by Today I bring you the guide of Odón, from the Brotherhood of Salt , another of the bosses of Blasphemous 2 . We will find this boss previously when advancing a little along the great wall bridge of “Mar de Tinta”; there we will not have to defeat him completely, we will simply have to lower his life a little and he will leave.
We will have the actual combat with him a little later, but we will see that better in the “boss location” section. First of all, he seems to me to be one of the simplest bosses at the moment, he almost looks like a mini-boss (but he shouldn’t be because he has his life bar down and so on).
I would also like to comment on something and that is that while testing during the battle I discovered a quite broken Verdict mechanic and the truth is that when applying it the boss became extremely simple. Anyway I will explain the usual way to defeat him and then below I will talk about this new “trick” of Verdict that I have discovered.
BOSS LOCATION: SUNKEN CATHEDRAL
We will find Odón, from the Brotherhood of Salt in the « Sunken Cathedral ». If you haven’t reached this area yet, don’t think too much about it, if so it means that you still have to advance a bit in the game’s story. You will unlock this area after defeating Benedicta, of the Perpetual Prayer .
Once you are in the area, the exact location is in the photo above marked with a skull. Know that you have to get to him from the path on the left, the one on the right is a shortcut that you unlock when you defeat him.
HOW TO DEFEAT ODON OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF SALT
As I have already mentioned, he is a fairly simple boss. In fact, he only has one phase (less work for me I suppose):
ATTACK GUIDE
These are all their attacks and the best way to deal with them:
- Frontal Slash : A forward frontal strike. It has 2 versions, in one it just hits and in the other it will perform a small charge and then hit. In both cases, the ideal is to pass him with a dash (assuming you’re close, of course, otherwise it’s better to jump) and then hit him a little from behind. But of course, keeping an eye on his next move.
- Summon Pikes : It will summon a kind of pikes that will go through the ground. It’s as easy as jumping over the top and after that you can try to hit him a bit with an air attack (if you’re close, of course). Be very careful because even though at the beginning it will only attack once and that’s it, there comes a point where it will do it 2 times in a row and even 3 times, so be very careful.
- Throw Wave : Will throw a wave forward that will travel relatively fast but gradually slow down to a stop. It is very easy to dodge, what I do is jump over it and after that I take the opportunity to hit it a bit.
- Summon Sync Pairs : The boss will stop and you will see that it launches a kind of lightning bolt into the sky. After this, look very closely at the screen because in the area where you are they will appear as some sparkles that will indicate where lightning is going to strike (you must avoid it falling on you, of course). After the lightning will appear one of those enemies that are a kind of headless spearmen. At the beginning it will only summon two, but later it will summon 3 and even 4. They annoy and such, but the truth is that specifically these enemies are a bit… silly. You can go attacking the boss by jumping over them and so on (use the air dash ) and when the boss is far away you can take the opportunity to hit them a bit, they don’t take too long to fall; Of course, do not get too distracted by them because he will summon them again.
- Dive Jump : The boss will make a huge jump to disappear from the screen and after a short time it will fall on your position; upon landing he will launch a wave in each direction. Very easy to dodge, you keep moving so that he doesn’t fall on top of you and as soon as he falls you use the double jump ability to avoid the attack and after that you try to hit him in the air and then keep hitting him as much as you can.
- Protect the Compis : The boss will remain channeling an attack that will immunize his companions (those he is invoking and such). You skip them because they will be immune to damage, take the opportunity to give the boss a good blow, which is what matters.
TIPS
Really, as long as you follow the attack guide, you should be able to defeat him without major problems… so let’s go with the “Verdict trick” that I mentioned in the intro.
You see, if you repeatedly press the attack button while looking down (when crouching) while holding Verdict, the Griever will start to “wrap” Verdict around with his chain. The point is that this can also hit and actually well… if you do it you will see, you hit very fast doing this.
The only problem is that you need to be very close to the enemies and you can’t move while you’re doing this… and of course, between the enemies moving a lot and also many times you move them with your own blows… well, in the end it’s not so effective. Unless… you hit an enemy that doesn’t move, or… you can stop time .
I leave you a TikTok video that I created so that you can see how broken this is and surely in the future I will comment on it in a post about builds.
REWARDS
This is what we will get by defeating him:
- tears of amends
- 3 Marks of Martyrdom : They serve to increase the capacity of the Table of Favors and to improve the weapons of the Penitent.
- Salt Key : It will allow us to free a dove in order to continue with the main story.
