IW-EX-8 + Challenge Mode | Low End Squad |【Arknights】

This strategy is made by using really common operators and easy to substitute.
It's not essential to follow the steps perfectly.
Adjust the strategies a little bit for yourself to suit your own team comp better.
Arknights - Invitation To Wine:
• Arknights - Invitation...
Arknights - Main Story Levels:
• Arknights - Main Story...
Arknights - Main Story Levels Challenge Mode:
• Arknights - Main Story...
Arknights - Supplies Levels:
• Arknights - Supplies L...
Arknights - Chips Levels:
• Arknights - Chips Levels
Arknights - Annihilation:
• Arknights - Annihilation
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[@kieruvain]

If Kyo says "In theory" or "I hope so", I immediately close the game and try to forget clearing a stage

[@Rin-ix9dl]

I really like how Ethan becomes MVP in this event

[@YusufSutarko]

He’s MVP in almost of the stages in this event actually.. hehe

[@danielcipriano5455]

Him and passenger are a blessing in this event

[@frasinescucristian1175]

Guys, don't forget about nightmare skill 2

[@reekz5320]

And the good thing is we don't need a luck in gacha to get him in case we don't have him

[@Platinumsensenniageru]

Yea the fact that it is the number of hits that matters makes it essential

[@tempota7792]

A few notes about Gravel usage: For killing the wisps: she's picked for more than just her attack speed. Why her, over all other FREDs? Bc she's the only one of her type who hits twice per attack. Helpful for all stages before this. Placement: if using her to bait the melee Thunder and the tailspear stabs, make sure Gravel is the left most melee Op at all times. That's how the boss prioritizes who to shaft.

[@someonewhospams0w0inchat16]

dont care 😈

[@noiko4418]

Me who use normal chen: only one who hit twice per atk hmmmmm???

[@ペムペム]

@@noiko4418 bet so long dont read. The op mean in her "type" specialist not a guard chen

[@enanan4]

i always thought her hitting twice was just an attack animation and it only actually does damage once. good to know that she is secretly a sword master

[@irvanmaulana941]

@@someonewhospams0w0inchat16 thank you

[@T2146US]

10:26 Even Myrtle also exhausted trying to beat this stage

[@jkatt8918]

we and our device all wanna collapse sometimes during this event

[@bananeeek8376]

You can switch Click with Amiya S3 and let her stay on the top tile, activate Chimera skill when the boss appears for the third time and Amiya with Surtr will evaporate it in a matter of seconds, no need to redeploy Surtr.

[@sigmapion5040]

Thank you for all your work.

[@zenmode3125]

1:50 nice, Kyo deserves this break more than anyone!

[@eclaireeeest]

To those that find this stage hard, if you have SA, just bring him, even if you don't use him. I experienced having the boss exploded a lot of times, which is really frustrating just because Surtr's redeployment was so lacking so having SA with his first talent (decreases the redeployment time of all allies for 10%, I think) will really help a lot.

[@Arbiteto]

who is SA?

[@eclaireeeest]

@@Arbiteto silver ash

[@Arbiteto]

oh nvm i got it

[@kibunjojo4499]

Does SA need to be deployed for his talent to work or as long as he is in squad?

[@eclaireeeest]

@@kibunjojo4499 no iirc

[@seecresy]

Have a great break Kyo, and thank you very much for your hard work.

[@biohazard9314]

A few tips cuz I was losing my mind on cm mode. If you can fit chalter onto your team, on the 3rd boss part you can place chalter on the top right side, during the fire phase. Her skill should be up when the boss revives and really helps boost damage onto the boss. I was able to kill the boss in one surtr rotation with her. Also healers can be a bit confusing, if you’re finding your surtr does not have enough damage during the first phase, try changing up your helidrop dps and your healer skill. (Ie shining s1 put in more work then s3 for me on this stage) Final tip, blue poison and leizi are really really good at destroying the flames on this stage, consider giving leizi a try, because you can run her at lvl 1 as long as your only using her to kill flames.

[@unbakedpotato7798]

Just wanted to say, thank you so much for all the guides that you do for Arknights! I have been consulting your guides for a long time, and generally have no issues with your guides (even with my expensive operators). Thanks to them, I don't have to spend my nights banging my head against stages spending sanity (both in-game and in real life), and can afford not to burn out in this game! This event was particularly annoying for me with the hit-X-times mechanic, and I had lots in life to take care of, so thanks to you I can clear all the stages + medal before the event runs out :) Enjoy your well-deserved break!

[@byno3862]

Enjoy your well earned break Kyo! I feel bad for you, overworking like this, but at the same time, I'm so greatful, since it it wasn't for you, I wouldn't complete any stages in this event, despite being level 113.

[@alexmatusevich6553]

Learning from Kyo and get better yourself,otherwise whats the point of this game, waifu? damn boy, 113 lv

[@byno3862]

@@alexmatusevich6553 Yes, the point of this game is waifu and story for me. I like beating the stages myself, but I know my limits

[@SukienniceS]

Thank you for the guide, Kyo! With the help of some adjustments some comments proposed (using Ifrit and Amiya) I finally manged to beat the stage! And I finally E2ed my Ethan, he deserves it as MVP of this event lmao

[@fuyumi2493]

I've been waiting for this all day. Thank you kyo!!! Rest well!!!

[@lunav7347]

Thanks so much for your work :) your guide really helps a lot

[@inspiredneko7185]

Ptilopsis can greatly extend Surtr's time in the battlefield. She can almost outheal Surtr's HP drain just enough to land a few blows to kill the boss

[@despi7037]

Congrats King, you deserve the trip!

[@Alexwantsbacon]

Thank you for the guide! It helped me on the last day of the event. Have a nice vacation, Kyo!

[@Another_Dusk]

Godssenger being so OP that he gave his s3 to this boss 🙏

[@kael070]

thanks for the guiadance, amiya s3 and some texas spam really helped me

[@gameldon7077]

Lord Kyo finally touches grass??? jk Have a great time out there and thank you for the guides!

[@diegoflores2102]

Nice run Kyo, thanks for the excelent guides. Enjoy your vacations!!! ☺

[@CdGeste]

thx for the guide Kyo, i have adjusted the comp with saria & nearlter and it works flawlessly

[@hardVatsuki]

thank you so much, I just completed this stage with challenge mode and thanks to your guide, this stage was quite insane! I used almost all same characters, except for Shirayuki - I replaced her with alter Kroos with second skill, it worked out nicely.

[@aethermax4695]

Ifrit is also a very useful DotT operator with S2, or her S3 can be used to debuff the boss and kill it faster.

[@luizgustavo1494]

This boss was so hard to my account, thank you so much for the tutorial king ❤

[@soliddaddy2448]

Happy Vacation, thank you for all your guide👏👏🙏🙏

[@cheesyminer]

I thought I could do it myself the first few tries. That is until I realized the boss had an F-U I Win button that the game didn't bother to warn us about anywhere in the Enemy description. Now I'm here. Thank you. Enjoy your break.

[@chrisczz]

enjoy the holiday! thank you for the videos!

[@kadse2994]

Thank you Kyo for this strategy. This one was the most useful i could find here. I was losing my mind in challenge mode after many tries but took Chalter as support unit to deal more damage in the 3rd phase because that phase was the most annoying due to time pressure. Thanks to you my medal set for this event is now completed

[@Mati-kun]

I think this is my first comment, even though I watch you from a very long time. So, thank you for all the guides you made this far and the many many more you will make in the future. There really a lifesaver when one starts losing his real live sanity over a stage. Hope you rested well and had a fun time with your friends

[@nikolamatasin3877]

Finally done it thanks to your clear. I think really important for me was "additional DP unit", which was Ifrit. Placed her as early as possible, 2 squares to the right of where you've Deployed Surtr the last time. That way she deals with a lot of mobs and items flying around, deals damage to all 3 boss phases, and before 3rd boss phase, she also deals some damage to Wisps coming in from the Left side of the Ball

[@RagnaFenrir]

I dont get what am I doing wrong, Utage gets one-shotted and Surtr holds just right but whenever I'm close to killing the boss it ends the run. My team is in no way underleveled. I dont understand

[@randx1075]

there a time limit on this stage you auto lose the stage when the time runs out

[@discordinc]

Thank you for the guide! Rest well!

[@ssamirs1881]

Nice, I hope you have a great vacation and rest well! Thank you for everything :D

[@sebastianrochefort6763]

Hope you had a lovely vacation!

[@borrow4654]

As someone who once went in the comment to say that a strategy isnt working, one word of advice to newcomers: be patient, and take your time. Everything works perfectly fine Thank you Kyo for what you are doing for this community. I hope you are enjoying your vacations! It is truly well earned. Much love

[@MINEcRAft0WY]

I tried the first part atleast dozen times now. For whatever the reason, my ethan isn't dealing enough ticks during the early stage (He is the only lvl 1) so this is hella annoying. My dragon starts with 140% health with the very same setup and I'm losing my mind since EX stages were added.

[@borrow4654]

@@MINEcRAft0WY did you managed to solve it in the end? I would have guessed that a lv1 Ethan might require some rng in order to work. Mine was e1 lv 50 with his skills lv 7 and never leaked anything with him

[@MINEcRAft0WY]

@@borrow4654 I just made a buff army with Surtr and used Amiya S3 and anything good I had to throw at this boss. Somehow I made it but it was A LOT of tries.

[@MINEcRAft0WY]

@@borrow4654 As in, the boss had plenty of HP from leaking spirits but thanks to Aak and buff company, it was not an issue.

[@kdjregis4456]

Have a fun trip and enjoy your vacation! Thanks for the guide Kyo 😊

[@rediscute4826]

Thanks for all effort, have some good rest

[@NT-pz1qn]

Thanks for the guide Kyo, melted the boss with Schwarz, Nearl Alter, Eyja and Surtr

[@prizim9468]

Thanks for all the effort

[@beerensguillaume442]

Thank you for the deepest part of my soul KYO. I finally completed an event for the first time 🥳

[@AndoaintheMartyr]

Finally Kyo can touch some grass... Thank you for your hard work...

[@alexandersebela370]

I wouldn't call playing games as a hard work, these guide definitely help but he can choose when to play the game (do guides).

[@esoteric1212]

@@alexandersebela370 he has to upload it fast to earn views...that's why he's speedrunning and not sleeping....which is hard work

[@CorvoA77ano]

@@alexandersebela370You have no idea how hard it is to come up with beginner friendly strategies in a game liks this. It's just as much hard work as a stressful day at an office job.

[@yua_lo13]

thank you so much kyo san!

[@samigelcantona8071]

Thanks for all guide for this event

[@gwen.mp4]

nice to have free break, enjoy your vacation!

[@incorrectaxis550]

Literally went from happy to sad, I feel so bad for you overworking on Arknights and Genshin. Have fun on your vacation!

[@cyrene03]

have fun on your vacation!!

[@monoq_]

Nice work Kyo. Have a nice trip with your friend.

[@viscounttentacles131]

I couldn't complete because of my levels. Stil, thanks for all the guides and enjoy the break

[@gho5trun3r68]

I love how Kyo is like I can finally go outside. Someone took the chains off of him from his computer to only making Arknights and Genshin content for the last 3 years and now he's free to see his friends again. The world has changed: Russia is trying to start WW3 on its own. Covid came and sort of went. The world is hot, but with less sun. Electric cars are zipping around a bit more frequently. There's a Top Gun sequel. GameStop was relevant briefly, but not in the way you'd think. Welcome back to the world, Kyo.

[@paketik2670]

Thank you for your work

[@JackKeph716]

Thanks for your hard work!

[@muragienryl4213]

Have fun going to the Amusement Park, Lord Kyo!

[@jactinglim]

Thanks for this!

[@arandomguy4816]

I tried this with warf s2 in place of sussuro coz I thought "more damage is good" then lost coz surtr killed boss too fast for ethan to redeploy. it was kinda funny

[@byno3862]

You can have Silverash in your team if redeployment is an issue for you, like it was for me. He reduces all redeployment time by 10%

[@zzamumo5302]

warfain s1 is really big for surtr here since he heals a percentage of max hp, so your surtr can survive a little longer to deal more damage

[@byno3862]

@@zzamumo5302 She

[@frasinescucristian1175]

Nightmare skill 2 has really op damage over time

[@theseekingsankta3106]

I didn't realize how strong the Healing of Nearl's S2 is until I used it in this stage. I took her instead of Spot and when I used her Skill to heal Surtr she completely outhealed her HP loss. Also at the end when the Boss shoots these lasers and makes all the tiles undeployable, I put Nearl beneath Surtr and used her Skill again, not only did she survive the Laser, but she also healed Surtr, which gave me 1 extra tile to deploy someone to damage the Boss. Either Nearl is secretly an OP Medic or it's just the Coral Coast Skin😂

[@thunderconcerto9807]

Always amaze me how you cleverly cleared all these stages

[@tonyl8508]

I don't understand the issue here, I followed the guide to a T, used my maxed Eyja and borrowed a maxed Surtr, I'm not on challenge mode and the s*** lizard still won't die, like the last round barely dropped him to 1/2 health

[@EbiKatsu87]

Make sure you kill all fire thing, If you let them absorbed by bosses, he'll get doubled health bar

[@burushifudara]

Accidentally ativated Surtr's skill whem activating Shirayuki's because of lag, damn XD Luckily SilverAsh carried the last bit to compensate my idiocy

[@Somtaaw7]

Thank you lord kyo!

[@LauRaian]

totally helped, thank you

[@subaru5185]

Kyo~ I am really happy that you will finally go to vacation it love it when you talk about your live you should do it more often if you feel comfortable

[@SunnydewMC]

If you screw up at the last parts, you can keep the medic and medic defender until all of your units are placed because the medic defender will be able to stall

[@toonchan7403]

Thanks a lot! my lord

[@syntienmerilla4602]

Fartooth instead of click on the last stage melts the boss. S3, M3

[@retize5625]

Finally kyo gonna touch some grass

[@silhouette9699]

NTR is SO MUCH help in this stage. If you have lvl60 m3s2 module lvl2 NTR she can solo the 3rd phase after Surtr is dead

[@kero2422]

Sui-Xiang sure has amazing art but fighting her is really something different

[@Bing35P]

god this is annoying, when i practice, everything goes well, when i don't shit gets fucked, i gotta watch this

[@angvinhxuyen4495]

Thank you very much,Kyo. I can feel your neck

[@anluzdom6086]

MY SAVIOURRRRRRR

[@Sheppart92]

I failed now a 3rd Time already, i even use Nearl the Radiant Knight E2 Lvl 40 for extra DPS with a E2 Lvl 90 Surtr, Mastery 3 for her 3rd Skill from the Support etc but the Boss always triggers the Explosion in the End, no matter how fast i try to do Things, and im only in the Normal EX Mode (not even Challenge Mode), it really starts to get frustrating ^^

[@lazzerex8779]

Saria skill 3 can help somewhat maybe?

[@Sheppart92]

@@lazzerex8779 I only play since 3 Months, so i dont have Saria. Nearl the Radiant Light at E2 Lvl 40 is already my highest leveld Operator i myself have.

[@Scj10]

Weird, it worked for me. The only big changes that I made were using Ceobe instead of Click (She probably did quite a bit of damage during the second phase tbf but she died pretty fast at the last stage of the boss), Angelina s2 instead of Podenco (Her only job was to kill fires so other than the extra regen and small attack speed it should not matter that much), and also used Nearl Alter S2 (Mine is not even E2). The Surtr I borrowed was only E2 lv 70 and my Ethan E1 Lv0, You are probably stalling for too long or failing to kill the fires. The only problem that I had was that I was not able to kill the boss fast enough at the end and I had to re-deploy Surtr. I also failed 3 times following Eckogen guide tbf, really hate this boss and could not bother clearing it without using a guide, but this one worked first try.

[@Sheppart92]

i defeated all the Flames, used my Amiya E2 lvl 30 first skill instead of Click, Ethan is E1 lvl 20 with skill lvl 7, Nearl sadly cant survive long enough to activate her 3rd skill.. i dont even know if i Stall to long or not.

[@Scj10]

@@Sheppart92 Use Nearlter S2, she will be able to take some hits and do decent damage. Use gravel to tank the tail attacks. Eckogen used Amiya S3 so it might also work here but not sure how it will translate into this strategy, other than that I am not sure. which other 6 stars do you have? . I was probably just a few seconds away from dying as well, idk If I will attempt CM honestly. Wait...now that I think about it your problem is probably that your Amiya is taking to long to kill the big guys before the second phase of the boss, improving there might help.

[@asaurusrex9165]

Barely finished it with this

[@minhtoanhuynh6768]

have a nice vacation time sir! You did well.

[@Zarrow1]

Somehow this was the only stage after IW-EX-3 I did both normal and challenge mode on first try blind (only cheating from your videos was realizing how busted Ethan was during IW-EX-5). Certainly interesting event, but not too difficult overall.

[@TuskyDusky1]

thanks for the guide!!! i just add saria s3 to burst it faster

[@prozacx]

Thank you for guides

[@denisuya]

Lol, i didn't see the melee tile behind the boss all this time Anyway, have a well rest!

[@nandapratama4529]

Thank you so much for this guide, i keep restarting because i either forgot to retreat ethan or my bottom left side operator dies because of the thunder strikes. I hope you have a good night sleep and a happy holiday!

[@ItzMeKiyo]

why do I lose in the last phase even though I still have ops? and even my Surtr is still alive, the dragon just automatically does the stupid roar thing and I lose...

[@ЕгорМорозов-м5ъ]

Timer - 9 minutes max

[@mikusakura9466]

Passed! Love you.

[@jamessilva1259]

Uhh, that was hard. But I got it. Thanks KYO! Your the best!

[@edNdr]

Reminder. There's a trimmed medal challenge too.

[@NA-Unmei]

I used blaze instead of spot and it worked quite well

[@yaqinmalul1364]

Speedrun this boss is so fun

[@reifaru5358]

Happy holiday kyo

[@nightcoreimouto7803]

Finally, i hear kyo not say "really really easy"

[@SunnydewMC]

8:39 if you don't place an operator here you will immediately lose

[@НовогодняяЕлочка-й1у]

I have surtur 90 M3 but she can’t kill the boss in the first part. She left him 40% HP and the she died

[@flixomer351]

Deploy dualistic guard or any strong guard like Skadi

[@iwillzpwnu5686]

finally manage to finish thanks to Chalter giving a little more push

[@flaux8661]

1:45 finally,kyo can now touch grass(nah,just joking),im happy for you though.

[@gwynimpostor]

Kyo touching grass ! impossible!

[@Yumiesthetic]

if u guys want trimmed medal, just watch other guides in YT

[@svenn5449]

Can you do for the medal?

[@stevenwolfe3610]

I must've killed too many wisps because i didn't get the medal, must be because i used alter kroos

[@Tsuyoshi_Ronin]

Thank you for all the guide on this IW Event Kyo-sama 👏🏼✨ hope you get well rested and have fun on your vacation later . We hope too see you around next time 👋🏼 to all Dokutah, GLHF 🤝🏼✨ We got Dragon to slay .

[@mitsuki2810]

Have a good break King.

[@edber111]

Enjoy your vacation!!!