#battle tips

[moonlithunterx]

･ ⟢ ⋮ Protocore Guide ゛༝.

Finally back with another guide! This game is so annoying at times and writing out guides is not my strong suit. I am trying my best. ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡

With this game, you will get so much further with good protocores vs high levels. They mean nothing without a decent build! So yes, protocores are very very important.

I hope this helps! Some of my stats are iffy because my luck is awful with Protocores. Sometimes you will have to take what you can get and hope you can improve later on!!

The Basics

- Just match the companion’s talent! Listed below.

- Avoid flat stats unless they are boosted with a scaling % bonus

- For bonus % aim for 10%+. Typically you would want to be as close to 14% as possible.

- Any memories under level 50 benefit from flat stats though (pointless tbh)

- Trash any cores with ATK/DEF/HP bonuses as the main stat UNLESS YOU ARE USING CALEB then keep 1 Red Def bonus square for this solar. Keep any triangle protocores that have Damage 2 Weakness, Crit Damage, or Crit Rate.

- The highlighted area is your main stats! Everything below are sub stats.

- Make sure the bottom sub stat matches the companion because that’s the one that will be boosted the most in the long run

Example for an ATK scale companion

- Boost protocores to levels 3-6-9 to see what all 5 stats are before trashing it so you get some recourses back. Trash it before hitting level 12 since it’s too expensive and not worth it

- You gain a double bonus at levels 3-6-9-12-15 so rank protocores up by 3

- Any solar pair that has R1+ needs either 2x Expidited Energy or E.E and 1 Oath Strength. I will always vote for more E.E!

- Any pair with R0 should have 1 oath strength or E.E and 1 oath recovery boost!! Boost your oath recovery to +9 to ensure you will be able to use your oath twice during a battle (ignore mine being at +8).

- Only keep protocores that have the main stats shown above for the squares!

Examples of protocores from perfect, to decent, to horrible if using an Attack Companion! Def is not needed for this companion but it wont hurt. The last protocore has too many mixed flat stats that don’t align with the companion’s talents and/or are flat!

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What does each protocore stat do?

I feel like some of the stats are pretty self explanatory so I won’t be going into those too much. Attack raised attack, defense raises defense, and HP raises HP. Simple.

I will be using the 𖤓 to represent solar memories, the first two pairs you equip, and the ☾ to represent lunar, the bundle of four!

Oath Strength (𖤓 and ☾)

Oath Strength boost how much damage your oath does. Those cool battle moves with the cut scenes, you know? Those! The moves you can only use once or twice during a battle. I would deem this stat to be not as important as the other ones listed below, but I will use it from time to time depending on the situation. I would rather have Expedited Energy for one of my solars over this stat.

Expedited Energy (𖤓 only)

Expedited Energy! You know those little yellow stars at the bottom of your health bars? The things that need to fill up so you can use your resonance moves? Well this protocore speeds up that process so they fill up faster! That’s all. Very very helpful though!

Oath Recovery Boost (𖤓 only)

I would only recommend using oath recovery if you are using a 5 star memory that isn’t Rank 1 or higher. Both solar memories need to have 1 rank to them to count as a full rank up by the way! Basically if you have a torn outfit with your companion then they are Rank 1 or above!

This stat just boost up how fast your oath charges! With that being said, it caps at 20%! Anything over that is overkill and is pointless to have. Even with the cap though, you can only use your oath 2 times during battle so I would cap this protocore at level 9 because this also guarantees you can use your oath twice if you timed it perfectly.

Crit Damage + Crit Rate (𖤓 sub stat & ☾ main stat)

These two stats go hand in hand! Without high crit rate your crit damage is useless! Crit damage increases the damage done when you land a critical hit and to land more critical hits you NEED crit rate. You would usually want to aim for the 40%’s and higher! With high enough crit damage and crit rate you can easily brute force your way through battles even without matching stellactrum. You can also raise your crit rate by ranking up lunar memories.

DMG To Weakness (𖤓 sub stat & ☾ main stat)

Whenever you break a shield on a Wanderer you start to do DMG to Weakness. Typically bosses will have shields and a few wanderers during mobs. This just means you’ll do more damage to them when their shields are down.

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Substas you want for Companions

Attack Based: Lightseeker, Abysswalker, Boxing Sylus, Master of Fate, or any non myth companion ex: Dawnbreaker, pilot Caleb, artist Rafayel, deepspace Hunter Xavier, etc.

Attack Flat + Attack Bonus with any of these to follow: Crit Rate, Crit DMG, D2W

Defense Based: Lumiere, Foreseer, and Farspace Colonel* = priority

*Defense Flat + *Defense Bonus with any of these to follow: Crit Rate, Crit DMG, *D2W

HP Based: Sea God and Dragon Sylus

HP Flat + HP Bonus with any of these to follow: Crit Rate, Crit DMG, D2W

[paldea-champ-n1cki]

literally anything please im struggling with battles :(

Ok, so for battles, you're going to want to start off in areas with low level pokémon, like Tarountula and Fletching. That way your pokémon can level up and they can get more powerful! You're also going to want to do picnics with your pokémon, so they'll be more likely to listen to you. Hope this helps!!!

[pokemonthingsandstuff]

My mum offered to help me train up, since Hop's busy and Jamie's just got a lot on his plate.

It's really hard to forget that she's a former Gym Leader, but it's getting been getting easier to beat her each year. She decided to bring a full team of six, three of which were her old gym battlers, so here's a quick fact about all six species.

Aegislash: Roland, this sweet steel bastard, has a tendency to do very stupid things. He is nocturnal, he can float through walls but he makes stupid loud metal screeching noises when he does, and just. Floats. Menacingly. I love him, he's just terrifying if I don't expect him.

Bisharp: Juno is a surprisingly nice Bisharp, so I've had some fun experiences with these sharp chess piece pokemon. They aren't very loving parents, mostly, but if a Pawniard's blade chips, the Bisharp parent will take extra care of that specific Pawniard until they're once again an equal in the group. Usually, that's about a month or two.

Corviknight: Morgan is a very smart, albeit shy, bird. Since she's got soft feathers on her underwings, I'll sometimes hang out under there since she likes me. She's also had a few nests, and sometimes her birdy babes from the year before come to help her raise her new hatchlings. This is common behavior for the line, and it's adorable.

Roserade: Adonis was raised by my mum since she was a little girl in Kalos, and she openly admits that he's her favourite. Wild Roserade poison is much more potent, but a domestic one has bigger and brighter flowers. Domestic rosies are usually much heavier than wild ones, too.

Gallade: Jupiter has, and forgive me for saying this, pretty much become my uncle by this point. The adults of the line tend to do that with human children. Funnily enough, Gallades are much more likely to hang around human civilizations than any other member of their line. It's actually kind of hilarious, seeing a wild Gallade sitting on a bench in the middle of Motostoke.

Lucario: Athena isn't particularly skilled at being a Lucario, since she just evolved and is very insistent on battling to get better. Anyways, she spent the entire battle telepathically asking me and Mum questions about how she could do better, something about 50% of Lucario trainers might have to deal with upon evolution. It was kind of a shock at first, but it was like answering a 10-year-old's questions after a while.

Oh, and bonus battling tip: Make sure your moves have variety to them. Grandma Aubrey got through almost the entirety of the Kalos League with only a Delphox, a Chandelure, and a Houndoom. She kept their moves varied, and only got knocked out at a Water-type Specialist Elite 4 member, not Siebold because he wasn't born yet.

I, meanwhile, managed to make it two years with Loki only knowing physical Dark-type moves. I managed to get her through the League in a half-year, and then after 18 months Dean asked me to battle him the next day. (For reference, he uses mostly Fighting-types.) I ended up teaching Loki Play Rough beforehand so that she had at least one counter. She's now got a revolving door of moves, with Beat-Up being the only consistent move she has. It's made battling a lot easier, now that I actually have more counters to other types.

[freyaloi]

SO, Alatreon is here and let me tell you he’s one tough customer, and after many many tries I've finally beaten his story quest. (of course he gave me a load of junk as a reward but that’s my life in the series for you, lol)

I’ve not had this stern of a challenge since AT Nergi. (although behemoth too but i’m no pro) My poor wrists and arms need a rest. 

I can’t really offer anyone a proper strategy yet since my run was very much flail and see what happens, as i was experimenting with strategies myself and still learning how to fight him,  but i’ll share what i can under the cut to avoid spoilers for those who want to figure it out on their own. (You absolute maniacs, go you and i also feel so very sorry for you)

__*If you are solo or two manning it, take your palicos with the plunderblade, it’ll help get you started.* Also Farcasters are disabled for the entire fight, so don’t bother with them. 

Surviving Escaton Judgment

Alatreon has 3 elemental modes, fire, dragon and ice. You need to counter these in order to weaken is ultimate, the Escaton Judgement. There is no way to survive this in a practical manner, you HAVE to weaken him with the appropriate elements.  (Ice for his fire mode, dragon for his dragon mode, fire for his ice mode. Note: you can use dragon at any stage to weaken him but it’s not as effective, and fire and ice also work on his dragon mode but again, not as effective) You will know what mode he is in by his colour.

You will know when you have because he will topple in a dramatic way. 

Doing so will weaken his ultimate and allow you to survive it IF you eat astera jerky or max potions. You will need to do this every time he enters either ice or fire mode.

To somewhat manage and control the fight make breaking his horns a priority if you can, but ONLY if you have managed to weaken his ult first, if not focus on that. Surviving is ult IS ABSOLUTE PRIORITY. (forget any part breaks until that’s done too)

To break his horns you need to weaken his head and wall slam him, but careful, this can ONLY be done in DRAGON mode. You can also break them with normal weapon attacks but to be safe, use the wall slam strategy, it has yet to fail me. 

I highly recommend trying to get his LBG as soon as possible regardless of whether or not you are playing solo or in a group, as it can rapid fire all of the elemental ammo.

If melee, coordinate who uses what element with your squad (Unless you are confidant you can break his horns, in which case, all use the same one for max elemental dps). I recommend fast elemental weapons if you can; dual blades, insect-glaives, bows, and light bowguns seem to be a good choice against him. 

If fighting him solo and melee, first of all good luck! (i feel you, i did it with dualblades and lbg)

 Secondly, break his horn asap. You’ll likely be starting the fight with ice weapons and so make sure to break his horns when he’s shifting out of fire mode into dragon. This will disable his ice mode till the next elemental rotation. In theory by the time he switches back to fire, you can break his other horn when he’s in dragon mode and hopefully kill him before he switches back to ice on the third rotation. If you can’t kill him by then? That’s were his lbg comes in buuuut, try kill him before then, because it gets messy otherwise. (only way back to camp is to cart, sooo)

Oh and he hits incredibly hard so be careful as well as several pin moves, lots of aoe attacks and ranged stuff. 

Other than that, it’s just a case of learning his moves. Like with AT nergi, it’s a balancing act of aggression and caution. But for the love of Gog, weaken his ult, for your sanity and your squad. And if your using a heavy weapon, please tenderise for the light weapon users, he doesn’t give you many opportunities to tenderise without it costing you the elemental stagger. (i’ve learnt that the hard way)

I hope hope some of this helps those that may still be struggling. 

Good luck and happy hunting!

[moonlithunterx]

Open Orbit 150

I had been stuck here for a while because I was trying to brute force it with Xavier, and while I was close I knew it would mainly be RNG/luck to get me to pass it and then I was battling myself on if I should level up the rest of Xavier’s pinks (2 solars) or if I should give my attention to Sylus.

Clearly I went with the boss man himself. He kept dying over and over and over again so I really had to focus on keeping his health up. So I tried to pick up the dark energy when it was close to me but I also kept getting stuck against the wanderer and Sylus 😭

[moonlithunterx]

Ice Orbit 120

I have been stuck here since December!!!!! Idk what it is about Zayne and his orbit but it’s so hard for what?????? I did learn Foreseer’s rotation while ripping my hair out during this battle.

Resonance Skill -> Active Skill when the battle first starts and then use Active Skill -> Resonance Skill so you can use it twice while the wanderers are down.

[moonlithunterx]

⋆˚࿔ Fire Orbit :: 130 𝜗𝜚˚⋆

This took me 4 tries. You really shouldn’t swap companions and keep the ones that match the memories you’re using but I knew I wasn’t going to pass with GoT as my pink HP protocores need work.

[moonlithunterx]

Gravity Orbit 80

This easily took over 30 tries. Caleb is so neglected, but he’s putting in that work. I just had to get faster at filling up his focus to make it more manageable.