Honkai: Star Rail Apocalyptic Shadow V2.7 Gusty Primate Guide

Apocalyptic Shadow in version 2.7 has refreshed to Gusty Primate. In this version, you'll be facing Cocolia and Blaznana Monkey Trick.

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Current Buff in Apocalyptic Shadow V2.7

• When an enemy unit with "Steadfast Safeguard" aka Cocolia and Blaznana Monkey Trick is Weakness Broken, action advances all allies and recover Skill Points.
  • The Skill Points recovered are 5 SP. If you bring Sparkle in the team and Weakness Break the enemy, your SP will recover from 1 to 6 SP (out of 7 SP)
• Increases Weakness Break DMG taken by all enemies by 20%.
• Increases Follow-up ATK DMG taken by all enemies by 20%.
  • Based on the two buffs above, it's obvious this AP is suitable for Follow-Up team like Feixiao or Jing Yuan as the Main DPS & Break team with Firefly or Rappa as the Main DPS.

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Boss 1: Cocolia (Annihilator of Desolation Mistral)

RES	Physical RES, Ice RES, Imaginary RES & Control Effects RES
Recommended Type	Quantum, Wind, Lightning & Fire

List of Buffs

1. Rime Piercer
   Increases all enemies' Break DMG taken by 10%. After Breaking an enemy's Weakness, increases all allies' SPD by 20% for 2 turn(s)
2. Persistence of Decay
   Before enemy units with "Steadfast Safeguard" are Weakness Broken, tally the amount of DoT they receive. When a unit is Weakness Broken, deals Additional DMG to this unit equal to 200% of the tallied DoT
3. Rolling Storm
   Increases Quantum DMG dealt by all allies' by 60%. After defeating an enemy target, advances the attacker's action by 15%.

Team Comp & Buff Choice

No.	Team Example	Buff
1	Acheron + Kafka + Black Swan + Healer	Persistence of Decay
2	Firefly + Ruan Mei + Harmony Trailblazer + Lingsha/Gallagher	Rime Piercer
3	Feixiao + Topaz/March 7th The Hunt/Moze + Robin + Aventurine/Lingsha	Rime Piercer
4	Seele + Sparkle/Bronya/Sunday + Silver Wolf + Fu Xuan/Lynx	Rolling Storm
5	Jade + Himeko + Robin/Ruan Mei/Asta/Pela + Healer	Rolling Storm
6	Jing Yuan + Sunday + Robin/Tingyun + Huohuo	Rime Piercer
7	Acheron + Jiaoqiu + Pela + Lingsha/Gallagher	Persistence of Decay / Rime Piercer

Boss Trait

1. Boss Mirage takes 50% less DMG. After Weakness is broken and action gets additionally delayed, additionally increases DMG taken by 100%.
2. Boss Mirage will transmit its own Weakness Type to the summon. After any one of its summons is defeated, the summon's Weakness Type will be returned to the Boss Mirage.
3. Boss Mirage will launch a follow-up single target attack on the summon's locked on target, with a chance to Freeze or Imprison the target.

Boss Trait: Steadfast Safeguard

Cocolia takes 50% less DMG. After Weakness is broken and action gets additionally delayed, additionally increases DMG taken by 100%.
> If Cocolia is not Weakness Broken, don't worry if your best DPS deals less than damage than usual. It's because of her Boss Trait that reduce damage taken. Once Cocolia is Weakness Broken, she will receive twice the damage.

Boss Trait: Battlefield Transfer

In the first phase, Cocolia will only summon 2 ice blades. When those 2 appears, Cocolia will give her Weakness to the blades (one have Fire and Lightning Weaknesses, and the other one is Wind and Quantum). By then, she will have no Weakness and it's impossible to Weakness Break her.
> You can defeat the ice blades and the Weakness will return to Cocolia (Cocolia's Toughness will also be reduced a bit).

In the second phase, Cocolia will summon 4 ice blades. When all 4 spawns, each of them will gain 1 of Cocolia's Weakness.

Boss Trait: Nowhere to Escape

The ice blade will mark 1 character. After Cocolia uses a single-target ability, if there is a marked character, she will continue with a Follow-Up attack. This will be even worse in the second phase because there are 4 ice blades = 4 marked characters = 4 FuA by Cocolia.

Boss Trait: Tenacious Resolve

Reduces DMG received by all enemies, but every Weakness-Type they have increases DMG received.
> In short, the more Weakness-Type they have, the higher the damage they will receive.
Example: If Cocolia only has 1 Weakness, she receives low damage. But once Cocolia has all 4 Weaknesses back, the damage she receives will be higher.

Challenge Strategy

Defeat the 2 summons to return the Weakness

When the battle starts and Cocolia summons her ice blades, you need to focus on one of the summons (or both if you bring AoE DPS). Among the 2, focus on the minion that has the Weakness Type of your Main DPS. Once the first minion loses, their Weakness will be transferred to Cocolia.
Remember to bring a healer that can remove the Freeze debuff as Cocolia's attack (and the ice pillar) has a huge chance to freeze your characters.

Defeat Gepard before he can create a shield

Aside from the 2 ice blades, Gepard is also a threat because he can create a sturdy shield (unlike when he's in our team) during his second turn. Remember, second turn! If you manage to Weakness Break him before his second turn, he will reset back and start from the first turn.
TLDR: First turn (attack you) > Extra turn (attack you) > Second turn (attack you) > Extra turn (SHIELD).

If Gepard creates a shield, instead of attacking Cocolia or her summon, Weakness Break Gepard so you can instantly break his shield (even if there's a lot percentage left). Then, you can return to defeating summons and Cocolia.
BTW, if you defeat Cocolia before you defeat Gepard in the first phase, Gepard will automatically unalive in the second phase to give room for 4 of Cocolia's ice blades.

Defeat the 4 summons to return the Weakness

Same as the first phase, once you enter the second one, immediately focus on destroying all the ice blades. Don't even think about attacking Cocolia because she'll receive very little damage as long as she's not Weakness Broken.

Hinder Cocolia from using her Ultimate

Her Ultimate move is called Last Choir of Genesis. She will first trigger The Creation's Prelude to enters the Charging state. Her next action will release the Ultimate move. This attack deals huge damage and also have a high chance to Imprison your character.

She will KEEP USING this Ultimate move one after another so if you don't have a good healer or shield that can't keep up, one of your characters will die.

> How to stop Cocolia from using Ultimate?
You can only stop her by Weakness Breaking her. Aka defeat the ice blades first before trying to reducing her Toughness Bar. Once she is Weakness Broken, she will receive a lot more damage so spam everything you have and hopefully you can defeat her afterwards before she can recover.

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Boss 2: Blaznana Monkey Trick

RES	Control Effects RES
Recommended Type	Imaginary, Lightning & Ice

List of Buffs

1. Cheat Sheet
   When using Skill or Ultimate on one ally target, increases the ability target's ATK by 25%, lasting for 2 turns. This effect can stack up to 2 times.
2. Recess
   Increases Ultimate DMG dealt by all allies to Weakness Broken enemies by 70%.
3. After Bell Detention
   Increases Basic ATK and Skill DMG dealt by all allies by 55%.

Team Comp & Buff Choice

No.	Team Example	Buff
1	Acheron + Black Swan + Kafka + Lingsha	Recess
2	Rappa/Firefly + Ruan Mei + Harmony Trailblazer + Lingsha/Gallagher	After Bell Detention
3	Jing Yuan + Sunday + Ruan Mei/Robin + Lingsha/Huohuo/Aventurine	Cheat Sheet
4	Jade + Herta + Ruan Mei + Lingsha + Lingsha	After Bell Detention
5	DHIL + Sparkle + Sunday +	Breed War with War
6	Acheron + Jiaoqiu + Pela + Lingsha/Gallagher	Recess
7	Jingliu + Sunday/Sparkle/Bronya + Ruan Mei/Pela + Sustain	After Bell Detention

Boss Trait

1. All enemy takes 50% less DMG. After the Boss' Weakness is broken, Weakness Breaks all the enemy units and causes its action to be delayed, and the DMG it receives increases by 100%.
2. Breaking enemy weakness can significantly reduce Boss' Toughness. When all enemies are Weakness Broekn, attaking any enemies will also reduce Boss' Toughness.
3. After the enemy gets attacked a certain number of times (stackable) or has their Toughness reduced, they will be inflicted with Weakness Break, granting a chance for "Off-Class Channel."

Boss Trait: Steadfast Safeguard

Boss takes 50% less DMG. After Weakness is broken and action gets additionally delayed, additionally increases DMG taken by 100%.
> The 'Boss' in question is the HP bar at the top, and not any 5 of the mobs with their own HP bar. To make the Boss Weakness Break, you need to break the 5 mobs' Toughness Bar first!

Boss Trait: United Front

All enemy units takes 50% less damage and possesses Switch Tally (that were circled in the image above) while the in the Classroom Channel.
What is Classroom Channel?
> It's when the face on the TV is mad.

Regarding the Switch Tally, you can fill it up by attacking the enemy so they will switch from Classroom Channel to Off-Class Channel. Remember that each enemy have different number of Switch Tally (some needs to be hit 3/4/5/8 times).
Once any of the enemies enter the Off-Class Channel, your team will gain buffs. Each enemy unit gives different buffs:
Charmony BananAdvisor - Increase the whole party's ATK
Dreamweaver BananAdvisor - Advances all target's actions
Fortune BananAdvisor - Recover 2 Skill Points
Assistanana - One random ally regenerates Energy

Boss Trait: Tally Loss

At the beginning of every turn, enemy unit will lose 1 count from the Switch Tally.
In other words, if any of the enemy that is in the Classroom Channel attack you, they will reduce the Switch Tally number count they have by 1.
Example: If they have 5/8 Switch Tally > It's their turn to attack > Reduce their Switch Tally to 4/8.

Boss Trait: SPD Boost

Increases SPD for "End-of-Semester Dinner". Said attack is only available in the second phase where you can see it in the Action Order. It's the Boss' Ultimate move.

Challenge Strategy

AoE attacks are the best against these enemies

Each enemy unit has either Classroom Channel or Off-Class Channel. When you start the battle, the enemies will begin with Classroom Channel.
> Use abilities that deals AoE ATK (or at least Blast ATK) to accumulate Switch Tallies for multiple enemy targets. Once the tally is full, the enemies will switch from Classroom Channel to Off-Class Channel and provides your team with different buffs.

Classroom Channel affects your team's capabilities

When any of the enemy in Classroom Channel attacks you, the DMG is not that much but what matter most is they reduce your team's capability.
Charmony BananAdvisor - Deal DMG
Dreamweaver BananAdvisor - Advances all enemy unit's actions
Fortune BananAdvisor - Reduces 2 Skill Points
Assistanana - Causes all target's Energy to be reduced

Get the enemies to enter Off-Class Channel

Once any of the enemies enter Off-Class Channel (Fill the Switch Tallies by attacking them), they will instead gives you some buff. I already mention the buff before but in case you skipped it:
Charmony BananAdvisor - Increase the whole party's ATK
Dreamweaver BananAdvisor - Advances all target's actions
Fortune BananAdvisor - Recover 2 Skill Points
Assistanana - One random ally regenerates Energy

In term of importance, try to focus on the Dreamweaver BananAdvisor since it will advance your team's action. Then, it's the Assistanana as you don't want your characters to lose lots of Energy, especially if your team relies on Ultimate a lot.

Reduce Blaznana's Monkey Trick Toughness Bar

Blaznana's Monkey Trick is the boss and it's a combination of 1 elite enemy and 4 mobs. To reduce the Boss' Toughness Bar, you need to Weakness Break any of the 5 enemies.
When all enemies are Weakness Broken, attacking any enemy will also reduce Boss' Toughness Bar.

Facing the End-of-Semester Dinner

End-of-Semester Dinner is the Ultimate move that only appears in the second phase on the Action Order. You can't slow this action even if you Weakness Break all enemies. So, you can only face it.
What does the End-of-Semester Dinner do?
Dispels all Crowd Control debuffs and Weakness Broken for all enemies, switches the Off-Class Channel states on all enemies, and use To The Doctor: Banacademic Report.

Now what does To The Doctor: Banacademic Report?
Increase all enemies' ATK, reduces your characters Energy and 1 Skill Point before dealing damage to them. As mentioned before, you can't avoid these attacks so just be brave and accept it~ The damage itself is very low in my opinion.

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