Skoll and Hati - Patience Team

Published July 10 2022

Last Updated January 26 2023

A more F2P Friendly option can be the Patience Team. It is focused on reducing most of the damage received with Blue Fairy King Harlequin’s shield while taking advantage of Blue Ban’s passive which decreases all enemies’ Attack-related stats as long as Ban remains unharmed. The composition of this team is Blue Fairy Harlequin, Blue Ban, Red Thonar, and Red Freyr. You don’t require a healer in this team because the point of this team is to not take any instance of damage, but like the previous team, it is recommended to have the Eikthyrnir’s Refuge Artifact Set to avoid getting your units frozen and losing their buffs. None of the components of this team are replaceable (ult levels can vary but not the actual units or Gear).

Here you can find other compositions such as Regular Teams or a Skoll and Hati Guide - Post Thonar's Holy Relic guide.

## General Strategy

### Preparation

#### Equipment

Red Thonar – Attack / Crit Resistance (Blue Tarmiel / Red Tarmiel association)

Blue Ban - Defense / Defense / Defense (use 3x Defense gear with Resistance rolls, Blue King or Green Valenti association)

Red Freyr - Attack / Crit Dmg (Blue Tarmiel / Red Tarmiel - Blue Festival Ludociel association)

Green Valentine Melascula - HP / Defense (Blue Tarmiel / Red Tarmiel association)

Blue Fairy King Harlequin - Attack / Crit Dmg (Red Sariel Association)

#### Useful Artifacts Sets

* No. 29 Eikthyrnir’s Refuge (Highly Recommended)
	+ In Demonic Beast Battle, increases allies’ basic stats by 2%/4%/6%/8%/10%. When the Ultimate Move Gauge has 5 orbs or more, removes and becomes immune to Freeze.

* No. 2 Guardian of Istal (Recommended)
	+ If an ally is Debuffed from a skill during the enemy’s turn, restores 1% / 2% / 3% / 4% / 5% of their Max HP. (Excludes PVP and Death Match)

* No. 27 Special Summer (Recommended)
	+ Increases allies’ Resistance by 4%/8%/12%/16%/20%

* No. 13 What’s the Tally? (Recommended)
	+ Recovers 1% / 1.5% / 2% of Max HP at the start of the allies’ turn when taking damage. (Excludes PVP and Death Match)

* No. 19 Hraesvelgr’s Nest (Recommended)
	+ Increases allies’ single-target attack damage dealt to enemies by 4% / 8% / 12% / 16% / 20%

* No. 14 Trio of Troublemakers
	+ Increases allies’ damage dealt to enemies by 1% / 2% / 3% / 4% / 5%. (Excludes PVP and Death Match)

* No. 15 Happy Halloween
	+ Decreases allies’ damage taken from enemies by 1% / 3% / 5%. (Excludes PVP and Death Match)

* No. 18 Happy New Year
	+ Decreases [The Seven Deadly Sins] allies’ damage taken from enemies by 2% / 4% / 6% / 8% / 10%

* No. 3 Adventures in Midgard
	+ Increases allies’ damage dealt with single-target attack skills by 2% / 4% / 6%. (Excludes PVP and Death Match)

### Passives

* **Floor 1**

 Critical Resistance/Defense Decrease
 Defense-related Stats Decrease

* **Floor 2**

 Debuff Resonance
 Weakness Identification

 Damage Taken Increase
 Critical Strike Ocurrence

\* : **Defense-related Stats Decrease** passive in floor 1 can be taken. But if you reach floor 3 and you get **Critical Strike Ocurrence** you will lose (more than likely) so you can either restart that particular floor in search for **Damage Taken Increase** passive or avoid **Defense-related Stats Decrease** from the very beginning.

#### Floor 1

##### Phase 1 Strategy

On your first turn, you need to use 3 single target skills to get Thonar’s passive going and hit with a Harlequin’s skill to get the shield up at the end of the turn. This buildup will make the shield stronger and ensure that Ban won’t receive any damage to start his passive.

After this, you must keep Harlequin’s shield up each turn. Skoll and Hati will have their Attack-related stats reduced more for each turn that Ban doesn’t take damage, which will hinder their offensive capabilities to the point where they will proc Patience on your shield.

##### Phase 2 Strategy

Fight this phase the same way as Phase 1. Ban’s passive will carry over as long as he remains undamaged.

You can use Harlequin’s Ultimate to cleanse if needed, but it’s preferred to avoid that so you get the protection of your Artifact set.

##### Phase 3 Strategy

Here you must kill both wolves in the same turn. Make sure you keep the shields up. After using Harlequin’s Ultimate paired with Ban’s passive, Patience procs in every hit.

Use your skills, but as stated before, keep Harlequin’s shield up and hurt Hati from time to time to keep his HP low so you can meet the conditions.

#### Floor 2

##### Phase 1 Strategy

Start like Phase 1 of the previous floor, 3 single target skills and Harlequin’s skill to put up the shield. On all floors, it is mandatory to have Ban’s passive going on from the very beginning, for that purpose you need Harlequin's shield.

##### Phase 2 Strategy

At this point Ban’s passive is at its peak, so all you need to do is keep the shield up to make sure Ban doesn’t get hurt. Use this phase to recollect strong skills in preparation for Phase 3. Use any other cards you have except your strongest cards. In this case, you should save Freyr’s Cleave, Freyr’s ult, and Harlequin’s ult. You can use Freyr’s ult if you have no option.

##### Phase 3 Strategy

In this Phase, you have to kill Hati with just 5 cards, hence why you had to collect strong ones in the last Phase. Make sure you do it like that or he will revive. Finish off Skoll afterwards and move on to the next Floor.

#### Floor 3

##### Phase 1 Strategy

Like the previous floors, you have to do 3 instances of damage with single target skills to get Thonar’s passive up. In case you think you’ll proc Patience on Skoll (it can happen with Ban’s debuff if your gear isn’t strong enough or you lack outfits), then a good way to pop the Passive can be attacking Hati instead.

As usual, just keep the shields up and try to make sure to keep Skoll’s Ultimate Move under control with Thonar’s dissolve skill. Save your own Ultimate Move for the next Phase.

##### Phase 2 Strategy

You will get frozen at random in this Phase. You’re okay as long as you have full orbs in your key characters (Freyr, Harlequin and Ban) and the Artifact Set. Otherwise, just hope that your key damage dealers (Freyr or Harlequin) won’t get frozen. Try to save Harlequin’s Ultimate Move for the next Phase so you can make sure he doesn’t get frozen.

##### Phase 3 Strategy

As explained above, this phase doesn’t have a special gimmick, but you have to focus on Hati to stop his several debuffs. If one of your units gets frozen, you can break it with Harlequin’s Ultimate Move, but try to kill Hati as soon as possible to stop these debuffs.

After killing him, Skoll will be significantly more manageable, fight to your heart's content (always remember to keep Harlequin’s shield up), and finish the run.