We’re getting +30 Descends again, time to farm plusses! This round is a little more difficult than last time, but is still fairly easy overall. Dios, Heracles, Gaia, and Goemon can be full buttoned and the Goemon full button is farmable. There exists a farmable 1-swipe for every descend. Standard full-swipe builds (accounting for occasional preempts, binds, SBR, combo shields) can easily clear every single one of this set. However, let’s look at some faster button setups.

We’ll be using a few of the new Gungho Collab cards in these builds. I built most of these with The Dark (/u/Darkness__) and they’re also available on the Dark Row Discord. Note that this is obviously not an exhaustive set of builds. I try to include farmable builds, but if you’re unable to make them, hopefully they at least give some ideas.

Let’s dive in.

Schedule:

Monday: Zeus-Dios

Yeah, no one is making this. Moving on to 6-button builds…

This requires less investment, but is still fairly whale and Kundali dependent. At least P2 is farmable? Yuki is the best red nuke for Dios, and requires blue inherit bases. There are other non-Yuki 6-button options, though.

2 Vajra(Brachydios equip) just barely do enough to Dios. This build basically shifts the Kundali and Yuki requirement into a Vajra and Brachydios requirement. Still whale. In order to get NIAP, we’ll have to 1-swipe this.

Fully farmable. Brunhild provides the necessary green atk for Chu’s skillup’s nuke. Thankfully Satan nuke doesn’t completely kill Hera, and you can finish her with Chu (who heals for the preempt). Too bad that buttons can’t be completely left to right.

Dark Hunter spam version.

Absolute poverty Dios 4-swipe from the Green Row Discord. Uses ALB actives to heal back up for the preemptives l o l. If you replace ALB with Pixel Brachy, and you don’t have a heal active, you can’t Goemon because of that suicide.

Remarks:

One of the easier ones this time around.

At least button F2 and F3. Goemon and Kagato (tradeable) can kill F2, and Kefka and Zeromus (tradeable) can kill F2 and F3. You can swipe any floor easily. There are preempts, but you probably don’t need to worry about them unless you’re using suicides. Back in the day when Grimmjow was one of the only good button options, there was a 100% green resist build, lol.

Tuesday: Sandalphon

The no-dupes stipulation is a bit annoying to build around.

Farmable 1-swipe. Nordis is used to heal so you can reuse a Satan.

More Dark Hunters. Slower buttons than the last build, but this removes the godkiller requirement on Satan and lets you button in order, left to right.

wtf is this build even. Don’t do this.

This full-swipe should be super NIAP. btw Raguel easily provides SBR as well

Remarks:

God, no-dupes restriction is annoying. Well, at least you can NIAP 1-swipe it. Not bad once built. Things to look out for: dark absorb, no dupes, skill bind.

Wednesday: Heracles

Full button.

Brachydios can replace the Yuki for F3 with some adjustments. Satan, too, if you use SB equip.

Like the Dios 5-button, no one’s making this. Moving on to 1-swipe…

Farmable 1-swipe. Cool. Princess Punt is fun. For those who only have 5-star Kagato, the Zaerog equip needs to be lv 81 or higher. With the evolved Kagato, you can use lv 1 Zaerog equip.

Absolute poverty full swipe from the green row discord. Pixel Brachy can replace ALB if you make up the SB by adding a Tengu.

Remarks:

Easy stuff. Just cover SBR. There’s a single preempt so don’t suicide before F3. F1 and F4 are pretty easy to button. Uh, yeah. Easy one.

Thursday: Gaia

God type stats x 1.5

Full button. Kundali’s god type gives him a 1.5x stat boost in this dungeon. F3 Kundali can be replaced by Manticore(Brachydios) if needed. NY Ame (also god type) is an alternative to Kundali.

Build from the Red Row Discord. Same concept – there’s just no replacements for Kundali / NY Ame if you want to full button. Moving on to less whale 1-swipes:

This build was fun, we got to use Nobuno Sanada from the PEM. Nyx can be MHera, who is slightly slower with the haste animation. The only REM card here is Brachydios (Satan couldn’t work because of the suicide and the upcoming preempt). — update: NA is getting Durandalf, so we can now make a farmable 1-swipe:

So Durandalf will apparently be arriving the same week. Can now NIAP P1 1-swipe. Nice.

Full NIAP 1-swipe, based on Digity’s build from the red row server.

Full NIAP 2-swipe. Manticore is a fake-no-skyfall lead, unlike Rushana. But anyway the 2-swipe is probably faster. Note that you can make Rushana work if you triple healer killer Rodin Tamazo and get at least 1 OE on your board (the chance of which can be increased via weatherlight equips), and then add 2 Dios subs to P2 just to supplement damage.

Absolute poverty 5-swipe. Pixel Brachy can replace ALB, Goemon can replace Ra. lol

Remarks:

Gaia is another easy one. At least button F1, F2, F4. They’re so easy.

Friday: Legelonte

aKekBlaze’s build. 1-swipe. I can’t tell you how much I love counterattacking preemptive gravities. Solais is the real MVP, being a button base, and her LS, buffing Satan’s damage because of his light subattribute, and also bringing an HP mult so you can reach enough HP for the counterattack strat to work. Build in action:

God I love counter-attack.

1-swipe where the only REM req is Vritra. Alastair was nice for resetting the board so we could reuse Satan. Really nice use of the best farmable nukes. Vritra is the only REM card. Update – the existence of Durandalf improves this basic build.

Here. NIAP 1-swipe featuring Durandalf.

Fully NIAP 2-swipe. Dark Hunter spam. Featuring a farmable counter-attack, because it’s fun watching an enemy preemptively kill itself.

Super NIAP full-swipe

Remarks:

If you’re going to super poverty full-swipe this, the only things to look out for are the F1 combo shield and the skill delay. There’s also a red absorb, so go non-red. It’d be nice to button the combo shield at the very least, since comboing is annoying even with rowmakers. Options like Kagato + Satan, 2 Kagato, Zera + Kagato(yinyang) exist. Acala is a nice 5c swipe maker if you go for dark swiping.

Saturday: Thief – Goemon

Full button. Brachydios is REM; until NA gets Durandalf, Brachydios is there to stay.

Hey, NA is getting Durandalf!

Note that because it’s so flexible, you can use Ganeshas an inherits lazers for F1-F3. Just buttoning is out of order.

Shust lets you 5-button, which lets Ganesha buttoning be left to right.

Dark Hunter spam version. This is dumb at this point.

NIAP 1-swipe.

At the cost of some speed, with Zera grav you don’t need Manticore base, nor do you need nearly as much SB.

Throwback to an old build, Meri x Ganesha.

Heck, even the green row discord features a Ganesha 2-swipe.

Remarks:

Yeah, this is easy. F1-F3 are trash. F4 takes a bit more work to nuke but is easy to kill with the the tools we have nowadays. The only reason full button requires a REM card is because you run out of actives. And this is going to change when NA gets Durandalf. — update: NA getting Durandalf, lol

Sunday: Medjedra

This one is probably the hardest.

1-swipe. Note that you can lead with SO135 instead of Acala to guarantee no skyfall, but you lose left to right Button order. Pick your poison.

Dear Ganesha, this is almost as bad as the Kundali spam builds and it’s not even full button. All the Acalas are necessary to bring the Alastair nuke up to nuke Isis; thanks to the leaderswap we can’t even fix Alastair as lead and thus have to assume Acala lead, and use Lu Bu spike + godkillers… and even then the swipe doesn’t fully kill, Alastair’s auto-attack LS finishes Medjed off. Awful.

NIAP 1-swipe (swiping an earlier floor and having P2 button the last floor). A lot more flexible because we had more active skills to work with and thus the Acalas weren’t necessary. At the cost of speed.

Same concept, except we just swipe the last floor. Spam godkillers for damage because we assume worst case leaderswap.

Extension on that concept. We fill P1 with cards that can work as leaders if swapped, and this lowers the killer requirement. Had to use Typhon hastes to make up for SB, though.

Absolute poverty 4-swipe involving comboing from the Green Row Discord.

Remarks:

This is probably the hardest of the set. There’s a skill bind, a combo shield, and a godawful leaderswap. F1 and F3 are trash, and F2 can be buttoned fairly easily. But the combo shield is annoying (and a lot of work to button), and you need to counter the leader swap by either planning to swap right back, bringing all subs that can work as leads, or stacking damage to make up for the lack of a LS.

And that’s it! Thief is incredibly easy; Dios is pretty easy; Medjed and Sandalphon were pain in the ass to build. Worst case there exists a farmable 2-swipe build. These are nice to farm, +30 for 25 stamina.

Note: There’s a significant difference between a P1-only 1-swipe and a 1-swipe where P1 swipes the 2nd last floor and P2 buttons the last floor, the second of which is worse and pretty much might as well be a 2-swipe. I include a few of those, placed after the P1-only-1-swipe builds and before the 2-swipe builds.

These were fun to build. Let me know if there’s any more builds worth adding to the collection, or if there are any mistakes in these builds.