Evertale EX10 Strategy Guide: Defeating Chopin, Washington, and Anya

The EX10 stage in Evertale serves as a significant difficulty gate, requiring players to move beyond basic team compositions and adopt a surgical, high-pressure approach. This encounter pits you against three distinct threats—Chopin, Washington, and Anya—whose combined ability to heal, protect, and burst down your units creates a formidable defensive wall. To clear this stage, you must abandon balanced, defensive play in favor of a "Burst" strategy that isolates and eliminates the enemy's support engine before their synergy can overwhelm your team.

The Core Strategy: Why Chopin Must Fall First

The fundamental reason many players fail the EX10 challenge is the attempt to spread damage across all three enemies. In this encounter, Chopin acts as the primary sustain engine. Her kit is designed to negate your progress, turning the battle into a war of attrition that favors the AI.

If Chopin is left alive, any damage you deal to Washington or Anya will be healed back within a few turns. This forces your team to burn through Spirit reserves and cycle through high-TU moves without securing a permanent advantage. By focusing all your single-target burst damage on Chopin immediately, you effectively "break" the enemy team’s synergy. Once the healing is removed, the remaining two units become significantly easier to manage, as they lack the sustain to recover from your subsequent attacks.

Neutralizing Washington and Anya

After Chopin is defeated, your secondary objective is to dismantle the offensive threats. Washington and Anya operate best when they have time to cycle their abilities. You must deny them this tempo.

• Prioritize Low-Health Targets: Once the healer is gone, look for the enemy unit with the lowest current HP. Eliminating a unit completely is always superior to weakening two units, as removing an enemy from the board reduces the frequency of their incoming attacks (the "Turn Economy" advantage).
• Manage TU (Time Units): Both Washington and Anya have skills designed to punish players who over-commit to high-TU moves. Avoid using heavy AOE (Area of Effect) abilities that carry high TU costs unless they are guaranteed to result in a kill. Every extra moment you spend in the queue is a window for the enemy to launch a counter-offensive.
• Leverage Defensive Passives: Utilize units with "Stealth" or "Shield" passives to absorb the initial incoming damage. If your primary damage dealer is targeted, swapping them into a backline position or using a Guardian to redirect attacks is vital to maintaining your momentum.

Mastering TU Efficiency and Turn Order

In Evertale, victory is rarely determined by raw power alone; it is dictated by who controls the turn order. To clear EX10, you must maintain a "TU Advantage"—a state where you are consistently acting faster than your opponents.

To achieve this:

1. Favor Low-TU Abilities: Use skills that allow you to act again quickly. This keeps your momentum high and prevents the enemy from landing consecutive hits.
2. Avoid "Dead" Turns: If a character is at low HP, do not waste a high-cost skill on them. Use a standard attack or a low-TU support move to keep your turn cycle tight.
3. Manipulate the Queue: If you have units capable of "Pushing" enemies back in the turn order (using skills like Stun or Turn Delay), save these moves for when an enemy is about to execute a high-damage ability. This allows you to skip their turn and potentially finish them off before they can act.

Team Synergy Requirements

You cannot rely on a generic team for this stage. Your composition needs to be tailored for explosive, single-target damage output.

• The Burst Core: You need at least two units capable of outputting massive single-target damage. Passives that grant extra damage against specific elements or roles are highly valuable here.
• Spirit Sustain: High-damage skills are expensive. Ensure your team includes a unit that can generate Spirit efficiently (such as a Spirit Generator or a low-TU attacker) so you are never forced into the "Attack" command, which is generally ineffective against high-level bosses.
• Guardians: Because Washington can output significant damage, having one dedicated Guardian is essential to protect your squishier DPS units. A tank with a Cover passive ensures that your damage dealers stay in the fight long enough to rotate through their cooldowns.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

Players frequently lose this fight due to three specific errors:

1. Ignoring the Healer: Trying to kill Washington or Anya first is the most common reason for failure. You will find their health bars refilling constantly, leading to a loss of Spirit and a eventual "wipe" as your team runs out of resources.
2. Over-committing to AOE: While AOE skills look impressive, they are inefficient in this stage. Since you need to focus on single-target damage to bypass the enemy’s healing/shielding, AOE moves often leave you vulnerable with high TU costs for negligible results.
3. Ignoring Turn Economy: Failing to account for the enemy's turn order is fatal. If you use a 150-TU skill, you are essentially giving the enemy a "free" turn to heal or attack. Always calculate how your next move will impact your position in the turn queue.

Final Recommendations for Success

If you find that your team is consistently failing to kill Chopin in the first few rounds, do not be discouraged. The EX10 stage is a DPS check. If your current team cannot bridge the gap, consider these adjustments:

• Upgrade Weapons and Accessories: Often, the difference between a kill and a failure is a few points of critical hit rate or raw attack power. Ensure your units are equipped with the highest-level gear available.
• Leveling and Limit Breaking: If you are hitting a wall, your units may simply lack the necessary stats. Focus on leveling your primary damage dealers to the current level cap.
• Experiment with Passive Synergy: Check if your units have passives that trigger off one another (e.g., Poison, Burn, or Sleep synergies). Even if you are running a Burst team, a small amount of status-effect damage can sometimes be the tipping point needed to secure a kill on a low-HP enemy.

The EX10 encounter in Evertale rewards those who plan, prioritize, and execute with precision. By ruthlessly targeting Chopin and maintaining strict control over your TU economy, you can overcome this challenge and continue your journey through Erden.