Rabi-Ribi: Rumi SP on BEX - 0% Items [No Consumables/Buffs]

I am actually surprised. Starting from 2:56 onwards, I never saw most of these patterns before.
Its so refreshing to see a set of completely new attacks!
And honestly, I think I prefer this "SP" version of Rumi over her normal one.
The first couple of phases are trivial because of Instant Death.
You just need to survive 1 attack, then an Air Phase, then 1 Attack and another Air phase again.
Its still a good idea to attack, but focus purely on adding to your Rank (Rainbow Charged and the occasional Blue Boost), you dont need raw damage since everything does 4444 anyway.
The real fight starts at her Cut-In 1:07.
You can afford to get hit once during this air-phase (In fact, thats preferable over using Amulets), but no more hits than that or you wont be at full HP once it is over.
1:28 I am pretty sure from this point onwards, the fight enters its "SP" version with special rules.
No more Instant Death, you must take down this last HP bar the regular way.
On the plus side, I am pretty sure it also drastically reduces how much damage Rumi’s attacks deals to you- I dont remember the last instance I saw single digit damage numbers on this run, but they are a thing here! Both you and Rumi are pretty tanky as a result.
2:33 is fixed, go to the same places every single attempt for the same results... I havent figured it all out by the time I beat her but... I already beat her so I dont need to xD
3:20 I have no idea what the heck is this. Most confusing pattern ever.
Maybe it has a trick or something but I couldt figure it out so I just tank this.
4:06 I love these patterns. So pretty, and, at least for me, fun and easy...
Its so good it repeats twice! No thats not luck, its fixed to do that.
Dont ask me why, but I wont complain about it. Its relaxing.
4:59 This is a regular pattern. I just tank this if necessary.
5:13 Another ordinary pattern, but I always quite liked this one as well.
Its usually pretty easy, but have an Amulet ready just in case. She will also repeat this twice.
Overall a pretty cool fight. I liked most of these "new" (For me at least) patterns. The decision of adding Instant Death for the first couple of phases is also very welcome; thats one of the things I dont like much about the regular Rumi, the first few phases make the fight drag on a bit too much. This fixes that.
Dont forget to get the Easter Egg Rumi is guarding after the fight...should be one of the last ones...
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[@Jimmy--Little]

1:35 Sanae Reference???

[@domlight7254]

During BEX mode this fight glitched out on me, so I couldn't deal any damage during one of the aerial phases. Basically when she started the aerial phase I was next to her and for some reason she dashed over to the other side of the field and Erina was just stuck staring away from Rumi... yeah that was a weird moment...

[@flariz4824]

That sounds really weird but I can certainly see a glitch like that happening.
I havent really run into any serious glitches, other than the Fairy Duo sometimes freezing at the start of the fight which I think has been patched, and also the game sometimes crashing if you use Bunny Memories on top of Irisu when she is spawning her debuff rings (I think this one is frame perfect so its not likely to happen)

[@looming314]

I think you should've done Seana II before post game.
BTW jumping over that badge is harder than Rumi herself.

[@flariz4824]

Yeah, I also originally wanted to get Seana 2 before Post-Game, but her level was so low, the fight was extremely easy. At the time I had 10 town members so I could fight Noah (And should, since otherwise she will be a higher level).
I just figured, since Seana 2 seemed to be very easy, may as well leave her fight for later; I rather have her level up than Noah.
In the end, it worked out, just barely- thanks to the fact you get the 4th Amulet after Rumi.
Theres certainly things I would change about my run in retrospect.
Recruiting Syaro- a pretty easy boss IMO- so early may have been a mistake. All of her attacks are relatively easy, so it makes me wonder if maybe it wouldt be better to leave her alone for post-game and instead, focus on a harder boss such as Lilith.
That badge is certainly quite the troll, lol.

[@whomstthehecc3028]

How

[@flariz4824]

With over 500+ hours of Rabi-Ribi experience & high tolerance to grinding overall I guess?
-Ah ofc you can do it way earlier. This specific playthough is very likely to take about 100 hours for me (Right now its all up to how nice Irisu is to me) but uh all the stuff I did previous to it probably helped, too.
Also this playthrough isnt even fully optimized. Looking back, I wish I did certain things differently to make it more manageable.
You can also do this BEX 0% Item run but with Consumables and Buffs, which is still quite hard dont get me wrong, but the buffs in particular really help so its not *quite* as insane.
Still not something I recommend to do unless you know the game really really well..