Continuing my Swords & Poker Adventures final level sportscast.. the battle before the clone has a Joker in the center spot, I thought about pulling it into my hand to prevent the CPU from using it, but I saw a good opportunity and got two really good heal attacks from it and walked away victorious gaining another ten HP. So I took on the perfect clone at a twenty HP disadvantage and managed to VERY CLOSELY eek out a victory with twenty HP leftover (basically, if my final attack failed I would have been toast).
So I managed a thirteen battle gauntlet plus a perfect clone fight using only the provided free refill chip. SCORE.
The final boss though, his stats are TERRIFYING. 16 - One Pair, 32 - Two Pair, 42 - Three of a Kind and from there it's just ugly. Thankfully, he only has one weapon skill; Discard on Straight and above. That would obviously suck here, but I can block it using a shield four points less than my current one (which at his damage numbers, is too tiny to care about).
I'm pretty sure it's going to be better to bring in my healer weapon, the low attacks do less damage (mostly for One Pair) than my best weapon but go through shields. The high attacks do more damage AND heal, between twenty and forty, depending on the attack.
He also has a recharging Quick Magic, which means I'm probably screwed for taking combos.
My conclusion, either I have the devil's luck or I will need to buy a revive (possibly, frightfully, two). But since I only bought one refill chip (and the gems aren't of much use after this besides attempting a full clear of this level), I'm down for this.
I will take him on tomorrow so I can get a nice achievement on Christmas.
