How to Play Unicorn Overlord Like a Pro | Tips After 100 Hours
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In this Unicorn Overlord video, I'll discuss 12 of my top tips for the game after playing for well over 100 hours! These tips will help you dominate no matter what difficulty you play on, and will help you build the best units you possibly can! Special thanks to Rob for some of these great tips too!
Chapters
0:00 Tips 100 Hours Later
0:21 Tip 1 Defense Hop
1:09 Tip 2 Withdraw
1:42 Tip 3 Reform Units
2:21 Tip 4 Efficient Valor
3:19 Tip 5 Optimize Item Use
4:08 Tip 6 Optimizing Units
4:59 Tip 7 Pushers and Assists
5:51 Tip 8 Tag Team
6:42 Tip 9 Character Swaps
7:17 Tip 10 Equipment Swaps
7:58 Tip 11 Less is More
8:57 Tip 12 Experiment
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"Don't spam valour points on Arrow Rain."
"I see myself in that statement and I don't like it." LOL
I spam it for farming levels. I put all the weak teammates there and spam the arrow rain there.
Arrow Rain is pretty useful when fighting those darn' angel archers in late game tho.
I picked up this game today so thank you for this guide!
Just got the game recently and loving it so far, thanks for the vid!
No problem!
Very good advices, as always!
Thanks!
Good video. Thank you can’t wait to start playing this game. Should be here any day.
You get the new leaders stamina, When replcing units leader. If you maneuver your units well, you potentially have infinite stamina. I do this mostly assist units. The deployment is usually made up of three damage. Two of them bieng magic or range assist and one of them as oposite. I then deploy a healer assist or two, for when stamina gets low.
Nice! I didn't realize the stamina would reset on changing leaders. I'll have to try that now!
Wait so like spending 1 valor to change leaders also refreshes stamina? That seems like an oversight and kinda OP. Nice!
@tanklike4413 I don't know if it's still valid. Haven't played after the latest patch. From what I have tested. Stamina is counted from each individual unit. So a fresh unit that is the leader, should have all of its stamina.
Thanks for the awesome video. Just watched it at about 2.5 hours in. I bet I’ll be back to watch it again as things get harder 😂
Thanks for watching!
There is so much to learn in this game it's crazy
I just finished the game and a pretty major thing that occured to me around Elfheim was that Alain is the only character in the game. His unit is all that matters thanks to his leaderskill and because of the Sigils effectively becoming speed running practice and removing the need to share xp in main fights meaning that you are directly insentivsed to have Alains Unit be the only unit that ever fights. Battles transforms from a dynamic multi sided battle front trying to push through waves of enemies against the clock to a borderline Dynasty warriors style one man army B-lining for the Enemy commander using the valor points to eliminate rest time and obsticals, his allies effectly used to hop scotch over and provide addtional valor skills but never actually fighting.
The game seems very heavily balanced around Level difference its better to have 1 unit 5 levels above what is expected than 5 units at expected level.
True, there are definitely some balancing issues that can be taken advantage of. Higher level units do tend to dominate. I still found it necessary to use multiple units myself. Even had one or two I preferred over Alain's unit.
Here are my tips: At around 35-40% through the game there's a bit of a difficulty spike. You'll be fighting level 17's when you have a lot of level 10-11's and it seems like the enemy is always using units that dodge your attacks. It gets REALLY annoying, so this is when it's a good idea to start leveling up your characters, and a really good way is through the permanent stat buff potions you can buy with colosseum coins. You'll eventually get stuck on the main ladder, and online battles are impossible at this point since everyone has 5 party members and does 150 damage, but you can do the auxiliary battles over and over again, getting you 8-10 CC every time. 2 battles can get you 1 potion for a permanent upgrade. Another way is to promote all of your characters at a fort, because that nets them big gains in stats.
this never happened in my playthrough? when i started fighting level 17s my main units were from levels 15-17 and Josef is already level 20 right away. are you sure you didnt just go somewhere too early?
any tips on dealing with enemy valor skills? I find their often more troublesome to deal with. sudden arrow rains taking out my flyers is not a fun time.
One thing I do sometimes is use the gryphon Knight's valor skill to speed them up so they can get to archers before they can charge arrows rain. That's if you're going after them of course.
You can also watch for their assist range and try to stay out of it as that also seems to be the range of their valor skills too.
Virginia's valor skill can protect allies from map damage including from valor skills, or a giants canopy item can do the same.
They do still catch me off guard too sometimes. As for what I do most often, I charge them with a flying unit lead by ochlys and just take them out fast. Ochlys tends to hold up against archers better than other flies it seems.
Hope something here helps!
Agreed with 89s tips. I will add Dinah's jump valor skill to instantly move to watchtowers to take them out.
The key is really mobility on your units (yes armored, more fliers and cavs) so you can get to watchtowers fast enough to kill them before they charge valor.
Its a fun game (so far 30 hours in on Expert level) but still a tad easy. I'm hoping after I finish it the true zenorian difficulty will bring a much needed challenge to this.
Thanks for the video. great content
Thank you!
Great video subbed
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Game is pretty easy even on expert mode... that is until you find that one stage where game wants you to use a very specific strat that you can't find it yourself
Yeah, once you learn how to optimize a bit the game can get easy most of the time, but it likes to throw those moments at you with specific stats to make you think again lol
Is there any other game like this but you actually get to fight instead of watch?
Nothing comes to mind that mixes realtime strategy with turn-based battles that you can control directly. Games like Triangle Strategy or Tactics Ogre Reborn allow you to control all your units in large turn-based battles, but there is no realtime component or the same level of squad based builds. Unicorn Overlord and its inspiration the Ogre Series from the SNES and N64 days are in a unique genre of their own.
All that said, there could be something out there with all the newer indie games. I'd love to try something that mixes turn-based tactics and realtime map movement.
@@R9V3N Dragon's Dogma is the most pretty similar videogame with this concept. In that game, you also control a party of four characters, one is yours and the rest is IA driven. Each character has a class (vocation) so each other needs to enchant their strengths and cover their weakness, and all of this with a Real Time RPG combat system, similar to Monster Hunter and Devil May Cry
@@Yawar25 I enjoyed first dragons dogma but I'm trying to find another strategy game that is similar to this while also adding turn based combat. Unicorn Overlord would have been a different monster if that turn based element would have been added. Another game similar to this with that added comes from the early 2000s called Disciples 2: Dark prophecy and it's still a one of a kind game. Hopefully future devs see games like that and dust off some of these old mechanics and create something better with how much technology has advanced.
Maybe Age of Wonders. It's a 4X game that also has a tactical combat layer, I hear. I haven't played it myself, though.
Darkest Dungeon 1 revolves around setting up party synergy from classes. No tactical layer, just turn-based combat and as the name suggests, it's a dungeon crawler rpg. While the story is pretty sparse and typical Lovecraft stuff, it has lots of unique charm to me.
XCOM 2 is another game that comes close, tactical futuristic turn game with a overarching strategy layer, featuring a unique cover system. Also based on team synergy, though the highest diff leaves little room for experimenting. People who complain about rng are not using its full bonuses.
Fire Emblem is a turn tactical JRPG, but combat is automatic.
For my first playthrough I went on Tactical and made the mistake of buying and upgrading as many slots as I could so that I could use all the characters, but I ended up just having to pick and choose every fight based on XP. Wont do it when I aim for TZ
Yeah, four solid teams can win pretty much everything. I went with six just to have some back-ups but I think I still used mostly my four best units.
Wait - the equipment swap directly before battle thing: was this patched? I wanna say I tried this once and it said equipment can't be changed before battle. It coulda been a slight different situation I was in tho, idr.
I know there been a patch or two since this video, right?
I don't think so. There was one time where I couldn't switch equipment either and it seemed kinda random because I was able to do it every other time. I think it has to do with trying to swap equipment between characters that are both in the same unit or maybe both deployed but I wasn't able to figure it out.
yes, it was patched. You can still swap equipment when out on the field, but you need to do so before the unit in question has come in contact with the enemy to initiate battle
Maybe when I play TZ mode, assist teams would be needed. But considering you are on the attack 99% of the time, I find they are too slow and only provide mediocre benefits even in early game.
Assists can be very situational in whether they help or not, but they can also really make the difference in some of the tougher fights especially in TZ. To help them keep up, you can keep a cav as the unit leader until you get to the map boss and then switch the assist character to leader. It costs a valor point, but can be helpful, if you've got the valor to spare.
lol first tip EXACTLY! ugh (you even use footage of that battle lol)
Oh yeah! That was something else I meant to mention in the last comment! Lol I love that move. Can't take all the credit though, someone pointed out to me during stream and I am forever grateful lol
Thought i'd share my top 31 units in the game since you mentioned sticking to 5-6 squads (with their respective roles):
NUKERS:
1. hilda
2. yunifi
3. rosalinde
4. eltolinde
5. rosalinde
6. alain
7. fran
8. celeste
9. adel
10. clive
11. renault
12. jerome
13. amalia
DEBUFFERS:
14. raenys
15. aubin
16. ochlys
17. umerus
18. selvie
SUPPORTS:
19. lhinalagos
20. galadmir
21. ridiel
22. gilbert
23. govil
24. yahna
HEALERS:
25. scarlett
26. ramona
27. sanatio
28. monica
29. miriam
TANKS:
30. fodoquia
31. liza/berengaria (whoever you give the mirage shield to)
Nice! I'd say I agree with these. How do you buff the elf sisters? Looking for ideas for my eltolinde team.
@@89Games my current eltolinde team (of course you can swap other characters who can serve similar purpose):
BACKLINE:
1. eltolinde-board nuker, kingslance, sapphire pendant, ruby pendant, sniper amber lens, start of battle boon of the faeries.
2. amalia- backup nuker, penetrate, hawk eye, important she goes before eltolinde so she debuffs for eltolinde with penetrate (raven plume, notos sword, etc).
3. gilbert- leader, offensive order, gambler's coin use for amalia and eltolinde, guard order for frontline once they are out of PP. important he goes before eltolinde so raven plume.
FRONTLINE:
1. raenys- evade tank so royal scarf, needs max PP for more shining lights, needs to go ahead of eltolinde so she debuffs for her via photon arrow. she has high innate initiative so she may not need raven plume.
2. ramona- evade tank, purifier staff (to remove debuffs on squad), extra heal to heal squad/boost initiative, restore PP to raenys for more shining lights, quick dispel to remove buffs, royal scarf, needs max PP for more restores.
Feel free to ask questions. the front is easily interchangeable with other evade/guard tanks you may want to use. amalia can be easily swapped with another debuffer like selvie/aubin or another buffer like govil. ideally 1 of the tanks should be able to heal so you have a healer so another evade tank like sanatio/scarlett or a guard tank like monica/miriam/josef.
@TheRobversion1 Why do you have Rosilalinde twice under Nukers? (3 & 5)
@@jaimereupert4247 typo. you can ignore one of those entries. My bad.
I just like how the werebear stumbles after every time you hit him -_- s-tier ELITE for me! He makes me happy xD
Agreed on the defense hop. I do that too. I do have a designated unit designed to do just that: the slowest squad.
Ditto on 1 shot kills. Thats how i build my squads. I dont like not being able to finish enemies in 1 fight.
On assist squads, i dont find heal assist squads valuable. For pusher squads, i find Gilbert and alain essential leaders. This means those 2 shouldnt be on the same team together.
Personally, i wouldnt recommend equipment swaps as they become a crutch and force the player not to learn how to build optimal squads. For example, once you encounter featherbows, you'd probably equipment swap at 1st to blindness immunity items. The real optimal play here to learn is to value antidebuff gear, elven archers or scarlett/bishops. basically, gear should be used to accentuate your strengths and enable combos while classes should be used for counters and to cover your weaknesses.
Well, I got the one shot kill idea from you so I hope you like that one! Lol
I find the item thing helpful for the "oh crap" moments. But yes it is better to learn how to build against those weaknesses which I try to do after I find them.
@@89Games agreed. i think initially equipment swaps are fine. then you see other content creators get annoyed by featherbows/wereowls then still shit on elven archers (who IMO is the most underrated class in the game). so they rely on equipment swapping the whole time, curse that they forgot to buy clearsight amulets or curse the featherbows/wereowls, while their elven archers sit on the bench (the permanent solution).
@@TheRobversion1 for sure. I think you're right on elven archers. They're really good for countering debuffs. I used at least one on the last playthrough so I haven't used them on my current playthrough, hence equipping blindness immunity stuff which is working so far.
@@89Games yeah pure field + quick cure cant be beat for that purpose. As for alternatives, anti-debuff/affliction gear is useful too as its less situational than anti-blind like the sacral gear, unicorn signet/shield, gran baris (angel shop), etc. The next alternatives are getting the purifier staff (sacred cure, coliseum and albion) as a row version of quick cure. Great to equip those on scarlett or sanatio. Then, the worst version is the refresh on bishops.
I really wish there was something harder than TZ. I don't like self imposed challenge runs, they feel hollow to me. There isn't even any super hard end game stuff!
Yeah, I'd like to see some more endgame for sure. TZ is only challenging it seems until you get one or two optimized teams built and then you mostly steam roll enemies.
Its only the coliseum thats a real challenge and thats when the enemies there have a 20-25 level advantage over you. Try climbing the coliseum early (level 25-30).
Personally, i find challenge runs fun. Like my current one is TZ no items, no equip swapping in battle, no, no grinding coliseum/sigils, no generic recruits, no summon warriors/archers cheese.
Any tips on how to play on PC
Send strongly worded letters to Vanillaware? Idk. The company seems to have an aversion to putting their games on PC for some reason. From articles I've read, not publishing on PC is specifically mentioned in their agreement with publisher Atlus.
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