Erlang BS boss tips??

[Vinnie DAngelo]

How did you all defeat him? I find his fight to be BS. Granted you can use the fan to break his shield it's his stopping you of mid fight just to fly up and taste his axe. Then there's the swords that he shoots at you, they are easy to evade, but the lightning finisher is to damn slow, but to damn fast (he charges it slow then he hits you in less then a second. Fast) and hard to evade. I've gotten him to less than a quarter of his health, but then he goes insane with his bs never ending, hard hitting combos and kills me.

[Ðusk]

How I defeated him: Stay close to him, dodge around him, use illusions when he is half HP, don't try to charge heavy attacks, just go with normal light attacks to break his defense. Learn his moves. He has I think 4 different phases where he does certain moves, once you learn them, you can easily beat him. In the end, he is not that hard. I was level 91 when I beat him.

[thorin.hannahs]

For my first clear of him I used the Pilgrim set at Mythic. This let me gourd on the move and generate focus. My drink was the one that restored Qi. My spirit was Frog God and my vessel was the Ch2 one. My weapon was the Wukong staff.

His first 20% or so of HP you can do whatever shenanigans you want. Once he gets to half he'll start using 1,000 swords of death. This move I just used Cloud Step to avoid all of it and get a cheap kick to his kidney in. Shouldn't be hard to maintain the mana to use it whenever he does the move as other spells are kinda useless.

The majority of my damage came from using Resolute Counterflow. That might be useful to you or it might not.

He has an interesting interaction with Frog God. If you give him a bane he will perform a unique animation where he will remove it and apply it to his weapon. This means you can frog god and then CH2 vessel which will knock him out of the animation.

Once you learn some of his patterns getting damage with counterflow will be easier and it will restore a bit of health each time.

If you are using the fan you are already on the road to easy mode Er Lang. So just use the drink that restores Qi and when you have moments of stagger mobile spin him to build up more Fan charge, you could also use the Qi potions.

[Deathwing1306]

Wait... you can destroy his "shield" with the fan vessel ?

[BaconX]

Originally posted by Deathwing1306:

Wait... you can destroy his "shield" with the fan vessel ?

Yup, it's one of the gimmick to beating him.

Use the set that recovery Qi and also change the drink to the one that give you Qi when you heal. On first phase, you can use the fan, then after you deal enough damage, immobilize him one time to do the spinning staff to get your fan back for phase 2.

After the big axe, fan him again and make the most of the DPS opening until he's half health, which he jump up to shoot out the spears. Pay attention to his dialogue because he will teleport slam your ass a little after he's done talking. You should have fan back after he does this so fan him again for the 3rd time.

From here on out is a game of survival and how you can get another charge of the fan. Make use of light attack into heavy finisher because this can eat into his actual health bar. You should be able to get your fan up for the final time, which you have to go all out with whatever you have left.

Good luck.

[Vinnie DAngelo]

Originally posted by Deathwing1306:

Wait... you can destroy his "shield" with the fan vessel ?

Yes.

[Vinnie DAngelo]

Originally posted by thorin.hannahs:

His first 20% or so of HP you can do whatever shenanigans you want. Once he gets to half he'll start using 1,000 swords of death. This move I just used Cloud Step to avoid all of it and get a cheap kick to his kidney in. Shouldn't be hard to maintain the mana to use it whenever he does the move as other spells are kinda useless.

Yeah this is basically what I do in the first half. Thanks for the info

[Big Boom Boom]

You can go full crit rate/crit dmg bonus and be aggressive. Put points into mobile spinnings and hit him with it, it will build up focus and qi very fast. I have been told you can use 4 focus charged heavy in smash stance will hit him, but I used thrust stance and the charged heavy will hit him every time at every focus level.

Use Rock guai transformation. It's very funny but if you use this Erlang is just wtf and basically stand there let you him hit. People also say Yellow Loong transformation will work as well, other transformations will get cancelled by Erlang due to lore reasons.

[Big Boom Boom]

Originally posted by Vinnie DAngelo:

Originally posted by thorin.hannahs:

His first 20% or so of HP you can do whatever shenanigans you want. Once he gets to half he'll start using 1,000 swords of death. This move I just used Cloud Step to avoid all of it and get a cheap kick to his kidney in. Shouldn't be hard to maintain the mana to use it whenever he does the move as other spells are kinda useless.

Yeah this is basically what I do in the first half. Thanks for the info

You can use the staff spin to block all the normal sword, when it glows red prepare to dodge.

[Vinnie DAngelo]

Originally posted by Big Boom Boom:

Originally posted by Vinnie DAngelo:

Yeah this is basically what I do in the first half. Thanks for the info

You can use the staff spin to block all the normal sword, when it glows red prepare to dodge.

No sh*t! I forgot about the spinning thing and didn't even bother to try against the swords.

[Branded Lost]

Just brute force it, eventually it will work. takes me about 2hours

[Dre Day]

People say the say stone transformation and earth wolf are good at getting through his shield defense.

Also if you are running a crit build you can use the golden armor from chapter 4 to build up qi faster to use your fan and spirit faster.

Alternatively use Non-Void Spirt as a extra evade.

[Lucari]

I changed my sparks to have max upgrades on cloud step + clones, and only used mana on cloud steps until his last phase, when I used clones. I used pole stance just getting the ndoes related to hold skill because I was rather low level and didn't have a lot of points for stances (I think I was at like 95 when I beat him). Also used earth wolf as spirit because he does decent damage to his shield, an used the fan as my relic as it stuns erlang for a while and destroys his shield (saved for phase 3 with the clones). Other than that just learn the fight, it isn't that absurdly hard.

[a passerby]

I didn't even use a transformation because he knocked me out of it the 2 times I tried it, and I assumed transformations didn't work against him.

What I ended up doing instead was respec to ring of fire and fought him around it which significantly boosted my survivability. I also used Loong Aura pellets to speed up the process. I used Wandering Wight for the quick nuke and near guaranteed stagger, and rock solid to keep up my combos, although I didn't put any skill points into it.

Based on clips I've seen by others, it seems cloud step is far more useful since it not only distracts Erlang, but can also help you land a stagger most of the time.

It took me 30 mins to beat him, around the same time it took me to beat Great Sage. Although I beat Great Sage again on my first try immediately after Erlang, so I'd say it is without question that Erlang is the hardest boss in the game.

[Mikebeez]

Something that nobody is mentioning albeit there are some good suggestions is if you use varied combos on him with the "seeing through" skill it completely dominates him. Not even just him, if you learn how to use seeing through you can basically destroy the entire content of this game. In particular since he has a ton of combo moves, seeing through him is HIGHLY effective against him since it pretty much acts like a parry while at the same time hitting him with a heavy attack and if you have 2 focus points you can double hit.

Edit- I cannot emphasize this enough that when I thoroughly learned how and when to use seeing through I bulldozed the entire game all the way up to NG+4.

[Vinnie DAngelo]

I might have to take a break from this game as I'mgettingfrustrated with this boss. I've been going at it for the past hour or so and manage to get his helth less the a quarter of it, but he starts with his bs never ending combos. I can't dodge all of them and 1 or 2 hits and I'm dead.