Failed Champion

[✽Ðás0s™]

I'm losing my mind trying to kill it. It's really fast and gives 2 masks of damage, not to mention the lava rocks falling down continuously

Is it just impossible to kill or something?

[ekis bokis]

u can also hit the rock with ur nail

[Perseus]

Depending on how far in-game you are, it might be a good idea to come back later, when you can deal more damage.

[Tatters]

Failed Champion has two main attacks, Leap and Shockwave. If he leaps toward you, dash under him to avoid it and hit him to punish. Don't go in the air as even contact damage is 2 damage in this fight. The only time you should be jumping is to avoid his shockwaves, which you can actually avoid with just a single jump. Hit the rocks back at him during his freak-out slam attack to get some extra damage, and dreamnail him twice or thrice when he's knocked down as that's the best time to get soul from him.

General rule of thumb for bosses, don't panic heal, as you'll just end up taking more damage for your efforts. Only heal when he's down, and only heal if you can heal enough to take another hit. Having one mask and 30% soul won't help since you'd still be a one-hit kill.

If he keeps giving you trouble, like others said, come back later when you've got more stuff if you need to ^^

[Binary]

You can also keep him staggered forever by attacking his armor once he is on the ground, allowing you to dream nail for soul and fully recover your masks

[Noborus]

Don't forget you can enter the fight with full soul, simply use that to your advantage and after you stagger him you can dream nail his body to gain soul.

[kanna]

What abilities and upgrades do you have so far? This really affects how you should do this fight (and whether it's better for you to just come back later, as perseus said).

Generally speaking, without spoiling anything depending on where you're at, you can dash under Failed Champ when he jumps and he will be your umbrella and block the falling debris. He's also very weak to spells, so go in with full soul as Coco said.

As TattersTheBat said, you can also knock the falling "rocks" at FC for additional damage if you have a chance, but this might only be feasible during his tantrums. A little more detail on the trick for getting soul: Once you've managed to knock him down, dream nail the armour for soul, nail bounce on the body to refresh his stagger, rinse and repeat a couple of times so you can heal up and/or refill your soul vessel(s), then make sure to end the stagger by hitting the maggot's head a bunch (or the last round of damage won't count and you'll have to repeat it).

The rest of what I'd suggest for dealing with him depends heavily on where you're at in the game.

[zorocancor]

Cheese: Escalate the wall and charge the Great Slash, when he jumps at you just dash at him and release the nail art, then run to the other wall. Do that until he dies.
The only charm you'll need for this is Sharp Shadow

[Yuzhi与纸]

try to dash towards fail champion if he jumps into you
try to retreat and double jump if he jumps back
hit the falling rocks
cheese: when it gets stun, you can hit its armor rather than its head to prevent it from getting to the next phase.
Then you dream nail it to get soul
Finally you use shaman stone + quadruple shade soul to almost skip its next phase.

[Noborus]

Originally posted by Crystalborn:

try to dash towards fail champion if he jumps into you
try to retreat and double jump if he jumps back
hit the falling rocks
cheese: when it gets stun, you can hit its armor rather than its head to prevent it from getting to the next phase.
Then you dream nail it to get soul
Finally you use shaman stone + quadruple shade soul to almost skip its next phase.

I wouldn't call that cheese cause it still takes effort to pull it off, also just abyss shriek twice and then spam fireballs, does more damage.

[kanna]

Originally posted by Coco:

I wouldn't call that cheese cause it still takes effort to pull it off, also just abyss shriek twice and then spam fireballs, does more damage.

Yup, way better damage that way, and still nothing cheesy about it. If I have the soul, I start the fight by using up spell repeatedly as he's falling in and while he jumps away.

[Boksha]

Spells are good for the start of the fight, but once he's down, you might as well go nuts on him with Quick Slash and Fragile Strength. There's a slight window where he jumps from where he fell to the center of the arena, and then charges for a bit to do his wild swinging where you can get a lot of hits in; while he's swinging wildly, you can use Dash Slash to deal further damage quite safely. Time it right, and you can basically beat him without having to deal with any of his attacks.

(for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnL1CRf64k0 )

Of course it IS possible to just cherry tap him to death if you're really careful (i.e. no unnecessary risks; only attack him when there's an opening) and get his rhythm down.

(for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXdVWaPw71U )

[✽Ðás0s™]

Finally! Just defeated it, thanks to all of you for the tips!

[tintingaroo]

\o/ Nice job!
Let me leave you with one line from my review of the game:

"It's challenging but not, as some things may first seem, impossible."

Now, onto the next battle, ✽Ðás0s™... ;)

[Goga Boga]

1. It's better if you have shadow dash and everything
2. His leap is easy to avoid
3. The shockwave hit is only caused if he jumps backwards. However, if he's close to a wall, he'll no jump back. Simply don't get near him if there's no room behind him.
4. You can hit the rocks back for massive damage if done well.

[chopinnumberonefan]

just git gud