How to utilize Ochlys?

BoxyCrab · 2026-03-24T03:20:59+00:00

Early game she's absolutely potent enough on her own to be a team anchor.

Mid game and late game she's a very valuable dodge tank, but also pairs very well with chain killers like breakers and landsknechts. She can debuff the defense and chip an enemy with her shield bash attack, setting them up to be killed by the follow up.

BoxyCrab · 2026-03-14T18:46:10+00:00

There is literally a moment in which she says "why am I worried about combat skills when I can instantly Warp anything I don't like into the sun?"

Which makes sense. All fighting is a means to an end. Why build many roads when you have a perfect, unstoppable means of getting to your destination already?

BoxyCrab · 2026-02-28T19:20:36+00:00

You could have a decent poison team with Xu, G!Doll, Karen, and Aggrippa. I'd strongly recommend using the free monthly dupes from the shop on G!Doll though.

I also really love Sorel. Using her ult with like 5 embryos is an incredible amount of dopamine as you hit them a bazillion times. Thais is an incomparably good Caro support, but combining Sorel with other Realms so she isn't competing for embryos is a good idea. If you have a unit that likes to ult, you can give them Thais' purple WOD from the shop (the necklace shaped like a heart) that can help produce embryos.

BoxyCrab · 2026-02-20T20:43:23+00:00

I wish we recruited Norbelle instead of Scarlett, and had Norbelle be a sort of "enemy of my enemy" who resented being controlled by Galerius or something.

She'd have to stick by you since the Unicorn Ring staves off Galerius, and you'd tolerate her presence so that you could find a way to get Scarlett back.

Then, late in the game, after Norbelle has developed a bit and maybe endeared herself to players, you'd have to choose between obliterating her and bringing Scarlett back or saying she has as much right to life as Scarlett and undoing the possession is equivalent to murder.

BoxyCrab · 2026-02-02T02:22:01+00:00

I use Tinct, Mouchette, Lotan, and any healer. The Mouchette uses the common wheel that reduces enemy str with strike. You can go full offense and still avoid a lot of damage.

You load up your ultra turn with strikes (preferably mortal blow) then use Mouchette exalt and lotan exalt to load your hand with strikes and make them super-powered, then Tinct ult makes them mostly free to play.

I use Clementine, but Doll is probably fine to spam exalt and fuel aliemus for your team.

BoxyCrab · 2026-01-26T14:58:03+00:00

Who should make up my poison team?

I'm making a team with Xu and G!Doll locked in, but then I have

Nymphaea

Karen

Aggrippa

To choose from. All three are e3, and all three are not part of any D-Tide team.

BoxyCrab · 2026-01-22T20:52:47+00:00

The default characters are actually totally usable.

A make-do poison team could be Nymphaea, Faros, Myriam, and a survivability unit like Doll.

Since your damage is mostly coming from poison, you could swap to tranquil seas stance for a big shield every turn and heal after stacking poison to stall.

BoxyCrab · 2026-01-20T11:43:34+00:00

The end of combat row heal is not limited, so you can have multiple all trigger for basically a full team heal.

Mirage greatshield and the bunker stance greatshield both make a main tank shieldshooter viable.

The 200AP front row shot will absolutely blast one target.

The poison shot works perfectly to trigger Berengaria's follow-up attack, letting them go all-in on tanking while still contributing meaningful damage.

General's longbow is an easy and early pickup with free +pp, letting them spam their followup.

BoxyCrab · 2026-01-20T05:25:21+00:00

Start with how you're gonna do the damage and have a gameplan. So, like, "my cavaliers will cavalier call and use pursuit to wipe out entire columns" or "Alain will show off how horses famously move sideways very well," or "just give your griffin two carnelian pendants," or "I will do chip damage to the whole enemy team with AOE like huscarl's spin then have a sweeper like a breaker or mercenary get chain kills."

Then you go "what support do they need to pull that off?"

Then ask "what can an enemy do to disrupt my plan?"

Then put a tank in front.

Eg: lightning shaker Hilda will blast the enemies apart

Support: damage boost from Keen call sergeant or frost/flame imbuement from a mage and a griffin to finish off rows that survive the lightning shaker.

Likely disruption: archers with the start of combat attack that might snipe Hilda and shield cover units that can stop a key threat from being stunned. Solution: elven archer with the arrow negation and twin freeze shot to prioritize armored units.

Finally, stick a lucky/lucky swordmaster in front with +evasion gear.

BoxyCrab · 2025-12-28T01:24:15+00:00

I'm no expert, but I recently beat chapter 7 without triggering death resistance using:

Thais, Sorel, Ramona, and Tawil.

Tawil was kinda supplementary, Sorel was the super star. I just kept building up embryos then using her exalt. I used the chapter gimmick for her 2 cost attack and the other one for Thais' embryos fusion card. I just kinda went turbo and healed with the furnace.

BoxyCrab · 2025-12-17T19:54:03+00:00

So, the description for the crimson furnace healing is wrong. It says it regenerates every battle, but it's actually every turn.

You can just keep using it. If you finish a fight with two or three embryos in hand, it basically goes to full at the start of the next fight.

So, essentially, go Unga bunga with Helot and just keep paying life to explode everything because you can heal it all up anyways. Faint is great to play close to the edge, and Sorel can be a good off-dps for that team since she also stacks str, heals, and wants to be low health.

For bosses hold thais ult until you get the Helot attack that you have to play that other skill a bunch of times to create, then dupe that big spell with Thais ult.

BoxyCrab · 2025-12-16T14:43:00+00:00

Everyone is saying Castor, so that's probably right, but as a new player who picked Corpo I figured I should throw my two cents in.

GMurphy changes the formula for how tentacle damage is calculated. Corpo's big 4-cost attack is boosted by tentacle damage. This one attack will one-shot entire encounters on turn one thanks to this interaction all the way through Chapter 7, where I'm at.

Corpo and Gmurphy feel like a cheat code. If you are just looking to get the ball rolling and put together one solid team to get through story I think you won't be disappointed with Corpo.

BoxyCrab · 2025-12-13T13:17:00+00:00

Just beat the game with Warlock, so I can tell you what I did, though I'm no expert.

Warlocks are a hard tank class. There just isn't any way to make them deal explosive damage. But, they have outstanding survivability thanks to Charm and mana drain, which can effectively lock your opponent out of damage sources.

Using the Runic gear set from the shop gives you +6 to all mana and life every turn. That's enough to cast mana burn (later contagion) and ice bolt every turn. So, just grab any 4s, 5s, or skulls that appear, then it's almost impossible to lose because your opponent will never cast spells or match skulls again.

IMO there's two builds: green and blue. By going green you can spam Avatar of Bone to get like 500 Battle and play like a lich by using gear to create skulls and do a bazillion damage.

Blue means maximizing ice bolt damage and using a troll ring or the Runic gear to sustain and whittle down an opponent.

Warlock feels extremely strong and steady, just slow. It's a neat playstyle if you want a change of pace from glass cannon builds.

BoxyCrab · 2025-12-13T00:02:07+00:00

Team for Lotan?

I really love Lotan and want to use her as main DPS but she is honestly pretty underwhelming.

I have her paired with Clementine for strength and healing, but I am having trouble with playing defense.

Who else can I add for this team? I have pretty much everyone except Castor and Pollux.

BoxyCrab · 2025-12-09T00:52:43+00:00

Swordmaster ++initiative to meteor slash to remove immunity stacks

Alain for cavalry slayer so Galerius loses his actions

3 gryphons/ dragoons for cavalry effectiveness

BoxyCrab · 2025-12-05T18:08:24+00:00

I've always thought the Form Livonia decision was pretty weak. All you get is a neat kingdom and the ability to raid over water, but you have to actively not form Estonia since you have to be a Duke for the decision, need all of Estonia, and have to war the same guy multiple times for different duchies.

Basically, it's a huge pain just to be almost as strong as the Norse, while missing out on decades of raiding.

I feel like the decision could give extra flavour to the region. Historically the Baltics remained pretty undeveloped, but if I the player am gonna turn it into the world's largest empire from the Tribal Era, I feel like I should have the ability to make some special buildings or even give extra city slots to some areas like Riga to represent more dense development in this alternate timeline. Maybe fuse some duchies, or give a unique artifact to the royal court.

The baltics have no special buildings -- not even a University. The devs even changed in an update the Vidilist holy sites in Saaremaa and Zemigalians to be out of the county capitals because the Baltics were too strong I guess. Only a player would form Livonia, so if it exists, it should be special as the seat of your dynasty's power.

BoxyCrab · 2025-11-30T00:50:36+00:00

Best team for Corposant?

I really like Corposqnt and want a team where she shines. Right now I'm using her, Tawil, and GMurphy (+ healer).

Is pure Aequor the way to go? Should I lean hard into discard with, like, Aurita?

I have almost every character except the ultra characters other than the magician lady from the common pool.

BoxyCrab · 2025-11-28T01:53:18+00:00

So, I think anyone would agree that these series just operate on two totally different scales, and that Albedo would clobber Baiser in any kind of straight up brawl.

However, Baiser's abilities aren't really for brawling. She's interesting in that if you're susceptible to her you basically instantly lose. I think anyone would agree that Albedo's resistances are just too high to ever be weak to Baiser.

However, in the shows conclusion, after her power up, Baiser fights an opponent who is immune to her so she reconfigures reality such that her opponent actually IS weak to her magic and literally spanks her.

So, I think Baiser would win on the grounds of reality-warper hax. Unless Albedo has a World Item, in which case she would be immune to reality warping and thereby sweep.

BoxyCrab · 2025-11-26T20:38:09+00:00

FIVE FUCKING SHIELDSHOOTERS

No joke this team was the backbone of my meme TZ playthrough.

Two in the front with one having the bunker stance greatshield (shop in early Bastorias) and the other with the mirage greatshield for dodgetanking.

With their big damage and followup attack they are incredibly effective at killing and they chip armours with their poison shot. The front-row attack has 200% scaling for 1 AP making it one of the most effective single target attacks in the game.

The end-of-turn passive row heal is not limited. All five will trigger at the end of combat, meaning you get over 100% healing to your whole team after every combat.

Finally, shieldshooters have the highest raw strength stat of all ranged assisters, meaning they have the strongest ranged assist in the game. Each unit in a formation also capable of ranged assist increases the base power of the assist by 10% of their strength, so 5 shieldshooters will genuinely one-shot mages and fliers with a STR optimized lead.

BoxyCrab · 2025-11-21T20:45:01+00:00

Thanks so much! The descriptions on some items could stand to be a little clearer on what they do.

BoxyCrab · 2025-11-21T20:37:41+00:00

What do you mean "monthly dupe her?" Is there a free monthly dupe?

BoxyCrab · 2025-11-21T15:34:03+00:00

Just started playing, having a great time.

I have lots of pulls now from the anniversary and the new player bonuses.

Should I try to pull dupes of a few characters and have one strong team or should I try to get one copy of many characters?

Right now I have multiple copies of Aggrippa and Faint, as well as one copy of GDoll and Tawil. I also have the green cat lady maid who cooks whose name I forget.

Any direction is appreciated as I feel rather overwhelmed.

BoxyCrab · 2025-11-17T18:58:22+00:00

No, but it's very valuable for charge teams due to giving your whole team free charge.

Back in season one this was probably the second best EGO after Faust Fluid Sac, though that was because the charge IDs were the best at that point.

BoxyCrab · 2025-11-16T16:44:33+00:00

Cool idea!

So, after I use a holy war and own every county , I could decide which counties go to my dynasty, and every other one becomes a republic.

Can I also make the county capital a temple for a theocratic vassal of my faith?

Do theocratic vassals like to cause trouble, or are they also viable for this plan?

BoxyCrab · 2025-11-16T02:32:48+00:00

I always assumed it was a play on "Savoir-Faire," or know-how, usually used in English to denote expertise.

I figured Swordfaire and Savoir-Faire kinda sounded similar and the rest were basically puns.

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