This one battle ended up being the most problematic for this run. Despite not struggling with this on my No Grinding / Practice Speedrun, I ended up having to reattempt this multiple times.
My current theory is that I might have been sorely underlevelled for this part of the game (especially since I discovered a bunch of skips I did not on my original run of the game). I think this battle is one I'm going to have to learn in order to get quicker times.
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