Hell Demon - Special

Thanks Belial, I needed that heal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12UKXYnK0kE

Awoken Hera farming!

with half stam multiplayer dungeons and a reliable I&I/Ryunn farm team, AND it being a 2.5x skillup for the next while, I intend to see how far I can get w/ max skilling 5x scarletts. I'll worry about evoing them later, this is the time to get it if you want it.

Cleared it using A.Anubis team. The funny part is I messed my last combo and left her with just enough HP to be killed by Anubis's active. Cost me a stone though. Pro Anubis players have no difficulty unlike me.

Killed by lags at boss stage. I dunno why sometime game freezing and all combo that you do become "missing", but time is gone...
Don't want spend stones for this situation ~_~

I've been running this, and it's rather hard. I want to run a scarlet system with either scarlet or tsubaki as a leader, and would like friends to be able to do it with, so I'm going to lay out my team, and strategy I'm using.

I'm pretty sure this dungeon would be the easiest to run with a water team. I don't have a strong water team, so I am using my typical Shiva team.

Shiva - Urd - Rvalk - Kagu - Susano - Shiva.

All +297, all max skill, no latents.

Floor 1 - Kill without using any skills.
Floor 2 - If demons are on a two turn counter, try to kill without skills. otherwise, Urd + rvalk. These have a lot of life and will kill you if they attack, so it is not worth the risk.
Floor 3 - (Wood Grimoire) - Kill without skills. 1 tpa will not kill, 1 tpa and 3 fire will usually do the trick.
Floor 4 - (Kraken) - Kill without skills, but using Kagu is ok. If you might kill it, put up susano. If enhanced wood orb drop from grimoire is up, Susano puts in some work here.
Floor 5 - (DQ Hera) - rather easy, can be killed without skills. If you are at risk of dying, at least hit her below 50%. when she binds, at least hit her below 30%. She'll do her 99% gravity which can't possibly kill, and only then do you have to kill her or you will die.
Floor 5 - (Hera Ur) - Definitely harder than DQ. You want to try to kill her without skills. Try to kill her in a round when she's given you a lot of fire orbs, ASAP. you can hit her below 50% to get another turn, but you can't fail to hit 6 combos afterwards or it is over.

Floor 6 - (First form Scarlet)
If you got DQ Hera, you can stall for a long time here to get skills back up. If your guys are bound, you can make use of Scarlet's behavior to clear the bind - First turn, you can match an attribute that does no damage (net, -1 skill cooldown, but also -1 bind), Second Turn, Same thing - You take a hit at half damage, Third Turn - Hit her, and she will buff herself, Fourth Turn - She'll turn jammers into fire, and now binds should be gone or almost gone.

For stalling - Clear all the jammers every turn, heal, and combo some more to get more hearts. If you get her below 80% she'll start blinding instead which tends to make it easier to stall, but harder to kill. Look for a good time to kill, with ideally at least 8 fire orbs. If you think you can kill, and have your skills up, you can avoid clearing the jammers, and let her turn them into fire orbs. Then you have an additional 5 fire orbs. The longer you try to stall, the more likely you'll end up without hearts and without enough fire to kill her. Or the more likely you'll accidentally hit her below 50% and then die as a result.



If you got Hera-Ur, it's much harder to stall. She'll always have jammers to let her hit you hard. Ideally, you don't need to stall. In the first two turns, get your hp to max, and try to leave as many fire and jammer orbs on the board as possible. Try to avoid using any skills. When she turns your jammers to fire orbs, you should hopefully have enough to kill her then and there. Kill.

Note - When she is below 50% but above 45%, she will make tons of jammers and will do it repeatedly. There's not generally any good way to make use of this, and you'll die if you think she's above 45% but she isn't. If you have susano back up, you can survive her hit below 45% if you heal. Even if she binds a leader, you can kill her provided she doesn't have more than say, 20%.

Floor 7 - (Second form Scarlet)

It's possible to stall a little bit here, and it's tempting to hit her a bit, but if you hit her below 80% you can die very fast as she puts your skills on cooldown. She is much safer if you got hera-ur, since she will always convert jammers to fire orbs - so long as you have hp to survive that, you can peg her. If you have Urd + Kagu/Valk go for the kill. Most boards that hit 6 combos will kill her. Try to have both kagu and valk available so you can pick the better board. You have a bit less time to hit your combos.

If you hit her below 50%, you will die unless Susano is up. If susano is up, you can survive 1 round to try to kill her again, but since she has a 50% shield, it won't be any easier than killing her right off the bat. Recommend killing asap.

Ed: About damage. I twice tried to kill her from max with combos I thought would kill her but barely didn't. 3 fire tpas, 1 5 fire match, 6 combos, and the typical combo when you have 9-11 orbs but don't aim for tpas (3 off color: 3 off color: 3 off color so you get 6 combos) when I had 11 orbs. Both of these combos barely didn't kill her, but I was able to finish her with both of my leaders bound in both cases. In other words, if you aren't +'d, this might be a lot harder, and you might need to hit her a little bit first, or hit the perfect board or get a skyfall for extra damage.

Can we get a f_÷£÷£=€£÷ article with a detailed explanation on how EXACTLY this leveling BS works? It's so annoying comparing pictures with ither people and seeing things different levels even though some have a lower cost and some are even the same unit. Good luck trying to google for answers. All you get are people that guestemate answers or people explaining how to level your cards with pengdras and sh!t

Can this be beaten with a King Mastering team?

Some insight on leveling progression on my run. At the end my leads were awoken karin with 40 cost capped at lvl 26. Orochi with 30 cost at lvl 90. Awoken isis with 35 cost at lvl 56. Andromeda with 35 cost at lvl 56. Blodin with 60 cost at lvl 26

(Get five of them and win the game)

Is this really 1300 xp per stamina?

the xp is a lie, i got 37k (dark hera spawned, and dropped a coin chest). so much for my infinite stam ideas.

It was fun seeing Summer Awilda hit level 84 from just killing Belial with my Sumire team. (Sumire maxes by the end of the dungeon). Pretty sure monsters gain exp based on cost. PPL get confused because they forget 3/4/5/6 million exp curves matter, too.

How to make sure your HP is above 24256 when entering floor 5? I use a A.Ra team with A.Isis and three orb changers. I tried this dungeon twice and each time at floor 5 I got DQ Hera and did not have enough HP to survive her pre-emptive. I think the first time I had below 20000 HP and the second time just above 20000 HP.

0 stoned with Leilan Minerva team. Kind of risky I would say 60-70% of possibility of doing it. If you have more + eggs to make your HP 2000 higher, it will be a lot safer.

Leilan
Caocao
Ares
Horus
Echidna
Minerva

All max skilled, 92 + eggs on my team, 297 friend.
Ame is better for Echidna.
Leader switch is better, however I don't have 297 Leilan friend.

F1 kill in 3 rounds, use Minerva if necessary.

F2 kill with ares or caocao skill depending on the board.

F3 grind until little more than 50%, Minerva + horus kill. You have one more round if she does not die.

F4 Echidna to save Caocao, or if you have Ame then Ame is better. Make a good board while waiting for Caocao, try kill with only one orb change and horus, you have two turns.

F5 use Caocao and you have two turns for Dark Hera or three turns for Fire Hera.

F6 grind if possible, open fire when near 50%. I had Echidna up and used her to kill.

F7 take her down to 50% asap, she change the jammers to red for you so should not be that hard, need to rcv hard as each hit takes you down to 30% hp. When below 50% she binds my Leilan, I made a good board and take one hit, then use all possible skills and kill.

Description for build suggestion:
Awoken I&I, Attacker hermes, Blue Sonia, Andromeda, Gabriel, Ryune. 65 +'s w/ hyper friend.
I&I, Hermes, Andro, friend ryune max skill, Blonia s.lv. 5, gabriel s.lv 2
More +'s would make this much easier.
Make sure to use I&I as needed to avoid getting killed.

F1: stall 1 or 2 turns and kill.

F2: Kill red demon ASAP, and hope green one doesn't hit you with evil slash if under 35%. May need to blast with I&I plus orb changer.

F3: Widdle to 50% and kill before 30% unless you have sufficient HP to survive. Make sure you have >6186 hp before killing.

F4: Should be a breeze if you have over 24743 hp, but I didnt. OHKO unless enough hp to stall. Make sure you have 24256 hp for DQ pre-emp.

F5: If Divine queen Hera: Stall for all skills, save hearts for a row to reduce binds when shes below 50%. Don't worry about being hit with Hera's gravity, you have 2 turns to heal on the next floor.
If Disco Pants Hera: I didn't get her but if you don't have the recovery to sustain 17k per turn then nuke her.

F6: Make sure to heal if you're low on hp, and hit her with at least one attack on turn one. Stall for skills while clearing all jammers. Dont hit her below 50% unless you're going for the kill. Don't use I&I on this stage.

F7: Don't mess around, Blast her right away. I&I + 2 or 3 rows should kill.

I DID IT! So I made it a goal of mine to 0 stone ever descend dungeon in the game with my Bastet team (within reason/which may not be possible). After 5000+ stamina in attempts over the last 12? days of the Descended Challenge-No Continues I've done it.

Before I get down voted out of the gym for the REM quality of my team, I'm a 900+ day, rank 372, under $200 spent lifetime player.

All max skill/lvl/awakenings, plus eggs noted by hypermax or not:

a.bastet hypermax
a.meimei hypermax
a.ceres
courage machina hypermax
SDGS another
a.bastet hypermax

If you're trying something similar, good luck. If you have any questions I'm here to help.

Cleared with Awoken Ra during Challenge Descended.
Awoken Ra, Awoken Tsukiyomi, Lkali, Awoken isis, Hysferzen (dGolem), Awoken Ra.
All hypermax except golem (sLv 5, fully awoken). Both Ra's had 5 latent time extends.
dGolem was used because of active skill, HP and unbindable.
You need to have at least 20k HP when you get to F5, because DQ Hera's hits for ~19.5k when dGolems shield is active (20% dmg reduction).

Use skills as needed up to F3.

F3: You need to use two skills to kill Armadel, so get her below 50% for free turn.
First 100x should get her under 50%, the other 100x should kill her.
Save Isis for the next floor, to remove bind on Yomi.

F4: Pop Isis to clear bind on Yomi If you have triggable board, pop dGolem.
Note! You need to have full HP to tank DQ Hera's hit: ~19.5k).

F5: Kill asap. If you meet Hera-ur, use Kali if needed.
Be aware that less than 6 combos may not be enough to kill Hera-Ur.

F6: Stall out the shield, then pop skill for 100x.
100x should be enough to kill her, but try to get 6+ combos.

F7: Pop Ra to remove time delay (or Yomi if up).
The best way to ensure that you kill her is by using Kali, and get 6+ combos.

Team can be seen here:
http://www.puzzledragonx.com/en/simulator.asp?q=2012.99.1.99.99.99.8..2325.99.1.99.99.99.8..2128.99.1.2.0.1.7..2010.99.1.99.99.99.8..1747.99.1.99.99.99.6..2012.99.1.99.99.99.8

Just wanted to say, her second form, skill set 5: Beast Attack is not 12194 (or at least for me) - I got him with 24388 damage - learned that the hard way.

A dark jewel invaded all three times I ran this. Not sure if I just got crazy lucky or if invade rates are really that high. Even during a spirit jewel event it seems odd. Anyone else have this happen?

Guys Thor/Saria or Ryune/Idunn (or Blonia if you have the subs) wreck this dungeon. It's the only way I can farm it consistently lol.

Here's my build with Awoken Shiva team.

Awoken Shiva/Phoenix rider/Red Sonia/Red Guan Yu/Awoken Kagu

Pretty save build, all member max skill with four 297. Hp around 21000 on last floor.

Floor 1, 3 turns to kill, no active needed

Floor 2, you'll need 2 fire tpa to kill, use kagu/guan yu active if needed

Floor 3, 2/3 turns to hit her below 50%, it depends on whether she changes your heart orbs. Then 1 turn to kill after shes' under 50%

Floor 4, use shield if in danger, then use guan yu/kagu active to kill if needed. Make sure shield is still active before the kill

Floor 5, pretty much the same strategy for both Heras, you'll have enough hp to take a hit and heal right back up

Floor 6, turn shield on again when she's about to hit you. Just heal and tpa her to death, no any other active needed.

Floor 7, should be the easiest of all floor. Red Sonia + Shiva active to hit her to about 30% hp (you're probably not going to ohko her anyway). Once she binds your leader, use Red Guan Yu to clear the bind and win.

This is the last dungeon I need for Challenge Descended 8. I'm using an Awoken Kirin team and keep dying on F3. Armadel keeps hitting me for 13k after the first turn and one shotting me. None of her abilities do that much damage unless she's under 30%... I don't understand...

Anyone else having this issue? I checked the regular Scarlet pages and none of them list her doing that much damage either.

Posting for future me.

Credit to myeyesareblind from a post on the Saria/Thor forum thread, about halfway down the page:

http://puzzleanddragonsforum.com/threads/wip-team-building-saria-waifus-will-judge-you.85272/page-25

Saria//DQ/DQ/Apollo/Venus//AThor

1 - Set up board, DQ for two rows
2 - Apollo
3 - Charge skills while bringing to 50-60% then Apollo-Thor-Venus
4 - Charge a bit while saving dark/light, then DQ. Make sure you're healed in case of Dairy Queen
5 - Apollo + Venus
6 - Charge skills while bringing to 50-60% and saving dark, then DQ-Thor
7 - Use second turn of Thor's active with Saria-Apollo for OHKO.

Second DQ can be used for any emergency healing needs on stall floors.

It took me way to long to realize this but Apand is the way to go especially if you have more than one... just get Armadel to use wood orb increase.

Yomi Dragon/A.Haku/Mitsuhide/Okuninushi/Izanami/friend Yomi Dragon
All hyper maxed with dark resist latents (Yomi Dragon with 2 skill resist)

may use all skills to burst down level 3 because of the dark dmg reduction

regain all skill on Hera level, neither Hera can one-shot this team so feel free to stall.

little scarlet - using izanami first, then stall the two dmg reduction turns (bring her down to 99%), bring it down to 50%, activate either yomi dragon or haku to kill (depend on the board)

final scarlet - using yomi dragon or/and haku to regain izanami skill. activate izanami. setting the board (leave fire, dard and jammers). it is very important to leave as much jammers as you can. take the Burst Rose. all jammers go firs, activate Mitsuhide and Okuni to burst her down.

Yomi Dragon A.Haku Mitsuhide Okuninushi Izanami friend Yomi Dragon

All hyper maxed with dark resist latents (Yomi Dragon with 2 skill resist)

may use all skills to burst down level 3 because of the dark dmg reduction

regain all skill on Hera level, neither Hera can one-shot this team so feel free to stall.

little scarlet - using izanami first, then stall the two dmg reduction turns (bring her down to 99%), bring it down to 50%, activate either yomi dragon or haku to kill (depend on the board)

final scarlet - using yomi dragon or/and haku to regain izanami skill. activate izanami. setting the board (leave fire, dard and jammers). it is very important to leave as much jammers as you can. take the Burst Rose. all jammers go firs, activate Mitsuhide and Okuni to burst her down.

Yomi Dragon AHaku Mitsuhide Okuninushi Izanami friend Yomi Dragon

All hyper maxed with dark resist latents (Yomi Dragon with 2 skill resist)

may use all skills to burst down level 3 because of the dark dmg reduction

regain all skill on Hera level, neither Hera can one-shot this team so feel free to stall.

little scarlet - using izanami first, then stall the two dmg reduction turns (bring her down to 99%), bring it down to 50%, activate either yomi dragon or haku to kill (depend on the board)

final scarlet - using yomi dragon or/and haku to regain izanami skill. activate izanami. setting the board (leave fire, dard and jammers). it is very important to leave as much jammers as you can. take the Burst Rose. all jammers go firs, activate Mitsuhide and Okuni to burst her down.

FA Luci297-AHaku297-APandora297-Akechi-Eschamali-FALuci297

It wasn't easy but it worked.

I got hit by violet flame and I was totally expecting a violet flaaah or something :(
Bad hp judging skills by me

ALuci / Ronia / A Pandora / A Pandora / Super ult Pandora / ALuci
1100 + eggs
All were max awoken and max skilled.

F1: Use a pandora if needed
F2: Use a pandora if needed, two rows kills
F3: Stall if possible, keep on matching rows. Finish off with good HP.
F4: Stall if possible, keep on healing to stall. Try to save skills. Finish with high HP
F5: I one shot Hera-UR with 2 rows and 3 orb match.
F6: Stall out preemptive. Stall for ronia.
F7: Pandora first (probably not needed?). Ronia to finish. Two rows each time.

Note: Count dark orbs before matching rows. Use Luci to make two/three rows.

I'm a bit confused.
Clicking on the Scarlet Descended form the main page brings you to a multiplayer version of Scarlet Descended, but this page doesn't have the same level 1 start thing that the special dungeon does.
Is the special dungeon the same as the multiplayer one?

Used 5 stones. Look at it this way - it is better than pulling the crappy FF REM. ;->

Okuninushi
Vampire +40
Voice
Haku
Ronia +297
Zaelog∞ +50

If you're willing to spend a few stones (but not too many) send in a mono color team with low cd orb changers. More +eggs will be better, of course. I am not doing this again until I can put together a 0 stone team.

Aah, got her. Took me 11 stones, which was all I had. Lucky sky falls gave me 12 combos at the very end, yes! I seriously didn't know that my units would start at level 1, so yeah. I used a LKali team. I used a couple stones on the two devils, I'm sad to recall. But I have Scarlet. Never doing that again. I only got 39k experience, weird.
I wish you all the best of luck!

I was thinking hyper maxed goemon leads 3 tengu and echidna or 3 goemon 3 tengu. either way i dont have the stones or to even attempt this yet.

Funny how easy this dungeon is with the proper Sumire build.

Not too bad from watching vids

I F*#%&@% NEED HER! Ohhh, I need her for my Raoh team, I need her for my Ronia team. Ohhh lady you gon be mine tomorrow. Decend right into my BOX BEEHATCH! Oh boy am I excited, cause I missed her last time, but boy howdy and a monkey's nipple she gon be MINE!

UR WEAK AZZ DOWNVOTES AINT GON STOP ME FROM ACHIEVING MY GOALS U FUGGIN HATERS!

I just spent 16 stones getting through this and she didn't drop. I am a wee bit salty right now. In fact, I got so salty I curbstomped my phone when she didn't drop soooo Gung Ho - you owe me a new phone for making this dungeon so dang difficult. I expect to hear back from you ASAP.