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Bosses with Nero
Boss 1 - Berial - Mission 2, 19
Tip1. The easiest position to defend myself I found is to stay up in the air. (this assumes you have double jump "Air Hike") Execute single jump then Snatch which should get you really high in the air and do Roulette Spin or just a few slashes. When he does attack with anything other then nuke attack just do a second jump. Usually that's all you need to do. After attack get to the ground to reset the double jump. Rinse repeat.
When his shield is down activate Devil Trigger try to slash a bit and do an aerial Buster, aerial buster doesnt send Berial flying across the map, so that you can do a 2nd follow up Buster. When he gets up he is usually going to follow up with nuke attack so just stay away and do charge shots or just shoot or while in DT mode do the arrow move (target back yb). Then repeat the above as needed. Here is a video of something like that.
Berial Video
Boss 2 - Bael - Mission 4, 6, 19
Phase 1 - 2 nakid chix.
The strat that works for me is do single slash on which try to charge Exceed gauge then do jump and slam move Split. Also charge shot them when they charge at you to freeze you. Once you damage one of them enough and it sits down on the ground do Buster. Which gets you to the next phase. In case you get frozen by one of the chix activate Devil Trigger to get out of it and dodge the munch jump.
Phase 2 - ugly frog
I dodge all of his attacks by jumping to the side of him. Do Steaks to get close to him. dodge to the side and slash at him whichever way you can. Once you see him jump really far away and starting to fade either close in fast and do aerial attacks or do ranged attacks.when his ugly face hits the ground and he is stunned and open to a Buster attack. In case he does manage to munch you do Devil Trigger to save yourself.
Bael video
Boss 3 - Angus - Mission 6
Nothing much to say. All you need to do is stand in the middle on the little bump. Do Snatch on the flying swords and throw them at the window. To avoid damage you can do jump with Devil Trigger. Nothing more to it really. All I can say this is a really crappy fight on higher difficulties or if you trying to do no damage. What you also need to know is the monsters continue to spawn so you cant kill them all.
Angus 1 video
Boss 4 - Echidna - Mission 7
Phase 1 normal stance when she can move around (NOT FLY). do Roulette Spins and do 2nd jump in case she does her braid swing attack. She can also swing her tail on the ground. once again jump.
Phase 2 She burrows into the ground. make sure to keep you distance while she does that. Its damaging. What she does in this stance is spawn spikes that lash at you. You can see where the spikes are going to spawn by holes in the ground. Imo safest bet is to stay really close to the boss since they tend to spawn right underneath Nero and nearly impossible to avoid. Get close to her and do Exceed attacks. Sometimes she gets stunned and then is open for a Buster attack. To avoid spikes once they spawned just do a little jump on the other side of boss. Make sure to jump off when she is about to fly away.
Phase 3 spider stance. get underneath of her and do slashes and a Buster to finish off your attack.
Phase 4 Flying stance. Get to the side of the map to avoid damage so she cannot fly into you. From that position shoot at her till she stops flying. Watch out for seed attacks that can be evaded with jumping.
Echidna Nero video
Boss 5 - Angelo Credo - Mission 8
Phase 1. normal he walks at you while blocking everything and counter attacking. I do Streaks to get close to him and initiate attack followed by jump to evade his counter followed by Buster and charge shot.
He also sometimes throws his lance at you. Two ways to react. 1) Evade with Table Hopper (target him and roll to the side) 2) Counter this move with Buster. To do this you need to evade his first two throws and catch his 3rd with Buster. Timing on buster is as soon as you see him hurl it do Buster. Do not wait for the spear to get close. Also while executing this make sure to have the boss targeted as otherwise Nero can throw the lance and miss.
Phase 2. In case you let him go below ~30 percent he goes berserk and does new set of attacks. Strategy remains the same just do more jumping before Buster.
Angelo Credo video
Boss 5 - Angus - Mission 9, 19
Spawns additional creatures during fight. I don't really have a good strategy for this. Recommend to focus on the easy monsters-swords and dogs because they have low hp and they wont interrupt your attacks plus you can use them with Buster to damage the boss. Also when he says "time to die" quickly execute an all out attack to interrupt him from unleashing attack damaging you and healing him. Also when he does spinning blades back into corner and at the end jump over them. I prefer to do aerial attacks on him to be able to evade stuff easier oh and charge shots. To evade "your strength is mine" attack just do some jumping or DT to get out of it in case of a screw up.
Angus video
Boss 6 - Dante - Mission 10, 1
My cheap tactic is at medium/close range do a Snatch which Dante will evade and counter with Stinger. As he does stinger do Buster. If you miss the que and he start doing combo do Devil Trigger to get out of it. Also to interrupt his long range attacks you can use Charged Shot.this video is for mission 1 but also applicable for mission 10. This is exactly what I do on m1 and 10.
Nero vs Dante video
Boss 7 - Destroyer/Savior/Sanctus - Mission 11
to destroy the shield I usually do two Roulette Spinns in a row without landing.in case he does lightning attack I do 2nd jump to get really high and continue Roulette. Once shield is down you can stun him with charge shot and quickly close the distance to attack. Since I suck at Calibur (mid air glide attack) I wait for Sanctus to get some distance between himself and Nero while dodging his lil thingies wait for him to do ground attack jump over it Snatch to close in on him and do Roulette. After that I just do Buster in DT mode.
The last 40 percent he also jumps into statue which slams fist at Nero on the ground. Fist attack can be either evaded or you can counter it with Buster. Buster counter is not too bad timing so you can try that.
Sanctus m11 video
Blitz
quiet easy. get shield down with a few Charged Shots after that activate Devil Trigger (make sure to keep charging your Charged Shot while doing all of the busters) do Buster then Streak then Buster again then jump and aerial Buster. as soon as he starts charging his shield again do Charged Shot. Thats it usually it. If he aint dead after that keep evading him and hope that one of the next charged shots kills him. Video covers the general idea.
Nero vs Blitz
Boss 8 - Sanctus - Mission 20
similar to m11 but more annoying. Now to destroy the shield I usually do a Roulette Spin wait for him to move around and reposition. Then if you quick you can catch up and do 2nd Roulette Spin to interrupt his attack or evade his attack and then counter with Roulette Spin.
This time around his preferred attack after you disable shield is ball shooting at you. Watch for audio cues as they are always the same, so that you know which attack is coming. Evade the attack and execute counter.
The following are your options of counters. Once shield is down you can stun him with charge shot and quickly close the distance to attack. Then DT close to him in the air or buster then slash at him to bring him down. Buster since he usually now blocks regular attacks before Buster. He does not block DT attacks. If you are able to pull of Calibur do it, since that attack does both: brings you to the boss and initiates attack cycle.
After he is defenseless ( no shield and on the ground) I just do Buster in DT mode and press shoot button during it for extra damage. He also sometimes does ground attacks with his sword which have to be evaded and after which I usually do Streak to close in quick since he doesn't stick around for long and then Buster to break his guard followed by regular combo and a Buster that isn't going to be blocked.
The last ~30 percent he goes close to the ground and begins charging with sword pointed at Nero. This attack can be countered with Buster or dodged. Buster timing for this is easy. It works like this - as soon as you see he is starting his swooping down animation do a Buster.
PS: If someone doesn't know at next event with statue all you need to do is as he tries to punch you with right then left arm counter each attack with Buster. Timing is different for both arms and not exactly intuitive, at least not for me, so practice a bit to get it right. After his face hits the ground jump and Buster his forehead.
Sanctus m20 video
link to Nero sword move list on wiki
Bosses with Nero
Boss 1 - Berial - Mission 2, 19
Tip1. The easiest position to defend myself I found is to stay up in the air. (this assumes you have double jump "Air Hike") Execute single jump then Snatch which should get you really high in the air and do Roulette Spin or just a few slashes. When he does attack with anything other then nuke attack just do a second jump. Usually that's all you need to do. After attack get to the ground to reset the double jump. Rinse repeat.
When his shield is down activate Devil Trigger try to slash a bit and do an aerial Buster, aerial buster doesnt send Berial flying across the map, so that you can do a 2nd follow up Buster. When he gets up he is usually going to follow up with nuke attack so just stay away and do charge shots or just shoot or while in DT mode do the arrow move (target back yb). Then repeat the above as needed. Here is a video of something like that.
Berial Video
Boss 2 - Bael - Mission 4, 6, 19
Phase 1 - 2 nakid chix.
The strat that works for me is do single slash on which try to charge Exceed gauge then do jump and slam move Split. Also charge shot them when they charge at you to freeze you. Once you damage one of them enough and it sits down on the ground do Buster. Which gets you to the next phase. In case you get frozen by one of the chix activate Devil Trigger to get out of it and dodge the munch jump.
Phase 2 - ugly frog
I dodge all of his attacks by jumping to the side of him. Do Steaks to get close to him. dodge to the side and slash at him whichever way you can. Once you see him jump really far away and starting to fade either close in fast and do aerial attacks or do ranged attacks.when his ugly face hits the ground and he is stunned and open to a Buster attack. In case he does manage to munch you do Devil Trigger to save yourself.
Bael video
Boss 3 - Angus - Mission 6
Nothing much to say. All you need to do is stand in the middle on the little bump. Do Snatch on the flying swords and throw them at the window. To avoid damage you can do jump with Devil Trigger. Nothing more to it really. All I can say this is a really crappy fight on higher difficulties or if you trying to do no damage. What you also need to know is the monsters continue to spawn so you cant kill them all.
Angus 1 video
Boss 4 - Echidna - Mission 7
Phase 1 normal stance when she can move around (NOT FLY). do Roulette Spins and do 2nd jump in case she does her braid swing attack. She can also swing her tail on the ground. once again jump.
Phase 2 She burrows into the ground. make sure to keep you distance while she does that. Its damaging. What she does in this stance is spawn spikes that lash at you. You can see where the spikes are going to spawn by holes in the ground. Imo safest bet is to stay really close to the boss since they tend to spawn right underneath Nero and nearly impossible to avoid. Get close to her and do Exceed attacks. Sometimes she gets stunned and then is open for a Buster attack. To avoid spikes once they spawned just do a little jump on the other side of boss. Make sure to jump off when she is about to fly away.
Phase 3 spider stance. get underneath of her and do slashes and a Buster to finish off your attack.
Phase 4 Flying stance. Get to the side of the map to avoid damage so she cannot fly into you. From that position shoot at her till she stops flying. Watch out for seed attacks that can be evaded with jumping.
Echidna Nero video
Boss 5 - Angelo Credo - Mission 8
Phase 1. normal he walks at you while blocking everything and counter attacking. I do Streaks to get close to him and initiate attack followed by jump to evade his counter followed by Buster and charge shot.
He also sometimes throws his lance at you. Two ways to react. 1) Evade with Table Hopper (target him and roll to the side) 2) Counter this move with Buster. To do this you need to evade his first two throws and catch his 3rd with Buster. Timing on buster is as soon as you see him hurl it do Buster. Do not wait for the spear to get close. Also while executing this make sure to have the boss targeted as otherwise Nero can throw the lance and miss.
Phase 2. In case you let him go below ~30 percent he goes berserk and does new set of attacks. Strategy remains the same just do more jumping before Buster.
Angelo Credo video
Boss 5 - Angus - Mission 9, 19
Spawns additional creatures during fight. I don't really have a good strategy for this. Recommend to focus on the easy monsters-swords and dogs because they have low hp and they wont interrupt your attacks plus you can use them with Buster to damage the boss. Also when he says "time to die" quickly execute an all out attack to interrupt him from unleashing attack damaging you and healing him. Also when he does spinning blades back into corner and at the end jump over them. I prefer to do aerial attacks on him to be able to evade stuff easier oh and charge shots. To evade "your strength is mine" attack just do some jumping or DT to get out of it in case of a screw up.
Angus video
Boss 6 - Dante - Mission 10, 1
My cheap tactic is at medium/close range do a Snatch which Dante will evade and counter with Stinger. As he does stinger do Buster. If you miss the que and he start doing combo do Devil Trigger to get out of it. Also to interrupt his long range attacks you can use Charged Shot.this video is for mission 1 but also applicable for mission 10. This is exactly what I do on m1 and 10.
Nero vs Dante video
Boss 7 - Destroyer/Savior/Sanctus - Mission 11
to destroy the shield I usually do two Roulette Spinns in a row without landing.in case he does lightning attack I do 2nd jump to get really high and continue Roulette. Once shield is down you can stun him with charge shot and quickly close the distance to attack. Since I suck at Calibur (mid air glide attack) I wait for Sanctus to get some distance between himself and Nero while dodging his lil thingies wait for him to do ground attack jump over it Snatch to close in on him and do Roulette. After that I just do Buster in DT mode.
The last 40 percent he also jumps into statue which slams fist at Nero on the ground. Fist attack can be either evaded or you can counter it with Buster. Buster counter is not too bad timing so you can try that.
Sanctus m11 video
Blitz
quiet easy. get shield down with a few Charged Shots after that activate Devil Trigger (make sure to keep charging your Charged Shot while doing all of the busters) do Buster then Streak then Buster again then jump and aerial Buster. as soon as he starts charging his shield again do Charged Shot. Thats it usually it. If he aint dead after that keep evading him and hope that one of the next charged shots kills him. Video covers the general idea.
Nero vs Blitz
Boss 8 - Sanctus - Mission 20
similar to m11 but more annoying. Now to destroy the shield I usually do a Roulette Spin wait for him to move around and reposition. Then if you quick you can catch up and do 2nd Roulette Spin to interrupt his attack or evade his attack and then counter with Roulette Spin.
This time around his preferred attack after you disable shield is ball shooting at you. Watch for audio cues as they are always the same, so that you know which attack is coming. Evade the attack and execute counter.
The following are your options of counters. Once shield is down you can stun him with charge shot and quickly close the distance to attack. Then DT close to him in the air or buster then slash at him to bring him down. Buster since he usually now blocks regular attacks before Buster. He does not block DT attacks. If you are able to pull of Calibur do it, since that attack does both: brings you to the boss and initiates attack cycle.
After he is defenseless ( no shield and on the ground) I just do Buster in DT mode and press shoot button during it for extra damage. He also sometimes does ground attacks with his sword which have to be evaded and after which I usually do Streak to close in quick since he doesn't stick around for long and then Buster to break his guard followed by regular combo and a Buster that isn't going to be blocked.
The last ~30 percent he goes close to the ground and begins charging with sword pointed at Nero. This attack can be countered with Buster or dodged. Buster timing for this is easy. It works like this - as soon as you see he is starting his swooping down animation do a Buster.
PS: If someone doesn't know at next event with statue all you need to do is as he tries to punch you with right then left arm counter each attack with Buster. Timing is different for both arms and not exactly intuitive, at least not for me, so practice a bit to get it right. After his face hits the ground jump and Buster his forehead.
Sanctus m20 video