So far the ones that tend to get shown off are the 3k runs (for obvious reasons admittedly) so I'm interested to see what other people are doing for those without full A3 teams with all the characters they need.

Might also help serve as inspiration for people who are struggling/people who are near getting the thresholds they want and just need a bit more.

For me for instance I do have a full A3 water team with reasonable equipment (though not breakthroughs)(given no fire boss yet, haven't had time to fully flex it).

For the first day I was able to pull through the A3 lvl1 difficulty with 40% without TOO much difficulty by swapping in forest detonator and going for movement speed (not a massive issue, 1 tile difference rarely changes things), pawns and no aurora time (I was rarely actually getting a chance to USE aurora time anyway). Could have probably fitted in a few more % (T1 lower def/hp and T1 reduced turns) but I got the score I wanted and didn't care too much. The pawns actually helped me more than the boss in this case, as there were several times I was able to use the pawns to block the boss and prevent it from stunning me (the biggest threat).

For todays/day 2, the lack of multi tile enemies had me messing around with off colour charon as an attempted lead, but after messing around with some of the challenges (the shields is a pain if you can't kill them quickly, and I got overwhelmed by the pawns this time due to the shields/heals) I actually ended up dropping down a difficulty tier, and then taking EVERY CHALLENGE apart from the immune to chains, switched back to my mono element, and 3 turn killed (with philshy the lowered def/hp, start at 1% meant I had ~90% hp at the end of turn 1, which allowed me to live just long enough as I kited over to more blue tiles to win). Pawns also saved the day today (stopped the boss from sniping on the other side of the map and forced it to move over to the blue tiles I needed to kill it).

What other tricks have you guys been coming up with for those who can't simply brute force through the high end stages (or as the case may be, through the lower end stages)?