Talk:Battle in New York 2019/@comment-17738315-20190928200041/@comment-28605611-20190928212155

tl;dr: try to do it and fail once or twice, then read this guide to understand the gimmicks better. There are too many things going on to understand just by reading, go experience the fight first.

The usual pattern for each turn that you should do is: your main dps hit Romulus, then your supporters hit him to gain Roman buff (red vertical rectangle shape). Your servant lose that buff when each individual kill a Roman soldier or when the buff is expire (the only one who should lose buff is your DPS). So, try not to let your supporters kill Roman soldiers.

That red buff will let Romulus buff his soldiers and your servants in order (5th paragraph). The disadvantage of that buff is, you hit Romulus like noodle. So your dps needs to lose that buff to hit him ONCE. Once you hit him, that red buff is on and you hit him little to 0 dmg due to his additional def up buff (after 1st break). So, when your dps loses the red buff, NP him, never does normal attack with your dps, it's a waste. The pattern is: DPS does NP, other 2 supporters hit him. Another note: it's tempting to see you have a chance to full combo with 100% crit, but don't do it, unless your dps stacks with a lot of buffs and she's ST NP, then it maybe possible to deal dmg when red buff is on.

Be warn, the one who doesn't have that red buff will be hit constantly. Let say Artoria Merlin Skadi team, with Artoria and Skadi have that red buff but not Merlin. As the result, all enemies will hit Merlin and he'll die very fast. Or if all servants have that buff, then the enemies will hit them randomly like normal, or if 1 servant has that buff but not the other two, then those 2 will be hit. Use that fact as strategy to avoid low hp servant being hit aka taunt strategy.

That red buff will let Romulus buff you with: Heal 3k -> np gain 50% -> atk up. Make sure to keep track of which buff is gonna be in this turn, bc heal 3k and np gain are your biggest advantage (I advise to use Excel like I did, scroll down to see my screenshot). Especially if you go Merlin Skadi to survive at best (Merlin does the usual and Skadi uses NP to buff evasion and def up, extremely useful since Romulus will use NP every 3-4 turns and Merlin's invincibility can't cool down fast enough). I survive in full health at the end with that team.

A big warning: AoE saber is safer, because Romulus has several delay buffs that really show you no mercy. The annoying part is, the more Roman soldiers alive, the shorter those delay buffs gonna be. So kill the soldiers to extend the delay.