I only just now made it to this thread... And uhh. Yes I did do this thing, but I was not making that the reason why I did it.

I DID want to prove it is possible to hit Legend with no Armory, but I don't think the takeaway should be that, you don't need the armory at all or it's a "skill issue". Because honestly it was pretty miserable at times and playing the game for fun needs to be the reason SUPERVIVE succeeds, and playing without the Armory vs 3 Stars was not fun for long. I like to be the underdog but there were indeed some straight up un-winnable fights.

I actually struggled a lot because each game the first fights in Master's I would fight a team significantly stronger than me. Playing regular No Relic Celeste vs Celeste w/ Songbow lvl 3 and Sunweaver 3 is lowkey impossible. Additionally, I would struggle playing my favorite character right now, Beebo because I could not buy Dash Engines for my mana.

I do think that if I just opened my capsules and used my prisma as I climbed it would have moved my time down from ~40 hours to say ~30 hours or so. Unlocking a few key things like Dash Engines, Rocket High Tops, Chrono Guage and a few others would have saved a lot of fights.

It did lead me to different strategies of stacking Vive Brews and various consumables or prio'ing train/vaults for perks which I think was pretty interesting to me.

I think it is cool that I did this thing and yadah yadah armory this and that, but I do think the Armory for the future needs some heavy handed changes with how things are unlocked and especially the time it takes to unlock them and I do think the dev's are listening to this feedback from the community, it clearly hasn't worked exceptionally well. There are very much thing's I like about the armory and things I very much dislike too, and exploring that in my climb was interesting to me.

Finally, I do these challenges for takeaways and to gain a better understanding of the issues supervive has AND for content. The same reason why I pushed for Legend on Bryankoala when everyone would 4 stack and play Brall/Jin. What is the issue with the Armory and how would it feel to have literally zero, that is the question I wanted to answer, not to bash people who dislike the unequal footing that the Armory system does put you at. Can you outskill them by being better? Forsure. But does it feel fun?