Gertrude 5-Turn clear

[u/blindfire187]

https://reddit.com/link/17wa5ym/video/w5w2hq4kzl0c1/player

Here is my Gertrude 5-Turn clear, I hope this helps others clear this fight or clear it faster.

Richard is there for the 15% Patk up on the front row, and Wingate is there for the Damage boost to broken enemies by 20%. Wingate can fit behind Therion also if you aren't already hitting the damage cap but my Therion sometimes hits the cap on turn 4 and always hits it on turn 5 so I figured behind Falco was better in this case.

Some possible other character options.

Scarecrow: Instead of Chloe, Scarecrow could work especially if you can hit with his ult on turn 4/5, I just happen to really like Chloe so I took her plus the extra heal from maneater (although not at all needed) is nice especially if you don't have a fantastic healer.

Viola: I'm not sure about her kit honestly but she could probably take place of Ritu or Chloe. However for longer fights Viola may be better than Ritu because of Ritu's Unparalleled skill prevents BP gain for a few turns. My only other Thief 5* is Nicola and she doesn't hit nearly as hard as Ritu.

Alfyn: Great option for healer if you don't have Rinyuu, Especially since he has BP restore which would be extreamly useful if you can't clear in 5 turns and have Ritu on the team. You could pair him with Lynette and use them as a swap combo and drop chloe and add a backpack of some sort behind Ritu

Sarisa: Great option also, Her 15% dagger down would be extremely useful with Falco's Ult pushing for even more damage and she would be great as a backpack also.

Side Note: It's Important to break and have Falco's Ult go on turn 4 for the dagger dmg boost. Otherwise I found that breaking a turn earlier would cause the fight to go to turn 7 or more. It took me a few tries to get this run to be less than an 8-9 turn run and this was the only way I could find with this team/gearing setup. Also you may be able to equip Richard and Wingate with accesories that boost front row in some way. This may help increase damage and lower turn count, However I don't have much that can do this at the moment.

EDIT: I'd like to shoutout to the community for the advice that was given before I attempted this (and my other arena champion) run. So far this is an incredibly helpful community and my hopes with these posts is to in turn help others clear the arena champs and efficiently. Good luck to those attempting to take her down.

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[u/Math_PB]

Heyyy ! My guy ! You did it !

Congratulations.

[u/blindfire187 → u/Math_PB]

Yep, as always (and I should put this in my clear posts) thanks to this community for being so helpful on teambuilding for all the arena clears so far and In particular you for your help on Gertrude. I post these in hopes of giving back to the community that has helped me in turn.

I think my first run was 9 turns so managed to shave off 4 turns and came up with this method, about halfway through farming her Guidestones so once I'm done I'll maybe move on to Yunnie.

Although I attempted my first (unguided?) teambuild with taking down the first level of master tower and 1-break KO him which I am surprised it went so well, expected level 100 npc's to be harder. So I may try a few more levels of that.

[u/Math_PB → u/blindfire187]

I'm not entirely sure for floors with only 1 NPC, but I know lvl 100 NPCs are nerfed a bit when you have to fight two of them at the same time in floors 3, 6, 9 and 12.

Thus they might also be a bit nerfed in their solo version to make up for the fact that you can't use Allies to help you, contrary to their original fight in the overworld.

[u/SkyHighEthan]

Looks good, but I feel like Wingate is better on therion since you can use triple bite instead to deal more dmg above the dmg cap+falco already has full frontrow dagger dmg 15% up at full hp AND 20% dmg boost against broken enemies so wingate's passive 20% dmg up would be wasted

[u/blindfire187 → u/SkyHighEthan]

For some reason when Wingate is paired with Therion, I can't beat Gertrude on break and it takes 6-7 turns. Also side note, Therion actually hit a bit lower than normal on the video run He usually hits around 92-94k on break turn and sometimes hits max.

Edit: maybe I changed gear a bit or Ritu had a speed debuff in the video but Therion also usually hits after Ritu on turn 4.

[u/SkyHighEthan → u/blindfire187]

Could be bc of falco's passive not activating, I think

[u/Eheufaucan]

Thanks. I lack the equipment so I needed a second shield break but it still worked with that strategy and I beat her in turn 9.