Congrats on being the first person I've seen to fully figure this out. I've seen others suggest that counting his shots was the way to go, but the mistake they were making was only counting his _attacks_ instead of both his attacks and mobility shots. Well done!

@servantofcygnus

2 ай бұрын

It's a little wild that people were still lost on this when this is how it worked in Remake, too!

@Fissiccisst1

2 ай бұрын

This reminds me of the DOOM Eternal thing with the shield guys, Where its like a skill check. And you see people just rage uncontrollably at them that either can't or won't put in the 30 seconds needed to consider how best to approach the fight and where the windows of opportunity are. Meanwhile, the rest of us just kind of figure it out lol. Personally I never realized that Braver was the skill that auto staggers Rufus. I noted the assess comment, thought I tried every skill, but missed the most obvious one lol. I still muddled my way through by just pressuring during reloads with focused thrust and just shoving chakra materia into my mouth at every opportunity when I got low lol Sure the fight is obnoxious. But really, I wouldn't say its even in the top 5 of the hardest fights in this game. I'd probably put no.1 with something like the OdinXAlexander fight. Or really any of the double summons. Trying to think which boss I hated the most from the normal story...Midgarsormr hilariously, being the first boss in the game, might be the one I still just don't understand how to kill well. or Terror of the deep. Although Aerith giga stomped terror with copious amounts of Thundara.

@PaulineRagny

2 ай бұрын

@@Fissiccisst1 it's funny I have way more trouble with Bahamut or Kujata than Odin or Alexander. I dunno. I find Odin's attacks are just really clearly animated and telegraphed in a way that makes the timing clear. Most of Alexander's attacks are really just "Don't stand on the bad floor". Meanwhile Kujata attacks have some weird timings. Bahamut kicks you in the face with no warning or spins in your face for 5 seconds. People have trouble with different things.

@Fissiccisst1

2 ай бұрын

@@PaulineRagny oh yeah, everyone's going to have different issues with different fights. My main issue with Odin is A: I'm pretty bad at perfect parrying, and B: He seems to love doing the counter to a ranged move when I'm directly next to him sometimes. But when I *do* manage to get him to go away, I can usually 1 turn kill alexander and then just put all my focus on Odin for the second phase. For Kujata, I'm usually running aerith and can just spell-ara his phases out and save all my limits to pummel phoenix into the dirt after the rez. Bahamut/Titan I was able to do fairly well spamming sonic boom on the shield to get the pressured states and went for bahamut with everything I have. All of this while guzzling prayer materia which I run on cloud. Whom I run with Rune Blade and magic up for maximum spell output for things like sonic boom and plasma discharge.

@PaulineRagny

2 ай бұрын

@@Fissiccisst1 For Odin's counter, are you talking about reprisal? If you get hit by or block a charged attack it places red binds around your character's wrists and that's what causes him to do reprisal when you target him with an ATB command.

Wow, you're the first person who truly made me understand how Rufus works

and Rufus was forced to eat shit

so i guess this is what they call "a boss fight"

Damn I just wish that counting the shots was in the access info, this fight actually looks super fun and balanced. Also low-key rufus is somehow morr of a badass in this fight than the last one

@chrislee5268

2 ай бұрын

I mean, counting bullets is sort of implied when you fight someone using a gun that frequently uses a move called "Reload."

@matthewapril3119

2 ай бұрын

@chrislee5268 okay fair point but he reloads randomly I always assumed that was just an opening. But now I know better

That was amazing!! I'm definitely taking some lessons for this for my own take on this fight, thank you 😀

Really well done, nice work!

Holy cow, incredible stuff!!

Amazing job! This is how this fight is supposed to play out. Guess we all just gotta GIT GUD son 😎

Lore accurate cloud:

Thanks for making this video, had no idea what it meant by "one attack can instantly stagger him" since it has to be during his reload window.

@PaulineRagny

2 ай бұрын

Yeah they word it vaguely because they want it to be kind of a puzzle boss. A lot of players are not prepared for it since it's pretty different from most other mandatory bosses in the game.

26k damage with Infinity's End is actually insane

@talalabuissa273

2 ай бұрын

Empowerment materia buffs.

@TheDevilsMouse

2 ай бұрын

@@talalabuissa273don’t forget genji gloves… and upgraded berserk from prime mode

I believe sleep still works against Darkstar, which can help you focus on Rufus. Or if you plan to no damage, the HP-MP materia is great because of how quickly you build up limit breaks using perfect guards, which can be used to quickly eliminate Darkstar.

I love watching streamers try to brute force fight Rufus, especially those who also played Remake where Rufus fights and is staggered almost identically to Rebirth. Braver stagger was the first thing I tried on him during my first playthrough before I even used Assess on him! It was the same with the Hell House fight, so many people just try to brute force it when if they just listened to the assess tips, the fights are pretty easy even with out being overpowered (Genji gloves).

@Fissiccisst1

2 ай бұрын

asking gamers to actually read is usually a bridge too far lol

@12345678abracadabra

2 ай бұрын

What's the trick for hell house?

@Fissiccisst1

2 ай бұрын

@@12345678abracadabra The hell house will pick an element several times during the fight and you hit it with the opposite

You’re perfect at timing it, I’d probably get countered trying to do braver because its so slow

@PaulineRagny

Ай бұрын

I count the shots and I do it as soon as I know his gun is empty before he even starts reloading. If you wait for the "reloading" text to appear above his head you are already too late.

Damn Genji Gloves making bosses look like hot potato

You can also braver him when he's doing the beam attack.

I beat him using the gorgon shield skill with any range attack. You just have to keep your distance and dodge at the right moment. It is way less damage, but I felt it was safer, it definitely took me twice as long to beat him this way tho.

Just beat him myself on my first play through but this looks way easier to what I was doing 😅 Can’t wait to try it on my Hard play through

He has a new move called Ricochet with decent ending lag and if you dodge + braver just right you can get him during that even if he's not out of bullets.

I never got how many shots down, i just kind of went into a "Did he just do a retreating shot? BRAVER IT IS!" mindset and it seemed to work often enough. Good to have a number down though, i always liked the Rufus fight even though he kicked my butt a lot, it just felt like a fight that had a sound mechanicc, just one i could never work out.

MAKING IT LOOK LIKE A GODDAMN JOKE

Is puncher mode block and parry the same as prim mode block and parry ?

I didn't think to count bullet use when he was dashing around. I thought there are only 4 bullets in his gun

@PaulineRagny

2 ай бұрын

His gun held 4 bullets in Remake on normal and 6 on hard. In rebirth it holds 6 bullets on normal and 8 on hard.

Had no idea you could counter Darkstars binding attack (or any bind for that matter) by parrying with punisher - and the damn animations too, this game is so sick

@PaulineRagny

2 ай бұрын

If there's no caution symbol in the name and it's not a projectile, it can be punisher parried.

@party_boy69

2 ай бұрын

@@PaulineRagny ah right, I didn't pay attention when I was playing, I just assumed all binding attacks had the caution but this one clearly doesn't. Good to know.

@PaulineRagny

2 ай бұрын

@@party_boy69 this might be the only one that doesn't in the whole game. It's a weird exception.

@Fissiccisst1

2 ай бұрын

@@PaulineRagny probably an exception due to the 2v1 nature of the fight. All other fights with pins I think you always have at least one other party member to whack them off with a strong skill.

@borkbunns

2 ай бұрын

PSA that you can actually block any binding attack given you've maxed the precision defense material on it, regardless if it has the unblockable caution symbol or not, which also extends to cloud's counterstance or punisher parry :p

When you assess him, it says an attack will instantly stagger him, but it doesn’t say which one, I guess this is it.

@PaulineRagny

Ай бұрын

It's a puzzle! (He worked basically the same way in the previous game but he had less attacks and less ammo in his gun)

he doesnt do 8 shots before reload he reloads whenever he fuckin wants

@PaulineRagny

2 ай бұрын

When you play an FPS, do you always wait until your gun is empty to reload? He reloads whenever he feels safe to do so or has no other choice. If you take a direct hit and are sent flying, he reloads because you're stuck in your animation. The trick is to make him use all his ammo without getting hit and then strike because he is guaranteed to reload then.

How do you break the 9,999HP damage limit???

@BigBNeey

2 ай бұрын

Genji Glove equipment

@Fissiccisst1

2 ай бұрын

the Genji Glove accessory, which you get access to by finishing the protorelics storyline and killing field bosses on hard mode