Barely a minute in and youve already wiffed 2 relic activations... Open the first comment telling you you arent good and youre telling them to get a life... Comedy writes itself
Much easiest of all the act 8 bosses. And I reckon even easier than Gwenmaster, Kang and Superior Kang. I just did it with my alt all three times with a 6r2 Gamora; soloed all three times first try. Perhaps you should have practiced more.
No need to complain. Cerastes was by far the most easiest guy ive gone against, even though he knocked all my champs down I still managed to get through him. Next time, I can legit beat this dude with no problemo. You my friend have a skill issue. I learn from my mistakes, and I beat him with no problem after the last revives for silk and cgr.
@@mrgamersmith857 The fact that Cerastes took out you're whole party, he's NOT easy. Until you have some R3 7 Stars to use & go back, which I did since(yet people are still bumping into this video, instead of my Act 8 Exploration vid).
I didn't use a single revive this whole quest. The boss is fine as long as you understand the mechanics. Don't do the same action twice. Use a heavy after a relic to kill 2 birds with one stone. Always bait the sp1 etc. Took Cerastes down with a max 5* ascended herc
@@Walt_Xander94 brother you should really calm down a guide isn't there to make a fight easy it just shows how it works for people who are lazy to read abilities and it's important to know about a big boss fight before doing it. This isn't a event quest boss
No point in arguing with this dude, mf can't even play and if you tell him the issue is that his own skills suck, he's gonna call you "elitist" or get a life. Meanwhile he's the one getting pissed about a damn mobile game lmao.
@Wait_Xander94 dude, I dunno if you are trolling or genuenly upset but please take a chill pill. If you insult people and say rude things they are only going to “egg you on” even further. Your amusement for most of these people when you get upset. If you want a different reaction, try a different approach. Hope whatever is bothering you works out man. If you need help with the bosses I would be more than happy to assist. I’m gonna be valor rank once I take a 7* to rank 3 here soon so I’m all caught up on the story.
@@spenserbeckerszs You say I insult, when the original post of this thread(& other comments), is the no-life skill issue crap. People that spout that, really don't have a life.
@@Walt_Xander94 i am absolutely dog water at this game still managed to shit on him just 1 revive (i used r4 herc, not ascended, not awakened, no boosts)
Venom and Hulking are better also it would be easier if you used Odin pre fight. And no hate but bosses are supposed to be hard why do they call it a boss then lol.
@@madman278 There's a huge difference between a fairly tough boss, and P2W bullshit. And why would anyone use Venom or Hulking over Herc? They can be back-ups, but not the main pick.
@Walt_Xander94 The boss was very easy for me. I didn’t die to any of the four bosses and I told you what my favorite counter was. Also I didn’t spend a single dollar to complete Act 8 lol.
Seems like you just let frustration get to you, happens to all of us at times brother. The fight isn’t that hard just requires focus, attention and of course ending with a headache as usual 😆 I went in blind with a r4 hulkling came out with the solo 449 hits later had to pause to read the screen mid way as I didn’t understand why he kept getting armour back and knocking me on my a## 🙄 but anyway once you let the frustration in you may as well quit and take a break if you don’t it just gets costly as you get sloppier and sloppier. Good fight, good video see you on the battlefield brother 👍
Not really. The only thing close to frustrating is the solos videos making it seem like this fight has no gimmicks for once, but it does. That & Herc's immortality basically being disabled.
Took me 1 revive with r4 knull. One of my favorite boss fights so far. Also if you infuriate him using herc his shields regenerate faster so herc isn’t ideal for this fight
Ive a r4 herc with 100 sig and completed the boss fight in 2 revives only. They isnt any hard in this fight . ( Just for kind info i javent used boosts also)
Someone in the mcoc community had a great breakdown video for this boss fight right as 8.3 went live. Solo'd the boss first and ever try. it is actually pretty easy you just didn't bring in any cosmic champs for it. Kabam made it pretty clear that Herc wasnt gonna be a great option for this fight too.
Did you not watch the video? I ended the fight with Herc. And I am so sick of these fights REQUIRING guides. Also, why would any of us think Kabam would actually favor Herc for this one, when the previous Act 8 bosses & ALOT of quests or certain fights have been anti-Herc? Herc's immortality not working in this fight, is 100% anti-Herc.
@@Walt_Xander94 why can’t the right require guides? Why do all the fights in this game have to be easy? It makes it fun fighting every fight differently tbh. Not the same repetitive easy herc stuff LOL
@ i used the champion 3 times and then guillotine 2099 for the challenge, he’s the easiest of the three act 8 bosses by a longshot. also his kit was literally made to stop players from trying to use herc which is why you’re struggling. just a matter of skill
It told you to intercept during overdrive and you wasted a sp2 and a relic. You just don’t know what you’re doing and is just saying “they blocked hercs immortality “ as if you can only use herc
@@Doggo-l8b Herc is the only TOP option. Or he was, because Serpent is around now & took his crown. I can't imagine using anyone else. Without Herc's dmg, the fight takes LONGER to finish. But you people rather make these bs fights harder for yourselves.
I fought Cerastes for the first time yesterday for the first time, and while I was able to get him down, it took 14x revives. All credit goes to Unit Man for winning this one for me.
I just SMASHED Cerates with my 6* R5 max sig ascended Adam Warlock... Took me some time to get the mechanics (didn't watch any guide or vid about Cerates btw... Just did it reading the bosses phases) but then I DESTROYED him !
The second easiest boss out of the 4 lol also you did a lot of mistakes like hitting him 2 times in block after face 2 not dexting his sp1 at the start. Also stun immune is interesting cause makes it harder and its more fun.
@@Suarez23-z1w There's NOTHING fun about these fights taking parries away. Its the OPPOSITE, its unfair. You have no idea what fun is, probably because youre most likely a Souls Masochist.
@@Walt_Xander94 LOL masochist really🤣. Winning a boss when you die all the time and then beat it makes you happy and you know you became better. An easy boss doesn't make you better and it's just boring so is that fun for you? Or by fun you mean beating a easy boss without trying and thinking you are good when you are not.
@@Suarez23-z1w No it doesn't. Youre just proving my point. When victory is gained, there is only the "About damn time. Fuck this game!", which I certainly had after going back & 100%ing Act 8. By fun, I MEAN FUN! A tough, but fair boss fight(I'd still be trying) that doesn't need to purposefully piss off the player, and doesn't need to be a unit hog. You masochists know nothing about ACTUAL fun.
@@Walt_Xander94I'm f2p and I've explored act 6-8 and done necropolis too, I'm valiant without a single buck ever spent, how would u put it huh? If nothing but the fact that u have skill issues
I don't know if he's been nerfed, but I literally just fought him after watching 1 and half videos on how to beat him. Fought him with fantman first try and got him down to 1%, only died because his intimidate for some reason didn't change hi AI behavior and he was still playing super aggressive. He's by far the easiest out of the 3 act 8 bosses I've fought so far. Easy to dex sp1, basically only need 1 gameplay loop to beat him (with some slight tweaks after he's 50%). The trick is to just striker into sp1 or striker into knockdown. Those two actions will never repeat each other. Then, you just time it so that right as you armor break him on both the striker and special, you bait his sp1 and punch his autoblock. You can also make this easier by punching is block during one of the instances of striker special combo before you've armor broken him. That way, you only ahve to punch his block twice to get him wounded. Phase 3 he gets random amounts so it's a little more difficultl, but most of the time it's easy because striker, punching his autoblock, and knocking him down are all relatively easy to deal with. PS: the first video I watched that gave me the striker special combo idea was literally one of the top viewed vids, but maybe since this video was made 10 months ago, that strategy hadn't been discovered yet? Anyone who ignores autoblock is probably bad in my personal opinion (maybe I'm wrong), because the AI plays super aggressive and it's basically impossible to get windows to punch his normal block, so I just punched his autoblock instead.
@@zacharyhsieh9358 He has not been nerfed. I went back & 100% it with the team I got now. Things were more tolerable, but it doesn't change that its another P2W gimmick.
@@Walt_Xander94 It's literally not a p2w gimmick. It's the least p2w boss I've ever fought. Bahamet and black widow (forgot her name) were harder than this guy. A p2w boss is one that doesn't have much skill expression and requires a specific counterpick to beat and/or requiring excessive skill to the point where the average player needs to spend a ton of revives. This fight is neither of those things, considering the fact that I'm not even that good at this game and I did fine. I think you just had the wrong strategy because 8.3 was new at the time. striker into special trivialized 90% of the fight.
@@zacharyhsieh9358 NO ONE is doing that fight in one go. Especially in the first attempt. And more so if they dont have Herc. If these bosses were just simple fights & didn't have descriptions that are the length of a Bible page, there'd be no gimmicks. You're guaranteed to die & use revives. The ONLY way revives arent needed, is if you have a team of R5 6 Stars & R2/R3 6 7 Stars. So when one dies, another champ with stats just as high will finish the fight. These Act bosses will never just be normal fights. Look at Act 9, its starting today, the 9.1 boss has FIVE phases & a huge ass description, forcing players to look up guides just to know wtf to do.
@@Walt_Xander94 and that’s fine. It’s a boss and it’s supposed to be hard. Can you improve your skills in the fight? Yes. Again. I looked up guides and did like 15 minutes worth of research. Yes, I had a r5 fantman ascended, but it wouldn’t have made a difference if he was r4 because I lost all my health 80-90% at the end when his intimidate bugged out. Not saying all bosses are easy. I’m just saying that this one is.
You are doing it wrong man! You have to plan this. You have to remove them evenly, the knock down and the relic one. Then once you remove both of those. Hit into his block and remove that one. For easier time, make sure that you have enough power for special 1 and relic. Then use relic, then use special. Rinse and repeat. Once both of those are on zero, then go back to force him to go into block. And then hit his block. Rinse and repeat. The secret is on doing the knock down with a special after using the relic, they stay evenly. I am not trying to undermine you. Just trying to help other people that may see this video.
There are plenty of tutorials on TH-cam that breakdown the boss. IMO Mcoc Noob has the best guides. I soloed the fight on the first try with Hercules. It’s all perspective. Removing Herc’s in mortality doesn’t make him less ideal for the fight.
Man tell me about it. I'm an average player and it cost me 10 or so revives on initial completion. AI sometimes won't work in your favor and you're going in fucking circles trying to break his armor. Last 2 fights will be easier but surely not itemless.
Those gimmicks ARENT fun. They only serve to make people spend money for revives. And as long as Herc is the best one for these Acts, why SHOULDNT I use him? You say I cant play, but youre suggesting I shouldnt have used Herc, and instead handicap myself with someone else that wouldve sucked & made this fight longer. That's masochism(& stubbornness), not skill.
@@Walt_Xander94 tbh, if you play this game only to use hercules and barrel your way through content, then why play this game at all. this game is about collecting champions and being able to use all of them in different situations. if you can use herc for everything, then whats the point of other champions. also doom can do almost everything as well 🤣
@@Walt_Xander94aren’t suppose to be fun, suppose to be hard, the game can’t just glaze you from start to end, it needs some sort of challenge, ur just dickriding Hercules, so what he cant do everything, so what u have to spend units (which u can totally get for free)
I actually soloed him with herc. I just looked up a video of the fight and how the specials and how he works and it was pretty easy and i am no where near an amazing player. If you can evade the special 1 and play with the charges then it is easy. Yes it's nit that easy as people show since i didn't even had half of my health while finishing the fight😂 also the video i checked isn't a guide it was just a video of the fight and then i read the abilities in game
@@Walt_Xander94maybe if you actually watch the videos, it actually explains the gimmicks for you so you can understand them. How dense can you be lmfao
@@Walt_Xander94yeah no the fight is actually simple if you just use your brain. I needed revs on the first try cuz i had trouble dexing his specials but i took him down without revs on the 2nd try when exploring. He's the best boss they've done and it was fun fighting him lmao
Revive hog? That's a bit too much yes i nearly didn't get the solo but i still managed to solo him but still even if i dies with herc another champ would have killed him with ease
@@Walt_Xander94of course we have to know how the gimmick works before fighting we just can't go into a big boss battle thinking like he is a even quest boss
Bro I died only 2 times on my first try against the boss with little knowledge about how the fight would go. I soloed him the rest of my paths. Respectfully, you might just not understand the fight well and are blaming the wrong things here…
The fact that you died in your first run, means the fight wasnt easy as it seems. Dont know why you mentioned other paths. I sure as hell have no intention of doing that. The fight is just more gimmicky, P2W bs.
@@Walt_Xander94why would anyone play the game if there wasnt a chance of dying. literally the point of the game is to avoid dying. So yes, only dying a couple times in your first try against the latest story mode boss does make it an easy boss
I have to agree. I think bosses like the Grandmaster, Bahamut, The Collector are more challenging than Cerastes. The biggest thing with Cerastes is that you have to make sure your doing different kinds of attacks so you don’t over charge any one piece of his armor. Also baiting his SP1 as it’s the easiest to avoid. His SP2 is a bit harder to dex.
Also, when he goes into overdrive, just intercept his attacks to deal a massive burst of damage and you can move on to the next phase until he is dead.
@@PrabhjotSeengat-z5l I doubt that. I went back & 100% the quest. I had other hard hitters, but Herc certainly did most of the work because of his Strength charges.
If the fights didn't had gimmicks or whatever every freakin boss fight would feel the same. The game already feels boring. Fights like these are what keeps things interesting once in a while. Just get good and stop relying on herc all the time lmao.
Some fights being dmg sponges & revive hogs, and having gimmicks doesnt make the game interesting at all. Shove that no-life, get good response. You really spout that in regards to a PAY TO WIN game, btw. As long as Kabam cheats, Herc will always be the go-to, because every other champ is crap in comparison. No one else can bypass alot of Kabam's bs, because they cant rival Herc's damage & immortality. And only masochists WOULDNT use Herc, if they have him.
@@Walt_Xander94I think you’re just garbage at the game buddy, I am a free to play player and always have been, I used a 5 star CGR for this fight and I completed 3 whole phases with him before getting distracted and dying. Your messages and your entire video reeks of crybaby syndrome, you’re malding this hard over a damn mobile game and especially so over a particularly easy boss fight, it is quite literally one of the easiest bosses we’ve had in a while. You’re one of those people who absolutely can not get through any piece of content without Hercules and even though you have him you STILL can’t get through content without crying, if that doesn’t say “I have major skill issues” then I don’t know what does. Like Jesus Christ buddy this gameplay is almost embarrassing to watch considering your progression level lol, you also have a severe lack of understanding how Cerastes actually works, maybe read into his kit a little bit before engaging in the fight?
This fight is hardly a damage sponge nor a revive hog. All you need to do is change up your gameplan a little bit and not just parry and smack 5 times and repeat. If you can't follow simple instructions, you're the one being an ass here lmao. Kabam has a freaking lot of issues they need to sort out, but this fight or any of the fights in act 8 ain't one of em. People like you just complain about every little thing and it's hella annoying.
Barely a minute in and youve already wiffed 2 relic activations... Open the first comment telling you you arent good and youre telling them to get a life... Comedy writes itself
The onlu comedy, is you on-life elitists pretending Cerastes isnt bullshit.
@@Walt_Xander94I agree, cerastes is absolute bs if you aren't able to hit your relics.
Why u dont try Auto fight
When has Auto Fight EVER worked in Act quests, or any quest where the enemy has far bigger stats than you?
@@Walt_Xander94 😂
@@Walt_Xander94probably wouldnt work lol, but cant be any worse than your gameplay
@@elibaerg7436😂😂😂
LOL AUTO FIGHT
Much easiest of all the act 8 bosses. And I reckon even easier than Gwenmaster, Kang and Superior Kang. I just did it with my alt all three times with a 6r2 Gamora; soloed all three times first try. Perhaps you should have practiced more.
No need to complain. Cerastes was by far the most easiest guy ive gone against, even though he knocked all my champs down I still managed to get through him. Next time, I can legit beat this dude with no problemo. You my friend have a skill issue. I learn from my mistakes, and I beat him with no problem after the last revives for silk and cgr.
@@mrgamersmith857 The fact that Cerastes took out you're whole party, he's NOT easy. Until you have some R3 7 Stars to use & go back, which I did since(yet people are still bumping into this video, instead of my Act 8 Exploration vid).
Yes I get that, but if you understand and are used to his mechanics, you're able to do it the second time, you can legit wipe him out first try.
I didn't use a single revive this whole quest. The boss is fine as long as you understand the mechanics. Don't do the same action twice. Use a heavy after a relic to kill 2 birds with one stone. Always bait the sp1 etc. Took Cerastes down with a max 5* ascended herc
average herc user
Bro you don't know the rotation it's so easy
If it was easy, a damn guide wouldn't have been needed to figure it out, and I wouldn't have had to make a video going over said rotation
@@Walt_Xander94 brother you should really calm down a guide isn't there to make a fight easy it just shows how it works for people who are lazy to read abilities and it's important to know about a big boss fight before doing it. This isn't a event quest boss
skill issue????
You need to get a life.
No point in arguing with this dude, mf can't even play and if you tell him the issue is that his own skills suck, he's gonna call you "elitist" or get a life. Meanwhile he's the one getting pissed about a damn mobile game lmao.
@Wait_Xander94 dude, I dunno if you are trolling or genuenly upset but please take a chill pill. If you insult people and say rude things they are only going to “egg you on” even further. Your amusement for most of these people when you get upset. If you want a different reaction, try a different approach. Hope whatever is bothering you works out man. If you need help with the bosses I would be more than happy to assist. I’m gonna be valor rank once I take a 7* to rank 3 here soon so I’m all caught up on the story.
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@@spenserbeckerszs You say I insult, when the original post of this thread(& other comments), is the no-life skill issue crap. People that spout that, really don't have a life.
I did it first try, no revive …. 4minutes
@@Zillxw Absolute LUCK!
@@Walt_Xander94 ☠☠☠☠
Your using what most likely is a 6* rank 5 sig 200 ascended fully boosted herc with recoils, and your still struggling 💀💀
If the boss didn't have bullshit phases, there'd be no struggle.
The only hard part is getting to the boss
@@Walt_Xander94 i am absolutely dog water at this game still managed to shit on him just 1 revive (i used r4 herc, not ascended, not awakened, no boosts)
@@Walt_Xander94 i went through your channel's vids. It's just you complaining about every boss.
@@salmonking3537bro has something to say about everything and anything
For anyone who is still watching i recommend angela with odin prefights she shreds. Notably herc works for well too
Venom and Hulking are better also it would be easier if you used Odin pre fight. And no hate but bosses are supposed to be hard why do they call it a boss then lol.
@@madman278 There's a huge difference between a fairly tough boss, and P2W bullshit.
And why would anyone use Venom or Hulking over Herc? They can be back-ups, but not the main pick.
@Walt_Xander94 The boss was very easy for me. I didn’t die to any of the four bosses and I told you what my favorite counter was. Also I didn’t spend a single dollar to complete Act 8 lol.
@@Walt_Xander94why should they be back up and not main ? They're equally good attackers
imo this fight was wayyyy simpler than bahamet
yep!! i used literally 0 revives on cerastes, but bahamet, more than 5
Was able to solo him a few times. The thing they don’t say in those videos is they did the fight A LOT lol
Seems like you just let frustration get to you, happens to all of us at times brother. The fight isn’t that hard just requires focus, attention and of course ending with a headache as usual 😆 I went in blind with a r4 hulkling came out with the solo 449 hits later had to pause to read the screen mid way as I didn’t understand why he kept getting armour back and knocking me on my a## 🙄 but anyway once you let the frustration in you may as well quit and take a break if you don’t it just gets costly as you get sloppier and sloppier. Good fight, good video see you on the battlefield brother 👍
Not really. The only thing close to frustrating is the solos videos making it seem like this fight has no gimmicks for once, but it does. That & Herc's immortality basically being disabled.
Took me 1 revive with r4 knull. One of my favorite boss fights so far. Also if you infuriate him using herc his shields regenerate faster so herc isn’t ideal for this fight
Ive a r4 herc with 100 sig and completed the boss fight in 2 revives only. They isnt any hard in this fight . ( Just for kind info i javent used boosts also)
No one cares that you no-lives handicapped yourselves.
Someone in the mcoc community had a great breakdown video for this boss fight right as 8.3 went live. Solo'd the boss first and ever try. it is actually pretty easy you just didn't bring in any cosmic champs for it. Kabam made it pretty clear that Herc wasnt gonna be a great option for this fight too.
Did you not watch the video? I ended the fight with Herc. And I am so sick of these fights REQUIRING guides. Also, why would any of us think Kabam would actually favor Herc for this one, when the previous Act 8 bosses & ALOT of quests or certain fights have been anti-Herc?
Herc's immortality not working in this fight, is 100% anti-Herc.
@@Walt_Xander94 but still I soloed with herc it would have been anti herc if he couldn't solo or beat him but if you don't die herc is enough 😂.
@@Walt_Xander94 why can’t the right require guides? Why do all the fights in this game have to be easy? It makes it fun fighting every fight differently tbh. Not the same repetitive easy herc stuff LOL
Its not that hard, just read what the boss does and what not to do
fought him only 4 times, soloed all 4 times. you have a skill issue my guy lol
@@_ArsenaI BS. What champs did you use? I went back to this & it was easier with a R3 7 Star & some R2s.
@ i used the champion 3 times and then guillotine 2099 for the challenge, he’s the easiest of the three act 8 bosses by a longshot. also his kit was literally made to stop players from trying to use herc which is why you’re struggling. just a matter of skill
It told you to intercept during overdrive and you wasted a sp2 and a relic. You just don’t know what you’re doing and is just saying “they blocked hercs immortality “ as if you can only use herc
@@Doggo-l8b Herc is the only TOP option. Or he was, because Serpent is around now & took his crown. I can't imagine using anyone else. Without Herc's dmg, the fight takes LONGER to finish. But you people rather make these bs fights harder for yourselves.
And screw Intercepts. If I'm not using Juggernaut, Intercepts aren't an option.
@@Walt_Xander94 you’re the literal definition of ”lack of skill”
I fought Cerastes for the first time yesterday for the first time, and while I was able to get him down, it took 14x revives. All credit goes to Unit Man for winning this one for me.
I just SMASHED Cerates with my 6* R5 max sig ascended Adam Warlock... Took me some time to get the mechanics (didn't watch any guide or vid about Cerates btw... Just did it reading the bosses phases) but then I DESTROYED him !
Adam does have that bs health regen where he cant be hit during it. I imagine that was very effective.
@@Walt_Xander94 It was but his damage output during Cerates' wounded phase helped a lot aswell... Congrats on completing 8.3
The second easiest boss out of the 4 lol also you did a lot of mistakes like hitting him 2 times in block after face 2 not dexting his sp1 at the start. Also stun immune is interesting cause makes it harder and its more fun.
@@Suarez23-z1w There's NOTHING fun about these fights taking parries away. Its the OPPOSITE, its unfair. You have no idea what fun is, probably because youre most likely a Souls Masochist.
@@Walt_Xander94 LOL masochist really🤣. Winning a boss when you die all the time and then beat it makes you happy and you know you became better. An easy boss doesn't make you better and it's just boring so is that fun for you? Or by fun you mean beating a easy boss without trying and thinking you are good when you are not.
@@Suarez23-z1w No it doesn't. Youre just proving my point. When victory is gained, there is only the "About damn time. Fuck this game!", which I certainly had after going back & 100%ing Act 8.
By fun, I MEAN FUN! A tough, but fair boss fight(I'd still be trying) that doesn't need to purposefully piss off the player, and doesn't need to be a unit hog.
You masochists know nothing about ACTUAL fun.
I enjoyed this video a lot good work
Good thing u got him down now u only need to fight him if u wanna 100% act 8 so congrats
@@Red_Indraaa Fuck that. Only whales can 100% Act 8. Im not going back to those P2W bosses.
@@Walt_Xander94I'm f2p and I've explored act 6-8 and done necropolis too, I'm valiant without a single buck ever spent, how would u put it huh? If nothing but the fact that u have skill issues
Bro all the nodes clearly (well not clearly) states not a Hercules fight what did u do, 😅 u use herc😂 use silver surfer easy like pie
Odin pre fight helps too
@@jtkazzyk Not a Herc fight, yet he's actually effective. Every other Cosmic is shit in comparison, except Serpent. He took Herc's crown.
Herc does great in this fight, you just don’t get the immortality
@@Walt_Xander94I soloed him with hulkling and galan. He was the easiest boss in act 8 for me.
@@NMEONES Bro probably has been crutching on herc for way too long XD. Revive spam immortality go brrrrrr
seems like a skill issues. i've done this without any guide lol
You have a no-life issue, and you were just lucky. If this fight didnt need a guide, there wouldn't be multiple guides on it.
@@Walt_Xander94or maybe you just suck ass and dont want to admit it
I don't know if he's been nerfed, but I literally just fought him after watching 1 and half videos on how to beat him. Fought him with fantman first try and got him down to 1%, only died because his intimidate for some reason didn't change hi AI behavior and he was still playing super aggressive.
He's by far the easiest out of the 3 act 8 bosses I've fought so far. Easy to dex sp1, basically only need 1 gameplay loop to beat him (with some slight tweaks after he's 50%).
The trick is to just striker into sp1 or striker into knockdown. Those two actions will never repeat each other. Then, you just time it so that right as you armor break him on both the striker and special, you bait his sp1 and punch his autoblock. You can also make this easier by punching is block during one of the instances of striker special combo before you've armor broken him. That way, you only ahve to punch his block twice to get him wounded.
Phase 3 he gets random amounts so it's a little more difficultl, but most of the time it's easy because striker, punching his autoblock, and knocking him down are all relatively easy to deal with.
PS: the first video I watched that gave me the striker special combo idea was literally one of the top viewed vids, but maybe since this video was made 10 months ago, that strategy hadn't been discovered yet?
Anyone who ignores autoblock is probably bad in my personal opinion (maybe I'm wrong), because the AI plays super aggressive and it's basically impossible to get windows to punch his normal block, so I just punched his autoblock instead.
@@zacharyhsieh9358 He has not been nerfed. I went back & 100% it with the team I got now. Things were more tolerable, but it doesn't change that its another P2W gimmick.
@@Walt_Xander94 It's literally not a p2w gimmick. It's the least p2w boss I've ever fought. Bahamet and black widow (forgot her name) were harder than this guy.
A p2w boss is one that doesn't have much skill expression and requires a specific counterpick to beat and/or requiring excessive skill to the point where the average player needs to spend a ton of revives.
This fight is neither of those things, considering the fact that I'm not even that good at this game and I did fine. I think you just had the wrong strategy because 8.3 was new at the time. striker into special trivialized 90% of the fight.
@@zacharyhsieh9358 NO ONE is doing that fight in one go. Especially in the first attempt. And more so if they dont have Herc. If these bosses were just simple fights & didn't have descriptions that are the length of a Bible page, there'd be no gimmicks.
You're guaranteed to die & use revives. The ONLY way revives arent needed, is if you have a team of R5 6 Stars & R2/R3 6 7 Stars. So when one dies, another champ with stats just as high will finish the fight.
These Act bosses will never just be normal fights. Look at Act 9, its starting today, the 9.1 boss has FIVE phases & a huge ass description, forcing players to look up guides just to know wtf to do.
@@Walt_Xander94 and that’s fine. It’s a boss and it’s supposed to be hard. Can you improve your skills in the fight? Yes. Again. I looked up guides and did like 15 minutes worth of research. Yes, I had a r5 fantman ascended, but it wouldn’t have made a difference if he was r4 because I lost all my health 80-90% at the end when his intimidate bugged out.
Not saying all bosses are easy. I’m just saying that this one is.
You are doing it wrong man! You have to plan this. You have to remove them evenly, the knock down and the relic one. Then once you remove both of those. Hit into his block and remove that one. For easier time, make sure that you have enough power for special 1 and relic. Then use relic, then use special. Rinse and repeat. Once both of those are on zero, then go back to force him to go into block. And then hit his block. Rinse and repeat. The secret is on doing the knock down with a special after using the relic, they stay evenly. I am not trying to undermine you. Just trying to help other people that may see this video.
This is how I played 😄Need lot more practice patient before using revive again. This is not really easy
Fuck patience. Greedy MCoC doesn't deserve it.
How bad are you lmao? I solod this fight FIRST TRY with my herc
Because you were lucky, play. Plain & simple.
Why is everyone in the world so lucky apart from you, cus if that’s so I should have a 7* Hercules in my roster soon cuz we are so lucky
yea im not gonna bother saying anything about the video, at least you got him down
There are plenty of tutorials on TH-cam that breakdown the boss. IMO Mcoc Noob has the best guides. I soloed the fight on the first try with Hercules. It’s all perspective. Removing Herc’s in mortality doesn’t make him less ideal for the fight.
One, he isnt. Two, Kabam taking away Herc's immortality is more anti-Herc shit. That wouldve REALLY lessensed revive usage for this fight.
What would have lessened revives is understanding the fight completely before going in…
@@coop4440😂😂😂
Man tell me about it. I'm an average player and it cost me 10 or so revives on initial completion. AI sometimes won't work in your favor and you're going in fucking circles trying to break his armor. Last 2 fights will be easier but surely not itemless.
This fight is as easy as it seems lmaooo
lol bro cant play the game and needs hercs immo + how would the game be fun if there wasn't gimmicks. aren't nodes gimmicks then?
Those gimmicks ARENT fun. They only serve to make people spend money for revives. And as long as Herc is the best one for these Acts, why SHOULDNT I use him?
You say I cant play, but youre suggesting I shouldnt have used Herc, and instead handicap myself with someone else that wouldve sucked & made this fight longer. That's masochism(& stubbornness), not skill.
@@Walt_Xander94 tbh, if you play this game only to use hercules and barrel your way through content, then why play this game at all. this game is about collecting champions and being able to use all of them in different situations. if you can use herc for everything, then whats the point of other champions. also doom can do almost everything as well 🤣
@@Walt_Xander94use venom
@@Walt_Xander94aren’t suppose to be fun, suppose to be hard, the game can’t just glaze you from start to end, it needs some sort of challenge, ur just dickriding Hercules, so what he cant do everything, so what u have to spend units (which u can totally get for free)
I actually soloed him with herc. I just looked up a video of the fight and how the specials and how he works and it was pretty easy and i am no where near an amazing player. If you can evade the special 1 and play with the charges then it is easy. Yes it's nit that easy as people show since i didn't even had half of my health while finishing the fight😂 also the video i checked isn't a guide it was just a video of the fight and then i read the abilities in game
I used herc….. 1-2 revives for the last two runs, did fully heal though
Mcoc noob bro watch his vid so simple
Fuck his videos, and others. The fight is NOT simple as those solo vids make it seem, because of the damn gimmicks.
@@Walt_Xander94maybe if you actually watch the videos, it actually explains the gimmicks for you so you can understand them. How dense can you be lmfao
@@Walt_Xander94yeah no the fight is actually simple if you just use your brain. I needed revs on the first try cuz i had trouble dexing his specials but i took him down without revs on the 2nd try when exploring. He's the best boss they've done and it was fun fighting him lmao
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Revive hog? That's a bit too much yes i nearly didn't get the solo but i still managed to solo him but still even if i dies with herc another champ would have killed him with ease
Its not. If it wasnt for the boss gimmick, revives wouldnt be needed
@@Walt_Xander94 that's what I am saying I didn't need any revives🤷♂️so did many other players and I am f2p as well
the gold problem? solved by the new feature of being able to sell your t4basic for gold. You get a hefty amount for each of em.
For NOW. I got tons of gold, but knowing Kabam, they'll nerf those gold amounts eventually.
It’s so easyyyyyyy bro I nearly soloed
Keyword being NEARLY. So you just proved my point. You had to figure out how the gimmick worked.
@@Walt_Xander94of course we have to know how the gimmick works before fighting we just can't go into a big boss battle thinking like he is a even quest boss
Bro I died only 2 times on my first try against the boss with little knowledge about how the fight would go. I soloed him the rest of my paths. Respectfully, you might just not understand the fight well and are blaming the wrong things here…
The fact that you died in your first run, means the fight wasnt easy as it seems. Dont know why you mentioned other paths. I sure as hell have no intention of doing that.
The fight is just more gimmicky, P2W bs.
@@Walt_Xander94why would anyone play the game if there wasnt a chance of dying. literally the point of the game is to avoid dying. So yes, only dying a couple times in your first try against the latest story mode boss does make it an easy boss
I have to agree. I think bosses like the Grandmaster, Bahamut, The Collector are more challenging than Cerastes. The biggest thing with Cerastes is that you have to make sure your doing different kinds of attacks so you don’t over charge any one piece of his armor. Also baiting his SP1 as it’s the easiest to avoid. His SP2 is a bit harder to dex.
Also, when he goes into overdrive, just intercept his attacks to deal a massive burst of damage and you can move on to the next phase until he is dead.
@@Walt_Xander94that’s about right, I know how to do everything in the world before I’ve ever tried it
Cgr is better than herc i would say for this foght
@@PrabhjotSeengat-z5l I doubt that. I went back & 100% the quest. I had other hard hitters, but Herc certainly did most of the work because of his Strength charges.
If the fights didn't had gimmicks or whatever every freakin boss fight would feel the same. The game already feels boring. Fights like these are what keeps things interesting once in a while. Just get good and stop relying on herc all the time lmao.
Some fights being dmg sponges & revive hogs, and having gimmicks doesnt make the game interesting at all.
Shove that no-life, get good response. You really spout that in regards to a PAY TO WIN game, btw.
As long as Kabam cheats, Herc will always be the go-to, because every other champ is crap in comparison. No one else can bypass alot of Kabam's bs, because they cant rival Herc's damage & immortality.
And only masochists WOULDNT use Herc, if they have him.
@@Walt_Xander94I think you’re just garbage at the game buddy, I am a free to play player and always have been, I used a 5 star CGR for this fight and I completed 3 whole phases with him before getting distracted and dying.
Your messages and your entire video reeks of crybaby syndrome, you’re malding this hard over a damn mobile game and especially so over a particularly easy boss fight, it is quite literally one of the easiest bosses we’ve had in a while.
You’re one of those people who absolutely can not get through any piece of content without Hercules and even though you have him you STILL can’t get through content without crying, if that doesn’t say “I have major skill issues” then I don’t know what does.
Like Jesus Christ buddy this gameplay is almost embarrassing to watch considering your progression level lol, you also have a severe lack of understanding how Cerastes actually works, maybe read into his kit a little bit before engaging in the fight?
This fight is hardly a damage sponge nor a revive hog. All you need to do is change up your gameplan a little bit and not just parry and smack 5 times and repeat. If you can't follow simple instructions, you're the one being an ass here lmao.
Kabam has a freaking lot of issues they need to sort out, but this fight or any of the fights in act 8 ain't one of em. People like you just complain about every little thing and it's hella annoying.
I did it in 2:39 on my channel
This
@@nexusuxen ah 😂
they are mods so its easy for them