How To Defeat Bosses In Brotato

Stat

What It Does

Why Does It Matter

HP Regeneration and Life Steal

Lets you heal passively or when you land hits, respectively.

You increase your survivability by making it harder for enemies to kill you, even when they attack you. You will take damage during runs, so you must prepare.

Attack Speed

Increases how fast your attacks come out.

You'll attack more often, allowing you to push enemies back while dealing more damage. That means you'll clear through your foes and make a way to the boss.

Dodge Percentage

Increases your odds of dodging attacks.

Since you don't have a built-in dodge or way to avoid damage automatically, you must increase your odds of enemies missing. You can only increase your dodge to 60 percent, but that'll help you take significantly less damage.

Speed Percentage

Increases your movement speed.

The faster you move, the easier time you'll have avoiding attacks and being surrounded. Since enemies spawn quickly and can swarm you, ensure you have a straightforward way to keep yourself safe and minimize potential hits.

While other stats, like HP and Range, matter based on your build, you always want to increase the ones above. They always help you with boss fights and surviving during your runs.

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Stick With Ranged Builds Your First Few Times

While you may want to try melee builds, you should stick with ranged ones until you become more comfortable with the game. Ranged builds help you in various ways.

• Allowing you to kite enemies.
• Avoiding close-range attacks.
• Letting you consistently deal damage.

While melee attacks can deal significant damage, you'll place yourself too close to the boss, increasing your odds of taking damage. Many of them have moves that'll hit you if you're close, so you want to minimize this problem when possible. You can also attack them from a distance while running away, ensuring you remain safe and keep your health up.

Focus The Boss Early

You must immediately focus on the boss as soon as the round starts. Stay close and only hit the minions when they get close to you. Ensure you built up a fair amount of damage-related stats beforehand, or you may struggle to defeat the boss within the time limit.

You want to focus on the boss early for a few reasons.

• The boss will become faster.
• The boss will gain more attacks.
• Enemies will spawn at a faster rate.

In short, the longer the boss fight, the harder it becomes. If you don't deal some damage early, you'll find it challenging to land hits later as you try to keep enemies off you. Run up to the boss, keep them in range, and use the starting time to turn the fight to your advantage.

If the game is set to automatic attacking, you'll hit whichever character gets closest to you, making it easy to swap between the boss and the enemies.

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Stay On The Move And Look For Attack Cues

No matter what you build, you should avoid sitting still when you fight the boss. They'll constantly move toward you and try to attack. If you don't keep moving, the enemy will catch you off guard, launch an attack, and potentially kill you if you're low on health.

While you should keep moving, you don't want to go out of the boss's range. Otherwise, you won't damage the enemy unless you use a range build to attack from a distance.

You can run into three situations while running away from the boss.

The Strategy

What It Involves

When to Use It

Kiting

Staying in attack range while keeping yourself out of the boss's range.

Use it while you deal damage. The boss will eventually catch up to you and attack, but you can reduce your odds of getting hit. You'll be kiting most of the fight.

Fleeing

Running away from the boss to get health pickups.

When you're too low on health to risk another hit, keep running until you have more than half of your health back up.

Circling

Going around in a circle to check the map for enemies, materials, and recovery items.

You should use this if you start to run out of health to help you reach trees or pick up materials to heal if you have the passive ability.

As you kite and circle, ensure you attack any trees across the arena. Doing so will cause them to drop a healing item.

They won't de-spawn until the wave ends, so you can remember where they fell and return to them while fleeing.

You also need to get a feel for the boss's attack cues. While the bosses have differences, most of them have melee attacks. They'll stop for a second, change their hue, and dash toward you. You won't take damage if you move diagonally away from them.

Enemies also have ranged attacks. Each one appears red, such as a red circle on the ground or a red circle moving toward you.

Stationary red circles indicate AOE moves, so you'll want to move from the spot. The moving ones require you to walk out of the way since they'll move in a straight line.

Beware Of The Second Half

As you become comfortable with the boss fight, you should watch for changes. Usually, the bosses have multiple phases where they use additional attacks. For example, one boss adds the following attacks with time.

• They dash at you to deal damage, requiring you to keep moving.
• Red projectiles appear in a line from the boss, circling the boss. You must either walk in circles around the boss to avoid the projectiles or get ready to fit through the gap in the lines.
• The boss starts to shoot out a circle of projectiles, requiring you to dodge them and not stay too close.

The boss's attacks also speed up as they enter different phases. They don't telegraph when these phases start, so watch for them every fourth of a health bar you take down. Since the game randomizes the bosses each time you play a run, you'll have to learn their attacks to see how you can react to them.