Lava Dragon of Mantle

I came to this page just now because I wanted to see enemies' stats to prepare for this dungeon on Challenge Mode, and I did it successfully with the following team.

Extant Red Dragon Caller, Sonia
Extant Red Dragon Caller, Sonia
Extant Red Dragon Caller, Sonia
BAO Batman + BW Stealth (dark/water)
Divine Flying General, Lu Bu
World Tree Sprite, Alraune (just for the auto-heal from awoken skills to be a bit safer, not necessary - a green Odin would be better, too, but I didn't have any available)

Wave 8, I just did damage normally, without bothering to use a Sonia active. Wave 9, Sonia active + Batman skill (2x damage), and Lu Bu did ~50k damage past its defense, with one dark line plus two other dark combos of three orbs each. Wave 10, Sonia + Lu Bu actives for the win. (I had two turns, so if it wasn't dying immediately, I had another Sonia active to use.)




You want burst damage on waves 9 and 10. Alternately, for wave 9, a poisoner or direct damage user (i.e. Ra) can work, but people rarely use those as leader.

My suggestion is the following.



Red Sonia as leader.

Red Sonia

Red Sonia

Any poisoner (Lilith, Neptune, BAO Bane, Ghostring, and probably others I'm less familiar with), direct damage user (Ra, Tenth Angel, and maybe others I don't know of) or defense reducer (Kagutsuchi, BAO Firefly+Flamethrower, Machine Golem, Dark Golem, etc) for wave 9.

Something that gives burst damage for a turn (Lu Bu, D/W Batman, etc) for wave 10.

Whatever else that has an active skill that can be useful to live longer. Echidna, D/D Batman, D/L Batman, Viper Orochi, anything that boosts the strength of fire or dark orbs, green Odin for auto-heals, etc.



You shouldn't mess up, but if you're afraid of that, be sure to have over 14,903 HP to survive the last boss' basic attack. Sonia's RCV boost should allow you to live through the first 7 waves (although you still have to be careful).

Just use a Sonia's active to easily clear wave 8. Or just use normal red and dark orbs to do damage if you think you can kill it before it can attack at all. It's not farfetched by any means. Besides, you have 5 turns to heal if it attacks you, providing you can survive its 11,940 hit, and you should have plenty more health than that.

On wave 9, you can use your poison or direct damage user to kill it in one round (it bypasses defense) or a defense reduction + a second Sonia's active. Kagutsuchi and BAO Firefly reduce defense by half, requiring you to "only" hit about 36k to kill it instead of nearly 72k. Machine/Dark Golems reduce it by 75%, requiring you to only hit about 18k to kill it. Still, use a Sonia active after the defense reduction to be on the safe side.

On wave 10, use a Sonia active + whatever gives you burst damage (Lu Bu, etc). Use whatever else you have left to finish it off, depending on what you used.

Alternately, you can bring a Lucifer or Shinji & Kaworu (300k damage in one turn), for wave 9, if you have something other than Lu Bu for burst damage on round 10, because you cannot use Lu Bu's active skill if you have 1 HP.

Of course, you can also beat wave 9 with raw damage if you don't have any poison, damage that ignores defense or damage reduction, but it may require a burster (D/W Batman, Lu Bu, etc) along with a Sonia active, leaving you with less for wave 10. So it depends on what's available to you. Lu Bu is probably the strongest in terms of raw ATK in this team, so if you can get a lot of dark orb combos for wave 9, you can probably bypass its defense with ease. But you can't afford to mess up there.

I'm just an intermediate player, so there's countless other ways to get through this, and there's probably mistakes in this message anyway. Sorry in advance for any mistake, inaccuracy or omission of stuff I'm unfamiliar with.

he's talking about challenge mode. only one leader skill from your own collection can be used. no friends leader skills activate

Edit : Accidentally posted twice.

it seems to me you are not familiar with "challenge mode" yet.... so many free stones...

I seem to be able to make a team that can either beat boss 9 or boss 10 but not both. will update when i beat it...hopefully to help others that just opened up this level after beating neptune.

UPDATE: finally beat it and had to use a stone

rsonia (uEvo & fully awoken)
dark baron
cerberus
fire/ice ogre
mitsuki (could be any high leveled orb changing healer)
zeromus (could be friend lucifer)

How I played: stall floors 1-7 to get ALL actives (esp your super spike friend leader). grind normal through boss 8 and heal in between, use healer active if necessary. 1 shot boss 9 baron -> ogre. boss 10 cerberus -> rsonia active to take massive life (try to get at least 1 complete row of dark and fire orbs). zeromus/lucifer to finish off before boss's attack.

Why this team - rsonia and zeromus skill up dark/devil teams, so adding cerberus and ogre to increase HP (more important than attack) so you can absorb boss 8 hits. dark baron was the only defense breaker on my team (halves the defense). boss 9 has 72K something defense and halved by baron, skilled up ogre has enough to break the defense and one shot kill. died on boss 10 many times b/c rsonia active wasn't getting equal mix of fire/dark...so finally got it.

I had to stone boss 10 b/c my attack was so powerful and cooldown was 20ish turns, it was hard to stall and needed 2 more turns to activate zeromus. Could've been done without stone easily. Be careful on the PYRO lil sh!ts b/c 5 can appear at once with all synced attack.

You have too many Red Sonias share them with other people

From your collection:

Ronia
Lilith
King Baddie
Dragon Zombie
Chaos Devil Dragon
Ronia Friend

It'd be hard to lose.