I feel like defeating the tree is actually more difficult than it's been for me. I'm at 3 wins 0 losses, but I just barely scraped by in the wins. Any one of those could easily have been a loss.
No, it is in fact possible to beat the octopus. I did.
I'm sure there are multiple ways to do it, but spamming wind spells does work. Vortex + healing + Incantation Headband makes it hard for it to kill you quickly, so you can just wear it down with repeated wind hits.
TBH it was just the build I was using for the run. It just happened to be rather strong against the octopus, particularly Incantation Headband since it both 1) removes rage gems, which the octopus wants and 2) enables more matches against the enemy darkness and fear gems, since they are both m-skill -- while also just progressing the normal strategy of spell spamming with accelerated m-skill gems.
