Eigong Boss Fight in Nine Sols (No Damage) & True Ending

Defeating Eigong without taking damage and the true ending to Nine Sols. Given Yi starts the game at level 1 it's no wonder his mentor kicked the shit out of him - it's a challenging (but very fun) final fight!
Arrows were less effective than the usual combo I'd go for so I tried out Enhanced Full Control and found that much more to my liking for this fight.
This took longer than expected from making every dumb mistake imaginable. You can also see a number of screw-ups (missing with talismans) and getting nervous in P3 when I stopped parrying the third slash. But hey, it's finally over.
Nine Sols is an incredible Metroidvania and I'd highly recommend playing it.
0:00 Eigong Fight
4:24 Ending
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[@scuppo]

This boss really put all your skills to the test. This night be the Genichiro/Isshin esque final fight

[@CrankyTemplar]

It's an incredibly well-done fight. Frustrating as hell when you miss a precise parry though with how long the fight is but exciting when it all comes together.

[@hollowcube8724]

Congrats on this boss, I absolutely adore this fight, the difficulty spike is insane, but learning all of her patterns is incredibly fun. Amazing job mastering this fight, extremely well done! I hope you enjoyed this game as much as I did, as it’s easily one of the best games I’ve ever experienced!

[@CrankyTemplar]

I had a blast with it. I delayed on it knowing it would take a while to get through because I'm bad at parry-focused games (and need a hefty amount of practice to "git gud") but I was definitely excited for it, especially after having completed it. I'm really hoping Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus is similarly great next month.

[@hollowcube8724]

@@CrankyTemplar I hope so too! I’m definitely looking forward to that game coming out!

[@allhailderpfestor4839]

The only complaint i have on this fight is either boss or you just dies when music is about to kick off in last phase lmao.

[@CrankyTemplar]

Yeah, third phase is a bit fast when you know what to do. I did a lot of practice just staying alive in P3 for as long as possible to learn the parries so I did get to hear the awesome music. :)

[@malikhittam1440]

"Hesitation is defeat" ahh bossfight

[@nitrosix3206]

I will never get bored watching people fight this boss, what a boss. Shame the phase 3 track is always cut short though LOL, but good fight! Slightly unrelated fun fact, since you mentioned the arrow. There is a short amount of i frames during the animation of using the bow, and someone had tried beating Eigong with primarily using the cloud piercer Congrats on beating the game!

[@CrankyTemplar]

Thanks! I did see that the bow gave some brief I-frames but I was pretty fond of the thunderburst + talisman explosion combo that worked on a good number of bosses. Not so much with Eigong, although thunderburst would work when she does those big slash shockwaves starting in P2 but I felt the damage boost from going Enhanced Full Control would be better than sticking with Enhanced Qi Blast. Plus I usually preferred cloud piercer if Eigong did stuff like a talisman or orb explosion on the opposite end of the screen.

[@nitrosix3206]

@@CrankyTemplar i definitely find full control to work best against Eigong. The cloud piercer is generally really useful just for the stagger alone I do hope a boss rush is coming soon and hopefully allows to experiment more builds!

[@idril871]

This looks so hard ;-; Great job on the fight! Very satisfying to watch For some reason the ways you dodged his dash attack are pretty funny to me. Everyone can tell it’s playing on the classic “i’m so fast that my attacks only hit you after i’m done”, but then you can just jump over him and completely get out of the way lol. 2:06 explosion stall to dodge it is also a really creative use of its long charge time that i didn’t expect. I’ve been curious: does this fight change at all based on which ending you go for?

[@CrankyTemplar]

I guess my comment was eaten, but I found mid-air stall talisman explosions the safest way to use them (especially for five charges) as you're otherwise very vulnerable to Eigong's talismans or if she uses her dash slash. If you go for the normal ending you only have the first two phases so the fight is easier.

[@idril871]

@@CrankyTemplar ahh i see. Yeah third phase looks brutally hard, especially with the opening 3 slashes. I heard it deals huge damage (even could one shots you?) too, so must be frustrating to learn at first. Wait "she"? Her name (in Chinese) is usually used for male characters so i just assumed he. Oops.

[@CrankyTemplar]

Yeah, Eigong is female. She gives off hard-as-nails granny vibes. I think the 3 slashes if it ends on a red one can take you from full to dead (or very close) but it's very easy to do imprecise parries for them since the first two come close together. A lot of Eigong's big moves like her talisman or orb explosions hit pretty hard and set you on fire.

[@themonadoman116]

peak game peak boss

[@Void-zs2dr]

Why is it a trend that Metroidvanias kill off their main characters at the end of the game?

[@sparchamp2]

It’s fun

[@scuppo]

Seems KZbin deleted my first comment. Samus, Ori and Haiku survived. The Knight from Hollow Knight has a few different endings. So that's debatable. Plus I'm sure they're more Metroidvanias where the main character actually survives

[@absdemo142]

​@scuppo Doesn't Ori die though?

[@technoboop1890]

@@absdemo142 Yup

[@KickstartGaming760]

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