Annihilation 5 - Frozen Abandoned City | High End Squad |【Arknights】 

Kyo: During the entire battle Whisperain didn't rest for a moment, keep healing Thorny. Her arm must hurt so much. Thorns: *gets frozen infinite times during the whole battle*

Alternative title: Mountain chilling as war rages behind him.

14:30 Ahh yes, my favorite specialist, "Specialist fast redeploy Silverash".

The wonky layering from Thorn's ability makes Lappland look like she's wearing a spikey crown. Or makes her look like a Wo-class.

"Purestream, because she's more cute" *mouses over her thighs*

Whisperain's talent + Blaze's talent gives Blaze an auto-regen skill like Thorns as long as she's within the range of Whisperain. Mine survived so many ice weeb attacks because of that. LOL

Annihilation 5 Low End Squad : *Block the spiders, activiate skill here. we can wait for the 2 herald to push together, BE VERY CAREFUL HERE* Annihilation 5 High End Squad : *Just spawn kill them*

Lol, Kevin drop down and see Blaze with a burning chainsaw so he dropped straight down the escape tunnel

7:31 Lumen foreshadowing

Kyo asking for operator that can remove negative effect. And Yes now we have Lumen 🤣

I just like the Heralds and Casters big brain move to sneak around the backline... ... only to promptly be met with a 6ft tall anthropomorphic tiger, who is currently kicked back listening to smooth jazz and sipping on imported wine.

Doktah: lets go Surtr, we have another mission... Surtr: I'm going to play a big role in this mission. Doktah not deploy me yet? it is because, he will deploy me to kill some big and strong enemy. I'm the core, right doktah? Doktah: (still not deploy her) Surtr: I'm the core, right?

REPLACEABLE Char list. 1. Thorns - Irreplaceable Core 2. Blaze - (Mudrock, Broca s2) any tanky high dps melee op. 3. Lappland - (Irreplaceable, silence is OP..) 4. Wispherrain - (Replaceable with Purestream) also you need M3 Wispherrain to get 4 sec or just use E2 Purestream 5. Platinum - (irreplaceable S target sniper with high dp) 6. Rosa - (any AOE Sniper works as long as you can deal huge ass damage to kill the drone before it moves near.) 7. Ptilopsis - (replaceable . any healer works.) 8. Mountain - (any guard works that has high survivability, like Spectre S2) 9. Surtr - (Clutch panic mode replaceable) 10. Silverash - (you might want him.. against hard waves) 11. Phantom - (Replaceable any specialist or high dps drop down character works like Red, Waiifu, Utage) 12. Myrtle - (You need her for quick deploys.. Elysium works too to boost sniper dmg)

I watch the high end squad runs even with not having the operators simply because of Kyo's talking and a change of pace. Thank you for uploading!

The instant remove of debuff could be a 6★ Wide Ranged medic

After seeing how thorn performance i remembered why i'm salty not having thorn

So many guides and stages where it's like, "Thorns S3 just trivializes this," and I'm sitting here with no Thorns... EDIT: I got Thorns from one of my free daily pulls on the Dusk/Saga banner. Time to finally get a stable auto-deploy that won't mess up half of the time.

Thorns makes this stage a joke. I wish i had him though xD

Just happy with the fact that Rosa is used here ♥️

I’m gonna regret making a hybrid of the low end team with the high end team and that’s ok

Mountain is like the coach watching his team in a football match

"I wonder if they will have an op that will remove a debuff from an op" calls lumen a year before he came up

"I wonder if they will make the skill which can remove debuff from an operator " It's Lumin time!

everyone talking about annihilation 5 and how happy that kyo made a video about this but im here happy that kevin survive

Ayyo! I will be able to replicate this run! I have all the operators here! I havent tried Anni 5 since the update was last night and happened to see this. Thanks Kyo-sama!

11:58 Oh hi Kevin

Grabs coffee.

This strategy worked for me and was easier to reproduce than I would have thought. Using a friend's Thorns to free up a slot (and also to give me an actual Thorns), my team was mostly the same: Blaze lvl 40 E2 Platinum lvl 30 E2 Rosa lvl 25 E2 Whisperain lvl 40 E1 Myrtle lvl 1 E2 Lappland lvl 20 E1 Surtr lvl 45 E2 Ptilopsis lvl 21 E1 Kal'tsit lvl 70 E2 Bagpipe lvl 36 E2 NTR Knight lvl 30 E2 Projekt Red lvl 20 E1 I replaced Mountain with Kal'tsit and used Mon3tr as both the guard dps and the fast redeployment when necessary. I used Bagpipe to get Myrtle's DP to 300+ quicker and then retreated Myrtle to give me another slot for dive bombing operators. Bagpipe actually came in clutch a few times when Mon3tr was busy. I used NTR over SilverAsh as I only just got my own SA and he's not quite there yet in terms of levels. Also her S2 was extremely useful for moments when certain bulky enemies broke through the lines and I needed a sort of second redeployment nuke. Other than that, I used Surtr in places when SA was deployed to soften the lines up and the map ended much the same way.

Thanks Kyo for this vid! [MODIFIED THIS STRAT BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE PLAT AND THORNS] Finished this with Exu replacing Plat and also placed ifrit 3 tiles behind Mrytle! I also replaced Thorns with SA and it worked just fine! Level of my operators (all E2) : Myrtle Level 40, Lappland Level 80, SA level 90, Rosa Level 40, Blaze Level 80, Ptilopsis Level 40, Whisperain level 40, Sutr level 90 (barely used her though), Exu Level 70, Mudrock Level 50, Phatom level 40 and ifrit level 40

lumen the MVP in this stage, unfreezing thorns helps so much

a dispel specialist? with the aura supporter archetype? would be amazing

7:44 Yup, now a healer with insta-remove-debuff lmao. Prophet Kyo.

Thanks Kyo! Would not have bothered to try without your guide. You've kept me interested in the game. Arknights should pay you handsomely! Couldn't use your low-end guide. Used this instead with substitutes: Mountain - Mudrock Blaze - Spectre Whisperain - Lumen Platinum - Exusiai S3M3 (module) Rosa - Shirayuki (module) Put GoldenGlow beside Ptilopsis to kill leaks and drop-in enemies Put Horn behind Thorns after Myrtle got 300 DP

"SilverAsh sometimes just to do * schwing schwing *" is basically just the tagline of the game

thank as always kyo-sama! i used same OPs with much lower lvl but still doable!

11:55 fall of Kevin to escape hole

Thanks for the comment that said Horn can replace Thorn. It worked for me. I used Shwarz E2 lv.60 instead of Platinum. Only have to activate her s3 once. Meteorite S1M3 instead of Rosa worked fine.

By the end of the guide the display shows that all of the "unlimited duration" skill operators have about half depleted their skill... Maybe the game devs should reconsider how long they make these annihilation maps.

Used Mlynar on the rightmost middle tile and he absolutely shredded every hard wave. If you have him, use him!

It works with Weedy (S2) instead of Blaze as well but you'll need help of something like Surtr in the 300+ with the Shield guys, etc.

Tfw after all these years, the ultimate debuff cleanser they ended up making is just some random dude from Iberia LOL

No thorns gang, guess I gotta jerry rig a team for this

High-end : "let's redeploy mountain facing right so he can dance and watch the battle" / gets 800 DP for no reason tysm for this series. My favorite, even if i don't have most of these ops

Debuff cleanser could be done as a robot maybe. Would fit the kind of pattern, and mean you'd need to build around it (need a place saved to deploy it, and long deployment time/needing to change team setup to reduce it would mean it doesn't trivialise entire encounters) Also it's things like this that remind me why I was so annoyed not to have got Thorns yet.

Thorn, Surtr : we are god in this stage everyone : but what did it cost? Thorns, Surtr : freeze 17:48

This is one of the reasons why i like to use infinite duration skil

I immediately screamed "KEVIN NOOOO"

Thanks, I really wasn't ready for this so had to borrow Whisperain but got it done.

Wisperain might be 5 star but Purestream is daughter

Lumen makes this stage so much easier

The sad feeling when Thorns has been the core 6-star in a bunch of Kyo's videos and is literally the only character in this team that I don't have.

Its really helpful on freezing stage when you have lappland

Alternate title: Anni 5 strat where you listen to Whisperain ASMR while you sleep waiting for anni done

So enjoyable to see Kyo playing around with the mobs with high rarity op

I didn't know Kiyostin is so funny lmao, the way he talks to mountain in the end

so when closing the game during annihilation can refund all sanity

if u are like me, who came after sultifera navis, Lumen works great

Me just getting Phantom in my 10 pulls on Beanstalk banner: I did not get the BREED, but it's a price I'm willing to take. Also me who have every ops in this video, upgraded almost all of them, just being short of Whisperain, which I still haven't up: PAIN

PSA: Lumen can do Whisperrain's job at E1.

I was actually shock to see the back drop zone and i was like how the fk i am i gonna do thid but after watching some reference i can do this 😅

Oh my god hahaha, Thorns on this map is straight up insanity!

Annihilation 5: Kyo's DP counting adventure

Came back to AK, which means I'm also back for our lord and saviour

Me: (thinking) What's Silverash for? KyoStinV: Sometimes in the middle to shwing shwing. Me: Shwing shwing. Got it.

I couldn't do the Low End one so I simply spent all my resources building my 6-stars to replicate this. RIP Materials and LMD

2 years late but I guess this will be an update Thorns + Horn is basically terminal cancer for the enemy

mizuki S3 is a nice additional dps for those tanky enemies chilling below whisperain and platinum if you forgot to deploy silverash. plus he's super cute.

Thanks for the guide, Kyo!

Glad I have a couple of months to finish this stage, time to invest in a couple of OP's that I need for this, minus Thorns because don't have him so won't be using this stage to auto farm.

So i can confirm that units do not all need to be e2. My squad. e236m3 lappy same place, e160 utage where mountain, e233m2 Hoshi where blaze is, e155 purestream to where Whips is, e160 silence instead of T apple, e222 Schwarz m1 skill 3 where rosa, e170 platinum, e215 M1 silver ash, e216m1 sutr, mytrle e135, e130 waai fu to silence the slugs, e220 gravel, and borrowed e2m3 thorns. So I used utage skill 1 and Mytle where mountain was and that is important as i had to use skill to heal and mytle skill to suffle attacks from the red yeti caster otherwise they killed them.(so when utage is about to die use skill, now argro will be on myrtle, then when utage gets back up use myrtle skill to focus agro on utage, rise and repeat. And instead of putting silver ash in front I put him on the other red tile and waited then used his skill with the boost. Had to let the last shield guard on the top move passed and stop, then wait for surtr to cool down and deploy. Schwarz works well to kill the heralds fast, just don't use skill late or the drones will go passed and bait with gravel. There is more to it but that is the key points, the rest people can practice and figure out. Good luck.

Time to Invest on Whisperain, I guess...

whisperain worked so hard on thorns! meanwhile ptilopsis barely had to do anything since thorns and lappland killed everything so fast lol

you and the community behind you are godsend

I guess lvl 30 isn't enough for this. Specter also couldn't replace Mountain. She died lmao. Gonna level Rosa and Platinum now because it takes to long to kill the lanes with Exusiai and Greythroat. Edit: 3 days later. E2d and leveld Rosa and Platinum. Platinum did great. Rosa couldn't fucking kill anything even at E2 50.

I'm here from the future to say that Lumen answered your prayers xD

Thanks for the video

11:59 : Kevin :"Weeee-AHHHHHHH"

sad Ceylon noise when she not even mentioned pain-neko

Kyo : I wish there is an op can remove debuff Hypersheet : write that down, write that down

if you like your ears you can switch whisperain with lumen, his talent 1 does the same thing

Never thought the day Kyo will use high end squad on his video will come.

I wonder why Whisperain's attack sound is so jarring. Everything about her design is soft and fragile and gentle... and then her heals sound like distorted dubsteb I would expect from some crazy nuker caster character.

KyoStinV: I can retreat you? No? You want to stay there and watch until the end? Ok, No problem~ Mountain: :)

Now I know why there's a random hole in this map, it's because Kevin needs it

I don’t have Lappland or Thorns, only SilverAsh and Frostleaf, and if you count midnight, him too.

I got Specter Alter after completing this level, tysm lol

0:45 hot takes by the Kyo guy

the real big brain is Kevin, he forking escape through the hole

So as i was whaling for siege a while back, it would seem i have stumbled upon a top tier chara, welcome to my team thorns

Alternative Title - Annihilation 5 "Thorn's 5 seconds of Frozen Beauty"

Damn I got neither of them raised. Guess I'll start now.

Me who got cucked from Rosa's, Thorn's , Surtur's and Mountain's Banners: "This is fine"

mountain do be vibing

Thx for the guide!

15:19 "Oh! 666 it was" sounds like Yoda said it

unlimited skill yet it reached the 50% mark of the duration in the bar

Lumen removes debuffs!

Kevin's basically Perry the Platypus... it's his secret lair

All of his operators...are max potential...

I didn't raise any Resist medic to E2, and brought E1 max Purestream and Whisperain instead. It works. LOL.