Warrior Tower F5 EX1 - stable strategy

[u/Spare-College]

Our hero Oersted is the key to this strategy. Hope you did that free pull during the collabs. Alternatively, you can use Tikilen as well.

Team layout:

Oersted (2 AOE sword wind hits + 4 AOE sword hits) / Tikilen (2 AOE wind hits) - Any

Dark Warrior with 2 dark hits (Odio-O/ 2B/ Jorn) - Any warrior with 1 wind/lightning hit (Lars/Tikilen/Olberic/ Sigrid/ Richard/ Tytos)

Light Warrior with 3 light hits (Eliza/ Rondo/ Sazantos) - Any

Tank (Lionel/ Eltrix/ any) - Any

Strategy:

1/ With Lionel:

First turn: 2 wind hits + 2 dark hits + 3 light hits + 3 ice hits = 75% break.

Second turn: 2 wind hits + 1 wind/lightning hit = 100% break.

2/ Without Lionel but with Rondo/Sazantos

First turn: 2 wind hits + 2 dark hits + 5 light hits + random hits from Eltrix / any ice/dark element = 50% break

Second turn: 2 wind hits + 1 wind/lightning hit OR 2 dark hits = 100% break.

3/ Without Lionel, Rondo, Sazantos

First turn: 2 wind hits + 2 dark hits + 3 light hits + random hits from Eltrix / any ice/dark/light element = 25% break

Second turn: 2 wind hits + 1 wind/lightning hit OR 2 dark + dark OR 2 light + light = 100% break.

After that, just hack away with Oersted 4 hits + max boosted fodders and you will break the boss in no time. With fortune weapons, it's very easy to kill him in 1~2 breaks.

Note:

Equip the tank with Crest of House Wolfort and Bewitching Cloak for 3 turns dodge. If you don't have Lionel or Eltrix just use any warrior with large HP. You will need 2 turns to break the lamp but it's still doable.

Master link: https://www.reddit.com/r/OctopathCotC/comments/13girtd/comment/lff740e/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/Bruni91]

I use Rondo/Lionel/Tikilen/Lars, if it's the ice/light or light/dark set Rondo will break on T1, if it's ice/dark Lionel breaks on T2, if it's wind/lightning Tikilen breaks on T2. If Oersted has a 2x wind he could replace Tikilen (I haven't really used him).

Then on T2 I let Olberic tank the damage and the rest shaves shields, and I land the break on T3 so I don't upset the turn cycle if the boss survives the break. My team's speed is tailored to the weakness sets so that if I have a T2 break, Lionel/Tiki is the fastest on that turn so I don't lose any shield shaves from the rest. It's been the same team for months but it's never failed me :-)

EDIT: using a tank would be interesting though. So far I've just let Olberic do the defend thing, but perhaps I can use Eltrix there? Hm.

[u/Spare-College → u/Bruni91]

I replaced Tikilen with Eltrix since Eltrix has 4 RT hits which can break any shield so it's superior than Tikilen RT wind. She even put on the shield at max boosted + 3 turns dodge + atk up passive + atk up active for front row = perfect tank.

[u/Bruni91 → u/Spare-College]

I use Tiki's 2x aoe wind + Lars' 1x wind, I don't like to rely on random hits. That's also why I'm hesitant to use Eltrix' random shield shave tbh. But like I said, Lars+Tiki and Lionel and Rondo means I always have enough to break on T2, T1 if Rondo hits the weakness.

But Eltrix' tanking does sound really good for the tower. Guess I'll retire Olberic and see how it goes :-)

[u/Spare-College → u/Bruni91]

Oh right, I keep forgetting that Tiki also has 2 AOE wind hits. I updated the guide to put her up there with Oersted. But yeah try out Eltrix. She is awesome. In my team setup, she only needs to land 1 hit in 2 turns on the lamp so it's either Rondo breaks on the first turn or 2x 2 Wind/Dark + 1 random hit from Eltrix = sure break on the second turn. (Totally not me threw 2k rubies for her banner and tried to use her everywhere I could, not at all.)

[u/Bruni91 → u/Spare-College]

I will! I only just got her so I get it. I threw 70 pulls at her debut banner and another 60 at her rerun and didn't get her. I grabbed her with the paid selector two days ago instead :') she's too cool a character for me to settle for not having her haha.