Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
While the consecutive battles in the main game were all "you're supposed to lose" events for the second fight, in here you have to win both fights. The first one is mostly a warmup compared to the second, though.
In both fights Futo's gimmick is that her personal spells sans Taiyi True Fire will build up her plate count, which she will consume every 8 turns for a large self-heal + self-buff, but you can reduce the plate count by hitting her. (The player-version of plates also have increasing outgoing damage and reducing intaking damage effects, but I'm not sure if those apply to the boss.) With the first fight this isn't too bad, but the second fight can get really obnoxious because Futo is insanely fast - she has 6000 SPD, which means she can basically double or even triple turn your medium delay actions, and she can buff herself up even further, plus she's completely immune to self buffs. Oh and in addition to the Desires to Mausoleum self-heal, she can also use Cloud Billowing Futsu no Mitama no Tsurugi (probably because the "Futsu" part and "Futo" have the same kanji) to drain MP to self heal, and Activate Life Energy which is just a flat self-heal for like ~230k (increased by buffs). So yeah, that's lot of self-healing, and in between all that healing and plate stacking, she can also use Shredder to completely remove your team's buffs, making the whole fight as obnoxious as it comes. I've actually seen reports of people getting softlocked by the battle where their over DEF-invested character would take no damage, but simply cannot deal enough damage to overcome the self healing, and losing hours of progress because of it.
One of the better ways to deal with this fight is to nuke her out in a few shots with Nitori and/or Yuugi, both of which can do massive damage, enough to kill her before she can get too many self heals in. Without them, your best best is to use fast attacks like any of the Yakumo Family characters, or Warrior-enhanced normal attacks to try and keep the plate count low, so she can't buff and heal herself too much. Poison is also very awesome in this battle as it deals damage at a rate proportional to the target's speed, so it can take advantage of Futo's blazing speed to quickly drain her health. The rest is just making sure that your attackers are sturdy enough to tank blows; durability is more important than pure power in this battle since Futo's defenses are low, but she's fast enough that your attackers will almost certainly be weathering multiple hits in between attacks. Oh and she will use Maximum Plate Charge at 60% and 12% HP; if you have spare energy it might be best to time it so you don't send her HP below those thresholds right before she's about to use a Desire to Mausoleum (which is used every 8 turns).
While the consecutive battles in the main game were all "you're supposed to lose" events for the second fight, in here you have to win both fights. The first one is mostly a warmup compared to the second, though.
In both fights Futo's gimmick is that her personal spells sans Taiyi True Fire will build up her plate count, which she will consume every 8 turns for a large self-heal + self-buff, but you can reduce the plate count by hitting her. (The player-version of plates also have increasing outgoing damage and reducing intaking damage effects, but I'm not sure if those apply to the boss.) With the first fight this isn't too bad, but the second fight can get really obnoxious because Futo is insanely fast - she has 6000 SPD, which means she can basically double or even triple turn your medium delay actions, and she can buff herself up even further, plus she's completely immune to self buffs. Oh and in addition to the Desires to Mausoleum self-heal, she can also use Cloud Billowing Futsu no Mitama no Tsurugi (probably because the "Futsu" part and "Futo" have the same kanji) to drain MP to self heal, and Activate Life Energy which is just a flat self-heal for like ~230k (increased by buffs). So yeah, that's lot of self-healing, and in between all that healing and plate stacking, she can also use Shredder to completely remove your team's buffs, making the whole fight as obnoxious as it comes. I've actually seen reports of people getting softlocked by the battle where their over DEF-invested character would take no damage, but simply cannot deal enough damage to overcome the self healing, and losing hours of progress because of it.
One of the better ways to deal with this fight is to nuke her out in a few shots with Nitori and/or Yuugi, both of which can do massive damage, enough to kill her before she can get too many self heals in. Without them, your best best is to use fast attacks like any of the Yakumo Family characters, or Warrior-enhanced normal attacks to try and keep the plate count low, so she can't buff and heal herself too much. Poison is also very awesome in this battle as it deals damage at a rate proportional to the target's speed, so it can take advantage of Futo's blazing speed to quickly drain her health. The rest is just making sure that your attackers are sturdy enough to tank blows; durability is more important than pure power in this battle since Futo's defenses are low, but she's fast enough that your attackers will almost certainly be weathering multiple hits in between attacks. Oh and she will use Maximum Plate Charge at 60% and 12% HP; if you have spare energy it might be best to time it so you don't send her HP below those thresholds right before she's about to use a Desire to Mausoleum (which is used every 8 turns).
