A quick tip- the spider rune is surprisingly useful against a lot of bosses. You can spider rune away from conjonctivius's tentacles if you need breathing room, you can spider rune up the wall to avoid timekeeper's shurikens, you can use it for breathing space against the scarecrow, and if you have the proper mobility, you can spider rune to escape the crystal rain from the giant and hop back to the arena. The concierge, mama tick, and HotK all have no walls(save for the spike pits for HotK). The collector, oddly enough, is capable of knocking you off the wall. If you're clinging to the wall when his syringe thrust hits it, you'll be stunned for a surprisingly long time. Aside from that, all of his projectile attacks will hit you anyways. I guess it's useful against the enemy waves, but it's better to just kill them. Also, something worth noting- the collector only has four rooms, the first one, the enemy one, the spike wall one, and the telescope one. When he's in the first room, he only uses melee attacks(thrust, ground pound, beyblade, etc.). Second room is the enemy spawner, and in the third, he only uses ranged attacks(beams, tornados, bootleg sun). When you return to the first room, he'll summon a spike ball. Every return to this room summons an additional orb(no clue if there's a limit). When you return to the enemy spawner room, he'll summon stronger enemies, like stuff ypu'd see in the Cavern. And when you return to the projectile room, tornados will be at the walls. When he's in the last room, he can use all his attacks, simple enough.
There IS a time limit on the enemy phase however it's reeeally loong also this enemy phase ends not on all enemies dying but all elites dying so there's that
for those who are struggling with conceirge, use traps, it can't jump (in the first 2 phases) so wolf traps will always work, and senew/double-crossbow matic are good for dps and lets you focus on dodging while the turrets deal all the damage for you, just remember to refresh them every now and then. now if you are having trouble on conceirge then you probably still only have no BSC and by extenstion, not many items available to you so i hope this helps!
Another thing if you spartan sandals kick clock master ( or whatever the bosses name is) and keep hitting her the stun won't allow her to move and go the the second phase which gives you the cleanest W of all bosses. Another thing using the pure nail and downward hitting HotK you cheese the boss (trust me it works i beat 2bc with 0 flasks with this strat) Edit: you might want to practice it in the training area
@@racoonpriest6647 Had to try this out in the training area and oh my god you are right, she literally cant attack at all once you get her to one of the walls. However sometimes she will teleport away which makes it a bit scary if you are trying to go for no damage.
@@coolwolf506 no problem i love this game have been playing it for 3 years i like to tell people about cool strats, also you can use freeze bombs on clock master and then retry the stun lock
For the mama tick vertical scythes, you can back up, roll into the attack, and mash parry if you have a shield for an easy counter. Also, if you’re playing tactics and fighting conji, take crow’s foot as one of your mutations, it will destroy the tentacle phase.
6:21 - The shockwave itself can't be parried, as you said, but funny enough, the slam can be parried, which is fun to go for, but it has to be very precise. 6:49 - The right side is a lot safer, as no crystals actually fall down there, so you can just chill if you want a safe fight. You still have to react to other attacks there, but a lot of times, it's much easier than on the left. Also you didn't even mention what happens when all three crystals on each pauldron light up. It may not be a problem on most builds, but low scroll counts and bad builds are a thing even on 4 and 5bc, especially now that so many have reached it with easy frost combos, which simply don't work on him. There are ways to avoid those very easily as well, which might have been worth including. (Lmao ranking the Giant equal to Scarecrow) 18:19 - I can only speak for myself here, because that's how I play, but I don't look for exclamation points at all. I react slightly delayed based on the particles that appear between the beheaded and the boss, and for me that's way easier. For anyone who may not like the exclamation point placement here, as it's very far up the screen, try this instead.
I honestly think the scarecrow would be the hardest boss if it wasn’t for the spoiler boss’ insane health and damage. However, I’ve fought the giant and the spoiler boss much more than the scarecrow (coz the giant gives way better loot and my build tends to be better for the giant), so I feel like if I had more practice with him I would see him as easier
@@justinthyme5263 i hate scarecrow mostly because he is so ... fast. there is never time to get hits in and your hp bar dissapears. ive had good runs against him but i died because i had no time to heal
1:28 That's my biggest gripe with Mama Tick, if you don't use a shield, there is a random chance of not getting the no hit fight, and it's out of players control. That makes me not want to go the morass route a lot of times...It sucks!
If you ever have troubles with collectors' light beam attack where he's in the air, kinda like the librarians. Use the phaser skill. As soon as you see him fly into the air to do the attack, use the phaser skill because it will stun the collector and end the attack.
The time keeper's rapid shuriken throw can be used to your advantage if you have an assault shield (the one that bashes enemies), just dash with the shield once and you deflect every single shuriken, dealing tons of damage
You have inspired me to start playing the game again! I burnt out on maxing out the forge on ps4 and switch around the time when bad seed dlc was released. Guess i'll have to figure out which platform i'll continue on haha
Thanks for saving me from being greedy and figuring out timing with HotK. Had failed two 3BC runs, running out of flasks. After watching your strategy, I beat him without even needing to heal.
I watched this when I was really new to the game and was still struggling with concierge. Mama tic ended up being easier to me for a while because there was actually a guide in here on it 😅
As a kid I got Conjunctivitis in my eyes ALOT, made my summers miserable...so it's personal when I beat the Conjunctivitis Boss, take all these years of suffering you caused me!!!!
At 1:42 during this phase i found that if you have the assault shield you can stop her from ever attacking by hitting her with the assault shield when you see she is about to attack i think this is because the assault shield stuns her cancelling the attack this was how i beat her on my first try
I managed to obtain a hitless victory for the hand of the king and for conjuctivius a for the concierge but not for the others bosses, This video helped alot i will used what i learn today on my next playtrought.
tips: when mama tick changes sides, use the chance to sip out of the health flask if needed, use root grenade on the timekeeper (most attacks of hers are parryable, thats also an advantage), the concierge ignores turrets and death's scythes in first phase are parryable.
This game looks so smooth and easy - when YOU play it, of course, not in my laughable attempts. But I'll be persistent this time. Some day I too will master these dances.
The legendary Symmetrical Lance almost trivialized the 5 BSC fight. Aside from the massive damage making it boss fight viable, it ignores shields, including while he’s healing, so I just kept wailing on him and pushed all the phases at once. It was hilarious.
I just wanna point out, the kings scepter, one of the shovel knight crossover weapons, if so good in so many boss fights, like mama tick u can just walk toward her and spam when she is out of the ground
When I first found this guide, I was actually struggling with the Conceirge and a little offended that you dismissed it right at the beginning. After a couple days of playing and learning to optimize my scrolls, I realized you can basically face tank him with a brutality or survival build, a turret or two, and a shield, only needing a couple parries if any. Then I was like "okay, now I get it."
My main issue with the hand of the king is that he has TONS of health, but im only on 1bc. It takes me forever to get down even a third of his health. You were fighting on 5bc and he had as much health as in the training room. The only reason I can beat him in the training room is because the fight is short, but it really isn't in an actual run.
I don't know if it's still in the new patch but, if wear the king costume on console and 5bc if you hard reset on the final cutscene you start back at HOTK without the malaise counter going up and be able to fight the collector again
12:23 I always try to kill worms the last if I have any kind of bomb reflecting weapon because you can deal a L O T of damage to hand of the king with worm's bombs
I usually use wolf trap and sinew slicer/crusher/cleaver against the bosses except the giant and it is pretty effective. If the deployable traps are good, the only thing I need to do is dogde and deal extra damage.
I have figured out that when Mama tick uses her syches against the ground you can just jump up in the air and atack so that you stat up in the air. (sorry for my bad english)
I was actually reading the page on the cocoon on the wiki because I really wanted to unlock it before I reached 5BC and it just dropped the fact that "Can be used to block the downwards light attack from the [spoiler boss]". I was so pissed because prior to that point I had successfully avoided spoiling the boss for myself. Fortunately it doesn't say this anymore though.
For conjunctivius, use the wolf trap and have mutations to cool down your abilities so that you dont have to fight his tentacles and kill him flawlessly at 5 boss cells
when fighting the time keeper, on my first try, i just put as much scrolls in brutality as i could and got twin daggers and pure nail that do 4k+ damage and just spammed tonics and grenades for the + damage after using a skill and killed it in less than 30s lmao
After fighting him many times, I would say nah. His attacks are much faster than HotK, and there are really no safe spots like the ice platforms in the HotK battle. He hits MUCH harder than HotK also.
Nice vid the edits are wonderful ! Honestly Giant deserves only one star, it's extremely ez to cheese with enough dps and it's even a guaranteed no-hit for me. And there's one thing your guide lack is what weapons/skills and muts to bring in each fights and which colors works best against each boss.
I completely ran thru that first boss of the video with the nucklebuster hammer.i just sat there and went to town.1 hit would stun him.then when he came out of the water you can still just sit there and smack him.
I found out when i was fighting Conjuctivius that if you use wolf traps and do enough damage you can kill him in the first phase and never have to deal with the tentacles
when facing Conceirge... your actually the BOSS in the fight
I really want a guide on him though, I always end up being scummed by the dumb damage aura after being trapped in a corner.
@@durgons749 😏'dead cells concierge no damage'
@@TawnyGryn fair but no
@@durgons749 Y?... it might help with avoiding the red aura
@@durgons749 You can easily dodge the aura attack by rolling
“Due to physics water cannot be parried unfortunately” LOL
A quick tip- the spider rune is surprisingly useful against a lot of bosses. You can spider rune away from conjonctivius's tentacles if you need breathing room, you can spider rune up the wall to avoid timekeeper's shurikens, you can use it for breathing space against the scarecrow, and if you have the proper mobility, you can spider rune to escape the crystal rain from the giant and hop back to the arena.
The concierge, mama tick, and HotK all have no walls(save for the spike pits for HotK).
The collector, oddly enough, is capable of knocking you off the wall. If you're clinging to the wall when his syringe thrust hits it, you'll be stunned for a surprisingly long time. Aside from that, all of his projectile attacks will hit you anyways. I guess it's useful against the enemy waves, but it's better to just kill them.
Also, something worth noting- the collector only has four rooms, the first one, the enemy one, the spike wall one, and the telescope one. When he's in the first room, he only uses melee attacks(thrust, ground pound, beyblade, etc.). Second room is the enemy spawner, and in the third, he only uses ranged attacks(beams, tornados, bootleg sun). When you return to the first room, he'll summon a spike ball. Every return to this room summons an additional orb(no clue if there's a limit). When you return to the enemy spawner room, he'll summon stronger enemies, like stuff ypu'd see in the Cavern. And when you return to the projectile room, tornados will be at the walls.
When he's in the last room, he can use all his attacks, simple enough.
Nice choice of music in the video! Its nice hearing RoR2, BoI, Hades, and ETG music in the same video :))
There IS a time limit on the enemy phase however it's reeeally loong
also this enemy phase ends not on all enemies dying but all elites dying so there's that
for those who are struggling with conceirge, use traps, it can't jump (in the first 2 phases) so wolf traps will always work, and senew/double-crossbow matic are good for dps and lets you focus on dodging while the turrets deal all the damage for you, just remember to refresh them every now and then. now if you are having trouble on conceirge then you probably still only have no BSC and by extenstion, not many items available to you so i hope this helps!
Another thing if you spartan sandals kick clock master ( or whatever the bosses name is) and keep hitting her the stun won't allow her to move and go the the second phase which gives you the cleanest W of all bosses.
Another thing using the pure nail and downward hitting HotK you cheese the boss (trust me it works i beat 2bc with 0 flasks with this strat)
Edit: you might want to practice it in the training area
@@racoonpriest6647 Had to try this out in the training area and oh my god you are right, she literally cant attack at all once you get her to one of the walls. However sometimes she will teleport away which makes it a bit scary if you are trying to go for no damage.
@@coolwolf506 no problem i love this game have been playing it for 3 years i like to tell people about cool strats, also you can use freeze bombs on clock master and then retry the stun lock
You make by far some of my favorite videos to watch, keep up the amazing work
Loving the new approach to editing, made it super easy to follow.
What was new? Haven't seen the others, so I'm just curious.
For the mama tick vertical scythes, you can back up, roll into the attack, and mash parry if you have a shield for an easy counter. Also, if you’re playing tactics and fighting conji, take crow’s foot as one of your mutations, it will destroy the tentacle phase.
6:21 - The shockwave itself can't be parried, as you said, but funny enough, the slam can be parried, which is fun to go for, but it has to be very precise.
6:49 - The right side is a lot safer, as no crystals actually fall down there, so you can just chill if you want a safe fight. You still have to react to other attacks there, but a lot of times, it's much easier than on the left.
Also you didn't even mention what happens when all three crystals on each pauldron light up. It may not be a problem on most builds, but low scroll counts and bad builds are a thing even on 4 and 5bc, especially now that so many have reached it with easy frost combos, which simply don't work on him. There are ways to avoid those very easily as well, which might have been worth including.
(Lmao ranking the Giant equal to Scarecrow)
18:19 - I can only speak for myself here, because that's how I play, but I don't look for exclamation points at all. I react slightly delayed based on the particles that appear between the beheaded and the boss, and for me that's way easier. For anyone who may not like the exclamation point placement here, as it's very far up the screen, try this instead.
I honestly think the scarecrow would be the hardest boss if it wasn’t for the spoiler boss’ insane health and damage. However, I’ve fought the giant and the spoiler boss much more than the scarecrow (coz the giant gives way better loot and my build tends to be better for the giant), so I feel like if I had more practice with him I would see him as easier
Cocoon parries the shock waves for some reason
I discovered this while fighting concierge
@@justinthyme5263 i hate scarecrow mostly because he is so ... fast. there is never time to get hits in and your hp bar dissapears. ive had good runs against him but i died because i had no time to heal
@@Willdroyd yeah he’s really annoying due to his speed but once i got the rhythm going I’m fine
@@Willdroyd Wolf Traps destroy him
1:28 That's my biggest gripe with Mama Tick, if you don't use a shield, there is a random chance of not getting the no hit fight, and it's out of players control. That makes me not want to go the morass route a lot of times...It sucks!
Good deal man, I just hit bc2, and it's really helpful to watch the boss fights before I get there again. Thanks.
Amazing guide! Especially liked the music choice in the conjunctivitis segment!
If you ever have troubles with collectors' light beam attack where he's in the air, kinda like the librarians. Use the phaser skill. As soon as you see him fly into the air to do the attack, use the phaser skill because it will stun the collector and end the attack.
This video made the Hand of the king fight look so easy. I really struggle with it so thanks for the tips
Omg you are awesome!! Those bosses always kick my ass...thanks for the tips
The time keeper's rapid shuriken throw can be used to your advantage if you have an assault shield (the one that bashes enemies), just dash with the shield once and you deflect every single shuriken, dealing tons of damage
You have inspired me to start playing the game again! I burnt out on maxing out the forge on ps4 and switch around the time when bad seed dlc was released. Guess i'll have to figure out which platform i'll continue on haha
thanks m8, with the tips I might be able to 100% this game, finally
but it's really cool ngl, dying has never been so much fun lmao
Thank you TRULY for your guide. Helped me finally get him.
Thanks for saving me from being greedy and figuring out timing with HotK. Had failed two 3BC runs, running out of flasks. After watching your strategy, I beat him without even needing to heal.
I watched this when I was really new to the game and was still struggling with concierge. Mama tic ended up being easier to me for a while because there was actually a guide in here on it 😅
I love these videos because they are useful and very well organized.
Tranquilo Akali, me siguen gustando más tus videos.
I didn’t know a single thing about that Rick fight. Thank you so much!!! (I’m only 3 minutes in and I love it)
As a kid I got Conjunctivitis in my eyes ALOT, made my summers miserable...so it's personal when I beat the Conjunctivitis Boss, take all these years of suffering you caused me!!!!
Damn this is whole new level content!
Good Video, explaining everything perfectly :)
I love how you make up the music with banger soundtracks from other rougelikes
I love the use of different game osts, they fit their respective bosses
Dude, I love the inclusion of of Con lentitud poderosa! Favorite track from ROR2 for sure
just noticed the use of all the different boss themes from different roguelikes
pretty clever tbh
Me who has beat 5bc mode watching how to beat tentacle man
Sweet guide man thanks
At 1:42 during this phase i found that if you have the assault shield you can stop her from ever attacking by hitting her with the assault shield when you see she is about to attack i think this is because the assault shield stuns her cancelling the attack this was how i beat her on my first try
Hey man, just wanted to say thanks for all your beautiful guides on Dead Cells. Your earned my respect and my sub. 🍻
This is actually really helpful. Thanks a lot, Pseychie!
Thank you so much very well done review
Imagine beating the collector with a cursed sword in 5 bc on mobile, yeah that's a lot of stress for me.
Someone on yt has made this
No Concierge? Makes sense. You can literally beat him in 20 seconds with quick bow + barbed darts
Hell the first time i encountered him i just kept on kicking him to wall with the spartan sandals
My fastest had been 34secs but I'm trying to get to that lol
I managed to obtain a hitless victory for the hand of the king and for conjuctivius a for the concierge but not for the others bosses, This video helped alot i will used what i learn today on my next playtrought.
Thanks, that was fun and informative to watch! I wonder, do bosses fight the same regardless of how many boss cells u activated?
Im on a achievement hunt right now, and Mama tick is being a jerk, so this vid helped me a lot :)
I know it’s a old video but I beat up the spoiler boss thanks to you S2
tips: when mama tick changes sides, use the chance to sip out of the health flask if needed, use root grenade on the timekeeper (most attacks of hers are parryable, thats also an advantage), the concierge ignores turrets and death's scythes in first phase are parryable.
This game looks so smooth and easy - when YOU play it, of course, not in my laughable attempts. But I'll be persistent this time. Some day I too will master these dances.
good job, dude
The legendary Symmetrical Lance almost trivialized the 5 BSC fight. Aside from the massive damage making it boss fight viable, it ignores shields, including while he’s healing, so I just kept wailing on him and pushed all the phases at once. It was hilarious.
I just wanna point out, the kings scepter, one of the shovel knight crossover weapons, if so good in so many boss fights, like mama tick u can just walk toward her and spam when she is out of the ground
You are underrated, you deserve 1M subs
Using One Step From Eden music for Mama Tick? A man of taste I see.
7:18 omg thats music from isaac! Love it
When I first found this guide, I was actually struggling with the Conceirge and a little offended that you dismissed it right at the beginning. After a couple days of playing and learning to optimize my scrolls, I realized you can basically face tank him with a brutality or survival build, a turret or two, and a shield, only needing a couple parries if any. Then I was like "okay, now I get it."
He used risk of rain boss level music for the background of the collector explanation. Awesome.
I needed this after being stuck at 1bc being able to blaze through the mode except the boss
With the mama tick btw if you use a freeze weapon even if she resists it stops the scythe attacks
The Yakuza music in the background, beautiful
i love how you used other rouglite and rouglike music in this video like TBOI and ETG
My main issue with the hand of the king is that he has TONS of health, but im only on 1bc. It takes me forever to get down even a third of his health. You were fighting on 5bc and he had as much health as in the training room. The only reason I can beat him in the training room is because the fight is short, but it really isn't in an actual run.
Next time you might want to add songs in desc, other that that great vid!
Note: the armadillopack can help with the hands of the kings bomb attack alot.
you are a life saver.
Hand of the king is really hard but for you it look easy hahaha thanks for the guide
I love this video❤️
Just got to hand of the king and I've been playing for a couple weeks. Wish me luck
I don't know if it's still in the new patch but, if wear the king costume on console and 5bc if you hard reset on the final cutscene you start back at HOTK without the malaise counter going up and be able to fight the collector again
12:23 I always try to kill worms the last if I have any kind of bomb reflecting weapon because you can deal a L O T of damage to hand of the king with worm's bombs
And in the mob phase of HotK, there's is actually a time limit where he will eventually go down, it's pretty long though.
@@claritix101 there is one, just try it in game, it's quite long however
Thanks to this vid i finally managed to knock the living light out of the hand of the king
This helped me pass 2bc 4th try thanks alot
I usually use wolf trap and sinew slicer/crusher/cleaver against the bosses except the giant and it is pretty effective. If the deployable traps are good, the only thing I need to do is dogde and deal extra damage.
Amazing
just got obliterated by hotk, this video made it seem so easy
Thnxx man
Ah I love that alt. boss theme from isaac
I have figured out that when Mama tick uses her syches against the ground you can just jump up in the air and atack so that you stat up in the air. (sorry for my bad english)
With Rhythm n bouzoukis u can also use the wings of the crow and attack hands of the king from above. Which is much safer
Thx for showing the last boss
For the final boss, if you have the cacoon, you can parry the light beams. Same with librarian of course.
I was actually reading the page on the cocoon on the wiki because I really wanted to unlock it before I reached 5BC and it just dropped the fact that "Can be used to block the downwards light attack from the [spoiler boss]".
I was so pissed because prior to that point I had successfully avoided spoiling the boss for myself. Fortunately it doesn't say this anymore though.
Isaac, Hades, Yakuza Music. This is a man of culture
For conjunctivius, use the wolf trap and have mutations to cool down your abilities so that you dont have to fight his tentacles and kill him flawlessly at 5 boss cells
when fighting the time keeper, on my first try, i just put as much scrolls in brutality as i could and got twin daggers and pure nail that do 4k+ damage and just spammed tonics and grenades for the + damage after using a skill and killed it in less than 30s lmao
i watched you before fighting the hand of the king for the first time andddd i died
2:41 no one gonna talk about how this soundtrack sounds familiar to gungeon
The collector seems surprisingly easier than the hand of the king.
After fighting him many times, I would say nah. His attacks are much faster than HotK, and there are really no safe spots like the ice platforms in the HotK battle. He hits MUCH harder than HotK also.
Nice vid the edits are wonderful ! Honestly Giant deserves only one star, it's extremely ez to cheese with enough dps and it's even a guaranteed no-hit for me. And there's one thing your guide lack is what weapons/skills and muts to bring in each fights and which colors works best against each boss.
For example, you should mention that builds invilving freeze/stun/root are unusable against HotK and Giant
It's easy for you, not for everyone, and it's just a general rating and comparison to other bosses.
@@jaegerfoxx in the Dead Cells community, it's commonly admitted that Giant is just not challenging enough compared to other bosses.
@@jaegerfoxx no if you properly collect scrolls hes objectively the easiest boss in the game, only concierge slightly easier
Easy with tactics cheese builds, not as simple with a melee brutality build.
me, a noob, looking for a guide for concierge: *cries self to sleep slowly*
Twin Dragons soundtrack for Hand of the King. I approve.
Ror2 music close to the end of the video, nice
Personally I killed the hand of the king with a 30k damages sword so it wasn’t really hard, but anyways thanks for this video this helped me a lot
Using risk of rain finale music on the Dead cells finale is kinda funny
I find the giant to be way easier then mother tick lol
same the giant is really easier then mother tick
I completely ran thru that first boss of the video with the nucklebuster hammer.i just sat there and went to town.1 hit would stun him.then when he came out of the water you can still just sit there and smack him.
I found out when i was fighting Conjuctivius that if you use wolf traps and do enough damage you can kill him in the first phase and never have to deal with the tentacles
general tip: use multi knock bow and barbed tips
I just used all of the power scrolls for brutality and I defeated all the bosses less than 50 seconds. (vengeance mutation helps also a lot)
Editing skills in this video shot up to whole new level
The laser beam that the Collector shoots at you from above can be cancelled with Phaser. Big tip for Brutality and Tactics players.
I’m just gonna use this guide for defeating HotK
So I have a strategy
electric whip with mama tick is perfect
Thank u