Demonic Beast Akumu

Published June 29 2021

Last Update February 26 2023

## Intro

Some essential pointers about this boss:
Akumu has three parts, a spear, a shield, and Akumu’s main body.

Akumu’s main body will remain hidden as long as his other parts are alive; therefore, you can’t target him directly while those parts are alive, but he isn’t immune to damage since it’s possible to damage him with AOE skills or AOE Ultimate Moves.

During all difficulties (except for Phase 2 of Hell difficulty), if his spear and shield die, Akumu will remove all debuffs from himself and become immune to all damage and Debuffs for two turns. In this particular Phase, things will change: Akumu’s main body will be fully exposed, but it won’t receive any damage as long as his other body parts are still alive on the field. It is recommended to kill both body parts (at least) as soon as possible since the shield is hard to kill once it sets the Taunt, and the arm has Over-Rupture damage, which does massive damage against Buffed enemies.

Akumu heals a significant percentage of HP after some turns in all difficulties in both Phases, so consider this.

## Building your team

Overall, 2 teams dominate Akumu in all difficulties, can give many points, and are easy to use: Humans and Goddesses.

For Humans, you can either go for a mono-red formation using Red Escanor, Red Twigo, Red Excalibur Arthur, and Red Purgatory Ban. Excalibur Arthur can provide the Charge skill to get more points, and Ban can take advantage of the taunts set by Arthur and Twigo to avoid having his buff blocked. Ideally, you will have at least one level 3 Detonate skill, one (at least) level 2 Buff, and your Ultimate Move on Purgatory Ban. You can also use Green Zaneri instead of Escanor so she can remove any debuffs from your units (making it possible to rush your Ultimate Moves even faster thanks to her Unique and to avoid getting Ban’s buff blocked by Akumu)

For Goddesses, Red Tarmiel, Red Sariel, Blue Festival Ludociel, Blue Hawk & Elizabeth (Normal, Hard, and Extreme) / Light Eternal Rebirth Elizabeth (Hell) is the way to go. It is recommended to have at least Red Sariel’s Holy Relic to increase his stats every time he crits, which stacks with Tarmiel’s Unique. Blue Ludociel’s and Light Elizabeth’s Uniques will also help, depending on how many skills you use and how many of those are buffs. Also, Elizabeth’s and Tarmiel’s Ultimate Moves can easily bypass Akumu’s hiding Unique since they are AOE. At the same time, Sariel’s and Ludociel’s Ultimate Moves can quickly dispose of the spear and shield in the second phase.

## Gearing up your units

For Extreme and below, when using the Goddess team, the most recommendable gear is all your units with only HP gear, using Red Sariel with C pieces on the ring and bracer with Crit Chance rolls to accumulate stacks for his Holy Relic. At the same time, Tarmiel should remove earrings and necklace to ensure he takes damage and his Unique procs, using C pieces in bracers and ring with crit chance rolls to guarantee a critical strike in his Ultimate Move and minimize the damage he does with his Flood card is also recommended.

Hawk and Elizabeth should also remove earring and necklace pieces, so they take damage and receive the debuffs from Akumu.

If you’re using Humans instead, you can remove earrings and necklace from Ban and use HP gear to ensure he takes damage, and he can remove the debuffs with Zaneri’s help to get an extra Ultimate Move Gauge orb thanks to her cleanse skill.

For Hell, you can go with HP/Defense UR Gear in both teams.

For the Goddess team, make sure you keep the ring and bracer pieces in C rarity with crit chance rolls on Sariel and Tarmiel to reduce the damage they do with their skills and maximize the possibility of critical strikes to stack up Sariel’s Unique. You can also change Ludociel’s ring for a C rarity one to reduce his damage output. Light Elizabeth, on the other hand, can go with full UR gear.

## Normal, Hard, and Extreme Strategy

In all these difficulties, Akumu’s main body will remain hidden. It still can receive AOE damage, so your main goal is to nuke him with high-damage AOE skills, such as Red Purgatory Ban’s Detonate/Ultimate Move, Red Sariel’s Sever skill, Blue Festival Ludociel’s Charge skill, Red Tarmiel’s Ultimate Move, etc.

With the Goddess team, you can take advantage of Blue Elizabeth and Hawk’s Unique, which increases your units’ max HP for each debuff she has.

## Hell Strategy

In Hell difficulty, your strategy is the same as the previous difficulties since Akumu won’t change its behavior compared with the other difficulties. His main body will remain hidden, so you must rush Ultimate Moves or spam your AOE skills.

During Phase 2, things change: Akumu will have its main body exposed, and instead of getting damage immunity if his other body parts fall, he will only start receiving damage as soon as they die. You can target the main body while the other body parts are alive, but he won’t receive any damage.

Again, killing both body parts as soon as possible (turn 1 of this Phase if you can) is vital, and then you can kill Akumu with any skill since his main body is pretty vulnerable.

Remember that you must kill him using 25 or fewer skills in this difficulty, so merging skills is vital here to ensure a high score.

## Main factors for getting high points

1. **Number of Skills used -** Additional points are added if 25 or fewer skills are used.
2. **Clearing speed -** Points are deducted proportionally to the number of turns used. After the 7th turn, succeeding turns will deduct significant points from your total score.
3. **Points from Skill cards -** Using skills with the Charge multiplier and applying debuffs on Akumu will give you points.
4. **Remaining HP and number of surviving allies -** Additional points are added in proportion to the team’s health status and if none of your units die.
5. **Attack with Attribute Disadvantage -** You will receive extra points if you attack at least 5 times with a hero with an attribute disadvantage. The different attributes in all Akumu parts can be helpful for this.

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