Tales of Symphonia Regal Solo: Abyssion [No Items/Mania/No Damage]

This is so much easier for Regal than it is for Colette lol. I messed up my spell cancels a few times but I don't mind too much since it meant for more interesting neutral and clearing this fight is based on Time Stop RNG so I didn't want to grind it out toooo much. This is probably the only EX boss I'm going to do for the sake of this run (doesn't mean I'll never do them though). Mostly because the remaining EX bosses are either really easy or torture.
Game Modifications:
-Used Artes Sphere mod
-Set Fanged Finality as an arte
-Modified the party
Strategy:
Before we start, I should mention that I have gear to make myself immune to fire and I have max ATK stats.
First things first, Abyssion always starts with Divine Judgment. The way to dodge this is to be mid-jump before the spell actually casts. If I jump as the spell casts, it will catch me and waste a lot of time on the reset lol. I like to jump over him during Divine Judgment, do backsteps to hug the right side of the map, then double jump over him again to dodge his first melee attack (if he uses one at least, in the video he just uses a spell). In the first part of the fight, Abyssion has access to all of his melee artes, two fire spells, Spread, and Gravity Well. For those who aren't familiar with how Abyssion works, his basic pattern is two melee artes into using a spell. I normally want to punish him after his second melee arte as he generally has high end lag on his finisher artes (Victory Light Spear and Raging Beast) and is likely to start casting. However, sometimes he'll use a melee single arte without following it up. These single artes are very difficult to punish and I generally shouldn't try to go for it. Artes he'll never follow up on are: Raging Beast, Victory Light Spear, and Double Demon Fang. Artes he's somewhat unlikely to follow up on are: Swallow Dance and S. Lightning Blade, Mass Devastation, and Tiger Rage. Unlike with Colette, Regal can fortunately dodge all of these melee artes with a double jump! Tiger Rage, Mass Devastation, and Victory Light Spear can still anti-air me but if I'm at the peak of my double jump as I jump over him I'll be totally safe. In terms of spells, he has: Gravity Well, Spread, and two fire spells (these don't matter cause I'm immune). Gravity Well is the only one that's remotely threatening normally due to its wide AOE if he casts it. Still, I can just run out of it so it's fine.
For my first actual action against him, I want to combo him against the wall until he goes into OVL using Crescent Dark Moon combo resets. Abyssion drops out of combos via knockdown quite easily for some reason, so I should try to reset the combo meter with it before 20 hits to be safe. Once he goes into OVL, he'll be in HP range to use both Falcon's Crest and his first Time Stop. After he enters OVL, I backstep to dodge Falcon's Crest and then I walk up to him afterwards and use MA once I see him enter the cast animation for Time Stop. This will cancel it and remove 50% of the RNG in this fight lol. The reason I decide to cancel one of the Time Stops is because surviving Time Stop is completely RNG for Regal (ironic since this is the one part of the fight I can consistently survive as Colette). Even if I'm at the peak of my Double Jump when Time Stop hits, there are so many things he can kill me with it's not even funny. This is the really the only thing that makes this fight annoying.
Right after I cancel Time Stop, my MA will trigger his next two HP threshold attacks which are Indignation Judgment and Meteor Storm. This MA is easier to dodge than Divine Judgment since I can dodge it by jumping just after it casts. After the Indignation Judgment, I should continue running to the leftmost side of the screen to dodge Meteor Storm. I need to jump twice when the meteors closest to me strike down to dodge them. At this point, he gains access to his next tier of spells which includes Thunder Arrow, Ground Dasher, Indignation, and Prism Sword. Unfortunately for me, my MA actually messes up the axis slightly so I have no idea how to consistently dodge Prism Sword here. I just try to cancel every spell at this point if it's possible and hope he doesn't cast it in OVL.
At this point, I can just kinda play the fight out. Once I beat him around a bit, he'll use Shining Bind-Meteor Storm and will soon after use a Time Stop. If I can survive the Time Stop through sheer luck, a double jump, and a dream then I'll likely win the fight.
BGM:
The Strongest Foe from Ys: The Oath in Felghana

[@magi-yoshi41]

Party: "How long will you need to beat this superboss?"
Regal: "Only 4 minutes"

[@diaeitsch]

Regal: "What is a superboss?"

[@TailsGt1]

The triple MAs back to back was so funny. You handled him pretty well (Though the Tme Stop looked scary...)! Good job bro 😎

[@HorangiTiger]

Thanks bro 😎
For Regal, Time Stop was the only issue... man kept killing me with Victory Light Spear D:

[@ChEEsEmc]

imagine presea with spell cancels 😩 the world i could live in.
great run horangi!! 🎉🎉

[@laphi3018]

as far as I know that can only be done in the gamecube version with cheats by giving characters different spells (or at least nobody tried it for PS3/Steam)

[@HorangiTiger]

Thanks! Presea would definitely be interesting with spell-canceling. Wonder if she'd have any fun combos with her end lag 🤔

[@ChEEsEmc]

@@HorangiTiger destruction artes where the rocks keep going but you can cancel out and juggle them, oooooh baby that'd be cool.
i wish she had that or at least something that reset on the ground like demon fang, only character that cant keep her combos going T-T

[@MINTOSDaBoi]

Yoooo w this might be my fav grind session to do with Lloyd to make sure I'm on point

[@DodgeThisBam]

Brutal!~

[@Kolinichu]

Well done! As always, great plays! You mention that your Regal has max ATK stats, do you mean both ACC and STR? What even is the maximum value for both? :o

[@HorangiTiger]

I actually don't know what the max STR value is exactly, it's probably 9999? I generally just raise my STR until my ATK stat reaches 3000 which is the normal cap without Devil Arms.

[@UltLuigi1]

The Eternia textboxes hit different

[@Vexen18]

I live for high level Regal play 🤤😩

[@Sonnance]

Regal: “Goodbye, fragile creatures.”
Also, out of curiosity, does Mirage not maintain i-frames when frozen by Time Stop?

[@HorangiTiger]

"Superbosses are such fragile creatures"
-Regal, probably
Mirage unfortunately does not have i-frames in this game. If it did, I'd use it way more haha. It's quite nerfed from its Eternia counterpart.

[@Sonnance]

@@HorangiTiger Oh, none at all? Wow.
Yeah, I figured since you didn’t use it much it probably had lousy frame data or something. But to just… Not have i-frames is baffling.

[@lenkradborke7226]

Not bad

[@Deathninja5551]

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