Four more Izanami runs today, four more slightly different strategies and/or permutations of my team, four more ogres left with less than 10% health after four more major combos with zero skyfalls. By all accounts I should stop wasting stamina at this point and accept that Izanami is impossible for my team. But it's not, that's the thing, I think I should win this like 50% of the time. It's like that sinister PAD mastermind in his control room is watching me do this, realizing that I really want it and might get desperate or frustrated enough to stone for stamina eventually, and is hitting the "zero skyfalls" button every time I combo and it matters. I don't need that much luck, either a slightly better opening board or slightly higher combos, but I can never get them. I can't give up now, but I kind of want to. But I can't.
Still haven't figured out if the I&I friend lead for more rows or the Metatron friend lead for a higher multiplier matters more. One of them is probably the more consistent option, but I don't have the understanding of practical math or PAD math to figure out which it is. At this point I'm considering shit like a Santa Sakuya friend lead to get an even higher multiplier to hopefully ensure a kill on the first floor, but that's a terrible idea.