Tales of Rebirth - Mao Solo Compilation

0:00 - Introduction
0:22 - Leg Tight
1:07 - Donell
2:10 - Phantom Hilda
3:18 - Zilva
5:00 - Yuris

Tales of Quizzia was a quiz held during New Year for the duration of a special stream. The quiz had multiple questions about the series which could be all answered by searching a bit on the net. The winner would be able to request any kind of video as long as I could actually fulfill it.

Congratulations to Kevassa02 for winning the Tales of Quizzia contest during the New Year stream! It was actually pretty close since he won with only 4 more points compared to the 2nd contestant~
As per the agreement, Kevassa was able to ask for a special video. Unfortunately, since his request couldn't be fulfilled (due to a lack of savefile), he preferred to get a surprise instead~
It didn't take too long to figure out what to do since I had some unused content left. Kevassa asked me many times for a Mao Solo, and since it couldn't and will never happen, I guess I can at least try to fulfill that wish in some way now ;)

Here's a summary of the fights :

Leg tight was a bit harder than expected due to his Iron stance during all his attacks. He is also much faster than you would expect from a stack of rocks, making Arcane spells much harder to cast. At low Hp he has a multiline attack that can be quite annoying. That's about it. I'll be using the line-swapping glitch a few times during the video.

What makes the Donell fight challenging is not only the fact that you have to fight 3 enemies (2 of them begin auto revived) but the diversity of resistances they have. It's pretty much impossible to be able to hit the weakness of every enemy with Mao. That said, I preferred to focus on hitting Donell's and Tohma's weaknesses. It made a huge difference since it allowed me to kill Tohma extremely easily and to only have to face 2 enemies. The beginning of the fight is scripted and makes use of the enemies' counter-attacks.

The Hilda fight was a lot of fun. Since she can instant cast everything, you shouldn't count on casting Arcane spells. Spacing and positioning is very important in this fight since, as I explained a long time ago, the only way to dodge Frigid Coffin is to run forward.

Zilva was such an annoying boss. She has the bad habit to guard attacks and she is invincible while casting. For once, the Waste ailment came very handy because it disables her spells for a good while (and somehow makes her guard less often). She is very fast and her attacks have a lot of range, making her very dangerous.

Obviously, I didn't have the last fight recorded until very recently for the same reason I didn't do any run with either Mao or Hilda : Mystic Artes. Until now, I was only able to No Damage Yuris with Veigue, Tytree and Annie but I was finally able to find a universal way to dodge Explosion Nova. It's very obnoxious to do (as expected) and requires quite a lot of menu-ing. First you need to have 99 RG (or close) which is achieved by waiting with the Gung Ho Belt equipped at Max HP. Then you need to dodge the initial hit of Explosion Nova by reaching 100RG. This is achieved by hitting an enemy for instance. Now the problem is that lowering your RG then increasing it won't be fast enough since there is a huuuuuge delay and a minimum RG value to decrease at once before being able to increase RG again. Dodging the last hits of Explosion Nova will require both a Charge diamond and a Cool Raster. You need to kill an eye to activate the Cool Raster which will set your RG at 0. Since it activates a bit later than the hit itself, you technically benefit the iframes from the 100RG state while being at 0RG. Finally, you need to increase RG as fast as possible which is actually a pain to input :p
Got very lucky with the Disaster Roars here, since killing the last eye would have been an instant fail.

Hope you enjoy~