OUTERPLANE Flame Knight Meteus 3-Star Clear Guide

To earn a 3-star clear against Flame Knight Meteus in OUTERPLANE's Special Request: Identification, you must defeat the Fire-element boss without losing any party members. The standard strategy replaces a traditional healer with a dual-Defender core featuring Veronica and Leo alongside Tamara and Demiurge Stella. This composition pairs rapid Weakness Gauge depletion with guaranteed damage immunity during Meteus's lethal enrage turn.

Recommended Team Composition and Roles

Flame Knight Meteus punishes single-tank, healer-reliant setups because his enraged ultimate can wipe squishy heroes through standard shields or heals. Using Veronica and Leo together provides offensive acceleration and complete damage nullification.

Veronica's Skill 1 consistently calls Demiurge Stella—the unit with the highest Attack—to attack out of turn. This generates Chain Points and sustains high single-target damage without sacrificing defensive slots.

Speed Tuning and Stat Benchmarks

Turn order determines whether your buffs and defensive skills align with Meteus's skill cycles. Meet the following speed thresholds to ensure reliable execution:

1. Tamara (210+ Speed): Must take the opening turn to apply critical buffs and push ally Action Gauges before the boss or your attackers act.
2. Veronica (190–200 Speed): Must act immediately after Tamara to trigger Demiurge Stella’s dual attack and start chipping Meteus's gauge.
3. Leo (180–190 Speed): Must cycle quickly enough to hold Skill 3 ready right before Meteus fills his rage meter. Focus secondary stats on Defense and Health.
4. Demiurge Stella (Base Speed / Full Offense): Focus gear entirely on Attack, Critical Hit Damage, and Armor Penetration. Tamara’s Skill 2 provides 50% Critical Hit Chance, lowering Stella's baseline Critical Rate requirement.

Step-by-Step Combat Sequence

1. Opening Rotation and Gauge Depletion

• Cast Tamara’s Skill 2 on turn one. This grants the party a 50% Critical Hit Chance increase, a Critical Hit Damage buff, and Action Gauge advancement. Because Meteus is Fire-element, Tamara’s Water-element attacks deal increased Weakness Gauge damage.
• Use Veronica’s Skill 1 on Meteus. This immediately triggers a dual attack from Demiurge Stella, dealing heavy damage and building Chain Points before Stella takes her turn.
• Follow up with Demiurge Stella’s primary attacks, landing guaranteed critical hits under Tamara's active buffs to rapidly deplete Meteus’s Weakness Gauge.

2. Negating the Enraged Ultimate

• Track Meteus’s rage meter closely as he takes turns and receives hits. When his meter reaches maximum capacity, his next action is an enraged area-of-effect blast that inflicts lethal damage and multi-turn Burn debuffs.
• Cast Leo’s Skill 3 on the turn directly preceding Meteus’s full-meter attack.
• Leo's Skill 3 grants all allies 1 turn of Invincibility and Immunity. Meteus’s enraged ultimate will inflict zero damage, while Immunity prevents the Burn debuffs from applying, preserving the zero-casualty requirement.

3. Break Phase and Chain Finisher Burst

• Once Meteus’s Weakness Gauge drops to zero, he enters the stunned Break state. All boss buffs are removed, and incoming damage multipliers increase.
• Ensure Tamara’s Defense Down debuff is active on the boss.
• Launch a 4-hero Chain Finisher to deal massive burst damage and extend Meteus's vulnerability window.
• Spend Demiurge Stella’s accumulated Burst on her Skill 3. Paired with Veronica’s dual-attack assists, this burst window should eliminate the boss before he can charge a second enrage cycle.