Grondious | Cuphead - Werner Werman in 39.78s - Version 1.1.5 - Lobber/Spread Route @Grondious | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
The first sub 40 for lobber/spread/charmless!

DISCLAIMER: I will go over some of my strats/optimizations used in this fight. Most of this is not new but I will detail some of the things I am going for. I am also using a mod to see the hitboxes and bosses HP and an in-game timer, this video is meant to show the strategy and what's possible.

For Werman the biggest thing of phase 1 is trying not to get hit while doing as much spread shot as you can which means getting close to him, but when Werman comes back I use the tech "Flick Lobbers" where I try to only move away from the boss when lobber is equipped and cooling down, and then when a lobber is ready to fire I can sort of flick it into the boss. This just keeps your DPS up strong even when you have to this sort of back and forth with Werman.

Then I damage boost through his charge move and manage my weapons in a way to get as much spreadshot as I can and end on the left side of him. Being on the left side is important for a strat in phase 2.

I try to line up for a down+right lobber EX close up against him in hopes that the lobber EX hits both the ground and the boss at the same time since a lobber EX on this patch of the game (pre 1.2 patches) does double damage and then hitting the boss would do single damage so in this scenario it can do upwards of triple damage but it's very precise and has a sort of RNG element to whether it works as double damage or triple damage. Being too close means it will hit the boss before hitting the ground so in that case it would only do single damage so that's the worst case scenario but thankfully in this clip I at least got the double damage EX (it collided just with the ground for that to happen).

Then I chase him up and damage boost through the flame guns when he does them to keep up spreadshot and not have to spend any of my EX cards hovering over it or anything.

This next part is really important, so if you rub up against the left side specifically of Werners platform while it's momentarily stationary and do a down+right lobber EX before he moves again, the lobber EX perfectly lines up and will hit both Wermans platform and the regular ground, causing 2 double damage lobber EX explosions which adds up to a 4x damage lobber EX.

The goal is to get 5 of these quads off which can be tricky especially earlier when he's moving side to side a bit, and also it can be very tricky to try and get good DPS in with your regular bullets in-between the EX quads.

That's the biggest update to this fight for me was trying to optimize my damage in-between these EX's and it's probably best to let the video do the talking on that sequence. I have done this slightly better in some other attempts, sneaking in a little more spread and such between EX's but overall this was still really clean and helped pile on the damage quick.

Because I had time I also jumped up top before the cat ate the mouse as for a brief moment, the cat and the mouses hitboxes are overlapped so bullets fired in that spot will deal double damage. This helps me get a little extra burst of damage and then I can just clean up the fight with some EX's on the cat.

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