It can be challenging trying to dodge the red projectiles while also avoiding the energy balls along the ground. This phase’s new attack is an arena-wide circle of energy balls followed by firing red homing projectiles in the air. He’ll start by attempting to smack the player twice in a row. Phrike becomes more handsy in this phase. This happens very quickly, but players can avoid it by dodging forward.Īfter this, Phrike will attempt to melee again and then start the cycle over. Instead of changing directions, it’s now best to just keep running a circle around Phrike and use the dodge button to avoid them.įollowing this, Phrike will charge and fire two beams in a circular arc around the entire arena. However, they’re much harder to dodge because of how fast they’re firing. While players are trying to dodge these, Phrike will dash toward them and try to hit them with a melee attack.Īfter this will come the purple balls again.

Phrike will then fire its red projectiles and follow up with a new attack which creates an expanding, medium-range shockwave. That means running quickly to the gap in the middle of the first attack while being ready to dodge the second. It’ll open this phase with the wide-area circular attack and fire one of its quick beams as the energy balls are descending. When Phrike moves into the second phase of the fight, all its actions will be faster.

During this phase, this isn’t a real threat. Phrike will also randomly dive into the fog and swim to a new location. This is the player’s cue to dodge to the side quickly.

Before it does so, it’ll gather energy in the air in a diamond pattern. Sometimes after this attack, Phrike will charge a beam that fires very quickly and covers the entire arena directly ahead of it. For the first two attacks, which come from its right hands, run right, then for the last one, which comes from its left hand. These are harder to avoid than the red projectiles. Phrike will then start launching streams of purple balls.

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