SMT IV: Apocalypse - YHVH, Peace (Low Level, Apocalypse Difficulty, No Fusion)

I love this boss. There's so much about this battle that makes it memorable, from the dual party system to the outrageously powerful moves in the second phase. It's everything a final boss should be: a test to determine if the player truly deserves to beat the game. And it's time to see if I deserve to finish this run.

Rules:
1. All forced battles are fought on Apocalypse difficulty.
2. Experience gain is minimized by only fighting forced battles and recruiting demons when necessary.
3. No fusing demons. Compendium usage is fair game.
4. No skill changes or using the Skill Plugin app.
5. No stat boosting items or apps, including Armor Boost Kits. (RIP my endgame +380 HP, +60 AG on Nanashi from Armor Boost Kits)

My strategy breakdown is much too long for the description, so here are some of the highlights of the battle. This fight was so crazy that it will go down in legends.

31:40 Planned Chaos on Nanashi and Infinite Power on the same turn. Great.

32:37 Brutal turn. Good thing YHVH targeted Flynn with that final Crush, or the samurai would really be screwed (although the Assist Gauge would help them out next turn).

36:09 Divine Harmony, Mouth of God, and Infinite Power. If I weren't having Asahi serve as a lightning rod for Mouth of God, this turn could easily have set up a loss the next turn.

40:21 Tragic moment. Rampage doesn't hit Fafnir, and YHVH gets to use Infinite Power and kill the samurai the next turn. If it had hit Fafnir, they might have survived long enough that I could have reached the dialogue event at half health and the pillars of blue flame would have appeared in the background.

41:18 Walter goes down swinging.

42:57 YHVH uses Black Hole, which indicates that he just hit half health. Too bad the samurai are already out of the fight.

43:44 - 48:13 This is an absolutely ridiculous stretch where YHVH hits Nanashi with Planned Chaos four times in a span of five turns. I had to rely on my utility trio of Taowu, Taotie, and Raiju to get him back in the fight.

45:20 Another brutal turn. Divine Harmony and Unending Curse on the same turn, and another Planned Chaos on Nanashi.

47:19 YHVH removes Nanashi's smirk with another Planned Chaos before playing rhythm games with Rampage.

47:40 Raiju makes his final appearance of the run to save Nanashi's ass one last time.

48:06 YHVH finally hits critical health, as indicated by the red callout. Even with 20% health left and several weaknesses, he's still not ready to go down.

49:03 Divine Harmony and Infinite Power on the same turn for the second time. Oh, and another Planned Chaos (this time on Hekatoncheires, thankfully).

50:37 YHVH just couldn't resist hitting Nanashi with another Planned Chaos.

51:16 Black Hole, followed by Infinite Power. The Assist Gauge fills up just in time to save me from death.

52:30 EVERYONE IS SMIRKING. I have literally never seen this happen before, and I doubt anyone else has either. In theory, I didn't have to Magaon him because Supernova wouldn't be able to critical with Nanashi's team smirking, but I didn't want to risk finding out that it would mess with his scripted AI and have him use Divine Harmony followed by a smirked Supernova.

55:09 YHVH finally falls. With weaknesses to everything, it still took seven minutes to take out the final 20% of his HP. What a monster.