Mithrix Impossible to beat?

[Mythandros]

I used to be able to moderately handle Mithrex, but now his final phase is impossible to beat. Taking all of your items, making him immune and giving him that much damage is a death sentence and it doesn't make sense. I got to Round 15, went to fight him on Engineer and now he's completely unbeatable when Engineer should have been the easiest character to use to beat the final boss. Am I missing something or a mechanic they added that you're supposed to do besides beat on him? Because nothing I do works.

[Senki]

Just dodge his attacks and keep hitting him. All you need to do is run sideways to dodge his ranged attack and keep track of the spheres. If you have the shield on engineer you don't even need to dodge that much.

His final phase is actually way easier than it used to be(outside of killing him before it even begins)

[Coffeefiend]

No offense but I honestly can't understand why Mithrix is such a huge hurdle for many players.
His attack pattern is pretty straight forward and, if everything else fails, his pathing is pretty derp and you can just stand on a rock (not even talking about the huge collums) and click on him till he's dead.
And that's coming from a pretty mediocre player who never finished a single monsoon run because he sucks at this game.

[Rodka]

The final boss is just broken, not your fault. Eventually, you'll beat him, if you keep trying I guess. I don't know if you can beat him "fairly", however -- there's always some cheesing involved, which is my main grip involving fighting this boss.

[That Bird DK]

Originally posted by Coffeefiend:

No offense but I honestly can't understand why Mithrix is such a huge hurdle for many players.
His attack pattern is pretty straight forward and, if everything else fails, his pathing is pretty derp and you can just stand on a rock (not even talking about the huge collums) and click on him till he's dead.
And that's coming from a pretty mediocre player who never finished a single monsoon run because he sucks at this game.

The reason some (me at least) have a problem with him is that his sphere attack that can come from behind oneshot you. (even with the "immunity" since he most likely stole an item that does tick dmg after the hit)

i honestly like most of the fight, i just wish he was maybe a lot harder to dodge but did around 20% of his dmg since a bossfight that oneshot you in a roguelite is just not fun.

[Senki]

Originally posted by That Bird DK:

The reason some (me at least) have a problem with him is that his sphere attack that can come from behind oneshot you. (even with the "immunity" since he most likely stole an item that does tick dmg after the hit)

That's because most players refuse to be patient and take their time so instead of moving their camera around to keep track of the balls they just attack him 24/7 and then they get angry that a sphere hit them from behind when they didn't bother to look at them in the first place.

[bayssaa]

Honestly, I find it much more difficult to deal with him on his second part than on the last. In the last part of him, you just literally hide when his shot is coming at you and shoot when he starts shooting.

[Mythandros]

The problem isn't just the orbs, he comes straight at you, your turrets no longer do anything because they lose all of their items, but DON'T get them back during the duration of the fight and he shoots homing ♥♥♥♥ at you. The literal speed to get away is impossible now. He just creams you in one or a couple hits, but even with mobile characters I can't get away from the crap. This really killed my enjoyment of this game.

[Ninja Zyborg]

honestly, I think the final phase's difficulty fluctuates wildy depending on what character you pick. with Mul-T Rebar, it's absurdly easy. Artificer is also somewhat easy. Commando is a bit harder, as you actually have to get your items back before killing him. melee classes are extremely hard. I think that phase needs a rework but idk how you would even start with fixing it.

[Senki]

Originally posted by Nastro:

The problem isn't just the orbs, he comes straight at you, your turrets no longer do anything because they lose all of their items, but DON'T get them back during the duration of the fight and he shoots homing ♥♥♥♥ at you. The literal speed to get away is impossible now. He just creams you in one or a couple hits, but even with mobile characters I can't get away from the crap. This really killed my enjoyment of this game.

The homing stuff can be dodged by literally just running in a direction.

I honestly still don't get how people complain about that attack.

[Dagda]

I was so close to the final stage, but the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ just oneshots me out of nowhere, after his previous attacks punched me down to 10-20%

I have to wonder; how do melee builds get past this?

[D.e.v.i.OS]

man you greenhorns should try "Artifact of the King" if you think he's "unbeatable"
personally after the first encounter I began to find him easy even on Monsoon.

https://thunderstore.io/package/Blobface/Artifact_of_the_King/0.3.1

[Thug Killadome]

Originally posted by Senki:

Originally posted by Nastro:

The problem isn't just the orbs, he comes straight at you, your turrets no longer do anything because they lose all of their items, but DON'T get them back during the duration of the fight and he shoots homing ♥♥♥♥ at you. The literal speed to get away is impossible now. He just creams you in one or a couple hits, but even with mobile characters I can't get away from the crap. This really killed my enjoyment of this game.

The homing stuff can be dodged by literally just running in a direction.

I honestly still don't get how people complain about that attack.

His homing shots have a tell before he fires, but if you give him too much attack speed the windup for the move is decreased so much it's more or less instant. If you've got a fat hurtbox and don't immediately start running your chances of getting clipped are even higher. If there's a fight that instills learned helplessness more than anything in this game, it's Mithrix--if you get gibbed by a homing projectile the first time you got to the last phase, you're probably not gonna try a riskier strat the next time and get *closer* to him

to OP: If you want to just beat Mithrix, go into the fight as soon as you can. Get about mid range and run circles around him while shooting--try to get back as many items as you can before you drop your turrets inside your bubble. If you're playing with harpoons just start running as soon as he steals your stuff and chill on the ramps. Try to come in with some kind of heal equipment or the Royal Capacitor if you want to just cheese him.
You can dodge the shots he does by running directly perpendicular to him as he shoots, for the orbs just back up, jump, and pray they don't decide to ram into you from offscreen. Mithrix is pretty easy, but he's insanely punishing if you're not used to the massive speed decrease in the last phase.

[Senki]

Originally posted by Oreos and Water:

Originally posted by Senki:

The homing stuff can be dodged by literally just running in a direction.

I honestly still don't get how people complain about that attack.

His homing shots have a tell before he fires, but if you give him too much attack speed the windup for the move is decreased so much it's more or less instant. If you've got a fat hurtbox and don't immediately start running your chances of getting clipped are even higher. If there's a fight that instills learned helplessness more than anything in this game, it's Mithrix--if you get gibbed by a homing projectile the first time you got to the last phase, you're probably not gonna try a riskier strat the next time and get *closer* to him

I never even noticed any animation before he fires that warns you, I fought him so many times that I just start running before he fires instinctively.

Still not an attack that deserves complaining at all when it comes to dodging. I can understand if people are angry at getting instakilled but not being able to dodge that is entirely on the player.

[Mythandros]

Originally posted by Senki:

Originally posted by Oreos and Water:

His homing shots have a tell before he fires, but if you give him too much attack speed the windup for the move is decreased so much it's more or less instant. If you've got a fat hurtbox and don't immediately start running your chances of getting clipped are even higher. If there's a fight that instills learned helplessness more than anything in this game, it's Mithrix--if you get gibbed by a homing projectile the first time you got to the last phase, you're probably not gonna try a riskier strat the next time and get *closer* to him

I never even noticed any animation before he fires that warns you, I fought him so many times that I just start running before he fires instinctively.

Still not an attack that deserves complaining at all when it comes to dodging. I can understand if people are angry at getting instakilled but not being able to dodge that is entirely on the player.

It has come to my attention that I probably push myself into harder positions. I usually don't initiate the final boss until I've acquired all the items I think I need, but I now realize you CAN'T beat the boss if you fight him after Round 5. Perhaps I didn't have the right expectation trying to fight the boss in an impossible state on Monsoon.

[Senki]

Originally posted by Nastro:

Originally posted by Senki:

I never even noticed any animation before he fires that warns you, I fought him so many times that I just start running before he fires instinctively.

Still not an attack that deserves complaining at all when it comes to dodging. I can understand if people are angry at getting instakilled but not being able to dodge that is entirely on the player.

It has come to my attention that I probably push myself into harder positions. I usually don't initiate the final boss until I've acquired all the items I think I need, but I now realize you CAN'T beat the boss if you fight him after Round 5. Perhaps I didn't have the right expectation trying to fight the boss in an impossible state on Monsoon.

I don't know what you're talking about. Mithrix isn't impossible at any point and especially not as early as stage 5.