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This guide will help you through the final boss of the game, the Valk Emperor in his second form. I admit, I lost a few times to him before I found a strategy which makes him easy. Like, easier than other Megacs in the game.

This fight isn't that hard! You just have to come up with a strategy to beat him, and I'm sure there are plenty of other ways than mine. By reading this guide you will take the fun out of developing such a strategy by yourself! Reading this might bring up ideas for you for your own strategy, but then it wouldn't have been solely by your amazing brain juices. I highly suggest finding a way for yourself, since it is much more fun!

His first form is the same strategy as with every other Megac: learn his pattern, conter the pattern, beat him to a shiny metal pulp. The shield is your best friend in this one.

We're gonna focus on his second form, which you can see in the title image. It is a huge robot, which in itself has two stages, but the second is only slightly more difficult.

Some might not want to read much. If you're one of them, read this spoiler for a really short version with a lack of information:
Be close to him at all times during his first armor. Each close attack can be dodged with a double jump over his head to his back. Then attack him until he attacks again, and dodge that, and so on. When the first armor is destroyed, hit the blinking parts of his skeleton (will appear after a few seconds) until he puts on his second armor. Shield or reflect his missiles in his flying attack if he does it, by standing further away from him and using the shield on the few missiles that will target you. When he's not doing this attack, repeat the same dodge-attack as before until he's dead.

First I shall present some facts to you:

• He will kill you with less then 5 hits.
  
• Between each attack of his is the time to strike him. This time window is ~2 seconds long.
  
• Don't even try to shield his punches. It's almost certain death. For you. Which is bad.
  
• No special gear/build is needed.
  
• His body parts are only for decoration; they serve no purpose in the strategy to beat him, and sadly you can't obtain them.

The first step is to get close to him.
When you enter the stage you are at a certain distance from him. Whenever you are away from him, he will launch his ranged attack, which is a few blue bullets at first, then a few target seeking missiles. You can shield these and reflect the missiles if you like, or just dodge them. Right after this first attack of his, run up to him and invade his personal space. It doesn't matter if you're under his chin, under his tail, or between his legs (hurr), but be as close to him as possible.

The second step is punching his first armor off while avoiding his attacks.
By "first" armor" I mean all the parts on him.

Here comes the most important part for the whole fight: dodging him. After his first ranged attack, he waits ~2 seconds for his next attack, and after that he waits 2s again and so on.
As soon as he leaves his idle animation after these 2s and starts his attacking animation: jump! You can avoid every close combat attack of him by doing a double jump over him to his side opposite from where he looked at. You may even attack him while you're landing from your double jump. Just be sure that you are not on the side where he was looking at, or you will take a hit.
And then, when you're landed, attack him for 2s while he's in his standing animation. Attack all the colored parts of his armor, one at a time, until they break and only his bare skeleton is left. You should be able to break his first armor by double-jump-dodging. A small hint: the upwards-attack was most usefull to me when I attacked him. I was able to do the up-attack on the ground 2-3 times until I had to dodge again.

The third step is breaking his bones! Sorta.
Once his first armor is off, you will not be able to hit him for a while. In this stage, only one certain part of his body may be attackable at a time, which will be signaled by blinking red. It will take some seconds before a part starts blinking. Until then, double-jump-dodge the hell out of him.


When a part blinks, hit it using the same dodge-attack-pattern as in the second step.


Once the part took enough damage, he will do a short ouch-animation. During that animation you can't hurt him, so just stand there or dry-hump him or something. After that he will attack again. Wait for the next blinking part, dodge him, destroy the part, and so on until he puts on his second armor, and by that enters his other second stage. I used "second stage" quite a lot.. but you know what I mean.

The fourth step is punching his second armor off while avoiding his attacks.
It really is the same technique as in the second step. There is only one addition: he can fly now for one attack! But fear not, for I am here to teach you the way!

So basically you dodge and attack, as in the previous steps. However, there is one difference: if he is going up in the air, run away from him, until you're at a 45° angle below him, maybe even further away. He launches a few small and a few huge target seeking missiles.


By standing away from him, you can prevent most of the rockets from targeting you. Just focus on shielding - or even better: reflecting - the two or three small missiles that will target you. After the small missiles have been shielded or reflected, run up to him again. Be careful, as he almost immediately attacks after landing.


His downwards going large missile might come for you at that point, but you can simply shield that one. And then you repeat the same technique as before, by dodging and attacking.

The fifth step is breaking his bones again!
It is the same as step 3, with the addition of dodging his flight move as in step 4. At this point you shouldn't have any problems finishing him off.

And that's it! Simple as that.

On the screenshots you see that I have damage and that he moved, which was because I was taking screenshots with the keyboard and playing with the 360 controller. If you concentrate you can 0% him easily.

This is my first guide here on Steam. I hope you guys put it to good use. :) Megabyte Punch is a hell of a game, bringing the fine things of a fun brawler to us on PC. Thanks to Reptile Games for bringing us this joy! But make your final boss more of a challenge the next time, okay? ;P