OP mantis shrimp Boss

[Neox_CrazyWolf007]

ok...so...i finally made it through a few bosses...and i am at the mantis shrimp boss...HOW IN THE WORLD AND ALL THE HELLS ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BEAT THIS OP MOFO!? His Blue attack LOCKS ONTO you and you have NO WAY of evading! Even when you dodge forward...he hitrs you for massive DMG! And since its a blue attack...xou cannot block either!! How do you beat him?

[Apocanaut]

Use the crab husk shells all around you for their decoy ability. All fighting is way easier with the hammer ability from the skill tree, too. The ability you gain from this fight is necessary to break through all those purple cubes you see lying around, especially in the Sands Between.

[BoostWorm]

His blue attack is a fakeout teleport and is completely avoidable if you learn the timing. He did kill me a million times so i had to learn it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Found him way earlier than normal progression because i just wandered on my first run through the Sands Between. He killed me in two shots. I feel like i missed a ton of exposition because I essentially sequence broke the plot. woops.

[Groversoup]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von NotSoAccurate:

His blue attack is a fakeout teleport and is completely avoidable if you learn the timing. He did kill me a million times so i had to learn it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Found him way earlier than normal progression because i just wandered on my first run through the Sands Between. He killed me in two shots. I feel like i missed a ton of exposition because I essentially sequence broke the plot. woops.

I don't think you sequence broke anything because he's not actually necessary for mainline progression, just really useful and necessary for some optional collectibles.

[BoostWorm]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Groversoup:

I don't think you sequence broke anything because he's not actually necessary for mainline progression, just really useful and necessary for some optional collectibles.

I hadn't actually talked to Chitin since she was first guarding the Slacktide Castle and i didn't recognize her immediately and the interaction was jarring.

[Vahn Smash]

He has the weakest stagger bar of any boss I've encountered so far. Just equip a hammer and the weight trinket and 2 to 3 combos stagger him.

[Neox_CrazyWolf007]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von P00P_TR41N_C0NDUCT0R:

He has the weakest stagger bar of any boss I've encountered so far. Just equip a hammer and the weight trinket and 2 to 3 combos stagger him.

That is true tho! but what he lacks in defense for his stagger he makes up with that mantis punch

[Dura]

His arena is littered with decoy shells. All of his attacks are very direct, so he's fairly safe to hit from behind while distracted. Or just parry him down. That's what I did.

[WiiKing96]

I feel like this boss was specifically designed around the Crab Husk shell. You can use the decoy ability to completely avoid damage when he gets ready to perform the crazy attack.

[PersonalC0ffee]

I just dodged him with Skeddadle and used Ebb and Flow in retaliation with my Medium Size ♥♥♥♥♥♥ off hammer.

[Xcross15]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Neox_CrazyWolf007:

ok...so...i finally made it through a few bosses...and i am at the mantis shrimp boss...HOW IN THE WORLD AND ALL THE HELLS ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BEAT THIS OP MOFO!? His Blue attack LOCKS ONTO you and you have NO WAY of evading! Even when you dodge forward...he hitrs you for massive DMG! And since its a blue attack...xou cannot block either!! How do you beat him?

Its all about parrying with that boss. 100 times easier, and some of the attacks parry themselves if you let go. The teleporting attack you dodge forward when he disappears.

[Zer0]

Aye I do feel like this fight could be doing with some polishing, at one point he punched me through the ground so I took damage and then took a chunk more cause it counted as me falling into a pit.

What worked for me was double coconut with the bloodborne regen along with the one time shell revive ability and anything that helped with mp regen. I could tank his first phase for free and spam the spin roll attack.
2nd phase I could tank two hits but once I lose one coconut I'd grab a decoy crab asap and just make sure the second he does the sand tornado or blue attack to use the decoy ability and just swap back to coconut shell if he starts doing the normal attacks.

His 2nd phase does feel like an utter mess though, between randomly just running around or using the spin to just try avoiding him, to him dodging out of bounds so I couldn't do anything.

[Korintheblack]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Zer0:

Aye I do feel like this fight could be doing with some polishing, at one point he punched me through the ground so I took damage and then took a chunk more cause it counted as me falling into a pit.

What worked for me was double coconut with the bloodborne regen along with the one time shell revive ability and anything that helped with mp regen. I could tank his first phase for free and spam the spin roll attack.
2nd phase I could tank two hits but once I lose one coconut I'd grab a decoy crab asap and just make sure the second he does the sand tornado or blue attack to use the decoy ability and just swap back to coconut shell if he starts doing the normal attacks.

His 2nd phase does feel like an utter mess though, between randomly just running around or using the spin to just try avoiding him, to him dodging out of bounds so I couldn't do anything.

He kept punching me through the floor too. Almost gave up entirely because of it happened so often.

I went in with 2 coconuts and I killed him. Wasn't easy, but it wasn't a terrible fight either.