In Kaycee's Mod, complete a full challenge game with all challenge skulls enabled including the Final Boss skull which enables the Secret Boss. Currently, this should total 250 challenge points.
It is recommended that you use the
Mantis God starter pack and attempt to maximise damage as soon as possible. In my case I ended up using the Mantis God to give my wolf card the trifurcated attack instead as I was getting bad rolls.
There is a lot of RNG involved so you really just have to make sure you get something good after the first couple regular totem battles. It also helps to have items such as the
scissors, knife, stopwatch, or hourglass. Other useful items may include: magickal bleach and the harpie fan but only in combination with other strategies.
The best chance at surviving the bears is to
have a card that can do 5 damage to at least one space, and then
use a knife or scissors to destroy the card in that space on your first turn against the bears. As long as you do 5 direct damage to the boss on the first turn you will win. The damage skull only adds 1 damage to your side of the scales during the first phase of the boss battle. During the bears fight you only need to do 5 direct damage on turn 1.
Try to make sure you have all your cards in your hand, and enough squirrels before going into the bear fight by delaying the primary phase.
You do not need to destroy all the bears unless you have a card that has
trifurcated attack and can deal 12 damage per space. This will allow you to destroy three lines of bears (bears have 6hp each) in one move and only take 4 damage from the one remaining bear. Then you can attack again the next turn and deal 36 direct damage to the boss scales.
Using items will make things a lot easier. It will help to have items ahead of time or by getting a
Pack Rat and merging it with something easily place or with many lives so you can keep placing it over and over.
Only try to get a totem if you already have cards and items which can beat the boss. Once you have items and cards ready you can try and get a totem to help with regular battles so you dont need to use your items as much and can save them for the boss.
Summary:
- Bears have 4 attack and 6 health
- You should do 5 scales damage on first turn against the bears
- Use scissors, knife, stopwatch, or hourglass to do damage in 1 turn
- Use Mantis God starter pack
- Use trifurcated, bifurcated, or double-strike on a 5+ damage card
- Use Pack Rat to replenish items often
- Totems are your LAST priority and not needed
Note: If you use hourglass, all you will do is skip the bosses turn. You still need to be able to destroy the bears AND deal direct scales damage in the same turn or else the second line of bears will come and destroy all your cards. This is mostly an issue on the first boss since you will have weaker cards. After the first boss you will have a chance to get stronger cards.
Good Item Combos:
- Scissors/Knife (destroy 1 card) + 5dmg Card
- Hourglass (boss skips turn) + 6dmg Card
- Magickal Bleach (erases sigils of frontline cards) + Harpie's Birdleg Fan (adds airborne for 1 turn)
- Stopwatch (moves a bear onto your team and opens an empty space if the left most spot on your side is empty) + 5dmg card
Good Cards/Sigils
- Mantis God (Trifurcated attack)
- Mantis (Bifurcated attack)
- Dire Wolf (Double Strike)
Double Strike is great if you can get the dire wolf to do 6 damage per strike. This will allow you to win on turn 1 without items against the bears as long as the card is already on the field, or you can place it on the first turn. Don't forget you can also transfer the sigils to a card that already has 6 damage if needed.
- Many-lives Sigil + Dam Builder or something similar
Having at least 3 cards that are free to build or low-cost builds that can be placed every turn (and resurrect after dying) to block damage are also a decent strat. But it is easier to just do damage as quick as possible.
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