To clear Tray 24 of the Decadent Choco Tower in Cookie Run: Kingdom, run a team of Burning Spice Cookie, Caramel Arrow Cookie, Black Lemonade Cookie, Cream Ferret Cookie, and Snapdragon Cookie. This setup defeats the stage's pangolin boss while staying within the floor's rarity cost limits.
| Cookie | Rarity | Cost Impact | Primary Function |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burning Spice Cookie | Beast | Consumes Cost (Super Epic+) | Frontline tanking, initial burst, crowd disruption |
| Black Lemonade Cookie | Epic | Zero Cost (Standard Epic) | Electrify debuffs, crit scaling, primary boss damage |
| Caramel Arrow Cookie | Epic | Zero Cost (Standard Epic) | Ranged defense-ignoring arrow burst |
| Cream Ferret Cookie | Special | Zero Cost (Special Rarity) | Cooldown reduction, barrier application, healing |
| Snapdragon Cookie | Special | Zero Cost (Special Rarity) | Team shields, stun resistance, passive regeneration |
How the Tray 24 Cost Limit Works
Floor cost modifiers in the Decadent Choco Tower restrict how many high-tier units you can bring into a single battle. On Tray 24, "cost" refers strictly to the number of deployed Cookies with a rarity of Super Epic or higher.
Beast-rarity units like Burning Spice Cookie consume this allotment. However, Cookies with the Special rarity designation do not count toward the Super Epic or higher cost limit. Because Snapdragon Cookie and Cream Ferret Cookie are classified as Special units rather than Super Epic, Legendary, Ancient, or Beast, bringing both allows you to field two dedicated Safeguard supports without spending any floor cost. The remaining slots are filled with standard Epic units, which also do not trigger the high-rarity penalty.
Offense: Black Lemonade and Frontline Damage
The Tray 24 encounter requires continuous damage scaling to defeat the pangolin boss within the time limit.
- Black Lemonade Cookie: Serves as the central damage dealer. Her skill unleashes multi-hit lightning attacks that inflict the Electrify debuff while raising your team's critical strike potential. Because Electrify deals compounding ticks of damage as hits connect, equip her with a full set of Juicy Apple Jelly Toppings to push her critical hit rate as high as possible.
- Caramel Arrow Cookie: Provides safe, defense-bypassing secondary damage. When her skill triggers, she vaults to the rear and lodges arrowheads into targets. These lodged arrowheads detonate at the end of her phase, dealing percentage damage that bypasses thick enemy defensive stats.
- Burning Spice Cookie: Serves as the team's sole high-rarity anchor. He leads the charge, absorbing the opening attack from the pangolin boss and disrupting enemy waves with area-of-effect damage.
Defense: Dual Safeguard Sustain
The pangolin boss hits with frequent area swings and crowd control. Deploying both Snapdragon Cookie and Cream Ferret Cookie forms an untargetable backline engine:
- Targeting Immunity: Both units use the Safeguard mechanic, meaning they cannot take damage, be targeted, or be interrupted by boss stuns.
- Sustain Layering: Snapdragon Cookie supplies active shields, continuous healing, attack buffs, and team-wide stun resistance. Cream Ferret Cookie supplements this with extra barriers, steady healing, and skill cooldown acceleration, keeping your active attackers alive throughout the stage.
Step-by-Step Skill Execution
To prevent early team wipes and ensure damage debuffs overlap, trigger abilities in this order:
- Absorb the opening clash: Let Burning Spice Cookie advance first to take the initial impact and group the frontline enemies.
- Apply immediate defensive buffs: Activate Snapdragon Cookie and Cream Ferret Cookie as soon as the battle begins to establish shields and stun resistance before the boss unleashes its first heavy skill.
- Apply Electrify stacks: Fire Black Lemonade Cookie's skill directly after the boss settles to coat the target in Electrify and raise critical strike rates.
- Trigger ranged execution: Activate Caramel Arrow Cookie to vault backward and plant arrowheads into the electrified target, ensuring her final detonation hits during the vulnerability window.
- Cycle skills on cooldown: Keep both Safeguard supports activating off cooldown to maintain 100% barrier and stun-resist uptime while syncing Black Lemonade's shocks with Caramel Arrow's detonations.

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