What's too damn tall and made of Iron? Everyone's favorite Final Fantasy giant, of course! The Iron Giant is a returning enemy, though 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 16 has given this iron iconic the celebrity treatment and made it a full-blown boss. This encounter will see you square up with the lumbering tin titan, but don't let his relatively slow strikes fool you: what he lacks in speed he makes up for in range.
And as the fight progresses, he even develops a few speedier attacks that may just take you by surprise. Well, they would take you by surprise if you weren't reading this guide, that is. We'll walk you through this metal menace's attacks, weaknesses, and give you a coherent strategy for scrapping this heap of armor.
How To Beat The Iron Giant
The Iron Giant is large and in charge. He's got a number of notable attacks, and, as is the Final Fantasy 16 way, he will really force you to hit those precision dodges.
The table below details all of Iron Giant's attacks - those in italics are named attacks that appear on-screen, so you can look out for them specifically.
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Attack |
Description |
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Lunging Slash |
The Iron Giant will slam their foot down before lunging at you with a v൩ertical s🉐lash. Given the distance it cover𝕴s, this attack is pretty quick, but since it is vertical, lateral movement will beat it easily enough. However, the optimal approach is to land a precision dodge. On occasion, the Iron Giant will perform this slash without the lunging part. |
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Giant Stomp |
The Iron Giant will lift its leg, which will pulsate with electricity, before slamming i✱t down, causing an electrical discharge that will hit all around it. This is a follow-up attack that is tethered to the 🎶Lunging Slash. You will have time to land a few slashes of your sword, but once its foot is level with its head, get ready to dodge away. |
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Spin Slash |
The Iron Gian꧑t toques its body before sp𝔍inning in a circle. The Iron Giant isn't trying to hide anything here; it really twists itself around. Once you see it bend its knee, it is just about to let this giant spinning slash rip. |
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Shield Bash |
The Iron🍨 Giant will raise their shield into the air, it will pulsate with electricity, and then it will thrust the shield forward. This is the follow-up attack for the Spin Slash. Howev♋er, with this one, being close is better, as it will miss you. So, once the Spin Slash is finished, lunge back at the Iron Giant and watch as the shield bash passes over you. |
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Energy Wave |
The Iron Gian🅰t dashes away, gathers energy, and then quickly throws three🔯 fast-moving projectiles at you. Lateral movement will beat⭕ this projectile attack, but we also found it to be an excellent opportunity to land the Heat Wave꧒ Counter. |
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Sparking Charge |
The Iron Giant will coil in place (similar to how it does with the Spin S🎉lash) and then charge at you, dragging its 🐎sword behind it as it rushes forward. This is an attack that the Iron Giant will use once it is below a third of its health. It's a very fast attack; the Iron Giant will be on you in the blink of an e𓆏💫ye. Once you see the sparks start to fly, start moving to the side. |
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Sparking Spin |
𒀰The Iron Giant will spin in place, leaving a trail of sparksꩵ all around it. Much like the charging attack, the Iron Giant will start using this during the last phase of👍 the battle. It is quite 🅰quick, so if you see those sparks, once again, prepare to dodge. |
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Atomic Ray |
The Iron Giant will raise its sword into the ai♔r and charge this at⛄tack. As it does so, flames will appear underfoot and will erupt into an explosion soon after. The best way to deal with the Atomic Ray is to never let it come out. Unload into the Iron GIant as it charges, making sure to dodge the explosions that will appear under you. Just make sure to not dawdle, and you will drain its Atomic Ray gage before it is able to charge the move. As a reward, this will stagger the Iron Giant. If the Iron Giant is able fully ready the Atomic Ray then there is no evading it, just praying that you survive. |
When dea🍃ling with the Iron Giant, your primary concern is going to be its range. This is a boss that can close distance alarmingly quickly and is more than capable of hitting you from half the screen away with its massiඣve sword.
Of course, you do have one giant advantage: many of the Iron Giant's attacks feature some pretty blatant tells, and they aren't typically super quick. So, you will be able to make very good use of Clive's signature ability to deftly dodge.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the Iron Giant's quicker attacks tend to be vertical slashes, which are fairly easy to sidestep. The few horizontal slashes it has in it🍎s arsenal are all quite slow (with one late-battle except🔯ion, at least).
Lastly, if you are curious, the Iron GIants weak spot is its head. So, if you are looking to take advantage of the Eikonic Vulnerability, you'll want to hit it in the dome with attacks like Wicked Wheel.
This battle can be separated into three phases. During the first phase, the Iron Giant will lunge at you with those big attacks. Once it is close, it will use a variety of spins and vertical slashes. It will then retreat so that it can either hurl its Energy Wave projectile at you or lunge at you once again. Look for the Iron Giant's big tells. It will either stomp its foot, torque its body, or gather energy.
If it stomps at a distance, the lunge is coming; if it gathers energy at a distance, the Energy Wave projectile is coming. When up close, if the Iron Giant twists its body up, its Spinning Slash is coming; otherwise, if it is raising its foot slowly, it is about to use its stomp attack.
Make sure to close the distance once the Iron GIant uses the spin attack. The follow-up attack isn't a threat if you are up in the Iron Giant's grill.
The second phase will start once you have the Iron Giant down to half of its health. The Iron Giant will now start charging its Atomic Ray. Now is the time to unload everything you have into this bulky behemoth.
While it readies the Atomic Ray, it will summon flames to erupt under Clive's feet. Just be mindful of these flames. They exp🐬lode after being on the screen for approximately three seconds. So, you have time to get a few slashes in, then dodge away, and then immediately dash back in to unload on it.
If you drain the stamina bar associated with the Atomic Ray charge, you will stop it from ever using the attack and stun it. Make the most of it being Staggered an🤡d unload whatever Eikonic attacks you have ready.
If you don't manage to stop the Iron Giant from readying the Atomic Ray, then you will be hit by an attack that fills in the entire arena are deals massive damage. Your survival depends on you not being cavalier about dis𝔍rupting that attack!
The final phase will begin once the Iron Giant has sustained a considerable amount of damage. It will start to use two attacks that are more troublesome than the others. The Sparking Charge, which replaces its lunge attack, serves the same purpose as the lunge but is much quicker. The Sparking Spin similarly replaces the Spin Slash (and is similarly a superior attack). While both 𒊎of these attacks are pretty potent, the eye-catching sparks both of them produce will help you ready yourself for the necessary dodges. If you nail your evasive maneuvers and keep piling on the slashes, the Iron Giant will fall sooner rather than later.
Upon reducing the Iron Giant to scrap, you'll be rewarded with the following:
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Experience |
50 |
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Ability Points |
100 |
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Gil |
1,800 |
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Spoils |
Fallen Iron x2, Wyrrite x60, Meteorite x2 |