King Demi-Fiend (LOW LEVEL) | Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
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- čas přidán 25. 12. 2023
- Kept you waiting, huh?
This is the first time I ever beat Demi-Fiend on DDS! Overall, I feel like I played pretty well. However, I'm aware that I got very lucky in this video.
TESTING
I did test on Megidolaon, Death Files, and Celestial Ray to see which is better. And the conclusion I came up with, is that Celestial Ray is better. Death Files did Decent damage, but Celestial Ray seem to do a bit more. Also, Death Files seemed to miss often.
CELESTIAL RAY & LAST WORD
Celestial Ray does around 700 damage, with Debilitate and Mind Charge. However, I also need to do damage to just Demi-Fiend, because Celestial Ray will kill Demi-Fiend's party with just a few hits. If I just spammed Celestial Ray, I would have to deal with Gaea Rage more often then desired. So that's where Last Word comes in. It does less damage then Celestial Ray, but there's not much I can do about that. With Debilitate and Mind Charge it does around 500 damage.
THE STRATEGY
PHASE 1: Cu Chulainn & Girimehkala
Damage to Demi-Fiend.
LW x4 = 2000
CR x4 = 2800
Total: 4800
On party turns that I attack, I try to time it with Cu Chulainn Taunt spam. So Cu Chulainn and Girimehkala use Dekaja and Dekunda (I always use Debilitate before attacking). That's mainly to avoid Mamudoon, and Cu Chulainn follow up attack, if he managed to get two Taunts off. However, sometimes it will happen anyway, because Demi-Fiends crits often. But MOST of the time it works out. Anyways, Mamudoon, and Javelin Rain are the main issue here.
Cu Chulainn and Girimehkala, need to be killed at the same time. Debilitate is needed to do that, otherwise Cu Chulainn will die and Girimehkala will survive the fourth Celestial Ray.
PHASE 2: Pixie & Arahabaki
Damage to Demi-Fiend.
LW x3 = 1500
CR x4 = 2800
Total: 4300
PH 1 + PH 2 = 9100
Pixie will mainly spam Megidolaon, until she gets low on health. When that happens, she will spam Maziodyne, Vanity, and Diarama. Pixie can be a problem, but Arahabaki is the main issue. He can really bog down the damage process. Mainly with Gate Of Hell and Debilitate, which he seems to use at the most inconvenient times. Also with Demi-Fiends constant Javelin Rain spam can make it far worse.
Pixie will die with 3 hits from Celestial Ray, if you catch her before she starts spamming Diarama. After that, Demi-Fiend will summon Titania. At that point the fourth Celestial Ray will finish off Arahabaki, officially ending phase 2 and putting Demi-Fiend under half health. Demi-Fiend will summon Parvati, then Titania will use Mediarahan.
Demi-Fiend has 18000 HP, but when he goes under half health, he will be healed. So realistically, he has 27000 HP. Which is why I really test my luck at the beginning to get the Mediarahan out of the way.
PHASE 3: Parvati & Titania
LW x2 = 1000
CR x3 or 4 = 2100 or 2800
Total: Hard to tell, and doesn't matter. After getting the Mediarahan out of the way, I kinda slow down the damage process, and start only using two Last Word in each phase. This is a new addition to my strat, to prevent from getting bogged down, and running out off time. This was my forth attempt doing this, but this is the only attempt where I passed the first and second phases.
Titania mostly spams Magic (which can cause problems), and Debuffs. Parvati is worse, mainly using Buffs, Mediarama, and god forbid Mahamaon. If she uses Mahamaon and it lands, Demi-Fiend can kill. Spamming Debilitate can distract her, but sometimes she is difficult to keep in check. Her Mediarama spam can really screw things up as well, making the phase last longer then desired. Potentially, run ending.
After finishing off Parvati and Titania ends phase 3, ends cycle 1, and starts 2. Which means starting back over with Cu Chulainn and Girimehkala. Like I said, from this point I will only use Last Word two times in each phase, unless I feel like I can get away with more. After getting through Phase 1 2 ,and 3 again, ends cycle 2. The start of cycle 3 should be where it ends.
Thumbnail Art by... The very talented Marise Sekiban! Check them out!
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Music used in outro.
Battle - Eon II: • Battle - Eon II - SMT V - Hry
You know, for having Null Critical in this fight, Demi-Fiend strikes a lot of crits
That's really amazing. He's already one of the hardest optional bosses in any game and you did it low level! I read the description and really know the game inside and out. That's some really great thumbnail art too, Marise did a great job.
Hope you enjoyed it! Also, this thumbnail is one of my favorites. Wish I could work with them more!
"Don't whine and say it's unfair later, okay?"
Let us now crown a new king. All hail lord Zakai!
Woah, it happened. I remember commenting on your Lucifer SMT:Nocturne run about this fight lol.
At last Zakai can now sleep. Nope you still have to do DDS 2 low level run. Cant leave us in cliffhanger. Now chop chop
Welcome back, Zakai. Had a good laugh with my brother while watching the sleeping Serph video a few days ago, but I am happy you are back to uploading the low level DDS videos. Also, I still appreciate you describing your strategy in the video description. Looking forward to DDS2 content in 2024!
Glad to be back! I've really missed uploading.
24:17 When that Titania healed the opposing party i died a little inside for you tbh😭😭😭
That new intro is pog AF
Great job. I love you! ❤️
Love your strategy and love the thumbnail. Instant eyecatcher lol
You did well. I plan on starting my firts SMT game with SMT3: Nocturne, with an original PS2 copy.
Now do it low level human form without null crit 😂😂.
Jk,jk, save the rest of your sanity, mate
Damn you did it! Probably you're the second person after JimReaper who was able to pull it out all fair and square.
Is it me or Atlus really outdone themselves in DDS games when comes to optional bosses (like in nocturne and smtV they just total jokes, maybe apart from Ra).
It's just sad it's such underrated game, I'd love to play it on my ps5.
Good luck in DDs2 run!
Also that "trade" in 12:14 i would be pissed off that nonetheless of nulll sleep that close call been lost in this rotation
Low level human form only IS possible...just not without Null Critical
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 well I did saw beating demi fiend in human form, but I'm not sure about low level, must be frustrating, since level also have impact of damage taken and dealt.
@@zensbu3434 At best, it just guarantees you need to go through the second Dormina roll since it takes longer to kill Demi-Fiend
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 I suppose, but still probably is a pain and pure luck (even with null crit) how much demi-fiend would land crits on you while being fully debuffed (unless do rotation trick), since in human form damage taken is bigger and on level 20-30 is over 30% higher than on 99
Bro almost at the end, you were losing after good progress. Thank goodness that Mamudoon did not snipe Gale when he is all alone
Awesome
absolutely insanoid