Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Expert Glitchless Route
Last update: 1/24/26.
This is the route for patches 61xxx and hopefully on. The really big changes were the removal of the hidden 10% damage boosts on Dead Energy II, First Strike, and Medalum. As a result, this route is significantly slower. And as of right now, it also has some pretty bad input delay issues. So if you are on PC and can downpatch, I recommend doing so.
But if you can't, you're at the right place :)
Notation
For menus, I will sometimes have something in parenthesis. If it's (S1-3), it refers to the slot the Picto should be placed in. If it's a Playstation controller button, it's a button you should press to optimize the menu.
For battles, there will sometimes be something like (1.1 QTE). This refers to the Quick Time Action you do when you use an Ability. A perfect is 1.2, a normal is 1.1, and a fail is 1.0. The number refers to the damage multiplier the skill gets from the QTE.
Cutscene menu: you can open a menu right before you enter a cutscene transition, which will give you about 3s of menu time before the cutscene plays. You can use this to squeeze in menus and reduce wasted time. Menus will be labeled with which cutscenes they can be done during. Note that this seperates the menus, so if you're not doing cutscene menus you will want to combine them into one menu.
You can check the changelog at the bottom of the notes. This changelog will be restarted for this patch, so to check older stuff refer to the older patch notes.
These are my personal notes for the category, the writing will reflect that. For the most part these notes will not say where to go or where things are, just what to do. I will be updating these as the route progresses, changes will be reflected in the changelog at the bottom of the notes.
There will also be enemy data and maybe some other useful information at the bottom of the notes.
If there's a time listed by a fight, it's my best time for it so far. It does not represent the average.
Prologue
Maelle 450HP (0:24-0:27)
1XP, $50, Colour of Lumina
Option 1: Attack > Parry > Overcharge > Parry > Attack (0:24 w/crit, 0:27 without)
Option 2: Attack > Parry > Attack > Dodge, Overcharge (0:26). If you get hit instead of dodging add 1 shot.
On average, optimal choice is probably to go for Option 2 if you don't get the parry crit T1.
If you crit an attack with Option 2, you can save 1s by intentionally getting hit by 1 of Maelle's 3 hits.
Harbor
- Talk to Aprentices
- Talk to Maelle, skip Maelle duel
- Talk to Emma
4 CS on Transition
Act I
Spring Meadows
Lancelier 122HP 6XP $50 (0:10)
- Shoot Weak Spot, Attack > Parry
Portier 450HP (0:08)
10XP, $75, Dodger + 0-2 Chroma Catalyst
You can shoot 2 extra times with Gustave. If he crits the attack, you can then shoot twice with Lune and Immolation to kill.
Turn 1
- Gustav: Shoot weak spot, Attack
- Lune: Ice Lance
For the AoE attack, start mashing dodge as soon as his arms touch together. After 3 dodges, parry.
Counter to kill.
Pick up Critical Burn.
First strike the Lanceram before the house.
2 Lancelier 240HP (0:19)
53XP, $144, Lanceram LV1
Turn 0
- Gustav: Shoot weak spots, Attack
- Lune: Ice Lance
Parry.
Turn 1
- Gustav: Attack
You can jump up to the right side before the house, or take the path through the house.
Pick up Energy Tint Shard, $360 in house detour.
3 Volester 81HP (0:17)
43XP, $216, 0-2 Chroma Catalyst?
Parry timing is on slowdown/freeze frames on both of their attacks
Parry both attacks. Shoot last one to death. Requires 5AP.
Pick up Dead Energy II. Afterwards, jump off to the left and menu.
First strike the Abbest on your left.
2 Volester, 1 Abbest (0:09)
$216, 55XP
If you missed XP after Portier, take the fight before Eveque instead. Strat for that fight is in the archive section of these notes.
Turn 0
- Gustav:
- Shoot each Volester 3 times, don't hit weakness.
- Shoot Abbest weakness, skip.
- Lune: Ice Lance (1.1)
Go to Flag.
Eveque 4524HP (2:04)
$862, Cleansing Tint, 5 Chroma Catalyst, 0-2 Recoat
The chance of you getting the fast fight are much lower on this patch.
Turn 1
- Gustav: (If Gustave target shoot 1 shield), Powerful
- Lune: Shoot off shields (last shield shoot weakpoint), Shoot till 3AP, Immolation
Turn 2
- Gustav: Marking Shot
- Lune: Immolation
Turn 3
- Gustav: Shoot till 2AP, Marking Shot
- Lune: Energising Tint Gustave
Stop countering Eveque on this turn, until you do the Overcharge.
You can kill one Abbest for AP generation & speeding up the backup. Killing both before Eveque will break the XP route.
Turn 4
- Gustav: Overcharge
If not dead, shoot off shields and damage as best as you can.
If it was no crit and Eveque is still healthy, don't counter it's attack so it starts charging up. You can then inflict a good chunk of damage by shooting the core again.
Continent
Go to Camp before entering Flying Waters
Flying Waters
Pick up $333 along path.
Take the detour to the right by the tunnel to spawn 3 Demineur and fight them.
3 Demineur 218HP (0:04)
1180XP $399
Turn 0
Shoot the 3 bombs
Go to Manor.
Jump towards flag.
Interact with flag.
The Curator ?HP (0:24)
720XP, $376
Turn 1
- Gustav: Powerful
- Maelle: Offensive Shift
- Lune: Skip
Turn 2
- Gustav: Marking Shot
- Maelle: Percee
Talk to Noco and fight him.
Noco 1670HP (0:22)
486XP $200
Offensive Shift > Parry > 1 Shot, Spark
Buy Exposing Attack ($3600). After Noco continue straight.
Fight the Bruler that jumps down at you before the tunnel
Demineur, Bruler, Luster (0:14)
1412XP, $466, Bruleram LV3
You get ~72 more EXP here by killing Bruler first.
Turn 0
- Gustav: Shoot Mine, Marking Shot Bruler
- Lune: Skip
- Maelle:
- Shoot Bruler weakspot (kill)
- Shoot Demineur head once, anywhere once
- Shoot rest of AP at Luster weakspot, if he lives Attack
Goblu 22815HP (1:37)
3240XP, $1330, 0-2? Recoat
The main fight now is the 5T, as getting a fast fight is near impossible now.
I'd only go for it if you got both Maelle counter and Percee crit.
Turn 1
- Lune: Wildfire
- Gustav: Powerful
- Maelle: Swift Stride
Turn 2
- Lune: Attack
- Gustav: Marking Shot
- Maelle: Percee
Turn 3
- Lune: Wildfire
- Gustav: Powerful
- Maelle: Offensive Shift
Turn 4
- Lune: Wildfire
- Gustav: Overcharge
- Maelle: Can shoot till 3ATB, Swift Stride
Turn 5
- Lune: Attack
- Gustav: Marking Shot
- Maelle: Percee
If still alive, do Turn 5 again.
If you got REALLY good damage, replace turns 3 & 4 with:
- Lune: Immolation
- Gustav: Overcharge
- Maelle: Can shoot till 3ATB, Swift Stride
Ancient Sanctuary
Go to flag.
Go fight the Petank
Robust Sakapatate 5792HP (0:39)
1824XP, $435, Sakaram Lv.4
- Swings with it's partner: 1 Hit AoE
- Slams it's shield: 1 Hit AoE, raises Shield and will counter next time its hit.
- Shield counter: 1 hit AoE, need to dodge sooner than Slams it's shield.
- Clunky Combo: 2 hit, jump, 1 hit. Has easy audio cue
Parry his shield attack (prevents him countering later). You can dodge everything else.
Turn 1
- Lune: Immolation (Fail QTE)
- Gustav: Skip
- Maelle: Swift Stride (Fail QTE)
Turn 2
- Lune: Attack
- Gustav: Marking Shot
- Maelle: Percee
Note that if you miss no XP, you can get Rain of Fire before Ultimate Sakapatate.
If so, take the flag before Ultimate Sakapatate, max Maelle Might, teach RoF, and skip the Gestral Village flag. For the fight, replace Percee with RoF.
Ultimate Sakapatate 28236HP (1:44)
8100XP, $1930, Breaker + 3 Polished Catalyst + 0-2 Recoats
- Slams the ground: 1 hit AoE, naturally parry timing.
- Fires it's Cannons: look for Fire on it's cannons as indicator, parry when you see it.
- Slams it's shield: 1 hit single target.
- Combo: 2 hits into jump, dodge the first 2 no point in parrying.
- Launches weird elecric things: 3 hit single target: Parry once they're top of their arc / flying down.
Turn 1
- Lune: Immolation
- Gustav: Powerful
- Maelle: Swift Stride
Turn 2
- Lune: Shoot once, then shoot shoulder 3 times to break it. Attack.
- Gustav: Marking Shot
- Maelle: Percee
If Gustave doesn't have 5AP, you can Powerful instead, or just Attack.
With no Percee crit, I recommend going for Powerful even if you have Overcharge AP.
Turn 3
- Lune: Immolation
- Gustav: Overcharge
- Maelle: Swift Stride
Turn 4
- Lune: Attack / Energy Tint Gustave if he has 0 AP.
- Gustav: Marking Shot
- Maelle: Percee
If still alive, repeat turn 4
Gestral Village
Tournament
Pattern for first 3 fights: Parry, Degagement, Parry, Rain of Fire
Rewards for each: 2026XP, $366
Bertrand Big Hands (0:22)
Swinging Right Hook x2, Left Uppercut (parry end of windup)
Dominique Giant Feet (0:27)
Two-handed Ground Pound x2, Right Handed Ground Pound (Parry indicator is his elbow pointing up)
Matthieu the Colossus (0:23)
Left Hook x2, Right Feint into Left Uppercut (Parry as he swings)
Sciel 3211HP (0:24)
Parry, Rain of Fire, Parry
- Sealed Fate: 3 Hit
- Twilight Slash: 1 Hit
- Marking Card: 2 hit projectile, Parry as circle closes.
You need to win vs Sciel for this route.
Talk to Golgra. Then go talk to Jujubree (Merchant).
Camp
Talk to Curator
Sleep. Go to Esquie's Nest.
Esquie's Nest
If you didn't get the Weapons and Critical Moment equipped, do so before Francois fight.
You can cutscene menu entering Francois fight for anything you missed earlier.
Francois 9652HP (0:18)
2228XP, $392, 345SPD, Augmented First Strike + 0-2 Polished Chroma Catalyst
Dodge his attacks, use rhythm like Eveque spells
Turn 1
- Gustav: Marking Shot
- Lune: Attack
- Maelle: Shoot 3 times, Percee
Better to shoot with Maelle because you don't have to move your aim at all.
Backtrack to Esquie.
After talking to Esquie, run to flag by Francois and fast travel to entrance. Exit to Continent.
The Continent
Mount Esquie and Camp.
Camp
The Continent
Pick up Energising Start I on beach west of Stone Wave Cliffs
Pick up $1305 after breaking the rocks to Stone Wave Cliffs
Stone Wave Cliffs
Pick up $790 on the left before the 1st flag.
Go break the paint cage and get Delaram.
Pick up First Strike. Menu on the jump down.
First Strike the Rocher after the Paintress Shrine
Pick up $790 after Farm flag.
Pick up Colour of Lumina before last grapple up.
Lampmaster 42677HP (1:48)
18900XP, $3160, 3 Polished Chroma Catalyst
Need > 310 speed to outspeed him T2. 312 confirmed working.
- Switches off lights and attacks: 4 Lamps launch projectiles. Parry when lamps turn off.
- Jumps: Parry on landing.
- Power of its lamps: 1 Dark Attack, visual/audio pre attack cue?
- Tries to blind: 3 Physical, first swipe is later than it looks.
- Dark explosion: jumps and hits 1 on landing.
In phase 1, you need to counter 3 or 4 attacks. Need about 4000ish damage of extra counter damage.
Bonus Strats
After his first attack, you can do the following if you generated enough AP from dodges/parries.
+2 Sciel AP: Skip the Tint on Sciel
+3 Lune AP: Lune Ice Lance, Gustave Powerful, Sciel Tint Lune. Next turn, Lightning Dance, Gustave Tint Lune, Sciel Attack. Continue from Turn 3. If you do enough damage that you end phase 1 with Lightning Dance, you can Intervention > Wildfire early.
Turn 0
- Lune: Immolation
Turn 1
- Lune: Ice Lance
- Gustav: Tint Sciel
- Sciel: Intervention Lune
- Lune: Attack
Turn 2
- Gustav: Powerful
- Lune: Lightning Dance
Enter phase 2.
- Flying Combo: 4 hits, parry bit after audio cue
- Attacks with each arm: 4 hits, parry on audio cue?
- Vast ball of light: Jump, easy timing
- Sword of light: 1 hit, parry during it's swing at you
You can dodge both moves, perfect dodge the Sword.
Turn 2.1
- Sciel: Tint Lune
Turn 3
- Gustave: Attack
- Lune: Wildfire
- Sciel: Intervention Lune
- Lune: Lightning Dance
White-Haired Man (0:49)
Skip turn x4
Act II
Camp
Go to flag.
Continent
Forgotten Battlefield
Chalier 9724HP (0:24)
4134XP (NB), $593, 0-2 Polished Chroma Catalyst
Turn 1
- Dodge 1st attack
- Verso: Defiant Strike
- Let Verso die to Gradient
- Lune: Skip
- Maelle: Percee (1.1)
Buy Inverted Affinity from Merchant ($11280).
Dualliste 71106HP (2:00)
33072XP, $3950, Dualiso + Combo Attack I + 3 Polished Chroma Catalyst + 0-1 Recoat?
Threshold between him getting 2 attacks before you is somewhere between 328 and 318 speed.
You can dodge all moves. Verso can parry to generate AP, no counter damage is needed.
Turn 0
- Verso: Berserk Slash
Turn 1
- Lune: Tint Verso / Nothing
- Verso: Berserk Slash
- Sciel: Attack
Turn 2
- Lune: Tint Verso / Nothing
- Verso: Berserk Slash / Defiant Strike
Phase change.
Turn 2.1
- Sciel: Intervention Verso
- Verso: Berserk Slash
Parry + Dodge AoE for AP generation.
Turn 3
- Lune: Attack / Skip if very good damage.
- Verso: Berserk Slash
- Sciel: Intervention Verso
- Verso: Berserk Slash
Camp
Go to Curator
Option 2 to sleep.
Continent
First Strike group before Monoco Station
Demineur, Troubador, Gault (0:15)
6890XP (NB), $988, Troubadim LV8 + Gaulteram LV8 + 0-1? Recoat
Turn 0
- Lune: Wildfire (Fail QTE)
- Verso:
- Shoot Mine then shoot Demineur 2 times.
- Defiant Strike Troubador
- Sciel: Phantom Blade Gault
Monoco Station
Monoco 111599HP (0:30)
54000XP, $4360, 3 Polished Chroma Catalyst + 0-1 Recoat. Speed between 346-349
Turn 0
- Lune: Immolation
- Sciel: Energy Tint Lune
Dodge his attack.
Turn 1
- Verso: Attack > Powerful
- Lune: Ice Lance
- Sciel: Intervention Lune
- Lune: Lightning Dance
Stalact 51507HP (0:48)
21600XP, $1744, Polished Chroma Catalyst + 0-1 Recoat
Turn 0
- Lune: Ice Lance (Fail QTE)
- Sciel: Intervention Lune
- Lune: Gradient > Lightning Dance
Old Lumiere
Chevaliers (0:13)
13662XP, $998, Battlum LV10 + 0-2 Polished Chroma Catalyst
Verso outspeeds at 522 speed, 521 might work.
Turn 0
- Maelle: Rain of Fire (Perfect QTEs). You're hoping for no crits
- Verso: If left Chevalier survived, shoot head 3 times (need to confirm). Then Berserk Slash. If it died, Attack > Berserk Slash
You can cutscene menu before Renoir to fix any missed Maelle Picto / Lumina stuff earlier.
I think removing Percee here will make Stendhal go Left-Middle by default, but untested.
Renoir 140186HP (0:50)
51750XP (NB), $4990, Melarum + 3 Polished Chroma Catalyst + 0-2 Recoat
- Massive amount of chroma: Gradient once he jumps into the air.
- Melee combo: 5, 4th hit is later than it looks.
- Giant pool of chroma: jump
- Attacks from a distance: 4 hit, look for slowdown.
- Vanish an expeditioner: Gradient before he strikes black orb.
You probably want to counter 1 move on this fight.
Turn 1
- Maelle: Rain of Fire
- Lune: Wildfire (Fail QTE)
- Verso: Powerful
Turn 2
- Verso: Energy Tint Lune
- Lune: Ice Lance
- Maelle: Healing Tint Lune if she didn't crit herself / Nothing / Offensive Switch
Turn 3
- Verso: Attack > Leadership / Energy Tint. If you did Offensive Switch can just do the Leadership / Energy Tint
- Lune: Lightning Dance (1.2)
Camp
Go to sleep.
Continent
Visages
Talk to the Plazza Flag.
Go to Sadness Vale.
Pick up Resplendent Chroma Catalyst.
Pick up Glass Cannon.
Take flag back to Plazza.
Go to Joyous Vale (Back left)
Pick up Confident Fighter.
Run into fight closest to flag.
2 Moisonneusse Hat Guy
- Verso: Perfect Recovery
- Lune: Wildfire (Fail QTE)
- Monoco: Flee
Go to flag, warp to Plazza.
Go to Merchant.
Visages 185114HP
Need 440 speed for phase 1
- Determination Mask: Parry, Jump, Parry. Very easy audio cues
- Build shields with Peace Mask: 4 Parries on audio cue
- Anxiety Mask: 2 Parry, slight delay from audio cue.
- Doubt Mask: 5 Parry, go off visual cues. 1st one is slower than it looks. Audio cue is too early.
There's lot's of variations here, I'll just put the slow consistent version for now.
Turn 0
- Verso: Attack > Shoot twice, Berserk Slash
- Lune: Elemental Trick
- Sciel: Intervention Lune
- Lune: Lightning Dance
Parry & Counter for damage.
Turn 1
- Verso: Leadership
- Lune: Wildfire
- Sciel: Intervention Lune
- Lune: Gradient (Should kill) > Energy Tint Sciel
Mask Keeper 185114HP (2:20?)
157690XP, $11760, Immaculate + 6 Resplendent Chroma Catalyst x6 + 0-3 Recoat
Need some amount of speed over 468.
- Attacks the Expedition: 4 Parries, visual cue off the circle build up of his attack.
- Swing Combo: 3 Parry, 2nd Parry tiny delay after 1st.
- Attacks like a Storm: 4 parries, visual/audio cue.
- Sets fire to his sword: 3 quick parries into a gradient
Turn 1
- Verso: Attack > Powerful
- Lune: Lightning Dance
- Sciel: Intervention
- Lune: Gradient > Lightning Dance
Camp
Go to Curator.
Go to sleep.
Sirene
Go to flag.
Run into group of Ballets.
Ballets (0:27)
21624XP (NB), $1410, Ballaro LV13
Turn 0
- Verso: Perfect Recovery
- Lune: Wildfire (Fail QTE)
- Sciel: Skip
Have them kill Sciel, bring in 2nd party.
Turn 1
- Monoco/Maelle: Flee
Pick up Color of Lumina directly on the way.
Glissando 350757HP (0:58)
51897XP, $2820, 1 Resplendent Chroma Catalyst
515 speed seems to be the cutoff for him to not get 2 moves in T1.
- Enchants its target: 1 hit. 2 explosions > Parry. Use rhythm.
- Smashes its head: 2 Parry, can visually/audio react
- Smashes its tail: 3 Parry, need to find cue. 1st visual on slowdown, 2nd audio, 3rd delayed audio.
- Summons ballets: 3 jumps, easy.
- Attacks with her fabric: one on each character, not sure on timing cue yet.
Turn 0
- Verso: Energy Tint Sciel
- Lune: Elemental Trick
- Sciel: Card Weaver > Intervention Lune
- Lune: Lightning Dance
If enchant attack, Sciel can shoot a bit to kill without burn damage.
Turn 1
- Verso: Attack > Shoot till C Rank, Leadership
- Lune: Wildfire
- Sciel: Gradient > Intervention Lune
- Lune: Lightning Dance
Sirene 303990HP (1:08)
129744XP, $7050, Tisseron + Energising Turn + Resplendent Chroma Catalyst x3
She goes frantic at 80%? HP? After she does, her next move will be Grand Ballet.
If you transition her there with a parry off her 1st move, she will skip her 2nd move.
- Glissandos: 2 Parries
- Charm: 1 Parry, same timing as Glissando enchants. 2 Explosions > Parry
- Seduce: Gradient
- Grand Ballet: 5 Hits, watch ballets + audio cue. 1st one is earlier than you'd think, last one you have to be patient for.
Turn 0
- Verso: Berserk Slash
- Lune: Elemental Trick
- Sciel: Card Weaver > Twilight Slash
If she goes frantic before her move, we did too much damage. Adjust with QTEs next time.
Parry Glissando's, she should go frantic
If you still have Dualiso on, Attack before Leadership
Turn 1
- Verso: Leadership
- Lune: Lightning Dance
- Sciel: Gradient > Sealed Fate
Camp
Go to sleep
The Continent
Go to the Monolith
The Monolith
The Feetress
Skip x2
Pick up Weakness Gain at the end of the Stone Wave Cliffs section. It's behind the statue on the right.
Pick up Resplendant Chroma Catalyst at the end of Tainted Stone Wave Cliffs.
Go to any flag along the way.
In Lumiere, fight the first battle with Chevaliers.
Chevaliers
- Lune Ice Lance, rest skip. Bring in 2nd party, flee.
Renoir 2 370890HP (1:25)
173736XP, $8520, Second Chance + 3 Resplendent Chroma Catalyst
- Attempts to Vanish: 2 hit, Parry into Gradient. Parry right before he hits black orb. Gradient when back turned.
- Melee Combo: 6 hit
- Incredible amount of chroma: 2 Parries, Gradient. Parry as soon as you see the ball shrink.
- Waves of Chroma: 5 Parry, last is delayed
- Attacks from a distance: 4 attacks, 1st 3 parry on slow down. 4th is ground pound.
You want to counter all his attacks unless you got an AoE counter T1, then you can possibly skip the second.
On this patch the damage is WAY tighter, you need to get his HP as close to half as possible with Verso. There's a lot less wiggle room now.
Turn 0
- Verso: Attack > 1 Shot, Leadership
- Lune: Storm Caller
- Sciel: Focused Fortell (1.2)
Turn 1
- Verso: Attack > Powerful
- Sciel: Sealed Fate
- Lune: Ice Lance
Turn 2
- Verso: Attack > Shots, Berserk Slash / Defiant Strike / Attack. You need to control damage here to get him as close to half as possible.
- Sciel: Headshots until 2 AP, Gradient > Sealed Fate
This should kill, if not Abandon Battle instantly and retry.
The Paintress 482157HP (4:10)
173736XP, $8519, Painted Power + 3 Resplendent Chroma Catalyst
Need >= 744 speed for Rush strat.
- Void Meteors: 7 projectiles left to right. They kind of explode before launching, parry as soon as you see it.
- Gradient Attack: 1 Gradient
- Chroma Waves: 4 hits, 2nd one right after 1st. Audio cue works. Parry on start of cue.
- Scatters Chroma: 5 hits, parry once the black waves go into the circle. No more waves around circle > parry.
- Manipulates Rocks from the Monolith: 3 hit AoE, parry after the rock moves back?
You want to slightly underdamage, so you can kill with the parry counter on her 4th move.
Turn 0
- Verso: Skip
- Lune: Elemental Trick
- Sciel: Intervention Lune
- Lune: Lightning Dance
Dodge Meteors
Turn 1
- Verso: (Shoot and/or Attack for Rank C), Leadership
- Lune: Elemental Trick
- Sciel: All Set
Parry Gradient, Parry Chroma Waves and counter.
Might need to control damage here, in testing it was fine.
Defiant Strike worked in testing instead of Berserk Slash, but it was tight.
Turn 2
- Verso: Attack > Berserk Slash
- Lune: Lightning Dance
- Sciel: Gradient > Sealed Fate
Parry all 5 chroma scatters, transition with counter.
Phase 2
- Summons giant brush of light: 3 hit aoe, parry on swing. Has audio cue similar to Chroma Waves
- Flies into the air: 5 hit, 2nd dodge on twirl, 3rd is slow, 4th is right after 3rd.
- Tears reality apart: 5 projectiles, dodge / parry at their "arc". Randomly start from left or right.
- Paintress unleashes: 7 single target into AoE
- Attacks from afar: Jump into 3 parry. Patient for jump
Turn 1
- Verso: Attack > Powerful
- Lune: Elemental Trick
- Sciel: Gradient > Sealed Fate
She will get 2 turns here, Counter the Giant Brush and dodge "Flies into the Air".
Turn 2
- Verso: Berserk Slash
- Lune: Lightning Dance
- Sciel: Gradient > Sealed Fate
Phase 3 ~72323HP
Turn 1
- Verso: Defiant Strike
- Sciel: Sealed Fate
Act III
Lumiere
Camp
Talk to everyone, talk to campfire, Option 2
Lumiere
Talk to Merchant.
Go to flag.
Creation
Turn 1
- Maelle: Skip
Maelle dies, 2nd party flee.
Renoir 3 766292HP (2:01)
219600XP, $9800
- Phase 2 moves.
- Pool of Darkness: Ground Slam into 2 Explosions, simple audio cues.
- Void Meteors: 5 Projectiles, Pattern is BL TR BR TL. 1st is later than it looks, want to dodge as they hit ground.
- Attacks Frantically: 7 hit into Gradient
- Attacks Swiftly: 6 Single Target, 4 is right after 3
Turn 0
- Sciel: All Set
- Verso: Attack > 2 Shots, Leadership
- Maelle: Stendhall (1.2 + 1.1 QTE). Should do ~751k
Turn 1
- Sciel: Intervention Maelle
- Maelle: Gradient should push to phase 2
Turn 1.1
- Maelle: Stendhall (1.2 + 1.2 QTE)
Fight as Maelle.
Verso 157188HP (0:07)
Rain of Fire (Fail QTE)
Time on fight end.
Bonus Strats
Archive
Spring Meadows Lanceram Volester Abbest 70XP $216 (0:19)
Turn 0
- Gustav
- Shoot Volester 3 times to kill (main body, hitting weakness does less)
- Then shoot other weakpoints and attack Lanceram (default)
- Lune: Ice Lance Abbest (default)
Parry Lanceram, Abbest dies to burn
SWC Rocher 3367HP 1575XP(NB) $316 (0:11)
- Lune: Wildfire (fail QTE)
- Gustav: Marking Shot
- Maelle: Percee
Timings
Spring Meadows
The $720 chroma detour takes 11.5s.
Empowering Attack Picto is ~15s detour after Eveque.
Flying Waters
The Bruler than jumps down after Manor can be done pretty quick. $466, 1340XP, Bruleram.
The Bruler + Crueler fight gives 1069XP $400
Money pickups after tunnel cost ~6.5s for $990
Esquie's Nest
Backtracking after Francois is 12s faster, but loses $1305 and Colour of Lumina.
Flagging after Esquie saves ~13s, but loses Energising Start III.
Visages
Killing self with Wildfire + Perfect Recovery > Flee: ~14.5s
Killing self with Wildfire + Perfect Recovery > 2nd party: ~21s
Killing self with 2 Moisonneusse (2 short combo) > ~34s
Sirene
Standard Wildfire Ballet death: 29s
Enemies before Glissando: 32s
Other
Upgrading Healing Tint when near curator: 4s
Routing Ideas to Explore
Could be worth it to pick up Staggering Attack in Flying Waters and use that for Gustave speed. You would then be able to dump quite a bit more into Might before Goblu. I think you'd need 2 Agi at first flag, and 1 more Agi somewhere later.
I opted out of this because fast Goblu seems like a dream anyway and I didn't like what it did to the menus. If doing this, leave Dodger on Gustave until after you get Staggering Attack.
Upgrading Bruleram to LVL4 might be worth it, would guarantee fast Petank, gets you better Sakapatates and better tournament. The downside is with no drops you wouldn't be able to get Medalum LV6 before Francois. And it takes a seperate Curator trip to upgrade Bruleram.
Even though we need an extra battle with First Strike, it might still be better to take the Lanceram LV6 fight over Delaram.
Instead of killing the Rocher, there's a group right by First Strike that can be cleared in 16s with Medalum LV6. That group drops more XP, money, and a Chation LV7 which might be very useful for Axons. Script is Marking Shot, Wildfire self, Maelle shoots fliers 4 times each, Percee.
Might be worth exploring other kill setups for the Chalier in Forgotten Battlefield, simply so we can get 1 more point on First Strike. Something like First Strike Maelle RoF opening or something. Don't think it's good though (and crits can screw you?).
We can give Verso First Strike before Monoco. The menu just felt clunky to me, and I think it would be about the same speed. You would just Powerful & Intervention T1, and Attack > Tint T2.
We can invest more Might into Verso in Old Lumiere, I just don't see enough of a benefit.
Could still be worth getting Auto Rush despite getting Glass Cannon, I just didn't want to dig into this.
Mask Keeper just needs work in general. Hoping to find a fight that let's you get a fast fight with good RNG but still win with bad RNG.
Changelog
1/29/26
- Give Sciel 3 more Might in Old Lumiere
- Added note on learning Rain of Fire before Ultimate Sakapatate
1/25/26
- These are just note fixes, route is unchanged
- Don't remve DE2 from Verso in Monoco Station
- Fix Sciel stat attribution in Old Lumiere
- Add Visages Merchant into notes, it was completely missing.
- Pick up Color of Lumina in Sirene (not needed but costs no time)
1/24/26
- Goblu fight is 5T by default.
- Fight Petank in Ancient Sanctuary
- Added note to go for double Powerful if Maelle didn't crit Percee
- 29 Might on Maelle is now required for Tournament
- Upgrade Lighterim to 8 and Medalum to 6 after Gestral Village
- Sciel gets 1 Agility now at Esquie's Nest. This fixes Dualliste turn order (stats were the same as last patch, think this breaking is a patch issue).
- No longer get $1775 on Continent by Chromatic Bruler
- No longer do Continent fight for Lanceram 6
- Get Delaram in SWC
- Equip First Strike to Gustave and fight Rocher to setup Lune HP and get 1 point towards learning First Strike (needed for Monoco)
- Lampmaster P1 needs more counters now
- Verso now learns Powerful instead of Perfect Recovery at the start of Act II.
- Normal Dualliste is the default now, removed mention of fast fight in main notes.
- DONT put At Death's Door on Lune early now, need Verso to have it so we get 1 point of progress on it.
- Equip First Strike Lumina on Sciel before Monoco
- Monoco fight slightly altered
- Flag moved back to Old Lumiere instead of Monoco Station
- Lune now replaces Death's Door instead of First Strike for Renoir 1.
- Lune stats slightly different in Old Lumiere, Monoco maxes Agility
- No longer get Auto Rush
- Recommend 1 counter for damage on Renoir 1.
- Get Glass Cannon & Resplendant in Visages, use Monoco for death battle.
- Lune's Lumina menu is different (needs Augmented First Strike for death)
- Mask Keeper fight sucks now, I put in the non-RNG one but you can get a faster fight if willing to gamble on Lune AP generation. On this patch, you don't have the damage to back up bad pattern well.
- Camp before Sirene Scielson 11 Lighterim 14
- Sirene defaults to fast fight now using Delaram
- Pick up Resplendant in Monolith
- Monolith Lune stats upgrades are different
- Renoir 2 is very tight since Gradient no longer hits max damage. Need to be very close to half and do headshots.
- Lune & Sciel equip Glass Cannon before Paintress
- Paintress requires a Verso Attack T2, but phase 2 only need to counter giant brush to skip a Verso attack.
- Buy 5 Resplendants from Merchant following.
- Maelle gets 7 Lumina so she can get Glass Cannon
- Maelle no longer needs Last Chance because no way to get 2 Sciel turns before Creation, so just letting Creation kill us.