zlk wrote:
1) Sometimes when the Hadou trail touches the side of a boss or mid-boss it does incredible damage and sometimes insta-kills it, then other times doesn't seem to do much damage at all. Is there some logic to this? I thought hitting a boss with the hadou while not firing did the most damage. Maybe I am wrong.....
An example of this is the stage 6 mid-boss where in the replays it seems everyone fires a hadou at the side of the plane and it just dies instantly.
This is actually a technique. If you position the hadou such that it travels along the seam between two hitboxes, or time it such that it moves through a boss/midboss while it is in the process of transforming, the missile will continue through instead of sticking. This deals
huge amounts of damage, and can be exploited to instant-kill several enemies, including the stage 6 midboss and a couple forms of the stage 5 boss.
zlk wrote:
2) What is the easiest way to kill the stage 5 boss? I get there quite frequently and unless I have enough bombs, I die. When I get to the final form there seems to be three types of attacks. One is a circular fire in all directions attack which is easy to avoid as you stay on top of the boss and shoot. The second is when its firing purple bullets down and that is easy to deal with by staying at the top of the screen. The final type just insta kills me when it fires blue bullets that spread out. Any tips on dodging this attack or preventing it from appearing?
(I asked #2 years ago and was wondering if there is any updated information or new tricks, the stage 5 boss still gives me fits)
The very short answer is that there is no easy way. It is possible, like I mentioned above, to use the hadou trick to do a lot of damage and skip the second form of the boss entirely and/or make the third form go down much quicker. However, this is really hard to describe with words.
In general, the trick to dodging Lace's attacks is to circle around and on top of her. It is impossible to hit her body throughout the entire fight, so exploit that as much as you possibly can. Tight circles work well through most of the final form; looser ones for her first few. Keeping rank low will help a LOT with making sure her attacks are dodgeable. Also, the higher rank is, the more difficult it will be to hit her with a hadou-- something to keep in mind. She will actively dodge your fire at high rank.
The blue spreads of death are evil. Tiny, tiny circles work okay, but the timing and movement is VERY hard to get down. A better solution is to destroy her two side gun pods as soon as possible during the third phase of the fight, and hope that she doesn't use the attack before you can.