This stage is pure hell, even when I have decent units I still can’t beat any of those two battles. The boss deletes my units and it’s a huge dps check that many players can’t clear. The other bosses were a walk on the park.
My Union Boss guide got a positive response so I have made another slide for Cage Rumble with an explanation of each bosses mechanics. The recommendations are made with the intent of getting 3k for maximum reward not necessarily for topping out the charts as there is a lot of RNG in this game mode to contend with.
Bear in mind the boss will have its own normal mechanics AND the unique Cage Rumble mechanic, so unfortunately this one is a bit more wordy.
Once again any recommendations feel free to list them below and if it is unclear, the dots represent my recommended team comp. Match the colours to the borders and mix and match characters based on investment!
Final disclaimer as its not common so might cause confusion the DPS Fangus is crit Fangus, not DoT
Hey guys I am putting up my Threshold guides as they were pretty heavily requested while I work on my guide for Normal to Inferno. I am also going to create an investment guide with optimal lattice investment for each character and what optional investment you can do and for what reason.
With that, this guide is fresh it is wordy and it is complicated. If there are any mistakes, suggestions, clarifications PLEASE ask and let me know so I can fix it before adding it to my google doc which I will release once its more than 3 guides
Cachi is on 205 speed set + time weave and artisan right side full ACC
Obol 225 speed with Gigabyte right side full Acc
Fangus 223 speed with Jacal guard right side full ACC
Lingo 220 speed with Gigabyte
They are all on mid gear not highly invested Just make sure you have max acc gear on Obol, Cachi and Fangus.
I made this for my Union as the current Phase 4 boss was giving some members some trouble, figured may as well post here in case it's helpful for others.
For a straight up comp recommendation for green I used the team in the second picture.
Khloros is uninvested 1/1/1
Freya and Kloss are on 12/12 Timewave Swiftrush
Valerian is 1/1/5 12/12 Wellspring Timeweave (I dont have the right Etherplague shell and Evolguard isnt worth it) approx 50k HP
If this is helpful for anyone or you have any recommendations or additions please let me know, if there is other content a similar guide would be helpful for also shout it out as I think I might make more :)
Running her fast with hp. Codex of magic 3 lattice into s3. The immunity and shield plus the attack buff make things very consistent for this double dps team.
To be fair though both dps are limited and highly invested. Kloss has lattice investment as well.
Hey, just in case it helps anyone, Rilmocha can work for Terramaton too. It’s not the best choice, but if you’ve already sunk resources into her you can run her in both Terra and Doki.
Here’s a quick rundown of the teams:
DokiDoki Hell IV:
The team’s super consistent (I did 50 runs, went 7‑1, 8‑0, all of them). I originally tried Freya instead of Messiah, but I decided it was worth sacrificing a bit of winrate to shave off a minute of clear time.
Terramaton Hell IV–III:
Honestly, Hell IV is still unreliable, but that’s to be expected. I’m running Mia at 4★, Valerian without his max Ultimate, and Kloss without his max Ultimate. There’s tons of room to optimize here, but Mia is absolutely the MVP. She carried me so hard, that I now think about invest some latices on her.
Key details:
Rilmocha has her S3 fully skilled and is currently using full "perspicace" set
Messiah his her S3 fully skilled
Kloss is missing one lattice to reach S3 full skill
Valerian is at 27k HP and is missing one lattice to hit S3 full skill
Kazuya has all skills fully maxed (absolutely love her lol)
The Animus Artisan has saved my butt more than once
Have now made a final template that I can use for guides going forward so they don't take as long. Figured Id update my Union Boss guide with some more detail :)
Team recommendations are based on Phase 4, you can be more of less aggressive based on your account. If you are dying put a healer in, if you are not taking any damage throw in a second DPS or use a DPS sub DPS combo!
Once again the colours are for mix and matching, my recommended team role build is what I use to get 100, so the outlines represent who can swap in to that spot viably.
This little guy is a must build unit for inferno if you do not have SSania. Extremely underrated unit in all tier lists for some reason.
S3 (when maxed out with 180% eff acc) is a 100% 3-turn Defense up and 2-turn IMMUNITY buff -- this is self-explanatory. Very few units can grant immunity let alone TWO TURNS. Not only that it extends all existing buff durations by 1 turn!
The defense up is also huge when stacking your team with Artisans. The shields stacked with his def buff means your team is almost unkillable!
S2 when maxed has a 100% 2-turn speed down (can be reduced to 3 turn CD). Even his S1 inflicts a crit down.
Best part is he is type neutral being a Disorder unit, so can be used in ALL content.
Hi! I ended up among the top 200 RTA players and want to share my team and some thoughts. This is my main roster:
Characters stats at the end
I don’t have most of the meta‑tier SSS apex units (no Lily, no Mio, no Doki Doki, no Yeli…). I also wish I had Tsukiyo, but luck wasn’t on my side.
That being said, I started with what I had and then adapted. My main strategy ended up spamming Kazuyo and Freya without Revelation, since I found both to be very flexible and useful against both Turn 1 and Turn 2 players.
I didn't use Revelation on Freya cause she was and currently is my only opener. Additionally, I aimed to put Bulwark on almost all my units. I came from SW, so I already know that Will/Immunity is a must‑have and great for dealing with nasty comps that lack a proper setup or stripper.
From there, I look at what my opponent is going to pick and try to deny or out‑draft them. For example, Veronika is god‑tier against Mio, Kloss, or any opener like Obol or Rin that relies on AoE. I also found she pairs perfectly with Kazu against bruisers, because her S2 doesn’t wake them up and ignores shields. Plus, you can still steal all their buffs, which is amazing.
When I face Turn 2 players, I usually beat them with Xiada; opponents just can’t sustain if Xiada starts with max Flames from Turn 1. To ensure max Flames, my team is Freya/Vero/Chiaki, since they usually ban Kazu instead of Chiaki or Veronika. This strat worked most of the time, but there are some gigachads who manage to survive and crush me.
I also like to use Messiah if they play something like Rahu or Mizukoto instead of Tiamat. His passive is unbeatable against stack‑DEF characters. My pre‑ban is either Doki Doki or Lingluo; they’re both nasty as hell.
Against Turn 1 players, I honestly lack follow‑up. Vero usually isn’t enough to counter comps like Lily + Tsukiyo or Lily+ Doki Doki. I have Hoyan for this, but I just don’t have the resources to build her yet. So how do I handle them? I cross my fingers and pray to be faster or survive, lol. I tried using Lighthouse on Viper to survive/cut and Lingluo, but it usually falls short.
However, against any Mio/AoE cleave, I lock in Vero in position 3. Their only chance to win is picking Hendrich and he must be faster than me which is way harder to archive since Mio can’t speed up their team if you have Bulwark on all your units.
Also, I don’t know if everyone knows this, but Bulwark counts toward Freya’s passive from the start of the battle. It gives you 4% extra speed (about +12 SPD) right off the bat which is amazing. I tested this against the Guild Boss by comparing a slower unit with Bulwark against one without it and tweaked until I saw the expected increase.
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I hope this post sheds some light and provides proof that you don’t need an insane SPD or an army of apex units to climb and also encourage more folks to give RTA a try next season. What I disliked most about RTA is the small player pool and facing the same players over and over again.
If you have any questions about my characters, setups, or anything else, just ask!
PD: Not FTP, I spent <$20.
Characters ordered by SPD
S1 max, S2 + 1 laticemax skilledmax skilledS1 and S3max skilledS1 and S3max skilled and max dupeS3S2, S3
This mf tiger yin made my Liliam OP asf it aint even funny 😭. Also boosted my Khloros win rate to 90%. Lmk if y'all have any questions about the team build
I am developing a character guide for RTA construction. It is currently in the beta phase of development and modification. I hope you like it, and I welcome any suggestions, improvements, or corrections regarding character construction. That is what this is all about: providing the entire community with a point of reference.
A week ago, I was still using this team comp but struggling, it was really inconsistent and not great for auto-farming. I think 2 bramble will fix this, but I don't think so. Now, after tweaking it a bit and putting Codex on Kloss, it's perfect. Yattaaaaa
Celince is doing really well here, and Tsukiyo Mi with Halloween + Timeweave makes her feel almost like Lily but without follow-up hehe. I haven’t even upgraded her Lattice yet. I wonder how good she’d be with S2 and S3 maxed skill…
Guess it’s totally worth it, at least for players like me who don’t have Lily or Shadow Sania, maybe?
I'm sure this will not get seen and mostly ignored. But hey what the heck.
I'm a F2P that got bored with resource grinding and gacha summon FOMO. So, I made a new account recently and decided to only use rares and no other unit. Happy to say that I just became able to auto Niconana and the hardest difficulty XP mission.
That's all. Nothing crazy, if you want to be toxic, just keep scrolling. And not reporting anything game breaking. Just a F2P having fun in this game.
Edit: Will post pictures of the account with Andrew equipping the artisan shell as proof of the niconana clear. Please do not assume inferno. That was never claimed. It has been a very refreshing way to play the game and just wanted to share it with people. If you still doubt that this is my account, I don't know what else to say. I do hope you all have a great day, though, and will show a video if anything notable is achieved.
Hey hey I‘m a returning player but I am hella overwhelmed with all my new characters
Which unit would be the best to focus on?
(I’d prefer to focus on handsome men since I am a simp hahaha)