Safi Jiiva Tips (Better Detailed, Better Advice) *Please Ask Questions*

[Slaw Bunnies]

Guys, with Safi'Jiiva coming out, please don't be as dumb as console players were. We literally have everything we need to know about Safi already given to us by videos online, what to do, and what not to do.

1.) Using Flash Pods To Save Teammates

One of the most important things in my opinion has to be bringing flash pods. When a hunter gains Safi's sight, it will often lunge at the player and try to grab them. If he's successful with his grab/bite he'll essentially kill the player in one hit. It's an automatic and easy cart if you're not careful but behold....this is the power of flash pods. If you shoot a flash pod in the sky once Safi jumps up in the air you can flash him and he'll drop the hunter as well. If you time it right, you can either 1) Stop Safi from damaging the player at all or 2) Flash pod Safi with enough time to use a Dust of Life or Lifepowder to quickly heal the player.

If you don't use the flash pod fast enough and the player hunter has no health by the time he hits the ground (or is able to move) its an automatic cart. This was one of the easiest ways people failed Safi quests in the first place. And flash pods do not work like Behemoth where if he targets you, you can just flash him to get rid of it, but you can mount him to get rid of it (this is easy to do near the ledges on the second level).

2.)Tenderizing Parts, Using Part-breaker 3, and Rock Walls on First Level

Another really nice tip is when you see Safi draining the energy from the ground, is to get close to him and as soon as he does his animation to absorb it, he'll point his face/head up to the sky. Mount him with the clutch claw during this animation and tenderize his parts. That way your teammates can immediately get back into the fight. His roar will NOT knock you off and its essentially an easy way to get back into the fight. Safi has moments where he will dig his hands and feet (and sometime his entire body) into the ground. When he does this, those are perfect moments to mount that specific body part to tenderize it. Otherwise that part will just harden. If you have the room to put Partbreaker 3 into your build, DO IT! And if said part breaks, move onto another part. The entire lobby works together to break parts and the more parts broken, the more points you'll receive which means you'll probably finish your phases and kill Safi quicker.

There are rocks (one on each side) that you can hit with slinger shots on the first floor and first floor only. Managing to get Safi under them can be a challenge but find a way to do it. If you have a gunner who can put him to sleep under the rocks, that's even better. You'll do 4000 worth of damage to Safi if he's awake and 8000 damage if you hit him with the rocks while he's asleep. Getting him with both whether you have a combination of sleep+awake, or sleep+sleep (good luck with that) or awake+awake is a fast and easy way to get him off of the first floor but I wouldn't rush that considering you should focus on part breaking.

3.) Third Phase, Automatic Quest Fails, Focusing On One Part? Sleep Bombing

On the third phase of the fight, when he destroys the third area with his first Sapphire move, he'll make the area somewhat larger. There will be three crags that you can activate that do massive damage to him. If you're a hunter who has gained his sight, please lure him to the crag and activate it ONLY when Safi is right above it (it has a pretty large hitbox) and ANYTHING can activate it. Any weapon move, any slinger shot, and any animation that is considered a "hit" can activate the environmental trap, so please be careful when you're around them.

For players like longswords and greatswords (good luck with timing GS users), if you go for the tail the entire time the first run through (depending on your build; meta builds work best), you can actually cut off the tail the first run through.

Edit: Bombing... I had to throw this in here randomly because I thought of it last minute. But please for the love of God, if your teammates have sleep weapons please do not wake Safi up. Do not be that guy. Bomb his head and let the biggest hitter go for the wake up hit.

Lastly... During your second run... Safi will automatically spam his Sapphire of the Emperor move twice in a row, resulting in an automatic quest fail. There will be no rocks to sit behind the second time he does it but I've seen people get out of it with Farcaster by timing it just right.

4.) Best Weapons to Use?

I saw in the other Safi tips thread that was posted that you probably can't use any weapon to beat him and there are some better weapons to use. I don't generally believe this to be true but what I can agree with is that it's best to use anything Dragon or Poison. Poison hits Safi for 100 ticks (after he's poisoned of course) and he has a three star weakness to it as well as Dragon and the Dragon element will be good because it'll sort of negate his abilities like Elderseal/Dragon weapons do in the first place.

If you want to be completely cheap, you can spam HBG spread to his head to stun him and LBG for sticky ammo build as well. This build is the most broken and you can break his first horn on the first floor of the first run. It's a constant stun mechanic that's involved and also this isn't a bad combination for longsword and greatsword users when they are trying to cut the tail.

Speaking of tail cutting, any weapon (like Longsword) that has a pretty good overhead reach is the most viable for tail cutting. Greatsword can be a good challenge because you have to worry about timing. And Safi likes to swing his body parts whenever a hunter is near any arm, leg, or tail of his. If you do focus on the tail -and only the tail the entire time (I've tested this), you can actually break his tail on the first run.

Breaking his back is the most easiest part to break. Personally, the next best weapon right under LS/GS and LBG/HBG is Insect Glaive. Safi's back is the most vulnerable part if you ask me and IG users can easily break his back because of the constant jumping around hitting monsters. This is where you'll encounter really cheap hitboxes though. Sometime he'll do a tailswipe and you'll be near his wings and get hit. It's kind of BS, but IG users are also good to have because they can practically mount Safi more than anyone else. If you're an IG main, you should be using the glider mantle in your build during this siege.

I don't have any more tips for you guys. If you follow these simple steps I promise you it'll be a smooth run. If everyone in the lobby is good and no one fails their quest, I've finished Safi and killed him in about two runs. This Siege is similar in manner to Kulve Taroth. The more people in the lobby, the more quicker it'll be for everyone.

[HimmDawg]

Don't forget the tendril-like ground in the first phase. You can immobilze him for a few seconds if he gets flinched while standing on this ground.

Also flinch-shotting does not work except he is focussing one person. In this case you can actually flinch-shot him but you'll gain focus as well.

[TyresTyco]

Use frostcraft GS if you can't get tcs timings right. Thats a really good way to break the tail.

You shouldnt call lbg cheap. Did you try actually breaking the head 2 times with anything other than lbg? It's hell. It's not fun nor time efficient. If nobody uses lbg you won't get the 2 head breaks in the first run with randoms, guaranteed. Not even thinking about the wings lol. Nobody can break them except a really good helicopter or .. again sticky lbg.

Because yet again.. everyone.. really everyone always spams the head when safi is knocked down. Regardless what you do. So my best advice is...

Grab a freaking sticky lbg and do it yourself properly until you see randoms that do the same. Otherwise.. you will waste time. Since everybody is stupid and will focus the damn legs the first week.

[Slaw Bunnies]

Originally posted by TyresTyco:

You shouldnt call lbg cheap. Did you try actually breaking the head 2 times with anything other than lbg? It's hell. It's not fun nor time efficient. If nobody uses lbg you won't get the 2 head breaks in the first run with randoms, guaranteed. Not even thinking about the wings lol. Nobody can break them except a really good helicopter or .. again sticky lbg.

You make a good point. I don’t think I ever broke its horns until I used my sticky lbg build either. Which, in turn makes hammer users obsolete then. LBG sticky builds and Spread Ammo builds are more viable than hammer and hunting horn users because of how much more easily they can stun Safi due to range impact hits to the head. I only called it cheap because I recall stunning Safi back to back on console and breaking both of his horns by the second floor.

It is definitely a smarter option than Hammer or HH, but it just felt cheap the first time I actually did it, lol.

[Slaw Bunnies]

Originally posted by HimmDawg:

Don't forget the tendril-like ground in the first phase. You can immobilze him for a few seconds if he gets flinched while standing on this ground.

The soft ground usually seems to happen almost about every run, but that’s a good point too that I missed.

[Burny]

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