Introduction
The 2nd boss of Hall 1 is Black Smith - a Water-weak boss. This boss has a very unique feature: There are 2 cores; one is a real core and one is treated both as a core and a part (can only be accessed with Pierce). This means piercers’ damage is inflated super hard against this boss. Better? Weekly’s buff is also Core Damage Up.
This is the damage milestone for ONE TEAM. Combining total steps from 5 teams will be your final steps.
Step | Damage |
1 | 0 |
2 | 1 714 279 174 |
3 | 3 422 535 862 |
4 | 5 124 076 955 |
5 | 6 817 714 039 |
6 | 8 502 117 182 |
7 | 10 175 845 489 |
8 | 11 837 263 482 |
9 | 13 484 568 435 |
10 | 15 115 791 986 |
11 | 16 712 143 014 |
12 | 18 462 887 841 |
13 | 20 187 686 217 |
14 | 21 883 273 618 |
15 | 23 546 053 169 |
16 | 25 172 033 142 |
17 | 26 756 987 951 |
18 | 28 292 432 822 |
19 | 29 752 282 935 |
20 | 31 148 080 820 |
21 | 33 864 292 981 |
22 | 36 407 025 778 |
23 | 38 677 084 493 |
24 | 42 725 747 573 |
25 | 46 561 393 405 |
26 | 50 397 039 238 |
27 | 54 232 685 070 |
28 | 58 068 330 903 |
As we wrote in our previous introduction, No Limit mode is the game where you maximize your Step while minimizing the resources - which means if you can use 5 non-top-tier Nikkes and still reach a desirable Step, go for it. In exchange, funneling all 5 top-tier Nikkes into 1 team but not reaching the next step means you should distribute 1 or 2 to other teams instead to see whether those teams can reach a higher step instead without compromising the main team’s result.
Teams
Standard Water team - BS
Mode: Museum - Black Smith || Element: Water
Characters
About the team
The bread and butter team against any type of Water weak content. It has a balance amount of ATK - Attack Damage - Damage Taken buffs.
Substitutions
Elegg can be replaced with Naga. Ludmilla can be replaced with Quency: Escape Queen.
Standard Shotgun team - BS
Mode: Museum - Black Smith || Element: Water
Characters
About the team
Doro is a Water DPS who pierces - that explains why you need to funnel her here.
Substitutions
Grave can be replaced by Leona if your Leona has decent OL lines because Sugar will buff her too.
Soline can be replaced with any CDR off burst like Volume, Siren, Moran.
Sugar can be replaced with Drake Treasure
SWHA team - BS
Mode: Museum - Black Smith || Element: Water
Characters
About the team
Snow White although is a piercer, benefits less here. It's because 90% of her damage is from S1 which can't pierce. Still, extra damage is damage.
Substitutions
Duo idol can be replaced by Tia-Naga or Flora (treasure) - Naga
Distributed Damage - BS
Mode: Museum - Black Smith || Element: Water
Characters
About the team
This team features 2 Heavy Distributed Damage Water DPS, which will be buffed a lot by duo Maids.
Substitutions
Phantom can be replaced by Alice, Liberalio to buff Bready more.
Bready can be replaced by Quency: Escape Queen.
Leftover - BS
Mode: Museum - Black Smith || Element: Water
Characters
About the team
In this team, we slap whatever DPS left we have. Cinderella SR version is wonderful here, while Mihara is still the goat of off burst DPS
Substitutions
Mihara can be replaced by Miranda (Treasure)
Mechanics explanation
The most annoying part about Black Smith is its stun - Every 2 bombs spawned, it will stun the HIGHEST HP Nikke. You can play around this by
Burst before it stuns
Manipulate HP so BS will stun non-important Nikkes.
The timeline of its skills goes like this:
Spawning Bombs (2 waves)
Try shooting with 2 Guns (10 shots each, total 20 instances of damage)
If guns are destroyed or have shot all ammo, jump to another spot.
When landing, spawn bombs again (2 waves)
Try shooting with 2 guns (if they still exist; skip if both are destroyed)
Jump back in the middle at far range, stun the highest-HP Nikke and summon an Elemental shield. You need to break 2 QTEs to stop the shield and prevent BS from dealing damage to your stunned Nikke.
Once this sequence is completed, Black Smith will repeat it again. Every 2 sequences, Black Smith will do an extra move:
After the elemental shield phase ends (by expiring QTEs or destroying them), Black Smith will jump at the same spot, spawn another Elemental shield and this time, you have to break 3 QTEs.
And that’s all. Black Smith will keep repeating the sequence - sequence - 3 QTEs - sequence - sequence - … until the end of the fight.
Spawning Bombs
Black Smith will spawn 2 waves of bombs. Those bombs deal quite meaningful damage at higher steps, so you need to test yourself to see at which step you can’t tank those bombs anymore. Also, the bomb may cause incorrect targeting because the Nikke you want to receive the stun is no longer the highest HP in the team. Anyway, they can be destroyed.
Shooting Guns
The 2 guns have quite interesting mechanics:
There’s a core inside each gun which can be accessed even without pierce
Once 2 guns are destroyed, they won’t respawn
Instead, another core is spawned behind the real core. This new core is treated as both core + part, so Nikke’s damage benefits from both core damage up and Part damage up.
These 2 guns have relatively low HP, and AI will target them eventually, making it impossible to preserve them.
This phase can last very long (around 10s if 1 gun survives) or very short (skipped because no gun is alive)
Once 2 guns are broken, you can now pierce 2 cores. There’re a few strategies featuring stalling on breaking 2 guns, but if you run piercer(s) in your team, better to destroy those 2 guns quickly to start inflating piercer(s)’ damage.
Stunning Phase
After spawning bombs 2 times (2+2 waves), even if guns are alive, Black Smith will jump back to the middle, pierce the HIGHEST HP Nikke and stun her.
You can prolong this phase to deal more damage to it (only Water Nikkes can bypass the shield).
If you break 2 QTEs, it will cancel the shield immediately and start jumping again.
If you don’t break 2 QTEs, it will prolong the shield until they expire, then deal heavy damage to the stunned target. This damage is unblockable.
Wiping the Stage
After you finish 2 rounds of the stunning phase above, Black Smith will do a special move: screen wiping.
You can prolong this phase to deal more damage to it (only Water Nikkes can bypass the shield).
If you break 3 QTEs, it will cancel the shield immediately and start jumping again.
If you don’t break 3 QTEs, it will prolong the shield until they expire, then deal heavy damage to all 5 Nikkes. This damage can be blocked by shields.
Blacksmith’s weekly buff is Core Damage’s buff, which is insane and should inflate your total damage by a lot. Always go ham during the weekly’s buff.
