The most difficult Stygian of all 😵‍💫

I had to use the only Lunar team against Crab because I don't have Neuvi or Skirk. Of the hydro DDs, I only have Ayato, who does practically no damage😭.

The first boss was challenging even for my Mavuika, due to its constant Electro status, which can be swirl by Kazuha and causes constant overload and minions knockback, so I had to take double Cryo to get more Melts.

Stormtrooper made me realize as a Clorinde main how weak Clorinde is without Lunar charge or Durin which I don't have (my top 5% Akasha).

**Apparently, SO difficulty will continue to increase, and I hope they'll at least allow co-op play on difficulty 5 in the future.**

Commentaires

Nox_Luna062026-01-22 12:48

By the gods, I hate that crab. I've tried almost every team apart from Nefer standard team + Columbina and Flins standard.

And guess what? Only Mavuika was able to actually defeat it at difficultly 4

wh1tebrother2026-01-22 12:55

The most disgusting thing about the Crab is not even that it essentially requires not even specific reactions, but a specific character (Neuvi), but that after the horns are knocked off, it almost immediately crawls underground and renews its shield.

I hope Pyro archon will be carries our accounts (and mental health) in future❤️

fat_mothra2026-01-22 13:01

...you know you're supposed to attack the small crabs, not the big one right?

Nox_Luna062026-01-22 13:12

On difficulty 4 there are no small crabs

fat_mothra2026-01-22 13:22

I was answering to OP who I can see in the post did D5

Tho now I'm curious, how the hell did you clear the fire crab with Mavuika?

Nox_Luna062026-01-22 13:45

Furina and Xingqiu do their best to break the shield, Xilo to fill up Mavuika's burst and then 'Rat of the Sky! '

lnfine2026-01-22 14:44

What use is attacking them?

They only really efficiently transfer hydro damage IIRC, so to properly use them you want a hydro character that deals a lot of damage, but applies not that much hydro (otherwise you fizzle them out too fast).

gomitest2026-01-22 15:44

They dont transfer hydro damage, if you break the pyro shield the deal a fixed amout of damage to the boss. You can kill them as fast as you want the boss respawn them

Nvm im prob wrong

lnfine2026-01-22 17:21

>Will summon Sternshield Crabs that have 12U Pyro. When their Pyro is depleted, will lose control and hit the Boss, making it lose 12U Pyro.

>When the Boss is hit, it will alse lose HP based on the DMG the Sternshield Crab took, equal to 60% Hydro DMG taken + 10% other DMG taken, not exceeding 15% Boss HP

As per homdgcat

So according to the game explanation it doesn't matter, but per homdgcat more detailed explanation it wants hydro.

Not sure which is relevant

gomitest2026-01-22 17:26

Wait really? Fuck im probably mistaken then

But you still want to kill them asap because the boss rrspawn them all the time

Nox_Luna062026-01-22 13:11

Praying 🙏

focushafnium2026-01-22 13:19

Or Kokomi, god bless no ICD.

LokianEule2026-01-22 14:12

Not only Neuv, but Mualani can also kill crab. So… two options. Thanks mhy.

Hotspur0002026-01-22 14:38

No, it doesn't NEED to be Neuv. I almost had it with Furina, Ayato, Yelan and Kokomi.

I think I just need to optimize my rotations.

wh1tebrother2026-01-22 14:58

Kokomi is hidden MVP on this crab.

BlowITA2026-01-23 18:03

I almost had it with Furina, XQ, Yelan and Kokomi, best I could do was leave it with around 10% HP iirc, even though none of them are built for this content (and they're C0, except for XQ). And what's worse, I took away many pieces of XQ to give to other characters lately.

Edit 1: I just changed Yelan (my worst built of the bunch) for Mualani and got it to less than 5% HP remaining. I might be able to clear this one!

Edit 2: Haha, I managed to beat it (in 114s) with a team of Furina, Kokomi, C2R1 Mualani and C0R1 Skirk. Mualani focused on the small crabs (since I read on this thread that they still transfer 60% of the dmg to the boss) and on dealing 1 or 2 hits to the boss, and Skirk would just enter to burst on the boss and leave (with the occasional hold E to charge the burst and to flee from their attacks). Took 4 attempts to get it right.

LiDragonLo2026-01-22 17:57

Mua actually clears it faster than neuv ironically

Herman_-_Mcpootis2026-01-22 16:03

Crab on menacing wasn't too hard for me, a 44k DPS Nahida Hyperbloom was enough to break its shell and kill it at 119s.

That dog was an absolute pain in the ass though. Took me numerous tries with Nefer/Lauma/Nilou/Bina and it only worked after switching Nilou to Deepwood last minute. And it still took 97s.

petar_772026-01-23 12:18

I also cleared with nahida+kuki hyperbloom (I guess legends never die). As for that fuck ass dog, I absolutely hate it. But to be honest it was my fault at first for trying to kill all the chickens to break the shield when its really much faster and easier to attack the dog itself with lunar reactions to break its shield.

Tamamo_was_here2026-01-22 12:51

Ngl it was just that last boss for me. I had to use Bina on that dumb crab boss.

Mysterious_Evening92026-01-22 12:56

I have top 0.1% build Mavuika, Freedom Sworn Kazuha, C6 Benny with Mistsplitter and Citlali

I still don’t have enough DPS to kill the dog, and I’m doing optimal combos (my Mavuika is C0R0)

this is so cooked. Absolutely fuck these insane DPS thresholds. If you don’t own Lunar characters or at least C0R1 Mavuika = go kys. Thanks, Hoyo!

fat_mothra2026-01-22 13:04

Have you checked in one of the Miliastra dummies that you're actually getting good dps?

So many people who thought they were playing optimally have learned that they were getting like 80k dps with Mavuika or Skirk teams

Mysterious_Evening92026-01-22 14:32

I have. I’m getting 155k DPS

fat_mothra2026-01-22 22:18

Weird, I saw someone doing it with C0R1 Arlecchino and as far as I know Mavuika should still be better than that even at R0 vs R1

babangelsin2026-01-22 14:10

Your Mav should be able to nuke the dogs easily once you group them up with Kazuha though

Mysterious_Evening92026-01-22 14:33

I do kill the dogs, but she doesn’t have enough DPS to damage the boss enough after the dogs are killed

babangelsin2026-01-22 14:37

That is very odd. Assuming you take 30 seconds to kill the dogs (10 seconds in he spawns the dogs, lets say you take 20 seconds to clear it) he takes 20% HP as true damage and gets -60 RES to all elements. Your team should have around 120K DPS in that setting. You are probably wasting too much time with fielding Kazuha during boss phase.

wh1tebrother2026-01-22 15:13

Without Xilo and without Mav C1, Mavuika has a hard time getting a full burst to alpha strike the birds. Even if she does hit, it's hard to get a Cryo on this boss due to the sheer amount of Electro.

The only thing I can recommend is to use Xilo instead of Benny or a second Cryo. Your options are limited to either Escoffier or Rosaria. Also, give Kazuha Sac R5 so he can make two grouping in a row.

yokuyuki2026-01-22 19:20

I don't recall any issue with maintaining cryo on the bonus. Was watching my recording and didn't even see any electro.

BlowITA2026-01-23 17:55

Yeah, Kazuha only swirls electro if he is hit by their attacks. If you manage to avoid being hit, it's no problem swirling cryo.

But I still agree with OP about using Xilo instead of Benny (specially if high con, which is my case). My Xilo is C2, my C2 Mavuika is top 2.25% with R5 Serpent Spine, and I just realized I was using Lv 40 R1 Dark Iron Sword on Kazuha (\*facepalms\*, though my only decent options on him are Lv 80 R4 Xiphos' Moonlight or stealing XQ's R5 Sacrificial Sword, which means not using XQ in this SO. oh, f*, I just realized I also took away his feather and gave it to someone else, he's using a Lv 0 feather), and I managed to clear the dog in Fearless (though with only 1s to spare), even with scuffed rotation (1 normal attack 2 donut hits dash, rinse and repeat). My (fearless preset) dummy dps (after fixing Kazuha just now) is only around 120~130k dps in 2 minutes of sustained fight. With my C5 Bennet, I can barely hit half of that, and charging Mavuika's burst on the first cycle becomes very tough.

yokuyuki2026-01-23 18:55

I think I don't get hit if I'm dealing with the chickens. Maybe Bennett self pyro application is also getting rid of electro. I have C2 Mavuika so Bennett is probably the better play for me since I don't need Xilonen to get enough fighting spirit.

reptilian_witch2026-01-22 13:43

This SO is *difficult*, so imo people shouldn't feel bad for not clearing fearless or having problems. It shills lunar and hydro on top of that and I know, that I don't have right characters/cons to finish fearless, so menacing is my stopping point.

Vantre72702026-01-22 13:55

I feel like the crab was like the easiest boss ever, you can beat it just by having a lot of hydro on ur team

babangelsin2026-01-22 14:11

You need a lot of hydro **damage**, if you have high hydro app without the damage it will have the opposite effect.

This is why most people clear it specifically with Neuv

Vantre72702026-01-22 14:12

Really? I've indeed used neuvi, but used the most scuffed team with as much application as possible and beat it that way, and I couldn't with his bis hypercarry team

babangelsin2026-01-22 14:13

You don't need to since you already get a free Draconian stack from Vaporize and also free Vaporize

Khoakuma2026-01-22 15:36

I can clear Dire with whichever team have Columbina or Furina on it. Unfortunately I only have 2 of them and 3 SO sides to clear. Have to try to beat 1 side without either of them which is getting rather difficult.

FormaL_Affair2026-01-22 17:29

I just cleared it with ayato last night. He has to be C2 and a top 1% build though lol.

Useful-Carry-69992026-01-23 17:35

How the hell do you break the lightning guy’s shield? that’s what has been giving me the most problems.

wh1tebrother2026-01-23 18:49

You can break a shield either with a HUGE amount of any damage, or with a slightly smaller, but still significant amount of Electro. Without Iansan C2 and Fischl C6 - Clorinde, I wouldn't have been able to do it.