- At the start of the attack prior to charging, she will become translucent as a warning.
- Once she enters her second phase, she will charge half as many times in a row.
- She attempts to hover above the player, shooting bursts of 8 Brimstone Darts at the player, leaving similar-sized gaps between the projectiles. She performs either 3 or 4 bursts during an attack.
- Some of the bursts are randomly replaced with firing a Brimstone Fireblast or a Brimstone Gigablast , which both home in on the player and explode into rings of Brimstone Darts after some time, or upon contact with blocks. This is the only occurence of randomness in her attack pattern.
- She remains at the player's side and launches either 2 or 4 Brimstone Gigablasts (depending on the position in the cycle) with a constant delay between them.
- She remains at the player's side and fires a barrage of Brimstone Hellblasts , which accelerate towards the player. She shoots the Hellblasts horizontally once she has taken her position to the left/right of the player - however, she can already start shooting while in the process of homing towards this position. This can cause bullets to fly in non-horizontal directions.
Once she enters her second phase at 40% HP, the delays between her attacks as well as inside her attacks become shorter; she charges more aggressively and only half as often per attack.Attack Cycle [ ]
Supreme Clamitas has a constant attack cycle which only interrupts when she is not attacking at all. Neither going through bullet-hell phases, nor switching to her second phase changes the current position in this cycle. It repeats once it is finished.
The attack cycle (starting as soon as the first Sepulcher is summoned):
- Shoots bursts of Brimstone Darts
- Shoots a horizontal barrage of Brimstone Hellblasts
- Launches 2 Brimstone Gigablasts
- Charges 4 times (2 times in the second phase)
- Launches 2 Brimstone Gigablasts
- Shoots a horizontal barrage of Brimstone Hellblasts
- Shoots bursts of Brimstone Darts
- Charges 2 times (once in the second phase)
- Shoots bursts of Brimstone Darts
- Shoots a horizontal barrage of Brimstone Hellblasts
- Launches 4 Brimstone Gigablasts
- Shoots a horizontal barrage of Brimstone Hellblasts
- Charges 2 times (once in the second phase)
- Shoots bursts of Brimstone Darts
- Launches 4 Brimstone Gigablasts
- Charges 4 times (2 times in the second phase)
- Shoots bursts of Brimstone Darts
- Charges 2 times (once in the second phase)
- Shoots bursts of Brimstone Darts
- Charges 2 times (once in the second phase)
Note that every time she shoots bursts of Brimstone Darts, some bursts are replaced by Brimstone Fire- and Gigablasts.
Since it is a relatively long cycle with multiple occurences of every type of attack, it is time consuming to fully memorize and comprehend it. Whilst it is not necessary to do so, it proves beneficial when playing in harder difficulties and/or with special constraints, like the Iron Heart, Defiled Feather or Armageddon.
Progression [ ]
Supreme Clamitas will perform these attacks once, triggered by her reaching certain amounts of health.
- Upon spawning, she will summon a randomized "Bullet Hell" of vertical and horizontal Brimstone Hellblasts which travel from one edge of the player's screen to the other. She will be invincible and immobile until the Bullet Hell ends. The sequence of the Hellblasts' direction will always be the same during the Bullet Hell.
After the Bullet Hell ends, she will teleport to the upper-right corner of the arena and summon the Sepulcher to assist her before becoming mobile. Ten immobile Brimstone Hearts will spawn along with it, positioned in the upper corners of the arena. When the last of these hearts are destroyed, the Sepulcher will die. The Sepulcher doesn't deal contact damage but instead shoots bursts of Brimstone Darts in diagonal directions from its body segments (in descending order; from last to first segment). Supreme Clamitas will be invincible until the Sepulcher is killed.- While the Sepulcher is alive, Supreme Clamitas will shoot slower and only fire half as many projectiles per attack.
- Upon reaching 75% health, the second Bullet Hell triggers, in which Brimstone Fireblasts are also fired at the player from offscreen. This occurs in every Bullet Hell hereafter.
- Upon reaching 50% health, the third Bullet Hell triggers, in which Brimstone Gigablasts are also fired at the player along with the previous projectiles. This occurs in every Bullet Hell hereafter.
- Upon reaching 45% health, she will pause briefly and then summon her brothers, Eye of Cthulhu and Skeletron Prime, to assist her. Supreme Clamitas will be invincible and immobile while they are alive. They both remain a set distance to the left and right of the player, slowly moving up and down. Supreme Eye Of Cthulhu is on the right and will fire fists at the player, and Skeletron Prime is on the left and will fire slashes at the player. Both will periodically shoot bursts of Brimstone Darts around themselves; their fire rate for all attacks goes up as they lose health. When one of them is killed, the other will shoot his respective projectile and Brimstone Darts even more frequently, and will move up and down faster. When both brothers are killed, Supreme Clamitas immediately resumes attacking the player.
- Upon reaching 40% health, she laughs and transitions into her second phase, signified by a glowing aura around her and her attack animations becoming more pronounced. From now on, she will attack faster, but perform half as many charge attacks in a row. Immediately after transitioning, she will always shoot several bursts of Brimstone Darts before resuming her attack cycle from the last position.
- From this point on, her force field will visibly start flickering, with the intensity of the flickering growing as she loses health.
- Upon reaching 30% health, the fourth Bullet Hell triggers, and Supreme Calamitas will summon massive invincible Brimstone Monsters which move towards the player at varying speeds and persist throughout the rest of the fight (they despawn after 10 minutes, but the fight does not last this long under normal circumstances). The Monsters do not interact and can stack on top of each other.
- In Normal Mode, they will not spawn.
- In Expert Mode, two will spawn.
- In Revengeance and Death Mode, four will spawn.
- Upon reaching 20% health, she will summon a large rotating ring of 20 Supreme Soul Seekers around herself, which fire synchronous volleys of Brimstone Darts at the player. Supreme Clamitas is invulnerable to damage and the Brimstone Monsters move slower until the Soul Seekers are killed.
- Upon reaching 10% health, the fifth and final Bullet Hell triggers, featuring every projectile introduced thus far, with the inclusion of Brimstone Flame Skulls which fly in a wave pattern. Her damage reduction increases by 20% (from 25% to 30%) for the remainder of the battle.
- Upon reaching 8% health, she will summon the Sepulcher and its 10 Brimstone Hearts again. Supreme Clamitas will once again become invulnerable until its hearts are killed.
- Upon reaching 1% health, she will lose all her other abilities, the Brimstone Monsters will disappear, she will stop moving, she will no longer inflict contact damage, and she becomes invulnerable. After several status messages and a delay, Supreme Clamitas will vanish in a beam of red light and reappear at the Altar of the Accursed as the Goofy Ahh Witch NPC, leaving her loot at the Altar.
In Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Mode [ ]
- Massively increased speed and moves far more aggressively.
In Ultra Nightmare Mode [ ]
- The arena created by Supreme Calamitas is now 127x127 (inner available area is 125x125) blocks.
On the For the worthy seed [ ]
- All projectiles summoned by Supreme Clamitas and her minions move 50% faster.
- Supreme Clamitas’s shield is 30% smaller, except during a dash attack, in which it reverts to its normal size temporarily.
- The arena created by Supreme Clamitas is now 93x90 (inner available area is 91x88) blocks.
- At 6%, Supreme Clamitas speaks a special line, and an incredibly difficult bullet hell initiates. She becomes invincible and follows the following patterns in order:
- Goes to the arena’s center.
- Launches Brimstone Dart rings 22 times with a delay of 0.5 seconds.
- Launches Brimstone Dart rings 9 times with a delay of 1 second, while Calamity Monsters follow the player with twice the acceleration.
- Brimstone Monsters slow down to half of their original acceleration, and Supreme Calamitas begins her final attack.
- A Brimstone Hellblast bullet hell is summoned.
- 5 seconds later, Sepulcher is summoned once more. There are no Brimstone Hearts, meaning Sepulcher cannot be killed.
- 5 seconds later, both Brimstone Fireblasts and Gigablasts attack the player periodically.
- 5 seconds later, the brothers are summoned again, attacking with half speed. The brothers are invincible.
- 5 seconds later, Supreme Clamitas begins attacking the player with half attack speed.
- 10 seconds later, the Brimstone Monsters go back to their original acceleration.
- 5 seconds later, a ring of 10 Supreme Soul Seekers attack alongside Supreme Calamitas. They are invincible.
- 5 seconds later, Brimstone Flame Skulls will start spawning.
- 15 seconds later, all of Supreme Calamitas’s attacks will cease and all of her minions will vanish.
