It has been sometimes since I played it, yeah it's a bit more difficult now since Seedlings Dragons are considered elite creature. I could still probably beat the normal Final Boss though, not sure about the true final boss.
So what's the cheesy strategy nowadays, still Kitsune?
Anyway, I saw some conversation about the Giant fight, normally I would just cheese it with the elite "Root" unit (forgot her name), considering she can cheese most things except for slime and the Horror
I remember her ability being reducing the AP of everything standing on grass to 1 and then poisoning them. The enemy will take one AP to move but then they cannot do anything anymore. Then they die to 10% HP loss each ground due to poison. Even some ridiculous special in the finale is cheese by it
My general cheese strat can be summed up as... Play Evo. Get telekenisis from the library. Murder everything.
I also tend to always use the alt-ending character you get early on, since she's got a good set of skills for moving you around the map. If I'm bored I'll add a kitsune. Having some consistent "hit everything" damage is nice. Otherwise it's mostly just a combination of frost spears being OP with character that can move quickly and overly boosted lava girls for AOE damage. I use to try breeding up to some map wide AOE, but honestly it just wasn't needed.
But I'm weird in that I think the druid kinda sucks. I know people do well with him, but meh. Crea can be better than both if you can get enough skill points to pull it off, so I'd put her second. Being able to have a full team of absolutely broken clones of the alt-ending character creates an unstoppable teleporting one shot army. Like, smoking the the alt-ending bosses without getting hit levels of unstoppable. But holy fuck grinding out the skill points needed to really break the game is annoying. Luckily the tavern rank increase the available units max level, so there's at least that.
Plus both of them lack the main reason I like Evo. Evo's ability to boost her magic stat to stupid levels means she can spawn spirits that are already basically stat complete. Like it might take two or three fuses max to hit all 10s. So you're mostly just fusing to get perks. Druid/Crea just take too many individual actions to do the same thing, and I get bored easily.
Chimera form is my go to cheese, and I love it. But mostly I love that it lets me be lazy with fusing.
Ninja edit: Also, I'm working on a guide that basically uses this method to go from a fresh unlockables file to having the ascended job and bonus perk unlocked. I figure that's enough that anyone can use those to cheese out any other unlocks they care about. Some people were asking if there was a guide that'd get you through your first play through and teach you how everything works, and I'm bored with my own projects at the moment. We'll see if my adhd ass actually finishes it.
