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We finish up the Netherworld and face Youmu and Yuyuko.

Youmu and Yuyuko:
Another pair of bosses. Youmu uses physical attacks and has high defense but no magic defense. Yuyuko uses magic attacks that can cause debuffs and possible instant death. She has no defense but extremely high magic defense. Both of them are vulnerable to the four basic elements and nearly immune to holy and dark.

Youmu will go into various stances, each stance will change her move set. But all her attacks are physical so I had no real worries there. The thing to note is when you finish Yuyuko, she will do a final attack that is an area Instant Death attack that pierces resistance. The key to this fight is surviving that.

As for surviving the usual attacks, I chose to use the Freefight formation. This gives only plus Speed but puts everyone in a single column. With this, it was Alice's time to show off her tanking skills. With Marionette Parrar, anyone in the column will become protected by Alice's shield. This means that ridiculously high block chance and shield defense is now working for everyone and not just the tank. This will negate Youmu's physical attacks entirely.

Now, to avoid the Instant Death there are a few ways. One is to use Alice's cover abilities. She can either cover one party member or everyone, Alice will die but who she is covering will survive (you only need one party member to survive the attack to win). Another way is to kill Yuyuko during Private Square (assuming you did not waste your MP on attacks like I did). Also if she dies through secondary means such as Poison damage or Chasers, the attack will not trigger.


More on Youmu next time.