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How legend fights work.
Every legend has its own ways of hurting you. Each one also has a signature blow with a warning, and two stages that make the fight harder as its health falls.
Signature blows
Each legend has one signature blow that you can learn to read. Before it lands, the game draws a warning on the ground. Leave the warning area and you are safe; stay in it and the legend hurts you.
- Slam: a red mark on the ground under you, filling as the blow comes. Leave it before it lands.
- Nova: a ring round the legend. Be outside the ring when it breaks.
- Line: a lane from the legend toward you. Step out of the lane.
- Volley: three marks round you, one after another. Move between them.
The warning lasts from about a second to one and a half seconds, depending on the legend. Signature blows are small beside the legend's own attacks, from about 10 to 16 damage, but they come regularly, so learn the rhythm.
Stages
Each fight has three stages, set by how much health the legend has left.
| Stage | Health left | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Above two thirds | The usual rhythm |
| 2 | Two thirds or less, but above a third | A ring-burst warning, then signature blows come a fifth sooner and hit 20 per cent harder |
| 3 | A third or less | A ring-burst warning, then signature blows come nearly two fifths sooner and hit 40 per cent harder |
Many legends also change when they are at half health or below, becoming faster or more aggressive. Each legend's own page says what changes.
Health bar
A legend's name and health bar show while you fight it. Its pips show the stage it is on.
Trophies
Every legend leaves a trophy when it is slain: a hard, dense piece of its own material. It is a good head for a weapon or a tool. Every player who is within about 90 metres when it falls has the trophy counted in their Collection, under Boss trophies.
Dying
If a legend kills you, the death screen names it. Killing a legend also leaves loot on the ground near where it fell.
Coming back
After a legend is slain, another of its kind waits for a while before it can come again. See Lairs and how legends come back.
See every legend for the list.
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