Fate/Grand Order players haven't gotten a new story release since June, but Lostbelt 3 has finally arrived before the Christmas. After reaching the Wandering Sea, Chaldea has established a working home base. The protagonist, however, is poisoned and now the only cure awaits in the Synchronized Intellect Nation within China. Note that completing this chapter is required to access an event in late March or early April 2021.
Compared to previous Lostbelts, humanity is still intact, but the Qin dynasty never fell into ruin and eventually took over the world. To triumph this time, players and their servants must take on many alternate versions of legendary Chinese figures that shaped the country's history. STORY SPOILERS AHEAD
Poison Mechanic
Because of being poisoned in the story, players won't be able to use their mystic codes for several turns. The duration starts at 1 turn but can go all the way up to 5 turns towards the end. Use class-effective servants that don't need those skills or supports that provide the same utility.
Section 6-2
Prince of Lan Ling - 183,062 HP/214,625 HP
- Saber-class
- First bar break: all frontline servants lose NP charge
Xiang Yu - 605,880 HP/607,527 HP
- Berserker-class
- Mental Debuff Immunity (cannot be charmed)
- First bar break: The battle ends
Burst Xiang Yu using Fate/Grand Order servants with extra damage to males including Euryale, Orion, and Tamamo-no-Mae (Lancer). The battle ends once Xiang Yu loses his first health bar so don't waste any turns on Lan Ling.
Section 9-3
Prince of Lan Ling - 108,575 HP/126,250 HP
- First bar break: Gain unremovable taunt and defense up for 3 turns (also happens if Xiang Yu's first bar breaks)
- Second bar break: All frontline servants are get a 5-turn attack down debuff
Xiang Yu - 200,353 HP/206,550 HP/213,435 HP
- Mental Debuff Immunity
- First bar break: Remove all debuffs and gain unremovable critical damage up for 2 turns
- Second bar break: Gain unremovable damage plus and damage cut for 5 turns
Because Lan Ling will taunt after an HP bar is broken, focus him first with Archer-class servants to get around the effect. Try to save an NP until the defense buff falls off and burst through his last HP bar despite the attack down debuff.
All servants will be effective against Xiang Yu, but save any debuffs until after his first HP bar. Use single-target NPs with extra male damage or ignore defense like Shiki's to cut down Xiang Yu's last bar before he tears through the player's remaining party members.
Section 11-3
Prince of Lan Ling - 136,350 HP/183,062 HP/236,087 HP
- First bar break: Gain a 5-turn attack buff
- Second bar break: Drain 10-percent NP from party members and inflict a 5-turn Arts debuff
Use Euryale or other servants with extra male damage, but slowly whittle Lan Ling down after breaking his first HP bar. If using Arts servants, wait for skill cooldowns and save burst until after the second HP bar to negate the debuff.
Section 12-1
Yu Mei-ren - 672,438 HP/767,305 HP
- Assassin-class
- Yu fully charges her NP every turn
- The player's frontline gets a 1-time Guts every turn
- First bar break: The battle ends
Yu will cast her AoE NP every turn which one-shots most servants and applies a poison DoT that will take away the Guts on future turns. Bring Caster-class servants with single-target NPs like Xuanzang Sanzang or Shuten-Douji that can deal heavy damage to Yu with support and have their own ways to negate her NP or poison debuff.
Alternatively, just bring a solo servant that has a Command Code like Code: Cure which removes ailment debuffs. Yu will attack or cast her NP as usual, but it only procs Guts and the servant immediately removes the poison debuff with the Command Code card. This repeats until her HP bar eventually breaks.
Section 15-3
Captain of the Guard (Li Shuwen) - 212,295 HP/236,975 HP/274,500 HP
- Assassin-class
- Captain gains a 10-turn attack buff based on remaining HP
- Before using his NP, Captain gains a 3-turn damage increase plus 1-turn debuff immunity or a 1-turn ignore invincibility plus increased critical damage.
- Captain uses a random effect at the end of each turn: 3-turn taunt on a player servant and ignore class disadvantage, chance to seal player servant skills every turn for 3 turns, Captain gets 3 attack buffs for 1-turn, a random servant is debuffed with NP generation down for 3 turns, Captain gains an Arts card buff every turn for 3 turns
- First bar break: Captain gains increased critical chance for 2 hits and permanent increased critical damage
- Second bar break: Captain gains permanent attack and increased death chance buffs and now casts both skills before using an NP
Use Caster or Alter Ego servants but be aware that the Captain can still one-shot through class disadvantage. Xuanzang and Meltryllis are recommended because of debuff immunity and buff removal respectively. However, Shuten-Douji is another viable option for players without a strong single-target servant against Assassins.
Have multiple support servants or taunts ready for when a front-liner inevitably dies. Mash is also recommended as a backup because she can taunt the Captain for 2 turns if lucky. Because of the heavy RNG element, this fight is one of the hardest in Lostbelt 3 and may require several tries.
Section 16-1
Xiang Yu - 200,353 HP/203,796 HP/205,173 HP
- Mental Debuff Immunity
- First bar break: Gains a buff that inflicts a 1-turn Skill Seal on any servant he attacks
- Second bar break: Gains a buff that inflicts a 1-turn NP Seal of any servant he attacks
Yu Mei-ren - 121,373 HP/125,559 HP
- First bar break: Xiang Yu takes neutral damage for 5 turns (also cast if Xiang Yu's first bar breaks)
Players will need to kill Yu first because her NP only needs 3 turns and she occasionally charges another tick. However, Xiang Yu cannot be ignored until then because he will overwhelm the remaining party members. Use AoE NP servants to break through multiple HP bars at once and keep additional invulnerabilities or taunts to buy time until Xiang Yu starts taking bonus damage again.
Section 16-2
Qin Shi Huang - 250,082 HP/270,658 HP/300,732 HP
- Ruler-class
- Qin Shi Huang gains increased critical chance and recovers 10,000 HP per turn
- First bar break: Fully charge NP and gain 5-turn debuff immunity
- Second bar break: Fully charge NP and remove all player servant buffs.
Qin Shi Huang's NP gives him invincibility, attack up, plus even more critical damage and critical strike chance which means he will one-shot most servants even through neutral or class disadvantage. Fortunately, it is negated by nullify buff and any Avengers can shrug off several hits normally. Because of this criteria, Jeanne D'arc Alter is the best solution to deal with the first emperor of China, but other servants that can remove buffs like Meltryllis are also viable.
Section 16-4
Tree of Emptiness Mayall - 188,372 HP/210,798 HP/325,167 HP
- Assassin-class
- Resists Arts and Quick damage
- First bar break: Remove Quick resistance but gain Buster resistance and drain 20-percent NP from all servants
- Second bar break: Remove Arts resistance but gain Buster resistance and drain 20-percent NP from all servants
Use a Buster single-target NP from a Caster like Xuanzang or Shuten-Douji to push Mayall into the second phase as soon as possible. Once Mayall loses its Quick resistance, continue chipping away at its HP using Quick and some Buster cards. After Mayall loses its Arts resistance, swap in supports and burst it down using Quick and Arts NPs.
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