Question - How To Deal With Hornets After The 1st Fight

[The_Mess]

So I've gotten to that stage of the game where you have hornet's patrolling some islands, only this time they can use an attack that knocks out your ability to unbind or do duo attacks. And I have no idea how the fluff to deal with it or what I need to look for to trigger unbinds.

Otherwise, blast one then impact it and duo overcharge are what I know to do :P

[BenjaminK]

I'm not sure to understand what you're talking about, since there are only two kinds of hornets in the game (the regular one, and the leaders), and the fight mostly occurs in the same way. Piling up close combat impacts - just charge duo attacks, but release the blows seperately : the first one stuns, the second one deals heavier damage - is usually enough to deal with most of them (before overloading their circuits indeed). Now, yes, that binding or emprisonment ability, which any hornet may launch, has to be dealt with right away, simply by assisting (through the usual "Defend" command) it's target. It's really explicit...
Now, I do vaguely remember that the leaders used a slightly different form of binding or negative effect... Not that happens often, since (as long as you focus on a target strongly enough) they'll go down quite fast anyway. I honestly can't remember what it was exactly, but it didn't seem that much of a bother. Possibly something else which required an assist...
Feel free to use capsules for healing or quickening your actions, for there aren't that many similar fights and it won't drain your ressources to do so !

[Serfs]

The speed and balm capsules help me

[Dracsis]

So after putting the game down for a few months due to getting frustrated with this exact part, I figured out what to do. charge a blast with one character, and an impact with the other, release blast then impact, rinse and repeat, then DUO overload. do not use duo attacks aside from overload.