Cassette Beasts: ballad of a brigand

I did a little grinding with the Gauntlet Train earlier to afford building up a couple decent tapes for a better run so I can farm even more of these weird triangles.

What's the point of the plant-bootleg Palangolin? Natural compatibility with two important stickers: New Leaf and Fair Fight. The Gauntlet Train will dump debuff effects onto you before the battle begins, which is where New Leaf helps by cleaning those off. Fair Fight prevents any new status effects from being applied which includes enemies spamming buffs, walls, and other tomfoolery that I don't want to deal with.

A similar setup can be achieved by having one of your characters bring New Leaf while the other brings Fair Fight. The sticker for Fair Fight can potentially be equipped onto any species tape if you spend one of the bonus slots on "compatible with any tape."

There's another advantage with plant Palangolin: Life Absorb. Top off my health by knocking out an opponent at the same time. Artillerex's natural compatibility with Bite, which heals the user for 25% of damage dealt, is also nice for mitigating all the pre-emptive strikes and self-destructs.

This setup is missing Phase Shift. I'd have to use New Leaf to wipe that off if the train starts enemies with that effect. A non-bootleg Ripterra would be great at that since it'd also get Bite.