The Ace LC has as the last completion requirement “having Ace in the party”, this is going to become a pattern for all upcoming LCs. However, this does not mean you need to spend gems pulling the weapon for the LC character as there are other ways to meet this requirement.
- The only time-limited reward for completion of a LC stage is one armor token, which we’ll get plenty in the future, so you can always come back to finish this later.
- You do not need to meet all three complete requirements in one run. You can have your perfect team to meet the other two requirements and getting the score and then do the quest again carrying the LC character.
- Recommendation for the Ace LC. Generally, there are two strategies for carrying a weaker character. One is to have a strong DPS team and a strong friend support where you swap in the friend unit to do as much damage as possible. Another strategy would be to play it safe, with healers/debuffers/tanks.
The Ace fight is a very painful one due to the turtles retreating into their shells, so the DPS way might not work so well. If you have Sazh+Papalymo or Prishe or 35cp Vivi, you might still be able to do decent damage against the retreated turtles.Unfortunately, I don’t have any of these, so I had to choose the safer way.
My team
- Ace: 50/50 with MLB Setzer 15cp, no artifacts
- Eiko: MLB 35cp with 15cp passive
- Galuf: 0LB 35cp, no 15cp passive
- Ifrit summon, friend Sephiroth.
Eiko is for healing as I find the trash waves for this fight particularly annoying. Galuf is for blocking the hp attacks from the turtles. While they have magical brv attacks, all their hp attacks are physical, so Galuf works perfectly here.
As for summon and friend unit, we want to maximize damage, so Ifrit (the turtles are also weak to fire) and a strong DPS unit is chosen.
General strategy
While being synergy, without his weapons, Ace won’t be able to do much damage against the bosses with high defense.However, he can easily break the trash waves. So feel free to use some skills against the trash to speed things up. Ace has a relatively high number of skill uses, so using 2 or 3 skills on the mobs are completely fine.
Set up Galuf’s dodge before the last wave, so he’ll enter the last wave ready to counter. Depending on whom the turtles are targeting and if they would one shot that character, determine whether to summon. When summon, swap out Galuf with friend unit. Galuf’s dodge buff is what is going to keep us safe and we don’t want to waste the buff’s duration when the turtles are hiding in their shells, not attacking. The key idea here is to make sure, Galuf is able to cover and dodge until end of fight. His str50 passive is also very important as he may run out of skills and has to eat an hp attack to his face. When using skills (smite and Ace’s skills), try to use them on the non-retreat turtle for higher damage. And also save a few skills for emergency cases where Galuf has run out of buff.
I finished the fight in 160+ turns with 7000+ hp loss and a score of 18k, but since it’s a success run with Ace in the party, it’s mission accomplished.
Alternative characters
I do not have weapons for the following characters but they might help if well-built.
- Aerith: with heal and revive and brv battery, Aerith should help make life a lot easier.
- Snow: Snow might be the second best tank here as WoL’s shield is too weak and Edge only taunts for one turn.
- Sazh+strong DPS/Eiko: if you can break the turtles to stop them from doing their brv+hp attack, a team without tank or even healer could also work.
