CR-EX-8 CM Elite 1 Level 1 Four Stars

Because he has no checkpoints in the barricade, Mateo will try to go through the bottom path if the two barricades on the other path are broken. This, together with some clever blockshifting tech, lets you put him in the hole. What I realized is that I can reuse the same mobs that helped shift Mateo in the hole to also shift mobs in the phase 2 into the hole. Unlike the first setup (which requires a tight deployment) the new deployment is very easy. The red hammers of phase 2 will go in automatically, but the grenadiers and Bodyguards will usually get stuck on the explosive block and pop it, opening up a different path.

I came up with two solutions for this. ‪@DrSilvergun‬ told me that Grenadiers when you pop their ability gain enough movespeed that they overshoot their usual turning point on the bottom, stopping them from getting caught on the block. However, their increased movespeed also makes them go too far into the left blocker, which causes them to get stuck between the two existing Grenadiers. I fixed this by blockshifting them back to the right with a quick deploy (Myrtle + Shaw). However, I saw a video where someone shifts Mateo with only one Grenadier, which means this may not be necessary.

The Bodyguards are only Weight 3. This means that Shaw S1 at skill levels 4+ can push them by 0.1 tiles, which is exactly enough to send them to skip the block.

After coming up with these two ideas I worked out the rest of the clear. From playing normally I knew that such low level 4* have no chance at beating the map even without Mateo, there's no way to kill all the HP the 2nd phase elites have. Going all out my units can barely kill the 2 Bodyguards that spawn left and can't be shifted. CN discovered this blockshifting Mateo trick near the end of the event ( https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1PZ4... ) and I worked out the phase 2 mobs trick myself because I knew I would need some absurd tricks to beat CM.

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