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With the release of The Dahlia and the introduction of a certain new boss that is reliant on Break mechanics, the Memory of Chaos has emphasized Break-focused teams. Break damage happens when you break the enemy's toughness bar, allowing your Break characters to perform. If you do not have a Break DPS, do not worry; there are ways to clear stage 12 without it.

In phase one, I recommend avoiding using your Break DPS in the first half if you cannot make up for it in the second phase. This depends on the characters you own, but characters like Castorice or Archer work well in this phase. Archer is a more F2P-friendly option, since many players received a free copy at the time of his release. In this phase, Break teams, DoT teams, Quantum DPS, or Fire DPS work well.

For phase two, using a Break team here works exceptionally well. The newest boss, Harbinger of Death: Swarm Nightmare, increases a character’s Break effect while preventing your other teammates from hitting Crits. So, running a character like the Firefly team would be optimal since a Break team has nothing to do with Crit. If you don’t have a Break team, use a hypercarry team that prioritizes amplifying the damage of a sole character, for example, Phainon.

Completing stage 12 is absolutely possible without a Break team; you just need to use the characters you already have where they work best.

My teams:

Phase one: Castorice E0S0, Tribbie E1S5 DDD, Evernight E0S1, and Hyacine E1S1.

Phase two: Mydei E6S1, Cyrene E2S0, RMC E6, and RM E2S0.

E = Eidolons: Number of times you obtained the character, increasing damage, and utility.

Sometimes, self-healing is simply not enough to keep you alive. There is a heart-wrenching pain when you realize that your fellow strategist has forgotten your existence, even though you were pouring all your love and dedication into healing them and keeping them alive. At that point, it's time to end the one-sided relationship. You deserve better.

In a situation like this, I believe in paying kindness with kindness. Instead of begging or spamming for heals that will never be reciprocated, take a new angle and prioritize your other teammates. Eventually, your fellow teammate will feel the pain of being emotionally neglected, and they will learn not to take your love for granted. There are more fish in the sea. You simply moved on to someone who appreciates your heals.

However, if your noncommittal partner is a Cloak and Dagger main, I suggest using a different approach. My resentment for Cloak and Dagger mains isn’t because their characters lack skills, but because they have ruined my ultimate one too many times. While other strategists have three strikes when on my team, Cloak and Dagger mains get half a strike. I don’t make the rules, I just work here.

Pray to the Jeff the Landshark God that the enemy team has a Magneto. When Magneto uses his ultimate to counter Cloak and Dagger's, your job is to charge Magneto's ult. All you can do now is hope the Magneto player has aim. Sometimes, teamwork isn't about the people you’re forced into proximity with, but the ones you meet along the way.

Starting LEGO Fortnite Odyssey’s NINJAGO: Rise of the Ninja can be pretty daunting as a new player, especially when the game has introduced a system that some players don’t understand the purpose of. I started playing Fortnite just for the Ninjago collaboration, and these tips are things I wish I'd known before I started.

The star system is one of the most important parts of the game. Your overall star level is determined by your charms and weapon. Higher overall star level results in higher chaos challenges, which provide better resources for crafting better equipment. For example, if I had a 7-star weapon and 6-star charms, my overall star level would be 6 stars. From my experience, chaos challenges typically appear at or slightly above your star level. To take advantage of this, I unequipped my lower-star charms so that my weapon determined my star level. Instead of focusing on combat-oriented challenges, I would do puzzle-type challenges.

Another issue I have encountered while playing the game is that some challenges are bugged. For example, I would complete a challenge, but the reward chest never appeared. Teleporting away or restarting the game wouldn’t fix it. Since chaos challenges are all in fixed locations, I suggest that you mark both the working ones and the bugged ones with differentiating markers. This will save you time when farming for resources.