monster help - fighting stealth balls

[hanako]

Some tips for people who get stuck fighting the stealth balls in the demo:

Stealth balls can create mirrored copies of themselves, making it hard to tell which one is real. Mirrored copies can be defeated in one hit, and they can't hit you. You don't want to waste your powerful attacks on them!

The best way to get through the fight is to find out which ones are real, and have Nicole use Lightning on the real ones. Remember, if a monster hits you and does damage, it's real! Otherwise, you can have the other two girls punch monsters and see which ones don't disappear, while Nicole defends to rebuild SP. However, once you make a mirror copy disappear, the real monster might mirror again, and then you would have to start over figuring out which one is real. If you do find a real one, have everyone hit it as hard as possible before it can mirror again!

(Later, you'll get area-effect attacks, which will make it much easier to find the real ones!)

[Spiky Caterpillar]

Also, poisoning Stealth Balls helps keep track of which ones are real. (select the text to make it more readable.)