Game:

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (2008)

Duration: 9:11

17,802 views

31

*Read Description First*
*Spoiler Alert*
*Japanese Version because I'm too lazy to complete it on the English. Rest assured, I do have the US localization, but I need to start 3rd play through to get Unknown, which I'm presently on*
*Watch in HQ, type in &fmt=18 at the end of the link)*

Lloyd takes on Richter solo in Unknown mode, no HP recovery items. TP recovery items are used, a lot. I feel so bad spamming them but Lloyd can't deal enough damage to compensate for the TP loss. Anyway, this was about 9 minutes of hell since all I was worrying about was Richter using fire-based attacks (and I didn't take any hits from his regular attacks for a while, too. Mystic Artes just have to auto-hit huh, Bamco?). His Mystic Arte is nothing since it can't kill you, but Fire artes affect the elemental grid. If fire is the dominant element, he heals 3009 HP per 5 seconds. Yes, I know the attacks seem repetitive. I was trying to do some other tricks (Demonic Tiger Blade is thrown in there), but it requires precise timing. I have Tiger Rage equipped, but I can't time it right, as you can see (I experimented in my other failed tries, and out of all the other artes I used, it is presently strategy's this most common combo breaker). The strategy here is to keep overwhelming Richter with attacks before he can execute them. Mystic Artes and any attack that is timed wrong is your combo breaker and can be fatal. This video may not disprove that the old cast suck as bad as they might be, but really, Lloyd still can kick ass.

Boss: Richter, Level:160, HP 300983, Elemental Fire
Mode: Unknown
Emil/Marta: Level 200
Lloyd et al: 50

Stats:
Lloyd's HP: 5125
Lloyd's TP: 999

Lloyd's Skills (in the order of arte commands):
Raining/Raging Tiger Blade
Demon Fang
Tempest
Sword Rain

Shortcuts (Japanese Version don't have the extra commands, but Lloyd don't have that much useful artes anyway and I don't use the motion commands for the old cast much in the English version either):
Double Demon Fang
Beast
Tiger Rage
Demonic Tiger Blade

SP Skills: (54/54)
Back step (2) Add Ability 2 (9) Special (10)
Recover (1) Item Pro (4)
Add Ability (9) Accelerate (19)

Other Statistics