Tips on defeating Volgin?

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Playing on extreme difficulty.

[Deathraven13]

He is pretty easy non lethal: When he doesn't have electricity around him you run to him and CQC throw him, when he is down you shoot him once with the mk22 when he get up then once he is up you can repeat the action before he start to attack.

His attack patterns are pretty easy so with a bit of training you'll be fine.

[BOSS]

Shoot him until he dies, That's the GamePro way.

[ProViKing]

use glow caps if the lightning attacks give you trouble

[-=FOXtorq=-]

put ivan's mask, throw glowing shrooms, flashbang, cqc knife

[F33Kin]

When he says "put away your gun" he's lying, you have to have your gun out the entire time or you'll die.

[Major Zero]

The speedrun strat is pretty easy.

• CQC grab him (hold circle),
  
• then shove him (while grabbing him, push left analog forward and press circle).
  
• Once he's down, shoot him once with the SVD. Wait about 1 second, then spam SVD shots on him as fast as you can, aiming for the head.

If you don't end phase 1 like this, just walk behind him and shoot him some more.

For phase 2, it would probably be easiest to just use the Raikov mask and shoot him in the head. Alternatively, the speedrun strat is to

• Lay down near him to dodge his initial attack
  
• Shoot him until he gets i-frames
  
• Repeat until dead

Even though you use the SVD, this does not count as a kill.

Here's a timestamped video: https://youtu.be/iedW9BZIV6M?t=2707

[AcidSnake]

My usual method is, I wait for him to do his wierd electricity beam and right as he raises his arm cqc through him to the ground and take a two handed weapon preferably the XM16E1 then hit him with it before he gets up then roll doing a lot of damage. Hope this helps

[Kyo Tanaka]

Nonlethally, pull out the mk22 and remove suppressor. Approach. He SHOULD do a homing lightning attack, in which case disequip, avoid, slam, and roll. He will wake up saying here it comes. Shoot him 3 times. Run away. He will do a homing beam again. He will keep looping that attack for the rest of phase 1 if you get far away with a gun equipped.

Phase 2, he will have a lot more attacks and be more aggressive. Stay close to him, close enough for him to trigger a thunder punch but not so close for any other attacks. Slam and roll him if he does it, it's a projectile sort of attack.

If he throws bullets into the air, crawl. He will open up with this.

If he raises a hand up and aim at you with it, he will keep firing bullets at you. If he's against the wall, get some distance nothing you can do about that. If he isn't, try to get behind him for a free hit.

The homing lightning is now RNG, and will be a lot more imposing based on the room's color depicting Volgin's power. Disequip your gun, if the room isn't a normal color don't bother slamming him, that's a tight squeeze.

Then at some point into the fight, he will sweep the floor with electricity. Roll over it, then shoot him immediately.

When he runs dry, he will suck electricity from a nearby panel. Or move to one if he isn't close enough. If you're quick enough, that's 3 free shots. If you aren't lucky, you'll have enough time to kill him nonlethally through this.

If you want a free hit, equip Raikov's mask.

If you want to blaze through it, just kill him lethally, the game will not count it as a kill since he's not dead. If you want his camo, get through first phase ASAP and take your time in the second phase. ALL his attacks are easily reactable. Either method of killing him will still award you Foxhound at the end of the run, it'll just make the motorcycle sequence harder if you use lethal.

[Lucas NOT the Pope]

The trick to killing him the quickest way (and this counts as non-lethal cuz you have to fight him later) is to knock him to the ground and then rapid fire him with your SVD. On Normal, the fight was already halfway done after the first burst of shots I fired.

[Lucas NOT the Pope]

Oh yeah, wearing your Raikov mask also hypnotizes him for a few seconds and throwing Russian glowcaps on the ground will attract his electric blasts, even with your weapon equipped.

[maDEMOman]

Originally posted by Thunder ♥♥♥♥♥:

Playing on extreme difficulty.

the raidenkov guy you impersonated tells you some weaknesses of him.

One being "Glowing mushrooms" (theres only 1 kind of glowing mushroom, Russian glowcap.)
Throwing a glowing mushroom in the middle of the room will redirect thunder attacks towards it (but destroy the mushroom after 2 attacks)

The other being "Water" (ive forgotten what this one is. i think you need a specific frog ALIVE and throw it out.)
^These two specifically. IF YOU LEAVE THEM OUT as he gets to phase 2, they DISAPPEAR. you need to pick them back up before you drop him to Phase 2 if you want to reuse them.

You can dress up as raidenkov again to piss him off a little (you can get a free hit in, wont work twice.)

If he has his electric barrier up. HE CANNOT BE HURT FROM THE FRONT OR SIDES. if you're quick enough to get a shot from behind you'll easily beat him.

Dont have your gun equipped if you're about to be hit by thunder. because you will lose all the ammo in the clip on top of HP.

Im unsure if chaff nades work. but its worth a shot right?

Originally posted by Lucas NOT the Pope:

The trick to killing him the quickest way (and this counts as non-lethal cuz you have to fight him later) is to knock him to the ground and then rapid fire him with your SVD. On Normal, the fight was already halfway done after the first burst of shots I fired.

it doesnt count as a kill, but you definately cant count it as non-lethal since doing a boss non-lethally gets you a camo. (Or in the ends case, his mosin nagant)

[CODA]

Originally posted by F33Kin:

When he says "put away your gun" he's lying, you have to have your gun out the entire time or you'll die.

Hes saying that because having your gun equipped means your bullets in your magazine are going to explode in that fight if he hits you with lightning.

[Snake]

The simplest way with non-lethal, put him down with cqc and roll on him everytime he gets down. His attacks are easy to dodge. Shagohod phase is easy too. Spam rpgs to the legs and shoot him.