*SPOILERS* John Watson Fight

[Aether]

Am I the only one who has difficulty in progressing the story because John Watson fight is so obnoxious because he's so OP and fast meanwhile Dave is so freaking slow and awkward? Can't even have a break to grab the bat and when I hit the missile with the bat FACING John Watson, it doesn't work??? Like it blows up in Dave's face. Idk please fix it 😭

[MossRock42]

One thing that helps is there are two O2 sources in the room.

[Swanky]

The baseball bat seems to have a hitbox that extends slightly beyond its visual range, so should be a little easier to hit the rocket if you swing slightly early than you feel you should.
You can relatively easily dodge his attacks by circling him and dodge boost, but I agree that for the bosses the 30% dash speed charm is in many cases a must, which is a problem. I basically never take that one off - this is a big balance issue.

[FlyingAllNight]

Like Mark Grace I went and found a slump buster and just like that I was hitting grenades again. It really works.

[Melbac]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Enter the Wang:

Just about all the Boss fights seem to require the Dolphin '+30% Dash Speed' charm. If you don't have it equipped you are out of luck.

As you don't know when the Boss fights are on your first play through, you are practically forced to keep this charm equipped the entire game.

Why shouldn't you have the dolphin charm equipped? Thats the best charm in the game. I use it all the time.

[danblev]

Ah yeah reading this I was wondering why I one shotted this guy so easily and then realized I never removed the 30% dash charm the entire game after I got it. 🤣

[Gamepressure.com]

Hi there! If you're having a hard time beating this boss, here are a few tips that might help:

- After the enemy fires the launcher, a trajectory of the missile will apppear and to escape, quickly swim up or down. This should be enough to avoid the attack.
- The second attack of the boss are charges and expect one when lightnings appear over Watson's head.
- The boss always performs a few charges in a row. Swim away from him and wait for the combination to end.

You can check out our guide to this bossfight here: https://guides.gamepressure.com/dave-the-diver/guide.asp?ID=68951

Hope this helps, and we'll appreciate any feedback!

[Makuren]

Hey guys. I am currently dealing with that fight. I found the fight to be fairly simple mechanically. I always have on the dolphin charm for 15% increased speed when using oxygen to speed boost and it gives enough speed to avoid all the attacks.

[Boodz]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Enter the Wang:

Just about all the Boss fights seem to require the Dolphin '+30% Dash Speed' charm. If you don't have it equipped you are out of luck.

As you don't know when the Boss fights are on your first play through, you are practically forced to keep this charm equipped the entire game.

Not true. I haven't touched that since I started playing, I've had more success with octopus charm than dolphin charm. Since you need your HP, I'd rather not burn it faster while dashing and that's where the octopus charm comes in, free micro-dash that you can spam whenever.

Also, since you're slow AF, anticipating their movement is your best defense, oh and upgrading your air tank too.

[TheGingerbreadRat]

Thank you so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ much for the suggestion! I was literally about to say you know what, I'm done with the game. I love this game so far, but this fight was about to be the death of me. The bat is USELESS. I can't tell you how many times I tried to lure him to the bottom and the bomb directly hit, yet he took no damage. I'm also glad it wasn't just me having troubles cause I really felt like it wasn't a skill issue.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von beapoison:

I finished this fight, when he fire the rocket go behind him and always swin around him, like a circle.

[Mob Barley]

just charge ur melee for the bomb and if ur close go around him so the bomb hits him but does less damage to him

[mmmm]

It's absurdly easy if you charge the bat swing. You don't even have to aim it.

[Necromancyr]

Charging up the bat is the answer to this fight - or swimming through him - but charging the bat lets you keep distance at all times.

[rico]

Weird. I beat him on my first try. The battle mechanics were pretty clear maybe you guys need to get good

[Rhaane]

Bringing my 2 cents. Im at the last part of the game and never once used the 30% dolphin charm. Instead I use the Octopus charm and 10% less damage taken as my go-to kit. The short burst dash ever 3-4 seconds is great to dodge most things and uses no O2. The fight I had the most issue with was a certain huge shark with a scar that likes to hug you.

For John and for other bosses. Scavange the bottom of the arena. I found a grenade launcher that really messed him up in between trying to learn to use the bat. Got it on 3rd try after practice how to hit him with those.

Also - for 80% of the fights I had a netgun with me and just used the harpoon to fight with OR whatever gun I found in the arena.

[牧尘]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Teatime:

Game only offers "Restart" fight option and during fight there is no option to leave game in F1 settings, making me locked in battle. I actually had to Alt+F4 the game to exit.
I really loved this game untill this battle...

me too,I quit the game and when I restart it ,it did not enter the fight progress, I need to go back to find the key.

It really make me feel like want to uninstall it.