The First Fallen: Handel | Pascal's Wager Wiki

The First Fallen: Handel is the final boss of the DLC story, a duke who attacks with a sword, a cloak, a tail and blood swords that explode after a delay. He has a normal phase 2 when you go Lunatic and a berserk state (also called rampage) near the end of his Health. His second phase has a rule almost nobody notices: he cannot be killed by damage, and his last attack ends the fight. He is one of the Bosses and is fought in the DLC arena Arena15012.

Overview#


Story monster id	9078 (`ES_StoryMonster`, story 9, area 5); `BossFinal` = 1
Model	Hero 20053 (body radius 0.9; flagged as a Sendril target)
Attribute points	10 across the board
Poise / Resilience	70 (regen 10) / 160 (regen 30); Stamina 80
Crit resistance	600: the crit bonus against him is multiplied by 0.6
Weak points	`ES_HeroData` weak-point multipliers 1 / 1 / 1, i.e. x2 damage, Poise and Resilience on a weak collider (the game adds 1 to each multiplier (`animalbase_value.lua:2340-2341, 2646`)); no bonus Resilience loss on armour break (`WeaknessPermilSub` = 0). Whether the model has a hittable weak collider is unverified
Sanity cost	`SanDamage` 130
Achievement	The Hero Who Went Astray (id 40001)

Phases#

Phase 1 (grade 1). Sword combos, tail swipes, a backward slash, the blood-sword attacks S, SP and NHO and a chant OP. Moves marked P1 are used only now.
Phase 2 (grade 2, Lunatic). Starts when you are Lunatic and he is still in grade 1 (controllerstorymode.lua:2252-2262; the standard phase change of Bosses#Boss mode and the phase change, with the Health top-up to at least 50%). The row for grade 2 adds +100 physical Attack and +100 Defence. New moves: three-hit and five-hit heavy combos, a rush, a rising slash, blood mist and the berserk set. The elemental stats do not change.
Berserk. At 20% Health or lower (SkillNO2HpPer = 0.2 in the AI) he starts NO2 and becomes rampaging. The data tags his moves with a style number in SkillCondition: style 1 is phase 1 (LLL, DPHHH, NLLL); promotion sets every skill to style 2 (hero20053.lua:74-83): HHH2, NS2, NSP2, HPHHHH2 and the fast LLLS1, DPHHHS1, NLLLS1; the berserk NO2 sets style 3 (hero20053.lua:350-362): OO and the fast ...S2 / ...2S combos (NLLLS2, LLLS2, DPHHHS2, HHH2S, NS2S, NSP2S, HPHHHH2S). Moves with no style number (LP, HP1, ND, NDP, S, SP, NHH, NHO, OP, NHP2, NOP2, NO2, NLP and the shoulder swords) work in every state.

Stats#

How the numbers scale#

Stats come from the model's attribute points plus the placement level and the grade rows of ES_StoryMonsterProperty (New Game Plus enemy scaling#What a level does to a stat). Journey 1 is the first playthrough; journeys 2 to 4 are New Game Plus, and later journeys reuse journey 4 (BattleData.GameLoopMax = 4). The values below were calculated with the game's own formula and rounded down.

Journey	Level	Stage	Health	Physical attack	Elemental attack	Defence	Elemental resist.	Pierce resist.
1	25	1	12,565	510	412	202	417	835
1	25	2 (Lunatic)	12,565	610	412	302	417	835
2	50	1	21,315	885	725	235	500	1,000
2	50	2 (Lunatic)	21,315	985	725	335	500	1,000
3	70	1	26,740	1,128	975	252	515	1,030
3	70	2 (Lunatic)	26,740	1,228	975	352	515	1,030
4	89	1	30,065	1,356	1,212	258	522	1,045
4	89	2 (Lunatic)	30,065	1,456	1,212	358	522	1,045

Only his physical Attack and his Defence move in phase 2. His elemental resistance is 417 to 522 and his Pierce resistance twice that.

Moves#

The "Attack mult." column is each move's BaseRate (x0.6 to x1.6). The Phase column comes from the earlier boss report; the style numbers described under Phases (from ES_SkillData.SkillCondition) are the authoritative gate, so HP1, LP and NHH are not limited to one phase and the S1-suffix fast combos belong to phase 2 rather than phase 1.

Move	What it does	Phase	Flat power and effects	Attack mult.	AI (range, cone, chance, cooldown)
`LLL`	Sword: 3 light hits	P1	80–90 phys	x0.8-0.9	7–9 m · 45° · cd 2s
`LP`	Forward swing		80 phys	x0.8	6–14 m · 45° · 30% · cd 8s
`HP1`	Backward slash	P1	80 phys	x0.8	4–9 m · 145° · 65% · cd 5s
`DPHHH`	4 heavy hits	P1	60–100 phys	x0.6-1	5–7 m · 45° · cd 2s
`OO`	Draw-sword charged slash (4 parts; last-ditch, when berserk at ≤1.5% HP)	P2	120–160 phys/fire, guard break 200	x1.2-1.6	≤20 m · 30° · 60% · cd 30s
`NLLL`	Sword: 3 light hits (variant)	P1	80–100 phys	x0.8-1	8–9 m · 45° · cd 2s
`ND`	Turning tail swipe		80 phys	x0.8	≤7 m · 150° · 50% · cd 7s
`NDP`	Two tail swipes		80 phys	x0.8	≤5.5 m · 120° · 65% · cd 5s
`S`	Shoots blood swords (explode after a delay)		70 dark	x0.7	5–20 m · 30° · 40% · cd 4s
`SP`	Blood swords all around		70 dark	x0.7	8–20 m · 20° · 40% · cd 15s
`NHH`	Cloak heavy strike	any	70 phys, guard break 200	x0.7	≤8 m · 45° · 35% · cd 10s
`NHO`	Blood swords fall from above		70 dark	x0.7
`OP`	Chant (buff)		buff: Ebbinghaus' Holy Dew	x0	50% · cd 25s
`HHH2`	3 heavy hits	P2	80–100 phys	x0.8-1	7–9 m · 45° · cd 2s
`NS2`	Rushing attack	P2	80–100 phys	x0.8-1	10–20 m · 45° · 30% · cd 12s
`NSP2`	Rising slash	P2	120 phys	x1.2	10–20 m · 30% · cd 10s
`HPHHHH2`	Hold-heavy 5-hit	P2	70–120 phys, guard break 150	x0.7-1.2	7–9 m · 45° · cd 2s
`NHP2`	Stabs himself (goes berserk)	P2	100 dark	x1	≤6 m · 90° · 65% · cd 6s
`NOP2`	Summons blood mist	P2	80 phys	x0.8	≥7 m · 60° · 50% · cd 25s
`NO2`	Goes berserk (at ≤20% HP)	P2	100 phys	x1	cd 35s
`LLLS1`	3 light hits, fast		80–90 phys	x0.8-0.9	cd 2s
`DPHHHS1`	4 heavy hits, fast		70–100 phys	x0.7-1	cd 2s
`NLLLS1`	3 light hits (variant), fast		80–100 phys	x0.8-1	cd 2s
`NLLLS2`	3 light hits (variant), fast	P2	80–100 phys	x0.8-1	cd 2s
`LLLS2`	3 light hits, fast	P2	80–90 phys	x0.8-0.9	cd 2s
`DPHHHS2`	4 heavy hits, fast	P2	70–100 phys	x0.7-1	cd 2s
`HHH2S`	3 heavy hits, fast	P2	80–100 phys	x0.8-1	cd 2s
`NS2S`	Rushing attack, fast	P2	80–100 phys, guard break 150	x0.8-1	cd 12s
`NSP2S`	Rising slash, fast	P2	120 phys, guard break 150	x1.2	cd 10s
`HPHHHH2S`	Hold-heavy 5-hit, fast	P2	70–120 phys, guard break 150	x0.7-1.2	cd 2s
`NLP`	Ends berserk	P2	140 phys	x1.4	≤20 m · 45° · 60% · cd 30s
`SkilShootSword`	Shoots swords from his shoulders		70 dark	x0.7
`skill102`	Dodge			x1	cd 8s

Raw strength of three typical hits#

A move's raw strength is attack stat x the move's attack multiplier + the move's flat power, using the stat that matches its damage type; your defence or resistance then reduces it (see Damage formula and Damage types and resistances). The table shows that raw number before your defence is applied.

Move (flat power, type)	Journey 1	Journey 2	Journey 3	Journey 4
Light combo LLL (strongest hit) (90, physical)	549	886	1105	1310
Blood swords S (70, dark)	358	578	752	918
Rising slash NSP2 (120, physical)	852	1302	1594	1867

Drops and rewards#

He has no drop list, no story item and no sanity drop. The kill fires quest 99103 (leave boss mode; achievement The Hero Who Went Astray), 99107 (save), 91209 (boss kill that is not reset) and, when he was killed in phase 2, 91009 and 91109 (the "second phase" markers).

Hidden mechanics#

His Health is clamped in phase 2. When he is promoted, the game sets a minimum Health of max x 0.15 - 1 (SkillNO2HpPer = 0.15, hero20053.lua:74-85, hero20053_define.lua:56), so no hit can take him below about 15%. At 20% or lower his AI begins the berserk move NO2; when it triggers, the clamp is lowered to max x 0.01 - 1 (SkillOOHpPer = 0.01, hero20053.lua:348-360).
He ends the fight himself. Once he is rampaging and at 1.5% Health or lower (SkillOOHpPer = 0.015 in the AI, attack20053.lua:246), he performs the four-part charged slash OO. On the fourth part's trigger the code removes the clamp and sets his Health to zero (hero20053.lua:371-374). The way to win phase 2 is therefore to survive that slash.
He cannot be staggered during his big set pieces. While the chant OP, the berserk start NO2, the charged slash OO and the berserk ender NLP start, the code sets a minimum of 1 on Poise and Resilience (hero20053.lua:379-386), and the chant and NO2 also trigger a slow-motion time scale. Interrupting these with a heavy hit is not possible. (Derived from the code.)
The berserk start buffs him. NO2 gives him status 10108 (physical defence +50% of base, 999 s, so for the rest of the fight; Buffs) and the self-inflicted status 10107 (a damage-over-time status in the Bleed family by its logic type; its damage was not traced) (hero20053.lua:355-361; hero20053_define.lua:53-54; ES_StatusData 10107, 10108). The chant OP uses status 10109 (hero20053.lua:260).
Phase 1 has no clamp. If you never go Lunatic, he can be killed normally in phase 1.
Crit bonus cut to 60%. His crit-resist stat of 600 scales your crit damage bonus by 0.6.
Sanity cost 130. The Lunatic line is reached after about 38% of his Health (inferred), which is when phase 2 begins.

Strategy#

Because the clamp prevents a kill, the berserk threshold of 20% is where the fight turns into a survival test: dodge the fast combos and wait for OO.
OO has the longest reach in the kit (up to 20 m, 30 degree cone, 60% chance, 30 s cooldown) and deals 120 to 160 physical and fire damage with a 200 guard break. Block is not a good plan.
The blood swords (70 dark each) explode after a delay; move after they land, not before.

Sources#

Tables: ES_StoryMonster row 9078; ES_StoryMonsterProperty rows 745 and 746 (grade 2: +100 Attack, +100 Defence); ES_HeroData 20053; ES_SkillData HeroId 20053; ES_StoryQuest 99103, 99107, 91209, 91009, 91109; ES_Achievement 40001.
Code: hero20053.lua:36-100, 260, 340-375; hero20053_define.lua:56-59; attack20053.lua:245-246, 596-626, 1216-1228; controllerstorymode.lua:2252-2262; animalbase.lua:1497-1567.
Move list: reports/bosses_and_enemies.md section 18 and reports/data/boss_moves.json (hero 20053).

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