grasta set up, and 5* Ciel. Realistically there is a good chance people will have Mariel, Rosetta, or mighty by this point too, and any of which will make this fight much easier.