Fair warning for those with GG at E260 to level them up. GG has 1360, castle-3 has 1391. A whole 31 hp points of difference. Level her to at least lvl 68 (1392, a 1 point diff) if you want to fully AFK this. I survived cuz I took W and texalter with me intending to speed it up at the end Anyways thanks Kyo!
@@macsenpai7006There are still chances we go back for some reason, like bandits now go there or sth. With Ceobe dying from overdosing I don't think going back to Chernobog is that farfetch.
Just remember this: this is an AFK strat. You can just use Kyo’s strat and then modify your team depending what you wanna bring and what you can do with your ops as AFK strata do require the (mostly) exact ops. So do be creative and just fuck around and find your own team to do
Some replacement tips (some of them may make this strategy non-AFK, but better than nothing) - Thorns: pretty mandatory for this strategy (get one from support units) - Flametail: Any Vanguard (preferably Flagbearer) - Eyjafjalla/Goldenglow: Any Caster with high DPS. The Goldenglow spot needs to kill lots of enemies with high HP, while Eyjafjalla needs to be able to take down Rat King - Suzuran: Any Decel Binder - Saria: Any Guardian. Depending on your DPS, a Fortress could also work - Mudrock: Any Juggernaut/Guardian or any Defender with an additional Medic (deploy next to Goldenglow, facing down). Using Perfumer as AoE Medic could also work, if your Defender has enough Defense - Mountain: Any Guard - Nightingale: Any AoE Medic: - Castle-3: Any Melee Operator with low HP - Empty Deployment Slots: More DPS, if needed (e.g. a Guard to kill Rat King, another caster to help on the middle lane, a sniper to take down the drones). Pay attention that all your operators have more HP than Castle-3. Especially your Casters and Decel Binder may have less HP than a Lv 30 Castle-3 (1391).
My replacements for the units in this video Thorns: Bibeak. I changed the starting position so I don't need the defender. Suzuran: HarmaReed, multifunction as healer too. GG: Astgenne S2 Eyja: Caster Amiya S2 Mountain: Enforcer S2. Push them is more fun. Nightingale: Perfumer Mudrock: Gladiia, but my healer is a harmacist so she's coming anyway which wasn't necessary lol. I can also cut Castle-3 and maybe one more operator with proper medic and better placement.
The ideas given here are quite curious, I didn't remember that I have my gladiia maxed and it is a perfect replacement for Mudrock, the only bad thing is that since I don't have Thorns I won't be able to use the skip tickets.
Don't have some of these so this is how i did it. (not afk ) Operators: Horns, Mlynar, Gavialter, Reed alter,. Penance and Surtur. Those were the ones different. 0,. Drop Myrtle anywhere she won't get in the way. ( i put her one tile ahead of saria and to the left ) 1. Horn S1 in the same tile as Saria. 2. Surtr instead of Thorns for the initial waves. 3. Reed S2 right next to the blue box facing left. 4. Mylnar in front of the blue box 5. Gavialter in front of Horns 6. Replace Surtr with Penance. Now you're set to have Reed S2 targeting Gavialter and Penance. It melts everything when you need some healing on Galter. Remove Myrtle when you have enough DP for the rest of your team. Drop surtr behind Castle to melt the boss.
I used Shamare instead of Suzuran, Gavalter instead of Mountain, Ptilopsis instead of Nightingale, Amiya instead of GG, and added Mylnar. Wouldnt have succeeded in the end without Mylnar tbh, he really helped me push through the last 50 enemies. All and all, great strat, thank you Kyo
If any of you guys hate losing HP like me, you can just use Nightingale's Mirages to bait Rat King's plus spell (it has 6k hp). Place it somewhere safe like a couple tiles below the top right enemy spawn
For anyone having problems or lacking some of the operators. If you don't have the same operators or dont have anyone who works the same as them then you can't AFK this. At most a semi-AFK. You really need high ends to make this work as smooth as possible. If you don't have high end replacements then start adding your own strategy since it likely won't work with too much changed operators. The guide also serves to show the enemy waves so you can watch it for that too. We already have a guide that can deal with all the waves so we just need to think of a way to compensate for what we lack in this guide.
Feels good to be back in Lungmen. Thanks as always for the guides Kyo. Note if you take regular Texas with module as your vanguard you'll need a few potentials as my Mudrock was 1 dp shy of deployment before the bomber guy. Suzu managed to chunk it tho.
...Which is why KyoStinV said to wait with the use of the third control centers skill if you don't have a flagbearer...And if even that wouldn't work (though I don't see why not), you can always just not drop the Mountain/Castle-3/Nightingale down that early, seeing as they are absolutely useless until much later.
When I tried this strat with those ops I found some changes that can help if the afk strat isnt working and you want a to be a bit more hands on (mainly for the rat king killing) The best medic op for this Map IMO is Perfumer because her passive heal helps a lot in case some slip ups happen and her skill should be enough when your killing the rat king. Best flag bearer vanguard for this is elysium s1m3 IMO. Saria can be replaced with horn or her contemporaries as the damage would do a lot more good than the heals saria provides (Horn S1 works for the afk strat I think) Shoot for getting the 2 extra deployment slots you get at 200 One ranged op, placed right besides GG, to help deal with mid lane because that's were the heavy hitters come from. The other free slots can be for some op that can burst down the Rat King fast, best of for me has been Texas alter S2 mainly because she can be used to patch up any prooblems throughtout the run. Surtr, Nearl Alter, Yato Alter or a burst damage ranged op placed above the castle 3 spot (though enough to survive the rath king's attack) What I do is after Eya has been placed I remove castle 3 and only place him at a secluded spot when the rat king arrives. Between the buff the bot gives, Eyja, and the other burst op; Rat King should die vwry quickly and maybe only get one skill attack off before dying.
Thank god Arknights bring Eyja to shop weeks ago, i managed to get her lv 60 m6 mod3, now i can follow Kyo's guide since most of his guide seems to have Eyja.
I was able to use Nightingale's drones to keep the terminals alive, but Castle-3 and Suzuran died (twice for Suzuran) in exchange. Edit: it should also be noted that Nian has a talent to increase the max HP of all defenders in the squad by 16% which means that a level 83 Mudrock has 5040 HP.
Thank you Kyo for this afk strat. I didn’t have Suzuran at E2 so her hp is the lowest in my team, work around it with just bringing Surtr to delete Rat King (i put her at Castle 3 spot). And it worked out well, fortunately my Suzu didn’t die cause I forgot to put Mudrock earlier and got Suzu hit by those bom blasting guys but Suzu still survived till the end 👍. Really easy guide to follow and work around
You can fish for the robots without the robot tag by doing 3:50 timer, particularly when paired with the support tag. I have all my robots pot 6 from a mix of robot tags and doing that
E2lv60 S1 dusk can replace GG with no problem, but i recomend using the module 2 for a faster deployment, she doesnt need any masteries, with a second sniper is even smoother
As usual I used this AFK strat without being AFK because my ops only in lvl 60 (except Myrtle which is in lvl 20), and still worked Some modification I used: 1. Bring Texalter and Surtr for the extra 2 slots - Texalter for the crowd control in middle lane - Surtr (as mentioned by another comment) just to Surtr Rat King 2. Activate the terminal on the right one first because it most likely to be targeted by enemy sniper 3. Because my low level Myrtle has the lowest hp, I switched Castle with her, after deploying the guardian defender (you maybe can deploy her in Castle position from the start)
>Following guide, AFK'ing >Make it to Lin >Lin comes out, targets Nightengale >my line falls apart >I fail @ 376 "WTF" >check my ops >Castle-3 is max POT and has more HP than Nightingale, because mine is only E1L80 T_T Guess I need to tweak some things...
I discovered today that an e2lv40 Goldenglow has less hp than a modest Castle-3 Also found out bringing Exusai along as well and deploying 2 tiles above Castle-3 facing downward was enough to kill Rat King before his bomberman moves destroyed any devices.
If you don’t want to lose hp/is having trouble with the plus shape attack at top lane and want bait it, you can put in flamebringer. He can break through that 5k HP easy if you give him some kills. I put him on the second from right lane inside nightingale’s range (his hp is more than needed to survive a sandstorm) but I think depending on the level and module he can get up to 5k with the enemies from rightmost lane as well.
Sadly, the range of the cross attack, coupled with the two new towers, means you can't use one of the ranged 1 stars one spot above Castle's spot. So alas, no using the new kitties. At least, not without them getting toasted.
you can check ak toolbox for the operator levels. But considering it's high end. Everyone really should be having these operators at least level 60 for modules
@@mionmilla7300 Nah, high end just means you have the operator from playing the game for a long time. Most people don't raise every 6 star so it makes sense people didn't level them. If you paid irl money however, they should be max level
I guess I don't have castle-3 no idea where he comes from, weird. EDIT: well that screwed me, I didn't deploy any units to kill the bottom right (waiting for yato -> eyja) and they just killed the terminals. Make sure you deploy someone to kill things while you wait.
Instead of Saria i used Blaze on her spot and EyjaHealer above Thorns facing left so she can heal Goldenglow and give her a HP buff. My Goldy was only E250 and without the Eyja buff has less hp than Castle.
I manage to don't lose any deploy thingy, but I couldn't get the 999 deployment points sadge.... just 921 I forgot to deploy Saileach again after killing the Krat, almost same squad, I add "ice cream" lady, Chongus instead of Zoro, "Tenninka dayo" instead of Castle-3, Perfume instead of Nightingale, to cure the deploy things and Nian for the talent I don't use her, use the same strat just surtr the Rat, I recommend top, because I almost lose Myrtle at some point.... Thanks for the video Kyo-chan
you still can albeit changing a few operators. It just takes longer since you need more deployment limit but the stations appear around 200 and Rat King is 250 so you can still adjust it easy
my brother in spaghetti alla carbonara, castle-3 has more hp than GG(E2lv60) and my flagbearers no problem tho but i found it funny by trying to replace ejya with ceobe only that my ceobe is e2 underleveled and then i started checking all the other ops, lol
I used a (Lv 90!!!!) Angelina to replace Suzuran and Rat King targeted Angelina instead of Castle so don't do this lol. Max HPs: Lv 90 Angelina: 1385 Lv 30 Castle: 1391
2 new appearing devices is so scum, they are just silently spawn and you even didnt notice it untill lose HP I restarted 3 times before realise I dont need to save HP bc its Annihilation
I have neither Flametail, nor Suzuran, nor Thorns, nor Mudrock. It'd be really nice if you could discuss potential for substitution a bit more. Last time I followed one of your Annihilation guide that called for Suzuran and Mudrock, I replaced them with Goldenglow and Moutain, but that's not really an option here ... I mean, you talked about Flametail & Moutain then spent so much time explaining how to replace Castle-3, so it'd be great if you could do more of that. Could you at least make it clear if a specific Operator is mandatory and can't be replaced without majorly changing the strategy? That's often the case with Thorns, for example.
He mentions who can replace Flametail. Instead of Suzu you can try Gnosis, Angelina, Glaucus or Proviso. Mudmud's job can be done by any Defender with enough levels and some sustain, so adding a Medic should be enough. Mountain can be replaced by Chongyue, Pallas, a strong Dreadnought, Hellagur or Corne alter, Eunectes or Aurora...is a low traffic lane so anyone good at dueling can do it.
I think Thorns is more or less mandatory, since he makes the stage a lot easier. I've tried my own weird squad and got to 383/400 before they broke through, so you can pretty much substitute with your own strong operators, just make sure to check who's the lowest HP of that squad to use the Castle-3/Yato tornado strat. You will need 3 block operator (maybe two?) for Bullies, and the Rocketeers can be baited with some fast-redeploy or just having someone tanky with decent damage in place of Mudrock. I might be missing something here, though. Instead of GG and Suzuran I had Horn in front of Saileach and Andreana covered. Replaced Mudrock with Hoshiguma, Mountain with Irene, and the bottom side was Lumen + Mostima, which is, again, pretty weird I'd say. Remember that you can always take someone from the support unit (like Thorns, for example, would be a good choice) which wouldn't let you unlock the auto-deploy, but you will get rewards for clearing a certain amount of enemies on the level.
It's honestly quite easy to figure out what kind of replacements you can make without needing the guidemaker to tell you the potentials as long as you understand what's going on in the run and what are the operators doing. You may or may not need to tweak the positioning and the overall strategy, it may not even be an AFK setup anymore, but that's an obvious outcome since you're trying to adjust the pre-existing one with operators you have. Of course if the stage is hard, it'll be much harder to figure that out, if not impossible unless you're willing to test it out yourself and actually cook your own strategy. But, at least you can replace non core operators.
you need a flagbearer instead of flametail. If you dont then any 5-star with s1 will do but make sure it's lvl 7 or higher. Bring 2 of em if possible since you're only having problems on DP and not pinched by deployment limit. Suzuran can be replaced by any other supporter that works like her skill. As for thorns he contributes to a lot of the damage but replaceable with Arene. If you have other 6 stars that are the same archetype as what you lack then you can use them. If not then just use any good replacement you have. It's not really easy to have the operators on hand but remember that it's a strategy game and this is not the only guide that can beat the stage plus it's much easier now compared to before where it can still fail even if you have it cleared and on autodeploy because there were no tickets back then.
@@mionmilla7300 Yeah, Kyo already covered how to replace Flametail (and Mountain). As for Thorns ... in this setup he *might* be replaceable with any other good Lord, but in some setups I've seen for this map his increased range is mandatory to make it work. As for Mudrock, depending on how important defense and offense are, Mountain or Gummy might be either valid replacements or entirely unsuitable. Kyo explained what Mountain's job was: handle the drunk in a 1v1 lane. So I can easily tell I can place Hellagur there instead, or any good duelist since we have a medic. Other roles aren't really explained, and to be sure I'm not missing something I have to watch the entire clear while keeping my eyes locked on them. In previous Annihilation clears I tried substituting Mudrock with Mountain and didn't notice that at 250 kills or so there's one enemy that pathes through the area and who attacks very fast so the high defense was critical. Previously I had replaced her with Hellagur and hadn't noticed that at around 125 (and only at that time) there were two enemies at the same time so I needed more than 1 block (that one ended up being solved by moving the flag-bearer behind Hellagur). I fixed both of those issues but it took me 30mn to fail a run because I didn't know what the operator needed to do, and then another couple run to narrow it down.
❶ DP printer ⬇
❷ Thorns ⬇
❸ Suzuran ⬆
❹ Castle 3 ➡
❺ Goldenglow ➡
6 Activate Command Terminal
❼ Nightingale ⬅
8 Activate Command Terminal
9 Activate Command Terminal
❿ Mudrock ⬇
11 Activate Command Terminal
⓬ Mountain 🔁any direction
⓭ Eyjafjalla ⬇
⓮ Replace DP printer with Saria ⬇
(or wait for more DP if you want to use extra terminals @200 kills to deploy more DPS operators)
AFK time
We should just Surtr Rat King once and use skip tickets forever
that can also work
Or even better, somehow clear it and go back to Anni 2
Surtr and Texalter. xD
@@jareddrake8656Texalter and Yalter are the new emergency buttons now
@@abracadabra16234why back to any 2 when we can just skip it.
Fair warning for those with GG at E260 to level them up. GG has 1360, castle-3 has 1391. A whole 31 hp points of difference. Level her to at least lvl 68 (1392, a 1 point diff) if you want to fully AFK this.
I survived cuz I took W and texalter with me intending to speed it up at the end
Anyways thanks Kyo!
Fairest warning ever. GG really has no HP. Thanks.
Lmao saw this mid-run after my GG AND my Suzu died xD. Yato couldn't protec them. Still made it tho, but it was messy.
Make it 69
benefits of having every op at lv 69
should note susuran needs to be lvl 64 (1394 hp) to get over castle-3's hp (1391)
Feels weird to be back in Lungmen after all this time.
Sadly the very first "Annihilation" Chernobog City is no more.
@@macsenpai7006what are u on about?? It’s still in the game right now even when this map is out
@@sol2296 What I mean is, Chernobog City is destroyed by a Catastrophe in the story and was abandoned. So future Chernobog maps are very unlikely.
@@macsenpai7006hear me out, abandoned chernobog map. Better yet, Chernobog Ruins exploration event like RA, but it's just one MASSIVE semi-open map
@@macsenpai7006There are still chances we go back for some reason, like bandits now go there or sth. With Ceobe dying from overdosing I don't think going back to Chernobog is that farfetch.
Just remember this: this is an AFK strat. You can just use Kyo’s strat and then modify your team depending what you wanna bring and what you can do with your ops as AFK strata do require the (mostly) exact ops. So do be creative and just fuck around and find your own team to do
Some replacement tips (some of them may make this strategy non-AFK, but better than nothing)
- Thorns: pretty mandatory for this strategy (get one from support units)
- Flametail: Any Vanguard (preferably Flagbearer)
- Eyjafjalla/Goldenglow: Any Caster with high DPS. The Goldenglow spot needs to kill lots of enemies with high HP, while Eyjafjalla needs to be able to take down Rat King
- Suzuran: Any Decel Binder
- Saria: Any Guardian. Depending on your DPS, a Fortress could also work
- Mudrock: Any Juggernaut/Guardian or any Defender with an additional Medic (deploy next to Goldenglow, facing down). Using Perfumer as AoE Medic could also work, if your Defender has enough Defense
- Mountain: Any Guard
- Nightingale: Any AoE Medic:
- Castle-3: Any Melee Operator with low HP
- Empty Deployment Slots: More DPS, if needed (e.g. a Guard to kill Rat King, another caster to help on the middle lane, a sniper to take down the drones).
Pay attention that all your operators have more HP than Castle-3. Especially your Casters and Decel Binder may have less HP than a Lv 30 Castle-3 (1391).
For a Suzuran replacement, I used Mostima with S3. A Gnosis should also work
My replacements for the units in this video
Thorns: Bibeak. I changed the starting position so I don't need the defender.
Suzuran: HarmaReed, multifunction as healer too.
GG: Astgenne S2
Eyja: Caster Amiya S2
Mountain: Enforcer S2. Push them is more fun.
Nightingale: Perfumer
Mudrock: Gladiia, but my healer is a harmacist so she's coming anyway which wasn't necessary lol.
I can also cut Castle-3 and maybe one more operator with proper medic and better placement.
For Suzuran I use Lin E2 1st skill level 7, I don't have castle 3 so I use la Pluma
and bring texter just to kill rat king faster
Mine, i use exia instead of any decal binder. Forgot to bring any decals
The ideas given here are quite curious, I didn't remember that I have my gladiia maxed and it is a perfect replacement for Mudrock, the only bad thing is that since I don't have Thorns I won't be able to use the skip tickets.
Kyostinv is the only guide who would worry about you having 1* operator or not 😂
< Doesnt have Mountain or Thorns lmao. Probably just going to end up doing Ling/whatever shenanigans
Just RNG doing its thing... and I know 'cause I'm one of them.
For some reason, I have pot 6 THRM-EX and Lancet-2, but no Castle-3 🙃
Uh... turns out that's me. I'm that one dude who doesn't have Castle-3 lmaoooo
@i5unb87 Yeah, and that's how I got pot 6 on THRW-EX and Lancet-2, big surprise 😐
Don't have some of these so this is how i did it. (not afk )
Operators: Horns, Mlynar, Gavialter, Reed alter,. Penance and Surtur. Those were the ones different.
0,. Drop Myrtle anywhere she won't get in the way. ( i put her one tile ahead of saria and to the left )
1. Horn S1 in the same tile as Saria.
2. Surtr instead of Thorns for the initial waves.
3. Reed S2 right next to the blue box facing left.
4. Mylnar in front of the blue box
5. Gavialter in front of Horns
6. Replace Surtr with Penance.
Now you're set to have Reed S2 targeting Gavialter and Penance. It melts everything when you need some healing on Galter.
Remove Myrtle when you have enough DP for the rest of your team.
Drop surtr behind Castle to melt the boss.
The cat squad sniper from the Mon Hun event makes a good replacement for Castle-3, and they have a chance to get some good damage off if you're lucky
The fact the annihilation icon shows two towers makes me think Yostar did it on purpose
Guys, do take care if you want to replace operators. E2 LVL 40 Podenco does, in fact, have less HP than Castle-3. Good Guide as always, Kyostin.
Even if you don't replace ops; E2 lv 55 Suzuran also has less HP than castle-3 (as I found out the hard way)
@@LolitaCraftThanks for the warning, leveled mine up to 64, which I think is the breakpoint to keep the precious Suzu safe!
With how much thorns support i'm using i should probably pull for a lane holder for once
we really need afk cores like him if coz they save you the effort of timing every skill and redeploying
Thorns/Mountain is essential for AFK's
I used Shamare instead of Suzuran, Gavalter instead of Mountain, Ptilopsis instead of Nightingale, Amiya instead of GG, and added Mylnar. Wouldnt have succeeded in the end without Mylnar tbh, he really helped me push through the last 50 enemies. All and all, great strat, thank you Kyo
Finnally lungmen is back,on annihilation of course
Sadly the very first "Annihilation" Chernobog City is no more.
@@macsenpai7006 It's still here
Fyi nightingale's mirages have 5292 hp at level 69 so you can use those to bait the cross attacks if you want
Nightingale Cages can work for the >5k HP bait if oneone needs to know. At roughly above E260 they have >5k HP.
Kyo: You need someone with more than 5000 HP.
Quartz: My time is now.
I tried to do this myself but failed, then i tried your strategy and it works well! thanks kyo!
Thank you Kyo-sama. I just don't have the time or patience to trial and error these stages.
Thank you for the guide Kyo. This works well for me ^^.
If any of you guys hate losing HP like me, you can just use Nightingale's Mirages to bait Rat King's plus spell (it has 6k hp). Place it somewhere safe like a couple tiles below the top right enemy spawn
The nightingale cages can protect your terminals though like he said it doesn’t actually matter
Your Suzuran must be at least level 64 assuming no module in order to make this work.
For anyone having problems or lacking some of the operators. If you don't have the same operators or dont have anyone who works the same as them then you can't AFK this. At most a semi-AFK. You really need high ends to make this work as smooth as possible. If you don't have high end replacements then start adding your own strategy since it likely won't work with too much changed operators. The guide also serves to show the enemy waves so you can watch it for that too. We already have a guide that can deal with all the waves so we just need to think of a way to compensate for what we lack in this guide.
Feels good to be back in Lungmen. Thanks as always for the guides Kyo.
Note if you take regular Texas with module as your vanguard you'll need a few potentials as my Mudrock was 1 dp shy of deployment before the bomber guy. Suzu managed to chunk it tho.
...Which is why KyoStinV said to wait with the use of the third control centers skill if you don't have a flagbearer...And if even that wouldn't work (though I don't see why not), you can always just not drop the Mountain/Castle-3/Nightingale down that early, seeing as they are absolutely useless until much later.
When I tried this strat with those ops I found some changes that can help if the afk strat isnt working and you want a to be a bit more hands on (mainly for the rat king killing)
The best medic op for this Map IMO is Perfumer because her passive heal helps a lot in case some slip ups happen and her skill should be enough when your killing the rat king.
Best flag bearer vanguard for this is elysium s1m3 IMO.
Saria can be replaced with horn or her contemporaries as the damage would do a lot more good than the heals saria provides (Horn S1 works for the afk strat I think)
Shoot for getting the 2 extra deployment slots you get at 200
One ranged op, placed right besides GG, to help deal with mid lane because that's were the heavy hitters come from.
The other free slots can be for some op that can burst down the Rat King fast, best of for me has been Texas alter S2 mainly because she can be used to patch up any prooblems throughtout the run. Surtr, Nearl Alter, Yato Alter or a burst damage ranged op placed above the castle 3 spot (though enough to survive the rath king's attack)
What I do is after Eya has been placed I remove castle 3 and only place him at a secluded spot when the rat king arrives. Between the buff the bot gives, Eyja, and the other burst op; Rat King should die vwry quickly and maybe only get one skill attack off before dying.
Terminal has 5k HP
Kyo: what kind of operator who has that big hp get go
Me: MATOIMARU!!
Skadi: Hold my bag, please. Let's go Laurentina.
Castle 3 : *I've been waiting my whole life for this moment !*
Thank god Arknights bring Eyja to shop weeks ago, i managed to get her lv 60 m6 mod3, now i can follow Kyo's guide since most of his guide seems to have Eyja.
I was able to use Nightingale's drones to keep the terminals alive, but Castle-3 and Suzuran died (twice for Suzuran) in exchange.
Edit: it should also be noted that Nian has a talent to increase the max HP of all defenders in the squad by 16% which means that a level 83 Mudrock has 5040 HP.
Thank you Kyo for this afk strat. I didn’t have Suzuran at E2 so her hp is the lowest in my team, work around it with just bringing Surtr to delete Rat King (i put her at Castle 3 spot). And it worked out well, fortunately my Suzu didn’t die cause I forgot to put Mudrock earlier and got Suzu hit by those bom blasting guys but Suzu still survived till the end 👍. Really easy guide to follow and work around
He'll be surprised on how Castle-3 been avoiding Robot tag in my account after 2 years.
You can fish for the robots without the robot tag by doing 3:50 timer, particularly when paired with the support tag. I have all my robots pot 6 from a mix of robot tags and doing that
@@zeph769 That's incredibly lucky. I tried what you're saying and it has only worked 1 time in almost a year.
E2lv60 S1 dusk can replace GG with no problem, but i recomend using the module 2 for a faster deployment, she doesnt need any masteries, with a second sniper is even smoother
As usual I used this AFK strat without being AFK because my ops only in lvl 60 (except Myrtle which is in lvl 20), and still worked
Some modification I used:
1. Bring Texalter and Surtr for the extra 2 slots
- Texalter for the crowd control in middle lane
- Surtr (as mentioned by another comment) just to Surtr Rat King
2. Activate the terminal on the right one first because it most likely to be targeted by enemy sniper
3. Because my low level Myrtle has the lowest hp, I switched Castle with her, after deploying the guardian defender (you maybe can deploy her in Castle position from the start)
>Following guide, AFK'ing
>Make it to Lin
>Lin comes out, targets Nightengale
>my line falls apart
>I fail @ 376
"WTF"
>check my ops
>Castle-3 is max POT and has more HP than Nightingale, because mine is only E1L80
T_T
Guess I need to tweak some things...
Thank you so much Kyo 😘
I discovered today that an e2lv40 Goldenglow has less hp than a modest Castle-3
Also found out bringing Exusai along as well and deploying 2 tiles above Castle-3 facing downward was enough to kill Rat King before his bomberman moves destroyed any devices.
thank you so much for this guide ;) helped a lot
if you love your terminals, my lv 85 Mudrock with a Nian in my party was enough to get her to bait the cross attack instead.
If you don’t want to lose hp/is having trouble with the plus shape attack at top lane and want bait it, you can put in flamebringer. He can break through that 5k HP easy if you give him some kills.
I put him on the second from right lane inside nightingale’s range (his hp is more than needed to survive a sandstorm) but I think depending on the level and module he can get up to 5k with the enemies from rightmost lane as well.
Thank you for the guide! Making my Arknights experience much easier the last 3 years 🙂
Sadly, the range of the cross attack, coupled with the two new towers, means you can't use one of the ranged 1 stars one spot above Castle's spot. So alas, no using the new kitties. At least, not without them getting toasted.
I used Podenco instead of Suzuran, so she baited Rat King’s attack instead of Castle-3. Whoops.
Note, if your suzy and gg are NOT max level, they will have less total hp than lv 30 castle!
Ask me how I found out 🙃
you can check ak toolbox for the operator levels. But considering it's high end. Everyone really should be having these operators at least level 60 for modules
@@mionmilla7300 Nah, high end just means you have the operator from playing the game for a long time. Most people don't raise every 6 star so it makes sense people didn't level them. If you paid irl money however, they should be max level
Thx for making this.
I used ceobe instead of GG and no healer but texas alter and Surtr instead still worked TY
Thank you, Kyo
for those who do not have suzuran like me, angelina e2lv60 skill 1 is fine too, no mastery needed
An E0 30 Castle-3 has more health than an E2 60 GG so be careful if you use this strat that GG might still be the target even with Castle-3.
I checked and no it's not. At E2 lvl 20, GG is good enough to pass Castle-3 lvl 30 HP.
@@mionmilla7300 you aren't accounting for the +200 hp Castle-3 gets from being at 100 trust
*woosh*
Edit: thought it was a "casters can't take a hit" joke... turns out they have similar hp for real.
Almost botched it because I put W behind goldenglow and gave them a reason to fire rockets that direction. Managed to salvage it though.
If you activate the final two terminals, the extra Res+10 saves them from being destroyed by Rat King (if that matters to you).
All my slow supporters are not leveled so they all have less hp than my Castle. So i used Gnosis with S1 and it worked just fine.
Thx for the guide
I guess I don't have castle-3 no idea where he comes from, weird.
EDIT: well that screwed me, I didn't deploy any units to kill the bottom right (waiting for yato -> eyja) and they just killed the terminals. Make sure you deploy someone to kill things while you wait.
Thanks again!
my e2l60 goldenglow has lower hp than e0l30 castle-3 and ruined my run. dont forget to check their hp first!
didnt have suzu so i used yato alter and texas alter to help with killing on the mid lane
A level 30 Friston-3 is another option now with a max HP of 1206
Using Friston-3 I was able to use my E2 lvl 30 Suzuran (1280 HP)
I've been playing this game for 2 years full f2p, I have 75% of global 6* but don't have castle3 lol.
Instead of Saria i used Blaze on her spot and EyjaHealer above Thorns facing left so she can heal Goldenglow and give her a HP buff. My Goldy was only E250 and without the Eyja buff has less hp than Castle.
man if only i had suzu, thorns, mountain or saria
You can try to substitute them with:
Podenco, Arene, Guard Amiya and Gummy.
But all of them need to be max level tho.
I have all but Saria and GG
There's a random cut before Goldenglow is placed...
Amiya's S3 can kill Boss in one activation.
I manage to don't lose any deploy thingy, but I couldn't get the 999 deployment points sadge.... just 921 I forgot to deploy Saileach again after killing the Krat, almost same squad, I add "ice cream" lady, Chongus instead of Zoro, "Tenninka dayo" instead of Castle-3, Perfume instead of Nightingale, to cure the deploy things and Nian for the talent I don't use her, use the same strat just surtr the Rat, I recommend top, because I almost lose Myrtle at some point.... Thanks for the video Kyo-chan
Man it suck that I can't follow this guide since I don't have Castle 3
you still can albeit changing a few operators. It just takes longer since you need more deployment limit but the stations appear around 200 and Rat King is 250 so you can still adjust it easy
Leveled my Suzuran to 64 from 60 just to have 3 more HP than Castle 3. What a bother. Guess she'll be next on my Level to 90 list
my brother in spaghetti alla carbonara, castle-3 has more hp than GG(E2lv60) and my flagbearers
no problem tho but i found it funny by trying to replace ejya with ceobe only that my ceobe is e2 underleveled and then i started checking all the other ops, lol
I used a (Lv 90!!!!) Angelina to replace Suzuran and Rat King targeted Angelina instead of Castle so don't do this lol.
Max HPs:
Lv 90 Angelina: 1385
Lv 30 Castle: 1391
My Castlle3 had more life than Suzu and GG lmao
why the red rocket more like to targeted Gnosis(our light replacement) than my Silver daddy(mudrock replacement)?
Same here
Bring nian to turn mudrock's hp into +5k
Only Thorns left to have this anni full AFK, what a shame, I guees i need to return to Anni 2
Mountain sounds like a machinegun
all my 6 stars are e2 lvl 60 and moduled up just to find out that castle 3 has more hp then my suzu
2 new appearing devices is so scum, they are just silently spawn and you even didnt notice it untill lose HP
I restarted 3 times before realise I dont need to save HP bc its Annihilation
I follow the strategy around 380 one of those red rocket ninja hit, Goldenglow four block away. WTF!!!!
thankuu
Guess no auto for me , my nemesis still eludes me
Bro can you do an low investment squad? version? and thanks very much for the video
you'll need to wait
that's harder to do so you'll have to wait till Kyo is done with it.
yes i know i am waiting patiently @@mionmilla7300
Dang my Castle-3 has more HP than GG and Suzuran
E2 60 Silverash S2 can replace Mudrock
Can an E290 Skalter survive the cross attacks placed between Thorns and Suzuran?
Those drones are annoying af, especially at the end, they stack and make killing enemies tough
my castle-3 died at the rat king part so i had to cheat using Sutr 😮💨
i legit don't have castle-3 even after 3 years
Funny thing
My castle have more health than my cat girl
I'm a little sad that the GG in the thumbnail is in swimsuit but the GG in the video isn't...
Sad i cant do this afk strat😭
All casters i got is ifrit and click
Also lack thorns
time to wait till another guide ig
Any good replacements for golden glow?
Eyja. Then change eyja into passenger or ceobe. Or just replace eyja with surtr.
Any Caster is work in place of GG
@@cefrinaldi8060passengod on s3?
i use leizi
I have neither Flametail, nor Suzuran, nor Thorns, nor Mudrock. It'd be really nice if you could discuss potential for substitution a bit more. Last time I followed one of your Annihilation guide that called for Suzuran and Mudrock, I replaced them with Goldenglow and Moutain, but that's not really an option here ... I mean, you talked about Flametail & Moutain then spent so much time explaining how to replace Castle-3, so it'd be great if you could do more of that.
Could you at least make it clear if a specific Operator is mandatory and can't be replaced without majorly changing the strategy? That's often the case with Thorns, for example.
He mentions who can replace Flametail. Instead of Suzu you can try Gnosis, Angelina, Glaucus or Proviso. Mudmud's job can be done by any Defender with enough levels and some sustain, so adding a Medic should be enough. Mountain can be replaced by Chongyue, Pallas, a strong Dreadnought, Hellagur or Corne alter, Eunectes or Aurora...is a low traffic lane so anyone good at dueling can do it.
I think Thorns is more or less mandatory, since he makes the stage a lot easier. I've tried my own weird squad and got to 383/400 before they broke through, so you can pretty much substitute with your own strong operators, just make sure to check who's the lowest HP of that squad to use the Castle-3/Yato tornado strat. You will need 3 block operator (maybe two?) for Bullies, and the Rocketeers can be baited with some fast-redeploy or just having someone tanky with decent damage in place of Mudrock. I might be missing something here, though.
Instead of GG and Suzuran I had Horn in front of Saileach and Andreana covered. Replaced Mudrock with Hoshiguma, Mountain with Irene, and the bottom side was Lumen + Mostima, which is, again, pretty weird I'd say.
Remember that you can always take someone from the support unit (like Thorns, for example, would be a good choice) which wouldn't let you unlock the auto-deploy, but you will get rewards for clearing a certain amount of enemies on the level.
It's honestly quite easy to figure out what kind of replacements you can make without needing the guidemaker to tell you the potentials as long as you understand what's going on in the run and what are the operators doing. You may or may not need to tweak the positioning and the overall strategy, it may not even be an AFK setup anymore, but that's an obvious outcome since you're trying to adjust the pre-existing one with operators you have.
Of course if the stage is hard, it'll be much harder to figure that out, if not impossible unless you're willing to test it out yourself and actually cook your own strategy. But, at least you can replace non core operators.
you need a flagbearer instead of flametail. If you dont then any 5-star with s1 will do but make sure it's lvl 7 or higher. Bring 2 of em if possible since you're only having problems on DP and not pinched by deployment limit. Suzuran can be replaced by any other supporter that works like her skill. As for thorns he contributes to a lot of the damage but replaceable with Arene. If you have other 6 stars that are the same archetype as what you lack then you can use them. If not then just use any good replacement you have. It's not really easy to have the operators on hand but remember that it's a strategy game and this is not the only guide that can beat the stage plus it's much easier now compared to before where it can still fail even if you have it cleared and on autodeploy because there were no tickets back then.
@@mionmilla7300 Yeah, Kyo already covered how to replace Flametail (and Mountain).
As for Thorns ... in this setup he *might* be replaceable with any other good Lord, but in some setups I've seen for this map his increased range is mandatory to make it work. As for Mudrock, depending on how important defense and offense are, Mountain or Gummy might be either valid replacements or entirely unsuitable.
Kyo explained what Mountain's job was: handle the drunk in a 1v1 lane. So I can easily tell I can place Hellagur there instead, or any good duelist since we have a medic. Other roles aren't really explained, and to be sure I'm not missing something I have to watch the entire clear while keeping my eyes locked on them.
In previous Annihilation clears I tried substituting Mudrock with Mountain and didn't notice that at 250 kills or so there's one enemy that pathes through the area and who attacks very fast so the high defense was critical. Previously I had replaced her with Hellagur and hadn't noticed that at around 125 (and only at that time) there were two enemies at the same time so I needed more than 1 block (that one ended up being solved by moving the flag-bearer behind Hellagur).
I fixed both of those issues but it took me 30mn to fail a run because I didn't know what the operator needed to do, and then another couple run to narrow it down.
Hmm... Any Replacement for Sir Mountain?
Like a Blaze?
Why not? Mountain is simply being put here because he is cheap, if you have any decent medic I can't see why Blaze wouldn't work
Blaze should do fine. NG is there to heal.
When low end squad
Can i bring ptilosis and aunty war instead? I don't have Nightingale sadly and I don't usually borrow a unit but i have everyone else
Any replacements for Suzuran ?
Sadly no good slow supporters.
My Suzuran replacement is Mostima with Module at lvl 3 (at least 2).
Ethan/Manticore
damn my suzuran hp is lower than my castle-3 lmao
I leveled her to 69 now
and GG too
Why do the Red Rocket guys keep targeting my units at the back and not on Mudrock? It's really annoying.
Either place mudrock last or make sure everyone else is out of range
Who can I replace Goldenglow and Suzuran with? Suzuran with Angelina?
What is mudrock replacement
Any replacement for GG?
I followed all the steps, but my Saria just died around 340/400 and I have no idea how o.O
prob I'll just brind another healing defender to heal her