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Punishing: Gray Raven (2019)

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Let's Play

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Defeating the Luna + Alpha duo boss in the Selena event's Babel challenge mode using Wanshi (an A-rarity healer). The core strategy is to parry literally everything using his special mechanic (you activate a full-power skill, then hold your basic attack until the last moment to do a parry), while using blue and yellow skills to charge a stun so you can make Alpha take a nap. You have to maintain pretty consistent pressure in order to avoid Luna using her special DPS check move too often, while making sure you have a stun ready at key moments when she starts using it. Once you push her health low enough she starts using an additional set of more dangerous attacks, and once her health is extremely low Alpha just hangs out for the rest of the fight to make you miserable.

Changwho and Liv come along for the ride so I can stop having my runs end the first time I make a mistake. All in all this probably took 200 attempts. I started using LiveSplit to time the DPS check which gives you roughly 25 seconds to break her super armor before it activates.

While you can definitely solo this with just Wanshi, I suspect you need SSS+ and possibly hyper-tuned memories to do it because the damage just isn't there at SSS w/o HT unless you at least bring a tank. Liv is mostly for safety and to have someone to rotate to if I need to get off Changwho and Wanshi is still on swap cooldown. (I could have used another healer, but her shield is actually very useful here.)

A strategy you'll see here is to have Changwho's ult ready for the DPS checks where possible - if you pop a blue and then immediately go into his ult, he can usually break her super armor juuust before she uses the attack, which means you don't have to worry about dodging it. In my experience dodging the attack is very difficult because it doesn't have a clear visual or sound indicator when it comes out.

Color selection is very important in this fight because of how Wanshi's red and yellow moves both cover a different amount of distance and yellow has a very brief period of invincibility - sometimes the best option is to pop red to dash into or past Luna to avoid an attack, but in other circumstances you want to use yellow so you're closer without being in melee range. Most of Luna's attacks have multiple hitboxes, which means if you dodge the attack it can still damage you with its additional hitboxes if you accidentally move into them.

Also important is timing your QTEs appropriately, since QTEs tend to have hit-stop - if you use them during an enemy attack, the pause may cause you to mess up your dodge timing and fail to parry the attack.

This was an especially fun attempt since she bugged out at least once and activated her DPS check's special attack when she wasn't supposed to. I suppose the timer didn't stop for some reason.

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