Decagrammaton: Hod
Hod is the seventh Raid boss in Blue Archive.
Hod is a Heavy Boss which required you to apply CC effect onto its pillars and itself in order to deal damage. Hod is a relatively simple boss, you just need to have a decent CC unit like Tsubaki, Hoshino and the ★1 Welfare unit Fubuki, they will solve most of mechanics against Hod. Hod have a very high CRIT RES so your DPS will be very unlikely to CRIT against him. In exchange, Hod only have 1.6M HP at EX unlike other boss that have over 4M HP.
Boss Info
Stats
| Armor Type | |||||||||
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| Heavy Armor | |||||||||
| Difficulty | Recommended Level | Coin Reward | Boss HP | Invasion Pillar HP | ATK | DEF | CRIT RES | CRIT DMG RES | Groggy Gauge |
| Normal | 17 | 40 | 80,000 | 30,000 | 700 | 100 | 500 | 5000 | 100,000,000 |
| Hard | 25 | 60 | 125,000 | 60,000 | 1050 | 100 | 500 | 5000 | 100,000,000 |
| Very hard | 35 | 80 | 300,000 | 100,000 | 1575 | 100 | 500 | 5000 | 100,000,000 |
| Hardcore | 50 | 100 | 480,000 | 160,000 | 2363 | 100 | 500 | 5000 | 100,000,000 |
| Extreme | 70 | 120 | 1,600,000 | 450,000 | 3300 | 100 | 500 | 5000 | 100,000,000 |
Skills
| Icon | Skill Name | Type | Effect |
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Destruction Type I | EX | Deals 150% damage to all enemies within a Circular Range. |
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Destruction Type II | EX | Deals 200% damage to all enemies in a Straight Line. |
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Invasion Pillar Generation | EX | Summon an Invasion Pillar.
Every 15s, Invasion Pillar expands it's Erosion Field. Inflict 350 Cost Recovery debuff to enemies within the Erosion Field; Field Turrets within Erosion Range will attack enemies instead of Hod. |
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Energy Overload | EX | Deal 150% damage to all enemies.
If Hod's HP is below 50%, deal 300% damage to all enemies instead and destroy all Field Turrets. |
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Radiance of Glory
(Ultimate at 100 ATG) |
EX | Deals 740% damage to all enemies.
Apply "Radiance of Glory" to Hod. Each application of "Radiance of Glory" increases Hod's Attack by 50%. (No Limit, Stackable) |
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Behind the Glory | Passive | Hod and Invasion Pillars are unaffected by Crowd Control. Instead, accumulate the amount of Crowd Control time to a CC Gauge.
Hod: When 6/7/8/9/10s of CC Time is accumulated, increase Damage Taken by 300% for 30s. Increase Groggy Gauge by 25,000,000. Invasion Pillar: When 6/7/8/9/10s of CC Time is accumulated, increase Damage Taken by 300% for 30s and reduce Erosion Field range by 1 level. |
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In the Shadow of Honor | Passive | Increase the Critical Resistance of Hod and Invasion Pillar by 400%.
Invasion pillars are immune to Focused Fire effect. |
Additional Notes/Tips:
General
- The fight is split into two phases, an outpost battle against the pillars of Hod, and a boss battle where team directly confronts Hod.
- In the outpost battle, destroy Hod's Invasion Pillar twice to advance to the boss battle.
- In the boss battle, you will face Hod and one summoned pillar at the same time.
- Students with CC (Crowd Control) abilities are important in this fight. All 3 types of CC (Taunt, Stun and Fear) contribute time to the CC Gauge.
CC Gauge
- Hod and Invasion pillars have a circular gauge right beside their HP bar. For convenience, we'll call it CC Gauge .
- Every time Hod/Invasion Pillar are affected by a CC ability, the skill effect duration will be accumulated in the CC Gauge .
- Once Gauge is full, the damage dealt to Hod/Invasion Pillar will be increased for 30s.
- In addition to increasing the damage taken, filling the CC Gauge on Hod will increase the Groggy Gauge by 25% and reduce the ATG gauge, so the importance of CC is very high.
- Accumulated CC duration required to fill the gauge depends on the difficulty level. The required time in seconds in order of Normal/Hard/VeryHard/Hardcore/Extreme is 6/7/8/9/10s (or 24/28/32/36/40s total to stun boss for 20s)
Invasion Pillar
- Invasion Pillars have a blue circular Erosion Field.
After a certain amount of time, the erosion range will increase, and if the turret of friendly unit is eroded, the turret will attack the students instead. - If there is a students inside the erosion field, the cost recovery of that student will decreased.
In order to reduced the erosion range, you need to fill up the CC gauge of the Invasion Pillar.
Active Gauge/ATG
- There are 3 square at the bottom right of the boss's HP bar.
When the boss ATG gauge is full, "Radiance of Glory" skill will be activated and deal damage to all of your students. After the skill ended, Hod's ATK will permanently increased by 50% so be sure to stop it.
Groggy Gauge
- The boss has a thin gauge at the bottom of its HP bar. The Groggy Gauge will fill up by a quarter each time CC Gauge is completely filled. The Groggy Hauge can be filled up to 4 times (each time is 25,000,000; total is 100,000,000), when all 4 times has been accumulated, the boss will be stunned for 20s.
Groggy Gauge if filled by either destroying the summoned Invasion Pillar, or by filling up Hod's CC Gauge. - Hod will summon a pillar immediately when the boss battle phase stars (sometimes it could use a different skill, it is recommend to restart the fight when this happens), and will continue summoning new ones roughly 1 minute after previous Invasion Pillar is destroyed.
Pillar summoning can be interrupted by completely filling Groggy Gauge during the summoning animation. If you succeed in cancelling it, Hod will no longer summon Invasion Pillars for the remainder of battle.
Recommended Units
| Recommended Units | |
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| Striker | |
| DPS | |
| File:Student Portrait Iori.png | Standard high-dps penetration student with 3-cost EX skill. You can target the pillar with her EX and hit Hod simultaneously thanks to the small cone AOE. One of the best boss killer in every Heavy raid. |
| File:Student Portrait Maki.png | A Penetration student who is strong against a single enemy with 5-cost EX. Hod only have pillar and himself so it is very easy to deal with. Maki will sometimes use it on the pillars and not Hod resulting in a massive damage loss, so it is recommend to wait for the right timing to destroy the pillars so that she can use her Normal Skill on Hod and deal tons of damage. |
| File:Student Portrait Pina.png | ★1 Penetration student who is strong against a single enemy with 4-cost EX. Pina need ★3 for her to work but if you have no one else, she is the best choice to go for. |
| File:Student Portrait Yuzu.png | Not necessarily a recommended unit, but putting her here in case a yuzubros want to shine (or a sweatlords that want to compete for top rank).
Hod initially came out in Urban Environment, this make Yuzu the only S in Urban resulting in her (kinda) is the best DPS. Problem here is that Yuzu need to crit to deal any kind of damage, but Hod have CRIT RES so she become a really RNG unit to use against Hod, on the other hand if she does CRIT then her dps will beat Maki and even Iori. |
| CC | |
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★1 Welfare student from the Happy Schale ♡ Valentine patrol Event. She can stun enemy with her Normal Skill, although the Normal Skill stun duration is short (1.9s/2.1s/2.3s/2.5s), her Sub Skill will let her apply stun very consistently. You do not need to use her skill, just have her in the team is enough. |
| File:Student Portrait Hifumi.png | 5-Cost EX, summon peroro-sama with a "Taunt" effect for 3.4s/3.9s. Cost to duration ratio isnt very good but you can use her if you lack other CC unit. |
| File:Student Portrait Tsubaki.png | 4-Cost EX, Taunt enemy in a very large range for 4.7s/5.4s/6.2s. The best unit for CC because she can easily Taunt both pillar and Hod due to her large range. |
| File:Student Portrait Hoshino.png | 4-Cost EX, Stun Enemy in a small cone range for 1s/1.4s (Need to be EX3+). The other great unit to stack CC because at EX5 you can stack a total of 7s by herself, but the downside is that her position can be random and she might fail to hit both pillar and Hod at the same time. |
| Special | |
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3-Cost EX, damage is nothing crazy, but she is very good because her EX stun for long duration at a low cost (5.6s/6.6s/7.5s). |
| File:Student Portrait Karin.png | 4-Cost EX, high damage against Hod because of its size, Normal Skill have a 50% chance to stun for 3.1s. Great Sub Skill that boost team ATK%. A bit RNG but still very good. |
| File:Student Portrait Yoshimi.png | 4-Cost Ex, ★1 that can stun for a short duration (2.2s/2.5s/2.9s). She is a bit better than Hare at ★3 because Sub Skill grant allies better CC strength, otherwise not a good pick unless you have no one else. |
| File:Student Portrait Hare.png | 4-Cost EX, Explosive attack so you shouldn't expect any damage from her, but her EX Stun longer than Yoshimi at ★1 (2.7s/3.1s/3.5s). |
| File:Student Portrait Kotama.png | 3-Cost EX that buff allies ATK% in a circle, cheap and useful to cycle to your other unit skill while buffing them. Great Sub Skill unlocked at ★3 that boost whole team ATK%. |
