My rancor towards Rancor.

[Pillagius]

It's not much of a spoiler - you find it rather early in the game and was featured in gameplay trailer.

So... Grand Master difficulty.
Not amused with Rancor fight: to few chances to survive an attack let alone a combo if you missed timing or got too greedy and didn't react 0.5 seconds faster (game is pretty stingy with action/animation cancelling...).

The fact that you don't get any cool attack for breaking Rancor's "guard meter" is also rather frustrating. If there is such an attack - I'd love to be proven wrong on this one.

By far the easiest approach to this oneshot-central is to just bait the "red" dashing grab attack. At least it doesn't gain any follow ups in second phase.
Stay back, dodge the charge, attack, get away, repeat until victory.

[Charby]

I'm playing Jedi Knight and it's the same thing. The Rancor one shot me. ;-)

[LazerFruit [The9]]

i think like Ogdo your not supposed to fight it right away, your supposed to come back later

[Pillagius]

Originally posted by LazerFruit:

i think like Ogdo your not supposed to fight it right away, your supposed to come back later

Maybe? Ogdo at least took a few attacks to kill you, unlike Rancor. I still killed it, it's just not fun getting oneshot all the time...

[Fighting Blaze]

Originally posted by Pillagius:

Originally posted by LazerFruit:

i think like Ogdo your not supposed to fight it right away, your supposed to come back later

Maybe? Ogdo at least took a few attacks to kill you, unlike Rancor. I still killed it, it's just not fun getting oneshot all the time...

I got close, almost half its health, damn thing always one shots me when I least expect it. Any recommended stances?

[Zedd's dead]

If you are looking for the dodge high damage approach I would do the dual wield. It is actually DESIGNED for action cancelling, so it is ideal for baiting the charge, wailing on him and then dodging away.

[SLowrAM]

I never understand why some feel they must (even if not enjoying it) play on highest difficulty, from my understanding you can swap difficulty back and forth any time. Also for this fight there are 2 possible tricks to it, 1 way to cheese it, and 1 way to look for some things in environment and use em with your force powers not too different than what you had to do to get to this area.

[Superchargedk20]

I put that Ranchor down. Just baited his red attack.

[glass]

I placed my blade through his cranium. Took longer than I expected to kill that thing.

[Pillagius]

Originally posted by Fighting Blaze:

Originally posted by Pillagius:

Maybe? Ogdo at least took a few attacks to kill you, unlike Rancor. I still killed it, it's just not fun getting oneshot all the time...

I got close, almost half its health, damn thing always one shots me when I least expect it. Any recommended stances?

Basic single blade stance is enough. Trick is just staying out of Rancor's range waiting for that one red attack where he lunges trying to grab you - run in get 1-2 attacks and repeat.
To stay safe - put up block whenever you feel attack might reach you (the advancing left-right swipes attack has deceptively long reach...)

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by Fighting Blaze:

Originally posted by Pillagius:

Maybe? Ogdo at least took a few attacks to kill you, unlike Rancor. I still killed it, it's just not fun getting oneshot all the time...

I got close, almost half its health, damn thing always one shots me when I least expect it. Any recommended stances?

Dual Sabers, bait out attacks and dodge or jump them, punish after dodging the grab. You can throw the bones at him as well, the first one will stick in his mouth and give you a window for damage. Also evey time your force metre is full spam saber throw.

This was the first side quest i came across so i feel your pain.

I will say this though, for anyone that only wants to play on grand master and thinks the rancor is brutal, you might as well refund then because the rancor is easier than the regular enemies. This game takes the Dark Souls 2 approach of spamming you with hordes of enemies, the difference is that these have guns and rocket launchers so you don't even get time to heal or use powers.

[Giganx]

Rancor took a while to beat but honestly wasn't too bad.

The fast load times really do make these Souls type trial and error boss fights where you die in 1 hit and have to reload 100 times a lot less time consuming, lol.

I even uploaded some gameplay of me beating the Rancor on Grand Master difficulty as a low level without taking any damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LP_jRf1iF8

[Forsparda]

Originally posted by Pillagius:

It's not much of a spoiler - you find it rather early in the game and was featured in gameplay trailer.

So... Grand Master difficulty.
Not amused with Rancor fight: to few chances to survive an attack let alone a combo if you missed timing or got too greedy and didn't react 0.5 seconds faster (game is pretty stingy with action/animation cancelling...).

The fact that you don't get any cool attack for breaking Rancor's "guard meter" is also rather frustrating. If there is such an attack - I'd love to be proven wrong on this one.

By far the easiest approach to this oneshot-central is to just bait the "red" dashing grab attack. At least it doesn't gain any follow ups in second phase.
Stay back, dodge the charge, attack, get away, repeat until victory.

I just stood on the ledge and threw my lightsaber at him till he died

[tirpe]

I found that jumping away from its aoe based attacks helps by quite a lot.

[Callan]

I beat the rancor after my 10th attempt on jedi master.

All I can recommend is using the dual wield lightsabers as you can block out of an attack animation any time during a swing which is a MASSIVE buff.

Also jump over his double ground pound and try to parry his super slow hits.

Hope this helps! :)

(also use lightsaber throws, their really good)

[Larry]

I thought this was a pretty fun fight, tbh. Once you learn the parry timing you can just face tank it, jump the stomps, and of course dodge the red attacks.
There's even time to get a jump basic attack in between both stomps.
After red grab misses you have time for a full combo. Otherwise, you'll only have time for 1-2 strikes before needing to parry again.

In order to take advantage of breaking it's guard you simply gotta run forward while it's happening and you'll move within range to get hits in.

On the attack where it spins to its left while swiping, then double swipes back again will miss entirely if you run up close before the backswing.

After half health it'll start combining more of its attack strings (eg, will always perform a backhand after the slam attack with left hand). So you'll have to parry one or two additional attacks before your damage windows.

The only things you're allowed to get hit by are the stomp shockwaves since everything else will kill you, but it's honestly not bad once you get the hang of it.
Best part is after you've beaten it you'll basically strut towards every large creature type thereafter like the Chad Kestis you are.