Thread:Captain GLeen Du Grande/@comment-31532775-20181224133845/@comment-25856498-20190309155923

My personal list of top 10 hardest spirit battles -
 * 1) Black Shadow - You face a Ganondorf and Captain Falcon who are both very powerful AI-wise. There's no good way to cheese this fight, so the only way to win is "git gud". Taking sudden damage occasionally means you better finish it fast
 * 2) Donkey Kong & Lady - You team up with a CPU Peach to defeat a very high HP Donkey Kong with super armor. Sounds easy, but you have a time limit and sometimes Peach is downright suicidal which leads to an instant loss. Luring Donkey Kong into the spring hazards that show up occasionally is one of the best ways to rack up damage, but don't let you or Peach take too much damage either!
 * 3) Queen Metroid - Another spirit where you will want to finish the fight quickly. And by quickly, I mean VERY QUICKLY (like within 30 seconds). If you don't, a giant K. Rool with increased power will be very hard to stop.
 * 4) Baby Bowser - You start off against a tiny Bowser, who isn't too bad if you zone yourself well. But that isn't the problem. The Giant Bowser that spawns afterwards and hits like a truck is the real problem. If you don't space yourself well you will find yourself dead within a few hits
 * 5) The Boss - A "git gud" fight where you must face ZSS in a 1v1, but the odds are heavily stacked against you. The only real strategy to cheesing the fight is to gimp her. You are also constrained by a time limit, and with ZSS having increased defense early on does not help matters
 * 6) Ho-Oh - A spirit battle that centralises on fire, you're up against a fire-breathing Charizard. It can be very hard to land a hit on him, and usually by the time you've transitioned to the fire stage, you're probably at 60% and will die very easily to a hit onto a flame pillar. Conversely, however, it is not hard to trap the Charizard using the same flame pillars if you keep yourself in between them.
 * 7) Pauline - You have an evasive Peach being guarded by a powerful pair of Mario and Donkey Kong. Very easy to cheese but can cause a lot of trouble to those who don't know the cheese strat, what with the fight being on 75m and all. Without the cheese, most of the time you'd win only because Peach SDs. But the cheese is the only reason Pauline is so low on this list
 * 8) 9-Volt and 18-Volt - An honorable mention, it's probably the hardest 3-star spirit battle in the game. Sheriff can do lots of work and the Galagas can take you out of the fight early (it doesn't help that the Sheriff can cover the opponents as they reach out for the Galagas). But if you can KO the Sheriff, it should be much easier to dodge the opponents' attacks and win
 * 9) Hades - A 3-star battle that acts like a 4-star (you have a Ganondorf who can hit like a truck and make any % a kill %), but you could probably space him out (which is not easy to do, considering he's GIANT giant). The reason why I say he acts like a 4 star is because of his enhanced form giving him the Trade-Off Attacks ability which is what he uses in the fight apparently
 * 10) Krystal - I had a lot of trouble with this one. The trio of Fox, Falco and Krystal can quickly rack up damage and before you know it, you're gone. But if you take out Krystal it's not hard to finish the rest

Some honorable mentions that I never attempted/couldn't fit into the list/didn't feel it was as hard as people said:
 * Dr. Wily - An endurance match against eight metal Mega Mans followed by a Dr. Mario, it's 120 HP against 850 HP of the opponents. But "KOs heal damage" support spirits or Ness/Lucas's down B attacks can allow for much more room for error.
 * Pyra - Never attempted this fight myself but people seem to have trouble with this one. Personally I just went and bought this spirit myself, but the idea behind this one is that you need to deal with a Shulk and Lucina, the former breathing fire for a while, and the latter carrying a Fire Bar, on a lava floor. To me, it doesn't seem much different from the battle with Mythra (which wasn't as hard for me)
 * Giga Mac - Would be hard, if you could not cheese the fight by throwing him off the sides. Otherwise, he can hit you for over 50 damage a hit, which is certainly a lot.
 * Funky Kong - The only master spirit I'm putting, but tell me, how would you react to a 1v3 storm of Bullet Bills that can kill at much lower percents than you're used to? Granted, Fox or anyone with a reflector can make this easy, however
 * Golden Dash Mushroom - A 3-star battle that I've not heard anyone talk about, but one that I dread, primarily because of their super armor and their gold status, which makes you easy to launch and they hard to launch. But I suppose their uncontrollable speed can be a hindrance to them