Gertrude vs Budget Team [] Octopath Traveler: CotC

[@16SF]

Amazing job, my dude! I felt that prayer to RNGesus xD I got lucky first try with a new team organization and bagged a 13 turn clear without Alfyn, Therion or newcomer Molu (God bless Cyrus's attack power and Lynette's ability to 30% fire debuff is all I have to say).

[@EmpyreanSky]

Wow! That is incredible! Do post the clear, I'd love to see it!

[@16SF]

@@EmpyreanSky Check out Dj GriM's channel, I used his video as reference! I just replaced Ri'tu & Agnes with H'aanit & Theo. Midway RNG forced me to deviate from the plan but I still managed to end at 13 turns like him. P.S. He also has non-whale clears for the latest level 100 NPCs. Extremely impressive with our current gear.

[@EmpyreanSky]

@@16SF Oooh then I should check it out, because I haven't been able to clear those yet.

[@jonathancook1731]

What an amazing clear! Right at 30 turns too! We need these videos out there to show players it can be done with less than maxed out A4 5*s.

[@EmpyreanSky]

Thank you for the kind words! Been trying to do that since the launch of this game. My first videos was defeating the Battle-Tested Weapon keepers with 4 stars. But I don't know how visible I am in this fringe corner of KZbin.

[@pitcoles_maximus]

Wow, that final part was so dramatic, any second of the final phase was cardiac. Good job as always.

[@EmpyreanSky]

Thank you! And, I know! Had Ri'tu survived it would have ended much sooner!

[@tc65311]

awesome clear. i always like to see people take up the challenge as the underdog and win, such as this.

[@xerosu22]

nice content as always..cant imagine how many runs for this haha

[@EmpyreanSky]

29! Just within the Ri'tu tier 1 reward x)

[@rmachado1987]

@@EmpyreanSky I think he meant, how many tries to get a clear! But GG man, nicely done as usual

[@EmpyreanSky]

@@rmachado1987 Oh yeah. Um, that number is too huge to be contained on the internet.

[@chandandharana7492]

Thanks for the video! I used therion, scarecrow and agnes instead of viola, ashlan and merritt respectively, but the general strategy worked!

[@EmpyreanSky]

Gald to hear! Was a bit worried it wouldn't work with better units, so thanks for the feedback!

[@joshzhuang2149]

great stuff for F2P. very inspiring. got through first try by following your strategy. just replaced those 4* except kurtz with Zaanta, Haanit, crow, theo. A3 kurtz. all others A0 to A2.

[@EmpyreanSky]

Nice! congratulations! :D

[@birbtheworldender2673]

Amazing job! It must be so hard to clear this with 4 stars

[@EmpyreanSky]

Yes it is (probably) impossible right now. You come to a point where she heals herself more than you can do damage. The fight is a DPS check, hence I needed help from Viola, Ri'tu and Glossom.

[@chazhang]

Great video! Loved learning about the HP threshold for her AoE cleave/heal. Super impressed that you managed to do this with only a single gacha 5*!

[@EmpyreanSky]

Thank you! :D Yeah they seem to be exactly at the 75% (for shield boost), 50% and 30%. It was very difficult (took me 8 hours lol). It just shows how impossible a pure 4 star clear is atm. DPS check fights with a lot of RNG is a volatile combination for undeveloped roster.

[@sagemastermania7169]

My main issue was just trying to survive this fight even though I basically had 2 and a half dps (because Lynette could at least 20k against Gertrude when broken under the cap of fire resistance and elemental defense). Alfyn makes a huge difference in this fight though enabling my Cyrus and Ri’tu to do more damage in a short amount of time.

[@foxmccoffee]

Awesome, i finally cleared her thanks to this strat. however i admit i was lucky, she only healed once so it could have been way worse. i think this will be the first champion i wont repeat to read the memoir, i will just wait until i can farm her easly. great work as always!

[@EmpyreanSky]

Ah congrats! :D

[@mrsmokestack1129]

nice job

[@laxus7172]

😭 it seems the reason I keep dying is because of bad rng and also too much dps too quickly 😭

[@EmpyreanSky]

Yeah it's good to halt the her last phase until you are able to break through it entirely.

[@laxus7172]

​@@EmpyreanSky speaking of, I actually JUST recently beat her 😭😭😭😭 I used the party comp from your video with some modifications

[@laxus7172]

​@Empyrean Sky also that's exactly what I did. I cut back dps and when I broke her that last time, she was G O N E

[@EmpyreanSky]

@@laxus7172 Congratulations :D She is a tough fight for sure!