Rusted Nation

Incident 01 "Automaton: Secret Mission"

Enemies

Team Recommendations

1 Healer, 3-4 DPS
- AoE DPS is useful for defeating the Automatons quickly
- Ultimates with cooldowns of 4 or lower are needed

Stage Tips

Blade can only be damaged after the Automatons are defeated. They must both be brought down to 25%, and this can be done in any order you wish.

End of turn 4: Automatons will use their ultimates on slots 1/3/5 and 2/4, respectively.
End of turn 5: You need to use 3 ultimates on 7943, but you will first need to hit 7352 with 1 ult to remove his taunt.
- This is where AoE ultimates are extremely useful, otherwise you will need 4 ultimates!
- If you fail, slots 2/4 will be paralyzed and have their attack debuffed to do 0 damage.

When the Automatons are brought to 25% they will try to detonate, so you need to bring them down to 1% in the next 3 turns to avoid backlash.
- If both are brought to 25% at the same time, one will detonate the turn after the other.

When both Automatons are defeated, Blade can finally be damaged. He will be brought down to 50% by their destruction to give you a head start. Just defeat him normally!
- Blade will use bleed the turn after he's alone.
- The next turn he'll use an aoe on 1/2/4/5 that also makes them take 5% more damage permanently.

Enemies

Team Recommendations

1 Healer, 3-4 DPS
- A guardian may also be used if you would like to force a specific taunted target, but is not necessary.

Stage Tips

Focus on the Monster only. He has thresholds at 50% and 25%, so watch when you use your ultimates so you do not waste them.
At the beginning, the Monster takes 200% less damage. This damage stack can be slowly removed by 10% for each basic attack and 15% for each ultimates.
- Rei will also assist contribute to lessening the damage stacks each turn.
- Just continue to hit him until you start doing damage.
The Monster will mostly attack with aoe bleed moves. You can guard to remove the bleed, so remember to do so if you are becoming overwhelmed.

End of turn 1: Monster uses a strong aoe bleed.
- Guard on turn 2 to remove this bleed unless you are a masochist. Remember to guard whenever he uses an ult since this bleed will be over 10k.

When the Monster reaches 50% health, Rei will sometimes need to be hit with an ult to remove his bleed damage. If he dies, you lose.
- A taunt will also be given to a unit, so you want to taunt the turn after reaching 50% if you wish to assign this to your guardian. Otherwise, just be wary of the taunted unit and keep him healed or guard when necessary.

When the Monster reaches 25% health, you will need to guard to avoid dying from the Monster's ultimate.

Enemies

Team Recommendations

1 Healer, 3 DPS, 1 Guardian
- Slot 3 will need to survive, so place your highest HP unit here that is not your guardian.
- Place your guardian anywhere but slot 3 so he does not tank an ultimate while being unable to heal.
- Do not put your healer in slots 1 or 5 unless he has paralysis immunity!
- If you have any units at potential 12 with paralysis immunity, put them in slots 1 and 5.

Stage Tips

Both Huey and Kuya must be killed at the same time or you fail. Slot 3 also must not die or you will fail!

End of turn 1: Slot 3 is given bleed, and takes 5% more damage.
- If you hit either Huey or Kuya on turn 2, slot 3 will get counter attacked, so guard this turn!
- If you happen to have 3-star ZL Quincy or FC Edmond for your guardian, taunt here to take the next turn's paralysis. (You can also do this later on when this repeats with any other guardian).
End of turn 2: Kuya paralyzes slots 1/5 for 3 turns.
- This can be completely ignored if you have paralysis immunity on slots 1 and 5.
- Be certain to heal up or guard for the next turn! If you do not intend to guard, be sure you are at least at 75% health.
End of turn 3: Huey uses a strong aoe attack on all that does 75% your max HP. Everyone will take 75% more damage for 2 turns so guard if you can't heal up properly!
End of turn 4: Kuya uses bleed on slots 2/4 for 3 turns.
End of turn 5: Huey makes slot 3 unable to heal for 2 turns. This can be offset if you had any heal-over-time abilities used prior to this turn.
- Make certain to taunt with your guardian here to avoid the next turn's ultimate.
End of turn 6: Kuya hits slot 3 (or your guardian) with a strong ultimate.
On turn 8: You need to ultimate both enemies so use your ultimates here, first on Huey, then Kuya.