Cats (no 6★) get involved in territorial disputes. (RS-1 to RS-8)

"My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined." - Doctor, after Harold joins Rhodes Island.



0:00 - RS-1: Important Information
1:37 - RS-2: Same Train, Different Destination
3:29 - RS-3: Temporary Stop
5:21 - RS-4: Back on Track
7:31 - RS-5: Train Hopping
9:02 - RS-6: Additional Ticket
11:15 - RS-7: Control Malfunction
13:19 - RS-8: Terminal Velocity

Harold takes a fairly interesting mechanic and makes it horrible by forcing us to interact with it in a much more annoying way, and then killing us if we fail to do so, or if we just get unlucky.

We're basically forced to take a lot of operators for this stage, even with some of them not really doing much, because we need to keep all the torches lit up. Harold will extinguish the closest one (2 in phase 2) to him periodicaly, exposing our operators to the cold, which cripples them. In his second phase, he will use the move Icicle Crash from Pokémon each time he loses 25% of his max HP, which damages all operators and deals additional hits for each unlit torch. Torches that become unlit AFTER he starts to channel this attack will still increase the number of icicles, making their 10 second lockout period after extinguishing very frustrating.

Blocking Harold in his second phase is not really feasible, as he just deals too much damage with his melee attack. Instead, we get him to change phases as early as possible, so we have enough time to kill him. Afterwards, our top priority is to not trigger the global attack immediatly after he extinguishes the torches, and to light them back up ASAP.

As for the playable version of Harold, just look at Santalla instead.



Skills used:

Cliffheart: S2M3
Broca: S1M3
Waffle: S1M3
Luo Xiaohei: S1M3, S2M3
Iris: S1M3
Quercus: S1M3
Folinic: S2M3
Dagda: S2M3
Santalla: S2M3
Pramanix: S2M3
Kazemaru: S2M3
Harmonie: S2M3