Introduction
Let’s start with the first boss - Mother Whale. Mother Whale is an Electric-weak boss with a skill set like this
This is the damage milestone for ONE TEAM. Combining total steps from 5 teams will be your final steps.
Step | Damage |
1 | 0 |
2 | 1 761 707 032 |
3 | 3 517 224 957 |
4 | 5 265 841 492 |
5 | 7 006 335 342 |
6 | 8 737 339 781 |
7 | 10 457 374 051 |
8 | 12 164 757 426 |
9 | 13 857 637 304 |
10 | 15 533 990 886 |
11 | 17 174 507 110 |
12 | 18 973 688 666 |
13 | 20 746 205 928 |
14 | 22 488 704 053 |
15 | 24 197 486 656 |
16 | 25 888 502 952 |
17 | 27 497 235 748 |
18 | 29 075 181 336 |
19 | 30 575 420 183 |
20 | 32 009 834 709 |
21 | 34 801 194 562 |
22 | 37 414 275 509 |
23 | 39 747 138 476 |
24 | 43 807 813 309 |
25 | 47 849 577 485 |
26 | 51 791 341 680 |
27 | 55 733 105 835 |
28 | 59 674 870 010 |
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
Cinderella funneling - MW
Mode: Museum - Mother Whale || Element: Electric
Characters
About the team
This team funnels everything onto Cinderella's burst. Isabel's burst has a delay - which means it will overlap into Cinderella's burst if you are fast enough.
Substitutions
Flora treasure can be replaced by Crown. Anis Star can be replaced by Rouge too if you can put her somewhere else to reach higher step without compromise this team's final result.
Neon funneling - MW
Mode: Museum - Mother Whale || Element: Electric
Characters
About the team
Lib's here to buff charge speed to Neon only. Make sure to burst Mast into Neon.
Substitutions
Liter can be replaced by any B1 CDR. Lib can also be replaced by Alice or Mana.
Mafia gang - MW
Mode: Museum - Mother Whale || Element: Electric
Characters
About the team
This team lacks burst gen - which explains why Siren is here. Also, Rosanna needs at least treasure phase 2 to work, and she should burst whenever she can to reapply the damage taken debuff onto Mother Whale
Substitutions
Rosanna can be replaced by Privaty (or treasure version, better). Crown can be replaced by Ade: Agent Bunny
True damage cope - MW
Mode: Museum - Mother Whale || Element: Electric
Characters
About the team
It features 2 true damage DPS - which can do a lot of damage if you can reach high step (because boss's def also increases a lot). The flex slot can be off burst buffer like Privaty treasure, Helm treasure, or another B2 like Grave. Or even off burst DPS like Mihara: Bonding Chain
Substitutions
Flex can be Nayuta. In this case, you use Nayuta's burst instead, and Takina as off burst
Idols - MW
Mode: Museum - Mother Whale || Element: Electric
Characters
About the team
Since Mother Whale doesn't have Elemental QTEs, we don't have to bring Electric Nikke to break them. This team features the strongest neutral Nikke against no core no part Nikkes. Just bruteforce it.
Substitutions
Both DPS can be replaced by whoever stronger: Mihara Bonding Chain, Diesel Winter Sweets. If you lack both idols, can replace them with Tia/Naga or Blanc Noir.
The beauty of the museum is: There is no such thing as a “best” setup. Depending on each account, investment diff, people will bring different teams to approach the goal they desire. The teams we recommend are just one of many possible teams, in which you can seek help from others.
Mechanics explanation
The most annoying part about Mother Whale is its core - If the core is still intact, Mother Whale will provide a special def buff to its mobs. The timeline of its skills can go like this
Spawning missiles
Summon phase (3 waves)
Ramming
Summon Elite (1 wave)
Respawning summon ports to spawn missiles
Summon phase (2 waves)
Full-screen laser
Summon Elite (1 wave)
Respawning summon ports to spawn missiles
Summon phase (mostly, the fight ends here because of 180s)
Another note you should take into account: Mother Whale starts at a very long range. Which means if you try generating bursts using RL Nikke, there will be a delay due to rockets taking time to travel. This is SUPER IMPORTANT on Arcana Isabel team, because the window to snapshot her debuff is extremely tight.
Spawning Missiles up to 3 times
Mother Whales have 6 spawning ports, 3 on each side. If they are not destroyed asap, they will spawn missiles that deal damage and reduce DEF (and frames per sec, yes, beware the lag) of whoever they hit. The port will respawn 2 times in total.
Initially: First second. Breaking them will immediately cancel the missile's phase and move to the summon phase.
After it does the ram
After it does the laser.
Those parts are pierceable, which means if you have piercers like Snow White: Heavy Arms or 
Red Hood B3, try to find the angle to pierce all 3 of them for juicier damage.
Summon Phase up to 2 times
The summon phase has 2 states: Core intact and not intact. When the core is still intact, Mother Whale will give mobs this buff.
This is very annoying and can only be dealt with by using Distributed Damage, like 
Scarlet: Black Shadow or 
Phantom (Treasure), etc.
As you can see, there’s an elemental shield over Mother Whale. As long as 1 mob exists, Mother Whale will be protected by that shield, which lowers your damage by a lot. Destroy the mobs asap.
When the core is destroyed before the Summon phase, mobs won’t have the hit count buff and can be destroyed easily.
Also: When mobs exist, Mother Whale will increase ATK and DEF, which lowers your damage output. Try to clear mobs as fast as possible even if they deal little damage to you.
When mobs are killed, Mother Whale loses its buff, resulting in higher damage.
Ramming 1 time
After summoning 3 waves, Mother Whale will charge ahead and deal damage that can be covered/blocked by shields. It’s pretty straightforward.
Summon Elites up to 2 times
After ramming or after the full-screen laser, the boss will summon a lot of elite Raptures. They hit hard and are very tanky too.
Total 11 Elites and will give Mother Whale 2 levels of buffs.
5 Elites alive represent 1 buff
Another 4 elites represent the other buff.
The last 2 elites don’t matter.
Either kill them till checkpoint above, or use a taunter to soak their damage (
Tia , Moran (Treasure)). Covering during this phase is also an option.
Laser Phase 1 time
This is an extremely dangerous phase, especially when your DPS is too strong compared to your Sync. The laser will pierce the cover/shields, which means there’s nothing you can do besides tanking it or blocking with the immunity.
There are 2 reasons why this move is dangerous:
If you reach too high steps compared to your sync, this laser phase might wipe your team completely. For example, we were killed by the laser step 15 at sync 763. We had to delay step 14 until the laser was gone (and barely survived). This is around 10s doing 0 dmg, which is not optimal at all, but that’s the price of dealing too much damage at a lower-than-expected sync.
Right after the laser, Mother Whale will spawn Elites, which is very harmful because your team barely survives during the laser.
Just prepare for both - huge damage received and 11 Elites right after.
Mother Whale’s weekly buff is Distributed Damage’s buff, which is not favored by meta Electric Nikkes right now. Maybe we will have one in the future, but for now? Just go for it.
