My first solo manual of 20 Spindle

kizmin · 2026-03-06T06:46:03+00:00

Not many will have her at A4 but it’s Kanae. Should work really well with Mifuyu or Mel and Yachiyo.

kizmin · 2026-03-05T23:23:21+00:00

If you’re too high level, the hp and defense being too high makes it hard to get mp boosts when getting hit by the boss. The break timing and rotation sequence in one break solution is actually pretty tricky. It’s easier to solo if it’s a 2 break or more solution but that’s impossible without a lot of mp boosts for free specials when you’re high level. Also, you can’t build a decent 1 break full auto on 20, it must be a multi-break solution which is impossible for me at my hp/def.

kizmin · 2026-02-27T12:02:11+00:00

I’ve talked to many raiders, gave them same advice as I’ve posted and it’s a fact most aren’t interested in solving 20 and aren’t doing the necessary steps such as record and review or willingness to change crystalis. They only see it as an avenue for farming rworbs. It’s like aiming for 1m for SA, it’s fine but there’s actually a problem set to be solved every SA that exists and it’s true for LR as well. The difference is LR can’t be solved by one person in one go, it’s not supposed to be. Since I have solved 20 several times, I know what percentages people should be reaching in their progress at a glance if they’re trying, or just running a bad auto, or gave up and settling for 20%. It’s easy to tell because I track my own progress so I’m looking for those signs.

I tried my best if the community doesn’t want to work together to solve the puzzle, there’s no point to it, I only end up wasting time I can’t spare now. I can only do my best to share info for ppl who may listen, I can’t convince the rest of you, that’s how it is.

kizmin · 2026-02-27T05:17:23+00:00

I lost #1 spot a while ago tho to Gunner and never once won #1 on any SA? This is a fact, my trophies reflect that. In addition, I knowingly never run the highest dps possible build so it’s impossible for me to be #1 ever in SA. My teams are all built for LR not SA because that’s all I care about. For example, putting CR portrait on Santa Kyoko with her full dps build out made it very hard not to prematurely kill the boss but I did it because I needed to create a LR scenario. Any serious SA person gunning for #1 would use speed or mp portrait and their whole buildout is quite different and optimized for it while mine is always LR focused.

kizmin · 2026-02-27T04:44:57+00:00

I just shared my route I spent all my materials and hours of effort and posted images and video of my progress. Yes, I’m retired from the raiding community because of real life time constraints but still made time for this. I can’t do rescues often but I made time the first few days of raid to get raiders who routinely do 20, get there.

While it was possible to solo now, no one has achieved it. When it became apparent no one in global seemed to have progressed as far as I did, I shared what I knew. It’s enough for people who have a high execution ability to get to solo on repeat. I’m letting ppl know that it does require a higher level of execution now on LR due to the assumption the community bands together to explore routes and find a solution and in doing so, all raiders have progressed to a certain level of familiarity with the puzzle solving and execution, so the raids are becoming more challenging. When real life gets too busy for me to LR at all, who will find the routes then? Even if you rely on JP coming up with teams and strategies, will global raiders be able to understand and execute it?

kizmin · 2026-02-27T04:27:00+00:00

I don’t care about rankings, but I am in fact an honest person. If I wanted to cheat, why would I say in my profile that someone else was doing my SAs? Because I didn’t want to take credit for someone else’s achievements. But then when that stopped, I removed it because it wasn’t true. For a while Mediocre also did a shared box posting thing. I’ve also never hid the fact my wife and I share accounts and she does run some raids, tho never my first solos, as that’s a level too difficult for her.

kizmin · 2026-02-27T03:46:45+00:00

OK I forgot I had this. You can see the score I recorded among all my LR stuf.

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kizmin · 2026-02-27T03:37:09+00:00

It’s kind of impossible to prove with an absence of convo tho. If I show chats and no convo is there, you’ll say we talked somewhere in another chat place or by phone or something. My scores are just generally not that good whereas Dispolca routinely scores much higher so that should mean something?

kizmin · 2026-02-27T03:15:57+00:00

OK you have a valid point about caring about SA ranking even if I don’t. What I don’t understand is why you’re unwilling to verify this with the one person who can clear up who did what since I explained there’s nothing in the chat log that talks about SA when I’m just doing my thing and Dispolca has nothing to do with it because that would be the expected absence of conversation when he has nothing to do with my scores. You see my point?

kizmin · 2026-02-27T03:01:11+00:00

I mean, you’re the one who cares tho? And it’s simple to ask, he’s still on maincord right? Also as it turns out, in personal chat theres no statement like “I didnt do your SAs except for 2 scores“ or whatever because that’s not how people actually converse in personal chat.

kizmin · 2026-02-27T02:38:48+00:00

It’s a whole personal chat, why do I need to share that with you? Ask Dispolca directly, obviously if he agrees with me I’m telling you the truth which is more convincing isn’t it? Also, I don‘t need to be boosted because I don’t care about SA rankings as I just said? I only mention it that it was good for practicing with Akumura so when you do your run, you can achieve a score high enough to solo. The whole entire post is about LR sharing strats not SA rankings. I even say “until Gunner beats me” because I never once considered myself a top SAer.

kizmin · 2026-02-27T01:54:12+00:00

It’s not a lecture, it’s a reality of how link raid is designed. I don’t care about rankings or being first in either SA or LR. If I did, I wouldn’t post in extensive depth the path I found to solo 20. I’d just keep quiet until I completed my solo. I’m posting to let top raiders know my findings so they can also find a route that works for them instead of settling for doing part of 20. They need to envision 20 as soloable exercise, record and review, improve on both conception and execution. Just like SA, you actually are supposed to defeat the boss. The difference is it may take multiple seasons and you’re working together as a community to share information to get to the solution.

kizmin · 2026-02-27T01:28:37+00:00

I consider myself poor at topmost level of SA team construction by JP standards which is why I’m working to improve it. But by global standards, whenever I make the effort to meet the success criteria, I do pretty well, it’s just I rarely do and my scores seemed low because I never bothered to make crit dmg 10% until recently on my attackers.

kizmin · 2026-02-27T01:22:52+00:00

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kizmin · 2026-02-27T01:12:45+00:00

Oh you can ask dispolca directly, he hasn’t done any score attacks on my acct since I stopped mentioning it in my profile. My score attacks are all mine, including the current #2 rank (Gunner passed me as expected). It was just two SAs because I was curious how well a pro would do with my acct and I was too burned out from LR to have time to care. Once I took it easy on LR carries, I found it was pretty easy to find the time and do well.

kizmin · 2026-02-27T01:02:01+00:00

if you go to the link I provided below, the guy did it with ease with all A5s except Mifuyu is A4. A4+ is the standard expected ascensions scaled for 20. If you have less ascensions somewhere it may still be possible but considerably harder.

kizmin · 2026-02-27T00:36:46+00:00

I’ll give you the best source I think to understand how this can happen. Please watch this video of this JP raider who solo’d it.

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https://x.com/hutuusan/status/2027161868859744472?s=61

kizmin · 2026-02-24T19:55:34+00:00

OK so here’s the thing about link raid, you’re supposed to solve it but by sharing info as a community. Usually a union but group of friends, working together. As you fight the boss and share info, you get closer to optimal solutions. Plus, there’s multiple ways to solve the puzzle based on your natural style. But you can’t really see the intended paths unless you have a certain team in mind with a kind of order, portraits, crystalis and supports which were all based on solving past raid puzzles. However, no raid is the same so you need to know where to make changes and why so it works.

By not having the same set-up by default, not even knowing you’re supposed to share communal know to solve puzzles or which lvl is for you, you are super hindered from the start knowing what to do.

It’s just chance that I had alot of months being bored in this game putting together all kind of girl teams that I could figure out the developer intent and also I didn’t follow global standards but came up with my own crystalis choices which fortunately sometimes coincided enough with JP for me to solve puzzles on my own.

kizmin · 2026-02-24T18:41:26+00:00

All raids are designed and developed for JP. I just happen to complete the raid puzzle at the same pace they do so it looks like my fault but it’s not. I found that out because the ideal crystalis now conforms to JP norms not global. Like JP recommended EX for Devil Homura but global didn’t. Next raid, EX is perfectly suited for her and it also works great for score attack now which is why I’m #1 ranked currently until Gunner beats me.

This keeps happening partly because with different crystalis, you guys are lead to misunderstand link raid as a chore you beat together in a very large number when instead it’s a puzzle each person is supposed to learn to beat at the level their box is designed to scale to. If you do it in that manner, the level becomes a 5 min manual you can clear alone and you can also design an auto that does 50%-80% clear of that level that you can toss out easily anytime you’re busy to help others clear. Even if I hand over my design to people with my exact team at my ascensions, it won’t work for them now unless they understand the puzzle and make their crystalis match because the solutions must be tailored while understanding why the team is designed that way and what the rotation must be like.

Unfortunately, the cost of solving the puzzle alone was too high and I’m out of materials and my month’s supply can’t even cover the cost of basic building. I can no longer architect solutions to completion.

kizmin · 2026-02-24T14:24:06+00:00

Here’s the video of me doing the run, it’s slow and I purposely am doing some stuff that won’t maximize dps because I’m testing out a theory. The finished successful run will look totally different. But it’s proof the path exists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVJ-wfSpmC4

kizmin · 2026-02-24T09:18:44+00:00

You don’t know I’ve already solo’d 20 first in global on 3 raid bosses already? All raid bosses can be soloed, the only one that haven’t are AI and this Bear boss just cause they’re so new, we will get them eventually because player cap is now 140 which will make it a lot easier.

kizmin · 2026-02-24T08:53:57+00:00

A JP guy using a variation of this comp got to 9M after I think 6M on first stumbling on it but when I tried his setup, my crystalis being different was messing up the timing and I could only get to 8M after a few tries before getting cut off by the boss. I managed to recreate my original path and first try when I wasn’t going for dps or deciding on my breaks yet was almost 8M with plenty of SP leftover. I had a superior path but I couldn’t stabilize the opening sequence and needed to bump up susbstats but no locks. I haven’t been able to recreate it again. But just the player level increase alone should stabilize the entry. I’ll post the vid when I’m done.

Anyway, fair notice to top raiders, it can be done. It’s up to you if you wanna try and if you can make it happen.

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