Reverse: 1999 3rd Anniversary Focus Flashback Endgame Mode Guide – How To Get All Rewards

Reverse: 1999 3rd Anniversary Focus Flashback Endgame Mode Guide – Everything You Need To Know

What Is The Focus Flashback Gamemode

Focus Flashback is one of Reverse: 1999’s important Endgame modes, functioning somewhat similarly to Honkai Star Rail’s Arbitration Gamemode.

In this game mode, players will need a total of 3 different teams in order to challenge 3 different stages, each with their own unique environment buffs and effects. Upon clearing each challenge stages, the game will take into account how many turns it took for the team to challenge the stages and reward star ratings based on the turn spent.

The more stars players gain from these challenges, the more rewards players will be able to obtain. Please note that once a team have been used in 1 of the challenges, they will not be able to be used in another unless players reset the previous stage. This means that players will need a total of at least 3 fully built team before they can challenge this endgame mode.

Additionally, players should note that enemies will have a very powerful defensive buff at the first 5 turns of each challenge, requiring players to chip them down gradually or wait until their defensive buff is disabled before dealing actual good damage to enemies.

Challenging this game mode will reward Clear Drops and 3 special Pulls for the Ripples on the Water banner for the update patch. Furthermore, this gamemode resets alongside each update patch instead of being tied to the month, so every patch can only have 1 reset of this gamemode.

Update Patch Exclusive Buff Effects & Enemies Gimmicks

With the 3rd Anniversary Update Patch for Reverse: 1999, the Focus Flashback Buff Effects and Enemies’ Gimmicks are as followed:

Phase 1 Environment: 

– When entering battle, if Ally #1 is a Star Afflatus Character, grants 1 stack of Scale Resonance to all allies each round. If Ally #1 is a Mineral Afflatus character, at the start of round 2 and every other round thereafter, gains 1 Star Energy I. At the start of round 3 and every round thereafter, gain I Mineral Energy.

– During the first 4 rounds, the enemies’ Final Damage taken is reduced by 30%.

– When taking Stronger Afflatus Damage, Afflatus Guard is reduced. When Affaltus Guard is broken, loses a massive amount of HP and recovers Affaltus Guard.

Analysis: This stage gimmick heavily favors the Conduit Archetype and especially The Twins, with both of the stage’s buffs being able to be activated if The Twins is the #1 character in the team.

Phase 2 Environment:

– When entering battle, if the #1 character is a spirit Afflatus Character, all allies gain Max HP +5%, and at the start of the round, all allies lose (Current HP x 10%) HP. If Ally #1 is a Mineral Character, Ally #1 gains Might Unleashed.

– During the first 4 rounds, the enemies’ Final Damage taken is reduced by 30%.

– When taking Stronger Afflatus Damage, Afflatus Guard is reduced. When Affaltus Guard is broken, loses a massive amount of HP and recovers Affaltus Guard.

Analysis: This stage gimmick heavily favors the Bloodtithe team, with Nautika being the main focus, with the buffs boosting the team’s HP output and allows the team to drain HP every turn.

Phase 3 Environment:

– At the start of the round, if there are at least 3 Spirit/Intellect Affaltus Allies present, all allies gain 3 stacks of Preignition.

– During the first 4 rounds, the enemies’ Final Damage taken is reduced by 30%.

– When taking Stronger Afflatus Damage, Afflatus Guard is reduced. When Affaltus Guard is broken, loses a massive amount of HP and recovers Affaltus Guard.

Analysis: This stage gimmick heavily favors the Lingering Glow and burn team, with their team building easily fulfilling the buff requirements and is able to take full advantage of the Preignition buff.

Reverse: 1999 3rd Anniversary Focus Flashback Endgame Mode Guide – Best Teams To Get All Rewards

Phase 1 Best Teams

With the enemies from Phase 1 of Focus Flashback being focused on the Conduit Team and The Twins, the best team to challenge this phase is:

– Conduit Team:

The Twins	Coppelia	Rhiannon	Enigma
Main DPS	Sub DPS/ Enabler	Sub DPS/ Enabler	Support/ Sustain

The Conduit Team is the best team to handle this phase as they not only can deal both Mineral and Star Afflatus damage to enemies with the help of The Twins, they can also take full advantage of the Focus Flashbacks’s special buffs to Conduit effects to quickly deal with all enemies with ease.

Phase 2 Best Teams

With the buffs from Phase 2 of Focus Flashback heavily favors the Bloodtithe team, the best team to challenge this phase is:

– Bloodtithe Team:

Nautika	Semmelweis	Sentinel	Rubuska
Main DPS	Sub DPS/ Enabler	Sub DPS/ Enabler	Support/ Sustain

The Bloodtithe team makes full use of the buffs provided in this phase to deal massive amounts of damage to enemies and improves their own damage rotation easily.

Phase 3 Best Teams

With the buffs from Phase 3 of Focus Flashback heavily favors the Lingering Glow team, the best team to challenge this phase is:

– Lingering Glow Team:

Beryl	Isolde	Lorentz Butterfly	Marsha
Main DPS	Sub DPS/ Enabler	Sub DPS/ Enabler	Support/ Sustain

The Lingering Glow team can take full advantage of the Focus Flashback buff to inflict multiple instances of Burn debuff on enemies and triggering constant attacks against the enemies.

Conclusion

With that, we have gone over the best teams players should use to challenge the Focus Flashback Endgame mode during Reverse: 1999’s 3rd Anniversary Update Patch. Get your hands on the best characters to form these teams by taking advantage of Reverse: 1999 Top Up Discounted Deals at Enjoygm today!