Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

[Aragorn]

So, I've done most of the post game...

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I've found myself stuck on Simon. I know, big hard post game boss. Anyone got any tips besides parry god?

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Look up a build for your party with Sciel and Maelle in particular, you can one shot him if luck is on your side. He's a dick to fight though, so cheap. The one part of the game I disliked.

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I've seen one where you hit him stupid hard as Maelle, then use Sciel to give Maelle double damage and pass the turn back to her, then repeat. I've also seen one where Maelle just nukes him with a one shot Stendall. I've tried and took him down by maybe 2/3 of his health.

I conquered him legit and I will ride that high till the day I die.

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Here is the video of me beating his ass
https://youtu.be/gfUTiPIrfvw?si=AqD6sQpXyOScLn0e
Was probably the most satisfying boss i'v had to conquer, like period.

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That is glorious and your member title should be parry god for hitting the speed of light parries. Maybe my issue is I'm not using Verso's ranged/basic  attacks and I've essentially disabled healing with the confident pictos for the extra damage.

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The trick is to completely forget about healing. Respec your health stats into ATK/Luck/etc, Simon's health drain will keep you at 1 health most of the time anyways. Verso's Angel Eyes is a great insurance policy if you miss a parry and get 1 shot, so proc it as soon as you have 3 gradient bars - and keep Maelle and Sciel for the end after he party deletes you in Phase 2.

For Verso - I opted for the machine gun burn set up with the sword you get from that optional island. Stock him up with AP gain pictos and the pictos that adds multiple hits to the default attack; and keep stacking burns and using his skill that scales with how many ranged shots you take in a single round. The burn adds up over time (especially with Lune in the mix) and you get to burst him for 2 AP if you use the skill I mentioned.

The parries were just a git gud moment. I was stuck on him for a solid 4-5 days but once I got down his timings for the second phase it felt absolutely fucking glorious.

I conquered him legit and I will ride that high till the day I die.

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Here is the video of me beating his ass
https://youtu.be/gfUTiPIrfvw?si=AqD6sQpXyOScLn0e
Was probably the most satisfying boss i'v had to conquer, like period.

Nice. I like a challenge but felt the design of this one was mostly bull (especially on expert) and when I feel that I just can't be bothered doing it, weird too given this was unique across the game's boss battles. Fair play though.

My take on it is:

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E33 was inspired by Sekiro, and the director is a huge Souls fan. Simon is entirely a Dark Souls/Berserk tribute; guy is aura farming infront of an eclipse with a lost arm, a Moonlight Greatsword x Dragonslayer hybrid all because of his lost love (painted Clea) - and I think the point of the fight is it's meant to thoroughly test not only your mechanical skill in the game with its parries in homage to the games that inspires E33, but also how you built your entire party, not just your main 3, due to his third phase party delete.

Again - hindsight is 20/20 and my view is probably softened by the fact that I did beat the fucker; but i'm okay with how relatively cheap he is because he's an optional, end game, super boss rather than a spike in the mid game or something.