Skul the hero slayer secrets how to#

At +2500% magic damage, 1 use will quickly end any of the First Hero's phases. I wouldn't have managed the no-hit run without the following: The other skill is useful as an extended and longer lasting forward dodge. I had harvest which deletes about 5% of the boss' life bar when used, but is far more useful for freezing the boss in place while he's taking damage inside fissure of the netherworld or my quintessence. If you have these 2 skulls, the rest of the game will be methodically and patiently killing everything with the reaper's swap attack. You also need a 2nd skull that won't kill anything when you swap to it. This means no item abilities like sprites or inscriptions like volcano or lightning. Key to farming souls is avoiding and discarding items that will deny kills done by the reaper's swap attack. I spent about 2 hours farming nearly 2500 souls with the reaper. Even better: some enemies will produce a 2nd soul when killed with the reaper's swap attack.Ĭertain enemies in the game will continuously spawn more enemies you can use to farm souls.

Enemies killed by the reaper's swap attack (the attack done when pressing to switch to reaper skull) ALWAYS give 1 soul 100% of the time. Enemies killed by the reaper's attacks SOMETIMES give you a soul. Every soul collected gives +1% magic damage. The reaper skull can break the game since it has the ability to collect souls. Reaper skull is extremely rare and typically won't be found early game. This solution is going to be tl dr, but its all useful info. I basically murdered the First Hero in 10 seconds with the following:

Skul the hero slayer secrets how to#

I'm sure you've looked up videos on youtube on how to get this achievement, and you watched someone fight the final boss with an awful skull for a solid minute somehow magically evading everything including the BS 'how TF am I expected to dodge this?' full screen attacks. The best way evade these attacks and get this (and any other no-hit boss achievement) is to defeat him before he can use them which, really, is totally dependent on how lucky you were on your run. Especially for the 2nd part which sometimes bugs out and he'll immediately go into full screen attacks if you hurt him fast enough. In particular, the 1st and 2nd phases have attacks that fill the screen blowing so much crap everywhere so quickly, a no-hit win here will be elusive. All 3 have attacks that trigger once the health bar hits a certain %. This very much comes in handy with The First Hero. If you do die, the game will autosave immediately ending your run. As long as you don't die, you can quit the game and restart the same level you got to. One of those exploits is save scumming as outlined in Skeptical Mario's solution.

I managed to pull this off, but not without taking full advantage of exploits. The dev console was patched out, so you'll have to get it legit now. *Occasionally, the first set of items sold by the collector will change the first time the Black Market is reloaded. Reloading the special room with the huge chest randomizes the contents of the smaller chests, but not the contents of the huge chest. Given that there are 36 different inscriptions, I don't recommend farming too heavily to get something you want. Random inscriptions on the Prince's Box and the Clone Stamp are random with each reload (though the items' appearance is not). The item duplicated by the Slime Prince is the same every time, but if you destroy that item first, something else will be duplicated you can go down the queue destroying more items until you get an optimal result.

Reloading the level in this way does change random outcomes of freed NPCs: Reloading the level in this way does not re-seed end-of-level rewards, or the items available in the Black Market (most of the time*), including the refreshed inventory. Some random things are different each time the game is reloaded. This makes it possible to practice individual bosses and keep your current run from ending badly. If you quit to dashboard before dying, when you restart the game will load at the beginning of the current level.

These are general notes on save scumming, which I used to practice and defeat other bosses. Note: This solution is not specific to the First Hero boss.