Thanks.
Unfortunately, I have not seen Aldern (or Crown of Charisma) but I will certainly be on the lookout for both.
Finding Skinsawman first and closing everything else presents some practical problems, of course. Limited control over who you find first. And spreading out the characters means adding 1d4 to this villain's already formidable combat 14, then combat 16 strength... but it is true that even then he is more defeatable than Lesha.
About half my available armor can be banished to reduce damage to zero, but nowhere near all characters have this available all the time... and unless you are very fortunate, the situation will arise over and over.
As to the rogue evading, yes, if she happens to be the one who encounters Lesha each time, all is cool.
I guess what I am gathering from this is that no high probability strategy exists -- which is fine. It's just that pretty much all the scenarios up to this point, if you go about it correctly, there is a high probability way of succeeding. This one, it looks like without the right characters and the right cards and a fair amount of good fortune (or at least two out of three) you are probably going to lose. So I will quit feeling dense like I am overlooking something, and just figure it may take a few goes.