This is a _very_ different approach than the one I took, which was never letting the king even use his super attack in the first place by hitting health thresholds too quickly
ohohoohohohoho i DID after doing this with 4000 more loops and a bunch more battles to get a proper attempt <3333 that one doesn't have commentary but there are some strange things that happen in the fight that probably shouldn't
...I'm pretty sure I've whittled away at the king's hp so fast that he never actually gets a chance to do the "instakill" attack before the next phase starts, but I never would have thought to beat him this way..... ...very interesting discovery!!!
@@All54321 it's his first real attack, but he always waits for several turns before performing that move. If you boost everyone's speed with memories + make up the time or thyme juice and also slow the king down, you can get around 3-4 ish party turns for every king turn, which when combined with increased attack and strategic move choice absolutely shreds his health before he even has a chance to unleash the attack. In practice he just waits around for a few turns, gets scared, and then creates a tear shield without ever unleashing his first attack. I don't think i've ever managed to skip the second instakill one, but it's probably possible...
@@niczic123 it says that he immediately does the attack if you do not have _access_ to adorable moving shield, not if you do not have it active. As long as mirabelle knows the skill, you don't actually have to use it and you can still completely skip the attack.
@@lunarnightingales8651 sorry that's what i meant, so no matter how quickly you kill the king if you don't learn the shield craft he'll always instakill unless of course you do it like in the video
I wonder if theres anything different in the other parts of the game if you do this! Probably not, but its hilarious you can beat King without any type of shield
insertdisk5 said the reason nothing happens at 1k loops is because they dont want to encourage anyone to put in all that effort just for some dialogue, so id assume this is similar
if you’ve got nothing else going on HIGHLY recommend, super draining but super worth it when you get to stick your tongue out in the face of death and just survive
after rewatching the video i can't believe i didn't even notice this: strangely enough although the king's tear phase never SEEMINGLY triggers, apparently its heal does? which is so weird to me??? so like the game doesn't expect us to survive that long so it doesn't even trigger the phase </3 anyhow hope y'all enjoyed watching me sequence break the game!!!! hope y'all will try beating the game without mira's shield at some point too, it's a super fun but also super draining experience-
Thanks for checking this out! Interesting possibilities here I'll be curious to see if these are more effective with the speed up effect going, it'd be less frantic revivals starting out.
this is FASCINATING what. doing this at lv49 is a BOLD choice for one. the unique dialogue of siffrin's hubris killing everybody. incredible. incredible. now the question is, will siffrin ever learn to stop the witticisms or is this just a hard stop to shieldless attempts.
good news and bad news! bad news is that siffrin never learns from his mistake and sticks out his tongue at the king every time, good news is that it only happens once per battle and is relatively avoidable!