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You will need Air units here or you'll need to actually think.
If you don't want to cheese the floor with air units, you'll need a tank with MDL to tank Shadow Lin's attacks.
Kyle, Regina, and Edel can produce disposable units to tank Shadow Lin's shots.
Shieldman units can absorb hits for the team.
Enemies
Shadow Xiao
She one-shots any ground unit that isn't a tank with MDL.
Shadow Rivet
Scary wabbit, but thankfully she - similar to Xiao - only targets ground units. She deals increased damage to Counters too which proves deadly. She's the reason why this floor is considered annoying because sometimes her special can wipe your whole team.
Shadow Liv
Has tons of evasion and is super tanky, but doesn't do anything besides that (unless you let her get to your ship).
Ship
The New Detroit acts differently in Shadow Palace. Each time a ground unit crosses half of the map it will launch a skill that does quite a lot of damage and pushes everyone back. That's why pure Air teams are so popular here.
Restrictions
- Room 1 - Snipers are banned
- Room 2 - Strikers are banned
- Room 3 - Defenders are banned
- Room 4 - Max 25 deployment cost
- Room 5 - Max 25 deployment cost and Awakened units are banned
Important
While floors 1 and 2 allowed you to slap random units together or use Awakened units to carry you, floor 3 isn't that nice. Basically, you're forced to use Air teams or you will get punished by the mechanics on the floor.
Rooms
For all rooms, prioritize Air units (Rosaria, Lyudmila, Sparrow, Woodpecker, ATF-35) to avoid Shadow Xiao's and Shadow Rivet's ground-targeting attacks, as well as the ship's ground trigger mechanic. Use Lee Yumi or Serapel as your tank if running ground comps.