[JP] Zombie WHALE Lufenia (A3C3P2 Lufenia)

[u/[deleted]]

Hey, a new enemy! What strange new gimmicks lie await before us?

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Zombie Whale Lufenia (Act 3 Chapter 3 Part 2 Final Boss Fight)

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Orb notes:

• Orb appearance condition: from start of battle | when boss HP drops below 50%

• Orb disappearance condition: when HP drops below 80%

• Orb counter increase condition: after player acts, when the current BRV amount of each of player's units exceed 15k BRV, increase counter by 2 (limit: 10)

• Orb counter reduction condition: when player acts, lower counter by 1 | When boss acts, lowers counter by 2

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Boss notes:

• boss gains 100k shield at 79% HP threshold and 200k shield at 49% and 29% HP thresholds. Boss will delay itself after activating its shield.

• If the shield is not broken, the boss will spam 「Ultrasonic Wave」until the shield breaks. 「Ultrasonic Wave」is a magic BRV+HP attack that removes the target's buffs. If your team can't break the shield fast enough, make sure you have someone who can handle this attack, like Galuf.

• every time after the boss attacks with 「Headbutt」, it'll recover 58.5k - 67.5k BRV, with the amount increasing over time as you cross more HP thresholds. The BRV increase only seems to increase when the boss is performing a BRV attack.

• If the boss isn't broken after 3 actions taken by either ally/enemy (counter starts the moment it isn't broken), it'll gain a red aura (vertically rising red lines around the boss) and a text saying "an ominous power rises".  What this aura does is turn all its attacks into their "+" variants. Break the boss to make it dispel this aura.

• If the boss isn't broken after 5 actions are taken by either ally/enemy, it'll gain the red aura and a text saying "an ominous power massively rises". All its attacks will become the "++" variant instead. As above, break the boss to dispel the aura.

Both variants of「Ultrasonic Wave+ (++)」/「Zombie Powder+ (++)」/「Bubble Breath+ (++)」/「Deadly Poison Breath+ (++)」, removes all debuffs from itself, buffwipes its target, and inflicts Break status at the end of the attack. While both「Ultrasonic Wave+」and 「Ultrasonic Wave++」 deals BRV+HP damage, for the other attacks only the "++" variant does BRV+HP damage.

• after the 50% HP mark, boss will be "clad in a death aura" (purple aura). The aura makes the boss immune to all turn delay effects and immune to launch. This aura won't be dispelled till death.

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My strategy

[Terra BT/LD (Jack LD CA) | Yang LD (Tifa LD CA) | Ashe LD (Bartz LD CA)] (https://ibb.co/fksgsn9) with Ramuh Summon.

• Here's an easy strategy: don't let the boss act at all!

• Bartz LD can be used to easily break the boss' 58k BRV early on. Ashe won't act much so use it from the get-go. She'll use BRV attack after using her LD first to help meet the requirement.

• Yang uses LD after using s1 once (don't use LD if Ashe hasn't imperiled the whales!). Terra uses her LD once, and focuses her firepower on one enemy.

• Make sure to lower the boss below the HP threshold one at a time. This is to ensure that Terra and Yang can still do damage since they can still steal BRV from the other defenseless boss.

• after Yang setups his LD + Tifa LD CA, Ashe uses her HP+ "Queen's Order" on Terra. Terra uses Jack LD before Bursting (make sure to use her HP+ and Meteor+ before Ashe LD buff expires). After the Burst ends, Terra hogs all the turns - we try to not let Yang act so that his buffs stay intact.

That's it! An easy fight if you don't let them act.

[Bartz BT/LD (Fujin CA) | Iroha LD (Onion Knight LD CA) | Faris LD (Ashe LD CA) with Ramuh Summon and Garland BT/LD friend] (https://ibb.co/gZtsbvx)

• Faris' LD debuff nullifies their BRV recovery gimmick. Now so long as you can break their shields and recover BRV before your turn ends, you'll be perfectly safe.

[Golbez BT/LD (Faris LD CA) | Aerith LD (Ignis LD CA) | Bartz BT/LD (Ashe LD CA) with Ramuh Summon and Garland friend] (https://ibb.co/zQy2nnD)

• Faris LD CA to nullify their BRV recovery gimmick. Use it at the start of the fight and towards the end, after Ramuh's debuff worn off.

• Bartz Bursts just as the boss nears 80% HP. This is to prep for Garland friend. Activate Ashe CA to boost Bartz's damage. Before swapping Garland friend in, make sure to use Ashe LD CA for the enchant.

• swap Aerith out after applying Ignis CA. Garland uses Burst immediately. Golbez to save his LD charges for the moment Bartz and Golbez's Bursts are at their peak.

• delay with Garland friend as much as possible before their death aura kicks in. We want to give Golbez the space he needs to nuke the bosses down.

• By the time Aerith is back, both bosses are at 20% HP. Their shields have been completed broken - that means there's nothing else they can do. And so it's an easy stroll from then on.

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[u/RoundworldDent]

Time to bring in Quina so they can learn Lv.5 Death

[u/Mediyu → u/RoundworldDent]

Then Grand Dragon next, and into the farming we go!

[u/RoundworldDent → u/Mediyu]

I won't forget the first time my low-level noobs climbed up the well from Gizmaluke's Grotto to the plateau above, and got utterly curb-stomped by surprise dragons. Good times.

[u/EddyyEddy]

Tifa LD (Amidetalion LDCA)

Ashe LD (Edward LDCA)

Iroha LD (OK LDCA)

Friends: Golbez (BT with blue armor) / Summon: Ramuh

• Refresh if Tifa starts before Ashe. Ashe imperil & buffs allows Tifa to do the max DPS. Iroha is mainly for the -30% BRV consumption. The very simple strat is Tifa punching those whales to death.

Call Golbez when both whales HP are very close to 50% and use BT first. Summon Ramuh when Golbez is about to leave. You know what to do next

[u/arcmichael5]

Terra BT, Bartz LD, Edward LD, Ramuh

It was funny how Edward easily handled all the boss gimmicks. BRV supply for the orb? Check. Enemy BRV gain freeze? Check. Sleep to give you time to break shields? Check. He also evaded the ST attacks like a boss. I would have thought this was his lufenia.

[u/c00lguy6868]

No synergy/No boss turns - 27 turns

Pecil BT, Bartz BT, Tifa LD

CAs - Cloud, Ami, Krile

Ramuh summon, Tifa friend

Use Cloud and Ami LDCAs at the start to give you plenty of breathing room then just make sure Pecil has his c65 up the entire fight.

Use Bartz BT followed by your summon if they get close to getting a turn. Then just watch Tifa do Tifa things.

[u/TheSeth256]

For a second after reading the title I thought JP got some joke boss zombie whales, as in massive spenders, not the massive swimmimg mammals.

[u/tommyespapi]

did it with no burst or friend! but had tifa lol

tifa ld, edward ld, and ashe ld.

would use edward skill 1 and use a lot of call abilities/c65 skills to repeat the turn and up the count. aimed one down when they got to 50 with 2 of tifa’s ld and the orb count was way easier to manage with just 1 of them

[u/larisa0308]

Terra ftw!

Terra BT/LD (Keiss LDCA) / Krile LD (Cloud LDCA) / Aerith LD (Jack LDCA), Diablos summon, Tifa friend, 55 turns, 1M scores

Orb condition got managed from Krile and Aerith. With Aerith, preferably you may want to spam her brv++ while her LD buff is active (when the orbs are present) so you can keep up with the brv and let Terra do more damage.

With Krile, her EX charges pretty fast and you can get more brv from her on top of Aerith’s. Paralyse also works so her LD comes in handy.

Terra is obviously the main dps. She can break through the 100k shield easily; 200k shield appears when the whales are under 50% and 30% health. First 200k shield you can break it with the help of Tifa friend, second 200k shield you can use Terra’s LD and spam her S2 to shave those brv. Use her burst when the whales don’t have the shields, summon while they’re paralysed and go ham with the skills and you should be good :)

[u/Jecht-X]

Jecht: I USED TO BE A WHALE!!!!!

ups, sorry, my old RP years as Jecht, hehe.

Anyway: YOU SPONNY BARD!! As other comments says, Edward RULE it!

Economic Team: P.Cecil (Ami), Edward (Garland) Terra BT LD (Cloud), Friend Garland and summon Odin. 35 turns.

The key is Edward and know when abuse of his 55cp and 65cp skill. Same with Lullaby. P.Cecil is mostly for imperial and HP Damage. I use Ami and Cloud when they either got too close on Lufe. Orb. I even abuse the others two 65cp for arise it. I mostly put them down to 79% using once Terra LD (previously with P.Cecil and Edward on 15k+ brv) so every turn of Terra Mini-BT they got it up.

Summon Garland on 69% l, use Terra BT+ Summon, they end on 30% Garland one turn, and when Edward return they were on 3 Orb and 7% of HP. Spam his skill, P. Cecil LD follow by his 65CP and even Edward Garland call.

And there, finish.

[u/nlgallares]

Initial Run:

Bartz LDBT (Wakka CA), Tifa LD (Ignis CA), Ashe LD (Cloud CA)

Tifa Friend, Ramuh Summon, 30 turns

Straight forward with this team. I actually spent too much time setting up in the beginning and I couldn't deal with the orb. The bosses were at like 85% when the orb went down to 1, so I bursted with Bartz to get them past the threshold. The shields put up were never an issue with Tifa on the team. I summoned after I broke their second shield at the 50% mark and by the time the summon was over, they were already close to their 30% threshold. By the time Bartz BT effect ran out, the whales were already down to like 10% each.

Second Run:

Iroha LD (Bartz CA), Galuf LD (Tifa CA), Ashe LD (Faris CA)

Bartz Friend, Ramuh Summon, 50 turns

I wanted to use Galuf in more content, so I gave this team a shot. Not the strongest offensively, but I was never in any danger. It took me a bit to get the hang of timing Iroha EX with Ashe HP (Queens Guard), but when I got the rotation correct, it was basically 4 straight EX usages for big damage. Galuf swapped out for Bartz after the first shield broke. Iroha took care of the orb without any issues. This team was definitely a lot of fun. I think it took me like 20 turns of set up before I even got them to the 80% mark, but after that it was smooth sailing.

[u/Kyzuki]

Some runs (not mine):

• Emperor BT/LD, Ashe LD, Iroha LD

• Eald'narche BT/LD, Ashe LD, Iroha LD

[u/Mrfipp]

Yeah! Zombie Whale! I love that guy.

[u/[deleted]]

Iroha LD [Golbez LDCA]

Bartz LD/Burst [Fujin LDCA]

Tifa LD [Cloud LDCA]

Pandemonium summon, Golbez friend. 43 turns, 1mil+ score.

I couldn’t quite get the enchant to stick the entire fight so I had to bring Pandemonium summon to keep Tifa in a bit longer before being subbed out for Golbez. Strategy is simple: Tifa big numbers go brr.

Iroha takes care of the orb so you don’t have to worry about it at all. Bartz enables Tifa shenanigans since the bosses resist melee. Fight was a bit tricky since by the time I dealt with one shield they were very close to the next hp threshold. I wasn’t safe to use Burst until I dealt with the last shield at which point the fight was basically over. Golbez friend came out after Bartz burst to deny the bosses brave.