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Turn Shadowbeak's four Ice attacks neutral with Dragon and Fire carries, then feed the active pal up to 150% Attack and Defense.
Victor and Shadowbeak on Hard is a typing exam disguised as a damage race: level 80, 570,000 HP, five minutes on the clock, and a move list built to punish the counter most players bring. Shadowbeak is Dark and weak to Dragon, so the reflex is a pure Dragon party, and that reflex is what its four Ice attacks are there for, because Ice is super effective into Dragon. This party keeps the Dragon offense the weakness demands and takes the Ice on a Fire secondary instead. Eidrolon Ignis and Blazamut Ryu are both Dragon and Fire, which turns incoming Ice neutral: a defensive typing decision that costs no damage. Behind them, Blazamut Ryu adds 25% to 40% Dragon damage on weakness hits, Jormuntide Ignis adds 50% to 65% against a burning target, Orserk feeds the active pal up to 150% Attack and Defense off your bullets, and Silvegis cuts shield damage by up to 80%. Each multiplier carries its own condition, and the playbook below keeps all of them true at once.
Eidrolon IgnisPrimary Dragon carry
Blazamut RyuAmplifier and backup carry
Jormuntide IgnisBurn amplifier
OrserkStack engine
SilvegisShield mitigationThe final tower on Hard is a pace check wearing a Dark type. Level 80 and 570,000 HP inside five minutes asks for 1,900 damage a second, sustained, from a party that is also dodging three 600-power attacks. Runs die two ways: to the timer, from a carry that spent the fight recalled, or to Ice, from a party built pure Dragon because the weakness said so. The launch-build bug where the boss vanished after a teleport was fixed in the July 29, 2026 v1.0.2 patch, and this page is checked against our v1.0.3 catalog.
Every slot has a job. The cards below show the exact synergy, its rank range, who it affects, and a mapped route to recruiting that pal.
Gains 2% to 6% Attack and Movement Speed for each other Dragon or Fire pal in the party. All four teammates qualify, so a rank 5 copy fights with 24% more Attack, and its Fire half takes Shadowbeak's Ice at neutral instead of super effective.
Catch it in the wild. Only spawns on the World Tree region.
Raises Dragon damage from you and your pals by 25% to 40% when the hit lands on an elemental weakness. Shadowbeak is weak to Dragon, so it pays on every Dragon cast, and the same Dragon and Fire typing makes it a safe second carry.
Summon it at a Summoning Altar. Blazamut Ryu is a raid boss: build a Summoning Altar, use its slab, and beat the summon. Mapped tiers run at level 55 and level 80.
Raises player and pal damage against Burning enemies by 50% to 65%. Burn here is a switch, not a damage source: every recommended carry skill applies it, and the multiplier is dead in any second Shadowbeak is not burning.
Catch it in the wild. Spawns at levels 66 to 67 across 21 points on the main island.
Every bullet you land gives the active pal 1% to 5% Attack and Defense for 5 seconds, stacking to 30. At rank 5 that tops out at 150%, which is why the Drone Launcher stays in your hands instead of a bigger gun.
Catch it in the wild. Only spawns on the World Tree region.
Cuts shield damage by 65% to 80% and shield-regeneration delay by 30% to 60%. You spend five minutes inside laser lanes and vortex clusters holding a launcher, and your shield is the health bar that decides whether that is sustainable.
Start with the mapped field-boss encounter. The lowest mapped encounter is level 62.
Deploy Eidrolon Ignis, mark the boss with Attack That Enemy, and put a Megaboost Gun round into the carry. Hold the Drone Launcher until 30 Orserk stacks are live, then run the Plasma Rifle with drone refreshes woven in so the five-second stacks never lapse. Keep Shadowbeak burning through the carry's Dragon skills, recall through Divine Disaster II, Diamond Rain and Blizzard Spike, and when the clone appears late, re-mark the real boss and ignore the copy.
Compare every surfaced partner effect at base rank and full condensation. Effects marked Unique can still scale by rank, but a second carrier of the same species adds nothing. Two different species carrying the same effect do add together.
| Pal / role | Partner effect | Affects | Rank 1 | Rank 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Eidrolon IgnisPrimary Dragon carry | Attack per Dragon or Fire ally | This pal | 2% | 6% |
| Eidrolon IgnisPrimary Dragon carry | Movement Speed per Dragon or Fire ally | This pal | 2% | 6% |
 Blazamut RyuAmplifier and backup carry | Dragon Damage on Weakness HitsUnique | You and pal | 25% | 40% |
 Jormuntide IgnisBurn amplifier | Damage to Burning EnemiesUnique | You and pal | 50% | 65% |
 OrserkStack engine | Attack and Defense per Bullet HitUnique | Active pal | 1% | 5% |
 SilvegisShield mitigation | Shield Regeneration Delay ReductionUnique | You | 30% | 60% |
| SilvegisShield mitigation | Shield Damage ReductionUnique | You | 65% | 80% |
Two jobs, one spread each. The carries take a damage kit with one defensive anchor, and the three reserve supports take the player-facing boosters (Vanguard, Stronghold Strategist, Reload Master, Idiosyncratic) because they never leave the sphere. Both carries run Serenity, Immortality and Divine Dragon; the fourth slot is where safety and speed diverge. Diamond Body is the card below and the safe answer. Demon God is the aggressive swap on faster, less forgiving runs, and it has no card here because our committed catalog carries no effect text for it: community rank tables are the only source for its Attack figure and we cannot confirm one. What you verifiably give up is the flinch immunity. It rolls in the standard pool.
Active skill cooldown reduction 30% Attack +10%
30% active-skill cooldown reduction plus 10% Attack. The carry kit runs on 12 to 30 second Dragon cooldowns, so this is the closest thing to a fourth attack slot, and it keeps Burn uptime from depending on the backup bow.
Standard-pool passive: it can roll on wild catches and carries through breeding lines.
Absorbs 100% of damage dealt and restores Health. Pal Auto Health Regeneration Rate +100%. Attack +15%.
Restores Health equal to 100% of damage dealt, doubles auto regeneration, and adds 15% Attack. On a carry that is always attacking it converts the damage check into a sustain engine, buying back the chip damage recalls do not prevent.
Mutation-pool only, so it never rolls on an ordinary wild catch. Breed for it or pull the implant from the ancient relic recycler.
30% increase in Dragon attack damage.
30% Dragon damage across the carry's whole kit, which is every skill this build asks it to cast. The cleanest damage passive available for this fight.
It does not roll in the standard pool; breed it across from a line that already carries it.
Defense +30% Immune to Flinch Immune to Knockback
30% Defense with immunity to flinch and knockback. The immunities are why it beats a raw Attack line here: Shadowbeak's barrages otherwise interrupt Comet Barrage and Blazing Beam mid-animation, and an interrupted 30-second cooldown is damage the timer never refunds.
Standard-pool roll, catchable and breedable.
10% increase in Player Attack.
10% player Attack per carrier, and it works from the sphere. Load it on Jormuntide Ignis, Orserk and Silvegis with Stronghold Strategist, Reload Master and Idiosyncratic beside it: the reserve trio exists to buff you, and your bullets are what hold Orserk stacks.
30% player Attack across the three reserve supports
Bounty officers sell the implant for bounty tokens; buy it once, then apply it to each support for gold.
Every weapon here has a job in the stack economy, and only one of them is primarily about damage. The item chips carry the catalog stats; the notes say when each piece is in your hands. Unlock levels run from 63 to 78, so the rack is an endgame project, not a shopping trip.
Three guns and a bow. The Plasma Rifle deals the damage; the other three exist to keep buffs alive.
Nine autonomous drones, each hit feeding an Orserk stack. It opens every deployment and comes back out whenever the count wobbles. Drones stop connecting when you drift too far, so treat proximity to the boss as a resource.
A launcher that fires drones which perform autonomous attacks. Capable of deploying up to 9 units, enabling sustained suppression.
The damage-per-second weapon once stacks are established, and its chaining discharge keeps feeding stacks between Drone Launcher refreshes. Unlocks at technology level 78.
A rifle that releases an electrical discharge from the point of impact, which chains to multiple enemies.
Shoot your own carry with it: the improved boost raises the active pal's attack and defense and lasts longer than the base model. Fire it at deployment and again after every swap.
Firing it at an allied Pal boosts their attack and defense, while hitting an enemy deals damage. Thanks to improvements, the boost is stronger and lasts longer, and it deals more damage to enemies.
The contingency for a dropped Burn: one arrow relights it when every carry skill is on cooldown. Do not run it as a main weapon here; its one-shot cycle starves Orserk stacks.
A bow crafted from Soralite Ingots. With greatly enhanced initial velocity and piercing power, this high-precision weapon excels at ranged combat.
Fire Arrow, singular, is the catalog item; guides listing "Fire Arrows" mean this. Craftable at a workbench and cheap enough that a full stack outlasts any five-minute fight.
Fire Arrows for use with bows. Deals Fire damage on contact. Can be crafted at Primitive Workbench.
Four slots. The two defensive picks lead because the party already multiplies damage; rotate toward the Baton and Emblem when clears get comfortable.
The Elphidran Ring cuts the active pal's incoming Dark damage and raises its Dragon damage: this fight's exact profile, both directions, in one slot.
An accessory that greatly reduces incoming Dark damage of the Pal fighting alongside you. It also significantly increases the Dragon damage of the Pal fighting alongside you.
Jetragon's Talisman raises the active pal's Defense alongside more Dragon damage. The carry does the fighting, so pal-facing slots outrank player-facing ones.
An accessory that raises the Defense of the Pal fighting alongside you. It also significantly increases their Dragon damage.
Divine Dragon's Baton trades the Talisman's Defense for pal Attack. Take it once you stop failing the survival half of the fight.
An accessory that raises the Attack of the Pal fighting alongside you. It also significantly increases their Dragon damage.
The Dogen Emblem raises your Attack and the active pal's together, the only pick here that also scales your Plasma Rifle damage.
An accessory that greatly raises your Attack, and that of the Pal fighting alongside you.
The armor rows are rules rather than items because the right answer scales with whatever you can currently craft.
Rarity first; between equal pieces, take the attack roll. Nothing in the comp replaces armor, because Silvegis protects the shield, not the health bar behind it.
Silvegis multiplies the shield: an 80% damage cut on a bigger pool is strictly more mitigation, so shield rarity pays twice in this build.
Mammorest Curry is worth 25% ranged Attack. Eat it at the tower door, not after the first wipe.
A dish made by simmering vegetables and meat with spices. The rich flavor is highlighted by large chunks of tender meat. Eating it will increase your Attack by 25% for a period of time.
Broncherry Fried Noodles give 20% for a far cheaper recipe. The 5% gap never decides this fight; eating something every attempt does.
A dish made by stir-frying noodles with vegetables and meat. The rich seasoning pairs perfectly with the thick cuts of meat. Eating it will increase your Attack by 20% for a period of time.
One Revival Potion turns a downed carry from a failed run into a rotation. Carry two if Diamond Rain keeps catching your recalls late.
A potion that revives a Pal that has been injured and is unable to move.
An ordering, not a budget: endgame points eventually cover everything, and this fight tells you what to fill first. It skews toward the stats that keep bullets landing, because your gun is the metronome the whole buff structure ticks to.
This is the repeating loop the phase plan assumes. Steps one and two repeat after every recall and every swap, which is why recalls are budgeted in the fight plan instead of treated as free.
Issue Attack That Enemy on Shadowbeak at deploy. The boss teleports, and an unmarked carry wastes seconds reacquiring after each blink. The mark matters double once the clone exists, because it is the only thing keeping the carry pointed at the real bar.
One round into your own pal at deployment and after every swap. It is the cheapest buff in the loop and the easiest one to forget while the boss is charging you.
Hold it until the stack counter is pinned. Each stack lives 5 seconds on its own clock, and nine drones landing hits is what keeps the count at 30 while you dodge or reload. Stay close enough for the drones to connect.
Main gun once the count is full. Its chaining discharge lands bullets fast enough to sustain stacks on its own for stretches; go back to the launcher the moment the count slips instead of after it hits zero.
Blast Cannon, Beam Slicer and Comet Barrage all apply Burn, which is the switch for Jormuntide Ignis's 50% to 65% multiplier. If Burn lapses while every skill is cooling down, one Fire Arrow from the Mechanical Bow relights it.
Recall through the three big telegraphs rather than betting the carry's AI finds the exit. Every redeploy costs a Megaboost round and a full stack rebuild, so start the drones the instant the pal lands.
When Eidrolon Ignis drops under half health, swap at a moment you choose, not the moment it dies. Do not assume Orserk's accumulated stacks carry to the replacement: rebuild them for the new carry immediately.
Five minutes against 570,000 HP means the bar has to move at 1,900 a second on average, and every recall and every clone mistake borrows from that budget. The windows below assume the rotation's loop is running. The checkpoints tell you whether a run is on pace or already dead, which is worth knowing at 2:30 rather than 4:50.
Deploy Eidrolon Ignis, issue Attack That Enemy on Shadowbeak immediately, and put a Megaboost Gun round into the carry. Then hold the Drone Launcher: nine drones landing hits climb Orserk stacks fast while the carry opens with Blast Cannon and Beam Slicer, which also light the first Burn.
All 30 Orserk stacks are live and Shadowbeak is burning before the clock reads 0:30.
The Plasma Rifle becomes the main gun, with Drone Launcher refreshes woven in before stacks lapse. Strafe through Lethal Laser and Dark Laser without stopping fire; both are answered with movement, not recalls. Keep the carry cycling its Dragon skills so Burn never drops.
Shadowbeak at or below 450,000 by 1:30.
Diamond Rain and Blizzard Spike start deciding runs here. Recall the carry out of any committed animation inside a telegraph, redeploy behind the boss, and rebuild stacks immediately. Freeze Walls persist as terrain, so reposition before they box you against an Icicle Line lane.
Under 285,000, half the bar, by 2:30.
If Eidrolon Ignis is under half health, bring Blazamut Ryu now rather than in the final minute: a swap costs a Megaboost round and a full stack rebuild, and this is the last window where that rebuild is affordable. Dragon Kaiser never left, it works from the party slot either way.
Spend the long cooldowns on cooldown: Comet Barrage from the carry, Magna Crush if Blazamut Ryu is fielded, the Plasma Rifle holding stacks between casts. Do not bank anything for a finish line, because the boss summons help before it dies and banked damage becomes wasted damage.
Under 150,000 when the clock reads 4:00.
At low health the duplicate spawns. Ignore it entirely: damage into the clone does not advance the real bar. Re-issue Attack That Enemy on the target bound to the top-of-screen boss bar, keep drones connecting so stacks hold, and let the timer pressure your aim, not your target choice.
Nine attacks are in the hard-mode set, and the chips below carry their power and cooldowns from the catalog. Three land at 600 power, and four are Ice, not the five some guides quote. What organizes them is not element but the response they force: three demand a recall decision, three are beams and charges you strafe, and three exist to control where you are allowed to stand.
The three that kill a committed carry. The answer is a recall you decide on early, not a dodge you hope the AI finds.
The charge trails homing rays that pursue your pal. Recall the carry the moment the charge starts, sidestep the rays yourself, and redeploy behind the boss once the run ends.
The ice drops track the target from above, and a carry committed to a long cast inside the telegraph will eat all of it. Recall rather than trusting the AI to walk out, then rebuild stacks on redeploy.
One thrown mass with splash on impact. Recall if the carry is mid-animation; otherwise strafe wide and open distance from your own pal, because the splash punishes standing beside it.
Beams and charges with a readable wind-up. Movement answers all three, and each is a damage window if you move without stopping fire.
Aimed lightning lasers after a lock-on. Move decisively sideways through the whole firing sequence; one dodge followed by standing still puts you back in the line.
A long charge into a single beam. The charge is your free damage window: keep the Plasma Rifle firing, then commit to one lateral sprint as it releases.
The weaker charge, orbs instead of rays. Step off the charge line early and stay off the flight path; the orbs pick targets on proximity, so distance is the whole defense.
Area denial. None of the three is a burst threat alone; together they build the corner you die in during the next Diamond Rain.
Dark vortexes spawn around the target. Walk out of the cluster immediately and never fight from inside an overlap; two vortexes stacked against an arena edge is how runs end.
Three lanes of advancing ice pillars. Cut between lanes at an angle instead of backpedaling; retreating straight keeps you inside one lane for its entire length.
The hit is soft, then the wall stands as terrain until broken. Reposition around it rather than shooting through it, because a wall at your back during Diamond Rain removes your exit.
Each of these shows up in clear compilations and works in the right hands. They are turned down here for what they cost in consistency, which is the axis this page optimizes.
The case for it
Jetragon carries a 140 attack stat, Shadowbeak is weak to Dragon, and full legendary Dragon parties post the fastest recorded hard-mode clears.
Four of the nine attacks are Ice, and Ice is super effective into every mono-Dragon fielded. The comp wins when nothing goes wrong and loses a carry to one caught Diamond Rain. 570,000 in five minutes does not require the gamble: this party's multipliers clear the check while taking that Ice at neutral.
The case for it
Blessing of Chaos feeds the active pal a large Attack increase, and speed clears happily pay the gradual Health drain it charges.
Its own description prices the trade at 40% Attack, and in our v1.0.3 catalog the per-rank effect value is zero on all five ranks, so we cannot confirm it scales with condensation at all. Community figures above 40% have nothing behind them. The drain also fights Immortality's sustain, and dropping Silvegis gives up the 80% shield cut the whole plan leans on.
The case for it
40% Attack and 20% Defense from a single passive slot, the largest attack line on any passive in the pool.
It also halves max Health, against a boss with three 600-power attacks. Orserk already supplies up to 150% Attack and Defense while bullets land, so the passive buys a smaller version of a buff you have and doubles the price of every caught telegraph. Speed-run tech, not counter tech.
Nothing here depends on a lucky drop except the mutation passives. The rest is a checklist: one breeding project, one condensation grind, four technology unlocks and four schematics.
Keep the build's identity while adapting the lineup to the pals you own or the encounter ahead.
JetragonThe speed option: a 140 attack stat and Aerial Missile burst this party does not match. Four Ice attacks hit it super effectively, so field it for fast repeat clears after the first kill, not for the first kill.
EidrolonSame 2% to 6% per-ally scaling as the Ignis form, counting Dark allies instead of Fire. Its Dark secondary leaves Shadowbeak's Ice super effective, so treat it as the breeding parent that passes Comet Barrage, not as the carry.
Celesdir NoctThe speed-clear fifth slot in place of Silvegis: its description trades gradual Health loss on the active pal for 40% Attack. Our catalog shows a zero per-rank effect value on all five ranks, so nothing above 40% is supported, and the drain works against Immortality's sustain.Shadowbeak is weak to Dragon, but its hard-mode set carries four Ice attacks (Diamond Rain, Blizzard Spike, Icicle Line, Freeze Wall) and Ice is super effective into pure Dragon pals. Eidrolon Ignis and Blazamut Ryu keep the Dragon offense while their Fire secondary takes that Ice at neutral. It is a defensive typing choice, not a damage one: you give up Jetragon's 140 attack stat to stop taking super-effective hits from a third of the move list.
Each bullet you land gives the pal fighting beside you 1% to 5% Attack and Defense for 5 seconds, stacking up to 30 times, so a rank 5 Orserk tops out at 150%. Every stack runs its own five-second clock, which is why the Drone Launcher matters: nine drones landing hits hold the count at 30 while you reload or dodge. The buff sits on the active pal, so rebuild from zero after every recall or swap.
No. Damage dealt to the duplicate does not advance the real boss's health bar, and it appears at low HP, exactly when the timer is tightest. The real target is the one bound to the boss bar at the top of the screen. Re-issue Attack That Enemy on it the moment the copy spawns, so your carry does not dump Comet Barrage or Magna Crush into a decoy.
Not as damage over time; the tick is a rounding error against 570,000 HP. Burn matters as a condition: Jormuntide Ignis raises player and pal damage against a burning enemy by 50% to 65%, so every second Shadowbeak is not burning switches that multiplier off. All three recommended carry skills apply Burn, and a Fire Arrow from the Mechanical Bow is the backup when a lapse lines up with your cooldowns.
No, four: Diamond Rain, Blizzard Spike, Icicle Line and Freeze Wall. Some guides quote five while their own attack tables list four, and our v1.0.3 catalog confirms four Ice entries across the nine-attack set. The count matters because four of nine is exactly the fraction of the move list this party's Fire secondary typing takes at neutral instead of super effective.
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