Uploaded November 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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This is the strategy I would recommend for defeating Lechku & Nechku without Exorcism Slips. The standard strategy is to simply use 2 ExM and 3 ExL at the start of the fight to end things quickly and without risk. This alternative strategy requires an Inkfinity Stone and 1 or 2 Steel Fist Sake.

This costs about 90 seconds versus the slip strat, making it too slow to be worth doing in NG All Brushes, so the only reason to do this is if you don't want to use slips for whatever reason (e.g. you don't have enough money to afford the necessary slips).

Of course, this fight has a lot of variability when not using slips. Oki can simply fail to come back to Ammy to be launched at the owls due to already being in an attack animation, wasting cycles. The owls also seem to have some unclear limit on their vulnerability, which can prevent you from 1-cycling them, as shown in this video. Even with a perfect fight, though, I don't think they can be beaten slipless in under a minute, which would be about the threshold required for this strategy to be worth doing in NG AB.