Apprentices! Shanks and Buggy!

General Info[]

Quest	Boss	Difficulty	Conditions	Notable Captures/Drops

Apprentices Shanks and Buggy: Upstarts	Buggy Pirate Apprentice	Rookie	N/A	Buggy Pirate Apprentice Shanks Pirate Apprentice Demon Face Manual Doppelman Manual Conqueror’s Haki Manual Snow-Slicing Blade Manual Surprise Dial Illusion Manual Surprise Ball Dragon Manual Mountain Belly Manual Crystal Shield PSY Manual
Apprentices Shanks and Buggy: Apprentices	Buggy Pirate Apprentice	Veteran	N/A
Apprentices Shanks and Buggy: Passable	Buggy Roger Pirates	Elite	No using two of the same character, including Friends or Helpers.
Apprentices Shanks and Buggy: Masters	Buggy Roger Pirates	Expert	No using two of the same character, including Friends or Helpers.

Difficulty/Stamina		Battles	Experience	Beli	Title
Rookie	5	5	524	2960	-
Veteran	10	5	1268	8754	-
Elite	15	7	2364	11032	Apprentice
Expert	30	7	5566	26124	Youngster

Notes[]

A special trait to this level is you may rarely find a 500,000 beli bag on the mini boss stage with Buggy. It is speculated to represent Captain John's Treasure!
1 Rainbow Gem will be received upon full clear in the Expert mode.
Limited-Time Event.
All difficulties get a chance to drop the manual or secret boss.
The higher the difficulty level, the higher the chance you'll have of getting one of the manual or secret boss to appear.

Drop rates[]

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FAQs[]

See Tips for New OPTC Players and Roadmap

General Information[]

The stages here are rather uninteresting and straight forward. The turtles have high cooldowns for plenty of stalling. The real challenge is your team composition and sockets.

Recommended Captains[]

It is usually recommended you bring a PSY team against an INT boss since they have no weaknesses against any color and are strong against INT characters. However, Shanks as a mini boss, or on the final stage, and Buggy arriving with baroque works can cause massive issues for PSY only teams.

An anti-lock socket level of two helps but it's best to avoid these all-in strategies. Bring a striker or fighter team comprised of PSY and INT units and you'll have all you need to beat this level. The new Powerhouse teams with Lucci also rip up this level.

As usual, a slasher team works too but the options in the fighter, powerhouse, and striker class are currently better.

Striker leads

Fighter leads

Powerhouse leads

Slasher leads

Hawk Eyes Mihawk or Hawk Eyes Mihawk World's Strongest Swordsman: Generally brought for stats, you most likely won't need his special. However, his special will kill Buggy if he has 1 health and has the cannot be killed buff.
Donquixote Doflamingo Warlord of the Sea: Mostly for stat
Trafalgar Law Holy Night Nobleman: Great RR slasher lead to let you run a dual 2.5x lead

PSY leads

INT leads

Recommended Support Units[]

PSY teams

Usopp Usopp Golden Pound if you need to stall. You can bring Usopp Impact if you are running speeds runs against the level, but his Cooldown must be ready by level 7 in case you face baroque works buggy version.

INT teams

Nico Robin and Mr. 3 Extra Special Candelabra for a burst round and stall on Buggy for INT captain teams.

Powerhouse teams

Striker teams

Nami Mirage Tempo or Nami Mirage Tempo: The Heavens to absorb one round of damage from final boss. Good for the Giants and Baroque Works versions of Buggy.
Mad Monk Urouge, Maelstrom Spider Squard for stats mostly. If you plan on stalling a bunch their specials are both super useful.

Fighter teams

Monkey D. Luffy Davy Back Fight: Combat is useful if you get the Giants version or Shanks version of the final stage. He can turn the Block orbs into STR orbs. Since the Shanks version will lock the orbs for two turns, having 3 rounds of 1/2 damage can be devastating. Any orb changer that removes Block orbs can work here.
Caroline or Dark King Rayleigh to remove locked units.

Slasher teams

Sergeant Helmeppo: Useful unlocker
Ryuma, Shanks Black Clad Emperor, or Red-Haired Shanks: Mostly for stats.

Recommended Sockets[]

level 1 anti-lock sockets make the stages a breeze. Level 2 stops the lower left unit from being locked on a variation but isn't a big deal.

As usual, matching orbs, cooldown, and even auto-heal help as you'll probably take some hits from buggy and preemptives.

Recommended Teams[]

Speed Striker Team
Captain	Subs	Friend	Ship

Requirements
This team has a lot of alternates you can bring. Only Nami and Mr. 3's special are used. Rakuyo, while weaker, tends to run this mission faster due to his cooldown reducer ability. He's best replaced by Kid. Mr. 3 can be replaced by Gecko Moria Warlord of the Sea if you aren't going to use his special.

Free to Play PSY team
Captain	Subs	Friend	Ship

Requirements
Most sub units can be replaced with other hard-hitting PSY units.

Power INT Team
Captain	Subs	Friend	Ship

Requirements
N/A

30 Stamina Walkthrough[]

Most Mid to High-level teams should be able to clear this level without an issue. The trick is making sure you have both a INT and PSY unit team and to be patient to not push the bosses under 20%.

It is recommended to bring a level-2 anti-lock for this stage.

Stage

Strategy

Enemy Info

1

Grunts and Evolvers

Take out the grunts and stall on the evolvers without taking a hit.

Enemy	Hp	Attack Pattern
Grunts	-	-

2

Grunts and Evolvers

Take out the grunts and stall on the evolvers without taking a hit.

Enemy	Hp	Attack Pattern
Grunts	-	-

3

Grunts and Evolvers

Take out the grunts and stall on the evolvers without taking a hit.

Enemy	Hp	Attack Pattern
Grunts	-	-

4

Grunts and Evolvers

Take out the grunts and stall on the evolvers without taking a hit.

Enemy	Hp	Attack Pattern
Grunts	-	-

5

Grunts and Buggy Pirate Apprentice

Take out the grunts first, then focus on Buggy

Make sure not to push Buggy below 20% and take Buggy out.

Enemy	Hp	Attack Pattern
Buggy Pirate Apprentice	~300,000	Buggy will preemptively attack for 1,440 and lock a random unit for one turn with his first attack. He continues to attack with a 1 turn Cooldown for 1,770.

6

Grunts and Evolvers

Take out the grunts and stall on the evolvers without taking a hit.

Enemy	Hp	Attack Pattern
Grunts	-	-

7

Grunts + Buggy Roger Pirates

This is one version of the Final Stage. On Global there are four possible final rooms. You could also get the Baroque Works (alternate 1), Giants (alternate 2), or Shanks and Buggy (Alternate 3).

Focus on taking out the grunts first. If you have a Time Delay character activate them now.

When you get to Buggy, DO NOT push him under 20% unless you can kill him. His "cannot be defeated" and attack buff can be an annoyance that is best avoided. You can bring a Mihawk or unit that poisons and it will beat the defense, but it's best to just bring strong hitting units and avoid this status all together.

Enemy	Hp	Attack Pattern
Buggy Roger Pirates	~500,000	Preemptively attacks for 2,320 and locks the bottom left unit for two turns. When his health falls below 50%, he will perform an ATK buff and hit for 3,480 Under 20% health, he prevents defeat for 2 turns

Alternate Boss 1

Giants + Buggy Roger Pirates

If you have a Time Delay character or Damage Reducer, activate them on the first round. This will give you time to get rid of Block orbs.

Focus on the giants and then attack Buggy. Follow the same strategy as stage 7 for Buggy.

Enemy	Hp	Attack Pattern
Buggy Roger Pirates Giants	~500,000 ~120,000	Buggy will preemptively attack for 2,440 and change all orbs to Block (1/2 damage). When his health falls below 50%, he will perform an ATK buff and hit for 3,480HP every turn. Under 20% health he will prevent defeat for 2 turns

Alternate Boss 2

Shanks Roger Pirates + Buggy Roger Pirates

The final stage will sometimes include both Shanks and Buggy. The only thing to be cautious of is to NOT push the bosses below 20%. Either take them completely out or stop your attack before pushing them into the danger zone as you will receive massive damage if you don't.

Enemy	Hp	Attack Pattern
Shanks Roger Pirates Buggy Roger Pirates	- -	They will preemptively change your orbs to Block and lock them in place for 2 turns which gives you three straight turns of Block. Buggy follows his stage seven version's attack pattern of a one turn Cooldown and deals over 1,000 damage. Under 50% he performs an attack buff, and under 20% he puts up a cannot be defeated buff for two turns. Shanks hits every two turns for under 5,000 damage,

Alternate Boss 3

Baroque Works + Buggy Roger Pirates

This stage is the reason you don't bring an all PSY team. You can survive with anti-lock and proper planning but why bother?

Bring along a few PSY and INT units with a class boosting captain and you'll be fine. When you PSY units are locked you can use a Time Delay character or damage reducer like Nami Mirage Tempo: The Heavens who completely negates all INT damage for a round. This will give you plenty of time to take out some of the Grunts while you PSY units wait to be unlocked.

Take out the grunts first and then focus on Buggy. His attack strategy is the same as the main stage Buggy.

Enemy	Hp	Attack Pattern
Buggy Roger Pirates	~500,000	Preemptively cuts your teams HP in half and chains ALL PSY units for 1 turn. He attacks every turn for 2,320 damage. When his health falls below 50%, he buffs his ATK and hits for 3,480 Under 20% health, he prevents defeat for 2 turns

Secret Stage

Shanks Roger Pirates + Buggy Roger Pirates

The Random stage will sometimes include both Shanks and Buggy. The only thing to be cautious of is to NOT push the bosses below 20%. Either take them completely out or stop your attack before pushing them into the danger zone as you will receive massive damage if you don't.

Enemy	Hp	Attack Pattern
Shanks Roger Pirates Buggy Roger Pirates	~300,000 ~200,000	Shanks deals 3,624 damage every 2 turns. Under 20% hp, he will attack for 4,032 damage. If his health falls below 20%, he will heal back to 80% for his turn but won't attack.

Apprentices! Shanks and Buggy!

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Drop rates[]

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FAQs[]

General Information[]

Recommended Captains[]

Recommended Support Units[]

Recommended Sockets[]

Recommended Teams[]

30 Stamina Walkthrough[]

Team Builder Helper[]

PSY Characters with Attack Boost

PSY Characters with Orb Boost

INT Characters with Attack Boost

INT Characters with Orb Boost