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Wonder Momo (1987)

Duration: 4:45

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-Hoops thrown
-Peace, love, and happiness
-COOOL solo
-Unknown
-No damage

Ah yes, the probably coolest looking Undine in all Tales (imo) which is way easier than the last two fights.

At least when Undine is alone; the beginning of the fight is the worst part thanks to her minions Patrick Star and...Squidward? (not really, but-). The starfish is very quick and likely to sneak some easy hits in, so I get rid of him first. How quickly depends on what Undine decides to do, and since the idle time for bosses varies above 50% HP, you can't really force her into doing something. The tentacle enemy is slow, but has good reach for just an assisting enemy. If you want to make it through unharmed here, it's crucial you don't just pay attention to the enemy you target, but use that graph in the upper left to see where everyone is and what they do.

After that, Undine is cake aside from one or two things. She has four spells: Ice Needle, Ice Tornado, Mealstrom (which is a rare occurrence), and Aqua Cannon. The latter one can be recognized if Undine approaches you before casting the spell (provided she is away far enough) since she needs to be close enough to you for it to hit. Since all of those aside from Maelstrom are cast in less than a second, you can't take too many risks. Her physical attacks are no threat aside form the one where she uses her sword as a bow. Those projectiles have ass range and home in on you on top of that. While you can avoid it at a certain distance with a double jump, it's just safer to run past Undine or be farther away than the aforementioned distance. That's why you'd want to keep her in the corners most of the time; let her come at you, and if you see her starting the bow attack while you're in a corner yourself, just run past her. Running past her is safe 90% of the time anyway - every single move can be avoided by running towards her aside from that one she gains when under 50% HP. Those waves created by Undine snapping her fingers (wtf Namco, how cool do you want to make her look?) need to be jumped over and need semi-good reactions.

Rant time: that snipping-fingers-and-creating-three-waves move is actually a rather rare Arte. Compare this to NDX' other "super-attacks" which can't be interrupted and you'll see how reasonably the likelihood of it happening is programmed for Undine. But of course, it's one of those EZPZ moves that can be avoided pretty easily anyway. It should be the fucking other around, Namco: make the stupid-ass-fuck-to-avoid Artes rare and make the easier ones more common. Talk about balance in modern Tales games...

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