Xu-Fu Strategy vs. Uncomfortably Undercover

Gezzno#1929

wrote on 2024-02-20 02:00:04

Worked for me -- thanks!

max1899 wrote on 2023-04-22 10:28:37

this only worked for me when i pass 3 times untill xu-fu dies after trailblazer comes in. otherwise it killed both of my remaining pets (edited)

tiawck wrote on 2022-08-04 12:56:47

did the swap as my xufu was still alive but supercharge+ion cannon didn't line up with enemy dodge...

tiawck wrote on 2022-08-04 12:59:23

just needs a pass after swap and it'll work fine.

PipDeGnome

wrote on 2021-05-21 11:59:33

Have been using this strat since it first appeared on Xufu. Always has worked perfectly, until today. Failed 4 times in a row. :( double checked everything.

PipDeGnome

wrote on 2021-05-22 10:39:03

No Luck with strat again today. Changed to the Iron Starlette / Specimen 97 strat and worked perfectly.

wrote on 2021-04-25 23:53:29

ok writing this (this time, as i do the strat) this is the third try... xu-fu, moon fire, spirit claws, spirit claws, enemy pet goes to undead state ... prowl enemy pet dies and enemy 2 (stinkdust) comes in moon fire kills stink dust trail blazer comes in pass, Xu-Fu is still alive bring in xd super charge, i get hit go in to undead phase i hit ion cannon, i got hit , and hit again and dead..... this happened 3 times, i tried again, followed the same steps (even took from my notes from the third try here, so that i was doing it exactly the same way... and that time it succeeded... i guess this strat just don't like me lol .. at least i was able to get it to work 1 of the 4 times :-) *also the re wording of the strat i believe is what i was doing the other times that it failed oh well i tried :-(

(OP) Mutanis

wrote on 2021-04-26 03:48:42

Your microbot Xd doesn't have to survive on Turn 10 because Trailblazer dies on Turn 10 and you have Xu Fu(most of the time) + any pet(slot3) in the backline. So this strat only fails if Microbot XD isn't able to cast ion connon (really unlikely) (edited)

wrote on 2021-04-26 20:24:12

it failed ... every time .. i hit the ion cannon but before it went off i was hit ... it didn't work for me ... you can say "really unlikely" but that is how it happened ... it didn't work for me!!! i stand by what i said

i understand you are not happy that it didn't work... again the truth is important to me and to make insinuating remarks that it is really unlikely... you are not taking in to account RNG factors and no strat is going to be 100%

i tried to be helpful by explaining what i did because that is what we do to help each other out to make the best of this site so that improvements can be made.

if the ONLY thing we hear is the positive about a strat, when one fails it can not be improved upon. i don't mean this in disrespect but in a way that we can all help each other... and insinuating on someone not being truthful is a hurtful way to handle things.

we learn and we grow... all knowledge is learning and therefore good
(edited)

wrote on 2021-04-24 12:11:48

i guess i was just unlucky with it ... i did follow the script to the letter, and it did fail 3 times in a row. we have one thing in this life that can not be taken from us and that is our integrity ... that can be destroyed by our word... so the truth is extremely important to me. i have no idea why it failed 3 times in a row but it failed 3 times in a row. IF i can figure out how to copy the log when it is up i will try again, maybe it was a bad day for RNG ... no matter the "strange probability" i am a truthful person

wrote on 2021-04-24 14:33:37

I don't think anyone much lies about what they believe happened when posting here, and I certainly don't believe you did.

People often make mistakes, though, in what they think they did, and sometimes they misread the instructions. I've done that more than once myself. That's normal.

Pretty much every difficult strat has a failure chance, and it's always worth identifying where that can happen.

(OP) Mutanis

wrote on 2021-04-24 15:22:16

Maybe my description is just bad. I made a few changes to it :)

wrote on 2021-04-25 19:31:35

i will try again... just have not got over to the pet master yet... so many world quests so little time lol :-) appreciate the changes, interpretation is a big thing... although i did follow it even with the video, but even there it's not always easy to see things the way they are intended... :-)

wrote on 2021-04-22 00:17:43

tried 3 times failed every time... pets are all level 25, Xu-Fu is P/P breed microbot xd is H/P breed, and had a darkmoon zep in the third slot... microbot died every time before the ion cannon followed script to the letter including the pass moves. not sure why it didn't work :-(

(OP) Mutanis

wrote on 2021-04-22 10:28:59

I don't know why it didn't work for you. So I made a short video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ITQ2u9J-_o
maybe it helps, let me know :)

wrote on 2021-04-22 13:07:35

Hm. Nice strat, Mutanis! I'm switching to this one.

I just did it myself and I'm scratching my head how it could fail, assuming Microbot gets to enter at the right time to face Trailblazer.

Microbot has 1619HP. If BOTH Bonestorms AND Spirit Claws crit, I make that about 1510 damage, so Spore Burst would bring it to Failsafe, and then the final Spirit Claws would finish it before it got its Ion Cannon off, but that's a really unlikely sequence of events - not something that happens three times in a row.

PureArmour, if you can get a log of a fail together, it might be enlightening.

One of my logs is below.

wrote on 2021-04-22 13:09:41

Round 1", -- [1]
Moonfire dealt 476 damage to enemy Whirly.", -- [2]
Moonfire changed the weather to Moonlight.", -- [3]
BONESTORM dealt 245 damage to your Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen.", -- [4]
BONESTORM dealt 245 damage to your Microbot XD.", -- [5]
BONESTORM dealt 245 damage to your Chrominius.", -- [6]
BONESTORM dealt 203 damage to enemy Whirly.", -- [7]
Round 2", -- [8]
Spirit Claws dealt 741 damage to enemy Whirly (Critical).", -- [9]
BONESTORM! dealt 245 damage to your Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen.", -- [10]
BONESTORM! dealt 245 damage to your Microbot XD.", -- [11]
BONESTORM! dealt 245 damage to your Chrominius.", -- [12]
BONESTORM! dealt 610 damage to enemy Whirly.", -- [13]
Round 3", -- [14]
Spirit Claws dealt 494 damage to enemy Whirly.", -- [15]
Enemy Whirly died.", -- [16]
Damned healed 20 damage from enemy Whirly.", -- [17]
Damned applied Undead to enemy Whirly.", -- [18]
Death Coil dealt 197 damage to your Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen.", -- [19]
Death Coil healed 123 damage from enemy Whirly.", -- [20]
Round 4", -- [21]
Prowl applied Prowl to your Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen.", -- [22]
Death Coil dealt 197 damage to your Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen.", -- [23]
Death Coil applied Beast to your Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen.", -- [24]
Death Coil healed 123 damage from enemy Whirly.", -- [25]
Undead fades from enemy Whirly.", -- [26]
Undead dealt 266 damage to enemy Whirly.", -- [27]
Enemy Whirly died.", -- [28]
Round 4", -- [29]
Stinkdust is now enemy active pet.", -- [30]

wrote on 2021-04-22 13:10:22

Round 4", -- [29]
Stinkdust is now enemy active pet.", -- [30]
Round 5", -- [31]
Spore Shrooms applied Spore Shrooms to your team.", -- [32]
Moonfire dealt 2037 damage to enemy Stinkdust (Strong).", -- [33]
Enemy Stinkdust died.", -- [34]
Prowl fades from your Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen.", -- [35]
Flying fades from enemy Stinkdust.", -- [36]
Moonlight is no longer the weather.", -- [37]
Moonfire changed the weather to Moonlight.", -- [38]
Round 5", -- [39]
Trailblazer is now enemy active pet.", -- [40]
Round 6", -- [41]
Leap dealt 270 damage to your Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen.", -- [42]
Leap applied Speed Boost to enemy Trailblazer.", -- [43]
Round 7", -- [44]
Microbot XD is now your active pet.", -- [45]
Dust Cloud applied Dodge to enemy Trailblazer.", -- [46]
Spore Shrooms applied Spore Burst to your Microbot XD.", -- [47]
Speed Boost fades from enemy Trailblazer.", -- [48]
Spore Shrooms fades from your team.", -- [49]
Round 8", -- [50]
Spirit Claws dealt 757 damage to your Microbot XD (Critical).", -- [51]
Supercharge applied Supercharged to your Microbot XD.", -- [52]
Spore Burst dealt 282 damage to your Microbot XD (Strong).", -- [53]
Dodge fades from enemy Trailblazer.", -- [54]
Round 9", -- [55]
Spirit Claws dealt 505 damage to your Microbot XD.", -- [56]
Your Microbot XD died.", -- [57]
Failsafe healed 324 damage from your Microbot XD.", -- [58]
Failsafe applied Mechanical to your Microbot XD.", -- [59]
Ion Cannon dealt 1726 damage to enemy Trailblazer.", -- [60]
Enemy Trailblazer died.", -- [61]
Supercharged fades from your Microbot XD.", -- [62]
Damned healed 16 damage from enemy Trailblazer.", -- [63]
Damned applied Undead to enemy Trailblazer.", -- [64]
Spore Burst dealt 282 damage to your Microbot XD (Strong).", -- [65]
Round 10", -- [66]
Leap dealt 203 damage to your Microbot XD.", -- [67]
Your Microbot XD died.", -- [68]
Leap applied Speed Boost to enemy Trailblazer.", -- [69]
Undead fades from enemy Trailblazer.", -- [70]
Undead dealt 16 damage to enemy Trailblazer.", -- [71]
Enemy Trailblazer died.", -- [72]
Battle Recovery healed 577 damage from your Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen.", -- [73]
Battle Recovery healed 245 damage from your Chrominius.", -- [74]

(OP) Mutanis

wrote on 2021-04-22 15:59:02

Thanks :)
But I think the fail rate might be a bit higher. I will make some calculations tomorow

(OP) Mutanis

wrote on 2021-04-23 04:33:37

Ok the strategy is failing
if 2x Bone Storm + Spirit claws(R8) + Spore Burst(R8) >= 1619
because I am too lazy to calculate the probability; I simulate the fights with 1M attempts
--> failingrate: ~0.72%
So the winrate is still decent ~ 99.28%
i used excel + vba to simulate it (lol)
code:
https://imgur.com/a/hOs5cMn
(edited)

wrote on 2021-04-23 06:44:28

Yeah, my comment above was along the same lines. But that's not surprising: a lot of strats have have a ~1% chance of failure, and most people never notice, because an occasional fail is no big deal, and we don't repeat them that often. With that kind of probability, a report of three fails in a row is strange, though, from somebody who likely is doing the strat correctly.

wrote on 2021-04-22 17:57:34

next time it's up i'll try again, but from watching the video ... i followed the script to the letter... maybe it was just a bad RNG day thanks for responding (edited)