Any tips on beating Mundus? Struggling with this boss

[ThatSadBoi_TTV]

So I recently picked up all the DMC games and I’m almost done with the first game, I’ve gotten the hang of the first phase with the whole flying stuff.... I say I got the hang of it.... I just mean I’m able to get his health down... the only time I get hit is when the flying controls mess me up.

I’ve attempted his second phase and I just don’t know what to do especially since I don’t have enough red orbs to buy a health item. I’m debating on just watching the final cutscene and skipping to the next game.

[taxicabmessiah]

I wouldn't skip it. The second phase is legendary (the song is literally called legendary battle).

So your issue is getting hit during the flying phase and not having enough health to beat the second phase? If you're getting hit because the inverted controls are a problem, you can use the dpad, which isn't inverted, but it movement with it is very stiff. You can hold one of the face buttons while flying to move around a lot faster; I had to do this constantly to get through this phase with enough health on DMD. You can also use vortex to occasionally avoid stuff because it has i-frames. I would also use the devil trigger attack as a panic button when you're absolutely certain you're gonna take a hit because you're invincible while the animation is playing out.

And for the second phase, Mundus can summon a small fire dragon that can be killed for a green orb, so that can help if you don't have a lot of health.

[WhiteLezard]

Don't bother with the horrible first phase: if you still have purple stars just spam them.
The second phase is actually reasonable; just kill the smaller fire enemies that appear in the arena to get green orbs.
After finishing Mundus there is another mission (more of a victory lap) bu still be on your toes.

[gold ;(]

Pull my devil trigger

[Sixtyfivekills]

First phase: Circle strafe and button mash. You can use melee spin attack to dodge (or spin through in this case) the giant laser and Mundus himself once he starts spinning.

Second Phase: If you have max amount of DT, approach him, activate it, and mash until you win. You'll have enough time on Normal. If you have devil stars, use them as well.

Third phase part 1: Same as above
Third phase part 2: taunt 2 times, activate DT and Jackpot his ass back to hell.

[Sidyctism]

little tip for the first phase: if you use the d-pad, you get sensible controls. also you cant get hit while using the dragon attack.

second phase: destroy big orbs for DT, kill fire dragons for HP

[Medusahead]

Phase 1 you just avoid his projectiles and dash to move about quicker. You can spin to avoid certain attacks like meteors or attack Mundus directly when he is close.

Phase 2 Helps to have round trip but is simple enough on normal difficulty. You just stay on the outer circle, find a gap between the rocks and hit him with charged Sparda blasts while devil triggered. When the orbs spawn near you you aim the shotgun and wait until Dante faces the orbs then fire at them while strafing side to side to destroy them quickly. Hold down the button to charge up your shotgun for a bigger blast.

When Mundus throws projectiles or summons a fireball dragon you have to hit the projectiles back just like the dragon in Nelo Angelo 3. The amount of projectiles mundus fires depends on whether you destroyed the big orbs or not. If he fires 3 light balls at you you can hit them all back with a basic combo, if he fires more than 3 then you need to use double slash combo and is very tricky to time perfectly.

An easy trick to destroy the orbs if you're struggling is to spam jumping attacks with nightmare, the projectiles will fly all over the map and you're guarenteed to destroy at least 2 orbs with 0 effort. For everything else you just have to react and dodge it.

If you're super stuck then go back and grind orbs to buy more healing items or holy waters. You can kill mundus with just holy water if you really cba with the game.