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Berude is the first boss fight you’ll encounter inThe Rogue Prince of Persiaand she’s intimidating. Most enemies you’ve faced have died in the length of a single melee combo, and now you’re seeing a health bar in the thousands. It’s understandable to panic at that alone.
Defeating Berude is a requirement to get further in the game. Key objectives like rescuing Shahin are only possible if you’re able to defeat the Hun General with some consistency. Here’s how to counter everything she throws at you during the boss fight, and come out on top regardless of what gear you roll.
Berude’s Attacks
Berude’s attacks are a lot less clean than what you’ve encountered so far. Spear soldiers make it very clear that they’re going to stab in one direction. Bow and crossbow soldiers have clean lines they aim along and slow-moving projectiles. Berude’s projectile attacks move fast andher melee attacks throw up shockwavesthat take extra effort to evade. Here’s her toolkit and which attacks you’ll be able to exploit to hit her back.
Ranged Tremors
Standing on either side of the arena, Berude will throw waves of rumbling earth.
You need to dodge vertically to avoid the tremors.The smallest can be hopped over, and the largest need wall running and jumping. A few will instead be thrown above you and are avoided by staying on the ground.
She ends this attack with a single wild swing that repositions her to the centre of the arena andleaves her vulnerable to counterattacks.
Jump
Berude will leap up and out of the arena. A targeting mark will appear on top of the screen to signal where she is going to reappear, slamming the ground and emitting a short-range blast and a tremor that crosses the floor of the arena. Berude can repeat this attack several times in a row.
The best defence is torun horizontally as soon as you see Berude jump. The shockwave follows the ground, so running along the wall horizontally decreases your chance of being hurt and lets you leap over the tremor.
This attack does not leave her vulnerable afterwards. She mostly uses it to get into position for using other attacks. Landing in the middle suggests she’ll use wild swings, and she’ll leap to the sides before using ram charge or ranged tremors.
Ram Charge
Berude will lower her head and aram horn symbol will appear over her. She will then charge directly across the arena with a trail of sharp rocks following her. She repeats this additional times as her health decreases. Once more when she loses a third of her health and a third time in her second phase.
You need tododge this by running up the wall. The trail behind her is also able to damage you, so you want tomove diagonally upwards and towards her to jump over the trail. This sets you up in a perfect position to repeat the dodge if she repeats the move.
After her final charge in the series, she will slump for a moment and be vulnerable. The number of charges she does isn’t always consistent, so be careful about trying to predict this moment of weakness.
Wild Swings
Berude hops forward repeatedly while swinging. Each swing releases a pulse around her as she lands. When she reaches the edge of the arena she turns around and continues until reaching the center.
You want to avoid this by running up the wall and over her between the swings. She will only turn around when reaching an edge, so standing behind her is safe. The shockwave from the impacts will prevent you from backstabbing with most weapons.
After using this move she will collapse for several moments and become vulnerable.This is your main opportunity to deal damage.
Claw Swipe
If the Prince is standing next to Berude she’ll attempt a simple swing with her clawed hand.
This is easy to dodge as long as you aren’t locked into a long attack combo.
You’ll most often see this moveafter she recovers from being staggered. It can punish you for being too aggressive while she is vulnerable. You’ll get a feeling from practice for how long Berude is vulnerable before you risk this counterattack.
Best Weapons And Tools For Fighting Berude
Baatar’s Strengths
Berude can punish certain playstyles that work very consistently against the enemies leading up to her.
Baatar’s Weaknesses
She also has pronounced weaknesses you may take advantage of, especially with the right weapons, tools and medallions:
How To Defeat Berude’s Second Phase
Berude enters a second phase after losing half of her health. She’ll become briefly invulnerable until the end of her current attack pattern, and then jump to the centre of the arena. Hereshe will smash the background wall of the arena, giving you less space for running along it but still enough to dodge all her abilities.
Immediately after smashing the wall, Berude will refresh her shields. you may run up the wall andtime a dive attack to break her shields as soon as they appear.
She doesn’t use any new attacks in this phase but her charge attack can now repeat up to four times. It’s the most heavily impacted ability by the shrunken wall, which is tallest in the centre. You want toevade the charge by running up and towards the middlefrom wherever in the arena you were previously standing.
General Tips And Tricks
Some minor optimizations aren’t needed to beat Berude butcan help you win quickly or stylishly.
Application
Boulder Farming
The boulders she summons count as enemiesfor certain medallion effects that activate on kill. The medallion that gives money on kill can hypotheticallygive you infinite gold,but would require you to spend hours dodging the very angry Berude.
Practising Phase 2
you may see from the start of the fight thecracked lines along the back wall which will later be broken. Staying within these lines will train you to not rely on the extra space when you reach the second phase.
Interrupting The Ram Charge
Her ram charge can be interruptedif you use a dive attack on her head or back as she passes. You can take damage from doing this, so need to carefully test the limits of how this works.
Kicking Berude
When she does a battlecry before attackingshe can be staggered with a kick.The window for doing this is a bit unpredictable, but you can semi-consistently land one after she recharges her shields for phase two.
With My Eyes Closed Achievement
There’s an achievement todefeat Berude without taking a single hit. You can get this if you play extra safe and only attack during confirmed staggers.
With Berude defeated you’re able to continue to the Tower of Oblivion, where you can rescue Shanin.
