Hello, I'm looking for weapon advice concerning a few specific impossible challengers. Let me start by giving you the basic info of my battle pet Iskir:

Using this set I can usually finish level 30 in battle quests (unless Menecuda, Biting Cake or Prodigy appear after the skip). This means that I'm working towards the very slowly, but steadily. This is one goal. Another one is saving up for a Millionaire Center weapon (also slowly, especially if I want to get Natasha, as I don't have much time to be online and I'm using it for battling atm). So my first question is which weapon to get: or ? Obviously Natasha is much more expensive than the other two - is it worth the bigger effort of saving? Especially concerning the following challengers that I would like to beat (but am unable to currently): Crithbolcan to get Cinthilocks to get (unable to beat) Forj Matriarch, the Erupting to get Mutant Scientist to get At a later point, I'm also looking to beat other impossible challengers of course, but I'd first like to focus on the ones mentioned above because of the weapons. Other than that I'm always interested in general set advice, but there are some great guides in the battle forum (kudos to , and so many others) that I already checked, so I think I do know the basics? Anyways, there is nothing like too much info, so fire away :D Thanks for your advice!

I think you've probably outgrown the one ring. I would sell it. Even amulet of drakonis would heal for more for a similar price

Soma Tablets would be a great buy at this point, especially since you are pretty much trying to punch opponents that are maybe just a little too big for you.

Reviver of the lion might help, but since it sounds like you have probably read my other guide, you probably know that i'm not as big on this one as Soma Tablets.

I'm kinda eyeballing this last one instead of actually looking at spreadsheets, but I think you would benefit from Natasha. Since it's pretty good against Forj and some of the other challengers your trying to beat.

Ornate Hook Swords is probably a close second choice though. Both Natasha and Hook Swords are probably 2 of the weapons I use the most (even with some of the more expensive stuff I own.) I could definitely see arguments for OHS over Natasha especially if you wanted to say something like OHS+Soma vs Natasha.

The Ether ends up being one of the most common icons to block against cash shop challengers, but it's a lot of the cash shop challengers that don't really have great loot.

It depends on differentiating what type of ability a challenger has and if the extra attack icons/type of block suit the needs better.

I cannot say for sure how to beat them myself since I still struggle myself. However for your weapon choice, I bought both a Natasha/Ether as my main battlers at a point in time and I went with ether as my first choice of weapon. Simple for the fact most challengers higher up have a propensity to steal weapons and with the ether you're always generating a legendary weapon as well. With more attacks more legendary weapons get created, which means higher chances of the challenger stealing the legendary weapon.

Natasha, on the other hand for that aspect alone doesn't always generate a bullet per attack, so if you're going to extra steal protection against challengers. I would say choose the Ether hands down above the other two choices.

Thank you so much for the advice guys! I think I'm going to try to sell some stuff and earn sP as quickly as possible for now and see how this goes. I did indeed remove the Reviver of the Lion from my wishlist after reading your guide, but I'll reconsider it in this case.

I wouldn't rush out to go buy it just yet. What I said still generally holds up. But it might help beat some of these challengers a little sooner than if you were to just go pure stats.

Late endgame, it's still just as over-rated.

Based on impossible battle quest opponents you skip over, Natasha is better to pick up. Crithbolcan is the easiest of the challengers you listed to get loot so I would start there. Crith can do a lot of earth, water, dark and magma damage. Prodigy's eyeball should be super cheap and is good to defend against the water damage. You can also use that and Natasha to beat prodigy in BQs. The next easiest is the forj. The swashbuckle is good, however the second weapon I recommend to block and do water damage is the syringe mutant scientist drops. The syringe is also good for crithbolcan. mutant scientist is like Sophie on steriods. She can do a lot of water, magma, fire, earth and dark. OHS and cronus works good on her, but an unevenly trained high tier 11 can also beat her with ME + OHS.

OHS is nice for cinthilocks since she steals and does some earth damage.

Depending on what you want to tackle first, BQs or opponents for loot, either ohs or Natasha would work. You might just want to buy Natasha first to get the big purchase out of the way and then not have to save as much for OHS.

Thank you so much for the advice, and especially the explanations, that's always super helpful for me! I think I might go for the OHS (and Soma) after all, that will be much easier to save up to and as it seems to help against two of those challengers I want to focus on (BQs are pretty doable for me already). I still need the ME (somehow I often miss the gelatin war, I think it's in summer when I'm on holidays in the mountains without electricity?), but that seems like a good goal too.