Raven Beak Boss Fight Metroid Dread Strategy Guide 

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Dude, I was about to fucking destroy this game with my hands in a rage of anguish. You saved me, I never would tought that the big fucking ball in phase 3 can be destroyed with a super bomb. In fact I think phase 3 is easier than phase 2.

If it wasn't for this I would've given up on the game and just RU-vid the ending! Thanks bro

Whew, did not know you could counter his red dash. Would’ve never beat him if I hadn’t known that and you can power slide under him his 2nd phase. You sir are a hero for this guide.

didn't realize you can powerbomb his sun attack. Managed to get to phase 3 with full HP but the sun was destroying me.

If you don't want to trigger raven beak's golden armor, here's the simplest thing to do. Only fire at raven beak during the cut scenes, third time is a charm. Once you get this, he's actually one of the easier bosses.

Amazing boss. He wiped the floor with my face many times, but I finally did it. Thankfully, once I reached the third phase I won. The second one is the real pain.

Your advice is so much better than the stuff I’ve heard on other videos. You rock, thank you! Phase 3 has been killin me

So many good tips in this! I had NO idea about the supernovas being able to be destroyed. I thought they were invincible and got so mad! Also props for pointing out all the counter opportunities, really shortened phase 1 for me! And I never thought of snagging a lock-on while spinning around him in phase 2, but that helped a lot.

"You see Raven Beak, You're not dealing with the average Samus Aran anymore...."

Having spent so many hours figuring out the previous bosses, I'm glad I checked this out. It would have taken me days. Thank you.

Flash Shift is one of the most useful power-ups EVER in Metroid series.

Before the guide I died 7 times once I saw the guide I passed it to the first time, knowing what to do really helps

This is a great resource and really well-produced!

I couldn't beat this game until I saw your video. Thank you

I was about to give up on this until I followed your advice. I managed to finish him with most of my health intact after multiple attempts. The power bomb helped and dealt with the sun orbs swiftly 👍

I know I’m late to the party but thank you because of this walkthrough video I finally beat Metroid dread!! Such an awesome game! Definitely almost gave up a few times throughout but I pushed through and it feels good to say I finally beat this game!!

Man, this boss was driven me nuts. I wouldn't have beaten it without your guide. Thanks a lot

By far the best guide on how to beat Raven Beak. Even the other guides, it still seemed somewhat impossible - your tips are golden.

Lol holy ****!!!! You are an absolute beast, man! I can only imagine what you went through to be able to record this without taking any damage. I've exhausted my patience with this fight for the day so I'll study this game plan and try again later. Thanks!

Ugggh! When he turns gold!!!! That part drove me crazy. Thank for showing us the counter.

Seeing you get through this fight without taking any damage at all makes me want to cry. I’ve been losing this fight for two days straight, have lost count of how many times I’ve failed even after watching all these strategy guides. I’m thinking it might be better to just give up and watch how the game ends on RU-vid.

Top gameplay and easy to follow strats and guides. Happy I stumbled upon this miracle channel now have another Metroid game down in the books loved this game so much

Faced him for the 1st time and immediately got mopped 😂 thank God for YT guides 😅😅

one of the best bosses in any game truly. challenging but fair and this game has such fun mechanics, all the looking around for items and stuff finally leading up to an intense fight.

Thank you so much. This is now the first Metroid game I have ever beaten. That was a hell of an ending. Left as many questions as answers.

Thank you very much for this guide. After 2 hours I had given up and exited my game. On a whim I decided to look up a guide to help for the next time I played and found your video. My dumb ass didn't realize that you could use a power bomb to take out the large orb. Even worse is I hadn't collected many of the tanks in the game so I was at a health disadvantage. After viewing your video I tried the boss once more and beat it first try, with full health to boot. For that, I will do something I never do which is like your video. I will also subscribe even though I wouldn't have otherwise.

Power bombs for the sun thing, of course! Thanks for that, could do the first 2 phases fine, beat him next try after seeing that

You know that boss is ridiculous when the youtube video is 8 minutes long

Thanks man! That was very helpful, especially at some of his attacks, i didn't know how to evade them nor that with the super bomb. Cheers!

I have not beat him yet, but I have to say fighting this boss is exhilarating. The events before this just adds so much depth to the fight.

This was so useful. Thank you. Without this I would never have finished the game.

You're a lifesaver! I was about to give up. I couldn't figure out what each color shift represented. Time to give this another go, wish me luck!

Dude I just wanted to thank you. I couldn't get past phase 3 and was ready to just quit. Your guide helped me beat it. Cheers!

Raven Beak at first reminded me of a secret boss in a KH game like Lingering Will or something, but once you learn the pattern he's actually very easy to deal with. Still one of the more epic first time bosses I've ever experienced in a Metroid Game. Wish I could fight him for the first time all over again. What a ride.

the real key to this is timing the counters. as soon as I got that down he went down 🤣

Something I learned: during phase two, try to keep Raven Beak in the center of the arena. If he's hugging a wall when he locks on to Samus, you won't be able to avoid his barrage attack and will have to take a hit or several.

Well played. Thanks for that tip about the power bomb, I had no idea

Great video. Lots of people post guides like this. But this channel is good because the dude is not trying to be funny or overly self promotional.

This game lives up to it's name. Dreadful in every way

I couldn't even beat the first phase without this guide but now I have to do missile and energy tank farming as I keep running out of missiles

I had no idea that when he flashed gold he was invincible, just kept firing my missiles and wondered why he wasn't dying haha. This guide helped a lot. Thanks.

I want you to know that I was about to give up on this game until I saw this video so I want to thank you personally for helping me beat Metroid dread

Dude thank you so much. I would not have been able to beat Raven Beak if not for this.

Very amazing fight! First Phase: average, second: hard, third: The Sun! Final: The Glory!

Did this man just beat ravenbeak without taking damage, big props

Thanks dude. The first try after watching your guide I made it.

I initially thought you were supposed to shinsespark during his taunt.

I might be wrong about this, but the trick to beat him was introduced in the beginning. Countering takes out the shield and can be attacked. That was weird.

The game was pretty fair with its difficulty until the boss. In typical Nintendo fashion, there just had to be a very specific trivial way to progress. I figured out he was invincible when gold but didn't realize it was all about just countering at first. Once i saw this video and learned that, it was pretty easy. This video saved me! Thanks man

"Let's Go Brandon" nope

Watched the video and made it the first try after hours of frustration. Thank you.

I beat him without powerbombs for the supernova, I wish I knew that 😂😂😂

Finally beat it bro thanks! This helped a lot

Thank you for the video, took me an hour of failed attempts. All your tips really helped with phase 2. Phase 1 wasn't as bad and phase 3 took 1 or 2 attempts.

This boss handed me my arse time and time again. Thanks for the help!

Very helpful guide, thanks! Raven Beak was already starting to piss me off, but it's actually a fun boss fight, once you've got the hang of it. 😁

This really helped out a lot. Thanks you!

That 2nd phase was a pain in the ass

Thank you for this guide, I wouldn't have made it without you!

The first time I tried it and knew nothing it does within 2 seconds thank you for this

I gave up on the game for months because of this fight. But your video helped me immediately!! Thanks a lot a sub to you!

I grinded this fight for at least 90 mins. Watched this vid and then beat him first try. Thank you!!!

This guide made this boss easy peezy thanks bro!

Counter, then only shoot regular canon is the part left out. After regular Canon starts sequence shoot whatever you want.

You're a legend for making this man, cutscene just started so I think I beat him haha

He's pretty tough, but once I got used to him, he was really fun to fight against. The second phase can still be tricky, and I was more likely to die against him there due to the lack of counterable attacks. I quickly figured out the supernova could be countered with Super Bombs, and it was a good source of healing with that in mind, making Phase 3 a bit easier. But overall, Ashkar is one of the final bosses I loved fighting the most. Not as much as Metroid Prime, but it was very close. At the least, he's probably the coolest 2.5D Metroid boss. The stuff that I love about the best bosses in the Zelda or Metroid franchises are how they reward you for finding hidden items throughout the games. As a point of comparison, the final bosses of Fusion made most of your upgrades useless because SA-X can only be hurt by the Charge Beam or Screw Attack, Omega Metroid can only be hurt by the Ice Beam, and neither can be hurt by power bombs or missiles by extension. Metroid Prime is easier to fight if you have all the missile upgrades to use your power missiles and ice spreader on him more frequently, and the power bombs can kill the Fission Metroids easier. For Raven Beak, the storm missiles will really mess him up and the power bombs can more easily destroy his projectiles to get more of your own, and you can have up to 15 of them. It's not even required, just more comfortable and easy if you do collect them all.

side tip for ravenbeak during phase 1 (i actually did this and still currently on this final boss) if you manage to actually to counter both of the counter opportunity u can actually skip the "parry only" phase edit: was only using wave beam not rockets lol XD

Really thank you for the video, i was super stuck con that battle

Thanks man! That mini Sun was pissing me off. Didn't know that you could destroy it

Thanks for the guide, you make it look easy.

Video helped me a lot man, especially with dodging in phase 2. thank you!

Fantastic strategy guide. Thank you! Let's go Brandon!

Spenr two hours yesterday learning to beat this chozo but now I'm gonna go back and beat it with ease. Thanks!

I made slow but steady progress all the way up till the last phase and at that point I just gave up. I could not figure out how to get rid of sun looking thing but after I watched this I beat him on my first try lol

How to defend the flying phase: “Auto-lock missiles” ;) auto-lock missiles ;) auto-lock.. missiles ;) ;);) remember… in case you missed it: auto-lock missiles;)

Saved me hours of struggling. Thank you!

I don't normally like stuff but youve earned it

Super huge help. Especially in phase 3. The last video I watched didn't mention the super morph bomb cloud destroy the sun thing

you are the only reason I was able to beat this game. Thanks.

So i refused to look up tactic vids on the final boss and when i finally beat him i went here. I discovered that. 1. You can destroy the purple orb with 4 missiles (i used a power bomb for it. 2. You can counter his red dash ( i just avoided them). 3. You can destroy the super nova by power bombing it (i just dealt with the damaging lines coming from it while also avoiding his super laser at the same time. Also i went into the fight with about half the energy tanks and half the missile capacity. I feel pretty good about failing it like 30 times before beating it with my uninformed tactic lol

Glad it's not just me, this boss is tough as nails. It's doing my head in!!

THANK YOU! I first tried on my own, got owned!! XD Found a guide, got slightly better, but couldn't even beat faze 1! After watching this I got further for each try, and made it in about 5 attempts!! Managed to F up the fight after the battle...Got Game Over...Thought I had to go again! D= Was ready for it though, cause when I did make it, I made it with somewhat ease! But no, there is a temp save after the boss fight, thankfully! =P

Thanks your video guide helped me score a win on my first attempt on the final boss. I lost to every boss and mini boss, but you explained everything perfectly. Much appreciated.

this was a big help, i only seem to find videos of people fighting him flawlessly, no one explains the attacks so i understand what im looking at. only thing im missing is how to continue the counter, i dont seem to get into the counter extra damage mode when i counter

Great stuff, thanks

The problem with this fight is that it just keeps going and going and going

Does anyone know the differences in how much damage missiles do vs beam? I never know if I should be using ICE missiles, fast normal beam shots, charged shots, or storm missiles... especially in the "free damage" phases after a successful counter.

My guy out here making it look super easy and not even taking a hit. That's a subscribe from me!

I don't know about one statement you said. "Storm missiles will do more damage". I saw someone deciphering numerical damage code in Dread. Storm missiles do 150 for one missile and 300 for max damage. Meanwhile, Ice missiles do 400 damage per missile .what makes Storm useful is that they don't miss

Nearly every attack in phase 1 looks the same and you get 0.000001 seconds to react.

I appreciate the help, i managed to defeat him after about 20 tries haha thanks man :)

I don't think he can be damaged at all in phase 1 unless you counter attack. I don't really see any difference. Now I'm getting every time to phase II, with maxed health even. But MAN. It just doesn't go down!

This helped so much thank you

Samus just Absorbed that chozo soldier, for her to achieve her perfect Form. Samus Has Become Her verison of " Cell " in this Game

great guide, well shown and explained with nothing unnecessary added. but yeah, im not very good at games really and hard games like soulslikes i just generally dont bother with, but i beat samus returns and love this series so i really wanted to push through this. thanks a lot dude. wow, really hard fight though - i think it's well made in that makes you use your whole arsenal of weapons but sometimes it doesnt feel like a puzzle/memory game with how many attack patterns there is. i think the best boss in the game was the big tentacle monster

Def needed this to win the last fight. Thanks!

In the first phase it’s actually easier to just spam wave beams as it only takes 2 counter sequences and no shield damage

Very useful, thank you !

Thanks for video, just finished it. Now for metroid prime 👍💪