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Touhou LostWord (2020)

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Here we go with the High Difficulty Challenge that was teased! Well I would say it is harder than the average VS Divergent Spirits stage, I don't know if it is the hardest piece of content we have ever come across, but it was a decent challenge I suppose. Basically High HP and God Tag moment. Without that on your side, it may prove difficult to pull this off. I am surprised there wasn't any other mechanics like Graze Penetration here since that would have made this harder for me, but then again I don't know if it would have been too hard to clear? I was also expecting to be facing L0g Sanae as well which I think would have been more challenging given the anomaly struggles (4/5 anomaly immunity/HP recovery, not immune to Paralyze). Either way, this was how I did.

I had various team lineups that included units like Cz1 Marisa, E1 Patchouli, E1 Koakuma, L80 Sakuya, L80 Kanako, L80 Sanae, LR1 Renko + Shinki, T5 Byakuren, L80 Kaguya and LM1 Maribel + Mima. I think those were all the units I remember trying outside of this video before settling with T5 Byakuren, L80 Kaguya, L80 Sanae, LM1 Maribel + Mima, L80 Kanako and E1 Koakuma. Here were the roles these 6 I used had when it came to this stage:
T5 Byakuren: God Killer, Metal Breaks, Poison/Paralyze Breaks, Gauge 2 Nuke.
L80 Sanae: God Killer, Paralyze Breaks, Metal/Earth Breaks, Gauge 2 Nuke, Stored Power.
L80 Kanako: Paralyze Breaks, slight Wood/Star Breaks, Gauge 1 Nuke.
E1 Koakuma: Bind Removal, Barrier Restoration, Gauge 2/3 Supporting, Gauge 3 LW Yin Debuff
L80 Kaguya: Moon Weakness infliction on Gauge 3.
LM1 Maribel + Mima: Gauge 3 Nuke (Moon, natural CRITs + God Killer)

The first Gauge used a little Switch Linking since L80 Sanae and T5 Byakuren would be around for over 5 turns. The first turn was about anomaly breaking with a little bit of damage dealing. Despite being switched out, L80 Kaguya's Burn Passive did influence how I went about L80 Kanako's Spell Card usage, like if Suwako got a Burn anomaly or not (Burn = SC2, no Burn = SC1). After the break, L80 Kanako used her LW. The enemy Kanako's Gauge was the easiest to beat, the enemy Sanae's Gauge was finished off by T5 Byakuren's SC2 and Suwako's Gauge was supposed to have been finished off by L80 Sanae's SC2. Sometimes it's enough, sometimes it isn't. Either way, this was handled in the next turn, and it didn't alter the course of the clear too much, since going about Gauge 2 was a bit of a stalling strategy when it came to waiting for L80 Sanae's Skill 3 to finish cooling down (this also made me wish I had a unit with cooldown reduction on JP, rip).

So for Gauge 2 (still Gauge 1 for Suwako, aka Turn 3), since I needed L80 Sanae's Skill 3, I had to do a little stalling until it was ready to go again, which meant about 3 turns of Grazing and Luck to endure. 2 of these turns were also spent with a Graze Lock that L80 Kanako had to deal with, but after that, it was 1 more turn of stalling with more Barrier help in the process so I don't risk losing anybody. By the time it was Turn 6, L80 Sanae's Skill 3 only needed 1 more turn to cool down, so this was the perfect time to anomaly break all opponents, mainly with the help of T5 Byakuren's SC1 and L80 Sanae's SC1. Another reason as to why there was a bit of luck involved was because T5 Byakuren getting hit with Freeze and having her turn priority Delayed seemed to work out better when it came to clearing this gauge. It probably helped to have L80 Sanae's Last Word effects come in first that further helped T5 Byakuren (Team CRIT ATK, Yang DEF debuff, CRIT DEF debuff). Through my multiple attempts, it seemed better to have T5 Byakuren go after L80 Sanae.

Gauge 3 time, and I believe this is Turn 8 too. It's been more than 5 turns since that L80 Kaguya/LM1 Maribel + Mima switch out at the very beginning, so it's time to bring them back. I didn't go for the LW nuke immediately because I wanted to make sure there were some additional buffs/debuffs to really make sure I pull this off. Some of the Story Cards used on the penulatumate turn was basically a mix of Barrier restoration (extra anomaly buffs) and Yin DEF/CRIT DEF debuffs (Little Laplace Demon/Send Her to the Underworld moment) But yeah, with that turn done, L80 Kaguya does her little Moon Weakness Inflict fun, E1 Koakuma uses Flight Through Silence's funny debuffing on top of initial LW Yin DEF debuffs (MLBd too which helps) and LM1 Maribel and Mama's LW damage is just satisfying!

And that was the clear! But how the hell am I going to farm this? Because that Anniversary Scarlet Devil Tower Story Card would be nice to get, even 1 copy...

But yeah, if you have played this stage on JP, feel free to share your thoughts on the stage in the description, as well as your experience with it and if it really was as hard as it was hoping to be!

0:00 Intro
0:27 Stage
9:55 End/Outro

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