YamaKyu

Congratulations! When can we expect the full write-up? :) (No rush. Take your time, enjoy your victory, and share details if and whenever you feel like it.)

Thanks ! I might actually share the details quite soon-ish. I'm extremely busy with IRL work but at the same time I actually really want to talk about it so you can absolutely expect a write-up someday. Not too soon maybe, but it is absolutely happening :>

I already posted my team and the clear video on reddit though, if you want to see it
https://www.reddit.com/r/PuzzleAndDragons/comments/bql0vm/achievement_this_is_it_karin_kanzuki_the/

And one year later here I am, almost beating AA2

NEVER MIND. I JUST BEAT IT.

UNSTOPPABLE KARIN KANZUKI SEALS THE DEAL.

Almost made it today, Byuto sucks though

2P coop works well because of shared stats, awakenings, etc. The 3p restrictions are not player-friendly at all compared to 2p so no one (minus the 6 people who actually like it lol) would ever choose 3p over 2p or solo if everything was available as solo or 2p. Only reason to do 3p at all is because of bonuses (3p Arena bonus XP weeks) of those unique 3p dungeons.

well rip me then

I have permanent 3p dungeons that I've never cleared because finding partners is so difficult.

(that was absolutely a lucky run tho, didn't ran into Sopdet nor Starling)

I *could* do that but that would mean removing one of my precious other assists and I might not be willing to, I pretty much need everything already.
It's definitely an option tho

I hear ya. Most teams it's prepare the best you can, and hope you don't get the 5% of things that will screw you over :D Just sounded like you weren't ready to give it a try without someone very specific. Just have to take a few unavoidable deaths now and then but that shouldn't keep you from giving it a run.

I'm definitely looking forward to running it. Was a bit reluctant a few weeks ago but it turns out Alt Arena 1 and 2 are the only dungeons I have never beaten (not counting 3p stuff since I don't multi) and I have powercreep to help me find my way into it. Almost everything is ready, I just need to address this Fujin isssue then I'm good to go die a bunch of times ha ha

(yeah I did it with double Karin Kanzuki again)

Soooo the same thing but you make more hearts :D

And more digits at the end because why not ♥

I'm amazed you were able to do that without TE awakenings.

I'm amazed too :'D But at the same time not too much because actually the "win condition" (the requirements which guarantees a win, granted good execution and average RNG) for Karin Kanzuki in this dungeon is extremely easy to achieve.

I win if :
→ I reach F2
→ I don't die from the preemp
→ And most importantly I needed about 44 200 HP

If I meet all of that and granted skyfall does *severely* gets in the way (several boards without hearts or without two crosses), I win, because I can stall for actives on Hera (flat rcv buff), which allows me to compensate the absence of awakenings with Active skills o/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFH9ErUhZnc

that's legit. such an awful dungeon lol.

I surprisingly didn't find it too hard actually, I almost beat it on 1st try completely blind (didn't have a VDP, tried to damage control my way to it but I ended up hitting the hidden resolve zone :9), and my clear was my 4th attempt.

With that said, I hope I don't have to run it again anytime soon :9 There are too many ways for me to die in it ha ha

A mistake?

Yeah, she's too much x)

I saw the video on Reddit. Impressive stuff. Makes me want to learn to play cross leads, but I don't know if I'm that patient. Also makes me wish we had more "off-meta lead champions" here and on Reddit.

I definitely love myself some off meta lead content indeed :> Bring it on people !

How do you feel about Karin as a lead? I mostly play co-op and don't have a cloud resist, so I'm a little torn about what to do with mine. Main is a nice Rin sub with cloud resist but no TE, equippable cloud resist is irreversible, and lead Karin is the only one without cloud resist :P

Base Karin looks solid as a mono-light cross lead, but she won't get you too far because 6x5 crosses can't really suffer from not being truly able to VDP.

Evo'd Karin is -as expected- unbelievably strong. I have yet to run anything else than training Arena (you need to level these subs !) and she's been killing it so far. I also managed to reach 50k HP without badge so in the end, HP might not be that much of a problem :>

Between my 2 accounts, I have at least one of every GFE to get a mega evo announced during the stream except Dantalion and it's hard to care about any of them.

I don't object to evolving Paimon #3 and Typhon #3 to mega forms on my alt and the Ilm mega evo is cool, but I was hoping for more, both in terms of the evos revealed and the number of evos. (Seriously, is DKali ever going to get a mega evo? I have FOUR on my alt.)

I think DKali, Skuld, and Eschamali are all long overdue. I do have a Dantelion (didn't he come out after all three of those?), but after seeing his mega evo, I wouldn't feel terrible about trading him off if a good opportunity arose. I'll definitely make mega Ilm. I'll probably make mega Typhon, but I dunno what I'll do with it.