Apollo's Second Duel

[Stardude Flip Flop]

How do I beat this guy? No matter what I try, he cancels my battle arts automatically and pushes my ♥♥♥♥ in. I am level 24, which is fine for the entire Maroon Valley area, but I can't kill this guy.

[Lioshi]

idk man. i cant help you because when i fought with him i was waaaayy overleveled (level 48). so i dunno, try maybe waiting for the right moment to attack?

[Shade]

The only advice I could provide is to play defensively. Make sure you're guarding when he goes all out to reduce your damage taken. Basically what I did was guard until he used one of his stronger arts and then started spamming attacks. Rinse and repeat.

[Dairy]

I found this fight really easy. What I did was use the fire circuit shield ability that gave you a perfect counter. Use that every time he decides to melee.

[lachsen]

The fire shield counter is sort of an exploit that makes the battle a little bit too easy, imho. We'll likely add something in later versions so Apollo won't fall for it all the time.

General tactic: Don't just attack Apollo at any time, try to play defensive, dodge and guard attacks, keep your distance.

Whenever Apollo executes a combat art, he'll be weak for a few seconds (glowing red) and open to attacks. Use that moment to deal damage.

Alternatively you can try to perfect guard his melee attacks which should stun him as well.

[74 prairie dogs in a trenchcoat]

I don't know about OP, but the problem I had in the Apollo fight is that I couldn't dodge his attacks because he just dodges towards me faster than I can dodge away from him and I couldn't guard his attacks because he just keeps spamming abilities so my shield breaks and I still take a ton of damage. That stupid triple charge ability he has is complete garbage, too. The only thing I could do about it is hope and pray that I had 3 bars of energy up so I could use the level 2 charged dodge move that makes you invulnerable while it's up, and hope that I'm in range to use it.

That move, by the way, was basically the only reason I won at all - it was the only tool in my arsenal that let me keep up with his overwhelming damage.

[Inferius]

lol I beat him in pure range style with ice element ice spikes spam :D

[Ravo]

I found it rather easy, but I was almost 30 at the time in a regen health build. Just keeping distance and waiting for him to go vulnerable did it. Shooting balls will make him put distance between you when he tries to go in. Also I think that losing to him shouldn't stop the story from progressing.

[74 prairie dogs in a trenchcoat]

Originally posted by Inferius:

lol I beat him in pure range style with ice element ice spikes spam :D

How on earth did you do that when he's blocking the path to get the ice element in the first place?

[Inferius]

I finished temple before update

[R.Heart]

I won 2 rounds using the "Ashen mine" dash art in the fire circuit, it REALLY punishes him when he comes at you for melee attacks. Didn't really mean to the first time, so I just lol'd when it happened--

For the most part I just played defensively, dodged most stuff (except his super secret attack, yowza!), then wasted him using primarily "Fire whirl" (REALLY powerful). But I'm the Triblader/Pentafist build-- I like melee fighting.

Unrelated: My second playthrough I was opening up the Bergen trails map, and for S&G's took him on at level 8 before the mine (recommended for lv 10), and it was actually a fun challenge that went to all 9 rounds. I pulled it off but it felt like just barely.

[Outplayed and Destroyed]

Sorry, but u noob D

[snail]

I beat him in 2 tries, just know his attack patterns, spam dash and dodge his abilities, then hit back using destructive abilities but he'll be able to dodge it after using one or two.

edit: (just hit and run)

[Mauman]

Final Showdown will take him out like the chump he is.

Just throw balls till you can use it then hit him with the move - instant K.O.

[idiot5k]

i kicked his ass easely altough my gear was underpowered. i used defensive gear such as those gloves that give pin body and fought with neutral skill tree most of the time. the guard sphere art from the neutral skill tree is OP combined with pin body and high defense. when its up i took 0 damage of ANY attack he threw at me and with 130% pin body i had defense and offense at the same time. if i saw he was going to try to melee me i just activate it and melee him while he tries to melee me he takes massive damage. quard sphere also allows you to clear up his ashen mine technique and again deal damage to him at the same time. too bad that pin body doesnt work on bosses like it should (tested it out but neither the massive robot from temple mine nor the massive moth from the hourglass temple got their attacks returned to them unlike every other enemy)

[stanek4wsu]

I didn't have too much trouble with him. I was probably around Level 26-28 or so when I fought him.

He's definitely more difficult than the first time I fought him. He didn't win a single round the first time and he managed to take one from the the second time.

It's already been mentioned, but the trick is to play a bit more defensively. I was spending a lot more time evading his attacks than attacking myself. I mostly attacked with range and would occasionally land some melee hits whenever he tried to charge across the field to use a melee attack.

It might also depend on what you have equipped for circuits, but I rarely used fire element. One of my favorite attacks to use when it got it charged up was the bulk caliber attack, just due to how much it bounces around the cage and deals good damage to him.

The one thing I will say is perhaps you need some better armor and weapons. When I went into that fight, I had the best weapons and armor available at that time. It certainly helps if you have weapons/armor that have regen effect.