FGO Crown Certification: Caster Fake Ten Solomon Strategy & Servants

Crown Certification Battle Caster: A Comprehensive Strategy Guide for FGO

The Crown Certification Battle Caster in Fate/Grand Order (FGO) presents a unique challenge, demanding strategic team composition and a thorough understanding of enemy gimmicks. This guide provides detailed information on enemy compositions, strategy tips, and recommended servants to help players conquer this permanent content.

Understanding the Battle’s Core Restrictions

This quest imposes specific formation restrictions. Players must utilize only two Servants: their own Grand Caster in the first slot, and either another Grand Servant or a supporter’s Grand Servant in the second slot. Notably, class compatibility with Pseudo-Solomon is neutralized, meaning traditional class advantages are ineffective. However, Caster-class Servants retain their offensive advantage. Avoid using Archer-class Servants, as their presence activates an evasion effect on the enemy Grand Saber, Lord Logres, significantly increasing the battle’s difficulty. Ciel, possessing an advantage against Saber-class enemies due to their class skills, is an excellent alternative attacker, as they are not an Archer and thus do not trigger the evasion.

Decoding Pseudo-Solomon and Lord Logres’ Gimmicks

Success hinges on understanding the unique abilities of both Pseudo-Solomon and Lord Logres.

Pseudo-Solomon’s Abilities

Pseudo-Solomon’s Noble Phantasm, “When the time of birth comes, it is the time to cultivate everything,” boosts their own Noble Phantasm power, removes enemy reinforcements, delivers a powerful attack, reduces Buster resistance, and increases their own charge. Their skills include:

• Imaginary Bag A: Increases charge, provides HP recovery to all allies (3T), grants star acquisition (3T), and boosts critical power (3T).
• Solomon’s Ring E: Increases OC1 to all allies (1 time/3T), boosts Noble Phantasm power (3T), increases weakness resistance (3T), and grants Pseudo-Solomon increased NP gain when other Caster allies use their Noble Phantasms (3T).
• Human King’s Ashes EX: Increases Arts and Buster performance (3T), grants special attack to [Seven Knights Class] Servants (3T), and grants special defense to [Seven Knights Class] Servants (3T).
• Mysterious Book: Increases attack power (3T) and grants anti-purge defense penetration (3T).
• Protection of Wildflowers: Provides HP recovery (approximately 300,000-360,000) and defense boost to a single ally.
• Holy Sword Drawn Sword: Removes incapacitation from a single ally, increases Noble Phantasm power, and grants invincibility penetration.

Special abilities include:

• Wise Man’s Proverbs: Grants HP recovery to all allies every turn (5T), adds special resistance to all Noble Phantasms when attacking a Noble Phantasm (3T, 1 time/3T), and increases the maximum HP of allies other than Pseudo-Solomon by 50%.
• Demon Manifestation: Increases one of the ABQ attack resistances of all allies, boosts attack power, and boosts defense power after selecting a command card.
• “Leave at least a piece of the spirit base behind.”: Boosts attack power of a single ally and removes reinforcement from all enemies (2).
• “Holy sword, unsheathed—”: Increases the power of a single ally’s Noble Phantasm before Lord Logres’s charge attack.

Passive skills include Position Creation D (improves Arts performance), Clairvoyance D (increases crippling rate), Solo Manifestation E (increases crit power, instant death resistance, and psychotic resistance), and Sorcerer King’s Wisdom A (increases charge upon receiving a Noble Phantasm attack, and increases crit power at the end of the session).

Lord Logres’ Abilities

Lord Logres’ primary attack is a powerful single-target attack. Their passive skills include:

• Anti-magic power A: Increases weakness resistance.
• Riding A: Improves Quick performance.
• Utopian protection A: Recovers HP at the end of the turn and increases defense when attacking.
• King of Battle A: Grants [魔力集中] to themselves at the end of the turn, grants special resistance to Pseudo-Solomon until death, reduces damage received from single Noble Phantasms, and lowers Noble Phantasm power.
• Magic release A+: Consumes all [魔力集中] to increase Noble Phantasm power before taking damage.
• Target concentration up: Grants target focus to themselves.
• What’s next: Increases charge by 1 when attacked by someone other than a Lancer.

Strategic Considerations for Victory

Clearing the Crown Certification Battle Caster requires a focused strategy. The primary objective is to defeat Pseudo-Solomon; defeating Lord Logres is not a clearing condition. Quick attack strategies are hampered by Lord Logres’s maximum HP increase, overall NP resistance, and target concentration. A more durable approach is often recommended.

Lord Logres’s persistent target concentration makes ignoring them difficult. While it can be nullified by incapacitation, its 5-turn duration suggests focusing damage with all Noble Phantasms is more effective. Be mindful of Lord Logres’s Magic Resistance A, which can hinder incapacitation attempts. However, the quest is designed for multiple attempts, so organizing with the assumption of retries is viable.

Pseudo-Solomon possesses special resistance while Lord Logres is active, and gains resistance to all Noble Phantasms after receiving damage from one. Defeating Lord Logres first can negate the special resistance, allowing for more effective attacks on Pseudo-Solomon. Be cautious of Pseudo-Solomon’s Noble Phantasm, which removes reinforcements. While the Grand Score’s reinforcement removal resistance increase is only 80%, it may not be entirely reliable.

The Caster Grand Score effect, reducing enemy charge upon chain failure, is difficult to utilize due to Lord Logres’s target concentration. Understanding the Grand Score effects of other classes is crucial for optimal team building. Defensive Grand Score effects are generally unaffected by reinforcement removal.

Preparation is Key

Before attempting the Crown Certification Battle Caster, prioritize fully releasing your Grand Servant’s Grand Graph, as performance is significantly impacted by these effects. Acquiring your Grand Servant’s Bond Dress, which can provide a 50% NP charge as a special effect, facilitates the use of powerful Craft Essences like the Black Chalice. Securing a strong single-attacker friend, particularly a Grand Servant, is highly recommended, especially if your own Grand Servant lacks sufficient firepower or relies on auxiliary Noble Phantasms.