Hello Minto-chan. I think in the first game, you said that if you missed Elementman's grass stage, you'd lose. Is sanctuary so strong? Or is it because you had no other chip to remove it?
The premise is that the “Holy Panel” generated by the “Sanctuary” chip halves the damage. The countermeasure is to overwrite or destroy the “Holy Panel” with another panel. I'm not the person who made this assumption, so I'm just guessing. ・At best, the situation is even from an advantageous situation. ・The “Element Man SP” chips are harder to match to the target attribute than the “Element Man” chips, so he might have thought that he might not be able to match to the grass attribute. ・However, there was no way to completely remove the “Holy Panel” as the “Element Man” chip did. Even if they failed, they would have used the falling rocks of the “Graega” chip to partially destroy the “Holy Panels”.
Holy Panels are very strong. If you can destroy them there's no problem, but if you can't destroy them you'll have to think much more when dealing damage, and you'll be closer to losing.