 Welcome back to another Exo's Heroes video. So today we are going to discuss clearing chapter 18, episode 7. So again, Mahar is back. He actually appeared as one of the bosses in I think a chapter 12 if I'm not mistaken. So now Mahar allows Iris to escape by making up an excuse about the plan being delayed. Okay, but before you know we go to the story, before you read up on the story, let's go first and see what he does right now. Okay, so for you to clear this stage, you have to understand really how you can defeat Mahar. I've done this a couple of times actually last night. Eventually, I was actually, I did actually clear it, but more or less here are some of the elements that you need in order to clear this stage and beat Mahar. So let's go over his kit first and why he's so tanky. I really had a hard time finding the right combination of heroes for this one. So for his passive, he has block 3, provoke 10 turns, and he has heal over time, heal cell for 20% of attack and return for 5 turns. So this is actually what I don't like about him. And for some reason, when I brought FC Ramji here, okay, he cannot, you know, he cannot give what do you call this immunity to, sorry. When I brought FC Ramji, actually, I realized that he is actually immune to all status effects. So I'm not sure if the nullify heal is part of that, but it has no effect on Mahar when you bring FC Ramji. So it would be useless. I've tried it a couple of times. Again, let's move to his other, what do you call this, other passives. So again, he has status effect immunity, reduces normal damage received by 65%, which is actually a headache, increases attack at the start of the round by 20% and can be stacked. He also has tenacity, grants tenacity mark to self if break status is triggered, reduces duration of break by two turns for each tenacity stack. And he has above Ygris health of all allies, which I really, really hate as well because this actually contributes to you not, you know, three starring this stage. So gives Ygris health and reduces damage received on all allies by 80%. So this is actually, he's a tank for himself. He's also a tank for his allies. And his skills are not really, you know, not really something to, something to brag about. Normal provoke and damage to one enemy. So that's it. Most importantly, the strategy for Mahar, what I would recommend is bring at least two, two heroes, which have burst damage for their S2, but for single target. So that's important because if you bring, if you bring a lot of AOE and it doesn't give that much of a damage, you won't really get a chance to lower his HP or it would take you a while that you can't restart the stage anymore. So that's one. Number two is the objective is to clear out all his allies. I'm talking about wave three, okay? Wave two and wave, you know, wave one and wave two are easy. I'm talking about wave three, because you need to make sure that you pick his supporting cast first before you pick him off. So let's go to the actual battle again. So I'll take you first to my team. So more or less, this is what I brought. I brought at least one hero for each garden stone so that you can break Mahar. I brought Iris, Jenae, I have their Adams, then Bathory, then Shmin. So the two burst damage, single target spell or S2 is with Shmin and is with FC Adams. So for that, I'm happy already. More or less, if you feel that you should bring a healer, you can actually replace Jenae here with probably Redly or who else? Any healer actually would do. I'm just bringing her because I would need additional buffs because of this one, because of Yao and more or less, that's it. Okay, so let's proceed to clearing this out. Okay, so here now we're arriving at wave three. So more or less, guys, what I did was I skipped through waves one and two. More or less, your objective in waves one and two would be just to make sure that number one, you still have enough turns to clear this one. So clear in turn 70. I'm here right now in wave three and also limit the number of hits that you have so that you can actually have this stage three start. So again, earlier what I said was the objective of this stage is to make sure that you kill off his allies first. Okay, better. Kill off his allies first that are beside him so that they won't get a lot of hits versus you. So again, try to give them more or less the biggest damage that you can possibly give. So again, let's have another turn for FC Adams. So again, if I want to repeat myself again for wave three, number one is clearing out all allies, then making sure that when you are able to attack hard, the first that you need to do is actually make sure that you garden stone break him so that you'd be able to deal more damage and also what do you call this? FC Adams is actually here because of heart strike as well. So you need to apply heart strike once you have the ability to deal damage. Sorry, once you're with Mahar, you should actually heart strike to Mahar so that you can deal as a bigger damage as possible. So let's try to pick off the last ally that he has so that he won't be as annoying as giving you hits. More or less, Mahar's hit is you can actually absorb it as long as you are able to break his garden stones as quick as possible. One hit won't be that bad to absorb or probably two. More or less, just need to make sure again that you break him. So his garden stone breaks actually has two levels. So you have to break two sets of garden stones. So this is the first one. So more or less it has machine, nature, and frost in it. So I'm just going to go through. I need to break him with machine. Let's try to do a heavier strike with S2. The only attack that counts for him is actually a burst, burst high targets, burst high single target attack, which is usually your S2 for, see, he's now heart stricken. So more or less you need to pound him more with S2. But again, you still need to break him down. I'm just waiting for FC Shell to, for her turn so that we could break him and go to the next level of garden stone breaks. So we're at the next level already. So we still need couple. So I still need nature and frost for this one to be complete. So this is his second attack. Again, it's possible that you can absorb this. But if you have, you know, if you have heroes that are not that tanky enough, you can actually bring a healer. Let's try. Let's not do this now. Let's wait for it later. Once he's guard broken and for this as well, I'm still waiting for Bathory Star, which is actually, I think in a while after Adams. So here it is. Then he's broken. Then we'll proceed with the beatdown. S2 for Bathory. My Bathory actually doesn't deal that much damage. She doesn't have a niche potential yet, not a single one. So she's just here mainly for survivability. When it's the turn of of Jani, I usually would like to, you know, to call on Adams because again, I think that his S2 is a bit more consistent in terms of damage. Let's do this a full 10 mana damage for S2. So let's see. It's a critical, big critical hit. See how big is that. So he's still broken for four turns. I'm going to take advantage of this. Hopefully I won't, you know, I won't reach another. I would not want to reach another cycle of having to guard break him again. So hopefully I can clear this one. Still have 37, 36 turns. So for Schmidt again, S2 because S2 single, first of all, high damage skill. Very good damage, criticals all the way. So I'm down to, he's down to a little bit more. So I, he did survive this. So he's out of his guard broken stage. Then I'll probably just chip away with this, try to still, you know, try to still guard break him. But I think Adams can finish him off. We'll see. There you go. So again, guys, that's it. More or less again for waves one and two, less hits, less turns. That is the key. Survive it, then you'll be, you know, you'll be, you'll be on your way and finishing off in wave three. So this is just a cut scene. And we're done. So three star again. I've taken the reward already. So more or less, that is it, guys. For those who want to have further questions, please write them down in the comments section below. Again, guys, for those of you who haven't subscribed yet, around 85% of my viewers haven't subscribed yet, please do because this really helps my channel. Take care. Stay safe. This is the warden and I'm out of here.