SMT IV: Apocalypse - Black Rider (Apocalypse Difficulty, No Skill Inheritance)

Описание: Rules:
1. All battles are fought on Apocalypse difficulty.
2. Experience gain is minimized by only fighting fiends, beginning at level 76.
3. Demons may only be fused or recruited with their default skillsets, and skill changes are not allowed.
4. No stat boosting items or apps, including Armor Boost Kits.
5. Consumable use is unlimited since Chakra Pots, Bead Chains, and Great Chakras are all farmable in the Black Card shop or with the Trade app.
6. There are no limitations for whispering skills to Nanashi, so long as the demons with those skills are available. Demons may be leveled up with experience items to learn their full skillsets.

Black Rider is one of the easier fiends to defeat, but he also has several tools that end up extending the battles, and having to return for more than two rounds is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. Offensively, he's not that dangerous; he tends to use Megidolaon and Soul Divide, his exclusive move, to deal almighty damage to the entire party. Ice Age also deals high damage to targets without ice resistance, but that's it for his notable offensive moves. The rest of his moveset ends up serving as more of an annoyance; Pressuring Stance removes two of the party's press turns, while Calibrate acts as three stacks of Sukukaja (odd that this move isn't on Matador), which can be quite troublesome with the accuracy of Apocalypse difficulty. While he cannot remove attack and defense debuffs, he does use Dekaja fairly frequently. Finally, Soul Divide can inflict mute on the entire party, so I brought Hallelujah along to occasionally prevent that and save some press turns.

Offensively, this battle takes longer than the previous ones because the best available fire skill for Nanashi at this level is Agidyne. Even with the High Fire Pleroma accessory, it was still fairly difficult to defeat him within two rounds. Aside from that, however, there's not too much else to worry about in this battle.