I am fully aware of the Mayhem mods and do take them into account when I write this. I very much recommend you get yourself a Brain Stormer (which ironically drops from Katagawa Ball). Borderlands 3 is not a very polished game. There was even a somewhat interesting twist afterward, that drew one of my favorite characters in the game toward center stage. On Katagawa Jr. Fight is a pain, I'm level 21 and he's 24. The more I moved, the more I could recover lost vitality. Here are some tips for defeating Katagawa JR in Borderlands 3. Instead, Borderlands 3 glitches ruined the game’s best boss fight. Most of them are bullet sponges with one or two environmental hazards to dodge. That changes for the better about three quarters of the way through the game. Glad to see I’m not the only one, though I wish this post came up when I searched Katagawa Jr lmao. If it drains, you're already attacking the real one. That super stinks. I understand he likely has immense damage reduction during this part which is fine, but what I don’t understand is why sometimes that damage reduction factor just does whatever it wants in different instances of the fight. Generators: Something about hitting him with that initial Phaseslam causes him to lose all of his health once you break his shield, whether that Phaseslam does much damage or not. But this fight in particular is just strange. That was the perfect time to heal my pet. Bug in the Katagawa Jr. Boss fight? They taunt you (poorly) from off-screen for 90 percent of Borderlands 3 without actually doing much. Katagawa Jr. is a Level 21 boss fight and does look rather silly in his fake Zer0 outfit. Or just take it out all together if this is just a bug. That’s where I learned I’m not the only one with this problem. [BL3] So, I was playing my TVH playthrough on Amara and get to the Katagawa fight, then he does the whole "clone himself and jump onto the towers" thing, and one of them jumps onto the generators. bvhjdbvkjf.unhacked (Just a random Casual) October 3, 2019, 5:27pm #2. Katagawa Jr. is the boss to farm for this weapon. The pet A.I. An obsessive writer broadcasting to you live from the middle of nowhere. To its credit, developer Gearbox Software has been addressing the various glitches, bugs, and balance issues with hotfixes. Also I have been farming him on Normal Mode Mayhem 3 with Zane using a radiation Loaded Dice Relic, and a radiation Crossroad smg. Texture pop-in, a poor frame rate, menus that take multiple seconds to tab between: all these Borderlands 3 glitches add up. Katagawa is fairly annoying. The boss fight is a first-person bullet hell ballet, with Troy throwing balls of death in every direction. In order to simply figure out which is the real one, take shots at each until you see his actual life bar on your HUD take damage and keep shooting or attacking at him if this happens. While the fight with Katagawa Ball may make learning how to beat Mouthpiece in Borderlands 3 look extremely easy by comparison, it is certainly possible to … It’s a little more earnest — a little less poop joke-y. Bring Shock Weapons I must admit, now that I’ve reached the endgame of Borderlands 3, I am enjoying that part of the game. Playing as FL4K, a robot beastmaster that regenerates health as they move, this was perfect for me. You can make the clones disappear by attacking them or by attacking the real Katagawa Jr. To determine which is the real one, attack and check if the bar on the top of the screen also drains. The constant motion, forcing me to actually think about where I stood, balancing damage with defense: the Troy Calypso fight is everything I want to see in a Borderlands 3 boss. I’ll be shooting him in the end both when he is near me and when he is on his perch, and the time it takes can range from one magazine from my Crossroad finishes him, to where I fill multiple Crossroad magazines into his skull only to find that his health bar doesn’t even move, and I have to wait for him to do his slam the generator move so I can shoot the generator to finish him. Borderlands 2 improved on that problem… a bit. When I stand still I get a damage bonus. For Borderlands 3 on the PlayStation 4, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "Can we all agree that Katagawa Ball is the most annoying boss fight?" I am fully aware of the Mayhem mods and do take them into account when I write this. Here you can see where is Katagawa Jr location in Borderlands 3 game. 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Katagawa Jr. Fight Incredibly Inconsistent. The boss fight is a first-person bullet hell ballet, with Troy throwing balls of death in every direction. Then he jumps onto the towers and unleashes his clones, and when I find the correct Katagawa and break his shield, it usually also takes all of his health down too and the fight is over. I tried Katagawa Ball for a time but not having a vendor there made it a rough farm. As we mentioned above, the key to taking out Katagawa Jr … Two last things I want to point out. Its inventory is something you need to grind to upgrade, however, so I only kept six. The second thing is also more nitpicky, but at times in the fight, the boss health and shield bar at the top won’t match the health and shield bar when I look at the real Katagawa. You fight Katagawa Ball during the Space-Laser Tag mission. I actually made the same topic a few days ago here: So after fighting him some more and finding a melee Amara build that basically one shots him, I am pretty sure this fight is bugged. The second fiddle whips out warbling synthwave in a one-on-one showdown. If you manage to hit him at the very beginning of the fight when he and all of his clones are in one spot there can be a bit of a feedback loop that will shred through his shields and a good amount of his health (on Amara it can even one-shot him on Mayhem 4). Boss fights have admittedly never been the series’ strong suit, either. I killed Troy; the cutscene played; I fell through the world. - Page 2. Borderlands 3 Katagawa Jr Location: Find Katagawa Jr As part of the Atlas, At Last quest, you're going to be tasked with taking out forces in the Meridian Metroplex. This portion of our Wiki Guide will detail some of our best tips, tricks, and strategies for defeating The Rampager during the chapter 10 mission, Beneath the I documented my fall from grace on Twitter. If you’ve reached Mouthpiece, the first named boss in Borderlands 3, you’ve basically seen what the game has to offer on this front. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Katagawa Jr. Fight Incredibly Inconsistent. I took advantage of it whenever Troy wound up a particularly big attack: like an overhead slam of elemental energy. Katagawa Jr. That didn’t “save” my loot. That’s why it was a real shame when the whole world fell out from under me. You can definitely one shot Katagawa Jr. with the right weapon, but the fight can also be annoying if you have trouble killing him. Fighting & Killing Katagawa Jr Katagawa Jr will not fight you directly and will prefer to split up into fake copies of himself to attack you from multiple areas. For Borderlands 3 on the PlayStation 4, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "Katagawa Jr. vs Graveward" - Page 2. Not one Borderlands 3 boss holds a candle thereafter. I don’t even know if they were guns Troy dropped, or other items I left before the battle. Sure! This fight is definitely bugged to a certain extent. But the Borderlands 3 bosses aren’t better than that. Sometimes that means keeping your distance; other times you have to crouch or jump. The Borderlands 3 Boss That Deserved Better Than a Glitch. This would imply that he is supposed to be able to teleport to most, if not any, of the generators in the arena. If it doesn’t take all of his health down, then it will take at least 3/4 of it down and he will go down with one more shield break. I shoot the generator and turns out that was the real Katagawa and I look at his healthbar, it just emptied. Katagawa is supposed to do a slamming animation when he goes to one of the generators to make his 3 clones. It won’t be a surprisingly solid moment in a so-so game. The idea of the phase isn’t my issue, I actually think it’s an interesting way to end off the fight, Katagawa’s Last Stand. Sometimes nothing but that's RNG for ya. This usually knocks out about half of his shield, although sometimes it does nothing at all. It’s not just this boss, either. About 1-2 per fight. Another inconsistency I thought would be good to mention. All I got were some guns saved by my Lost Loot Machine: a Borderlands 3 convenience that retrieves a limited number of items you miss during missions. Yep. Clone Phase: Even so, the battle against Troy Calypso near the end of the game is the highlight of Borderlands 3. As you meet with Rhys, a cutscene will begin and show Rhys’ ship getting destroyed by katagawa Jr. Take the Viper Drive from Rhys. “Swooping in!” pic.twitter.com/hTFE4uZDlR, — Steven Strom (@stevenstrom) September 19, 2019. In fact, I’d say the last act of Borderlands 3 comprises my favorite few hours of the campaign. Katagawa’s Last Phase Before you start the laser, try to collect ammunition from the surrounding boxes. But sometimes, he will teleport there and instantly spawn the clones, giving you little to no time to react, and I’ve seen him even do it in succession at least one additional time, so I miss not just one but possibly 2 opportunities to get his health low from the generator. By the time I reach it again — if I reach it again — on True Vault Hunter Mode, or another character, the egregious glitch might be fixed. The fight will start shortly after visiting Rhys's office on one of the top floors of the Atlas HQ skyscraper. I was in my element! The general idea of the fight I feel is when Katagawa slams one of the generators and gets his shield back, you shoot the generator and he takes a decent chunk of health damage. Which makes me happy. Firstly, in the beginning of the fight when he spawns his clones near the entrance of the arena, I will find the real Katagawa, shoot him, and sometimes he will lose a good quarter of his health when I kill his shield. Katagawa Jr Location Borderlands 3 Boss location video. (Maybe this was intentional by the devs since they are clones and they thought this would be appropriate since they aren’t the real boss.). See, whenever I deal damage as FL4K, I also heal their accompanying animal friend. So after farming Katagawa Jr about 40 times, (only to get 2 of the class mod I actually want, I legit got like 6 Techspert mods and only 2 Infiltrator mods which were what I want), I can’t help but feel his fight is either buggy or just weird. Once you’ve got the requisite items, make your way to the boss area and start the fight. While I wasn’t able to access my character menu (and thus couldn’t fast travel to a safe spot), I could at least save and quit. It will be very useful when fighting the boss. The clone phase is wonky at times. The way the health mechanics work do not make any sense and are not consistent at all. Taking out Atlas' defensive and turning one of Rhys most trusted allies and friends against him. I did all the side missions up to this point already though and want to get to his level to beat him. I tend to farm katagawa jr due to being able to 1 shot him on mayhem 3 with Amara as soon as the fight starts. Even so, the battle against Troy Calypso near the end of the game is the highlight of Borderlands 3. These mini updates apply to the game directly — without the need to download them through the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, or what-have-you. But then I got to Katagawa Jr. And holy crap is he a pushover. Katagawa isn't going to let Atlas go without a fight and it turns out that he's got a great ball of his own. Also, he will teleport to the top right generator 80% of the time, and the other 20% of the time he either goes to the top left generator, or the generator right in the middle of the arena on the ground. I do not particularly like the Calyspo Twins. I stayed that way for about three minutes before I finally figured there was no way to escape. There are some things you can do to make this fight easier. Borderlands 3 Katagawa Ball Boss Fight There are three layers to this fight: one of armor, and two of shields. Besides losing the loot, it also undercuts pretty much the best battle of the game. I think Borderlands 3’s boss fights have improved for sure, since BL2 at least, and Katagawa’s fight has a unique and cool concept, ninja guy jumping around, has clones, and the smoke grenade that screws with your vision if you’re in it, that’s pretty awesome. I mean that literally. But I’ll know what to expect and how to deal with it. Then, when the plot remembers they need to feel like a threat, one teleports in to kill or maim a major character from the older games. After managing to find the secret Atlas HQ and getting a Vault Key fragment from Rhys, there's a number of steps that you have to complete before you find Katagawa Jr. This portion of our Wiki Guide will detail some of our best tips, tricks, and strategies for defeating Katagawa Ball during the chapter 8 mission, Space-Laser Handsome Jack did the same things in Borderlands 2 — like, the exact same things — but Gearbox was at least more committed to making him seem truly vile. Katagawa Ball tends to dart across the room so if you can lure him to the raised section where you start the fight, you can then hop down to the lower part … You fight Katagawa Jr. at the end of Atlas At Last main mission. Already right here, I find that sometimes half of his health evaporates when I shoot the generator, and then other times he takes like a tenth of his health, rarely he won’t even take any damage from this. Interesting about the phaseslam though. It is very strange, although a highly effective farming method. The disadvantage of farming him though instead of Graveward is getting to Katagawa when you first start farming him and the fact that there is no vending machines before the fight itself when you quit and load back up. For example, with Amara I can start out the fight by immediately Phaseslamming him when I enter the arena. This can make the fight quicker sometimes which is good, but I just dislike why it only happens sometimes. I hated listening to him gloat, both in the way the studio intended and just because it went on and on and on… The Calypso Twins I just hate. Location. Insert the Drive into the nearby console to … The vast majority of what Troy dropped — cash, Eridium, guns, and ammo — was lost to the ether. Katagawa Ball’s First Phase. But this fight in particular is just strange. But the sad fact is that I won’t get to have this once-in-a-playthrough experience quite the same way ever again. They undercut the smoothness of trying to “turn my brain off,” and just let the looter shooter cycle take over. This is just my most potent example. I can’t help but think it was inspired by Furi (one of my favorite games from 2016). [Spoilers for the Borderlands 3 main story to follow.]. in Borderlands 3 is not good enough to dance around Troy’s bullets, leaving it up to me to top off my allied creature. Disclaimer: I’m not saying inconsistent boss fights are bad, they add unpredictability to the game and can make boss fights seem less tedious especially when farming. Duel with the boss is preceded by a great battle against "regular" opponents and setting a large laser. Borderlands 3 players fall through the floor left and right after their battle with Troy. Collect as much ammunition as possible before jumping into the secret passage shown in the screenshot above. Also bit of a nitpick with this one but when I shoot the clones and look at their health bars, their shields go down but their health doesn’t, even though they still die. Tips and Tricks for Defeating Katagawa JR in Borderlands 3. But when you farm him for arguably an unhealthy amount of time, you start to question why sometimes the fight takes 30 seconds, and sometimes it takes 5 minutes, when you do things mostly the same every instance of the fight. This boss is located on Promethia near the Atlas HQ fast travel station. Thinks cute things are good, actually. It will just be another stone on a long grind that’s repetitive by design. Katagawa Ball is Level 18. Tou should try equipping a weapon that does high single target damage. You need to duck, weave, and dodge to avoid them all. I’m actually sorry Troy went out that way. Katagawa Jr has two different attack styles - sniping from the towers above or meleeing with his katana. Critical hits or melee can stun him… When his shield is gone he will try to jump away to spawn more clones - do what you can to stun him even briefly if you want to wreck him with shields down. Anyway I've been going through the story missions on TVHM to unlock other bosses for farming. But it’s how inconsistent it can be that’s annoying. The second fiddle whips out warbling synthwave in a one-on-one showdown. They’re like Handsome Jack divided in two, and less than the sum of their parts. If this feature of the fight where the game gives you a good head start if you find the real Katagawa in the beginning is intentional, then I’d suggest nerf it so he doesn’t lose literally 1/4th of his hp, but make it consistent. Also I have been farming him on Normal Mode Mayhem 3 with Zane using a radiation Loaded Dice Relic, and a radiation Crossroad smg. The original Borderlands bosses were infamously easy to cheese, even once you got to the DLC. Borderlands 3 Katagawa Jr. Boss Fight Guide Defeat the leader of Maliwan's forces By Grayshadow, Posted 19 Sep 2019. However, the updates weren’t quick enough to save my favorite moment in the game so far. But if he is only supposed to use those 3 generators I mentioned, why does he go the top right one almost all the time? Rhys has been repelling Maliwan's attacks in taking over his company but now they've launched their final assault. 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