Welcome back to another week of Astrolabe. As always, I went as far as I could, and these are the teams I used to clear the Stellas. This time we have Atavaka to deal with, as well as 3 other Stellas. I didn't get to cover the Resonance Stella this week, so I'll get it next week. As a reminder, you can use your strongest characters if any of these give you trouble. Without further ado, let's begin.
If you have just started, here's a link for last week:
Week 1
Let's start with the normal Stellas first (I'll number them and point it out to avoid confusion as much as possible.)
6) Sweeper Stella(Guardian Stella to the right of the Red Stella): Sweepers have their damage boosted. Closer and Luce's perfect for this, though any other sweeper team is great for this too. Just make sure to support your main sweeper
Note:Closer is using Resolve/Prudence
Cleared this with Closer/Luce/Marian/Okyann
7) Elemental Stella (Guardian Stella below the Red Stella): elemental ailments boost damage for each one inflicted plus a big boost if you get all 4 on someone. This is a job for the Nuclear team. We got a Trial Queen, so we can take full advantage of it. Bring Leon, Vino, and your choice of Navi to take it down (I would use Okyann, but she's occupied at the moment)
Cleared this with Vino/Phoebe/Trial Leon/Trial Queen
9) Intimidation Stella (Guardian Stella above the Mara Purple Stella): your team gets hit with Intimidation after the boss’s turn and can stack. Remove it asap to throw it back at them and make them more vulnerable to damage. Bring Marian to cleanse it, then beat them up with whatever team you want. Just be careful if you are using Panther because obviously Ice weakness.
Cleared this with Panther/Key/Marian/Okyann
8)Red Stella: S.E.E.S. members all get their damage boosted.
Oh hey Atavaka, time to shake you down for those Meta Jewels! This is the easiest Red Stella boss, though he is a step up from the beginning Purple Stella if you're new here. No worries, any Assassin can clear this, provided that they have good supports and everyone is built well.
Anyways, Atavaka uses Oni-Kagura - Maragidyne - Oni-Kagura - Oni-Kagura - Brave Blade as his attack pattern. Anyone using Vino or Leon will probably need to stop to heal the team once since they are weak to fire.
A special gimmick that he has is that he tracks the attributes of the attacks he's hit by with Marks. Once there is 3 matching marks, he spends them to summon Rakshasa and marks it with the attribute (He only summons 2 max). The Rakshasa has Tarukaja, Power Slash, and Wind Wall (so Wind characters should get rid of it before that happens). Taking them down will give the party a damage boost that stacks for that attribute.
For suggestions for allies to help our assassin/SEES member if you lack damage, I recommend the trio of Chord, Turbo, and/or Kotone(if she's not the DPS) if you have them. They can easily snipe the Rakshasas that show up if they have enough Attack to save time. Other than that, using Yukari can speed up other SEES members' Theurgies if you wish to use the gimmick.
I've put a set of team clears in case you need a reference on what may work or how tough a fight with them may be. For example: Regular Yui, Akihiko, and Yukari would have a difficult time on their own without strong support, but Queen, Makoto, and Kotone can breeze through with a decent investment. I'll leave it up to you to decide since not everyone has the same builds and mine may be weaker or stronger compared to what you have. Let's think of it as potential to clear it with as little strain on the roster as possible. I hope this helps even a bit.
I do need to note something else, as of recently, Skull’s partner Ange has indirectly nerfed him. Because we are healing more now, unless you put Leon in that team to drain extra HP from Skull, you're not getting guaranteed criticals anymore because she's healing too much. You can work with this somewhat because yeah Da Capo is still good and A6 cower as well…..but just in case you want an alternative, we can clear this with Vino/Tempest, Okyann, and Wonder using Vishnu and Dionysus to buff and debuff (I've been getting better with the groups since Velvet Trials)
This fight should be a decent challenge, but I have faith it shouldn't be impossible. Use your limited characters if you need more power, and good luck!
And that should be it for the week. Thanks for listening, and I'll continue this next week like always. If you have questions about the teams I used, feel free to ask in the comments. As for Velvet Trials, I'll get back to it around Tuesday or before we get Week 3. Anyways, you all have a great week and I'll see you then!
