Golden Sun: The Lost Age - Dullahan (Optional) Boss Battle

What can I say about this? Probably the most difficult battle in the entire game series! It took me 2 attempts to get it right the first time! Now with my third attempt as a recording, this battle turned out to be a delicious victory!
Felix and his party returns to Contigo after obtaining every djinni. They even managed to defeat the other super bosses who guarded one of the last four summon tablets, and now the last summon tablet, Iris, awaits within the inner walls of Anemos Sanctum. Felix and his party activates the door to its inner dungeon by placing all of their djinn spirits and power into the heart of the sanctum. The great door opens, and the exploration begins...
Of course, every dungeon has its own puzzles and traps, so this dungeon is expected to be like the rest of the others; however, every psynergy acquired throughout the first game and the second game are required before the player wishes to move on. Quite frankly, the Lift psynergy and Sand psynergy are used throughout the entire whole half of the dungeon.
The last room is where Dullahan awaits at the end of the room, waiting for your approach. Using the Hover psynergy, Felix and his party ride on top of a flying ancient tomb that carries across the room to Dullahan. Within moments, the battle against the strongest boss begins, and there's no turning back...
Please note that my party composes of level 54s with the exceptions of Felix and Jenna who are level 55s. I made a slight arrangement on djinn in order to suppress Dullahan. Felix is a Ronin. Isaac is a Protector. Both Mia and Sheba are Pure Mages. Both of them will be the healers of the battle, so don't lose them! The battle is definitely worth watching!

[@KABNWA]

I shit my pants the first time i fought this guy

[@phathomie27]

So apparently using a djinn to seal its psynergy works 100% of the time. With dullahan's psynergy sealed, you're spared the onslaught of being cursed, avoid djinn storm, and avoid Charon. Formina Sage and True Collide are still deadly, but with skill you can overcome them. Appreciate the upload; now I'm gonna beat dullahan the proper way without summon rushing

[@johnbuck4395]

As a kid I always wondered why the battle text would say the Dullahan "uses" Charon while for the player the text would read "### summons" the spirits. And I never knew you can seal this f***er; I remember Psyenergy is "cast" but I didn't know sealing Dullahan prevents it from using Charon. Looking back I figured it mightve been just a translation error (I had the American GBA GS games) so I assumed you have to simply endure that attack.

[@milesedgeworth3667]

Its the summon rushers that get hit with Charon and Crusibles

[@amigohonkanen]

Finally got that bastard down without summon spam! I had my usual single type djinn classes and had Isaac spam Megiddo with unleash-chance boosting equipment, others just healing and buffing him. Took about two hours but it was worth it.

[@tygrenvoltaris4782]

Damn

[@carolsymphony9673]

Whenever I use this strategy, he spams Charon instead of Formina Sage...

[@18idlesuggest]

I know I'm 4 years late but I'll share my experience. So after playing around with GSTLA editor (im kind of cheating but eh) I noticed, there are multiple Dullahans, same with Sentinels and Valukars, (not Star Magician though) each of them had different attack patterns of 8 abilities. So I only assumed once he's finished with one pattern, he moves on to the next, one of the patterns does not contain Charon, Curse, Condemn and Break. So the strategy here is, if you keep sealing him, he's forced to keep staying in that pattern. Don't let him break free from the seal otherwise, he will move to a pattern that has dangerous abilities. Just endure the first few moves. If you keep getting the same outcomes, change a few moves until you've forced him into the pattern loop.

[@KING_LINK]

Same

[@BoltTheEmolga]

I know am also super omega late to this, but as an explanation - while Dullahan’s attack pattern is completely preset, where he starts in that pattern is random. It’s an 8-turn loop, but when Psynergy Seal ends, it returns him to where he was in that pattern instead of at the start of the whole loop. So you want to wait until the turn he does these moves before sealing him, and you can tell where you are from what the turn before was.

[@degenerateremover1776]

Never knew you can cheese your way out of Dullahan. I usually take him via brute force.

[@danetdeleon3536]

Forreal though, i never even knew this was possible.

[@forestlink6673]

A good strategy sealing his psynergy , never think of this when i was a kid

[@LemGambino]

Wow, I had no idea you could break his AI loop like this...It's cheesy, but it works!

[@Plasmis29ml8]

It's definitely the programming of the AI. There is a specific order or sequence of moves Dullahan is set to. Now if a player is controlling Dullahan, then it'll be a difficult boss to overwhelm!

[@Illursan08]

Yep

[@Plasmis29ml8]

It's okay. It takes a while to figure out ways to beat Dullahan. We can't expect to defeat a superboss on our first attempt.

[@Taleeful]

00:55 most badass spell concept ever...

[@pablo_costas]

I managed to beat him twice by brute force I believe, my team was lvl 47 avg I would say, transfering my data from golden sun 1. This video gave me thrills, what a great game.

[@galloviking4766]

I really appreciated the arena in Golden Sun 2. It made going after the endgame summons worth it, as there would be more occasions to use them against hard as nails rematches!

[@OneColdRepublican]

all I kept thinking through this entire battle was "Man all these cool flashy effects would be AWESOME fraymotifs"

[@cell20711]

Glad I found this video because it made fighting Dullahan much more manageable for me. Beat him with everyone at level 42 without summon rushing. Thanks!

[@VictorAmarante]

Tried the same strategy: nuked with Charon -.-

[@hiokiryuuhei4714]

A bit late to reply, but well... in fact it depends of which pattern he begin the fight with. It can require multiple try vefore working but once he's in the right one, he'll never use it, nor Djinn Storm (He'll sort of "skip it") , making him much easier to defeat.

[@novustalks7525]

You make him look easy ! He’s near impossible!

[@megadeth1539]

Beat him in my first try surprisingly haha, must've been incredibly lucky.

[@dazzlemasseur]

Or lvl 99

[@SymphonySinger]

This is really cool! When I first played this game, I loved fighting all the bonus bosses except for Dullahan! I could not find a way to beat him except through summon-rushing, but I always felt that there had to be a better way. While I knew that djinn could always seal the Psynergy of a boss, I had no idea that Djinn Storm and Charon were considered Psynergy for him (or at least were a part of that attack pattern), so I never bothered implementing that strategy. Formina Sage (Fulminous Edge) still hits like a truck, but at least it can be managed. I have managed to beat him by playing strategically and perhaps being a bit lucky, but I had no idea you could save yourself such a headache by forcing his attack pattern like this! Great work! (By the way, love the way you preface this fight in the description. You really set the stage for the fight very well)!

[@A2ZOMG]

You can't actually Psynergy Seal Djinn Storm/Sharron, more like the RNG of Golden Sun is actually one of the most easily broken in real time which is why Dullahan never bothers to move his script into picking those attacks.

[@tagyrt]

You gave Isaac the Sol Blade... Good boy!

[@ronanbeeler6011]

tagyrt my brother give the sol blade to felix

[@-Samus-Aran-]

@0:32 pfft, what are you doing? You can't seal his psynergy. @0:38 *spits out coffee!* holy sh*t you can seal his psynergy!?!?

[@AlqaZen]

I didnt know too back then until i stumble upon this for nostalgia. Always brute forcing through the fight hahah it a long slog

[@VideoMask93]

My strategy was to follow his pattern and keep forcing him to use Djinn Storm first on a turn, then hit him with Ground or Petra to skip that. And meanwhile hammer on him with the Sol Blade and Eclipse summons.

[@poopsplat18]

for yearsive been facinated by the bloodsoaked seal he stands on.. the blood of his older failed rivals? stains of time? looks like a teleport circle but the psynergy doesn't work on it. great vid btw:)

[@leondarrell1]

Incredibly late answer, but I guess it's the sign of Iris

[@phillypb4165]

Wish I had watched a video like this back in the day. The only boss I was unable to beat after numerous attempts

[@18idlesuggest]

So i remembered this strategy and I tried it earlier today... It was going well for a while then he somehow killed Ivan, and broke free of the seals... Man... Even if you cheese him, this SOB finds a way to beat the crap out of you

[@asra-5180]

Just level up to 99. /S

[@Starblitz2891]

I've played this game a whole bunch of times and I never knew about this strategy, but then again I was a kid and didn't know about strategies to beat bosses lol. All I did against Dullahan was a Djinn Summon onslaught and had Mia as my healer while I had Felix and Issac attack and had Ivan doing both damage and power ups.

[@tristanward9937]

Same. Had to beat him in like 3 turns with summon spam or it was over.

[@Plasmis29ml8]

Thanks for watching. If you want more Golden Sun videos, I am planning on doing a walkthrough on Dark Dawn on TS Production channel which is what I created as the new channel for entertainment. Please check that out!

[@lilbricks8037]

you got a link to your other channel

[@IamCanadian3333]

Does the psynergy seal block him from Djinn Storm? Or were you just incredibly lucky?

[@Bceltics9345]

Very nice battle! I must say that the battle was definitely worth watching!

[@abonogoguagua3207]

It's very nostalgic. Im very happy for beating him when i was 14 yo. Even my english is very bad, and it's hard for me to understand the detail lore of the story😂

[@berenerchamion3347]

I probably died like 30 times befoire defeating him. One of the hardest boss of VG i've played with Omega Mark 12 in FF12

[@chrisj9700]

You’re so damn lucky he never used Charon or Djinn Storm!!!

[@GóesMeEngravida]

He can't because he has the Psynergy sealed

[@dazzlemasseur]

It's not really dullahan if he doesn't use his full set of moves. I found many ways to shield myself from djinn storm For example it doesn't affect dead character You can use 2 set of resist and armor up at the beginning of the fight so none of his moves can one shot you. Use haze to dodge djinn storm on your most important character. There's also the flash - shade - granite + Petra - ground Strat so he basically can't move or hurt you. Trying a strategy that is sure to win is kind of boring Trying to come back from a tight spot and surviving and beating him is way more satisfying.

[@crocs_n_socks]

Just like Deadbeard in GS 1 just seal psynergy with Djinn and fisically protect, then you are done.

[@sansthedevil]

deadbeard is pretty weak compared with him, i didnt used any summon or djinn at all and all my team was around the level 28-30

[@GóesMeEngravida]

Que sorte a sua por conseguir usar o rugido da Excalibur 3x. Amo essa espada bem mais que a Sol Blade.

[@WhiteHairSupremacy]

Okay I might actually get to 100 monster fights in arena without breaking my streak with this.

[@PRpride20]

There was this fire djnn that I used that would give me this super shield were for the next turn all damage done to my party would be in the single digits. I went in with as many summons as I could and tried to spam that djnn as much as possible. Sure some of my characters would die every once in a while. bombarding him with the summons did enough damage for me to cheese the rest of the fight. Hella tough battle. Good memory's

[@Augurk6]

djinn storm is a monster skill, so almost nothing will stop it. except using haze.

[@SteelTiamat]

And whenever I try this BAM! I get Djinn Storm'd in my face :/

[@freyafanboy]

A very interesting strategy, a little boring but very safe. Well played!

[@Link340]

Geez, I wish my Issac could activate Megiddo as many times as yours did. It's like every time he attacked, it activated.... Dullahan is a bad ass though...

[@ronanbeeler6011]

Link340 the sol blade has a 95% chance to summon

[@stazzy5858]

Ronan Beeler bullshit, its only 35%. I bet he was using the Unleash incrase set up though. Mythril helm + Valkyrie or Mythril Clothes + Riot Gloves + Hyper Boots which makes your unleash rate go up to 99%

[@traviseshleman1181]

I have a tendancy to over-level in a lot of games, and honestly, I believe it's necessary for me to over-level before fighting Dullahan, so what level should my team be around? Cause I'll probably go a few more levels higher.

[@FIDEL_CASHFLOW_]

The official strategy guide recommends at least level 55 for each party member but I got up to level 80 and still had a hard time brute forcing him.

[@Sebastian0191]

Por qué nunca usó djinn storm ni charon?, esas dos habilidades son mas que me han hecho perder 😢

[@MANJYOMETHUNDER111]

Fuck that I just summon spammed to win.

[@killer500226]

same, just used that dude who fires missiles that show up a few turns later and do a fuckload of damage

[@MANJYOMETHUNDER111]

Daedalus?

[@killer500226]

Yeah

[@jasirmills582]

Same! XD fuck trying to fight him legitimately.

[@preda505]

Jasir Mills Djinni storm is an unfair move anyway considering he attacks 3 times a turn

[@ticklemetanner888]

cant someon3 make an alternate where agatio karts saturos and menardi are together vs Vale niggas?

[@amigohonkanen]

..Aaand forgot to mention my team was lvl. 70 or something. :)

[@fireadept007]

Just beat this on my 10 year anniversary run :)

[@IamCanadian3333]

You're right, except I've actually noticed a few times, once you get the whole psy-seal/re-set djinn/repeat thing going, for some reason he doesn't seem to do it. I don't know if it's something in the programming.

[@GoreTorn16]

I recently streamed all of Goldensun 1 and 2 on my Twitch channel ( www.twitch.tv/gore_torn )after beating the game 10 years ago. This SOB Dullahan still gave me a whoopin. Now that I learned this strat, I will have to go back at another time and beat Dullahan. Thanks for the upload!

[@IamCanadian3333]

Thank goodness for psynergy seal :P

[@luismiguelguerramesa3130]

thanks friend, it was very complicated but I made it

[@joshuafoote5144]

I felt like I did well against him for a first try.

[@aaronid23]

So is it impossible to beat dullahan without locking his psynergy?

[@ultrafly100]

The opposite. Dullahan is dangerous because of Djinn Storm, Formina Sage, and Charon, none of which are Psynergy.

[@preda505]

ultrafly100 The seal on his psynergy here is to abuse his cycle and make him skip moves

[@6vturbo538]

i never lock his psynergy. just put all your dijins at red and spam summons. can't remember which ones did the most damage, but there's couple that do a lot of damage so just spam those and keep using ply or whatever multi heal skill and i think he dies in no time. what this guy is doing is just prolonging the fight for no reason.

[@preda505]

6V turbo You either learn his patern and make him skip moves by locking his psynergy or using djinnis like ground, or you just summon rush him, either way this just shows how that boss is an unfair piece of garbage

[@trinityonmob9108]

Dat name I just bought lots of mist potions and kept using djinns that stalled him while doing two summons per turn

[@sansthedevil]

this guy is sturdy as fuck, got rekt so many times that i had to look if its even possible to beat him with a team under the lvl 50

[@sansthedevil]

omg i just won against him, and he didnt fainted any of my team, actually the most damaged was sheeba which lost 200 hp, i just did the luff + flash + rime combo and it became so fucking easy, it took me some time but finally! lol

[@ronanbeeler6011]

I can beat the doom dragon but hard to beat this guy

[@billygreteq9951]

And its not even hard mode buddy

[@preda505]

Billy Greteq Hard mode don't change much for Dullahan since there is the hp cap if i'm not mistaken

[@marus8368]

Yeah, he get's about a few hundred extra hit points before he hits the cap.

[@invaderzim3745]

what are the best characters to use in this game plz reply.

[@preda505]

shadowlord mcgill None, it's just about how what djinnis you decide to give them and what gear, it's more about composition than individual characters

[@r.d.drowned9332]

I just summon rushed, somehow it worked

[@blackcero5632]

It's the Best choice to actually win ,Stalling Against Dullahan is a pretty Bad idea.

[@Ketchi000]

Peh. This battle is so much harder in Dark Dawn... You can't stop his summoning or his Djinn Storm (even with psynergy blocking) and he deals more damage to you. Oh yes, and not to mention that he'll use your own standby djinn to perform summons against you (such as meteor), which is avoidable, but still completely prevents summon spam. It took a 2 hour battle for me to beat that guy (level 45-50 party), and it only took me a few seconds to choose my moves.

[@X30ANeoFreedom]

In dark dawn he actually follows a scripted move rotation if you memorize it you can use djin that freeze him for one attack and he will move on to the next move in his rotation

[@TMNG-oc5tz]

What were the djinni given to the adepts

[@davidk4862]

Can you fight him after finishing the game or before the finale

[@spvcediver]

David kola before, if you finish the main game it will start from the beginning.

[@fishofgold6553]

@@spvcediver Hold on, I thought that if you save after finishing the game, you get a 'Clear Data' file and are unable to play the story mode with it.

[@spvcediver]

Fishofgold6 If you save after finish, you’ll get a clear game and will start with your party with the same level and items from your last playthrough. You’ll need to collect all djinns again in order to fight Dullahan.

[@fishofgold6553]

@@spvcediver In all my years of knowing and playing the GS games, I had no idea you could do that. I seem to remember it not being possible to play Story Mode with Clear Data files...I'll have to double-check that!

[@spvcediver]

Fishofgold6 I believe this is only possible in The Lost Age but not in the first GS.

[@lilbricks8037]

is it possible you havent use your djinns to keep him from using djinn storm

[@VideoMask93]

lilbricks8037 Nope. He has a fixed cycle of attacks.

[@lordgiles1841]

Pretty awesome

[@jorgedelgado5292]

WTF, I didn’t know his Djinn storm and Charon were Psyenergy based attacks and not special crits or moves. Shit

[@A2ZOMG]

They can't actually be sealed. The reason this strategy works is because of extreme RNG abuse. Golden Sun has one of the most exploitable RNG scripts in all of RPG gaming which can be manipulated for things like guaranteed rare item drops and enemy actions.

[@sin6617]

Beat this shit without guides when it first came out. I was 7 years old lol

[@Glitcher2000]

Why are you obsessed with sealing Dullahan's psynergy? That actually makes the battle HARDER for you, because his psynergy moves are comparatively harmless to his enemy abilities like Formina Sage.

[@farout_tech]

Dullahan's attack pattern follows a preset list. As such, my take is that by binding its psynergy it skips ahead on that list, causing it to skip the more dangerous stuff like Djinn Storm and Charon.

[@Glitcher2000]

That doesn't make sense. Sealing Dullahan's Psynergy will only skip moves like Break while increasing the chance of him using moves like Djinn Storm and Charon.

[@farout_tech]

Glitcher2000 I'm well aware of those being monster skills, but the thing is that if you manipulate Dullahan's use of Break psynergy (in this case, by binding it), he will effectively alter his use of moves. This way if you know his next move would be Djinn Storm, you could just stop it with Petra/Ground. Would have to dig deeper into how his AI behaves while binded, though.

[@Glitcher2000]

So why not just skip the Psynergy seal entirely and focus on preventing Dullahan's use of dangerous monster moves with Ground and Petra? Isn't that logical?

[@farout_tech]

Glitcher2000 Well, Dullahan can cast Bind, Condemn (fairly low success, but chance of instant death regardless) and (less dangerously) Curse. If your strategy revolves around casting heals and buffs every turn it could potentially lead to some very rough times. In all likely hood though, the player probably just got lucky.

[@shupputful]

This battle is not that hard, just a bit of luck with summon timming (if he fucks your djinns when you are about to spam summons ----> reload). Poseidon can be hardest than this if you are not enough leveled, if you reach Dullahan means you are absolutely full items and djiins, so your summons deals tons of damage

[@1985stout]

This battle isn't even remotely fair............!!!!!!!

[@VideoMask93]

He has a set cycle. You can actually force him to skip Djinn Storm, which makes the fight long but beatable.

[@gabrieleminardi4215]

How much hp does he have total this badass ?

[@VideoMask93]

16,000.

[@blackcero5632]

In Hard mode he gets a slight bonus of HP: 16.383 but his Attack increases from 676 to 845 so the Fulminous Blade pretty much Murders You

[@gabrieleminardi4215]

@@blackcero5632 i beat this guy a year ago, i just summon rushed him and after a good 30 tries i got it 🤣

[@jjlopez0016]

Forgot 1 thig....I HATED WHEN HE USES FULIMOUS EDGE (( i think i spell it rite))

[@babyvee7615]

how much health does he have

[@theretrogamingnerd3316]

16,000 HP, and at the end of every turn he gains an extra 200 HP.

[@jjlopez0016]

Ya couple days later i beated dullahan 1st time but i forgot to save the game and 2nd time i beat him again shit what a hard ass i say to myself im not going beat dullahan again includin in the link battle becuz he kept summon charon and uses dijnni storm that my nigga gets me pissed off so for today im not goin beat him honesty im not

[@willfdz]

this boss was the most hard i ever fight against a nintendo character, remembering use mia spaming pure wish all day and then ,fucking dullahan just use formine sage and whip your ass out , then u should put your hopes in second party (but second party sucks xD)

[@MrFury559]

I call Hax; Always got a critical hit?

[@Number45I]

if you mean the unleashes of the weapons (Megiddo and Legend), it's not really hacks. it's really simple actually. all you have to do is have equipment that boosts your critical hit rate, such as the Hyper Boots, Warrior's Helm, and Mythril Helm.

[@PhazonSpear]

Ebon Flare According to the wiki, with the Riot Gloves, Valkyrie Mail, Mythril/Warrior's Helm, and Hyper Boots, Issac/Felix have a 99% chance of Unleashing Megiddo (Riot Gloves adding 20% each, and the Helm and Boots adding 12% each tl the Unleash Rate. Sol Blade has the standard 35% Unleash Rate)

[@Gamerdude535]

No Hax at all. With a full set of crit/unleash rate increasing equipment you can achieve a very high unleash rate

[@Plasmis29ml8]

No problem!

[@Echidnai]

This boss is overrated.