There's still a chance. We have ten more slots to fill, who knows who could be there to fill them.
So yeah, floor 16 boss still killing me after getting Reimu to level 85, which was enough for all the optional bosses to this point. I think Youmu may be useful with her double focus ability going on, but I dunno...
I just beat her, 89 reimu, 83-84 most people, 78/79 remi/patchy. Sword of rapture seems to only get rid of the speed and evasion portion of her massive buff at the end (and the mnd buff near the beginning too, but not the mnd one at the end). I rekon after she does the big +80% everything buff (not the 2nd graphic change one, that none-graphic one after the 2nd graphic one), she only has about 200-300k hp left, which isn't much if you're hoarding a +100% magic master spark >=P.
She joins you, and her exp needed to level is even higher than remi's. Her spells look really promising too. I saved up 250000skillpoints (yes 250,000 not 25,000), and blew them all on her, put some decent quality equipment on her, etc. Afterwards she was geared as an average member of my team, and skillpointed as much as my very best 2....Alas she sucks. So called "severe damage" moves hit only for 10-20k.. on floor 1 enemies. her spirit damage move is as weak as Sanae's. And while it has a slow/paralyze effect, it rarely seems to connect, in addition, the slowing effect is only 15%.
On the plus side, she does have a defense buff just like Reimu's, and her defensive stats are pretty much the same as Reimu's too, which is probably the very best of the "Caster" people, she's a slowpoke though (not patchy slow, But like Eirin slow, or something like that). Quite disappointing because her spell listing sounded so neat. I was really wanting a slow person other than cirno >=(. Her spells are also disgustingly expensive for how weak they are too (minus the def buff one).
Time to revert to my OTHER save and get 250,000 skillpoints back >=p.
OH btw, does anybody know if stats influence how long buffs/debuffs last at all?
edit: Dear god, floor 17 trash is ridiculous. Fantasy seal. 0,0,0... asteroid belt 0,0,0,0...wtf?... Royal flare!! 0,0,0,0! %!#%!%.. Little legion? 0,0,0,0.. Sigh.