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Arknights (2019)

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Guide

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What a run! I hope even 1% of the intensity I was feeling at the end came through.
This is being posted partially as a challenge clear and partially as a guide. This is legitimately how I deal with Big Sad Lock even with relics.

Note that my definition of no relics is no OPTIONAL relics. In this case, the first encounter to get the teddy bear + floor 2/4 boons are forced but otherwise every other relic in the run is skipped. That means no relics from shops, no further encounters for cancelling the healing of Big Sad Lock, no drops from Duck / Gopnik, etc.
I will note that one of the relics from boons was dodge chance which may have impacted the run. Please understand that it is exceptionally long to roll RNG for the encounter + vouchers needed to build this team. I've had multiple runs fail on Big Sad Lock because I couldn't get all the ops and promotions in time. I've also had multiple runs where one of the boons was a relic with -40% HP, or boons with much more impact on the run than what was present in this clear so I'm quite satisfied with the result and don't see myself redoing this challenge just to roll for lesser impact boons.

Really important to remember that Big Sad Lock has a global AOE as well as an attack that drops rocks on the last 2 deployed ops. There's also some slight RNG to which lane some enemies will go towards (like the first big robot that killed Ptilo can go to the right side).
Losing Ptilo was not part of the plan, this was a mistake on my part as the first cast of her S2 was too late so it didn't come back up fast enough.
If Ptilo hadn't died, it might have been possible to burst before the double Gargoyle wave as Ptilo had died about the same time that SChen ran out of ammo.
Saria is stonks but Nearl is a huge deal for this run as her talent provides healing effectiveness for the entire party. Usually I don't run Saria for a relic run, but instead use Gummy as it's much cheaper hope-wise (3 vs 9 total) making the rest of the run more flexible. Also to note because of my deploy limit I'm not exactly searching for all that many ops, but with more deploy limit you could be seeking things like Schwarz which would be beneficial for her own damage as well as buffing other snipers (SChen).

There's a jump in the post-clear portion of the video because the game froze while skipping the credits. Luckily I was able to restart the game and pick up where I left off. I started the recording a bit late (since I was honestly expecting it to just flat out kick me out) and spliced the pieces together. You can see the relics on the bottom left before I enter the boss which matches with the end-card and the run is entirely replicable if you really don't trust it haha.

The entire run from start to finish was streamed over at https://www.twitch.tv/gl1tch3d
My discord server is https://discord.gg/vAjyXNm
I do regular handholds of all sorts of content including IS2

Hope you enjoyed!

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