Tips for Radagon?

[Enderspoons]

Radagon is one aggressive boi. Aggressive enough that I keep finding myself between a rock and a hard place:
- On the one hand, Radagon has no discernable patterns I can find to his attacks. I find myself getting getting caught left and right since he introduces random mixups to everything so often.
- On the other hand, his attacks are fast enough that I am having huge troubles with input lag eating my dodge rolls and quicksteps. I would try to get around this by being predictive with my rolls, but as said before, he's too random for that to work.

Does anyone have advice for how to balance this tightrope?

[Farkus]

stick close to him when he does the triple hammer slam as the best way to dodge the third hit is to dodge to his side. When he does the jump charge slam, if you are too close to run away, your best bet is to time a roll behind him right as it hits. Those are his 2 hardest moves to avoid, otherwise, just don't get greedy.

[Enderspoons]

Originally posted by Kanna:

Scarlet rot lmao

Ah. I had rather hoped I wouldn't have to have my hand forced, but if it has to come to that...

On that topic, would you happen to know how long it lasts after it procs? I wouldn't want to waste a shot of Ezyke's breath at the start of the fight only to find it doesn't bring him all the way down.

Edit: It appears I have been japed. A whole FP bar worth of casting failed to proc scarlet rot. Oh well.

[Farkus]

Originally posted by Enderspoons:

Originally posted by Kanna:

Scarlet rot lmao

Ah. I had rather hoped I wouldn't have to have my hand forced, but if it has to come to that...

On that topic, would you happen to know how long it lasts after it procs? I wouldn't want to waste a shot of Ezyke's breath at the start of the fight only to find it doesn't bring him all the way down.

I think this person might be mixing up Radahn and Radagon. Radahn is very weak to scarlet rot, I think Radagon actually has pretty high status resist.

[Drax]

Originally posted by Farkus:

stick close to him when he does the triple hammer slam as the best way to dodge the third hit is to dodge to his side.

Can't you just roll through it? The third hit? I found his triple hammer slam fairly easy to dodge through since it has pretty predictable timing. His jump slam though... That was a bit trickier. You can dodge it by jumping just before he lands. Very small window though and I haven't been able to dodge it reliably.

[k3rr3k]

Originally posted by Enderspoons:

Originally posted by Kanna:

Scarlet rot lmao

Ah. I had rather hoped I wouldn't have to have my hand forced, but if it has to come to that...

On that topic, would you happen to know how long it lasts after it procs? I wouldn't want to waste a shot of Ezyke's breath at the start of the fight only to find it doesn't bring him all the way down.

Edit: It appears I have been japed. A whole FP bar worth of casting failed to proc scarlet rot. Oh well.

Radagon is a pretty tough opponent and nearly as tough as Malenia. His attack patterns do become apparent once you have enough time invested in the fight. No status effects seem to apply. I swapped my weapon art to the raptor strike because it makes you invincible for one attack and puts you in the air for a jumping heavy which can help stagger him. Aside from maybe casting some buffs prefight I don't have any advice besides memorising the patterns.

Mimic tear as usual makes the fight a joke so you can take that route if you wish.

[Farkus]

Originally posted by Drax:

Originally posted by Farkus:

stick close to him when he does the triple hammer slam as the best way to dodge the third hit is to dodge to his side.

Can't you just roll through it? The third hit? I found his triple hammer slam fairly easy to dodge through since it has pretty predictable timing. His jump slam though... That was a bit trickier. You can dodge it by jumping just before he lands. Very small window though and I haven't been able to dodge it reliably.

The third hit of the slam seems to sometimes hits behind him, and it has too many active frames to I frame.

[Enderspoons]

Originally posted by Farkus:

stick close to him when he does the triple hammer slam as the best way to dodge the third hit is to dodge to his side. When he does the jump charge slam, if you are too close to run away, your best bet is to time a roll behind him right as it hits. Those are his 2 hardest moves to avoid, otherwise, just don't get greedy.

Sound advice. I only wish it would help when Radagon sometimes decides to spice up these moves. Sometimes he replaces the second hit of his basic hammer combo with projectiles. Sometimes he replaces the third hit with a quick AOE stomp. Sometimes he does a fourth attack immediately and I have no idea what that attack could be.

[Drax]

Originally posted by Enderspoons:

Originally posted by Kanna:

Scarlet rot lmao

Ah. I had rather hoped I wouldn't have to have my hand forced, but if it has to come to that...

On that topic, would you happen to know how long it lasts after it procs? I wouldn't want to waste a shot of Ezyke's breath at the start of the fight only to find it doesn't bring him all the way down.

Edit: It appears I have been japed. A whole FP bar worth of casting failed to proc scarlet rot. Oh well.

If you want to cheese it, a lvl10 summon is better. If it has the summon's aggro during her long 3 hammer pounds move, you can basically finish her off then and there. It's a really long move where you can still do damage and it'll only focus on your summon.

[Farkus]

Originally posted by Enderspoons:

Originally posted by Farkus:

stick close to him when he does the triple hammer slam as the best way to dodge the third hit is to dodge to his side. When he does the jump charge slam, if you are too close to run away, your best bet is to time a roll behind him right as it hits. Those are his 2 hardest moves to avoid, otherwise, just don't get greedy.

Sound advice. I only wish it would help when Radagon sometimes decides to spice up these moves. Sometimes he replaces the second hit of his hammer attack with projectiles. Sometimes he replaces the third hit with a quick AOE stomp. Sometimes he does a fourth attack immediately and I have no idea what that attack could be.

yeah, he likes to get tricky

[Snobby Hobo]

Originally posted by k3rr3k:

Originally posted by Enderspoons:

Ah. I had rather hoped I wouldn't have to have my hand forced, but if it has to come to that...

On that topic, would you happen to know how long it lasts after it procs? I wouldn't want to waste a shot of Ezyke's breath at the start of the fight only to find it doesn't bring him all the way down.

Edit: It appears I have been japed. A whole FP bar worth of casting failed to proc scarlet rot. Oh well.

Radagon is a pretty tough opponent and nearly as tough as Malenia. His attack patterns do become apparent once you have enough time invested in the fight. No status effects seem to apply. I swapped my weapon art to the raptor strike because it makes you invincible for one attack and puts you in the air for a jumping heavy which can help stagger him. Aside from maybe casting some buffs prefight I don't have any advice besides memorising the patterns.

Mimic tear as usual makes the fight a joke so you can take that route if you wish.

Malenia is infinitely harder than Radagon. Radagon has clear openings, whereas phase 2 Milenia it's a true crapshoot just waiting for the very specific punishable attacks, while trying to avoid various very rapid instant-kill moves. Radagon is more "I hit everything from here to Tokyo", but the attacks are slower and more predictable.

[Enderspoons]

Originally posted by Drax:

If you want to cheese it, a lvl10 summon is better. If it has the summon's aggro during her long 3 hammer pounds move, you can basically finish her off then and there. It's a really long move where you can still do damage and it'll only focus on your summon.

I'd love to use an ash summon (current favorites are Bloodhound Knight Floh and the bone boys), but they tend to get obliterated faster than I would like. That, and also I need to save FP to pop an ash summon for Elden Beast afterward.

[Snobby Hobo]

Originally posted by Enderspoons:

Originally posted by Drax:

If you want to cheese it, a lvl10 summon is better. If it has the summon's aggro during her long 3 hammer pounds move, you can basically finish her off then and there. It's a really long move where you can still do damage and it'll only focus on your summon.

I'd love to use an ash summon (current favorites are Bloodhound Knight Floh and the bone boys), but they tend to get obliterated faster than I would like. That, and also I need to save FP to pop an ash summon for Elden Beast afterward.

Why bother with any summon outside Mimic tear? It is by far the best one you can get.

[Farkus]

Originally posted by Enderspoons:

Originally posted by Drax:

If you want to cheese it, a lvl10 summon is better. If it has the summon's aggro during her long 3 hammer pounds move, you can basically finish her off then and there. It's a really long move where you can still do damage and it'll only focus on your summon.

I'd love to use an ash summon (current favorites are Bloodhound Knight Floh and the bone boys), but they tend to get obliterated faster than I would like. That, and also I need to save FP to pop an ash summon for Elden Beast afterward.

If you want a summon that can stick around, I recommend the mimic tear or black knife tiche. Mimic tear can heal itself and tiche is very mobile and can avoid damage pretty well.

[MrFrengLitch]

He does have patterns though. You'l see it eventually.

Around 60% HP thats when he stars getting more aggressive and teleporting and stuff.

When he throws spear at you, dodge twice. They also explode after couple of secs.
In the "2nd phase" he also likes to throws 3 consecutive lights (I guess thats what they are). So dodge 3 times. The 1st phase is usually just 1 of them at a time.

I dont remember exactly his patterns up close. I think he likes to do a 4 attak combo. And then you get a small window to attack him.

All of his slams attack are AoE. So dont rely on just staying away. You gotta doge everytime.

Its just a matter of learning his patterns. Eventually you'll be him easily.

[Drax]

Originally posted by Enderspoons:

I'd love to use an ash summon (current favorites are Bloodhound Knight Floh and the bone boys), but they tend to get obliterated faster than I would like. That, and also I need to save FP to pop an ash summon for Elden Beast afterward.

Yeah like others have said, a lvl10 Mimic will be able to tank through both fights no problem. I'd also prioritize using the summon for Radagon because the Elden Beast's breath attacks kinda wreck summons so if you don't have a mimic, it probably won't last long anyway.