Upholding Justice Dante & Brutal Power Duke | Sorcerer's Trials 14: Trial 60 | Nu: Carnival

WOW. This fight was easily the most irritating trial since Quincy & the Wounded Animals. After several days of trial and error, and crawling onto the official server to make sure my strategy even made sense, I finally put together a team that works!
Your mission is to AVOID getting Dante to 1% before you eliminate the Duke, otherwise you lose. To complicate things, the Duke forces you to attack Dante every few turns. Guard breakers are ineffective. You want to avoid using your booster's ultimate when you're a turn away from being forced to attack Dante.
The center position is going to attack Dante at 2000% their regular power, so get humble and don't place your biggest SSR striker there. I went with SR Kuya, who helps prevent the Duke from self healing! Boosters and healers won't harm Dante in positions 1, 2, 4, or 5, but they WILL in the center. So if they're powerful, keep them on the sides.
I won this fight at 1am and did not save my team build. The only evidence I had was my 3-star screencap which showed SR Oli, so I knew I'd taken him. It took me 30 minutes of replaying to put the team back together and record this.
💎 HIGHLIGHTS
0:12 Dante shows off his short hair. I wasn't a fan at first, but it has grown on me
0:17 Duke tells us to fight the Sun Lord of Solaria. You can't hear me, since I didn't record myself, but I reply "No."
0:18 First turn: Fight the Duke
0:30 Forced to fight Dante. DO NOT use your booster until the end! Let your strikers hit first, then you can boost and heal. They won't harm him.
0:39 Back to fighting the Duke. Even though Oli isn't powered up yet, I go ahead and use Yakumo's ultimate on turn 4 so that I don't waste his quick cooldown.
0:59 Forced to attack Dante again. This gets more annoying as the fight goes on.
1:01 I'd lost so many times (again) that I pause to think. I decide not to use Oli's ultimate here and keep it for the next turm
1:14 The Duke puts a shield on us. Seems great, right? WRONG! We need to knock this shield down to about 75% or lower across the board or Dante is going to wipe us out. I'm not a fan of killer shields. Lucky for us, he does 70% damage to us on this turn. So we hit him with Kuya's ultimate, then use BASICS ONLY on the Duke. DO NOT USE ULTIMATES ON THE DUKE RIGHT NOW! You will give him a shield! It sucks! I've accidentally done it so many times!
1:28 Dante is going to hit hard and nearly kill everyone. As long as no one actually dies, we can heal, since the Duke doesn't hit us on this turn
1:35 Heal up and prepare to do this all again
1:41 Striker ultimate skills! I use Yakumo's first to activate the ultimate skill boost for Quincy, whose ult is much stronger. Quincy deals 198,429k in damage! Super satisfying! SRs rule!
1:52 Forced to fight Dante again. You understand the pattern.
2:25 Here on turn 10, we're about to go back into an "attack Dante!" situation, so I do not use Olivine's ultimate skill, since it would still be in effect next turn
2:58 I start to worry here because we have The Shield again, but the Duke helpfully hits us with an AOE, so we just attack him instead of Dante! But because using Oli's ultimate skill ON the Duke would give him protection, I switch to Dante for a second so I can activate it without penalty
3:29 Almost there! The Duke is down to 17% HP and all striker ultimate skills are ready! Kuya and Yakumo get the Duke down to 1%, but I'm pissed the fight took so long, so we let Quincy hit him even though it doesn't do anything
3:52 "Fear and secrets do not get you loyalty," Dante tells the Duke. He escorts him out.
On the official Nu:C server, I saw someone win this with just Rs and SRs, and also someone who took the SSR Demon King Eiden along, since he's apparently awesome. Mine's a baby so I couldn't test him out. Maybe soon.
⚔️ TEAM BUILD
SR Olivine (booster)
SSR Chocolate Liquor Yakumo (striker)
SR Kuya (saboteur)
SR Quincy (striker) - brought him for the best ultimate skill in the game
SR Yakumo (healer)
Kuya is a 4-star, potential 8-ish with full intimacy. The rest are maxed out.
Devastated I had to leave my Asters at home, but tbh I'm always a little sad when Aster has to hit Dante.
⭐ STAR CONDITIONS
No deaths, no guardians, and you have 20 turns
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