Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance - Lowest Level Part 5: Nuwa (Hard)

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The long-awaited battle against Nuwa to finalise our Minato area journey. Earlier, Nuwa was the boss to threaten to penetrate the MC's elemental weakness (wind) before anyone else; this time around in Vengeance, the honour now goes to Naamah, the extra boss we've already fought. She is weak to fire, which is not the hardest element to create a party around.
For yet another time, I failed to replicate the success of my original vanilla run's fusion accident rigging. Pyro Jack was missing from the party when I decided to just get on with the game, as was Rakshasa, a tireless physical attacker and user of the recently acquired Rasetsu Feast as a Jaki demon. I got neither after hours of resetting!
It turns out that neither was necessary however. Flaemis, despite the lower level (inconsequential, relatively speaking, with new level scaling mechanics) compared to Pyro Jack now boasts the superior innate skill, boosting everybody's fire potential to his own rank of +3. Looking at my party, it's easy to see how much that aids in unleashing fire-elemental damage: Fortuna goes from 0 to +3 fire potential, the Nahobino from +1 to +3 and Xuanwu... from -6 to +3, becoming as potent of an Agi user as anybody else in the party.
Pyro Jack isn't sorely missed after all, considering how his innate is Forager, the same one as Tsuchigumo's, which helps us farm sellable items for dough. What about Rakshasa? See, lv. 11 Turdak accomplishes the very same feat as a fellow Jaki user of Rasetsu Feast, switching out on the very first turn never to be seen again. The debuffs are manually reapplied whenever necessary, and sometimes well before that, too - all three of them!
A second demon we have prepared is Fortuna, available at MC's level of 15 and thus not requiring a fusion accident, who is here to use Taunt to block the boss's wind magic away from penetrating the MC's weakness and rob her of her remaining turns (Taunt, once again, can still fail) and use Agi and Dia the rest of the time. Somehow, mine has Counter-1... Yeah...
A newcomer coming at the impressive level of 23, 8 levels above the Nahobino's, is Xuanwu, a turtle with a worrisome agility stat of 8. Across my attempts, it didn't in fact whiff a single time, which is more than what I can say about everybody else; likely, because they were attacking more often. Xuanwu assists with setting the buffs, attacking with multi-strike physicals (somebody recommended these over Beatdown in the last video's comment sections - these seem to only strike twice each time against a single target, making them fairly underwhelming) and Agi for press turn control.
The MC's most important function is using a Force Dampener when the Magatsuhi attack is telegraphed. Being far too powerful, it is best blocked outright to prevent any harm.
The improved Agi potentials seem to result in a faster battle all around, and when my own Magatsuhi gauge fills up one more time I forego a Rasetsu Feast to unload critical strikes on the boss, the Nahobino's Fire Gem ending the battle by bringing Nuwa to 50% health, which triggers the event.
No experience is gained at the end, so we're going to end up just as weak for the upcoming boss fight shortly after this one, which is against two extra bosses at once. Sure sounds exhilarating!

[@TheStrahl]

Battle theme kind of slaps here

[@Narukami930]

it aint SMT if the Soundtracks don't slap

[@mystereave314]

The "Counter -1" only shows up when the counter is triggered because of Fortuna's -1 Physical affinity, since it's a physical attack. All counters display like this when triggered in battle, like Satan's will say "Adversary +7".

[@MoogleBoss]

I understand; what I'm driving at is that it's weird I have the skill on Fortuna in the first place considering her being a purely magic demon.

[@mystereave314]

@@MoogleBoss Oh, well, it's still free damage anyway, I guess.