Godfall: How To Defeat Alpha Rancor
Each area in Godfall has a major boss that is supported by a bunch of lesser bosses. You are heavily incentivized to murder these side-bosses, as each one applies a nasty debuff during the main event that you probably want to avoid. Alpha Rancor is one such miniboss.
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You’ve fought several Rancors during your time in the Earth Realm, but it’s time to beat up the biggest, baddest Rancor of them all - Alpha Rancor. This thing is huge, deals a lot of damage, can inflict poison, and can even summon reinforcements. It’s not to be underestimated, but can be tackled fairly easily with a little bit of foreknowledge.
Alpha Rancor, being essentially a giant twin-tailed dog, doesn’t have the most diverse move pool. In general, you can expect a lot of lunging and biting, with a side helping of tail attacks. This makes Alpha Rancor a bit of a pain to read, as many of his attacks look the same, but are in fact, slightly different.
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Alpha Rancor is fast, mobile, and aggressive. Many of its attacks come out quickly, and it can quickly start to control the battlefield by leaving pools of poison everywhere. To counter this, you want to use fairly quick weapons, and maybe even weapons with ranged capabilities to catch Alpha Rancor when it retreats. Polearms are fantastic for this, whilst swords are a good substitute thanks to the long-range dash Weapon Technique.
As is always the case, you want to go into this fight with a full gauge of Archon Fury. No matter the Valorplate, this buff will greatly increase your damage and make you impervious to counterattacks. Both Silvermane and Phoenix are great, with Silvermane summoning in spirits, and Phoenix
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