Thanks for the shout! I fixed it :)

Sure! To be honest with you, a Luck build is a challenge run, it's as simple as that. Luck is the worst stat to be solo building in the entire game. But there are a few options you have for making it not quite as suffering. - Early on, stick with Aramasa instead of Sakanagi. The power increase is huge with Saka, but basically getting a free half press for ~10MP is pretty huge in the early game. Especially when you unlock Restore. When you unlock Wrath Tempest it's a good upgrade, I was unsure at first because of the MP but it's worth its weight in gold. - Take advantage of the fact that your ailment and insta kill *resistance* is just as good as your strength with higher Luck than everything around you. You can get through some things you otherwise wouldn't that way without Abyssal Mask sometimes. - Similarly to the above, use Light and Dark on the Magic side of things because you'll hit those instant kills way more than your party members. Profaned Land is also good but the poison will be more consistent than instant kills. - Focus on building your demons to be your main damage dealers instead of you, and opt for support or full healer mode when you need to. This is particularly true in the mid game, as by endgame you unlock most of the stupid tools that allow you to "catch up". - Luck may or may not affect your item drop rate. At this point I'm not 100% sure about it, but I noticed I was getting a lot more enemy drops and generally more money early game, so if you notice it, don't be as stingy as you normally would be. The economy boost offsets your lack of strength in battle. I think that's most of what I've got, really. Luck doesn't affect your accuracy very much, and it similarly doesn't affect dodge rate enough, so the agility build options won't be very helpful. Luck doesn't impact a lot and there's not really any sort of payoff for it - it's a personal challenge and that's about as far as it goes. But that doesn't mean you can't still succeed! PS: Sorry it took me this long to respond

This is what I too had done but for my Apsaras which I recieved from an early game quest.

I brought Onmoraki and Feng Huang to the Demi-Fiend fight and both of them were actually useful. This is the new meta

@@ababyharpseal6534 I gotta try and make Preta good, the other penis demon (IYKYK)

We got a godly gift in Pandemonic Feast. Use it well, fellow Dance acolyte

@@WishMakers I will. I will use it against that masakados guy

Lunar Hurricane is my beloved, it's so fun to use with Murakumo. Literal crit city.

It wasn't outright removed as far as I can tell, but the scaling back on it was pretty massive. Level advantage was nerfed a lot

Mudobarion is in fact more damage! The real problem here came with MP efficiency (as it wasn't worth grinding Glory for Dark Potential) + the amount of demons available with Mudobarion, which prior to level 80 is not high. I think it's pretty much only Naamah's essence. So it's most accurate to say it's not strictly better. The poison can add some damage but ideally Ananta doesn't even get a turn

@@WishMakers i guess the same goes for zanbarion (the other ananta weakness)

I think the level scaling is a blessing and a curse. It's good for making sure that if you decide to get confident and you want those absurd odds to fight against, you can have them! But it enables grinding as the surefire way to get past any obstacle, which I like less. It makes bad play patterns for whoever wants to get through the game with as little adversity as possible instead of making strategizing the primary method. The only real solace is that you barely have to do ANY grinding for levels if you sidequest, if you explore the world and talk to demons in the overworld, you'll be swimming in Gospels and levels. But I don't like how they handled Sutras at all, I just want my team's potential maxed and not spend years in Odaiba with my bird lol TL;Dr not all the design in SMTV is amazing but on the whole they did a pretty good job and level scaling is a decision with pros and cons like everything else.

In both versions of SMTV, all enemies have a "hidden" ailment resistance that goes up with every time you inflict that ailment. If you inflict Poison, it's harder to inflict poison again and there's seemingly no cap. Dekajaon got buffed in Vengeance - it's Dekaja with minor upside still... but they added a new line!! It also "clears all ailment resistance". And in my mind I'm like "they didn't just give us Ailment Pierce", from my understanding it effectively clears this hidden gained ailment resistance, making ailments in prolonged boss battles more viable. So you accumulate ailment resistance by inflicting whatever you use, and then when it stops working entirely you can use Dekajaon to clear the resistance stacks and keep the ailments flowing. This information still requires some testing, basically no one has really cared to investigate it further but you can see that vague description yourself in-game. The hidden Ailment resistance is known but how Dekajaon interacts with it needs to be confirmed properly and have a proper source. Hope this makes sense, it's a bit tough to explain...

@@WishMakers oh no yeah totally i didnt know about the change, thanks for your reply

Ganesha the true MVP of the fight more than anyone in my party dealing damage, lol

I was doing him for the true ending in my low level solo run and running Siegfried essence and without draining him Ananta would have been impossible to kill in time

Thank you!!!! I'm always a bit self conscious about my voice and reactions but I'm glad to hear people enjoy it :D

This comment makes me very happy, thank you very much!

Agility has almost no returns. 1 ag vs 999 only adds a 15.04% dodge increase and enemies have a 1.1x hit rate on Hard so without Mirage you will never consistently dodge any enemy

@@Ziroikabi in fact, during a lot of the game you'll be constantly missing attacks you normally wouldnt, which is very frustrating (not as bad as apocalypse mode back in IVA)

@@Ziroikabi So what does luck affect in Vengeance? Is it ailments and crits?

@@volzuloof Luck affects crit rate, ailment rate + ailment duration and slightly boosts hit rate (4 points of luck gives the same hit rate boost as 1 point of agility) It may also affect insta kill odds but I'm unsure. It may just be a base chance that is only altered by hidden boss multipliers. Funny example is in the level 99 abscess with Slime, Pixie etc. You CAN actually insta kill them. They just have a 0.01x multiplier added to being insta-killed

​@@ZiroikabiCan confirm that it does affect insta-kill chances, both avoiding them from enemies *and* inflicting them yourself. Mortal is simply treated like any other ailment in practice.

Vengeance's ailment buffs really coming in clutch! No way Marin Karin/Sexy Dance would've gone through in that scenario lol

there's an actual game that exists! we can't play it though /watch?v=QADqgICS7wc /watch?v=zwi_za0aJHI