Digimon Hacker's Memory - No Digivolution Part 4: Sangloupmon, 1st Eater, Security Wall 3 (HM)

Channel:

MoogleBoss

Subscribers:

6,630

Published on March 10, 2018 6:22:27 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ys19gfOs8

Game:

Counter-Strike: Source (2004)

Duration: 6:49

988 views

16

Challenge playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbSv8zSDR9c1YfHfmeFA_0-SlEdWIJQmv

A few more earlygame boss videos that show my team undergoing a line-up shift, moving on from rookies to champions. After the 3rd of the fights shown here, I'm actually able to scan the first Ultimate in the challenge, as well as the last one for a while. When controlling Yuuko, you enter the second area which features different random encounters than the ones before, but your trip, when it occurs naturally, ends very quickly as you're forced to leave the dungeon, without a chance to return for many chapters. Now, in this 2nd area, you can encounter and scan SuperStarmon, a Data-type Ultimate. He's nothing spectacular, with well-balanced stats and without a good status/debuff/piercing move that would encourage his usage, but he outstats everybody else remarkably statwise (with a better level cap to boot), so I made sure to scan several of these. They've got 3 equipment slots, meaning using a party of three lets me scan Ultimates and below in a single encounter with enough Researcher USBs. Neat.

Sangloupmon is one of the newly introduced Digimon, absent in the original Cyber Sleuth, and in Hacker's Memory they seem to have tried to do a good job making these new Digimon play some kind of role in its storyline. It's Virus-type, so Vaccine fare the best here as you'd expect.

I have better luck inflicting physical damage here, so I bring two attack-invested Agumons, though they're holding the HP boosting accessories (the best ones after A LOT of Digi-Farm item farming) not to get OHKO'd by a single-target magic attack used by the boss - it's pretty hard-hitting and Digimon like Agumon have very poor Int.

Tentomon is the same one I picked as my starter, Int-trained. He doesn't really hurt the boss really hard, and paralysis, when it connects, seems to be of no consequence when it comes to stopping the boss from attacking often, so it's mostly there as an item / support bot who's not fazed by the boss's offence since Int functions as magic resistance.

Then we have our first eater battle. I've scanned some Piercing rookies like Hawkmon before this (and tried to use them, unsuccessfully, in some of the fights), but the Champion BlackGatomon is likely the first great piercer - its attack is fixed damage of 150, and can panic the foe 60% of the time, and since it's not going to do any more damage with it (combos aside), we may invest into either speed or HP and not bother with attack or Int. It's pretty convenient.

A party of three BlackGatomons gang up on the first Eater and kill it before it can do anything to us. The 'block' message the game displays is shown each time an attack with any (even 10%) chance of inflicting a debuff/status effect connects, so you see it a lot against some bosses.

Finally, we have one more security wall battle. These increase in difficulty as you make progress, and this third one is entirely optional, even if it stands in the way of a chest. It can inflict MT damage when it's not charging up its big attack, which is an improvement over its previous model that we fought.

In addition to BlackGatomon, I use a pair of Gekomon who have been trained to maximise their piercing Int damage. A couple Int Ups before attacking, and their damage seems to rival that of BkGatomon, except the latter is much faster not having to invest into an attacking stat.

Here, while restarting the battle to record it again, I discovered that the wall can drop a Pen Block, which reduces piercing damage (a new item in HM) but apparently doesn't function like the elemental-reducing accessories, as its displayed percentage of 30% applies to the chance of blocking the attack entirely and not the portion of damage it cuts? I haven't really had the opportunity to try it out and see which one it is; has anybody else? Anyway, I reset until I got a Pen Block, and will continue to do so for any other new wall I encounter. It doesn't seem like you run into Pen Blocks very often at all outside of that.

Other Statistics