Casual Crono Showcases Aldo's Book of Dragon Bearer: Hard, VH, and Stella

[@TheCookster64]

I just got through hard and very hard with Alma, Minalca, Iphi, and Aisha. On Stella Aldo takes out my entire team before I can even do anything. So following your advice I switched Aldo to the front line and BOOM! Stellar Awakened! TYSM!!

[@casualcronolv99]

@@TheCookster64 Congrats!

[@tiramix]

I have been very behind on the game's mechanic and whatnot, so most of the strats online are hard for me to follow, there's always some stuff that I'm missing on that made it very difficult to copy a strat. But not this one! Thanks for the concise presentation of how you did these!

[@casualcronolv99]

You're welcome! And if you ever need clarification in other videos of mine, please let me know!

[@guguig9746]

Thank you for showcasing what happens on STELLA if Aldo is on the back row. That happened to me an embarrassing amount of times, before I found out you needed to put him in front. Which I would have never done by myself, considering he's not that good of a character on my file (Low Light, and I don't have his good weapon)

[@casualcronolv99]

The very first time I did Stella, I got wiped out and I thought I had hit auto-attack by mistake because it happened so fast. The second time I watched and saw it, and Iphi rezzed the other three, and I proceeded to beat it. I wasn't recording those attempts though, in part because I didn't expect to win right away. It was through that accident that I learned about Iphi's rez working, but it's definitely a lot easier with Aldo in the frontline. I learned about Aldo being in the front through reddit; I can't claim to have figured that one out. :)

[@guguig9746]

Nice to see Flammelapis and Eva! I don't have them, so it's cool to see what they can do in a showcase like this

[@kmadcandy7773]

Thank you so much! I took a long break from playing and wanted to SA Aldo but couldn’t win the fight. I watched your video, tried but my team wasn’t strong enough, so I went and farmed the Almighty Power (Glutton) to use in the back row and bam, easy peasy! You are my hero

[@casualcronolv99]

Glad I could help!

[@tribalmotor]

Thank you so much for the clear explanation, best AE video I've found on here.

[@casualcronolv99]

You're welcome!

[@580twist3]

Do this again without radias

[@casualcronolv99]

I use Prai at the 3:00 mark!

[@OrchidObsidian]

Now that I have most of the units I see you use regularly, I feel that I can actually beat some of the end content. Just need to work on gear and grasta.

[@casualcronolv99]

That was my biggest realization as well. I kept seeing teams with characters I had doing crazy insane amounts of damage and downing bosses with ease, and I kept wondering what in the world I was doing wrong. KZbin kinda helped because a lot of people show what gear and grasta they were using, but I didn't see many videos explaining why that gear and grasta were chosen. It's actually why I made this channel; to try teach others how to intelligently pick equipment. With a few exceptions (Sesta), I've come to the conclusion that the grasta and upgrade ores are arguably more important than the characters. I kinda wish I had realized it a lot earlier than I did...I began playing this game soon after its release, and it was only recently that I had the time to deep dive into the mechanics more.

[@GranasValmar]

Thank you !

[@casualcronolv99]

You're welcome!

[@SulphurDew]

Only started playing recently and the most annoying part of stella was how his weakness/resists are set. Tryna make him weak to shade, but Wenefica has a water tag, so that makes 2 water with Melina, really assbackwards tbh, glad i'm done with it.

[@casualcronolv99]

Congrats on beating him!

[@SulphurDew]

@@casualcronolv99 Thanks! I don't have much characters yet to make good teams, but looking at your boss teams video help to understand general team building a bit more. But, since i'm mostly doing easy content still usually i just brute force my way with Wenefica/Yakumo, lol.

[@casualcronolv99]

@@SulphurDew Yakumo is great for that! Good luck!

[@v4lv0g4]

THANK YOU

[@casualcronolv99]

I hope some of it helps!

[@MrIZod007]

say hypothetically you don't have AS Radias or even 5 star Prai, what tank would you recommend?

[@casualcronolv99]

Hm, excellent question. Even the hold ground status would only be good for one of those hits. Seven7AE pulled it off with Starky and a 255 light Aldo. His video is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppW3qoRnlLuMa6s Another example which is RNG dependent is this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJPUZ2Swa9N7qrs It involves a max-dodge Heena and a tanky Aldo (who also has 255 light, the gear setup is in the description). Apparently the most Heena can get up to is 90% dodge if the comments are correct, so that means she'll likely take a hit every now and then. As much as I hate to say it, there's a few fights in this game that more or less require a meta or near-meta without resorting to a huge gift from the RNG gods. Prai is the easiest to get, since most people have a 4* version of him, so taking some time to get him to 5* may be the quickest option if you can't reproduce what the above people did. My Aldo only has 50 light, so a lot of these kinds of fights I can't reproduce very accurately. In this fight's case, if you don't have any way to tank it at all, the next best bet would be to debuff evil Aldo as much as possible so he doesn't hit nearly as hard. Korobo will shave off 25% of his power if you use any fire attack, and if you have other debuffers and/or barrier providers, you might be able to outlast Aldo. The main benefit of tanks like AS Radias is that you can ignore damage reduction strategies because of her chivalry, so if you can get the job done in 2-3 turns, she's perfect. Otherwise, beefing up your defenses and significantly reducing the enemy's power in prep for a long drawn-out fight is probably your best bet, without knowing who else you have on your team.

[@unknownmsa3968]

So basically its impossible without iphi?

[@casualcronolv99]

Not impossible, it kinda depends on who you have. You'll see that (at the 7:08 mark) I three-manned it without Iphi, but it is due to having Radias AS. I did Hard and VH without Iphi. She definitely helps though.