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IN FinalB LNNFS

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First LNN.

I swore off ever going for an LNN pretty early on when I started getting LNBs. I always heard of nightmarish grinds spanning 400 hours' time for just a single run, and it just sounded like hell to me.

This wasn't one of those endless grinds, though. It was honestly pretty mild. I started going for low-miss LNB in early February of this year. A month of very infrequent credits later, I was at 3M level. Then I jumped straight to 1M, with an "LNN" in mid-March that only failed Kaguya bonus 2.

From there, I figured LNNFS wouldn't be the worst, and it really wasn't. I got this run 5 weeks after that initial 1M, and only two weeks out of those five actually saw me doing a meaningful amount of credits, with the other three mostly consisting of days where I did between two and zero per day. Still did daily practice on points of failure, though.

Speaking of points of failure, there were plenty, but they tended to smooth themselves out over time. I lost 15 runs to mystia non2, but those were more concentrated at the beginning of the grind. 8 runs died to eph 137, but I started getting pretty consistent at it toward the end. 46/111 credits died to stages 2 or 3.

Mari non3 was something I got really consistent at, to the point where I haven't lost a run to it since late March. Asteroid belt I was strangely good at, often managing rates of 100% in practice. I still lost runs to it, but not many. Occasional deaths to mari sp2 and sp4, but very infrequent. 20/111 credits died to stage 4, with four dying to asteroid belt and only two to non3. The rest were just to random stuff.

Stage 5 was the stage that gave me the most trouble. I got consistent at Tewi, but she still got me from time to time — and she nearly did this run, too.  two credits lost to Tewi, two credits to Reisen sp2, and one random credit to a stupid mistake on the beginning waves of rice fairies.

Almost every other credit that made it to stage 5 died to remote rabbit. This spellcard ended 50% of would-be paces into s6, and 33% of all runs that went LNNFS-pace into s5. There were several factors behind this. The first, of course, is RNG. It can force some real tight dodges if it wants to, and it absolutely chooses to a lot of the time. The second was accidental drags to the left. The spellcard is usually okay if you move her to the right for the first two drags, but if she goes left at any point then you're very likely dead. Either because of nervousness or bad RNG forcing me to move left, I often ended up dragging her in the wrong direction.

Then there was s6. Kaguya was one of my strongest points overall, and I had the advantage of tending to be very consistent at BDB, which helped a ton. As such, it didn't take many paces into her for me to get LNNFS. I lost 3 credits to non2, all because of a very stupid misconception I had about unfocusing a lot making it easier. 2 credits died to BDB, mostly due to nerves, and 1 credit died to very bad BD RNG. The only pace I ever lost to a bonus spell was that fluke death to bonus 2 that I got back in March. The second time I made it past the initial fight, I got LNNFS.

That said, RW isn't to be overlooked. I got very good RNG here and didn't really have to dodge any hyperspeed bullets or awkward clusters — though a yellow star early on very nearly ended the run. But I usually get 40-50% rates at best during practice, often with some very sketchy dodging required, so this spellcard absolutely could've killed me. Hell, if Kaguya had been meaner with RW, this entire grind probably could've doubled or tripled in length. Fortunately, she must've warmed up to me during those 2 months of daily practice, because she gave me one of the most tame RWs I've ever seen. Thank god.

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