Touhou Healing Nature (東方自然癒) - Boss 06: Mokou (Low Level/Hard)
*** Ruleset: -Hard mode difficulty
-No changing difficulty setting mid way for any reason.
-Only experience points from boss fights/forced encounters allowed, meaning all random battles must be fled from.
-No usage of Reisen's double experience border, as that would ruin the purpose of the run.
[All of this is subject to change, depending on my sanity. Additional rulesets might be added as i progress through the game and find potential gamebreakers that might need to be disallowed.]
As this is my first playthrough of the game, i don't know how feasible this will be in the long run. If i see this through fully depends on my sanity. ***
Unsurprisingly, Mokou is insanely fast, AND strong. Her basic (double) attacks dealing anywhere between 600-850, and can take out most characters in two hits unmitigated. The greatest challenge here was to survive until i can get an Izayoi border up for the Phys dodge & Phys attack up, and keeping up the blind & attack down debuffs from Reisen/Marisa respectively to try and help mitigate damage until then. My saving grace here however is the fact that the blindness debuff & phys dodge up border buff stack, otherwise i'm not sure if this battle could have been won at this level without at least a lot more potion usage.
Meanwhile, i tried to have Reisen use as many potions as possible to save up on them, because gold/potions and therefore all resources as a result are finite.
Regardless, once the border was up, all I had to do was keep up blindness, use as many spells as possible to maintain the border. Attack down as extra safety, pray and dodge.
Boss Attempts: 15