How to Beat Hard Mode Lily and Lyleen: Team and Drops

Lily and Lyleen on Hard Mode is the level 80 Grass tower rematch, and it hides a nasty trick: Fire is the only element that hurts it, and three of the nine attacks in its rotation are Water — the one element that hits Fire back. This guide covers the boss card, the arithmetic that decides whether you beat the clock, the Fire Pals worth building and the two typings that quietly wreck a run, every attack with power and cooldown, the gear and food to pack, and the Legendary Drone Launcher Schematic on the reward table.

Lily and Lyleen (Hard) at a Glance

This is not a clean duel. Two Free Pal Alliance fighters walk in with the pair — a Believer and a Judicator — and neither of them shares Lyleen's element, so nothing you built for the boss reduces their damage. The unlock is the usual one for the ladder: put Lily and Lyleen down on Normal Mode, and the rematch door opens at the same tower you already have a fast travel point beside.

	Hard Mode
Boss	Lily & Lyleen
Element	Grass
Weak to	Fire — and nothing else
Level	80
HP	494,000
Damage dealt	×10
Damage taken	×0.12
Cooldown	×3
Time limit	5 minutes
Unlock	Clear Lily and Lyleen on Normal Mode
Other enemies	Free Pal Alliance Believer ×1, Judicator ×1
First-clear reward	Lily Hat
Paldeck	#186

The Number That Decides the Fight

Tower bosses are ordinary Pals wearing multipliers, and the rematch rewrites all four of them. The health bar quadruples, which sounds survivable — but the damage-taken line drops from full to 12%, and that is the column that ends runs. Multiply the two and the rematch is effectively 33 times the health bar of the first battle on the same five-minute clock. Its own output goes from ×1 to ×10 in the same step, and the ×3 cooldown is the only thing working in your favour.

Put the raw numbers together and you get the honest target: 494,000 health behind a ×0.12 wall means roughly 4.1 million raw damage inside 300 seconds, or about 13,700 a second, before the boss's own defense takes its cut. That is the single highest damage-per-second requirement on the eight-tower ladder outside Zoe and Grizzbolt, and it is why a team that misses the Fire weakness is out of the fight before the first cast lands. No amount of dodging closes a hole that size.

Rematch	Element	HP ×	Takes ×	Effective health
Zoe & Grizzbolt	Electric	×100	×0.10	×1,000
Lily & Lyleen	Grass	×100	×0.12	×833
Axel & Orserk	Dragon / Electric	×110	×0.15	×733
Marcus & Faleris	Fire	×110	×0.15	×733
Saya & Selyne	Dark / Neutral	×93	×0.20	×465
Auri & Shaolong	Dragon / Water	×88	×0.20	×440
Bjorn & Bastigor	Ice	×75	×0.18	×417
Victor & Shadowbeak	Dark	×100	×0.25	×400

Second-longest of the eight, and it is the second tower in the game — which is exactly the trap. The original Lily fight is a level 20 pushover, so it is the rematch most people book early and the rematch most people time out on. Do Victor and Shadowbeak or Bjorn and Bastigor first and come back with the souls and lotuses they pay out. Every multiplier for both phases lives on the tower boss list.

Fire Is the Only Answer, and That's the Problem

Lyleen is pure Grass, so the counter list is one item long — Fire is the only element that gets bonus damage on the element matchup chart and counter finder. Against Bastigor, the other tower a Fire team answers, that same Fire partner also resisted two thirds of the incoming kit. Not here. Lyleen carries three Water casts worth 250, 300 and 600 power, and Water is the element that beats Fire, so the exact Pal you brought to kill it is the exact Pal it is built to kill. Fielding Fire is still correct — you just cannot leave it standing in the open for the whole five minutes.

That last row is the sleeper. A pure Dragon or Dark Pal takes zero bonus damage from anything in the rotation, which makes it the perfect body to leave on the field while the Water phase plays out. It will not out-damage a Fire attacker, but it will not die either — and against a ×10 boss, a partner that survives is worth more than a partner that hits harder for twenty seconds and then needs a Revival Potion.

Best Pals for the Fight

Read the typing before the statline. Moldron is the standard recommendation for a Fire tower and it is the worst possible pick here — Fire/Ground means the Grass half of the kit hits its Ground side *and* the Water half hits its Fire side, so it eats bonus damage from all nine attacks. The Dragon/Fire hybrids are the opposite story: Lyleen casts no Ice, so their Dragon half is completely free, and Eidrolon Ignis turns out to be one of the best bodies in the fight rather than a liability.

Pal	Element	Attack	Why bring it
Knocklem Ignis	Fire	115 ranged	Flame Cutter is a 700-power Fire move no other Pal learns, and Iron Guardian Mode gives +210% attack and +210% defense at four stars — the biggest partner buff in the game
Eidrolon Ignis	Dragon / Fire	130 ranged	Top Fire attack stat and the 4th-fastest mount in the game at 2,750 sprint — the Dragon half costs nothing here because there is no Ice in the kit
Faleris	Fire	110 ranged	Raging Flame Wave at 650 power is exclusive to it, and at 1,400 sprint it is the fastest pure-Fire flyer — no Water-weak second typing to worry about
Flaracle	Fire	125 ranged	The best ranged number on a pure-Fire Pal, with Fire Ball at 600 and Volcanic Rain at 450 — fights at distance, which is where you want to be
Blazamut	Fire	150 melee	Highest melee attack of any pure-Fire Pal and Brawn Impact at 600 — the pick if you brawl rather than kite
Jormuntide Ignis	Dragon / Fire	130 ranged	130 HP is the fattest health pool of the Fire options, and Dragon typing means only the Water casts threaten it
Wixen	Fire	110 ranged	Converts your own shots to Fire while it is summoned, and stacks up to +50% ranged attack — the fix for a gun that otherwise does nothing special to a Grass boss
Orserk	Dragon / Electric	130 ranged	Every bullet you land adds 5% attack and defense to your active Pal, stacking 30 times for +150% — and it works from a party slot
Silvegis	Dragon	110 ranged	Aegis Shield keeps a shield up, and pure Dragon takes bonus damage from nothing in the rotation
Celesdir Noct	Dark	115 ranged	Blessing of Chaos trades a slow health drain for +80% attack, the biggest flat damage boost you can hand a partner

If you only build one, build Knocklem Ignis. Condensing it to four stars is not a small bump — it takes Iron Guardian Mode from +60% to +210% on both attack and defense, and that defense half is what lets it eat a Geyser Gush instead of being deleted by one. Pair it with Eidrolon Ignis as the swap body and you have a Fire attacker for the Grass casts and a fast flyer to leave the ground with when the water starts. Both sit high on the combat tier list.

Fire Damage Team

This is the comp for players who let the Pal do the work. Knocklem Ignis leads on Flame Cutter and its own +210% buff, Faleris takes the swap slot for the 650-power exclusive and a flyer to reposition on, and the three support Pals never leave the party — Orserk to convert your rifle fire into stacking buffs, Celesdir Noct for the +80%, and Silvegis for a shield that keeps you standing through the ×10 casts.

Slot	Pal	Job
Active	Knocklem Ignis	Main damage — Flame Cutter at 700, plus +210% attack and defense
Active swap	Faleris	Raging Flame Wave at 650 and the fastest pure-Fire flyer
Support	Orserk	+5% attack and defense per bullet you land, to +150%
Support	Celesdir Noct	+80% attack on the Pal fighting beside you
Support	Silvegis	Aegis Shield — the buffer against Geyser Gush and Wind Burst

Player-Damage Team

Your rifle does not care what element the boss is — which means against a Grass boss it is throwing away the only multiplier that matters. Wixen fixes that: it converts your attacks to Fire while it is simply summoned, so it works on foot with any weapon while you dodge, and it stacks up to +50% ranged attack on top. Everything else in this party exists to inflate your own numbers rather than the Pal's, and the whole team must be five different species or Solenne's buff switches off. The full conversion roster is in All Pals That Change Your Attack Element.

Slot	Pal	Job
Active	Wixen	Turns your own shots into Fire damage, +50% ranged attack
Support	Solenne	+80% to your own attack — needs five different species in the party
Support	Orserk	Bullet stacks, which a player-damage build reaches fastest
Support	Celesdir Noct	+80% attack when you do swap a fighter in
Support	Knocklem Ignis	Keeps a Fire body on the field between your reloads

Minimum Requirements Before You Walk In

Hard Mode rarely kills a competent party — it runs the clock out on them, which costs five minutes and teaches you nothing. Every line below is fixable before you enter, and at a 13,700-per-second target this is one of the two rematches where all of them genuinely have to be ticked. The soul ladder is the long pole, so finish one Fire attacker properly instead of half-building three; the min-maxing guide lays out the spending order and the rank-up guide covers the condenser itself.

Requirement	Target	Why
Pal level	80	The level gap eats damage on top of the ×0.12 reduction
Condensed	4 star	Takes Iron Guardian Mode from +60% to +210% — nothing else comes close
Pal Souls	HP +20, Attack +20, Defense +20	Fed by Large Pal Souls the towers themselves drop
Trust level	7 or higher	Unlocks the top of the partner-skill payoff
Awakened	Yes	Fire gems for a Fire attacker — see the radiant gem guide
Weapon	Legendary for your level	See the best weapons by tech level
Armor	Full Ancient set or better	See the best armor by tech level

If a Pal falls short, condensing the one you already own beats levelling a replacement, and raising its trust costs a few peaches rather than a few hours. Leave your spheres at home — nothing in the arena can be caught, including the two Alliance fighters.

Weapons to Bring

The Plasma Rifle carries the raw damage and its discharge chains between targets, which matters more here than on a solo boss because there are three things in the room at the start. The Drone Launcher is the one people leave in the chest and it is arguably the most important gun in the bag — its drones attack on their own, so they keep Orserk's stacks topped up while you are busy dodging. The Megaboost Gun exists to pump your own Pal's attack and defense between casts, and the Mechanical Bow is a status-application tool — its 20,000 is a bow figure and does not compare to a rifle's.

Weapon	Unlocks at	Attack	Durability	Why bring it
Plasma Rifle	Lv 78	1,860	25,000	Highest sustained damage of any rifle, and it chains between the boss and the escorts
Drone Launcher	Lv 77	200	6,500	Nine autonomous drones stack Orserk's buff to the cap without your input
Megaboost Gun	Lv 63	250	400	Shoot your own Pal to raise its attack and defense — 400 durability, so save it for the buff
Mechanical Bow	Lv 67	20,000	2,000	Status application on a separate damage scale to the guns

The Ring That Was Made for This Fight

One accessory answers both halves of this fight in a single slot, and it is not the obvious one. The Blazehowl Ring stacks Grass damage reduction at rank 4 with Pal Fire damage enhancement at rank 4 — offense against the boss and defense against five of its nine casts, on the same ring. Its sibling the Faleris Ring carries the identical Fire boost but resists Ice instead, which does exactly nothing here, so check which one you actually socketed before you queue. For yourself, the Ring of Grass Resistance +2 is the budget equivalent. Recipes for the whole set are in List of All Pal Rings and on the accessories database.

Accessory	Who wears it	What it does
Blazehowl Ring	Your Pal	Grass damage reduction Lv 4 and Pal Fire damage enhancement Lv 4
Flame Emperor's Baton	Your Pal	Same Fire boost with Pal attack up Lv 4 instead of the resistance
Blazamut's Talisman	Your Pal	Same Fire boost with Pal defense up Lv 4 instead of the resistance
Fire Support Whistle +2	Your Pal	Fire damage only — the cheap stand-in before the rings are craftable
Dogen Emblem	You	Greatly raises your attack and your Pal's — never a wasted slot
Silvegis Emblem	You	The defensive twin — raises your defense and your Pal's
Warsect Terra's Belt	You	Defense and health together, for the ×10 hits you fail to dodge
Ring of Grass Resistance +2	You	Grass damage reduction Lv 3 on your own health bar

For armor, the Ancient set is the floor rather than the goal. Lightweight Ancient Armor is the body piece to beat at 840 defense and 2,400 HP, the Ancient Shield carries 2,200 shield that repairs itself once you go a moment without being hit, and the Ancient Helm is the best helmet available even though its Neutral and Dragon resistances do nothing against this particular boss — you wear it for the 500 defense and 1,200 HP. Put the element resistance in the accessory slots instead, where it actually matches.

Gear	Unlocks at	HP	Defense	Added effect
Lightweight Ancient Armor	Lv 79	2,400	840	Cold and heat resistance Lv 2, carry weight Lv 4
Ancient Helm	Lv 68	1,200	500	Neutral and Dragon damage reduction Lv 1 — neither applies here
Ancient Shield	Lv 71	—	2,200 shield	Self-repairs after a spell without taking damage

Food and Healing to Pack

Because the tower runs on a timer, damage food beats defense food every time — a buff that keeps you alive through a run you time out on has achieved nothing. Mammorest Curry is the strongest at +25% ranged attack, with Broncherry Fried Noodles one step behind at +20%, and both refill enough hunger and sanity that you are not eating mid-fight. Eat before you walk through the door: the buff ticking down while you fight is fine, the arena seconds spent in your inventory are not.

Consumable	Effect	Notes
Mammorest Curry	+25% ranged attack	Best damage buff on the menu — also restores 418 hunger and 52 sanity
Broncherry Fried Noodles	+20% ranged attack	The cheaper stand-in at 321 hunger and 40 sanity
Advanced Recovery Meds	Rapid HP restore	The heal to reach for when a 600-power cast connects
High Quality Recovery Meds	Strong HP restore	Cheap backup — and Lyleen drops 1 to 3 of these every clear
Revival Potion	Revives a downed Pal	Losing your Fire attacker to the Water phase is what ends attempts

Every Attack in Lyleen's Hard Mode Kit

Nine moves across three elements, and only two of them — Solar Blast and Wind Burst — are things a wild Lyleen actually learns. The whole Water suite is bolted on for the tower, which is why players who fought it in the field are surprised by the second half of the rotation. The good news is the shape: the two 600-power casts sit on 30-second cooldowns that the ×3 multiplier stretches further, so the gaps between the dangerous hits are long enough to burst in. Watch for Raid Cutter in particular — outside this fight it is a move only Leafan knows. Powers and cooldowns for everything else in the game are on the active skills list.

Strategy That Changes the Fight

Four things decide this rematch and none of them are gear. The escorts are what kill you early, the Water casts are what kill your damage dealer, and the last two are where the missing damage comes from.

Delete the Two Escorts First

The Believer and the Judicator do not share Lyleen's element, so your Grass resistance and your Fire partner's typing do nothing about them. They also do not stop chipping at you while you try to burn a 494,000 health bar. Open on them, clear them inside the first thirty seconds, then start the real fight with a clean screen. A run that looks on pace at four minutes and falls apart at four-thirty is almost always a run where something else in the room was still shooting.

Recall Before the Water Casts

Geyser Gush, Curtain Splash and Torrential Blast all land on a Fire partner at the weakness multiplier on top of the boss's ×10. Recall your attacker when the water animation starts and resummon it once the pillars clear — you lose a few seconds of Pal damage and keep the whole rest of the fight. This is also the moment a pure Dragon body like Silvegis earns its slot: it can stand in the water and take no bonus damage at all while your Fire Pal sits safe in its sphere.

Stack Orserk's Buff With Drones

Orserk's partner skill adds 5% attack and defense to your active Pal for every bullet that connects, stacking 30 times for +150%. Hitting that cap by hand costs you the whole opening minute; the Drone Launcher deploys up to nine drones that fire on their own and get there in seconds. The catch is range — drift too far and the drones stop shooting, the stacks decay, and your damage quietly halves without any warning on screen. Stay in the fight while you dodge rather than kiting to the far wall.

Shoot Lily, Not Just Lyleen

Lily is a person standing next to a very large Pal, and headshots on the rider carry the weak-point multiplier. On a Wixen build that is where the bulk of your total output comes from, so treat every cooldown gap as a window to line up on her rather than as downtime. Even on a Pal-damage comp it is free damage while your active Pal's skills are recharging. The status effects guide covers what else you can stick on the pair while you are at it.

What Lily and Lyleen Drop

The Lily Hat is guaranteed the first time you clear the rematch, so the opening run is never wasted — though at 20 defense and 60 HP it is a wardrobe piece rather than an upgrade. The reason to keep queueing is the schematic at roughly one clear in ten, plus the large stat lotuses that feed the permanent stat elixirs, and a Training Crystal that skips a level of grinding on whatever you are still building.

Reward	Chance	What it's for
Lily Hat	Guaranteed on 1st clear	20 defense, 60 HP, 5,000 durability — a collection piece
Drone Launcher Schematic 4	~10%	Unlocks the legendary Drone Launcher at the Ancient Workbench
Life Lotus (L) and the other large lotuses	Reward table	The components of the permanent stat elixirs
Training Crystal	Reward table	Raises a Pal's level by one with no grinding

Underneath the tower rewards sits Lyleen's own drop table, and it is the quiet reason to farm this fight even after the schematic lands. Grass Radiant Gems at 10 to 20 a clear, guaranteed is the best rate you will find for awakening a Grass Pal, and the relic haul feeds straight into the Ancient Relic Recycler — which is itself one of the gamble sources for legendary schematics.

Drop	Chance	Amount
Grass Radiant Gem	100%	10 – 20
Decayed Ancient Relic	100%	30 – 50
Dormant Ancient Relic	100%	10 – 20
Gorgeous Ancient Relic	100%	4 – 8
Glowing Ancient Relic	50%	2 – 3
Glistening Ancient Relic	25%	1
High Quality Recovery Meds	100%	1 – 3
Beautiful Flower	100%	1 – 2
World Tree Holy Water	50%	1 – 3
Electric Radiant Gem	50%	1 – 3
Innovative Technical Manual	10%	1

The Legendary Drone Launcher Schematic

This is the best reason to keep the tower on rotation. The Drone Launcher unlocks in the tech tree at level 77 for 4 points and craft costs Paloxite Ingot ×70, World Tree Holy Water ×40, AI Core ×8 and Ancient Civilization Core ×5. The legendary schematic pushes the craft from 200 attack to 240 and quadruples durability from 6,500 to 26,000 — read those against other launchers only, since a launcher's attack figure is not on the same scale as a rifle's.

Version	Rarity	Attack	Durability
Drone Launcher	Common	200	6,500
Drone Launcher	Uncommon	210	9,750
Drone Launcher	Rare	220	13,000
Drone Launcher	Epic	230	19,500
Drone Launcher	Legendary	240	26,000

That durability line is the real story. The base launcher wears out fast enough that you feel it inside a single tower run, and 26,000 means one craft lasts most of the endgame. It is also worth knowing how bad the alternatives are: outside this tower, the legendary schematic turns up from World Tree fishing, treasure map digs and the relic recycler, and the best of those sits at 0.36% of a loot roll. A 10% boss drop is in a different universe. The full Drone Launcher schematic breakdown has every source, and the schematic upgrade guide explains why the lower-rarity copies you pile up are still worth keeping — five of a tier combine into one of the next.

Where the Tower Is

The rematch happens behind the same door as the first battle, so if you beat Lily and Lyleen on Normal you already have the fast travel point. All eight main-landmass towers are pinned on the tower boss layer of our interactive map, with three more in the World Tree region on the World Tree view. If you want a Lyleen of your own rather than a fight with one, the wild population is 42 spawn spots, all in the World Tree, day and night alike, plotted on Lyleen's spawn map — plus a single alpha at level 58. Its own partner skill, Harvest Goddess, restores 90% of your party's health on activation, which makes the catch worth the trip.

Summary

Bring Fire because nothing else scratches it, but never leave that Fire Pal standing in a Water cast. Clear the two Alliance escorts first, keep Orserk's drone stacks alive, and put a Blazehowl Ring on your partner so one slot covers both the Grass damage coming in and the Fire damage going out. At ×833 effective health this is the second-longest rematch on the ladder despite being the second tower in the game — clear a shorter one first, come back properly condensed, and the payoff is a 10% roll at the best Drone Launcher in the game plus a guaranteed 10 to 20 Grass Radiant Gems every single run.

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