Dirty Colossus

Details

Stage - 5-2

Soul - Eroded Demon's Soul

Defense Table

Health	3367
Normal	166
Slash	166
Blunt	166
Pierce	208
Magic	134
Fire	64
Poison	Immune
Plague	Immune
Bleed	Immune

Weakness

• Dirty Colossus is significantly weak to fire, even more significantly when his armor-like covering is broken.
• Dirty Colossus is also weak to magic.
• Melee also seems to be much more effective given his defensive fly swarms.

Attack Pattern

• Three hit melee combo that does moderate damage and will knock the player down.
• Curls inward similar to Leechmonger and gathers flies. The colossus will explode shorty afterwards, but there is plenty of time to get out the way.
• Holds out one arm and fires a barrage of flies. Can be easily rolled past.

Killing the Flies

If you do get covered in flies, they will eat away at you for a long time and do a fairly large amount of damage. There are several torches in the boss area which, when touched, will burn all the flies off of you. If you do it quickly enough, the fire damage from the torch can be avoided. Regardless, the damage from the fire is much less than that of the fly swarms.

Enemy ID and Stats

The information below reflects the game's hard programmed values for enemy stats and values. However, these values don't always align precisely with values seen in game. This is due to Special Effect Multipliers (similar to NPCs) and World Tendency Multipliers.

Name	ID	Location	HP	Souls	Defense						Resistance
					Physical	Slash	Blunt	Thrust	Magic	Fire	Poison	Plague	Bleed
Dirty Colossus	508000	5-2	1820	33433	119	119	119	144	96	46	999	999	999

Special Effect Multipliers

Special Effect Multipliers are blanket multipliers that are applied to NPCs, including Black Phantoms. For example, if the HP multiplier is "x2", the NPC will have twice the health that the player would have if they had identical stats and equipment. The NPC's attack multipliers are applied before the damage is affected by the player's defenses and resistances. Damage received by the NPC is slightly more complicated. When the player does damage to the NPC, the raw damage is put into a formula and computed against the NPC's resistances. These resistances are multiplied by the values in the Physical/Magic/Fire Defense columns before calculation. Afterward, the remaining damage is reduced by resistances, it is then multiplied by the Damage reduction multipliers in the Physical/Magic/Fire Reduction columns. The output damage remaining is the dealt to the NPC.

Stats

HP	Stamina Damage
x1.85	x1.44

Attack

Physical Attack	Magic Attack	Fire Attack
x1.85	x1.85	x1.85

Damage Reduction and Resistance

Physical Reduction	Magic Reduction	Fire Reduction	Physical Defense	Magic Defense	Fire Defense
-	-	-	x1.4	x1.4	x1.4

Effect Resistance

Poison Resistance	Plague Resistance	Bleed Resistance
Immune	Immune	Immune

Strategies

Melee

• This guy is really easy to kill with melee attacks. Just run behind him and start hacking away.
• Turpentine , Black Turpentine or a Dragon weapon are highly recommended since the boss is weak to Fire damage.
• Light Weapon and Cursed Weapon are also very useful (just watch your HP with Cursed Weapon). Make sure to rotate when he swings, but his punches should never hit you as long as you stay behind him.
• Every now and then he will stop and charge up to do an area effect attack. He will pull his arms in and almost curl up into a ball, and massive amounts of flies will buzz around him. He then shoots this sphere of bugs outward, kind of like God's Wrath, and it will knock you back and do a good chunk of HP if you're close to him. As soon as you see him start charging, run or roll backward a few times, wait for the attack to end, then run up behind him and start attacking again.

Bow from the Entrance

• As soon as you enter the fog gate you should be able to see Dirty Colossus in the distance.
• If you stand right on the fog gate, the wall to the left sticks out a little, enough so that you can hide behind it and it completely protects you from the fly swarms he shoots at you.
• Once you engage the Colossus and get him to shoot his first fly swarm you should be able to walk to the right and get 2 arrows off before he shoots again.
• Sometimes three shots will work, sometimes you get hit with flies and then you have to run down to the torch, so it's safer to stick with two.
• Just stay behind the wall when he shoots the swarm, move out to fire then roll back to the wall.
• With the Lava Bow it can take approximately 50 Heavy Arrows to put him down.
• Make sure you dress light or are able to roll in whatever you have equipped, the two shots per isn't exact and sometimes you need to move fast.
• Alternatively, when you enter, move to the left behind the wooden pole, if positioned correctly, you can shoot arrows without getting hit at all.
• You can stand behind one of the torches while you pelt him with arrows.
• If positioned properly, the torch will protect you from the flies.
• If you do get hit with one of the blasts, touch the torch to burn it away.

Bow from Opposite the Entrance

• When first entering hide behind the first torch, draw him close, then run to the other side of the area.
• Stand practically on the fog gate to the third boss.
• Position yourself in the middle of the dirt below the wooden planks.
• Move right up against the wooden planks and fire away with any bow.
• His fly swarms will completely miss you and smash in the planks in front of you.
• It's possible down him with less than 60 arrows on NG+ with a Lava Bow.

Firestorm

• Like most enemies and bosses of large size, Dirty Colossus is also very weak to Firestorm.
• Dodge his projectile attack by locking on and rolling or sprinting, then let loose on him with Firestorm.
• Take a few Fresh Spice or Old Spice with you and you'll have him taken care of in no time.

HyperMode

• You will have to go below 30% of your HP, and then equip Clever Rat's Ring and Morion Blade in your left-hand slot.
• Since you are close to a poisonous swamp, let yourself infect by poison, then eat Royal Lotus when below 30% HP.
• The Magic Sword "Makoto" also helps in the process.
• It's heavily advised to have Second Chance when going in Hyper mode, since most bosses will be able to take you down in 1 or 2 hits since you have low HP.
• In HyperMode, just run towards him and dodge his (by running to either left or right, or rolling) "Flies-Swarm-Spray".
• Normally, he'll spend too much time waiting between his "Flies-Swarm-Spray" and his melee attack, so just cast Firestorm immediately when he's close enough.
• If you feel unsure or you think he'll interrupt you, then run around him in circles and cast Firestorm after his melee attack.
• There's no way he's able to survive Firestorm , not even with low Magic level and in NG+ (and beyond)

Fire Spray

• Constantly cast the spell Fire Spray.
• Lock on to Dirty Colossus and move so that you are going in a circle around him.
• You will constantly do damage to him and he will never hurt you - unless you need to stop to replenish health or MP, at which point you may get hit with a barrage of fly swarms.
• The fly swarms can occasionally change direction enough to hit you while strafing using this method.

Soul Ray Shortcut

• Soul Ray makes this fight a breeze due to its range.
• Not only does it ignores the Colossus's armor, but because you can lock on to the Colossus immediately after entering the fog gate, you can hit him with Soul Ray and stay in the entrance way - out of range of his fly swarms or other attacks.
• Have a Fragrant Ring on or have some spices if you want the fight to go faster.
• Alternatively (if you want more of a challenge), with a low equip burden and relatively high intelligence, you can roll two or three times to dodge his fly swarms, cast Soul Ray once or twice, and repeat until dead.
• Equip the Fragrant Ring or a crescent weapon to regenerate your mp while dodging.