Talk:World 4/@comment-26086662-20150617115947/@comment-25477086-20150617225046

Different beasts.

4-5 pre final is pretty easy, and the branching is guaranteed. You also can't use supports, though you really wish you could for the final form.

5-5 the route is not guaranteed, and Re can provide a lot of chances to send your ships back. If you run 5-5 the subs route then your node support isn't guaranteed to keep your subs alive.

4-5 final is pretty bad. The boss has a good chunk of armor and HP and the enemies are tanky. Instead of 5 targets to hit there are now 6 and it's very unlikely that you will kill the 4-5 boss at night from full HP with only 1 ship.

I'd say although the runs are cheaper (can't use support), pre final 4-5 is considerably easier than pre final 5-5, and last kill 4-5 is slightly harder than last kill 5-5.