GUDAGUDA New Yamataikoku - Challenge Guide: Overwhelming Good Fortune Battle: Upright-Floating Tea Stalk

Requirements: The Main Quest line for the Event, along with the final Extra Quest must be completed before this quest can be attempted.

• Masters must face off against Iyo, empowered by having lucky standing stalks in her tea! She is a Ruler Class Servant with two HP bars (999k & 66k HP).
• Standing Tea Stalks are represented by a Green Man enemy mob. One starts on the field, and more can be summoned.
  • Up to 6 enemies can be on field at once, which means up to 5 Standing Tea Stalks can be summoned.
  • These mobs cannot take any actions and have 100% damage resist, and notably do not generate any NP when attacked. Combat wise these can be mostly ignored.
  • Iyo will act 3 times per turn since the Tea Stalks cannot act.
• Iyo has massive damage mitigation buffs when the battle starts, and is extremely difficult to deal damage to initially.
• Iyo gains a Lucky trait stack every time she attacks or gets attacked.
• Upon reaching 7 Lucky Stacks, Iyo summons another Standing Tea Stalk to the field and removes 7 Lucky Stacks from herself.
  • Since Iyo attacks 3 times per turn, and Masters can land up to 4 attacks each turn (with a Brave Chain), Masters can add up to one Standing Tea Stalk on the field each turn.
• Upon reaching 5 Standing Tea Stalks on the field, Iyo's luck will overload and all of her damage reduction buffs will disappear for 1 turn. This gives Masters a window of opportunity to attack!
  • For this to occur a second time, this requires only 4 Standing Tea Stalks.
  • For the third time, this requires 3 Standing Tea Stalks.
  • For the remaining times, this requires 2 Standing Tea Stalks.
• On Break, Iyo loses all of her Lucky stacks and damage mitigation buffs. In their place, she receives some unremovable buffs that last three turns that allow her to steal defensive buffs when attacking and steal offensive buffs when taking attacks. Her HP total will also drop tremendously, making her much easier to finish off.

• Single Target Avenger Damage Dealers - Since there is only really one Ruler Class target to deal with in this encounter, Avengers are the best choice. Alternatively, any Servants with trait bonus damage are also viable.
  • Semi-Solo Servant clears are possible, as shown with Heracles in the sample video links below.
• Taunt Support Servants are helpful since a portion of the battle will likely involve stalling out the boss until the party can spawn enough Standing Tea Stalk enemies on the field to remove her buffs.
• Evade or Invincibility Support also can be helpful during the stalling phase of the battle for similar reasons, to ensure the party can survive long enough until the damage window opportunity arises.
  • However, Masters will want to keep in mind that after break, Iyo can steal defensive buffs with attacks! Masters can either opt to not have defensive buffs active on the turn they plan to break her HP bar, or to stun Iyo when breaking her so she is unable to act.
• Damage / NP Gauge Support is helpful as always to enhance the primary damage dealer's damage to be as high as possible during the boss's turn of vulnerability.
• Ignore DEF Support from either a Servant or CE are excellent to have on the damage dealer for faster clear setups. This can help the damage dealer overcome the boss's 75% DEF buff passive.

• Note that these videos are not affiliated with GamePress, but showcase some lineups that are effective in clearing the final challenge. These can serve as a good reference for how to rotate skills during this quest or simply to have a look at the encounter before diving in.
  • Demon King Nobunaga NP1 ft. Merlin, Koyanskaya Light, Skadi Ruler (2 turns)
  • Jalter Lv100 NP1 with Ignore DEF CE ft. Skadi Ruler, and 2x Merlin (2 turns)
  • Heracles NP5 MLB Black Grail Solo ft 2x Lv1 Georgios (7 turns)
  • Budget Lu Bu team ft. Waver, Leonidas, Georgios, Shakespeare, and Support Oberon (8 turns)