Tips for Catardran?

[Angelo]

I can do it relatively easy with a Hunter, almost never getting hit.

Stand in front of it with a sword and use Just Block, and then when Just Counter queues hit it quick with a PA in it's exposed soft area and just keep repeating that. It will just cycle this attack and do nothing else.

[mhjc]

Try do a mid-air combo to get air time to avoid the sweep (while hes breathing that crap out his mouth). I use wired lance and do rising fall (one where u grab and jump verticly then slam to the ground), can do 1k hits on the weak spot. When he growls hes gonna jab at you, so try evade towards the middle part of his body at the side. When he does the "C" shaped slam just hug his middle and stay there.

I do this against basically every boss, its pretty simple.

[Omega-z]

I would agree that a 50% ice Weapon (most likely sword for more DPS) with the Poison ability would work very well. And upping the poison rate help's too it does more tick dmg and better landing rate too. The Party trick is nice too, If your not in a Party use NPC's to soak the dmg and time his attacks accordingly. Oh and give your self enough time to get Mob point's and still be able to have time to fight boss in 16 mins.

[Adelheid]

Uh, this boss is ridiculously easy. All of his attacks are jokes to avoid... just sit on his rear leg and dash inv frame his attacks.

What are the rules here about posting links? I have a video of me killing this boss with a strat that may be helpful.

[moorebounce]

If you done your client orders and got the NPCs partner cards use them if you can't get help. Also rush through the maps as quick as you can but killing everything you come accross. If you can get a least one of each class it shouldn't take that long to kill it.

[Adelheid]

Also, people vastly overestimate how many mobs you need to kill to get S.

If you do what moorebounce says, just go to the boss and kill everything you come across... chances are thats enough to get S, maybe you'll need to kill a few more if you get lucky and end up taking a path straight to the boss, but really the time limits are VERY lenient. You should be able to finish with minutes on the timer.

I read the rules and I guess this might fall under advertisement... but I'm obviously not making any money from this and it's pertinent to this discussion. This is a video of me fighting Caterdran, doesn't really matter what weapon you use you can do what I am doing here, some dash invulnerability frames help. Just focus on avoiding damage and using PAs when he stretches out. Watch in 1080p because it's pretty.

http://youtu.be/3X8SuO0wLkc


Edit: Also if you feel like it you can hit the tail until it breaks at which point it becomes a weak point that is always exposed. But until then it isn't a weak point.

[ciroth]

Take a full party,

Let PT leader enter boss room first, once cata spawns (only 1 will spawn) the other 3 can enter.

Easy kill, easy win, save time =)

[Adelheid]

That defeats the fun of the challenge... though it's not that challenging... >.>;

[Natsuma]

Hey,

first of all, thanks for your answers.
It seems I expressed myself the wrong way...

I've never had any difficulty defeating the boss, I had difficulty getting a rank-S within 16min

Anyway, I succeeded not so long after I posted this thread, especially when I learnt about the fact that if only the PT leader entered the boss zone first, only one would appear
It made things way easier!

[Ueno54]

I think this game hates me. S rank with 16:07. 97% A rank with 14:20.

Why can't they just give me the S rank!?

Phew! Finally got it. Think it was the gigantic spawn of dagen monsters near the end that gave me enough for the S rank. On the plus side I can dominate the boss so easily now lol.