#twst unified exam help

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[JP] 13th Unified Exams

From August 5th, 16:00 JST ~ August 16th, 14:59 JST

NRC’s 13th Unified Exams have officially started!

As a reminder, you have 10 tries a day and the max number of support medals you can get from friends using your card per day is 10.

1 win = 3 medals (+1 if bringing a friend) 1 friend using your support = 1 medal

FIRE DEFENSE - Diasomnia

Hard (81,100 HP)

Malleus has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Malleus has Curse (Both foes/3T)

Silver has ATK UP (Self and Ally/2T)

Silver has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Sebek has ATK UP (Self and Ally/2T)

Sebek has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Lilia has ATK UP (Self and Ally/2T)

Lilia has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Extra (89,200 HP)

Malleus has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Malleus has Curse (Both foes/3T)

Silver has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Silver has ATK UP (Self and Ally/1T)

Sebek has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Sebek has ATK UP (Self and Ally/1T)

Lilia has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Lilia has ATK UP (Self and Ally/1T)

HP: Easy: 16,500 HP / Normal: 37,100 HP

WATER DEFENSE - Scarabia

Hard (87,500 HP)

Kalim has DMG UP (Self/1T) x2

Kalim has Freeze (Both foes/3T) x2

Jamil has DMG UP (Self/1T) x2

Extra (101,500 HP)

Kalim has DMG UP (Self/1T) x2

Kalim has Freeze (Both foes/3T) x2

Jamil has DMG UP (Self/1T) x2

Jamil has Freeze (Both foes/3T) x2

HP: Easy: 19,100 HP / Normal: 40,900 HP

FLORA BASIC - Ignihyde

Hard (86,500 HP)

Idia has Regen (1,360/3T) x2

Idia has DMG UP (Self/1T) x2

Ortho has Shield (Self/1T) x2

Extra (98,500 HP)

Idia has Regen (1,970/3T) x2

Idia has DMG UP (Self/1T) x2

Ortho has Shield (Self/1T) x2

Ortho has DMG DOWN (Single foe/1T) x2

HP: Easy: 19,200 HP / Normal: 40,900 HP Heal: Easy: 533 HP/2T x2 / Normal: 975 HP/3T x2

COSMIC ATTACK - Heartslabyul

Hard (116,800 HP)

Riddle has Freeze (Both foes/3T)

Ace has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Deuce has ATK UP (Self/1T)

Cater has Heal (2,172 HP)

Trey has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Extra (160,500 HP)

Riddle has Freeze (Both foes/3T)

Riddle has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Ace has DMG UP (Self/3T)

Ace has ATK UP (Self/1T)

Deuce has ATK UP (Self/1T)

Deuce has DMG UP (Self/3T)

Cater has Heal (2,621 HP)

Trey has DMG UP (Self/3T)

Trey has ATK UP (Self/1T)

HP: Easy: 42,200 HP / Normal: 75,400 HP Heal: Easy: 1,033 HP / Normal: 1,460 HP

OMNI BASIC - Pomefiore

Vil (cosmic/fire), Rook (cosmic/water), Epel (cosmic/flora)

Hard (87,200 HP)

Vil has DMG DOWN (Single foe/1T)

Vil has ATK DOWN (Single foe/1T)

Epel has ATK DOWN (Single foe/1T)

Epel has DMG DOWN (Single foe/1T)

Rook has ATK UP (Self/1T)

Rook has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Extra (99,700 HP)

Vil has ATK DOWN (Single foe/1T) x2

Epel has ATK DOWN (Single foe/1T) x2

Rook has DMG UP (Self/3T) x2

Rook has ATK UP (Self/1T) x2

HP: Easy: 19,300 HP / Normal: 41,100HP

Reminder:

Freeze and Curse have different durations on each difficulty mode:

Easy: Single target / 2 turns

Normal: Area / 2 turns

Hard: Area / 3 turns

Extra: Area / 3 turns

Freeze stops your buffs from working, it’s ok if you buff first though, so you can safely buff on odd turns.

You can avoid Curse if you heal on odd turns and go first, but Continuous Heal will still get blocked even if activated before the debuff, so time it well.

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Huh, didn’t know Trein-sensei was a dad in twst too. That was surprisingly sweet of him, especially since he doesn’t get a lot of attention. Also yeah, who’s bright idea was it to attach the magic crystals to pens?! I would hope they’re way harder to lose (bc magic) because I lose pens all the time!

[Referring to this post!]

 A lot of the staff lore (including how staff feel about one another) is buried in the voice lines that are only given as prizes for the NRC Unified Exam events. Trein briefly discusses his daughters in one of those voice lines!

Even stern types like Trein have hearts. I don’t get to write for the staff that often, so I’m happy that I get to let them shine a little through their letters.

I’d imagine that if you relied on your pen to do magic, you’d be a lot more cautious about where it went. Just keep it in your breast pocket, like the NRC boys do!

I believe it was mentioned somewhere by Crowley that the blot produced as a magical byproduct is used as ink for writing by students. This helps to “clean” up the blot and prevent Overblotting, so it has a practical purpose.

It seems that the NRC staff and RSA students don’t use pens and instead have their magical stones embedded in other accessories like brooches or lapel pins, so blot isn’t always used for writing. Sometimes it has to be dispelled with just rest and recovery.

If you want to learn more about the history of magical pens, I’d recommend reading Lilia’s School Uniform personal story.

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[JP] 11th NRC Unified Exams

December 1st, 16:00 to December 11th, 14:59 (JST)

NRC’s 11th Unified Exams have officially started!

As a reminder, you have 10 tries a day and the max number of support medals you can get from friends using your card per day is 10.

1 win = 3 medals (+1 if bringing a friend) 1 friend using your support = 1 medal

**NEW**! ATTACK EXAMS: These tests last for 10 turns. Do as much damage as possible, and try to finish the foes off as quick as possible.

FIRE BASIC - Scarabia

Hard: 90,000 HP / Extra: 105,000 HP

Hard Effects

Kalim has DMG UP (self/1T) x2

Jamil has DMG DOWN (single foe/1T) x2

Extra Effects

Kalim has ATK UP (self/1T) x2

Kalim has DMG UP (self/1T) x2

Jamil has ATK DOWN (single foe/1T) x2

Easy: 20,500 HP / Normal: 43,000 HP

WATER ATTACK - Pomefiore

Hard: 175,000 HP / Extra: 220,000 HP

Hard Effects

Vil has DMG DOWN (single foe/1T)

Epel has DMG UP (self/1T)

Rook has Shield (self/1T)

Extra Effects

Vil has ATK DOWN (single foe/1T) x2

Epel has ATK UP (self/1T)

Epel has DMG UP (self/3T) x2

Rook has DMG DOWN (single foe/1T)

Rook has Shield (self/1T) x2

HP: Easy: 51,000 HP / Normal: 91,000 HP

FLORA ATTACK - Octavinelle

Hard: 162,000 HP / Extra: 200,000 HP

Hard Effects

Azul has DMG UP (self/1T)

Jade has Heal (4,020)

Floyd has Heal (4,020)

Extra Effects

Azul has DMG UP (self/3T) x2

Azul has ATK UP (self/1T) x2

Jade has Heal (5,360) x2

Floyd has Heal (5,360) x2

HP: Easy: 47,000 HP / Normal: 99,000 HP Heal: Easy: 1,288 HP / Normal: 2,680 HP

COSMIC BASIC - Heartslabyul

Hard: 79,000 HP / Extra: 90,000 HP

Hard Effects

Riddle has DMG UP (self/1T)

Ace has ATK UP (self and ally/2T)

Ace has DMG UP (self/1T)

Deuce has DMG UP (self/1T)

Cater has DMG UP (self/1T)

Cater has ATK DOWN (both foes/1T)

Trey has Shield (self/1T)

Extra Effects

Riddle has DMG UP (self/3T)

Riddle has ATK UP (self/1T)

Ace has ATK UP (self and ally/1T)

Ace has DMG UP (self/1T)

Deuce has ATK UP (self/1T)

Deuce has DMG UP (self/1T)

Cater has DMG UP (self/1T)

Cater has ATK DOWN (both foes/1T)

Trey has Shield (self/1T)

Trey had DMG DOWN (single foe/1T)

HP: Easy: 17,500 HP / Normal: 37,000 HP

OMNI DEFENSE - Savanaclaw

Hard: 83,000 HP / Extra: 99,000 HP

Leona (Flora), Ruggie (Water/Cosmic), and Jack (Fire)

Hard Effects

Leona has Curse (both foes/3T)

Leona has DMG UP (self/1T)

Jack has Freeze (both foes/3T)

Jack has DMG UP (self/1T)

Ruggie has Heal (6,030)

Extra Effects

Leona has DMG UP (self/1T)

Leona has Curse (both foes/3T)

Jack has Freeze (both foes/3T)

Jack has DMG UP (self/1T)

Ruggie has heal (6,834)

HP: Easy: 18,000 HP / Normal: 37,000 HP Heal: Easy: 2,116 HP / Normal: 4,422 HP

Reminder:

Freeze and Curse have different durations on each difficulty mode:

Easy: Single target / 2 turns

Normal: Area / 2 turns

Hard: Area / 3 turns

Extra: Area / 3 turns

Freeze stops your buffs from working, it’s ok if you buff first though, so you can safely buff on odd turns.

You can avoid Curse if you heal on odd turns and go first, but Continuous Heal will still get blocked even if activated before the debuff, so time it well.

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[JP] 11th NRC Unified Exams

December 1st, 16:00 to December 11th, 14:59 (JST)

Requirement to participate: Finish Story Chapter 1 (Heartslabyul)

Unified Exams work similarly to Tests, but you can bring a friend’s support card. There are 5 different battles (1 for each element, and some combination of Attack, Basic and Defense) and the total score from all 5 battles gives you a rank from F to S5.

You can battle 10 times a day and each win rewards you with 4 medals. You can also get medals when friends use your support character (so we recommend having your best card for support). It’s 1 medal per support used and the max you can get is 10. So it’s possible to get up to 50 medals a day.

The table below shows the final rewards your total score will net you at the end of the exam period (**NEW!** The score requirements have been updated as of this exam):

Crowley Medals can be used in the Event Shop to buy multiple items and the best part is that you don’t have to use up all your medals right away, you can save them for the next exam.

Magical Key Set includes: 2 keys and 3 AP refill S

Card Set includes: 10 AP refill L and 30k madol

Book Sets include: 8 notepads, 4 textbooks and 2 grimoires

History Lesson Set includes: 1 AP refill L and 3 macarons/waffles/cupcakes

Flying Lesson Set includes: 1 AP refill L and 3 sugar cubes/waffles/cupcakes

Alchemy Lesson Set includes: 1 AP refill L and 3 popcorn/cupcakes/card cookies

If you need help with Team Composition, feel free to send us an ask or submission (check our preferred layout) and good luck!

We will drop a post for the battles like we do for tests, with effects for Hard and Extra battles. We will also collect the HP and heal values of the foes during Easy and Normal battles. Good luck!

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[JP] 12th Unified Exams

From March 25, 16:00 JST ~ April 5, 14:59 JST

FIRE ATTACK - Ignihyde

Hard (162,000 HP)

Idia has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Ortho has Heal (3,475 HP) x2

Extra (204,500 HP)

Idia has ATK UP (Self/1T) x2

Idia has DMG UP (Self/3T) x2

Ortho has Heal (4,456 HP) x2

HP: Easy: 50,200 HP / Normal: 99,280 HP Heal: Easy: 1,073 HP / Normal: 2,046 HP

WATER BASIC - Savanaclaw

Hard (91,500 HP)

Leona has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Leona has Freeze (Both foes/3T)

Ruggie has ATK UP (Self/1T)

Ruggie has DMG UP (Self/3T)

Jack has ATK DOWN (Both foes/1T)

Jack has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Extra (108,000 HP)

Leona has DMG UP (Self/1T) x2

Leona has Freeze (Both foes/3T)

Ruggie has ATK UP (Self/1T) x2

Ruggie has DMG UP (Self/3T)

Jack has ATK DOWN (Both foes/1T)

Jack has DMG UP (Self/1T)

HP: Easy: 21,000 HP / Normal: 43,900 HP

FLORA DEFENSE - Heartslabyul

Hard (87,500 HP)

Riddle has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Cater has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Cater has Curse (Both foes/3T)

Trey has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Trey has Curse (Both foes/3T)

Ace has Freeze (Both foes/3T)

Ace has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Deuce has Heal (6,192 HP)

Extra (108,500 HP)

Riddle has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Riddle has Curse (Both foes/3T)

Cater has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Cater has Curse (Both foes/3T)

Trey has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Trey has Curse (Both foes/3T)

Ace has Freeze (Both foes/3T)

Ace has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Deuce has Heal (7,864 Heal)

HP: Easy: 19,100 HP / Normal: 40,090 HP Heal: Easy: 2,147 HP / Normal: 4,896 HP

COSMIC DEFENSE - Octavinelle

Hard (69,500 HP)

Azul has ATK UP (Self and Ally/2T)

Azul has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Jade has ATK UP (Self/1T)

Floyd has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Extra (86,000 HP)

Azul has ATK UP (Self and Ally/1T)

Azul has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Jade has ATK UP (Self/1T) x2

Jade has DMG UP (Self/3T) x2

Floyd has Shield (Self/1T)

Floyd has DMG DOWN (Single foe/1T) x2

HP: Easy: 14,350 HP / Normal: 30,400 HP

OMNI ATTACK - Diasomnia

Malleus (water), Silver (flora), Sebek (cosmic/fire), Lilia (cosmic/fire)

Hard (159,500 HP)

Malleus has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Silver has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Silver has Freeze (Both foes/3T)

Lilia has DMG DOWN (Single foe/1T)

Extra (199,500 HP)

Malleus has ATK UP (Self/1T)

Malleus has DMG UP (Self/3T)

Silver has Freeze (Both foes/3T)

Silver has DMG UP (Self/1T)

Sebek has DMG UP (Self/3T)

Sebek has ATK UP (Self/1T)

Lilia has ATK DOWN (Single foe/1T)

HP: Easy: 49,900 HP / Normal: 97,500 HP

Reminder:

Freeze and Curse have different durations on each difficulty mode:

Easy: Single target / 2 turns

Normal: Area / 2 turns

Hard: Area / 3 turns

Extra: Area / 3 turns

Freeze stops your buffs from working, it’s ok if you buff first though, so you can safely buff on odd turns.

You can avoid Curse if you heal on odd turns and go first, but Continuous Heal will still get blocked even if activated before the debuff, so time it well.

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Hello mods! So I’ve been reading a lot of your posts and this blog has been extremely useful to me. With the announcement that the English server is getting the 6th joint exam at the end of the month I thought I should probably ask if you all have any advice on how I can break into the SSS rank? I’ve been stuck at SS rank for the past two joint exams and while I am capable of getting SS-SSS rank on almost all the types of regular exams, but I usually only barely make it into the SSS range. I know to get SSS on the joint exams you often need to exceed the 20,000k mark by a fair bit on at least a few exams.

From looking at the 6th unified exam on JP server it seems like we will probably get: Fire and Cosmic Basic, and Water, Flora, Omni Defense.

For my usual exam scores for these types, I’ve gotten: S (16000) for Cosmic Basic, SS (19500 range) for Fire Basic and Flora Defense, and SSS (20100 range) for Water and Omni Defense. 

I average 5/5/5(if applicable) for spells across all my SSRs, everyone is duo capable, and most buddies are at least level 5 as well. 

Dorm Azul, Dorm Riddle, Dorm Leona, Halloween Jade, and Beans Floyd have both their M1 and M2 maxed, Camp Ruggie and Club Cater have their M1s maxed, and Dorm Vil has his M2 maxed.

For Buddy Levels, these cards are all either fully maxed on buddy levels or they at least have their main power boost (attack/balanced) or HP boost (defense/balanced) maxed. All others card buddies can be assumed closer to level 5.

Dorm: Azul, Riddle, Leona, Vil, Trey, Idia, Ortho, Rook, Jack, and Jade.

Event: Halloween Jade, Halloween Silver, Camp Ruggie, Club Cater, Silk Jamil, Union Azul, and Boa Epel.

I unfortunately have not put in a lot of work on SR cards so beyond Robes Malleus, Lab Azul, and Silk Cater all being maxed to level 80, none of the others are currently well built.

I know this is a lot to ask for and I totally understand if you don’t have time to help with all these teams, just thought I’d give it a shot to ask about! Thank you all so much again for your amazing blog!!

(P.S. Azul is my absolute favorite and Dorm Azul is my all star card and it makes me extremely happy when he is on one of my teams, if at all possible, but I’ll take team recs for higher scores very seriously even if he isn’t on them.)

Hello! First of all, same here, Dorm Azul is my ultimate card and I absolutely love using him in all my teams!! You’re very based for it actually. 

For 6th unified exams, the exams are actually: Fire, Water, and Cosmic Basic, and Flora and Omni Defense. So it’s just your Water team that needs more adjustment. Since Cosmic Basic is harder to score high than all the other tests, I highly suggest working on your defense tests (which you have excellent cards for). Those will really raise your score. 

Here’s the teams that I’d suggest. Remember that this is unified exams, so you can borrow supports! 

Fire Basic

Dorm Azul

Dorm Riddle

Dorm Ortho

Dorm Idia

Support GM Ace [Lv.100+, preferred Lv.110]

Water Basic

Dorm Leona

Dorm Vil

Dorm Ruggie

Dorm Jack

Support Dorm Leona [Lv.100+, preferred Lv.110]

Flora Defense

Halloween Silver

Lab/Birthday Kalim (recommend Lab though for double Fire)

Beans Floyd

Beans Jade OR Tsum Leona

Support Halloween Silver [Lv.100+]

Or

Beans Floyd

Dorm Idia

Dorm Trey

Dorm Cater

Support Halloween Silver [Lv.100+]

Cosmic Basic

Dorm Trey

Dorm Cater

Halloween Jade

Dorm Azul 

Support Dorm Riddle [Lv.110 highly preferred]

Or 

Dorm Leona

Dorm Vil

Birthday Lilia

Dorm Epel

Support Dorm Rook [Lv.110 highly preferred]

Omni Defense

Dorm Trey

Dorm Cater

Dorm Azul

Dorm Idia

Support Dorm Trey [Lv.110 highly preferred]

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If you're free please help me get SSS T-T

These are the teams that I'm currently using + all my SSRs I've never been able to get SSS in a unified exam yet BUT IM SO CLOSE I CAN TASTE IT??? I'm pretty sure it's mostly up to RNG/ leveling up some cards but idk I thought you guys could help me pin point exactly what could improve on

Ill list the exam + char + spell levels that I used just to make it slightly easier to see

Fire Basic:

Dorm Riddle Lv.90 10/10

Dorm Azul Lv.90 10/10

Dorm Idia Lv.85 5/10

Dorm Ortho Lv.85 5/10

(Buddy) Groom Ace Lv.110 10/10/10

Water Basic:

Dorm Azul Lv.90 10/10

Dorm Vil Lv.85 5/10

Halloween Jade Lv.80 5/10

Birthday Riddle Lv.80 5/10

(Buddy) Dorm Leona Lv.101 10/10/10

Flora Defense:

Dorm Azul Lv.90 10/10

Dorm Idia Lv.85 5/10

Dorm Jade Lv.95 10/10/10

Halloween Silver Lv.80 10/10

(Buddy) Beans Floyd Lv.110 10/10/10

Cosmic Defense:

Dorm Idia Lv.85 5/10

Dorm Trey Lv.97 10/5

Dorm Azul Lv.90 10/10

Dorm Jade Lv.95 10/10/10

(Buddy)Masq Malleus Lv.110 10/10/10

Omni Basic:

Birthday Lilia Lv.80 10/10

Dorm Rook Lv.85 10/10

Dorm Epel Lvl.90 5/10

Dorm Vil Lv.85 5/10

(Buddy) Dorm Leona Lv.110 10/10/10

I have a few other cards to sub though I guess?? + I don't really use SR cards so those are badly underleveled ( hence Dorm Jade instead of beans) but I definitely think I can get SSS this time around with your help! Thank you for taking the time to read my long ask!!

Hello!

I hope you’re not using Dorm Azul for Flora Defense 😹 (if you are, based tho)

Your teams are pretty good! Fire and Water Basic especially have potential for 21k. I’d suggest for Fire to try and end in 3 turns for better score since all your cards have been LB’d at least.

Omni Basic is also good. I have no comment except to use a support Lv.110 Dorm Rook as overkill instead of Dorm Leona, since you have your own Leona. However, it is more demanding rng-wise since you need to use Rook’s M1 at T2-T3.

For Flora Defense, I would recommend

Masquerade Malleus

Dorm Idia

Dorm Jade (M2/M3)

Dorm (M1/M3) or Beans Floyd (M1/M2)

Support: Lv.110 Dorm Idia (M1/M3)

Or

Dorm Trey

Dorm Cater

Club Lilia

HW Silver

SUPPORT: Lv.110 Dorm Idia (M1/M3)

Then for Cosmic Defense, truth be told it’s best to raise Beans Jade for this, so you could run:

Dorm Trey

Dorm Cater

Beans Jade

Dorm Azul

SUPPORT: Dorm Idia

However, you can also attempt:

Dorm Trey

Dorm Cater

Dorm Azul

Dorm Idia

SUPPORT: Lv.110 Dorm Trey

If that team doesn’t kill, and you can’t raise Beans Jade in time, you can run the first team but go with Dorm Jade instead. Important that you use his M3, because it contains a debuff.

Hope this helps, and good luck with SSS!!

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Hello, for the 5th Joint NRC exam. I keep getting heal blocked. The guide said to heal on odd turns. What does that exactly mean? I made sure to heal on the 3rd turn, my CR Ortho after Dorm Idia and CR Ortho got heal blocked. And then in 2nd turn which was an even turn, I put both of my heals Trey and SM Silver and Trey got healed whereas SM was heal blocked. I'm completely confused here. :(

I'll go into an example and more detail in this post on what we meant by "try to heal on odd turns", but for your specific scenario, you need to also check who the foe is that is coming out. Robe Ortho as the second attack of turn 3 got heal blocked, since the foe they sent out first on turn 3 had Curse. Trey healing and SM Silver getting Cursed on turn 2 means that the foe they sent out second on turn 2 had Curse. You can't just blindly throw out without considering the foe's effects and attacks, especially during NRC Joint Exams.

Here are two posts that may help you understand this explanation a bit better: What decides who goes first each turn? and Can we determine what spells the opponent uses next?

I think you'll learn something useful from the first one, especially. Not only do we take turns attacking, we also take turns with effects. which is why you sometimes luck out with the Curses and not.

Now, onto an example, under the cut. This will be similar to the second link, except that I'll be using the Water Magic Defense Exam from the current EN Joint Exams as my example.

The nuance to "try to heal on odd turns" is still tricky in the normal day-to-day, not to mention the Joint NRC exams. It isn't a "fool-proof" tip. This session's Heartslabyul group is especially vicious. Ace, Deuce, Cater, and Trey each have a Curse effect, which will last for three turns.

The tip to using your healers on the third turn comes from the fact that you will go first in both effect, and attacks. But you'll also want to pay attention to the foe that will be sent out, and the other possible choices in the back. Turn 2 and 4 are still viable, as long as you know that a Curse effect will not follow.

I'll use the following team: Double Dorm Trey, Beans Floyd, Beans Jade, and Dorm Azul. (This team is not powered up enough in EN to get me a good score, but I'll be using it for the sake of this example, since each one has a heal.)

Turn 1: The foe is about to send out Cater (who could Curse me), and has one Trey, one Riddle, and two Deuces waiting as a possible second hit. Trey and Deuce have Curse possibility as well. On Turn 1, I still have 4/4 Curses that can come out and hit me. I chose Jade's M1 and Trey's M2. I could have chosen Floyd's M1 with the continuous heal, but I wanted to save it, just in case there was a Curse that showed up in turn 1.

And, lo and behold, Deuce appeared as the second foe and Cursed. Keep in mind, that (ignoring that it's the first turn) if I had chosen a healer for either Jade, or Trey, I still would have been able to get the effects of the heal, since on odd turns, our attacks and effects go first (reference back to the first link I dropped in this post).

Moving on to Turn 2: We don't know the first attack, but we know Riddle is second. And the other ones waiting in the wings are Trey, Deuce, another Riddle, and Cater. While we have 3/4 Curses left, Deuce has already used his curse, and Riddle doesn't Curse. This means that out of the 4 attacks that the foe has this turn, there is a 50% chance that there will not be a Curse thrown at me. "I take my chances and throw out Beans Floyd, and-" is what I was about to type, but then I looked at my lineup. Healer (Weak), Healer, Healer, Healer (Weak). Well... I guess I have no choice but to choose Floyd, and one of my Healers. Since I don't want to lose that Trey's Heal, just incase it is a curse, I'll send out Azul's heal.

Luckily, Cater came in and he didn't Curse. This means that Floyd will be able to continuously heal the next three turns. Perfect!

Turn 3: Riddle is first. Fantastic. Riddle doesn't curse. That means that even if a foe with Curse appears in the second attack If I put two heals in, I'll be able to heal with no problem. The foe lineup is Trey, Deuce, Riddle, and Ace now. Trey and Ace can still Curse, so that's still 50% of a Curse happening. This is the turn I'm hoping that a Curse will appear as their second effect. Here I'll use Support Trey's Heal, and Support Trey's M2. I could use Azul's M2 because he already healed, and so it's okay if he gets cursed, but I want to try to use as much advantageous spells as possible first, as a rule.

Sweet, Ace's curse came second. His effect Cursed Support Trey, but he's already healed on Attack 1 of Turn 3, so that's fine by me. Now there's only 2/4 curses left (Trey and Cater).

This is where I may be in trouble. I chose this team to have as many healers as I could, but that means I have two Fire attacks, which are weak in this exam. For Turn 4, I will be choosing Trey's heal, and Azul's M2. Looking at the foe list, I have a 1/3 chance that Cater will appear as the first attacker and Curse Trey's heal. But the odds are in my favor... I hope.

Fantastic, Deuce showed up. Trey healed without a problem.

And finally, it's Turn 5. I have my two fire elements, so this will hurt me immensely, but because Riddle is the first foe (and has no Curse effect), I can put my healer as first, or second attack, whichever I prefer. I'll send Floyd out first. Cater cursed, but it was after Jade healed.

I know it got long under the cut, but this is why many people forego Autoing the battles, or just throwing out what's advantageous. Knowing what the effects are is helpful to know who is going to throw out what, which is why we try to compile them for you so you're well prepared. The rest is RNG, unfortunately. In this battle, I got lucky and was able to activate all my heals. This is not always going to be the case for all battles. But try to pay attention to the foes that are going to attack, or may attack, and that'll give you a higher chance of surviving.

Hang in there.

~🐬

[twstgameplay]

https://twstgameplay.tumblr.com/post/734077967225995264/hello-prepping-for-ens-next-unified-exams-want Apologies for being unclear. I was asking if SSS was possible assuming all levels, spells and buddies were maxed, since I was not expecting unified exams to be upon us again so soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

My SSRs are the same as before except Dorm Epel and Azul are now LB2 and addition of Masquerade Malleus. All levels maxed. All spells maxed except for, which are lv 5: Masquerade Idia spell 2, Dorm Cater spell 2, Grim, Apple Boa Epel, Dorm Jamil, Dorm Ruggie, Port Jack, Tsum Leona, Dorm Deuce, Dorm Ace, Masquerade Malleus and Union Epel.

Below are my +lv 80 SRs. Spells maxed for welfares, Ortho's heal and Chef Jade, lv 5 otherwise. I don't have the honey nor books to max anything at the moment.

My current scores are: 25106 (Fire), - (Water), 21768 (Flora), 19199 (Cosmic) and 20035 (Omni). Fire team: Dorm Azul, Masquerade Idia, Dorm Epel, Port Rook, support Dorm Trey. Finished on T5.1 with 90.5% of total HP. I've tried 2 x Dorm Azul but very easy to kill early and heals were excessive. Flora, Cosmic and Omni team: Birthday Lilia, Dorm Vil, Dorm Leona, Dorm Epel, support Dorm Rook. For Cosmic, I've tried Dorm Rook instead of Dorm Leona and Halloween Vil instead of Dorm Vil seperately, but it was a bit RNG getting the right spells and Ortho's heals. Planned Water team: 2 x Dorm Trey, Dorm Cater, Dorm Vil, Halloween Rook.

Thank you in advance.

Hello! Seeing your current scores and your planned team, your chances of getting SSS are pretty high. If you score 24k or a really high 23k in Water Defense, you'd hit it.

Your planned Water Defense team is also really good. I think my only comment would be to try for Silk Vil instead of Dorm because he provides more HP (modest HP from Trey). But since your Silk Vil is at LB 3 while Dorm Vil is at max LB, the latter will still do very well, especially since he has double Flora and a 3 turn power drain on his M3.

Besides that, the only other exam you could increase is Omni, which is very rng heavy, so that's only for last resort.

~ 🐙

[twstgameplay]

Hello to the mods,

This is 💜 speaking, First of all thank you for the guides that you guys make, It really helps me in completing missions and winning battles. I have even started getting SS rank thanks to it.

Moving on to why I sent this request, I want to achieve SS in this joint exam but as you can see I am lacking in scores against water and cosmic defense team. So if you will please help me a way out. I play on hard level and have around 500K madols now.

I tried including as many details as I could. I admit I haven't been too much of a meta chaser preferring getting my oshi cards over them so this might not be the best deck.

SSR's

Dorm Riddle - 10/10 BB with Azul is 10 & Cater is 7

Groom Ace - 5/7 BB with Riddle is 10 & Epel is 8

Dorm Deuce - 6/6 BB with Ace is 10 , Riddle is 9 & Jamil is 4

Club Cater - 1/1 BB with Kalim is 7

Dorm Ruggie - 1/5

Dorm Azul - 7/10 BB with Riddle is 10 & Jade is 7

Dorm Jade - 1/1 BB with Azul is 9 and Floyd is 6

Birthday Floyd - 1/1 BB with Jamil is 3

Dorm Jamil - 7/5 BB with Kalim is 10

Birthday Jamil - 1/1

Silk Jamil - 5/6 BB with Cater is 10

Birthday Epel - 5/6 BB with Vil is 4

Dorm Epel - 1/1

Union Epel - 1/1 BB with Jack is 8

Applepom Epel - 1/1

Halloween Rook - 5/5 BB with Trey is 10

(BB stands for Buddy Bonus Level) and if the card doesn't had a BB for a chara I haven't written it.

I also added the spell levels of some SRs for better help

Cosmic Team

Mine Azul is lvl 10 BB with Riddle

The other Azul is lvl 1 BB with Riddle

Cater is lvl 10 BB with Jamil

Riddle is lvl 1 BB with Cater

Flora Team

Trey is lvl 7 BB with Rook

Epel is lvl 4 BB with Vil

Vil is lvl 1 BB with Trey

Rook is lvl 10 BB with Trey

Leona is lvl 10 BB with Vil and 10/10 spell

And this is all I have. I know this is late by a lot but life hasn't been too kind and stuff happened. This is my first time sending such a request so hope I didn't offend you guys in anyways.

And at last Thank you to everyone. :)

Cosmic Defense

For cosmic, if you are unable to end on T5-1 or T5-2 with Dorm Jamil, I suggest trying to increase to your HP pool as much as possible with as many heals as possible.

You could try

Team 1

Silk or Club Cater

Dorm Azul

Robes Riddle

HW Rook

Dorm Trey Support

Water Defense

Your issue is the same where you need Dorm Leona for damage to end on T5. If you have a Lvl 100+ Dorm Trey Support I would use him and keep the same team.

I would recommend that you switch out Bday Epel and Lab Vil for DW Idia and Robe Ortho if you have the resources to raise their levels and spells. If not, stick with Bday Epel and Lab Vil.

~ 👑

[twstgameplay]

hi!! thanks so much for helping me with my teams. cosmic shot up to 16k, my total score is 98k so I’m satisfied ☺️ I’m wondering if you have advice on who I should focus my mats on for flora and water?

[Response to this ask]

That's amazing, congratulations! 98k is really high~ so proud of you!!

By water and flora, do you mean the spells of cards or the exams? I'm assuming you're referring to spells, in which case, I would suggest Dorm Trey's second spell then Union Vil's second spell for flora. Then Birthday Lilia for water since you can make the Dorm Leona, Dorm Pome, Birthday Lilia team.

~ 🐙

[twstgameplay]

TWST Brags: SSS Get! (Unified Exams)

After all the bleeding, the crying, the SWEATING, I got it… finally!!

I GOT MY FIRST SSS IN UNIFIED EXAMS!!

Here are the teams that I have used:

Fire Basic

Water Defense

Who knew Birthday Azul would be so useful in this test? :3c

Flora Basic

Cosmic Basic

Omni Defense

Extra screenshots of me upping my score a bit for today :3

Other things to share because I am so happy:

Only did Omni once, and my rng was already amazing in that one try, so I haven't touched it since

I was stuck at 109,869 for two days, which was really frustrating xD I tried to up Cosmic because I have achieved higher scores with the same team before, but rng was not cooperating. So I turned to Water.

I initially could only kill on turn 5 second attack on Water, and my score then was around 23,763. Bday Azul's M3 was only at Lv.1, so there were chances of improvement, but I tried replacing him with Union Vil. But I couldn't kill on time either with him, and it's worse because there are two Fire elements I had to worry about. XD The solution was just leveling Azul's M3 to Lv.5, and the biggest W here really is that Azul remained the better choice for me. :3c

I know I make it a point to use Azul in all my exams, but I didn't realize how much I used Dorm Azul until seeing 3 of my teams having him. o_o

I want to say thank you so much to the Lv.110 supports that I used to get me to this point as well and all the support and help from friends 🥺 it really was not easy getting here especially because I’m f2p and don’t have all the cards or the levels that I want. QoL updates also really helped me get here thanks to the stat boosts at MLB and the M3, so bless Twst for the boost xD

~ 🐙

[twstgameplay]

AAAAAAAAAAAA I DID IT, I FINALLY BREACHED SS FOR THE UNIFIED EXAMSSSSS ;;;;;

96466 I CRIED TEARS

2 YEARS, FROM A C IN THE 3RD EXAM TO SS IN 9TH, I THOUGHT ID BE STUCK IN S RANK AGAIN THIS ROUND ;;;

I tried out many of the teams that were suggested n played a bit around n the final teams that ended up raising/bringing me a higher scores were:

FIRE BASIC-18972

Robe Vil LV50, 5/5

Beans Floyd (M2/M3) LV110, maxed out

Dorm Jade LV80, 7/10

Tsum Riddle LV80, 6/5

Dorm Azul support

WATER DEFENSE-21867

Beans Floyd (M1/M3) LV110, maxed out

SM Jade LV85, maxed out

NY Kalim LV80, 10/5

Tsum Leona LV80, 6/5

NY Kalim support

FLORA BASIC-18439

Beans Floyd LV110, maxed out

Robe Vil LV50, 5/5

Robe Cater

Robe Azul LV80, 5/5

Dorm Riddle support

NULL BASIC-16703

Dorm Jack LV62, 5/5

Beans Floyd (M2/M3) LV110, maxed out

Camp Ruggie LV80, maxed out

Robe Vil LV50, 5/5

Dorm Leona support

(I did try with the suggested team of Jack, Floyd, Ruggie, Dorm Leona, Dorm Vil support but bc my own Leona isnt maxed out, I tried switching out using a Leona support instead to see if I could get a higher damage even tho I lose one duo)

OMNI DEFENSE-20485

Beans Floyd (M1/M3) LV110, maxed out

PE Epel LV60, 10/4

Lab Ace LV44, 5/5

Beans Jade LV80, 8/5

Camp Ruggie support (M1/M3)

(bless R healers)

Maybe SSS isnt so impossible now after this round ;;;;

Big thank you to all the mods on this blog n all the help yall always provide n esp thank you mod Furoido for always being patient with me n helping me out with team comps!! All yalls help is always invaluable n very much appreciated~!! I don't think I can thank yall enough!

Heeyy~

Congrats on SS!!! And thanks for sharing your teams and results with us, it makes us happy to receive feedback on the teams to know what worked, what didn’t and to see how the scores improved >w<

The road to SSS isn’t easy, but it’s not impossible either. You could start with aiming for 100k first as you prepare for a future 110k score, I suggest checking previous team comps asks or the #twst brags to see what has worked for other people so you can try something similar (me and Mod Zuzu recently got our first SSS in Joint Exams + we’re f2p, so our teams are nothing that over the top).

Good luck with the grind, time to level up like crazy to get that new high score!

~ 🦈

[twstgameplay]

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[twstgameplay]

Welcome to TWST Gameplay!

This is a blog that will focus on giving tips to poor souls such as yourselves for a chance to attain higher scores in your Tests and Unified Exams!

This VIP Room is run by: Mod Zuzu － @pianostarinwonderland Mod Furoido － @ne-jeido Mod Jeido － @ee-furoido

Part of what makes the tests difficult is determining what team composition is right for which battle. Now that there are both Basic and Defense Tests, it becomes more prudent than ever to power up your best options if you’re trying to improve your score.

We’ll place our notes on new tests and new cards when they come out in hopes of giving you advice on how to utilize your weapons and how to tackle each test. Quite the deal, isn’t it?

Feel free to ask for our assistance on how to improve your test scores by sending us images of your available cards via ask or submission (see here for our preferred layout) to let us help you find possible teams to try. Also, if you ever record your battle and wish to submit it (whether it be for us to commiserate with you on terrible RNG or to brag about a test well fought), don’t hesitate to show us!

Let Octavinelle be your strength for these upcoming tests. And we promise... it'll be without an anemone sprouting on your head. Fufufu.

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