Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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Chronos has increased his weight to "Heavy" and comes with longer normal attack strings and artes out the gate compared to his first version. He also has a bevy of skills at his disposal; Opportune Moment, Spell Shock, and Last Stand(75% damage reduction when HP is less than 25%) are the most notable ones.

That being said, he's not too difficult compared to other bosses in this run if you inflict Skillseal on him to avoid the difficulties dealing with his skills. This can be done with a water-based arte, or a physical(slash/strike/gun) attack while equipped with a water weapon. For Leia, Eagle's Rage is the GOAT once again, making it fairly easy to apply the status effect(my INT is 1424 in this fight).

He generally counters with one of the Tetra Assault variants, or Tetra Assault itself, which is easy to just sidestep behind him to avoid and deal additional damage. After 50%, he uses a newer Assault string that's just as easy to deal with. In both phases however, he'll rarely counter with Chronos Collider. Leia can dodge it by using ER's invulnerability frames from the ground, but its extremely difficult to do on reaction. Most of his magics and Cage of Torment leave him wide open to attack him; only Gravity Well may be slightly more of an issue to deal with, due to its range and casting time.

Other than that, he has an ability to call forth an enemy to help him attack called Chronos Bit. The bit itself doesn't have a lot of HP, but its very annoying to deal with; since its very light, it bounces around out of range when I try to take it to the air, and that leaves me vulnerable to Chronos's attacks. It takes a number of attacks to kill it and is just frustrating to deal with as Leia(doing this fight no PC as Ludger long ago, I kill it in 3 attacks, it is SOO much easier =0v).

Trying to attack him with one-hit attacks usually causes him to take the long backstep, which procs a Time Stop, so I take a similar approach as my original run; wait for him to attack, dodge, use ER to down him and inflict Skillseal, then just whittle him down. Artes that lift an enemy off-the-ground have no damage scaling when the enemy is in a downed state, so I use Rending Quake, Swallow Flight, Linked Explosion, and Earth Roar to deal additional damage after ER'ing him. Then just react to his counters. I try to keep him off the wall and on the "longest line" of the battlefield if I can, but even with valiant efforts, he'll still run, or even backstep to the wall to cast or whatever.

After 50%, and the annoying Ludger stuff(should have just copied Horangi Chronos strat and equipped the transformation arte thingy (=_= )), not much is different other than him using the Chronos Laser(sweeping laser) and Chronos Beam(straight, fast laser) more often. As long as he isn't on the wall, I can deal with it with sidesteps or jumps + artes. Gravity Meteor and Cage of Torment land based on your height, so if you get 3 'rises'(jumps and/or height-increasing artes) when it goes off, you don't have to worry about being hit by them on the ground(Cage of Torment is super easy to do this with). I did mess up the after-50% post-counter combo, which was supposed to be 2 sidesteps - Cerb Strike - Rabid Lunge - Darting Claw - Eagle's Rage, as that would put me right on top of him just as he's loses his counter superarmor, but I guess habits can be hard to break =0p.

The original file used for this had 9999 STR and DEX, which IS possible to have at endgame if you herb grind, but still was likely save edited. However, I decided to use my 2nd playthrough, Lv200 1st playthrough file(so no double damage, crit, etc.), which had enough raw stats to do the job with no edited stats. This made it harder to kill Luds, so I did edit his max HP down so he can die easy.

Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQmeMnoDpaH4ZHRdeuxhv_2V2s5oEAIDV

Modifications:
- Edited Ludger's max HP down to 205 for quick death purposes.

Music:
- Fallen Path (Siamo Zero) by Desolo Zantas(Soundcloud)

BIG thanks to @Sora3100 for making this run possible =03!