After a chaotic and difficult journey through the bowels of the Phoenix Gate Ruins, Clive must face something incredibly troubling in this climactic boss fight of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 16. It is, of course, himself, and he's fighting himself in a battle of the mind, triggered by being in a place rooted in so much trauma 13 years hence.
What begins as a terrifying battle against the Eikon that Clive hates so deeply and readily turns into a battle against himself as he comes to terms with reality. It can be a difficult fight, and perfectly symmetrical violence never solves anything, so let's take a look at how to end it.
How To Beat The Infernal Eikon
After getting his bearings, Clive will confront the first enemy in this boss fight, the Infernal Eikon, Ifrit.
The Infernal Eikon will open the battle with an attack, as all difficult boss fights do. Crimson Rush ♓is exactly what it sounds like and has Ifrit rushing toward you and getting into melee range.ಌ And thus, the fight begins in earnest.
The table below details all of the Infernal Eikon's attacks.
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Attack |
Description |
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Crimson Rush |
Ifrit glows with fire before rushing towards you. Siꦡmply run to the side to avoid this. If Ifrit uses this while too close to you, try to dodge and avoid the attack via♒ invincibility frames. |
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Fiery Stomp |
ꦉIfrit slams his f😼oot to the ground, causing a large explosion. You won't be able to see the radius of the explosion before it occurs, but Ifrit will give you plenty of warning during the raised-foot portion of this attack. Use this to get away. |
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Tail Swipe |
Ifrit swipes his tail in a fiery blaze as he turns around. ▨He uses this mainly to turn around. If you stick close to Ifrit, you'll avoid this attack automatically - it'll pass over you. |
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Vulcan Burst |
Ifrit gets on all fours and charges an explosive attack. The radius is 🎶shown to you before it occurs. When you see the skill's nameplate, start moving away and make sure you get out of the radius. |
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Scorched Earth |
Ifrit will leap away from you and then use this,𓃲 which is a punch at the ground that summons a line of fire in yourꩵ direction. To get a Precision Dodge out of this, you'll need to time your dodge until the line of fire gets close. |
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Fire Rain |
Ifrit swathes his hand in fire and punche♑s upwards, throwing a bunch of fireballs in your direction. The fireballs will track you quite well and fall in a blanket pattern🐻 around you. If you stay right underneath Ifrit, you'll avoid this attack. Otherwise, be ready to dodge a quick fireball from above. |
The Infernal Eikon is surprisingly squishy for its looks, at least in terms of his health bar. It's a good idea to go into this fight with good Stagger-inducing abilities equipped - Wicked Wheel and Scarlet Cyclone are g𓄧ood picks. Use these to Stagger the boss quickly and then burst down his health bar.
The most dangerous attacks to look out for are Vulcan Burst and Fire Rain - they are deceptively quick attacks that can catch you unawares easily, s🍸o look out for their t☂elegraphs.
The boss will likely only suffer a single Stagger before you wipe out his health bar. Once you've depleted it, though, a cutscene begins, and you're ready to face the real boss of this stage.
How To Beat The Infernal Shadow
As you'll be able to tell quickly, you should expect some familiar moves in this phase of the fight - the Infernal Shadow is basically Clive, and he has quite a few of Clive's moves to employ against you.
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Attack |
Description |
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Lunging Slash |
This is an attack simi✨lar to your Lunge (Square + Cross). The Infernal Shadow will dash quickly at you and then perform a sword🌠 slash. Don't try to dodge the initial dash; wait for the sword attack to come out. |
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Molten Thrust |
This iᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚs similar to the previous attack, but thღe thrust itself is the attack. With this one, you'll want to dodge out of the way of the lunge. |
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Phoenix Shift |
Just like you, the Infernal Shadow can use Phoenix Shift to zip around the battlefield. This isn't really an attack, but it's useful to know that he can seemingly teleport around at will. |
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Fire |
The Infernal Shadow firꦇes three dark fireballs into the air, which will🐈 then track and shoot at you. This attack is easy to see coming and easy to avoid as a result but can catch you unawares if it's used behind an explosion or another attack. |
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Fira |
This is identical to🍎 your Fira, taking the form of a fireball 🐷shot at you. This is a good attꦚack t♛o use Heatwave against if you can time it right. |
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Steady Slash |
After raising his blade in the air and waiting a moment, the ꦑInfer𝓰nal Shadow steps forward and brings it down at you. Dodge to the side or try to time𒐪 a counterattℱack for a Parry. |
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Incinerate |
The Infernal Eikon summons a web of glowing cinders on♕ the ground that stays there for a few moments before exploding in a fiery storm. Move ou🙈t of the wide fan-shaped spread of cinders to avoid this attack when it🔯 resolves. |
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Hammer and Anvil |
The Infernal Eikon appears high up in the a♚ir and holds there for a few moments before crashing down to the ground in a huge explosion. When you see the Infernal Eikon in the air, move out from underneath him 𝐆and get away from the imp🥂act zone. |
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Hellfire |
The Infernal Shadow teleports to the center of the arena andꦛ starts summoning large pillars of flame all around the battlefield, with large circles denoting their locations. This attack ends with a massive explosion centered on the Shadow, with expanding waves of fire denoting the full radius. Move away from the center of the arena, being careful not to be caught in any of the flame pillars as they erupt. As soon as the big Hellfire explosion occurs, yo🅘u can dash back in and attack. |
There are multiple stages to this fight. At first, you'll be fighting the basic Infernal Shadow, who will only use the moves down to Steady Slash from the list above. After dealing enough damage and Staggering him once, he'll transition to his second phase.
In his second phase, the Infernal Shadow will start using Incinerate and Hammer and Anvil. In addition, he'll start using upgraded versions of his regular attacks - Lunging Slash will end in a multi-hit, fiery combo, and Fire will now spit out six fireballs instead of three. Overall, though, the fight hasn't changed much - you simply need to be aware of the changes and react to the new attacks.
After a second Stagger, the Infernal Eikon will start mixing Hellfire into his attack repertoire. This is a grand attack that looks more difficult to deal with than it really is, so don't worry too much.
Dealing with the Infernal Shadow can be tricky if you aren't that used to dealing with such agile enemies. If so, try to stay reactive rather than offensive and🗹 rely more on Precision Counters, taking advantage of Stagger-heavyꩲ attacks when you can, and ranged attacks such as charged magic spells.
Eventually, you'll damage the boss enough that you get your own second phase to unlock - Limit Break. Activate this with L3 + R3, and you'll spend the rest of the fight in this upgraded form. Test out Clive's upgraded normal combo and inability to get stunned, but still be wary of the boss's attacks - especially Hellfire. You can still die while in this form.
The end of the fight will come when you've reduced the boss to extremely low health and takes the form of a Cinematic Sequence. After two Cinematic Clashes, the fight will be over.
Your rewards for beating this boss, other than unlocking Limit Break, are the following:
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Experience |
450 |
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Ability Points |
180 |
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Gil |
3,200 |
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Spoils |
Fire Shard x1, Magicked Ash x80 |