Final Boss (The Four Archangels): Sariel

Published: September 23 2022

	+ His shield is the best defense possible against the boss since it comes from his Unique Ability and is not a Buff. He can easily deal good damage.
* Green Halloween Gowther (Ideal - Support)
	+ His Unique Ability increases Attack-related stats and his Rank Up skill is very nice to increase DPS for your other characters. In turn, King’s shield will become stronger.
* Light Eternal Rebirth Elizabeth (Ideal - DPS)
	+ She provides a nice heal to the entire team and extra basic stats when her Unique Ability is activated, and she can also provide good DPS while providing a Revive to the team through her Ultimate Move. However, she is only used within the Point method.
* Red Ragnorak Ban (Ideal - Sub)
	+ Besides increasing allies’ Attack-related states further, he also decreases enemy Pierce Rate, which is something Sariel increases when attacked while using a Stance.

#### Alternate Characters

* Green Gerharde (Sub)
	+ With her Holy Relic, you will remove two Ultimate Gauge on Sariel every time you kill the minions.
* Red Elizabeth (Sub)
	+ Her healing is great for teams not utilizing Blue Fairy King Harlequin.
* Green Merlin (Sub)
	+ Her Unique ability allows the team to start with one extra Ultimate Gauge at the start of the battle. Used in the farming team.
* Green Festival Gowther (Support)
	+ With his Holy Relic, within the farming team, he can increase allies’ Attack-related stats greatly.
* Green New King Arthur (Support)
	+ He is used for the farming method detailed below, with his Unique Ability decreasing damage taken and increasing damage dealt by allies.
* Blue New Wings King (DPS)
	+ His Abyss Ultimate bypasses the damage cap of the boss. Great for the farming method.
* Green Demon Lord Rimuru Tempest (DPS)
	+ His Abyss Ultimate bypasses the damage cap of the boss. Great for the farming method.
* Blue “The One” Escanor (DPS)
	+ Though there is a challenge not to use him, if you are only concerned with farming the event, Escanor is a great choice for DPS, particularly due to his Death Ultimate effect.

## General Strategy

**Farming Strategy**

The most optimal team to farm with for extremely fast clears is as follows:

* Green Demon Lord Rimuru Tempest OR Blue New Wings King
* Green New King Arthur
* Green Festival Gowther
* Green Merlin (Sub)

The idea of this team is you get either King’s or Rimuru’s Ultimate with Gowther’s Holy Relic effect active. You should use whoever’s Ultimate Level is higher. Ideally, you’ll want one of them with a 4/6 Ultimate Level or above to have more consistent success. While the boss does reduce damage from green units significantly, Rimuru can still get the job done. If you have low Ultimate Levels for both, Gowther’s Holy Relic is much more necessary, but it isn’t required if you have them with higher dupes. There is a bit of RNG with getting the cards to push Ultimates, but that’s unavoidable. Since both Rimuru and King have Abyss effects on their Ultimates, they can bypass the boss’ damage cap, instantly killing him in a single turn. Rimuru is more reliable in getting critical hits.

**Point Strategy**

The most optimal team to farm points with is as follows:

* Blue Fairy King Harlequin
* Green Halloween Gowther
* Light Eternal Rebirth Elizabeth
* Red Ragnorak Ban (Sub)

The plan with this team is to use King’s shield every turn if possible, and use Elizabeth’s single target to kill one of the minions as doing over 200k damage on them will grant you 100 points. You’ll want Elizabeth to have Attack/Crit gear to make that easier, but if not, you can try using Attack food to get to that.

Once Sariel has a Counter Stance active, you don’t want to attack him as he heals a good amount and in conjunction with his damage cap can make the fight much longer than it needs to be. Only attack with King to provide yourself protection with his shield. If possible, keep killing the minions with Elizabeth’s single-target move, and if not, simply attack Sariel when he does not have a Stance active. All in all, you want to stall during the first phase a bit to build up points. Eventually, you’ll move on to the second phase.

Once the second phase begins, kill Sariel as fast as possible as Gowther might get hit pretty hard during this phase. Try to deal as much damage as possible within the first turn, and whittle him down quickly from there.