Recently I've done fighting with the secret boss after missing the initial event completely during my 2nd run. I intended to do that on Easy mode, but completely forgot to do the initial event. As the result, I had to go through a 3-week excursion down on my 3rd gamethrough, this time in Normal mode to make things interesting a lil.
And wow, she is quite a nutter even in Normal mode. After discovering that my defense team (Yosuke, Chie and Yukiko) didn't work out quite well, I subbed Kanji for Yosuke, Teddie for Yukiko and keep my Chie. (Thus the heavy-damage artilery party is formed.)
Still, she's pretty hard to get down with 15k HP. The 1st time I tried was before I cleared the true final dungeon and all characters have their ultimate weapon (but not ultimate armor). The entire fight took about 20 minutes. :P
First 5 minutes was easy, took her 2 turns before she starts a cycle of Personas. The 1st cycle looks roughly like this:
Fire (Meltdown) > Ice (Coctyus Pain, watch it if you use Yukiko) > Elec (Narukami, Teddie users, beware.) > Wind (Divine Wind) > Mind Charge (all-immune) > Megidolaon > repeat.
A Mind Charged Megidolaon from her is bearable since it does about 350+ damage unbuffed.
Also I can tell the personas shes using. Siegfried (I thought it would be Surt but Siegfried? *bangs head*), Loki, Oukininushi (Unlikely but plausible candidate as well, I'm thinking of Thor.), Cu Chulain, Oberon (o.oll), Ardha. Each time she uses one magic skill, she'll be immune to that particular magic.
Me : Debil （ランダマイザー）Margeret at all times, Yoshi's charged Hassou Tobi （八艘跳び） (it does 200 damage per hit, ouch!), Kohryu's half-cost Salvation （メシアライザー） if Teddie needs to guard.
Kanji : Mataru （マハタルカジャ） buff, Primal Force （イノセントタック） spam.
Chie : All-round charged God's Hand. (ゴッドハンド）
Teddie : Healer and Maraku （マラクカジャ）, Bufudyne when its safe to strike.（ブフダイン）
Once I brought down her HP considerably, she used Morning Star （明けの明星）using Helel, then Diarahan using Ardha, so its back to square one, except that she takes half damage to all elements. :/
After about 5% HP loss, she does the cycle again, and this time she struck Teddie with the weakness using Thunder Reign (poor him) followed by Divine Wind, cause she'll start the cycle from the last time she stopped before using Morning Star.
Then comes 50%. She still does the same cycle EXCEPT instead of Mind Charge + Megidolaon, she'll start to use Power Charge + Hassou Tobi! At that moment I ACCIDENTALLY switched the wrong Persona to Trumpeter instead of Yoshi (Yoshi's immune to Physical), but SOMEHOW I managed to survive the collosal damage with 38 HP left. Also thats the time where its really hard to bring her down, but eventually my uncharged Hassou Tobi does the final strike against her.
All in all, Margeret hits hard if shes not debuffed. (She hits 300+ damage per strike using any 4 magic all-hit skills, without buff/debuff), and towards the end thats when the real fun of survival begins. But all in all, even when the team was abit underlevelled (I was level 82, Kanji and Teddie 77 each, Chie 78) and without the ultimate armours, I still managed to beat Margeret with roughly less than 20 turns to go before she does the 9999 Megidolaon. (I lost count, ok?)
Probably I'll try Margeret again with different team combinations once I've got them to at least level 80 or more. (I should clear the true end dungeon, got about 3 floors to go.) If I manage to beat one using another combo, I'll definitely post here and compare it with this try.
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