It seems that a double Log Luffy team is my safest team for Summertime Perona 30-stamina, as he allows to use a mishmash of whatever units I have that have despair sockets to hit level 3 despair avoidance. Thus, my team ended up being Log Luffy, INThawk, raid Doffy, Log Nami, and GP Usopp. Only GP Usopp is a unit that has type advantage against the INT or STR bosses.
I even screwed up a bunch of times in earlier stages, but the auto-heal sockets and ability to eat meat orbs with LL teams makes his teams more forgiving of mistakes.
With Log Luffy specials to set his orbs to STR and Doffy's special doubling orb effects and allowing me to swap out bad orbs, I am able to take advantage of Perona locking my orbs for one turn and didn't have to deal with the despair because of my sockets. I can easily kill whatever minions are with Perona on the first turn. I can use Log Nami's orb booster special on the second turn, but INThawk's special ends up killing Perona by itself on the second turn.
It seems like Perona can drop in both stage 4 and final stage, so this will be a good place for farming for sockets for both my FN Perona and wedding Perona.
One last thing, can anybody on my friend captain list mind putting up a rainbow dragon or another rainbow evolver unit up as captain? I'd like to clear the rainbow evolver team mission this afternoon, as I have a lot of extra stamina I need to use up before I level up again.