Uploaded October 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Phase 1: This part of the fight is similar to the Spirit of Purity fight. A damage cap exists to prevent cheese; otherwise, just dodge all the attacks.
Phase 2: In this part of the fight, the main body will be immune to all your attacks. However, you can push the arms by attacking them. To damage the boss, push the arms so that the lasers hit the main body. Ten laser hits are required to win.
Phase 3: This mostly exists to calm you down after an intense fight. Defeat the boss in time, or it will unleash a barrage of ultimate attacks. Other than that, the only thing it does is release orbs that reduce your damage by 25% by 5 seconds. This effect stacks!
Just like with the Spirit of Purity, you get 3 lives throughout the entire fight.
Sorry about the poor quality; my computer has been getting worse over the years :(
Phase 1: This part of the fight is similar to the Spirit of Purity fight. A damage cap exists to prevent cheese; otherwise, just dodge all the attacks.
Phase 2: In this part of the fight, the main body will be immune to all your attacks. However, you can push the arms by attacking them. To damage the boss, push the arms so that the lasers hit the main body. Ten laser hits are required to win.
Phase 3: This mostly exists to calm you down after an intense fight. Defeat the boss in time, or it will unleash a barrage of ultimate attacks. Other than that, the only thing it does is release orbs that reduce your damage by 25% by 5 seconds. This effect stacks!
Just like with the Spirit of Purity, you get 3 lives throughout the entire fight.
Sorry about the poor quality; my computer has been getting worse over the years :(
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Hard Lotus and all the bosses past it actually have good rare drops. In the past Ive avoided freezers and used only minimal buffs for my solos, but because I really want those drops Im allowing myself to use anything I can get my hands on for Hard Lotus and up.
Anyways, other than health, the main differences Hard Lotus has over Normal Lotus are:
- Seemingly double the debris falling from the sky.
- The small blue debris causes stun.
- Everything does a lot more damage.
Each of these individually arent that bad. But when you combine all three of those together, in addition to all the annoyances from normal mode (5 lives), you get one of the most difficult, unfair, RNG-infested fights in the entire game. This is the reason Hard Lotus is considered to be even more difficult than Hard Lucid for full parties of six.")
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WARNING: This video is literally the most boring thing ever and you should not watch it. Please. Even I got bored while fighting it.
Ive said before that damage reflect is one of the worst things in this game. This boss is literally the damage reflect boss.")
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Alternative title: Bugcat Zero Performs Acrobatics for Hard Darknell and Friends
Hard Darknell cheats by having a bunch of people gang up on you. Thankfully, Zero is also multiple people.")
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I definitely couldve done this a long time ago, but free time has been too sparse, so now you get to see a super over-speccd clear with really sloppy play.")
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Darknell, the final normal-mode boss to exist in the game as of this video. This is the first time Ive fought a boss thats a higher level than me, and in Reboot, that means a hefty final damage reduction to all my attacks.
Normally, this boss would come before Hard Lotus. And despite all the BS thrown around, its still easier to survive than Hard Lotus. But, I was challenging myself to not use buff freezers or green potions, and there was the aforementioned final damage reduction. Plus, this boss is basically impossible without knockback resistance. Most of the attacks hit the character for tons of lines at once so I couldnt rely on Lucent Brand, so I had to wait for Neo to tera-burn a Mihile.")
