OPTC Guideblog: December 2015

LEGEND REVIEW: Strong World: Red-Haired Shanks

Captain Skill: All Heart Units gain ATK based on your current Health; Increase the Occurrence of [PSY] orbs. *this boost goes from 2.75x to 2x

Special: Deal PSY Damage equal to 35x this Character’s ATK; Reduce all enemies’ Defense to 0 for 2 turns

One of the Four Yonko of the New World. Red-Haired Shanks.

Red-Haired Shanks boosts all Heart Units by a nice 2.75x ATK at 100% health which gradually drops to 2x ATK at 1 Health. As such, this Legend is tagged with a health-restriction and will need help maintaining his Health or suffer a massive ATK cut. Unlike Boa Hancock, Bandai gave Shanks an aggressive “bonus” to his Captain Skill rather than a conservative one. Shanks can increase the appearance of [PSY] orbs which effectively can double your damage fairly easily. This orb boost should not be underestimated since it is quite large. This can cause Shanks to out-damage other 2.75x Captains overall and burst down enemies easier/easily.

*SPOILERS FOR FUTURE CONTENT*
In the future the game has preemptive abilities called sockets which give the characters epic abilities like increased rate of matching orbs and anti-lock, anti-gloom sockets which reduce lock duration by 3 turns all the time etc. These abilities will be farmable whenever there is a same character bonus while powering up a character. This means that abilities for legends like Log Luffy would be easy to farm (because of isle's like Halloween Strawhats Part 1). Similarly there is a young Shanks and young Buggy isle coming soon to global which would mean easier farming for SW Shanks Sockets. This makes this legend amazing as well.
*SPOILER FOR FUTURE CONTENT ENDS*

Unfortunately, Shanks is very focused/homed-in on a single color and is rather inflexible. While Shanks could be used as a PSY Slasher for Slasher teams, you’ll rarely see him in this position as a mainstay. But this does not hamper his Practicality, Shanks teams can clear a wide range of islands (even outside of INT-based islands) without much difficulty. While Shanks will suffer in most Raid Bosses and Training Forests, Shanks is still usable for almost everything else and shouldn’t be looked down on. Shanks isn’t that difficult to use either… with a high rate for [PSY] orbs, a high ATK boost and the ability to use Golden Pound Usopp, there shouldn’t be anything you can’t burst down quickly.

As a Crew-member, Shanks has solid numbers with a fairly lackluster Special. While the 0 Defense may have niche uses, many bosses are employing the “Debuff Blocker” which blocks such a thing. In addition, many of the hardest bosses have fairly negligible defense (which is why Burst Teams have no issue just bursting them) and hasn’t become a big issue. While the King of Turtle Island, outside of that… Shanks doesn’t contribute much as a sub outside of stats.

Practicality: Medium

Ease of Use: High

Sheer Power: Extremely High

Flexibility: Low

Sugofest is announced once again!! This time it's happening on the

24th December (19:00 PST) to 25th December (18:59 PST)

This Sugofest will feature a new legend: Strong World Shanks and also 3 new log characters. There will also be a Rate-Up on ALL INT Units currently available. In fact, any you'll pull will be obtained at Level 20!! Meaning you won't have to waste that many turtles!!

This will ALSO work alongside the Rate Up sugofest units mentioned below thus, INT Units among them will have a high chance of being pulled this time.

The Units available are:

Sugofest Units

Legends

Shanks Black Clad Redhead (PSY)
Monkey D. Luffy Voyage Log Straw Hat Pirates (STR)
Sengoku (PSY)
Boa Hancock (QCK)
Silvers Rayleigh (INT)
Edward Newgate (STR)

5* Units

Note both the 4-Star AND 5-Star will have their rates boosted

Roronoa Zoro Voyage Log Master Swordsman (QCK)
Nefertari Vivi Voyage Log Queen of the Pirates (QCK)
Franky Voyage Log Ship of the Seven Seas (PSY)
Mad Monk Urouge (PSY)
Roar of the Sea Scratchmen Apoo (DEX)
One-Hit Namule (DEX)
Flower Sword Vista (INT)
Basil Hawkins the Magician (INT)
Blamenco the Mallet (STR)
Captain Kid (STR)

4* Units

Roronoa Zoro Voyage Log Straw Hat Pirates (QCK)
Nefertari ViviVoyage Log Princess of Alabasta (QCK)
Franky Voyage Log Straw Hat Pirates (PSY)
Mad Monk Urouge (PSY)
Scratchmen Apoo (DEX)
Namule (INT)
Vista (INT)
Basil Hawkins (INT)
Blamenco (STR)
Eustass Kid (STR)

Christmas Special Units (Also Available in RR)

5* Units

Trafalgar Law Holy Night Nobleman (DEX)
Jewelry Bonney Ravenous Greedy Santa (PSY)

4* Units

Trafalgar Law Holy Night Gentleman (DEX)

Jewelry Bonney Ravenous Spoiled Santa (PSY)

Finally, we just want to wish you all the best of luck with pulling these units (if you decide to pull*). And as usual, good luck and have fun!

*( PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT DOFLAMINGO IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER ON DECEMBER 31st )

Clash!! Donquixote Doflamingo

Table of Contents

Times Held
Reward
EXP,Beli,Title
Tips

Stage Overview (Ultimate 60)
Team Suggestions (Ultimate 60)
Video Walkthrough (Ultimate 60)

Times Held

Appearances	Date (PST)
1	12/31/2015 - 1/1/2016

Doflamingo is the Hardest challenge global has faced as a raid boss. With the first 60 stamina raid version being introduced as "Ultimate" the challenge has never been harder! This sixth raidboss and the efforts people will take in farming him will be well worth it!

Reward:

Donquixote Doflamingo Warlord of the Sea

Attribute	Type	Stars	Cost	Hits	Max. XP
		5	50	5	4,000,000

Level	Health	Attack	Recovery
99	2311	1500	255

Captain Ability	Special
Doubles slasher characters' ATK and HP	Freely swap orbs between slots twice, amplifies the effect of orbs by 2x for 1 turn

Evolutions				Materials
1	2

Doflamingo Makes his debut as the sixth raid boss. He is one of the best units in the game with the "Tank" counterpart to Dracule Mihawk for slasher teams. Paired with the Mihawk Ship his HP rises to insane amounts. His Special is undoubtedly the best special in the game. A double orb swap with a 2x orb boost provided instead of a 1.5x orb boost is a really high boost that breaks down bosses in no time. He is a staple for many teams to come in the future and he comes in handy while beating Whitebeard training forest and future training forests as well. The JPN meta hails this unit as one of the elites as well, One can only imagine the impact he is going to have on the Global meta. His special is one to max for sure. Once that is done it opens up a world of possibilities. This unit will litereally make you reorganize your current teams and make his way in just because of his absolutely overpowered special. Just an example would be replacing Bellamy in the current DEX burst teams led by Trafalgar Law. After using the specials in the order Law -> Apoo -> Doflamingo -> Doublefinger the burst that is provided has the capacity to burst down any QCK raid boss (upcoming in the global meta) in just one or 2 turns. But thats not all! He will make way into almost every team (except Sengoku) for the orb boost. a 2 orb switch gets you 3 matching orbs on an average apart from the matching orbs farmed by stalling, gaining an almost perfect matching orb board! By extension he will be a part of the infamous rainbow slasher teams as well as the orb controller. In a nutshell he is the ultimate sub for almost all teams rainbow or not. And he is the much awaited "Tank" counterpart of Dracule Mihawk and so is a MUST HAVE and one must definitely try to max his special.

EXP, Beli, Drop Rate, and Titles

Difficulty	EXP	Beli	Drop Rate	Title
Ultimate (60)	10,000	96,000	100%	Nightmare
Master (40)	6640	58,340	undetermined	Puppet

Tips:

Doflamingo only drops as a 4* unit.
4* Doflamingo evolves at level 70 and requires 1,066,998 EXP.
5* Doflaingo has 50 cost so don't evolve him until you feel like you can handle it.
You can skill up Doflamingo through Same Character Synthesis.
Both evolutions have the same Special name so you can use either as skill up material.
His max Special level is 15 (14 cooldown).
Remember that Doflamingo is unaffected by Debuffs like Turn Delay for the first 4 turns (effectively 3 turns after his pre-emptive attack).
Stall effectively to try and get your Specials up by the time you reach Doflamingo. This means hitting a unit with only 1 unit as opposed to all 6 at times (don't be afraid to take hits).

40-Stamina Edition (Master)

Stage	Notes
	Stage 1/5 Fairly standard mob stage The Pirate units in the middle will lock all units they are weak to (ex. Speed will lock Technique units) for 2 turns. The general strategy here is to kill all units in order - based on turn order. It's advisable not to take a hit.
	Stage 2/5 The Giant Stage The strategy here is to kill all and reduce the Giant's health to 20% health. This will cause the giant to buff his ATK instead of attacking you. This will allow you 2-4 turns of stalling without taking any damage.
	Stage 3/5 The Turtle and Crab Stage Kill all the regular mobs without much issues. The strategy of this stage depends on your team but generally stalling on the Crab and/or Turtle is the best. The Turtle has 18 HP and deals 1,010 damage. It attacks on a 2-turn interval. The Crab has 18HP and deals 1,500 damage. It attacks on a 5 turn interval.
	Stage 4/5 The "Make it or Break it" Stage The Stage features 5 regular mobs. They have 5 HP each. They will lock any unit that they are weak to for 2 turns. The strategy of this stage depends on your team (ex. if you have Hammer Usopp - you may want to consider leaving the Purple Unit alive).
	Stage 5/5 BOSS: Donquixote Doflamingo Both Doflamingos has 1,300,000 health each. This means that both Doflamingo has a total of 2,600,000 health. They will preemptively block all debuffs for 4 turns and cut your current health in half.

Doflamingo's Attack Pattern (Master)

Turn Number	Top Donquixote Doflamingo	Bottom Donquixote Doflamingo
Preemptive	Put up a Debuff Blocker for 4 turns	Cut your current health by 50%
1	Buffs Defense	None
2	Attacks for 4,500 damage	Attacks for 9,000 damage
3	Buffs Attack Debuff Blocker ends here	None
4	Attacks for 5,400 damage	Attacks for 10,800 damage
5	Seal the middle 2 units for 2 turns	None
6	None - Will open a dialogue	Attacks for 10,800 damage
7	Shortens Attack intervals of both Doflamingos to 1 Also buffs ATK of all Doflamingos	None
8	Attacks for 7,200 damage	Attacks for 10,800 damage
9	Attacks for 7,200 damage and heals both Doflamingo's health slightly.	Attacks for 10,800 damage
10 and onward	Attacks for 7,200 damage and heals both Doflamingo's health slightly.	Attacks for 10,800 damage
Under 20% Health	None	Deals 99,999 damage

Due to the utility of the top Donquixote Doflamingo - it is recommended to focus the top Donquixote Doflamingo.

60-Stamina Edition (Ultimate)

Stage	Notes
	Stage 1/5 Fairly standard mob stage The Pirate units will lock all units that they are weak to (ex. QCK will lock DEX) for 2 turns. The general strategy here is to kill all units except the Penguin and kill it last. If you choose to take a hit, the Penguin does 924 damage
	Stage 2/5 The idea is fairly simple here... Kill all mobs except the Giant. Leave the Giant on 20% or less Health. This will cause the Giant to activate an ATK buff and NOT attack you. This will allow you to stall an extra 2 turns. All units here do in excess of 3,500 or higher - so it is not recommended to stall here.
	Stage 3/5 The strategy of this stage highly depends on your team. Most teams will kill all except the Turtle/Lobster and stall on them. The Lobster has 8 Health and deal 1,980 damage. It attacks every 4 turns. The Turtle has 8 HP and deals 1,280 damage. It attacks every 3 turns.
	Stage 4/5 This is the "Make-it or Break-it" Stage The Elder Seahorse has 6 HP. If you allow him to attack, he will lock a random unit for 6 turns Every other unit will have 5 HP. They will lock any units they are weak to for 2 turns. If they get to attack again - they will deal 6,000 damage on a 2 turn interval. The strategy for this stage will depend on your team. If you use Usopp (by himself), you can kill all but the Purple Unit and get locked.
	Stage 5/5 BOSS: Donquixote Doflamingo Both Doflamingos has 2,400,000 Health each. This is grand total of 4,800,000 Health. They will preemptively block all debuffs for 4 turns and cut your current Health by 50%.

Doflamingo's Attack Pattern (Ultimate)

Turn Number	Top Donquixote Doflamingo	Bottom Donquixote Doflamingo
Preemptive	Put up a Debuff Blocker for 4 turns	Cut your current health by 50%
1	Buffs Defense	None
2	Attacks for 6,000 damage	Attacks for 12,000 damage
3	Buffs Attack Debuff Blocker ends here	None
4	Attacks for 7,200 damage	Attacks for 14,400 damage
5	Seal the middle 2 units for 2 turns	None
6	None - Will open a dialogue	Attacks for 14,400 damage
7	Shortens Attack intervals of both Doflamingos to 1 Also buffs ATK of all Doflamingos	None
8	Attacks for 7,200 damage	Attacks for 14,400 damage
9	Attacks for 7,200 damage and heals both Doflamingo's health slightly.	Attacks for 14,400 damage
10 and onward	Attacks for 7,200 damage and heals both Doflamingo's health slightly.	Attacks for 14,400 damage
Under 20% Health	None	Deals 99,999 damage

Due to the utility of the top Donquixote Doflamingo - it is recommended to focus the top Donquixote Doflamingo.

Recommendations / Suggestions for Teams

Team Building Advice

Top-Tier Captains for Doflamingo

The following units are recommended as Captains against Donquixote Doflamingo

These units are all proven to be the best Captains for taking down both 40 and 60-Stamina edition of Donquixote Doflamingo.

Other Captains that can clear Doflamingo

The following units have also proven to defeat Donquixote Doflamingo though require a bit more of planning compared to the ones above.

The Recommended Crew-members

The following units are recommended for Donquixote Doflamingo as well as reasons why

Almost a "must-include" for any team attempting Donquixote Doflamingo. This allows you to have 3 free turns of raining damage over Donquixote Doflamingo.

One of the three Recommended damage reducers. Since Doflamingo cuts your health by 50%, its almost essential to run a powerful damage reducer to take the first attack.

One of the three Recommended damage reducers. Jozu (while weak against Doflamingo) has the capability to block all Technique attacks and acts as a 100% damage reduction against Donquixote Doflamingo.

One of the three Recommended damage reducers. Since Doflamingo cuts your health by 50%, its almost essential to run a powerful damage reducer to take the first attack.

General Advice

No matter which team you use, you'll use at least 1-2 of the units listed above. It is generally advised that you'll run Golden Pound Usopp with 1 of the three Damage reducers. This will allow you to tank the first attack and then delay Doflamingo.

This will allow you plenty of turns to defeat Donquixote Doflamingo without dragging it too far in.

Team Suggestions feat. (Facebook Blog Group)
(verified by the admins and helpers are credited for their teams)

The following teams below can be used to beat Doflamingo 60 stamina with ease! The step by step guide for each stage is given below. Please refer the Stage Overview for all the stage general information.

But before we get to the teams, Here is a standard stalling guide for most of the teams.

STALLING GUIDE FOR DONQUIXOTE DOFLAMINGO

*credits to Jaqobs Wayn

Stalling		Turns
Stage 1	2cd mob	2
Stage 2	2cd gladiator	2
	gladiator will not attack, when at 20% hp and buff himself instead	2
Stage 3	3cd turtle and 4cd lobster (10hp?)	4
(optional)	let lobster and/or turtle live and get hit for around 2-4k dmg
Stage 4	use gp usoppp, only 1cd mobs	3
	let the purple mob survive, he will lock your psy units for 2 turns	1
	attack with 4combo unit	1
	kill the purple mob	1
Stage 5	Preemptive	1
	Total	17

MONKEY D. LUFFY GEAR THIRD

Double Gear 3 team (Subs: Jozu, Mihawk, Arlong, GP Usopp)
*credits for this team: Tryhard Thank and Calvin Chen

Note: Max Mihawk/Max Merry is required to successfully beat 60 stamina You have your whole HP bar to play with, so don't fret if the fodder deal damage to you. Doffy shouldn't do any damage to you at all aside from his pre-emptive.

Stage 1: Stall as necessary (-2CD)

Stage 2: Kill fodder, skip Giant. Turn 2 bring Giant's health down to 20% or lower (he buffs himself) for another turn of stalling (-3CD)

Stage 3: Kill fodder, stall on lobster (-4CD)

Stage 4: Target the Seahorse and kill the STR/DEX/QCK/PSY fodder. Keep the INT fodder to stall 2 turns. (-2CD)

Stage 5: Doffy's pre-emptive deals half your HP. Target the top Doffy and attack normally. (-1CD)

Turn 2 Doffy puts up a debuff. Use Jozu's special and attack normally. (-1CD)

Turn 3: Attack normally (-1CD)

Turn 4: Use Usopp's and Mihawk's special

Turn 5 & onwards; Attack normally

Double Gear 3 team (Subs: Mihawk, Alvida, GP Usopp, Halloween Franky)
*credits to Jaqobs Wayn

First floor

Stall for 2 turns without being attacked

Second floor giant

Stall on the giant by bringing him to below 20%

Giant will raise his attack but wont attack

Kill the giant before he attacks

Third floor turtle, lobster

Stall without being attacked

4th floor Mob lockers and Sea Stallion

Use GP Usopp special and stall
Let the Purple mob survive and stall 2 more turns after the lock by using a 4 combo person to attack
Kill the purple unit

5th floor Doflamingo

Turn 1: Use Mihawk special , Use Franky special to generate a STR orb and move it to G3 and attack
Turn 2 : Activate Alvida special and attack top doffy and take the 3600 damage.
Turn 3: Attack narurally.

Turn 4: Activate GP Usopp special and attack
Keep attacking naturally.
Defeat doflamingo before he attacks again.

MONSTER CHOPPER

Double Monster Chopper team (Subs: Jozu, Arlong, GP Usopp, Alvida)
*credits to Me and the Blog Group

First floor (two turns)

Stall for 2 turns without being attacked

Second floor giant (6 turns)

Stall on the giant by bringing him to below 20%

Giant will raise his attack but wont attack

Kill the giant before he attacks

Third floor turtle, lobster (8 turns)

Stall without being attacked

4th floor Mob lockers and Sea Stallion (11 turns)

Hit a MISS on the sea stallion by a character with Combo = 6.

Kill all other mobs except the purple mob

Purple Mob will lock Usopp for 2 turns

Kill the purple mob in the next 2 turns

5th floor Doflamingo (12 turns)

Attack the above doflamingo first.
Use Jozu special or Perona special to nullify the first attack by doflamingo.
Use usopp special when the debuff protector runs out.
Keep attacking naturally.
Tank another hit if needed using Alvida special.
Defeat doflamingo before he attacks again.

Double Monster Chopper team (Subs: Mihawk, Perona, GP Usopp, Arlong)
*credits to Jaqobs Wayn

First floor

Stall for 2 turns without being attacked

Second floor giant

Stall on the giant by bringing him to below 20%

Giant will raise his attack but wont attack

Kill the giant before he attacks

Third floor turtle, lobster

Stall without being attacked

4th floor Mob lockers and Sea Stallion

Use GP Usopp special and stall
Let the Purple mob survive and stall 2 more turns after the lock by using a 4 combo person to attack
Kill the purple unit

5th floor Doflamingo

Turn 1: Use Mihawk special and attack
Turn 2 : Activate Perona special and attack top doffy and take the 1800 damage.
Turn 3: Attack narurally.

Turn 4: Activate GP Usopp special and chopper special to kill the top doflamingo
Keep attacking naturally.
Defeat doflamingo with attacking and using the second chopper special..

DRACULE MIHAWK

Double Mihawk F2P slasher team (Subs: Morgan, Arlong, GP Usopp, Mr 1)
*credits to Jaqobs Wayn

First floor

Stall for 2 turns without being attacked

Second floor giant

Stall on the giant by bringing him to below 20%

Giant will raise his attack but wont attack

Kill the giant before he attacks

Third floor turtle, lobster

Stall without being attacked

4th floor Mob lockers and Sea Stallion

Use GP Usopp special and stall
Let the Purple mob survive and stall 2 more turns after the lock by using a 4 combo person to attack
Kill the purple unit

5th floor Doflamingo

Turn 1: Use both Mihawk specials and attack normally.
Turn 2 : Activate Mr 1 special and attack top doffy and take the 9000 damage.
Turn 3: Use usopp special and arlong special when the debuff protector runs out and attack top doffy.
Keep attacking naturally.
Defeat doflamingo before he attacks again.

BLACKBEARD

Double Blackbeard team (Subs: Whitebeard, Mihawk, GP Usopp, Monster Chopper)
*credits to xFireflyx98

First floor

Stall for 2 turns without being attacked

Second floor giant

Stall on the giant by bringing him to below 20%

Giant will raise his attack but wont attack

Kill the giant before he attacks

Third floor turtle, lobster

Stall without being attacked

4th floor Mob lockers and Sea Stallion

Use GP Usopp special and stall
Let the Purple mob survive and stall 2 more turns after the lock by using a 4 combo person to attack
Kill the purple unit

5th floor Doflamingo

Turn 1: Use Mihawk and Whitebeard specials and both blackbeard specials as well (from the pre emptive) Use MC special on the top doflamingo and take out the remaining doffy in one shot.