Let's say, hypothetically, I wanted to try the old gods again. I've tried it with Meri more than a few times, but her lack of bulk makes it very dicey--can't take any hits. D. Athena doesn't seem to do enough damage most of the time and I can't combo consistently enough to use Anubis or blue hunter.
Anyone heard of any success with heart-cross leads? Specifically, I have access to two mito and two tsubaki--which would take the crappy damage of the heartcross leads and make it more useful. Something like a Myr team with red subs and two tsubaki or a kaede team with mitos. Could something like that work?
For example, I could do Kaede/Kaede/UEvo Perseus (for SBR)/Mito/Mito work? Heck, I even have an Oichi that I could inherit for a board change if I needed to beat a combo shield.
You have a couple options if you're not willing to dump all the dark resist latents you'll ever get onto a Meri team.
Option 1) Build a purpose made kill team. There's a Meri team that can do it but the requirements are pretty steep. Anubis/BHunter are more common. Your team's job is kill floors. If a preemptive on the next floor would kill you, make sure your partner has put up some kind of defense (see below).
Option 2) Build a Support team. Mantastic has a pretty good article up on his site about this. Basically start with a tanky lead (high HP high RCV you don't care about attack) that can eat preemptives, deal with big hits, and provide stellar utility. Things like Susano shields, Indra Shields, Delays, Fujin-likes, Awoken bind clear, multi turn damage spikes, Trash removal, and board shuffle are all recommended options.
Option 1 leads: Dmeta, Anubis, BHunter, Kenshin (yes cross kenshin), Meri, Narga x Hunter with Tsubaki backup hits like a freight train against dragons (81x * 9x).
Option 2 leads: Grodin (or anyone with a similar leader skill), Revo Astaroth (possibly with a full heal inherit), Myr (bring lots of heart makers, moogle is MVP), Dathena can actually be pretty good in this role. Make sure you have 5 SBR so you don't screw the pooch.
I built a Grodin based support team on my alt with gravities to deal with Cthulhu since my main didn't have much trouble on the preceding floors and Big C is the only horror I didn't have an immediate answer to. Now with Amatsu I'm less concerned.
If you run a Myr support team coordinate with your partner on leaving heart orbs around. I know you tend to play with family so this should be easier than working with randos. If not then Moogle gets even more important. My alt's Myr support team is pretty simple:
Myr (Fairy Tale Bind clear), Moogle (Inherit something for SDR), Zera, 7c Hathor, Revo Indra (Susano). I'm probably putting a second moogle on over 7c Hathor just for the extra resistance. There's a decent shot you resist Nyar's blind if you enter the floor with Myr. The trick of course is killing anything with that gimpy team.
