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Easy setup for defeating Cleo

By Over

1 Card and 2 Artifacts will guarantee this achievement for you.

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Pretty simple. Cleo has 40 Hull and 10 Shield. Cleo's cannon attacks deal a total of 42 damage on the first turn. Bring Peri and Max, and focus on getting a Parry card.

Your two artifacts to find are Piercer and Lightspeed Boot Disk. Keep in mind that the Boot Disk is a boss artifact, specific to Max. Apply the Buoyant effect from the Boot Disk artifact onto Parry.

Going into the Cleo fight, you will top-deck Parry, and one-shot Cleo with a piercing Parry.

Neither artifact is completely necessary because of how much Parry will carry the fight, but having all of these will guarantee a kill.

Riggs' Think Twice card, or Max's Math-Max card may also greatly help you draw Parry without Boot Disk, just be prepared for bad luck. The earlier you can get it, the better, as they will eventually switch to firing a total of 11 seeker missiles at once, making any stalling extremely difficult.

In addition to an achievement, you will receive an energy-boosting artifact for your current loop, at the cost of the shopkeeper's life.

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EnigmaEmperor 12 Jul @ 8:35am

Beat it earlier today by stacking full ship stun cards and redirecting the missiles with that one artifact while having the one that makes ones far away not see you. My main damage sources were a Charge-beam B and Dice Roll A. The rest of the deck was basically just draw cards.

Chemical Burn 1 Jul @ 6:47pm

Dang. Its hard to get even 1 of those artifacts or parry, let alone all three in one run.

Hariman 21 Jun @ 5:11pm

This is interesting but I'll never get that achievement.

Osmium 23 May @ 5:11pm

I didn't have piercer or upgraded parry, but I did have cloud save and second opinions B. This let me keep pulling parry back into my hand after exhausting it. It's funny cause I wasn't even thinking about fighting Cleo until I just happened to have the right pieces with a randomly generated party that matched the recommended one here.

Rnamon 5 May @ 9:53am

wow! work like a deam!

Darig89 16 Apr @ 10:02am

Yeah it seems so. Maybe I was offline during the game. Oh well, I'll be lucky next time...

Over [author] 15 Apr @ 7:22pm

There shouldn't be any difficulty restriction. May have just gotten unlucky with a bug.

Darig89 9 Apr @ 11:53am

I did it in normal mode, but I did not received any achivement. Should I slay him on harder modes?

mendoxzai 7 Mar @ 2:27pm

I coincidentally got the same build as above (minus Buoyant) and demolished the Cleo in 1 hit. Very lucky that I got Parry on my first turn, so satisfying after many attempts.

✈ 6 Mar @ 12:52pm

Think twice B + Charge Beam with all other cards removed

Infinite damage on the first turn and its really easy to get

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