SMT V: Vengeance Level 999 Challenge Mode - Battles For Humanity Alone Solo (Hard)

[@Ziroikabi]

The attempt count for this was surprisingly low but I definitely got much better at fighting Lucifer as well as getting pretty good luck on the whole which allowed me to pretty much auto-pilot most of the battle very quickly. Had a few resets off being too greedy with Figment Slashes and wasting mp so I tried to play with just Yabusame Shots for as long as possible but knowing every attempt could die to Trucifer Phase 2 to a crit I could not control made me a bit impatient but luckily my aggression in a lot of turns was rewarded. Particularly with the Dread Glitch giving him a perma evasion debuff. I may fight a few Vengeance Route ones that DONT involve Trucy and just the regular version but the only thing that can really top this is just the other Trucy Virtual Trainers which I do not feel like doing. It's proven to be doable if someone wants to try... but not me personally :)

[@SharKing319]

Tsukuyomi's "There's no dodging this." line was already a meme in base SMT5, and Luminescent Mirage makes it even more of a joke. I'm kinda surprised they didn't change it in Vengeance, especially since they gave the protagonist a completely different line for Moonlight Frost.

[@Ziroikabi]

So true lmao and it literally comes from Tsukuyomi Essence

[@steam-powereddolphin5449]

@@Ziroikabi For Moonlight Frost, Nahobino Tsukuyomi could have echoed the "Your fate's already sealed!" line that Kei gets when using the playable version of the skill. I'm not quite sure if this is still true, but the Sempiternal Vengeance mod supposedly makes the boss version of Moonlight Frost 255% accurate, making "There's no dodging this!" actually accurate, barring use of Luminescent Mirage (supposedly turned into a Magatsuhi skill?) in NG+...

[@kaiserkreuz2110]

THE KING CLAPS AGAIN!

[@Ziroikabi]

@@kaiserkreuz2110 Thanksss :)

[@kaiserkreuz2110]

@@Ziroikabi You're welcome! I'm wondering why you didn't use Figment Slash at the end of your turns against Lucifer. AI baiting?

[@Ziroikabi]

@@kaiserkreuz2110 Since he resists physical and i have zealot it actually does the same damage as Yabusame shot lmao 😭 its like 30 damage higher. and I really need crits not just for the press turn but for mp from high restore. His AI is super goofy weirdly not hitting him for like 4,5 turns total means he uses Diarama except for the scripted turns when he’s at 25% and 1%

[@kaiserkreuz2110]

@@Ziroikabi I completely forgot about the Pierce effect lol, nevermind me. Also, thanks for sticking with me on Eisheth yesterday. I'll probably go live again today and finish Khonsu off. Soon gonna have to see if the wall is too high or if the fights are still manageable. 17 fights left, and hoping it finishes at level 69 lol.

[@Ziroikabi]

@@kaiserkreuz2110 No prob! I've been watching a lot of the streams just lurking while doing my own thing lol. I'm not sure what stats you'll end up at tbh. For my solo low level run i was 63 for Metatron. I stacked my vitality a LOT on level ups which made it semi reasonable to survive paired with good affinities but I think it might be super annoying since you're doing mandatory only and can't switch Naho's to be a good sponge. I have faith tho!

[@UltearM]

Are you okay lmaoo? Do you need help? I haven’t seen anyone do the 999s yet let alone solo holy shit

[@Ziroikabi]

KaiserKreuz has done them at 999! And yes I probably do need help lmao

[@kaiserkreuz2110]

@@Ziroikabi Someone asked me the exact same thing after I was done with all 18 challenges lol

[@jaffinator2166]

Here I am not able to beat level 700 Agrat 😭. Amazing job man!

[@Ziroikabi]

@@jaffinator2166 I would happily lose to her anyday 💜

[@Legendaryyy77]

bro is just goated

[@Ziroikabi]

I have a personal grudge to make an example against every form of Lucifer in every game now LOL

[@A4rk]

dude, please make a video showing how you fused your archangel's abilities to reflect the reaper's attacks

[@Ziroikabi]

@@A4rk It’s already thoroughly explained in the pinned comment and description. It took over 100 hours so I don’t wanna go through all that again lol

[@A4rk]

@@Ziroikabi Ah I understand, it's because in writing it was a bit confusing to understand, but thanks for the tip

[@Ziroikabi]

@@A4rk The best way I can explain it is every skill in the game has a tier/rank 1-9. Whenever you do a fusion there is a small chance for the game to say you will get a skill change, this is called skill mutating. If you accept it will change a skill. What actually happens is it takes a random skill and improves it by 1 tier. It's random and you never know what you will get but it will always go up by a tier. Fusion Calculator: aqiu384.github.io/megaten-fusion-tool/p3r/skills If you use that it shows the rank/tier of every skill in the game. So you get 2 random personas, lets just assume they only have 1 skill and its a tier 1. You fuse into a new persona (it doesnt matter what it is) if the skill change doesn't pop up you reload back and try again, eventually it will work and your tier 1 is now a random tier 2. You then take this new persona and combine it with another, do the same thing save and load until a mutation happens, say yes and it will change the tier 2 to a random tier 3 skill. Of course in this scenario we are assuming the persona only has 1 skill but in reality you have a lot of skills on each one so when the skill change happens it may not change the right skill so you just need to reload more. But in theory you just fuse till tier 1 goes to 2, fuse again till it goes to tier 3, then 4 then 5 then 6. Repel skills are tier 7. So now you do the same thing with the tier 6 skill, fuse the persona that has it with any other persona. Eventually it will mutate to a tier 7 but we need a SPECIFIC skill so you have to reload a lot until it changes into the exact skill you need. It can take multiple days of trying if you are unlucky its tedious. Eventually you will get it to change into Repel Slash for example. Now you have 1 skill you want. Fuse this persona with another and MAKE SURE to pass down the skill you have otherwise you will lose it. This time you want the skill change to happen for another skill and you start over at tier 1 going up to 2 and then all the way to 6, everytime passing down repel slash. Then you have to save scum over and over until the new tier 6 goes exactly into Repel Strike. Now you do the entire process again but passing down Repel Slash and Repel Strike down every single fusion and picking a new skill that you want to mutate. You can pass down a maximum of 4 skills by fusion so thats why I only had 4 good skills and the other 4 had to come from skill cards because you literally cannot do it for more than 4. (You can actually do 5 but that's only if your persona is a special fusion. I needed Archangel specifically so I couldn't do 5). After well over 100 hours of painful save scumming you should have the 4 skills you need. In my case Repel Slash, Strike, Pierce and Null Dark. Some skills can be more annoying to get because certain personas cannot inherit them like Jack Frost is ice so you cant pass down Fire to him via fusion but since all my skills are just passives any persona can learn them so its easier. Now I have all 4 skills on a persona (it doesnt matter what persona) all I did was go on the fusion calculator and find a fusion path to get the persona I had to fuse into Archangel while passing down all 4 moves. Then I used the skill cards I obtained to give it the other 4. It is highly inefficient to do this. It would literally be quicker to just casually play the game and kill the reaper that way lmao. I only did this because my friend who datamined the game found this exploit and I was working with speed runners to find an early reaper kill for the route and that's what we came up with... unfortunately its too luck based to ever work quick enough. Hope that kinda helps at least

[@A4rk]

​@@ZiroikabiDamn, you really helped a lot, but as you needed around 100 hours to fuse these skills, I think it's better to test this in another save, but thanks, it helped a lot

[@madokamagica8678]

Nice run!! I was also interested in eventually doing these level 999 challenges after completing the endings ( I think you need to complete all endings to get them all?) and I was wondering if there was any site you used to find the stats/resistances for the bosses if they change from normal to level 999? Or are the weaknesses the same and just the stats/skills change? Thanks if anyone has any info on this :D

[@Ziroikabi]

@@madokamagica8678 The only difference between them is the 999 versions have heavily inflated stats. (Even with 999 vitality you can see in this video True Lucifers Freikugel does 1200 damage lol which means the only way I can survive 1 is if I use a muscle drink to get over maximum hp by 30% Their weakness are the exact same and in general the AI is as well. The only difference other than raw stats is they get 1 extra press turn than the story boss version and have a passive called Impalers Revenge. Which if they hit a null/repel/drain have a 30% chance to be automatically given Impalers Animus so blindly Nulling without a strategy will often lead to you dying and you’re basically required to be 999 in all stats to be able to survive with a full team. I forget their stats exactly but you can spyglass them and it will show you. The early fights aren’t too bad but after a few you see enemies with 999 in some stats and by now most of them are completely maxed out!

[@madokamagica8678]

​@@Ziroikabi This is some very scary but helpful information; looks like I'm going to really need to prepare myself for these fights later even with a party of strong demons, thanks for the explanation on the changes :D

[@Ziroikabi]

@@madokamagica8678 No problem!! They aren't too bad if you are familiar with the story mode bosses and have a good team. To unlock level 999 you need to beat the level 100 challenge, then it ups the level by 100 each time so 200, 300, 400 and ends at 999 so it takes a while

[@GRiznitDShiznit]

Hacker.(bad joke)

[@Ziroikabi]

@@GRiznitDShiznit Lol please explain how thanks. I love it when some rando with 0 game knowledge comments this with no further explanation. More than happy to address any comments but maybe ask a question if you’re confused not just discredit weeks of work 👍

[@Eidelinn]

Lol literally how? Bro is mad he sucks

[@GRiznitDShiznit]

It was a joke it was a joke I'll delete if you want. I subbed. Very impressive!

[@GRiznitDShiznit]

I've only gotten as far a beating Demi-Fiend my first playthrough on Hard mode, I couldn't beat Satan though. I'm just not doing enough damage it seems. Was gonna build my stats up in NG+.