Skasa the Ice Dragon

Boss: Skasa the Ice Dragon

• Monster Type: Dragonoid, Undead
• Level: 60
• Dungeon: Skasa's Lair

Description

Skasa the Ice Dragon is the boss of Skasa's Lair. Employs a wide assortment of ridiculously powerful attacks, most of which are essentially one hit kills if you are hit by them.

Move List

• If you are too close to him, he will claw you away from him with his left claw (the claw further away from the screen)
• Raises his right claw (the claw closer to the screen) and slams the ground, causing a quake that inflicts absurd damage to everything on the ground. If you are too close to him, his claw can cause an additional hit and slam you into the ground to be hit by the quake.
• Shriek: Skasa lowers his head backwards, then pushes forward and lets out a shriek that causes area-of-effect damage around his head. Causes more hits if you are closer to his head. Can inflict stun on hit. [Potential one hit kill]
• Twister: Skasa lowers his head backwards. After charging for a brief moment, he will scream and cause a twister to appear at the right side of the room. Everyone in the party will be dragged into the twister during the duration of this attack. Being caught in the twister will result in upwards of 10 hits juggle, inflicting monstrous damage. [Potential one hit kill]
• Ice Age: Skasa reels his head backwards and begins to charge up. During this time, the screen darkens and you are pulled in slowly towards him. After a few seconds of charging up, Skasa performs a ridiculously powerful Ice Breath attack that turns the right side of the room into a frozen wasteland, destroying anything unfortunate enough to be caught in it. [Potential one hit kill]
• When his health reaches certain levels, casts buffs that increase his defense and HP regeneration.
• Cannot be grabbed, launched, or knocked down.

Strategy

• Skasa may seem impossible to defeat alone at first, but do not be intimidated. Although he has many fiendishly powerful attacks, they are all easily avoidable. All of Skasa's attacks are delayed and have an unique animation to warn you beforehand which attack he is going to use, thus the trick to fighting Skasa is to anticipate his attacks, watch his movements and dodge accordingly. Although difficult, it is possible to defeat Skasa without being hit at all if one has gotten used to his patterns.
• Try not to use attacks that immobilize or require your character to stand still for extended periods of time [Neil the Sniper, Wild Shot, Hurricane N' Roll, etc.]. Skasa might catch you offguard by attacking you in the middle of your attack, potentially killing you in one hit.
• You can walk through and under Skasa. Touching him won't do anything to you, but it's advised not to as this will prompt him to use his claw attacks which are virtually unavoidable at that close in range.

• Jump to avoid his ground pound move. He can and will use ground pound over and over, be prepared to jump multiple times if needed.

• When Skasa lowers his head towards the left of the screen, stay on the bottom-middle of the screen. Watch his attack and dodge by reflex:
• If he uses Shriek, you have a split second to run to the right side of the screen to avoid being hit. You might want to position yourself slightly more towards the right of the screen to minimize damage taken if he uses Shriek.
• If he uses Twister, stay at the bottom of the screen and continually run left. Avoid the middle of the Y-axis.
• If you are hit by Shriek, break out of stun status quickly and jump immediately. Skasa usually uses a ground pound after stunning targets with Shriek.
• Twister juggles and causes water elemental damage. If you have poor water resistance, expect to be juggled to death if you are hit at the start of the attack.

• When Skasa reels his head backwards towards the top left of the screen, or if you notice the room starts to darken, run towards him (under his head) immediately to avoid Ice Age.
• Ice Age CAN and WILL wipe out the entire party within one attack.

• Once you have memorised all his attacks, all you have to do is to be patient and attack when Skasa is not attacking. Do not let your guard down even if he only has one or two bars of life left, or you might be hit unexpectedly and potentially die instantly. Be on full alert at all times and only relax when Skasa drops dead at your feet.

• Skasa IS affected by hitstun, even though it's barely noticable. It's possible for a party of four extremely fast attackers who know what they're doing to stunlock him / slow down his attacks.