I’ve been into Granblue since the English version launch coming up on nine years ago now, but for most of that time I was a casual storymoder. About a year ago I got back into it in earnest thanks to GBVSR, so now I’m getting around to all the things I should have done years ago.
Like my (unexpected) first faasolo!
I love playing around with dodge and delay teams, but I figured I wouldn’t really be able to take them to any content higher than the six dragons raids. That might have been in part because of my insistence on using Cavalier as the MC class for them, instead of Kengo. Because holy shit is dark Kengo a massive enabler, especially now with Will’s SSR. My previous frontline was Vicky, Dalbert and Tanya (swapped in from Rei), which was like, fine, but getting consistent dodge was a bit of a struggle. Swapping Dalbert with Will and changing to Kengo, though… you get dodge all on CA for Vicky and Will, dodge up on CA for Tanya, and delay on dodge for Will and Tanya. The boss isn’t doing shit, and you’re barely getting hit!
I managed a Lumi Credo solo with it, so I took it to Faa for fun. I made it to labors, surprisingly! So I figured if I cleaned up my grid and played with my team setup a bit – even with a stronger grid an all-human frontline is never making it past Gopherwood Ark – maybe I could one day get a faasolo with this gimmick team.
And, well, this morning I was bored and just messing around and seeing if I could make it to Gopherwood… and went all the way to a solo without changing my team. So post-Gopherwood I had Vicky, Rei and Sarunan. I figured for an updated team I’d need to make Will the first slot so he’d survive Gopherwood, but I hadn’t even done that. Sarunan isn’t meant to do anything in this fight, I just take him along in the backline to get his EMP up.
Like this is not a good team – or a good grid – in any capacity (for Faa. It’s serviceable otherwise). I don’t even have Kengo at mastery level 30 yet. That Celeste glove isn’t 4*. I had an all human frontline! I had dark Sarunan! Everything about this team is perfectly set up to die to Faa’s mechanics and I pulled through anyway!!
World’s first <R200 solo with dark Sarunan in the party… this game is so stupid.