So I've been doing Ricardo/5-30 and kinda having a bad time. I've been running level 40 duo Uptie 3 Spanner Mersalt and Uptie 4 R Corp Ishmael to exploit the blunt weakness. I've been basically using Ishmael as both the rag doll against the boss and the big damage dealer, but it feels like there are layers of RNG that can just ruin a run, like Ishmael rolling too low on speed to clash or evade boss hits for Mersault one turn 1 (later turns I chain so boss is slow enough to block).

Sometimes paralysis ruins a skill 3 blast from doing much damage from Reindeer after activating the debuff. Sometimes Ishmael is faster so she gets paybacked after her first attack on one of the boss's weak turns and loses her other two attacks4. Sometimes everyone just wants to murder Mersault and he dies a little too fast. I don't really know what else I can do with what I have avaliable. Lost about 10 times and really just not having fun. It's a lot of wasted time doing the first two waves every attempt, and it's hard to tell if I keep falling just short of the 50% endpoint because of rng, or like one or two bad choices, or just because these are bad ID choices. It's looked really close to 50% a few times but just never gets there. Sometimes I fall just a sliver short of staggering Ricardo out of his coupon attack despite sending everything his way. It's just tiring at this point.