Originally Posted by Iggzikof

Anemone / Alstroe Maria / Nerine are outside "highest 20 power rating"

Funny enough, Anemone is also in the top 3 of damage dealers. As Phob said, total power, or power rating, don't mean shit. Seriously, it's true.

My ideal random party for the crystal break in Whaleship battles would probably be:
Kerria
Anemone
Mei Plumblossom
Cactus
Fritillaria (provided she is last)
I'm roughly estimating those five could reach 450k damage against the crystal.

His most important point though, is to put knights with single target special attacks on positions 4 and 5 within their squad. Knights with tripple strike attacks like Anemone (but also Jersey Cudweed and some other recently added ladies) should be put after knights with AOE attacks as well. Single target and tripple strike units are the ones that will clean up the pests left standing after the AOE barrage.
Despite being an AOE girl, Fritillaria should also always be in the very last position within a squad, so she benefits from any special attacks preceding her turn.

Another good thing to get used to, is synergizing your squads. Throw as many girls with a buff to triggering special attacks together as you can, and you get a squad that trigger a LOT of special attacks. Throw girls that debuff pests together, and you get a squad that takes very little damage.

Sometimes, these synergetic squads even benefit from adding certain 5* girls. The best example would be Cymbidium: 4 max skilled girls with a 1.2 buff to trigger special attacks (which is additive) + Cymbidium (2x trigger on the first round for the entire party, which is multiplative) results in a guaranteed trigger for every girl on the first round. 3 max skilled girls with a 1.2 buff + Cymbidium is actually already enough to get a guaranteed trigger for every girl except Cymbidium, who will have a 96% chance to trigger instead. Guess what glass-wearing 5* girl leads my first Whaleship squad?

You got good advice here!
You can take Saffron, Alpinia, Anemone add two counter girls and have a full counter squad. Add somebody like Soapwort(which I don't have)that is bloomed and have a really great squad
One more thing get Dendrobium if you don't already have her and good luck

Not to downplay a counter squad, but placing taunt on Saffron is like the equivalent of a counter squad. That is until she dies which if you have a rainbow team with significant defense buffing is practically never.

Originally Posted by Ampchan

Not to downplay a counter squad, but placing taunt on Saffron is like the equivalent of a counter squad. That is until she dies which if you have a rainbow team with significant defense buffing is practically never.

This is not even close to being true, When boss pests attack with their 3-4 hit AoE they take the same number of counter hits from a counter squad while with only saff they take just one. That can be the difference between 1 rounding the boss or not.

I guess. Unless it is a raid boss, at least for me, usually the counter just finishes someone off in the very rare chance they somehow survive the first turn. And when it comes to raid bosses, a counter squad is not usually my go to to be honest. Although I know some people like that set up for them. I tend to instead like to go for the long game.

Originally Posted by Zandel

This is not even close to being true, When boss pests attack with their 3-4 hit AoE they take the same number of counter hits from a counter squad while with only saff they take just one. That can be the difference between 1 rounding the boss or not.

How many of the counterattacks are you discussing?



Suppose I guess correctly... There are 4 counterattack girls but only 3 will be displayed. (yellow red and white number )

I just verified some data. 4 counterattacks have 4 numbers

I was in the same boat then realised I needed 1 more Xmas girl to have all the xmas girls - so that's 300 coins spent, and I'll wait for waterlily bride to hit the shops and that's all the brides barring Nerine (who will likely have to wait for a 5* ticket)

One day I'll worry about team synergy and stuff like that - I'm not sure how bad my 6* line up is





Alpine is fully amped - Cactace, Lycoris too


Alpinem Sakura & mistletoe have 2 slots

Saffron is undergoing the new 6* treatment instead of rushing them up levels they're fed ampies until maxed to save gold - she's currently 126,250,252 so some way to go on that

Originally Posted by sniddy

I was in the same boat then realised I needed 1 more Xmas girl to have all the xmas girls - so that's 300 coins spent, and I'll wait for waterlily bride to hit the shops and that's all the brides barring Nerine (who will likely have to wait for a 5* ticket)

One day I'll worry about team synergy and stuff like that - I'm not sure how bad my 6* line up is





Alpine is fully amped - Cactace, Lycoris too


Alpinem Sakura & mistletoe have 2 slots

Saffron is undergoing the new 6* treatment instead of rushing them up levels they're fed ampies until maxed to save gold - she's currently 126,250,252 so some way to go on that

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Originally Posted by sniddy

I was in the same boat then realised I needed 1 more Xmas girl to have all the xmas girls - so that's 300 coins spent, and I'll wait for waterlily bride to hit the shops and that's all the brides barring Nerine (who will likely have to wait for a 5* ticket)

One day I'll worry about team synergy and stuff like that - I'm not sure how bad my 6* line up is





Alpine is fully amped - Cactace, Lycoris too


Alpinem Sakura & mistletoe have 2 slots

Saffron is undergoing the new 6* treatment instead of rushing them up levels they're fed ampies until maxed to save gold - she's currently 126,250,252 so some way to go on that

I am a huge fan of Kerria and I see that you already have many girls for her ideal setup.

Bonci, Lyco(Miko), Epi(Swimsuit) When those get their blooms, they all will get the 1.2 Skill act buff.

If you picked up Snowdrop, she would be in total synergy with the debuff skill act theme.

Add Kerria to that team and you would have 65% debuff and a 1.8 skill act that would cause utter devastation

I am working on full ampy and slotting this team now have three down two to go. The only changes that will come will be after we get some rarity growth girls here.