Thank you for the assistance.
Looking at how insanity works, at the start it doesn’t seem too bad, and the fear doesn’t seem to be on the same level as “All For One makes you see your own death by being near you.” Something Kirishima has experienced and actually had to be stopped from moving before he fought it to save Bakugo.
In that case, Kirishima is the clutch factor here, at least as things begin.
Of the people here, Kirishima is the one who has supernatural willpower and can likely force himself to move despite any fear or insanity, especially when people are in danger. He also gets a friendship buff when Ashido is with him that will force him to try and protect her / be a shield for others.
That seems to be the main barrier for everyone that only Kirishima can break them out of if it’s really bad. Kirishima can single-handedly boost their morale and scrap with the Megalodaunt by himself for them to recover if they need it.
Other than that… they should beat this thing into the ground?
It’s 123 tons vs 712 tons with Dark Shadow and Hardening, 237 tons otherwise (with Aoyama’s navel laser ONE SHOTTING 237 ton robots).
Even with a 25% defense drop, their durability is still comparable to (actually HIGHER than) the player who can take hits from many of these things. No resistance to Acid either so Mina just burns into it badly on top of her sliding mobility to not get hit / having Tokoyami and Kirishima distracting the creature with the absurd stat gap.
The way I’m seeing this, the students get feared and hit with madness, Kirishima breaks out of it with supernatural willpower first when the others get endangered, snaps them out of it with a hero speech and they proceed to kick its ass horribly, to the point it likely gets one shot by anyone thrashing at it hard enough.
I don’t think it actually has the ability to use its Thousand Needles before it gets stomped on. And even if it does, Kirishima and Dark Shadow can block it for the others and take no damage.
