Phantom Dragon King - Special

Ugh, I really wanna run this so I can get that dragon seed.

This dungeon is a whole lot easier than it looks. I managed to clear it pretty half-assedly with a standard Awoken Bastet team. The only damage I took the entire dungeon was from Firedragon's preemptive Floor 5.

Awoken Bastet / Vishnu / GZL / Awoken Meimei / Perseus / Awoken Bastet

All max level max awoken, both Bastets hypermax. Of course, levels dont matter, and I didnt really find that the +297s helped ALL that much so you could probably do without them. Just aim for max awoken. Also, skillups dont really matter either; I didnt need to use a skill until floor 8, and by then all of your skills should be up. Also, there's plenty of time to stall for skills on floors 2 and 6.

Ideally you want to bring a team that gives you some extra leeway when it comes to time given for comboing; you also want to stack TPAs / rows, and maybe bring a defense breaker (I used GZL) if you have one.

Floor 1: Don't be intimidated by the dragon seeds. Hit a decent multiplier (even x6.25 is enough tbh), making sure you cover a decent amount of hits / colors too, so that each monster on your team + 2-3 subcolors are dealing damage. That way, you fulfill the 7 different hits necessary to take down the seedlings. Monocolors have a clear advantage on this floor.

Floor 2: Try to target Pengdras first, and if necessary, stall on metal dragons, which are fairly weak. If you dont think it's safe, you can always clear the floor and stall on floor 6, which is the exact same thing, but by then your monsters will have higher levels.

Floor 3: Try to spike them down in one or two shots. Aim for the middle one first. Cry and ponder your life decisions if you happened to bring a Dark team (don't bring a Dark team.) If you can isolate one of the little ones, they're super easy to stall on for skills. But ofc, there are many more opportunities to stall so if you dont feel safe just clear the floor.

Floor 4: Easiest to hardest to deal with: D / R / G / L / B. They're all not difficult, though. Watch your HP stat, because even at your low levels, none should be able to OHKO you in one shot, or even 2HKO if your monsters are bulky. They're pretty frail though, so you can clear them pretty easily with a TPA or a row. All you really have to make sure to be mindful of is to clear all poison orbs if you happen to face Awilda, as remaining poison orbs will trigger an OHKO attack from big Zaerog turn 1.

Floor 5: We're all pretty familiar with these guys, aren't we? Spike them down if you can; none of them have immediately punishing low HP spikes, and the ones that do give you a few turns to finish them off.

Floor 6: Stall here if you need to. Aim for Pengdras first, try not to overshoot because they're pretty frail.

Floor 7: Here's where the def breaker comes in handy. This is probably the most obvious hurdle in the entire dungeon; if you cant deal over 180,000 damage in one turn to a foe, this dungeon wont be easy. Ofc, if you can spike it, then it's not too hard. Again, TPAs and Rows help you get that extra bit of damage in.

Floor 8: Same as last stage bit a little easier in my opinion. Side little dragons die quick, so focus on the middle dragon and take out the side ones with spread attacks. 4mil HP is close to that of big Zearog himself, but you usually have 2-3 turns. Use a skill here if you need to.

Floor 9: Here's where the time extend awakenings come in handy. Dont be intimidated by 6 combos; just plan out your orb movements beforehand and try to hit all of your colors to deal as much damage as possible. You pretty much have 4 turns to KO him without receiving any damage if you deal at least 8 hits every turn, so there is a wide room for error, so long as you hit 6+ combos consistently.

Floor 10: If, with your dark team, you managed to get this far, I officially give you a personal pat on the back. That's really intense.
Anyway, Zaerog himself isn't so frightening either. Preemptive he'll put up status shield and -75% damage reduction, which is totally fine because you'll want to spike him anyway. This is where your buff-makers come in handy - if you have, say, Awoken Bastet's spread attack buff up, Zaerog will waste his first turn clearing it. After that, his 75% shield goes down, and you can burst him. Some good buffs you can use: Awoken Egyptian: Bastet, Isis. Damage boosters: Norse. Defense: Susano, Phoenix Rider, Kushinada, etc. If you don't have a buffer, you can also use an unbindable bind clearer to free your team. Deal as much damage as you can without spiking first turn, and once his 75% shield goes off, burst him down. If you bring Water resist latent or awakening, you also have some breathing room, as his 100% gravity wont kill you, giving you another turn.


Good luck friends!

Wow, these dungeons keep getting more and more ridiculous.

Personally, I can't wait for Explosion Descended, where there's only one floor and the boss has a preemptive that hits for 999,999,999 damage.

Posting in case someone is looking for a safe farming team for this weekend.
I have about a 90% success rate (because I mess up).

Bastet x Bastet
Liubei
Perseus (heartmaker, delay, change for something else if more dmg is needed on F8)
Osiris (short turn orb convert)
Asgard (>3 turn dmg reduction or Vishnu - something to deal with F9 troll.)


Safe build that survives horrible trolls on F9. i.e, 0 green on the first 2 turns (it happened to me). May need 400~500 plus eggs to be able to take the big hit on F9.

*Below assumes worst case scenarios. But most of the time, everything will be one shot with no stalling. But you need to stall 2 turns for Golem somewhere.

F1: Wipe with green, fire or light (Cat)
F2: Can take hits and stall (but look at enemy types and their turns first).
F3: Can take 2 turns, but kill on t1 if poss. lest they convert green.
F4: Osiris.
F5: Grind. Usually dont need an active, but can use Bastet.
F6: Kill with fire TPA and save green.
F7: Bastet and 1 TPA (Osiris if must)
F8: Take a turn to gather green. Put 1 green on the right edge. Hit Asgard, Osiris and make 2 TPA 7 combos. Use Perseus for more green if unable to make 7.
F9: Can survive big hits. No need to heal during blind. Perseus if out of hearts after that.
F10: Bastet and combo (or set up board). Liubei next turn.

So, I just entered with bastet and had a flr1 Leilan invade? WTF???

I just love Zaerog infinite's skill names!
"6 combos or you die!"
"Not good enough"
"Not enough damage!"
"Hm, try again"
"It'll be harder this time"
"Let's continue!"
"Return to zero"
"Re-Zero"
"End of pain"
"Beyond the pain"
Some of my favorite quotes.

Luckiest invade ever: Floor 9

I was surprised to see no "BOSS BATTLE" warning when entering floor 9. Next thing I know, I'm fighting Leilan. I was lucky enough to tank hits and beat her with my Bastet team. THEN comes the Boss Battle warning. Totally skipped Zaerog's first form! Luckiest invade for me!!

"Oh hey, this dungeon doesn't look too ba-

[Cards start at level 1]

Fuk it."

Reminds of certain dungeons in the pokemon mystery dungeon series...

I love how Zaerog straight up tells you that you'll die if you don't do a 6-combo.

Just tried it out with my Awoken Shiva team. This dungeon requires your whole team to have craploads of plus eggs poured on them. I thought it was going to be a cake walk, but dang. Good luck, guys!

I guess this dungeon defines the meaning of,

"From Zero to Hero."

A couple of things regarding invades:

Firstly, invades do take place in these start-at-lv.1 dungeons, and they seem to be at a legend level status.
I got leilan, and her attack did about 6800.
If you can resist that skill bind, this can be a decent stalling opportunity.
Secondly, the exp provided by these incarnations, however, is significantly lower than that given by two super kings (but may be higher than pengdras)!!! E.g. My Ra was lv.50 when I beat normal super kings, but was a pathetic 33 had leilan took the kings' place. This may hinder your progress, as I did notice my damage was not as impressive as usual (though it did not matter in the end). If you can beat Nordis with a Ra team, you can beat zaerog even if there is an invasion, np.
Finally, yes, you get the jewel.

If spirit jewels invade on lv.1 in these dungeons... That is just a little unfair.

Edit: got another invade fl.2 and... Nope, leilan gives lower exp than pengdras and baby metal dragons. Maybe it is time for you to retire, ms..

If you can make this dungeon very passable (which is really not that hard for "awoken" teams) then farming it is far better choice than spending stamina on "metal dragons infestations".

(As far as I know) there is guaranteed one super king metal dragon and one high one (exept cases when you get heavy metal dragon, but then you will be happy anyway).

So just for this it is better than many runs on "infestations" when you get only one/two simple kings and 3/4 high metals.

The rest of drop is just "bonus" ;)

And those exp/stamina ratio... so good...

non rem build bar the friend yomi dra (but everyone has those nowadays :P).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrBSLzo42A0

Not sure how we're supposed to beat off colour Chinese gods in this game when we're level 1, but hey.... Chinese lds and free jewels (when they appear), right?

https://youtu.be/0zzCo0NJGBA

Seeing as people didn't believe me, here you go

Note the higher the cost, the slower it takes to level up here.

Rest In Pengdras, Athena teams and Beelzebub/Ronia teams

Then again, there's SEVEN instakill Dragon Seeds on Floor 1.

Also Enhanced Poison orbs or Mortal Poison orbs take off 1/8 of your health per orb, so matching them will cut your HP by a third, and matching 8 will always kill you.

He can only make them out of Poison orbs so you gotta clear them fast.

Well look at this dungeon at a different angle. It has all the materials that you need. It's got heavy metal dragon and all the materials to ult evo him and to all three forms so you can then create this new ultimate zaerog thing. An all inclusive dungeon

Does anybody know how to upload a picture so i can prove what I'm about to say....but i just zero stoned this with valkitty

Kirin leads, Echidna, Susano, B. Meta, & Athena along with 10+ stones gets you a shiney new creature.

1 stoned this just now with a light Kali team because I got orb trolled. I am a rank 210 non-iap player so don't get discouraged if at first it looks scary or really hard. You will get it soon :)

Hey everybody. How many zaerog are you all collecting? I assume 2? One for sonia gran and one for himself? Making sure im not missing something as I want to clear this dungeon as few times as possible


Oh wait I was mistaken. It appears you only need 1. The sonia gran ingredient comes from heavy metal dragon.

I think I'm driving myself crazy with all thsee zaerogs. Can someone confirm the total is 1

Psh, this dungeon cant be that hard.

*Looks at dungeon information*.........*Loses 5 stones*

Wait how did I....I wasn't.....I lost stones just from looking at a web page?!

**ATTENTION**
You get a py with 2000 pal points not 10mill

Bursted my bubble too:(((

The question is, Are you ready to even take on this dungeon?

what's skill set 1-2-3?

Are dungeons like these the ones that are used to unlock the new universal awakenings ? I haven't found much info on the silver navi TAMADRAs since they first announced this system.

This dungeon is speculated for 9/25 & I'm one super king metal away from having all of his Evo material! Hyper maxed Wukong ready to go, I've been looking forward to this for months! Infinity and beyond!!!

Anubis?

What's the drop rate on zaerog at the end?

Dies by dragon seeds due to orb troll, what a honorable and glorious way to go out!

the dungeon was updated today?
was that a casual update, or a sign that it's about to come to English PAD?

How can I suppose to beat this dungeon :/ ! I'll run this with Ama/Odin :)))) jk ...

WATCH OUT GUYS IT'S ZAEROGOO

Skyozora and PadGuide report 10M defense on Zaerog's first form, not 1M.

Green Pirate Dragon be like " Yo Ho Yo Ho Yo Ho time to get wrecked by me"

What would be recommended for doing this dungeon, im only level 85 and I don't have the best teams so should I not do this run or should I try?

I just beat it with dual Lkali, awoken Anubis, Dmeta, Lmeta, izanagi, and Ult. Rodin. I spent one stone on floor eight because of skyfall and no Kali's up: ( floors one through seven are a cake walk assuming you get the 36x multiplier on floor seven. Floor eight is o.k. Because the heavy metal dragon is dark. Floor nine is easy if you get 6 combos on the first two turns. You can then pop rodin for the kill. Floor ten is hard, but you need to whittle Zaerogs hp to just above 50% after using d.meta to tank his shot. Use izanagi and a Kali if you have to and end the reign of the dragon lord!

It seems like Heavy Metal dragon is a tougher obstacle than I had thought initially. 4m damage does not seem like much. Until the subs I had to replace for strategical reasons and the lower party level kicked in. I got so close to beating this dungeon :(

I some how managed to only 1 stone this with a Ra-Team and I am proud to brag about it!! :<

gained +48000 experience plus +58000 coins per run.
9 runs to get this thing fully awoken, 5 runs gets you +240000 exp, if that what you need to rank up, thats enough exp without using stone to do this within a day.

I am not worthy to face such a foe. -_-

0 Stoned with A.Bastet. Unplussed, unskilled except for hypermax friend. Used Liu Bei, Perseus, Osiris, Kushi (who is optional, but I recommend something with skill bind resist). I swept 1-6 quickly since hp was low, used actives sparingly (1 bastet on 4, which spawned the fire one). Used another bastet on FL7 to be safe, used Osiris on FL8, but didn't do enough damage so I used Kushi as a trigger for Bastet's extra multiplier on the second turn to be safe since Heavy Metal had spawned with a timer of 2. FL9 is just a matter of making 6 combos for 2 turns, so nothing special there. FL 10, used bastet to get Zaerog to waste his shielded turn cancelling the buff, then 1 shot with Liu Bei (17 Green). If that had failed, this setup allows a second chance to kill as long as you did at least 50% dmg, as you will resist the skill bind when Zaerog uses the turn to recover, and the second time around, you get 2x dmg since he will be water element now. The other benefit is that since everyone is relatively cheap in terms of team cost, they level up pretty well. The team was lv 69 across the board, except for Osiris who was 81.

Thought about it.... Watched the players posted on youtube. I kept pausing and replaying. Jaw dropped and my thoughts of possibilities withered away for the time being. My bank account is not built on fairy dust and Dragon dreams

0 stoned on team of Awoken Ra leads, 2 L Kali subs (I know, v. lucky to have them), Sun Quan, and Aamir. Was actually pretty easy; I didn't look up the dungeon until I was at the boss, cause I was surprised I had made it that far. Used a Ra on floor 1 (I didn't feel like failing out immediately because I flubbed a Ra), accidentally stalled on FL 6 due to orb troll, pinged down the boss until he reached his final form. Waited out the 75% damage shield, Aamir to free up my bound card, used Sun Quan for +damage, and I had a Ra up to ensure I had enough time to match well (including TPA for the Kalis). With those monsters, they weren't very high level by the time I hit the boss, maybe 50's except for Aamir. Was plenty of damage, though, given that the Kalis were hitting for 200x damage x2 light bonus x1.5 tpa.

Easily done with an Awoken Ra team. I was able to OHKO Zaerog on the first turn using Muse, and two TPA Light combos.

Awoken Ra
L.Kali
D.Kali
Muse
chibi valk

Saved D.Kali + chibi valk for the last floor. Use skills as needed!

Lkali (~50 at end)/ Sun Quan (~75 at end) / L Valk (~68 at end) / B Valk (~68 at end) / 1000 day Tamadra (MAX all the way) / AWO Ra (~65 at end)

Got all the way to Zaerog final form without spending a stone. Was just cause I waited out the 75% reduction and got bound that I spent 1 stone. Then 1 shot the bugger thanks to Sun Quan. But overall way easier than what I thought it'd be even with the team around level 25 half of the way. 1000 day Tama is also a life saver with 1000 guarenteed rcv and 6cd high dragon and sheidra killer.

OHHHHHHH Special pink title :0

sara team can clear this easily,just get all the orb changers on the team,must max skilled, plus eggs are not required,with constant skyfall buff, and orb changers, you should able to sweep every single floor before 9th floor, and the sky fall buff make it easy to 6comb at 9th floor, just match and kill it. 10th floor use one sara so it will only cancel your buff,then kill it at the next turn. 3 3match and 1 5match water comb can secure the kill.

Beating this dungeon with an a.ra team with a total of 150 plus eggs makes me realize one thing only:

I could've beaten almost everything else with a team of lv.50s??!!

Oops posted comment in wrong dungeon.

Nice, was able to 0 stone this with Lkali team. Had pretty much no + egg's either so yay? (most I had was 27 for SQ) Used the recommended team with Sun Quan, Kotaro, and Dark Izanami as subs, with Lvalk instead of another Lkali. Had the jewel invade on floor 7, so that was a nice bonus reward. (too bad Heavy Metal didn't drop :P)

Will Zaerog∞ use either Return to Zero or Sacrifice, or can he use both?

Man. Awoken Kenshiro wrecks this. I currently have my Kenshiro with TWO Skill-Delay Resist Latents, so that he can use it on floor 9. My Awoken Susano has ONE so that he can use his skill on floor 10, and his Haste makes everyone up by the time Zaerogoo's shield is down.

My current team looks like this:

Kenshiro leaders
Awoken Shiva - Stat stick, Time-Extend Awakenings, and he's my only hypermaxed unit
D.Kali - Time-Extend Awakenings, fills Dark spot, Whole-Board Change for safety
Shinra Sun God Apollo (#1980) - Awoken Freyr isn't here yet, so...
Awoken Susano - Fills Green spot, Haste, very important for floor 10 for free turn

Everything was a cakewalk. Use D.Kali whenever needed. Kenshiro's LS is easy to activate, and Fire orbs aren't even needed to clear trash floors. Hence, all skills (except for D.Kali's) can be saved for floors 9 and 10.

the team that works for me is
Awoken Ra
LKali
Durga
Awoken Susano
Awoken Bastet
A. Ra

Orb trolls kill me occasionally so i may try a bastet team that everyones suggesting
Oh and putting the skill delay resist tamadra on susano was a great idea whoever mentioned it in here

Good news everyone! The coop version of this dungeon in the lower difficulty is not only less stam to run, but also is identical (from what I can tell) to this original dungeon. It also appears to have 100% drop rate on the boss. If you've already been able to beat this dungeon. just do single player in coop and you're good to farm the boss whenever you have stamina to burn.

Awoken Shiva places me greatly at the mercy of the 6-combo shield. Somehow when confronted with shields I suddenly forget how to play the game and I become a scrub. RIP.

HOWEVER a fully hypermaxed Thor/Saria team can probably surmount the nuke that Baby Zaerog Infinity uses. Nonetheless, I find Thor/Saria to be a far more stable build, provided you can make 6 combos without much in the way of time extends. Bring along Light Metatron or Awoken Amaterasu to make the bind go away since you won't have a buff you can bait Adult Zaerog Infinity with and you're golden.

Beat with standard Sarasvati Max skill team. Brought the siren with menace skill but didn't need it. Hardest part is the 6 combos twice in a row with limited extends.

Posting for reference, as it took me forever to find. Based my strategy on ainvar's most excellent Mythical-Plus solo strategy:

http://puzzleanddragonsforum.com/threads/solo-coop-z8-scarlet-teams.89219/

Saria//DQ/Valk/Apollo/AAma//Thor

1: Light TPA. Can use Valk if needed.
2: Can stall on dragons if you used valk, not really necessary. TPA + two combos should do it.
3: One row and one TPA will wipe all, one row should just wipe middle guy.
4: Apollo.
5: DQ.
6: Stall until one turn left on Apollo, save darks.
7: Apollo.
8: DQ+Valk.
9: Make two 6 combos in a row. This is the clutch moment. Ping down remainder. Has 32HP total.
10: Congrats! Don't pop actives yet, as he has that 75% shield. Make a match first, take the bind, then Ama->Saria->Valk->Thor.

I decide to try and run this for the first time with my Awoken Bastet team. I have been struggling the whole dungeon and have no skills up. I somehow get to floor 9... I'm mentally preparing to lose when suddenly....

MEIMEI INVADE :)

Wood Jewel invade on the 9th floor and skyfalling so many hearts. Managed to stall and finally beat Z8 for the first time. Now I need to try and get a 2nd one for my awoken yomi and/or my awoken haku team

Before you invest stones in this dungeon make sure that you actually want him. He's good but not as incredible as the team you probably had to use to pass this dungeon.

Tears of blood. 30 stones. Tears of BLOOD!

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