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Fallingstar Beast Fight Strategy

The Best Tips for Fallingstar Beast:

• Any Throwing Pot can be used to hit its face while it charges to knock it to the ground, briefly stunning it.
• Use ashes that deal elemental damage, like the Twinsage Sorcerer or Latenna.
• Use Hoarfrost Stomp as an easy source of magic damage.
• Almost all of its attacks do Physical damage, so bring a Shield with 100% Physical Resistance

Melee Users

Play it Safe: Fallingstar Beasts have high defense, lots of health, strong attacks, and quick movement. Focus on staying alive and learning to dodge its various attacks. Try to stay two or three boss-lengths away and wait for good openings where you can get in one or two attacks, particularly on its vulnerable face. Even when it raises its head, you can often hit its face with a jump attack.

Critical Theory: When you break Fallingstar Beast's stance and get the opportunity for a critical hit, don't take it right away. It'll stay down for four full seconds, during which its face is totally vulnerable. Get in a couple good whacks before you do the critical hit by using heavy attacks or jump attacks to avoid triggering the crit too early.

One of the special moves that this boss can do is the Gravitas where you see it rise up onto its hind legs, then falls down with a burst of purple magic which pulls you in if you're nearby, then raises its head and summons rocky spikes out of the ground around it. This move can be dodged by sprinting away when you see it rear up, but this attack doesn't do much damage so it may be worth just trading hits. The next one is the Gravity Bolts, this is a move where its mandible glows purple lightning as lightning gathers under your feet, then lifts its head and calls a small cluster of stone spikes up where the lightning lingers. Then, the boss will repeat the move in a smaller area, then finally in a much larger area. To dodge this, you need to print to avoid the first two hits, then sprint to the edge of the area of the third hit and roll as you approach the boundary. Try to end up near the boss to get in a few hits as it recovers.

Magic and Ranged Users

Dodge and Weave: The most important thing to do is avoid death. This is a long battle against a strong foe, so focus on learning to dodge or block its attacks and only get in your own damage during one of the Fallingstar Beast's long recovery periods. Be patient, don't get greedy, and eventually you'll take it down.

Fallingstar Beast Attacks & Counters

Attack	Description	Counter
Head Swing	Swings its head in various directions to hit the player with its mandibles	Maintain distance or dodge toward its sides and get a few hits in while it finishes attacking
Tail Sweep	Pivots, may pause for a bit, then sweeps its tail along the ground to hit the player	Wait until you see the tail actually make contact with the ground, then roll through it
Hind Stomp	Rears onto its front legs, then slams down its hind legs. Usually used when you're behind it	Dodge backwards when you see its legs fold up towards its torso
Fore Stomp	Rears onto its hind legs, then slams down its front feet (and sometimes its head as well)	Roll backwards and don't try to punish this, just wait out its combo
Gouge	Spreads its mandibles and shoves them into the ground, then rips them up while moving forward	Roll diagonally forward and to the side
Bite	Hops back and turns its left flank to you, clicking its mandibles together, then lunges down counterclockwise to bite. If it lands, the target is crushed in between before being shoved into the ground and flung away.	Dodge right as soon as you see it start to swoop down, then unlock and get in a few hits on its vulnerable face
Rock Throw	Jams its head into the ground, then yanks it out, throwing forward a spray of rocks.	Either guard or roll forward through the rocks. The rocks fly far, so be ready to roll no matter where you are in the arena
Rock Sweep	Rears its hind legs into the air as it pivots, then sweeps its tail along the ground in the same direction as its pivot kicking rocks into the air	Move towards the Beast and the rocks will often go over your head on their own, but roll into them just in case
Beast Roll	Backs up, then jumps into the air and curls into a ball. After hovering for a moment, crashes down towards the player	Roll to either side as soon as you see it start to descend, then get in a few hits while it recovers
Gravitas	Rises onto its hind legs, then falls down with a burst of purple magic which pulls you in if you're nearby, then raises its head and summons rocky spikes out of the ground around it	You can sprint away when you see it rear up, but this attack doesn't do much damage so it may be worth just trading hits
Gravity Bolt	Its mandible glow purple lightning as lightning gathers under your feet, then lifts its head and calls a small cluster of stone spikes up where the lightning lingers. Does this once more in a small area, then finally in a much larger area	Sprint to avoid the first two hits, then sprint to the edge of the area of the third hit and roll as you approach the boundary. Try to end up near the boss to get in a few hits as it recovers
Charge	Lowers its head, opening its mandibles before charging full-speed forward, doubling back twice.	Run or roll to either side as it approaches, or else hit its face with any attack that deals any amount of stance damage (including spells and throwing pots) to cause it to fall to the ground and give you time to get in several hits.

Fallingstar Beast Notes & Other Trivia

• Three separate Fallingstar Beasts appear in the game, and the rewards scale sharply: Sellia Crystal Tunnel gives 7,600 runes, Altus Plateau 11,000, and the Scaduview encounter 170,000.
• Its elemental negation is 20 against Magic, Fire, Lightning and Holy, versus 35 against every physical type, so elemental damage is meaningfully more effective than raw physical.
• It is immune to Hemorrhage and Frostbite, which rules out the bleed and frost setups that trivialize many other field bosses.
• The face and rump both take 50% bonus damage. Its head stays low through most of its moveset, and a jump attack will still reach the face on the animations where it rears up.
• It cannot be parried, but it has only 100 Stance and is open to a critical hit once stance broken.
• Every version drops gravity-themed material — Gravity Stone Chunk and Gravity Stone Fan in the base game, Gravitational Missile in Scaduview — matching the Falling Star weakness it shares with other gravity enemies.
• Not to be confused with the Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast, a separate and stronger variant fought at Mt. Gelmir.

Additional Fight Strategy

• The run back to this boss is long, so consider putting down a summon sign once you get to the fog gate to get some practice without needing to go all the way back.
• You can use Rot Breath outside the fog gate to kill this Fallingstar Beast off without a fight

Fallingstar Beast Jaw

Gravitational Missile