As you progress through the main story of Ys X: Nordics, you'll eventually land on Haze Island after getting lost in the Whiteshade for a bit. This island will be full of mysteries, and you'll also unlock an ability called Mana Sense here. As you reach its end, you'll be confronted by an intimidating boss called La Belladonna.
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La Belladonna Overview And Attack Pattern
By the time you reach La Belladonna in Ys X: Nordics, you'll already be accustomed to most of the mechanics in the game, and it'll stop throwing easier enemies at you. La Belladonna is one of the first fights that'll take proper dodging and parrying if you want to have a chance at winning since you can't simply slash your way into victory.
The boss features a respectable 34,715 HP with 173 STR and 223 DEF. It'll also be fairly difficult to understand what attack it's performing, but here's what you can expect:
Attack Name
Description
Speed Attack
This will be one of the first few attacks performed by the boss, and it summons various projectiles all around the battlefield while having a blue glow on its body. Simply sprint through these projectiles to dodge the attack.
If you successfully dodge one of these for the first time, you'll be able to trigger an animation, which will take a big chunk of the boss' durability.
Shroud Attack
In this attack, the boss performs a spin before disappearing in some pink mist. After a few seconds, it reappears near your active character and performs multiple spin attacks that you can parry.
Curse Application
La Belladonna will regularly trigger black waves on the ground, which will apply Curse to your characters. If the Curse bar fills up, their HP will be reduced to one.
Minion Spawn
After losing a certain amount of HP, La Belladonna will go back into pink mist and spawn a bunch of smaller enemies that you'll have to defeat. Once defeated, the boss will reappear with its spin attacks.
Once this attack is performed, you'll start seeing the boss' hands glowing dark, which means it'll start applying Curse to your characters with almost every attack.
Grab Attack
After the minion spawning phase, the boss will commonly head toward your active character with its belly out. If you see it, prepare yourself since it'll try to grab you.
If the grab is successful, the boss stabs your character multiple times, quickly building Curse.
Orb Attack
Sometimes, the boss might spawn some black orbs on the field that slowly start moving toward your character. You can easily parry these orbs if timed well.
How To Defeat La Belladonna
La Belladonna doesn't have a big variety of attacks, but most of her attacks are fairly difficult to dodge. Unless you're going for a perfect run, you should expect some hits and prepare for it by having a bunch of healing potions and solid medicine that can remove all the ailments since there's none specifically for Curse.
The second thing you'll need for this fight is AoE abilities. One of the best choices at this point in the game will be the Dualuces Burst duo skill. If you've been keeping track of your Release progress, you'll likely already have this unlocked and can switch it out in the skills menu from the main menu.
While you can switch out skills in the middle of battle, it's still recommended to do this preparation beforehand.
La Belladonna has quite a lot of downtime between its attacks, so the best way to defeat the boss is to use its attacks to build your revenge gauge and then attack it back in the downtime. Once defeated, the boss will reward you with 12,676 EXP with some gold and Crystal Shards. You'll also be able to get Rosalind back on the ship.
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