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I did a deep dive on Gau's hard-to-get rages, and on his entire Veldt encounter set, on how to make completing it as painless as possible/minimize the suck. Pack 37, where Nightshade is, is one of the more "interesting" packs, as it contains four unique encounters which are easily managed and isolated (Although 2xDahling is a prerequisite to Still Life). Since Nightshade is just outside the beginning of the Owzer's House dungeon basement proper, the player can easily clear the encounter, return to the Veldt and play until the middle of the sequence for a guaranteed Nightshade encounter. The completionist's best strategy is to simply clear the four unique encounters, while avoiding the other Ebot's Rock encounters (some resetting/"cheating" can be used here). The other encounters are non-unique/have other options and therefore should be saved for later.

Similarly, I isolated Io in an early pack by carefully managing Imperial continent encounters during WoB. At the time that I actually got Io, it had only one other competitor: the 1xFossilfang, 3xBug formation, which is also in the same pack.