Alvastia Chronicles
31 Achievements
1,000
15-20h
Combo Pro
Achieved 50-hit combo.
30
1.9%
How to unlock the Combo Pro achievement in Alvastia Chronicles - Definitive Guide
Worth noting that before you can recruit him (From Stonwahl Fort) you need to recruit all other human companions:
Natalie - Sirhyus Village
Leona - Sirhyus Village
Maurice - Rubeus Town
Shade - Topace Port
Oliver - Altare Town
Rei - Dennev Town - ruins
Vorrine - Rubeus Town
Sullivan - Topace port
Hosea - Munlus Tunnel
Bobby - Helianth Town
Ingrid - Topace port
Dresser - Sirhyus Village
Barrel - Veynahs Port
Bertrand - Dennev town - Ruins
Merrick - Rubeus Town
Devin - Dragon Spring
Vlad is in Kozwe Pass. You get him by getting 60 pillars in Pillar Killers. Just spend a bunch of tickets.
During a fight against four enemies, burst and use the team’s four skills. I was a little confused about the teams and bursting, so I’ll explain a little. You burst by clicking on your sister when her meter is full. If you use it during Gil’s turn, each member of his team gets to use a skill all at once. So all four characters have to be on Gil’s team for this to work, from the Companion menu.
The skills I used were:
Gil-Tempest
Vlad-Lunar Stinger
Nathan-Retaliatory Arabesque
Crate-Geo Fury
Gunflame’s characters get a 55x combo, but are harder to get, and the bigger combo isn’t needed for this achievement. Energi 1417 needs to be won in the arena with butler coins (2000 IIRC, which takes grinding), and Ignis is after the first ending.
As Gunflame’s linked video said, you can save before trying this and reload if you fail, so the burst meter refills.
Put the difficulty on expert:
I first dumped all my speed stuff on Alan. Here are my teams, level in parenthesis with their speed skill.
Alan (95): spd 420
hosea (93)
ingrid (91)
stanley (89)
Raine (96): spd 292
troy (90)
Willy (65)
Biff (90)
Gil (95): spd 327
-companions don't really matter here-
bobby (90)
maximus (89)
Elinoir (89)
First turn, butler kills alan group (if not, keep retrying until he does)
Then my next turns were as follows:
-Revive alan with Gil
-Raine is next and uses heart catcher skill with Willy
-Use Burst on Alan: Tragic ender (atk x8)
hosea: aqua cannon (atk x5)
stanley: infinity tear (atk x8)
ingrid: aqua lancer (atk x6)
-Gil - tempest (atk x6)
-Alan - Tragic ender (atk x8)
-Alan - Tragic ender (atk x8)
-Raine - Troy uses cross divider (atk x9)
-done-
This is one of the more difficult tasks in the game. Many characters will have skills that hit enemies multiple times. Assuming you are overpowered, you will kill enemies with each use of these, so even with four enemies on screen it can be tough to get the number of hits required. Turn your difficulty up to Expert to keep them alive longer, and use any type of turn delay attacks or paralyzing attacks with your other two groups to keep them immobilized. So long as the enemy does not get a chance to act, your combo will continue.
The penguin companion named Willy (sorry, I can't recall where I picked him up) has a skill called "Heart Catcher" which will immobilize an enemy until Willy's party has another turn. If you've used all your speed bonuses on Alan's party and put Willy somewhere else, this will give Alan multiple turns to get in hits before the enemy can move again. Do this against a powerful boss (such as the Butler in the secret battle arena on Expert difficulty) and you should be able to land well over 50 to unlock the achievement.
From EmagDrolBot's walkthrough: "Warp to Dragon Spring and head to the second room. The monster is in the center of this room and we'll use it to unlock the 50 hit combo achievement. If Alan doesn't go first, then Guard until it is Alan's turn. Use Chief Claudius's Dragon Fang (note: this is actually called "Fang Strike") ability and it will instantly add 50 to the Hit Counter, giving you a 51 combo by default and unlocking all hit combo achievements that you did not yet have."
I did it on the simplest test in the secret arena already in the postgame. There are 4 fairly fat and slow mobs.
By that time, Gil had unlocked his last skill, “Tempest something,” a six-time lightning strike, which would give 24 strikes on a group of four enemies. Then we use another multiple strike from the second hero and launch Burst Strike with the third, selecting multi-strike skills for it too. If you are not too pumped up, then you can easily make a combo of 55-60 hits.