Introduction

Skill Delay Resist Tamadras  (SDR) are now invading Special Descend Rush (SDR), from the coin dungeons, which makes for confusing abbreviations and a wonderful opportunity to acquire the strongest Latent Tamadra. Special Descend Rush features 6 Rogue Descend Bosses along with the leveling up mechanic to further hinder your progress. However, SDR has very predictable mechanics and is able to be cleared with a Glass Cannon team as there are no lethal preemptives. Many players are using Awoken Liu Bei  to mindlessly farm, but not everyone is fortunate enough to have him nor the fully invested Dioses  and niche inherits.

As such, I wish to illustrate how Sarasvati  or any other glass cannon leader can quickly clear this dungeon provided you have already invested in that team.

Video clear

My older clear from when Sarasvati was first released and required 12 orbs for 100x

Teams used

I have used Sarasvati since her release when she was a more orb hungry leader that required 12 water orbs for 100x. This would cause additional pressure to use orb changers and slows down the overall process. Thankfully, in her current form, Sarasvati is able to achieve 100x without a connected 6 water. Team A starts the dungeon and does not bring a dark sub to avoid the preemptive bind.

Team A     

Team B     

There can be many variations to these teams and you mostly have to counter a few mechanics:

• Floor 3 requires a Delay or Poison to kill Volsung
• Floor 4 requires a Delay or Awakenings Bind clear (aka Green Odin )
• Floor 6 requires either a bind clear or a buff to be dispelled
• 6 kill actives for all the floors

Using a delay instead of a Poison or Awakenings Bind clear allows for some stalling/setting up your board. This conserves actives along with letting your floor 1 and 2 abilities to possibly recharge in time.

Other than this, it is a pretty straight forward dungeon: kill before being killed. You have 6 floors and a total of 10 actives so you will have at least 1 to spare at the end. Keep this in mind when team building and remember to take advantage of Skill Inheritance.

Sarasvati strategy

Based on the skyfall luck and locked orb spawns, you may have to adjust on the fly; however, this is the general strategy used:

• Floor 1 Awoken Hermes , kill (A)
• Floor 2 B/L Hermes  if required, only need 9 water orbs (B)
• Floor 3 is done in 3 steps:
  • Awoken Sun Quan , Sarasvati , set up board (A)
  • Use 9+ water orbs, kill and trigger resolve (B)
  • Finish off Volusung as he is at 1 HP, Conserve heal orbs (A)
• Floor 4 abuses Orochi’s delay to wait out the awakenings bind
  • Move heart orbs out of the left and rightmost columns (B)
  • Orochi  and heal as much as possible (A)
  • Remove locked fire orbs, conserve water orbs, and heal (B)
  • Remove locked fire orbs, conserve water orbs, and heal (A)
  • Remove locked fire orbs, conserve water orbs,  and heal (B)
  • Mori  to remove poisons and sweep with 2 water rows and 100x (A)
• Floor 5 Blue Sonia  and sweep (B)
• Floor 6 is the boss floor
  • Remove locked orbs and make sure Sarasvati’s active is rolling to bait out the status void instead of bind (A)
  • Ryune  + Hermes (may have to pass turns) and sweep

If you get an invade, you can either delay it or burst through or stall. You have to use your judgement.

Conclusion

Now is the best time to farm for Skill Delay Resist  Latent Tamadras. Special Descend Rush may be challenging, but is doable with an invested team and a solid strategy.

Let me know how you have been farming this dungeon and what was your set up.

Happy Puzzling!