Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
What are Abyssal Stages?:
Abyssal stages unlock after you initially clear an Advent stage with the Abyssal stage available. You can access it by selecting it as if it was a Crown difficulty below 1 Crown. The gimmick with Abyssal stages is that you must clear the advent stage with as many completely unique lineups as possible. This means once a unit is used in a clear, you can no longer use it in any other lineup for the advent's Abyssal. If you wish to reuse units in a smarter way after clearing the stage once with them, you can choose to remove any of your clears of the stage and this will free the units used for that clear. Note that you can't undo this action.
Also, you are not forced to have full lineups, so you can minimize the lineup slots and lock less units for future clears.
Abyssal stages have the following rewards:
1 Clear - First Clear bonus
2 Clears - Uber Catseye x10
3 Clears - Uber Catseye x15
4 Clears - Dark Catseye x3
5 Clears - Dark Catseye x3
After 5 clears, there are no further rewards, but you can clear an Abyssal stage up to 10 times as a challenge to yourself.
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Despite this stage's infamy on a first clear, often forcing players to obtain Rock Cat first for the Triple Research Rock strategy to beat him, Kappy's Abyss is not too terrible with the increasing amount of powercreep for both Surge enemies and Traitless. The stage demands that your lineup have a way to stall Kappy Jr with a Scissoroo out at least well enough to not get pinned to your own base. Additionally, there should be a consistent flow of damage units so The Thrillerz don't cut off your units too much.
Clear 1 - 0:00
Gato, LKD, and Jagando all together are quite frankly a bit overkill for what this stage requires. If you wish, you can probably rearrange the lineup and include some less blatant counters for Kappy and use one of these units on a different clear. Regardless, the clear as is runs no risk of death.
Clear 2 - 1:51
Bringing out the other Surge Immune meatshield with a bit of overkill on Surge Immunes. You are likely able to combine units from these two clears in a way that clears the stage 3 times. The main reason I don't go back and do this is to show how a couple of clears without strong Surge Immune units will go.
Clear 3 - 4:00
Ironcat's new abilities allow him to not only tank Kappy extremely well on his own, but also allows him to enable tankier attackers to easily tank through Kappy's Surges. Liberty, Cop, and Dogumaru can stay on the field for much longer thanks to the constant Weaken procs. Just make sure to bring an answer to the Scissoroos.
Clear 4 - 6:26
You'll want to use Bahamut on the run you bring Crystal and Tourist. You can either use Bahamut on base hit for a chain with Tourist and Bolt (and a well-timed Crystal KB can extend the chain even further) or lure Kappy and chain using the time Kappy spends walking forward as additional stalling time between Bahamut attacks. The rest of the lineup should be focused on dealing damage to finish what Bahamut started.
Clear 5 - 8:21
Triple Research Rock.
Recommended Ubers:
- Anti-Traitless
- Surge Immune
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Music Used:
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (2024):
- Battle (Pit of 100 Trials)
- Attack-a of the Whacka
What are Abyssal Stages?:
Abyssal stages unlock after you initially clear an Advent stage with the Abyssal stage available. You can access it by selecting it as if it was a Crown difficulty below 1 Crown. The gimmick with Abyssal stages is that you must clear the advent stage with as many completely unique lineups as possible. This means once a unit is used in a clear, you can no longer use it in any other lineup for the advent's Abyssal. If you wish to reuse units in a smarter way after clearing the stage once with them, you can choose to remove any of your clears of the stage and this will free the units used for that clear. Note that you can't undo this action.
Also, you are not forced to have full lineups, so you can minimize the lineup slots and lock less units for future clears.
Abyssal stages have the following rewards:
1 Clear - First Clear bonus
2 Clears - Uber Catseye x10
3 Clears - Uber Catseye x15
4 Clears - Dark Catseye x3
5 Clears - Dark Catseye x3
After 5 clears, there are no further rewards, but you can clear an Abyssal stage up to 10 times as a challenge to yourself.
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Despite this stage's infamy on a first clear, often forcing players to obtain Rock Cat first for the Triple Research Rock strategy to beat him, Kappy's Abyss is not too terrible with the increasing amount of powercreep for both Surge enemies and Traitless. The stage demands that your lineup have a way to stall Kappy Jr with a Scissoroo out at least well enough to not get pinned to your own base. Additionally, there should be a consistent flow of damage units so The Thrillerz don't cut off your units too much.
Clear 1 - 0:00
Gato, LKD, and Jagando all together are quite frankly a bit overkill for what this stage requires. If you wish, you can probably rearrange the lineup and include some less blatant counters for Kappy and use one of these units on a different clear. Regardless, the clear as is runs no risk of death.
Clear 2 - 1:51
Bringing out the other Surge Immune meatshield with a bit of overkill on Surge Immunes. You are likely able to combine units from these two clears in a way that clears the stage 3 times. The main reason I don't go back and do this is to show how a couple of clears without strong Surge Immune units will go.
Clear 3 - 4:00
Ironcat's new abilities allow him to not only tank Kappy extremely well on his own, but also allows him to enable tankier attackers to easily tank through Kappy's Surges. Liberty, Cop, and Dogumaru can stay on the field for much longer thanks to the constant Weaken procs. Just make sure to bring an answer to the Scissoroos.
Clear 4 - 6:26
You'll want to use Bahamut on the run you bring Crystal and Tourist. You can either use Bahamut on base hit for a chain with Tourist and Bolt (and a well-timed Crystal KB can extend the chain even further) or lure Kappy and chain using the time Kappy spends walking forward as additional stalling time between Bahamut attacks. The rest of the lineup should be focused on dealing damage to finish what Bahamut started.
Clear 5 - 8:21
Triple Research Rock.
Recommended Ubers:
- Anti-Traitless
- Surge Immune
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Music Used:
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (2024):
- Battle (Pit of 100 Trials)
- Attack-a of the Whacka
