Quote Originally Posted by sanahtlig View Post
I'm 6 for 7 on Apocalypse Ragnarok, and 7/7 on Phoenix. I tried several setups on Apocalypse, but I ended up using my typical water team:
  • Andromeda (heals, defense up for overdrives, Resurrect) with Black Propaganda equipped (+1 to overdrive meter)
  • Belphegor (Massive rage meter reduction, type B atk/def debuff)
  • Triton (ATK down and combo attack down, self-heal = good frontline tank)
  • Shiva (spike DPS to end Rage quickly)
  • Sol (heals, attack down, clear Blind)
  • Eidolons: Character ATK up 40%/HP up 20%, Behemoth 45% (massive damage boost to a combo water/light team, second Blind removal)

I let Apocalypse use her first overdrive, clear the debuff, use Black Propaganda, then push into Rage. I partial Burst to end Rage before her 2nd overdrive. Once she uses her 2nd overdrive, I let Black Propaganda expire, reapply debuffs, and repeat. If no characters die, I Full Burst during Rage and that usually takes her to low HP. If 1 character dies, I should still be able to push her out of rage before the 4th overdrive for an easy victory. If two characters die, the battle gets interesting and I might have to eat a Rage overdrive.

I've found that the keys to this fight are:
  1. Black Propaganda
  2. Damage mitigation with high levels of ATK DWN (ideally -50%) combined with strong healing (~550 per turn)
  3. Sufficient burst gauge reduction / spike DPS to end Rage in 3 turns or less without a full Burst, as needed
  4. 2 sources of Blind removal (which can kill your burst gauge generation and get you stuck in Rage)

The one time I lost was when I brought Gaia along to mitigate overdrive damage, but then mistimed her damage reduction ability and ended up eating an unmitigated normal overdrive out of stun. After that, I decided that stacking ATK DWN to -50% with combo attack down was a more reliable way of mitigating damage.
In other words: If you don't have Sol then you will have bad time?

I can reach 37% atk down (Belobog, Belphegor and Jorm) maybe 42% if I use Jeanne or her skill.
For removing blindness I have only... Belobog?
For healing Nike (700) or Brynhildr (1200)(but that would be second not water kami...) plus Belobog have regen. So using Andromeda for healing is a must.

But even with it, I can get unlucky and she keeps using her skill 3/4 times hitting my soul... and when soul dies it is basically game over. Unless I want to use elixir, which I don't want.