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Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon (2023)

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You first encounter the Jabberwock at the end of the Windy Knot in Chapter Six.

The Jabberwock is hinted at throughout your exploration through the roars and the numerous claw marks you'll find on the trees. When you finally fight it, you're already looking forward to a boss fight.

You're not supposed to win this fight. Its armor makes it invincible for now, so the only thing you can do is let it defeat you.

Second Encounter
Cereza Uses Thorn Vice On The Jabberwock For The First Time
Near the end of Wyvern Falls and during Chapter Seven, you'll encounter the Jabberwock again after breaking the second dam.

You can deal some damage this time by using Thorn Vice when prompted. Restraining it with Thorn Vice and attacking it will break its armor.

Just when you think you have an opening, the Jabberwock will flee and end this instance of combat prematurely. However, it won't be far. You can chase it down and fight it for real after breaking the third dam.

For the final battle:
Phase One is the simplest part of this fight. You'll want to:

Abuse Cheshire's Stone Form Stomp as much as possible.
Stun him momentarily with Cereza here and there (but keep her mostly in the back).
Wait for it to use its Charging Roar and use Thorn Vice and Slash to punish.
With these strategies in mind, dodge its long list of attacks and keep Cereza out of the line of fire. Its damage is quite high, so you can only afford to get hit a few times before you're either dead or chugging Healing Tonics.

Stone Cheshire can tank most of the blows, so have him get up close and personal with the Jabberwock until his Magic Gauge is depleted. In Hug Mode, you can recharge and send him back out when you're ready to wash, rinse, and repeat until you reach Phase Two at around 70 percent of his health.

Phase 2:
The floor is now water, and each of your bobbing platforms can go under and severely limit your mobility.

The Jabberwock's attack list has only increased, and all of its attacks from Phase One also carry over into this phase as well. These attacks and wherever it lands will cause the affected platforms to sink beneath the water. If Cereza or Cheshire step into these sections, their speed will be heavily reduced.

Stone Cheshire can block some of the projectiles from Cereza, so placing him in front of her at all times will be a good strategy.

Cereza Thorn Binds The Jabberwock While Stone Cheshire Stomps
Additionally, his Stone Form is naturally slow, and the Jabberwock's high mobility can make it difficult for Cheshire to keep up in this arena. Therefore, abusing Hug Cheshire and having Cereza carry him to areas where he can fight the Jabberwock will take away a lot of the difficulty in movement. It will also keep his Magic Gauge high throughout the fight.

Phase 3:
Thankfully, you have time to run over behind a pillar before the attack. Wait for it to end, and don't worry about the pillar. It will only break once the attack ends.

After the beam dissipates, the fight carries as if it were in Phase Two until the last tenth of the health bar, so treat this section as if it were still the previous phase.

It'll charge its ultimate beam at the last ten percent again, but this one will move. You'll need to slowly move Cereza around her pillar to avoid being caught off-guard by this attack. Afterward, you may return to combat as if it were Phase Two again.

Phase 4:
This portion of the fight is less combat-heavy but will still require you to keep on your toes.

The Jabberwock might not be attacking you anymore, but it still will occasionally summon missiles that you will have to dodge. These missiles start appearing after you climb the first pillar, grow the flowers on the cage above, and descend the ladder.


Run across the platforms while dodging these attacks until you reach the second ladder. Dodge one more time for the missiles to disappear before climbing the ladder.

After you grow this portion of flowers at the top, you'll be brought into a button-mashing cutscene where you can finally silence the tongue of the Jabberwock with a snicker-snack of your R button.

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