Marineford: the five-stage boss raid, and how the Sengoku fight actually works.

40 paws a run. Five stages. The last boss spends most of the fight behind a barrier you cannot shoot through.

Marineford is a boss raid, not a story island. You pay paws to enter, push through five named stages, and finish by bringing down Fleet Admiral Sengoku — whose health bar spends the fight protected by a Golden Barrier that only cannonballs break. The map card describes the job in one line: Storm Marine HQ, fight up to the scaffold and bring down the Buddha. Everything below comes from the select screen, the in-run banners, one full solo clear recorded on 31 October 2026 and one failed stage-5 attempt recorded on 6 November 2026.

What a run costs, and what it wants from you

The 40 is worth checking rather than trusting the banner alone, because paws are slow to refill. Across the same recording the gauge read 140/180 at the start and 101/180 after the clear — a drop of 39, against the one paw the timer added back during a nine-minute session. And the store’s +90 MAX PAWS pass advertises 270 capacity as “bank almost 7 boss raids”: 270 ÷ 40 = 6.75. Three independent readings, one answer.

The drop table

The card lists five possible drops and prints a percentage on each one. This is the only place in the game where the raid’s odds are written down:

The card calls these “possible drops”. Percentages describe the roll, not a measured sample, and no drop log was published — the one clear recorded here is a single roll, not evidence about the odds.

The five stages

Each stage opens with its own name in the header, then switches to a zombie counter. Between stages the header turns into a countdown — Firewall down — move up! 13s, then 10s — which is the only clock in the raid.

Two of the five are shooting galleries and one is a demolition job: the Redoubt Guns stage counts guns rather than zombies, and the counter went 3 left → 2 left. The fifth stage is the only one that changes hands mid-fight — it starts as another zombie quota and then hands over to the Vice Admiral, whose banner reads “He holds the last firewall. Bring him down!” That is the last gate before Sengoku.

How the Sengoku fight works

Sengoku arrives with a named bar — The Buddha, FLEET ADMIRAL SENGOKU — and a move label under it that changes as he attacks. Four were readable across two recordings: SHOCKWAVE PALM, GOLDEN RAIN, WEIGHT OF JUSTICE and JUDGMENT OF THE BUDDHA. Two banners carry the actual rules:

The counter is the clearest evidence for the loop. It first read 0/3 cannon hits, then 1/3 — and after that barrier broke and he came back up, the requirement had grown: 2/4, then 3/4, and the next frame is the The Buddha is down — hit him! banner. So the second barrier wants four hits, not three, and the fight is roughly two shield phases of cannon work with damage windows in between.

One clear, in numbers

Everything here comes off the VICTORY card at the end of that solo run:

Two things to take from it. Damage taken of 1,523 against 238,747 dealt is not a close fight — the barrier phases, not the boss’s damage, are what make this raid take time. And the Diamond line needs one correction: this card read zero, but the next section’s defeat card read 91, so the raid does pay Diamonds sometimes. It is still not a Diamond farm — 91 for ten minutes is far below the repeatable routes — but “Marineford pays nothing” was this page over-reading a single card.

What a defeat card looks like

The 6 November recording is the other outcome, and the game does not hide it. Dying on stage 5 ended in a RUN OVER panel stamped DEFEAT, with three lines that matter:

What the card does not answer: whether the 40 paws are refunded on a defeat. The replay was not attempted in that recording, so the wallet before and after was never shown.

Watch the clear

What it does not prove: one squad, one difficulty, one evening. The drop percentages are the card’s own figures and the clear is a single roll of them.

What it does not prove: whether the paws are returned on a defeat, or what the revive price is denominated in. Both need a wallet read before and after a failed attempt.

What is still unknown

• Sengoku’s exact maximum health. This has moved on. The 31 October recording left two candidate maxima, 95,700 and 957,00×; the 6 November recording prints 521,610 mid-fight against the same bar, and a numerator cannot exceed its maximum — so 95,700 is out. The denominator’s last digits stay unreadable at 640×360, so this page prints the ruled-out figure and the direction, not a confirmed total.
• What unlocks the raid. The select screen shows it available, but which island or quest opens it was not on screen.
• Whether a wipe refunds the 40 paws. A failed run is now recorded end to end, but its wallet was never on screen. Still unanswered.
• The revive price’s unit. The defeat card offers REVIVE 30; the icon beside it is a few pixels wide and does not match the Diamond glyph the same card uses for the Diamond line.
• The guns’ health. The Redoubt stage counts guns, not damage, so how long one takes is not answered.
• The Vice Admiral’s numbers. His banner is captured; his health bar was not legible.

Frequently asked questions

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Where this comes from: the Marineford select screen, the in-run stage headers and banners, and the VICTORY card, read frame by frame from a 31 October 2026 recording (groundon7828). Two full-video model passes on it timed out with no report, so every figure here was read from frames directly. The 40-paw cost is a banner string plus the gauge delta and the store pass’s own arithmetic, and it is described that way above rather than as an official price.