Contingency Contract: Guide to Challenge Contract 3 - Permanent Stage - Area 59 Ruins

This guide will step through a strategy for clearing Challenge Contract 3 for the Permanent Stage.

For information on other CC Stages see these pages:

Challenge Contracts

The Contract specific challenges are as follows:

• The main Challenge is, of course, the super-powered Avengers.  If they hit you when they are below 50%, we are pretty much going to die.  In this strategy we are going to attempt to slow them down and kill them before they can touch anyone or reach the goal.  We will use primarily Arts damage to kill them, as the contract buffs their DEF but not their RES.
• No Defenders and No Guards means we can't evade-tank the Avengers with hellagur.  It also means we are going to have to block the main melee rush with Vanguards or Specialists.

Our Core formation:

• 1 Skill-DP-Recovery Vanguard, V1
• 1 Push Specialist, SP1, with S2 Skill level at least 7.
• 1 ST Medic, M1
• 2 Slower Supporters, Su1 and Su2
• 4 Casters, C1-C4, C1 and C2 should be ST Casters, for C3 it might depend on who you have but either AoE or ST will probably work.  Same with C4, but if you might also consider using an AoE Sniper here, especially ShiraYuki S2.
• 1 Control Specialist - Sp2 - if you don't have one of these, there isn't much you can do to replace it in this case.  Perhaps Projekt Red with her Stun can help delay.  otherwise, add another blocker or dpser wherever makes sense.
• 1 Quick-Redeploy Specialist - Sp3

Here is an example of the team I used:

Unit placement can be seen in the image below, and deployment order should be done exactly as presented.  Each Operator can be placed as soon as there is sufficient DP.

Deployment Order: 

1. V1: Courier - Skill-DP-Recovery Vanguard
2. Su1: Istina - Slower Supporter
3. C1: Haze - ST Caster
4. Sp1: FEater - Push Specialist
5. Su2: Glaucus - Slower Supporter
6. C2: Amiya - ST Caster
7. M1: Silence - ST Medic
8. C3: Skyfire - AoE Caster
9. C4: Gitano - AoE Caster

We are now at our Deploy Limit and our formation should look like this:

When we have the DP, we'll retreat our V1 and Deploy Sp2: Manticore - Control Specialist

This is going to be our formation for a while:

• Be sure to use Skills at appropriate times when the Avengers are in range or when there is a rush of melee.  See the video below for examples.
• When the Caster Leader spawns in the upper left hand corner, retreat our C4 and deploy our Sp3: Gravel - Fast Redeploy Specialist to take it out.

When the caster is down, retreat Sp3, and deploy whatever Operators make sense.  Perhaps a blocker at C7.

• when only the last Avenger is left, you can retreat M1 and deploy another ranged arts damage.
• Remember that we can still pass this stage if 1 enemy gets through, but not more than one.  This means we can let 1 of the 2 Red Katana Dudes through if we need to

Enjoy your rewards!