Kardmi Kemu Town 9th Boss Battle Guide

To defeat the 9th boss in Kemu Town in Kardmi, prioritize defensive positioning, keep at least one-third of your stamina gauge full to evade multi-hit combos, and save your high-cost burst skills exclusively for knockdown stagger windows. Outside of stagger states, the boss has high damage mitigation and hyper-armor that lets it strike through your attacks.

Team Composition and Roles

Do not run three dedicated damage dealers. The encounter requires dedicated roles to manage boss attention, safely build posture strain, and burst down health during vulnerable states.

Keep your frontline anchor active during neutral phases to bait attacks away from your other units. Once the boss commits to a heavy animation, swap in your poise breaker to build the stagger meter without exhausting your defensive stamina.

Stamina Discipline and Evading Attacks

Spamming dodge rolls drains your stamina and leaves you vulnerable to gap-closers and sweeping cleaves. Manage your evasion with these habits:

• Roll toward the wind-up: When the boss initiates a wide horizontal swing, roll diagonally forward beneath the attack rather than backward to clear the trailing hitbox.
• Wait out the entire combo: The boss frequently chains two basic swipes into an overhead slam. Do not counterattack after the first or second swipe; wait until the ground slam completes.
• Walk to reposition: Conserve stamina by walking laterally during tracking animations, reserving your active dodge roll for the actual strike release.
• Keep a safety threshold: Never allow your stamina bar to drop below one-third capacity so you always have an emergency dash available.

Executing the Stagger Phase

Monitor the posture gauge located beneath the boss's health bar. As the gauge nears capacity, hold your primary skill resources and build energy on your burst creature.

1. Trigger the knockdown: Fill the posture bar to knock the boss down.
2. Swap immediately: Switch to your burst finisher as soon as the knockdown animation begins.
3. Unload burst abilities: Direct your strongest skills and elemental bursts into the boss's weak points.
4. Disengage before recovery: Back away as soon as the boss starts to stand up. It consistently executes an immediate wake-up knockback attack to clear melee space.

Handling the Late Phase

When the boss reaches low health, its attack speed increases and the recovery windows between combos shorten. Greedily attempting to finish off the remaining health bar with basic attacks often leads to a wipe.

If your active creature takes heavy damage, do not attempt to heal in place while being pursued. Sprint across the arena, exploit the boss's turn-radius delay to create distance, and swap in a fresh creature during a missed boss lunge to reset the encounter rhythm safely.