Arkham - VMD SS Strat

I cant get any subs to work, youtube just totally wrecks them and makes them illegible. But this is a perfect run of the boss, no damage for the finish.

As promised, here is the general strategy.

-------Part1--------
- Use Force Edge and Beowulf Combos combined with spammed Summoned Swords to weakon him
- Eventually he'll turn yellow, and fire an eel thing, pull back with Trick Down
- Run left or right and jump to avoid it as it goes past, and Air Trick back to Arkham
- If your too slow, he'll shoot 3 more
- for his minions, the Summon Swords are your best friend
- What you want to do is walk backwards and get them into a line, this way the swords will kill all the ones in front while the ones in back rush forward

------Part 2------
- For the main event, stay as far away as possible, let Vante do all the work.
- You can combine Lock-on + Forward (Towards Arkham) or Back (Away from him) to make him do different combos, Forward = Rapid Slash, Back = Upper Slash
- Make Vante use Rapid Slash when he gets too far away, it does some good damage too
- In part 2, Arkham has 2 attacks, he turns Red (Rage mode) and shoots 3 eels while flinging his arms everywhere, the arms can hit you, so keep your distance
- for the 2nd attack, he just sits still, and fires 3-5 eels, depending on how much life he has left
- he has other attacks, but only if you get close
- near the end of the fight, Arkham will shoot 5 eels while siting still, then go straight into Rage mode (turn Red) meaning you'll have 8 eels coming your way.
- For the minions, run around the edge of the level in circles and get Vante to teleport (press style button) behind you and attack the minions following you
- so long as you keep running, and teleporting Vante when he finishes his combo, you'll be safe
- when there's only a few left, you can resort back to part 1 methods to kill them
- Be very cautious about using Rapid Slash, in either part
- Rapid Slash is good, and a Double Rapid Slash (you and Vante in unision) is even better
- However, Rapid Slash can easily run an SS run if not used carefully
- Also keep in mind the minions will go absolutely nuts during the end of the fight
- Not only are there more of them, they're faster, and absolutely bloodthirsty, so be cautious.

- Thats pretty much it, good luck with the fight.
- Also, if you want a copy of the full video with subtitles, I uploaded it to my filefront page: http://files.filefront.com/Arkham_VMD_SS_stratwmv/;7422865;;/fileinfo.html

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• DMC3
• DMC3SE
• DMD
• VMD
• Dante
• Vergil
• Must
• Die
• Arkham
• Strat
• Strategy
• Boss
• Ownage
• Devil
• May
• Cry
• Mission
• 19

[MaxAndEmilytate]

Why not use Judgement Cut during the second phase? Marty did that for VWDM19. :S

[Broly2012]

really? Never thought of that, I just stay back like Dante's method. I'll give it a try though.

[DevilMayAsian]

Some questions:

Are you insane?

What the hell happened in 1:25?

Will you do a DMD SS strat of this fight?

[Broly2012]

lol, I know, I got lucky I guess. I saw the swipe coming and tried to jump and killer Bee, my controller is messed so sometimes I press jump and nothing happens, so I did the 3rd hit of Beowulf's combo instead, somehow didnt get hit, so I kept going XD. Dante's version will be similar to this, no subs and a writeup at the side but I'll definately make one.

[myspacceer]

say did chu use the double rapid rapid slash in the vid?

if ya did when was it?

[Broly2012]

found 1 at 5:32, Im sure there are others though.

[GearSaber]

Why Couldn't Arkham Turn Into Something Cool Like Sparda?! That Would Be Soooo Sweet! But Nooooo. He Had To Turn into A Purple Gelatunus Freak. 5stars

[amitkatz]

he's a blob he doesn't have a body structure

[Coredusk]

@DevilMayAsian I've had a similar situation, I think if you're enough to his side his arm just doesn't hit you.. ?

[nightcrawlercyp]

a blob with hands and an eye...

[nightcrawlercyp]

never tried it... but probably they would wotk if you used a gamepad... with a keyboard is more difficult ...

[nightcrawlercyp]

nevan is not available when playing with Vergil ...

[iceleon25]

to raise the stylish points

i always get ssstylish

after i use it on his minions

[camprey]

his body structure confuses me a lot....

[HaoPK]

Holy shit. Good luck doing this with Dante, haha.

[Cujo7591]

it took me 20 minutes to beat arkham on DMD mode it pissed me off