EASY Way to defeat NEMESIS: Slow Mo Breakdown Boss Guide Biome 3 | Returnal

If you're having trouble defeating Nemesis, the third boss of Returnal in the Derelict Citadel, the 3rd biome, here is a very easy-to-follow guide that breaks down every single one of his attacks so you can know how and when exactly you can evade or counter and take a lead in the battle!
0:00 Intro
0:04 Phase 1 Nemesis
1:22 Phase 2 Nemesis
3:07 Phase 3 Nemesis
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[@johnc8639]

Thank you!!!! I beat him in one try. Much appreciated. Your the best

[@security444]

Having immense trouble with this boss ! Will try your way ( when i get to this level again )

[@edgarsneilands8535]

Nice guide Abyx! Big like dropped!

[@AbyxGaming]

Thanks my man!

[@LukasRDW]

Great video. Got it first time. Thanks.

[@AbyxGaming]

Congrats on completing the first Act!

[@FNEvents01]

Man, you are the best, really, thank you very much

[@omarmahmood7128]

This boss guide is amazing. Another tip. If you get a high level Rotgland Lobber (mine is level 14). Use it. Even in phase 3. I dismantled Nemesis. I say that after he demolished me 5 times.

[@AbyxGaming]

Thanks for sharing this tip! The Rotgland is amazing!

[@omarmahmood7128]

@@AbyxGaming pleasure. I should be thanking you! Nemesis beat me down so many times...

[@AbyxGaming]

It is an amazing boss fight! (The best in the game for me), but the first tries are just so frustrating!

[@burrito16]

thank you, finally kill him with rotglang lobber

[@omarmahmood7128]

@@burrito16 a year later, I'm glad someone is enjoying this game and that I gave a decent tip that helped. Awesome work! The fight is spectacular.

[@egkaitouni]

Thanks man

[@christoffersjostrom4555]

Thank you so much! Been doing this for hours and days. Just knowing you could shoot from a distance in the final phase helped a LOT!

[@AbyxGaming]

Congrats on completing this Act Christoffer! Good luck with the next!

[@Tactical_wulf5.56]

God save your soul if you end up fighting him with the spit maw, rotgland lobber, or the other grenade launcher (forgot the name of the red one) that last phase was a pain in the ass with those weapons

[@JD_Drew]

Awesome TY man

[@AbyxGaming]

Happy to help!

[@gargaj]

The X-beam was giving me a lot of trouble until you pointed out that it's possible to just stay on the platform and move away - thanks!

[@nathanjackson8233]

Thank you 🙏 thank you very helpful I tried 3 time already with extra health I think my gun was not good enough I am going to try again but I kinda gave 🆙 but I really like this game

[@joonakankainen9352]

So this is the next boss fight 😅 First time I don't try it myself before watching a video. I don't want to lose my progress on this run.

[@tim7076]

Wow makes boss 1 and 2 look like a cake walk.

[@willsmith2491]

Has anyone used a Hollowseeker to beat him? I have a level 13 with waves and serrated projectiles. It shredded through every enemy in the 3rd Biome. I want to have faith in it for Nemesis 😂

[@AbyxGaming]

I'm trying to remember and I used it a couple of times and it wasn't that great in the last phase but perfect for the first 2. Honestly, I suck pretty bad at aiming. You've got this!

[@MHassan1986]

So I guess I have to complete the biomes completes to get the weapon proficiency high enough, Max I was doing was 9 at best because I was running to this boss asap without covering the entirety of biomes to get my WP high.

[@pancer27]

Prepared a lot for this one... Got like 200% hp and my mf astronaut gave me just like 30% of hp back. Sick.

[@sarges1712]

glad I decided to watch this video beforehand. I would've been hosed going in blind. Spent all of last night scouring Biome 1 and 2 then called it quits before this boss; just knew I didn't have it in me that late. First try, thanks to this video, I knocked him off his pedestal and brought Selene back to her new reality.

[@AbyxGaming]

Congrats on completing the first Act!

[@stevenanthony8]

This guide did it for me! You are a legend. For others still struggling. For me the key was being at level 15 proficiency(MAX!). This felt like the end game because within an hour I defeated boss 4 😂

[@Masterr-K]

Is there a way to change the difficulty on yours, because on my play through they keep lighting the platform on fire in phase 1 and 2? I don't see any platforms being lit on fire in yours.

[@SuRGeoNofDeaTH.]

If you manage to deliver good damage you will not see fires in platform. You lack dmg or you chose the wrong weapon. But even with the worst weapon you can beat Nemesis. Proficiency at least 10, choose either the Hollowseeker or the missile one, same as this guy used. Rotgland could be a good choice also. Phase 2 is the tricky one. Phase 3 is fun platforming xD.

[@itsmerusty9669]

Just beat it first go!! I can't even believe it. Most stressful fight so far haha

[@Thatwinebloke]

I thought the flying boss was hard now this ill have to take a break before I engage this beast -_-

[@dontayz99]

FINALLY BEAT THE MFER THANK YOU

[@AbyxGaming]

Congrats on that victory!!

[@grahamkelly8662]

Phase 1 & 2 look very easy but phase 3 looks almost impossible. I just know I’m going to mess up on jumping to new platforms and die on this part many times. 😭

[@benshapiroisgay]

1000000% watching that phase three I’m like “I actually might not be able to do this lmao.

[@grahamkelly8662]

@@benshapiroisgay good news. I beat this boss, easy on first try. Phase 3 is very easy. Just keep using the grappling hook to dodge boss attacks and keep shooting in between. I was under the impression that if you fall for too long, there’d be no more platforms to jump to and you’d die but I was wrong. You’ll never run out of platforms to jump to.

[@miketatum9321]

Nice video but it would be better with audio commentary

[@grahamkelly8662]

On phase 3 will platforms keep coming, if u miss 1? Or if you wait too long, you can’t jump up and fall to death?

[@AbyxGaming]

They keep coming.

[@grahamkelly8662]

@@AbyxGaming thanks 🙏

[@Seb01011]

Thanks for the very useful video! But how can you get hit that many times and lose so few integrity?

[@AbyxGaming]

Hi! I'm thinking it was maybe that I had high damage protection. (If I remember correctly)

[@Gallyga]

Is this post 1.004 patch? They ramped up the difficulty a lot and it’s doing my head in as all the Yt videos don’t represent the actual fight any more.

[@AbyxGaming]

This video is from 3 weeks ago. Don’t really know the patch date. Sorry.

[@Gallyga]

@@AbyxGaming I should have seen. The patch dropped last week. Your guide is great, but unfortunately isn’t much help now. It’s so much harder now. For example, in Phase 2 the 2 side dudes form a barrier either side of you and Nemesis fires bullet hell down the middle. It’s insane. I realise you spend a lot of time and effort on these videos, but any chance you could take another look at the boss?

[@AbyxGaming]

Ohhhh I see. I was going to come back to the game on July to do some final guides, but this revision would probably be the last one. In the meantime, I would recommend the auto repair artifact / parasite. That saved my ass on my very first try! Let me know if you manage to complete it before I come back to the game :)

[@Gallyga]

@@AbyxGaming I’ve put the game into rest for a couple of days until I get past my 2nd covid jab reaction, but where I left it (at the boss entrance) I had 259% health, 4 small and 1 large health packs and 14 proficiency so if I don’t do it I may have to give up on the game lol. Look forward to your next set of videos in July, you really helped with that second boss so. (And if you do have the time, have a 2nd crack at the new B3 boss just to see the difference!)

[@Gallyga]

Ok there must be variations to the bosses in their move set because I just kicked his ass on that play thru and he didn’t pull out the tunnel bullet hell move at all. It was just like your video so…shrug?

[@memoryb0x]

Hey bro what weapon and traits was this?

[@AbyxGaming]

Hey man! Sorry for the late late reply. This was a rocket launcher with full auto unlocked.

[@grahamkelly8662]

See when you jump back , fall a bit and grab next ledge. Are you doing this on purpose? Or you messing up? The timing has to be so precise. I’m bit worried about this fight.

[@AbyxGaming]

Sometimes it is on purpose and some I screw up LOL :)

[@grahamkelly8662]

@@AbyxGaming at least you got the job done. Love this game but when I die, I get so so mad and pissed. I basically die, swear A LOT and try again. Too addictive. I got ps extra just for this game and I’m glad I did. I will buy physical disc when it’s quite cheap. Deff 1 for the collection. I only beat biome 2 boss, recently. Got the grappling hook, checked that area at start and found it was tower mode and its bloody great. I got to weapon rank 30 something, killed this boss twice, learned loads of weapon upgrades, grabbed all the flowers etc. Have you tried this mode? If so, did you get to visit mother in the hospital? I won’t spoil if you haven’t but it’s fucked up and creepy. I’m actually really shocked that I’ve watched many returnal KZbin vids and not 1 has mentioned tower mode. How great it is and how it’s great for getting weapon rank 25 to unlock the weapon perks.

[@phaseshift2426]

This can be hard on Co-op, because even a small amount of lag can potentially be detrimental.

[@KatanaCobra]

A very helpful video. However, in the 3rd phase, it seemed like he wasn't making enough platforms for me to move forward close enough. I kept grappling spot to spot, only to just...run out of platforms. I had no where to go and was still out of range. To make things worse, because I died from a fall, my astronaut doll only revived me at like 75% health which was bullshit. I'm loving the game but this boss is kind ruining my mojo in trying to progress. Just not a fan of giant boss fights like this in Souls-style games in general.

[@AbyxGaming]

You can shoot him from the distance and still get damage, but you need to be very precise. You've got this!

[@KatanaCobra]

@@AbyxGaming I did it!! Carbine made it easier, plus it felt like he destroyed less platforms this time around, and didn't use his reset move. Thanks dude! 🤘🏻

[@ivanmtzmdc]

@@KatanaCobra awesome!

[@bizmonkey007]

Thanks for the guide. The run up to this boss alone is complete BS. You have to run past an army of enemies just to challenge this guy.

[@khuntington]

i've tried for 5 hours to beat this boss. i think my game is broken cause i can't make hardly any sort of damage with a 14 weapon on the 3rd phase. the first 2 phases are somewhat managable, i get to the 3rd phase and i'm just tickling him. like i'm hammering at him for like 5 minutes straight and he only loses 1/8th of his health.

[@AbyxGaming]

Hey K. What weapon are you usually using for this one?

[@khuntington]

@@AbyxGaming i finally got him. finally, what i was using was a hollowseaker 14 with wave, and serrated projectile. i have no idea why but it was just taking an eternity to knock down his health.

[@andrewlurito5660]

i got up to nemesis after my first death ever and just died now :/

[@BigboostedC5]

How are you guys getting to the boss fight so easily and so leveled up?? It's hard cuz it takes so much time just to get to the boss and then die and gotta get all the way there again...

[@chill_kill18gaming86]

You just really got to think how you play, I've just got to this boss and I'm max on everything and haven't died yet, thought not sure how the fight is gonna go down yet haha

[@benhayes9473]

Theres a full auto mod for the launcher?

[@AbyxGaming]

Yes!

[@henryhaynes2147]

Resident Evil is typing...

[@suyogkhadilkar]

It's so much easier with the carbine...

[@harshitrakhiani8833]

Bro which gun are u using?

[@AbyxGaming]

That's the rocket launcher. I forgot the name. It has full auto mod.

[@harshitrakhiani8833]

@@AbyxGaming okk bro..and where can I find auto health repair parasite?

[@AbyxGaming]

It's a matter of luck, really. There is also an artifact named Emergency Repairs that does the exact same function. Keep an eye for it in case you can buy or or craft it.

[@harshitrakhiani8833]

@@AbyxGaming actually iam at biome 3. ..how can I easily clear this? Please help...and do we have to always grind in biome 1 and biome 2? Or rush thru biome 1 shortcut and go in direct biome 3 with less upgrades?

[@AbyxGaming]

I have another video in my Returnal Playlist where I explain how to counter each enemy. Give it a look. You don't need to re-run biomes 1/2. You can short cut.

[@sthlmsSouth]

This game is so fuckd up when you think about it. Sooo unforgiving

[@TravisRiver]

Your weapon is doing so much damage 😭

[@DarkLionn83]

This boss has kicked my ass 😒 still I can't beat him

[@rzr__]

This was easiest Boss with combine rifle and proper jukes, thanks for tutorial bro, completed him first time I encountered him 😁

[@Teckie1000]

I was lucky to beat this boss on my first try with a lvl.8 Tachyomatic Carbine with (Bonus Damage 6)

[@OnatGG]

thats what u call easy?

[@AbyxGaming]

As easy as this game allows !

[@BlaBlaBlaPA]

i died 5+ times only at 1st boss . the rest are easy ...did it in my 1st try all of them

[@cured_bacon647]

Dying 5 times is beating the game on your first try, numbnuts

[@captaincrunch1707]

Hate this game quite a bit more than I love it. Glad others enjoy it but what a convoluted grind fest

[@nick2788]

Yeah the random shit can really fuck you its harder to get to the boss then not but this game has made me rage so hard haven’t been irritated like this at a game since I was a teenager I am stuck in this boss and it’s fucking irritating as fuck

[@cured_bacon647]

It’s not convoluted or a grind fest. Git gud

[@nick2788]

@@cured_bacon647 you are responding to the guy above I love the game but sometimes you do get fucked with the rgb

[@outlawsouljaa]

@@nick2788 rng

[@nick2788]

@@outlawsouljaa red blue green yo

[@NoneofyourBusiness-ii1ps]

You're pretty bad at this... I beat this one with only take 2 hit the entire fight, you took like 20...

[@isaacclark3583]

slow clap