DULLAHAN! battle strategies

Summon Rush is hardly a strategy. =/

quote Elliot Gale

It's basically the only thing you CAN do to him considering every other method of damage output is too weak. The longer the fight goes on, the more likely you are to autolose to Djinn Storm.

Hardly. Dullahan is a pushover compared to his TLA counterpart. Alternating between Doldrum and Bark/Chasm/Shell seems to be the most effective method for disposing of him. If he uses Djinn Storm, swap out the party, rinse, and repeat using Ivy instead of Doldrum.

Sadly Dullahan is much more manageable since he has a set attack pattern. If you follow it closely you'll find that he uses his moves in specified sets of three in the same manner and he has about 9 different move sets. Knowing his rotation allows you to simply Djinn lock him to prevent the key moves that make him such a pain. Though the moveset he leads with will vary from encounter to encounter his rotation will remain the same in most cases.

I guess summon rush is the most efficient way of defeating Dullahan. My team rushed Dullahan in two turns without Dullahan making any action!

Here's the detail of the battle:

Before the battle status: (Since it is a summon rush, only element power, agility is relavant statistics)

Matthew(Lv50): Gaia Blade (Earth power + 20), Planet Armor (Earth power + 10), Warrior's Helm (Earth power +10), Hover Greave (Agility*1.5), 6 Mars Djinn Stand by, 2 Mercury Djinn Stand by, 1 Venus Djinn, All these result in a Earth power of 149 and agility 370.

Himi(Lv49): 8 Venus Djinn Stand by, 1 Mercury Djinn (Himi can be replaced by somebody else)

Karis(Lv45): Swift Sword (Jupiter power + 10), Feathered Robe (Jupiter power + 20), Air Bangle (Jupiter power + 30), Zol Ring (Agility*1.8), 8 Jupiter Djinn Stand by, 1 Jupiter Djinn, All these result in a Jupiter power of 169, and agility 518

Sveta(Lv45): Zol Ring (Agility*1.8), 8 Jupiter Djinn Stand by, 1 Jupiter Djinn "Peace", All these result in an agility of 352 ( lower than Matthew's, but higher than Dullahan's)

Tyrell (Lv 50): 9 Venus Djinn stand by (Tyrell can be replaced by somebody else)


Now the battle begins:
Turn 1
1. Karis Summons Catastrophe, Dullahan loses 3620HP, 35PP, Karis's Mars power raised by 60, Jupiter power raised by 31
2. Matthew Summons Charon, Dullahan loses 3571HP, Matthew's Venus power raised by 46, Jupiter power raised by 30
3. Sveta Summons Peace, the first turn ends. Dullahan recovers 200 HP.

Turn 2
Exchange Himi for Tyrell (With 9 Venus Djinn standing by)
1. Karis Summons Catastrophe, Dullahan loses 4059HP, 35PP, Karis's Mars power raised by 60.
2. Matthew Summons Charon, Dullahan loses 4377HP, Matthew's Jupiter power raised by 30
3. Sveta Summons Eclipse, Dullahan loses 1745HP.
Dullahan is defeated.

Analysis:[div align=left][/div]
Upon the battle against Dullahan, the strongest Summon the team will have is Catastrophe and Charon, the idea is to boost the element power of whoever is going to summon Catastrophe (Jupiter) and Charon (Earth).
We also need one team member faster than the boss but slower than the other two summon casters to summon Peace to end the first turn, so that Dullahan is never going to have any move.
Himi and Tyrell are just here to carry Djinn Standing by for summons, and thus can be replaced by someone else.
The reason to summon Eclipse rather than Azul (a stronger summon than Eclipse) as a final hit is that Dullahan has a very high resistance (190) on Mercury, and a lowest resistance (110) on Jupiter and Eclipse is a Jupiter summon while Azul is Mercury.


Interest Finding:[b][/b]
When comparing the estimation and the real total damage casted on Dullahan using the damage formula for summons, I found out one interesting setting of the game Although Dullahan has a maximun HP of 16,000. When calculating the summon damage to be casted on Dullahan, the game actually uses 9999 as his max HP, which result in a far lower real damage compared with the estimation.

The summon damage formula can be found at: http://goldensunwiki.net/Summon

Let me guess he used Djinn Storm which is really annoying btw, then used Charon, I hate that combo.

I also miss being able to use the Formina Sage, Charon combo like in Lost Age, you can use this combo on the Doom Dragon, I would of liked to use it on Chaos Chimera too.