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Team: Flutterpage (R10 / P0), Charlie (R10 + Genuinity / P5), Lopera (R10 / P0), Fatutu (R10 / P0), Brimley (R10 / P4)

(No the title is not clickbait)

Here's what you need to know to understand the video:

-This Rain Hazard stage has a Slot 5 buff that allows Buff/Heal characters to cast their Ults more frequently via the Stress mechanic

-Brimley's major gameplay gimmick is that he can force Follow Up attacks out of other characters. Brimley needs to buff a character first. Then when Brimley uses his Ult or his Attack with 3 Horsemanship stacks, he will force the character he buffed to use their skill 1 or skill 2 at Rank 1.

-When Brimley forces an Attack out of other characters with his Ult or Horsemanship stacks, it counts as a "real" FUA. Thirty Seven gets Eureka from them, more relevant is the fact that Flutterpage will buff these FUA's.

With Flutterpage and Lopera's damage boosts, and Brimley able to force consistent FUA attacks out of Charlie because of the Slot 5 buff, Charlie can see what it's like to be a FUA character.

If you don't get what I'm talking about, go to 3:34.
Charlie being forced to use a FUA by Brimley: does 40K damage
Charlie using the same Incantation at Rank 2 at 03:41: does only 18K damage

If you think that's just Charlie missing a Crit, you can also look at 04:32. Charlie manually casts her Ult and skills, Brimley also forces 2 FUAs out of Charlie on the same turn. The FUAs all do significantly more damage than the Ult and Attacks manually cast by Charlie.

I've always known about this Flutterpage/Brimley tech but it's never been super practical. Besides the team size (Flutterpage, Lopera, Brimley and Charlie with on room for sustain in normal parties), Brimley can't normally cast his FUA this often. This is only possible thanks to this stage's Slot 5 buff letting him cast his Ult every turn.

Even with Brimley having a cheatcode to force more FUAs out of Charlie, Charlie is barely able to do more damage than Flutterpage. So in reality, this really isn't practical outside of this Rain Hazard stage. But I can't lie, it feels good to see Charlie hit really big numbers (this is the closest we're getting to "Charlie buffs").

I tried this with some other characters like Isolde, Erick, Six and Marcus, but it works best with Charlie, mostly because of the Psychube (there aren't any good FUA Psychubes for Erick and Marcus to use while Charlie can use the 1-target Crit damage one for both FUAs). Charlie also has the Afflatus advantage here.

The only other thing worth mentioning is this setup + Kaalaa Baunaa. Don't know if I was just getting really unlucky with her Crits, but her FUA damage was really low for some reason. Not sure what's going on there, I should probably test it more.

Timestamps:
00:00 Stage and Setup
00:14 Stage Start / Ramping Up Lopera and Flutterpage
02:58 Charlie is finally set up
04:24 Charlie doing 120K total damage in a turn
05:00 The rest of the fight
07:31 Battle Stats (Charlie 336K overall damage)