Beast of Reincarnation Nue Malefact: Focus One and Let It Stagger the Other

This page used to be the exception in the boss set: one commentated recording of a later fight, useful enough to publish but openly single-sourced. Eurogamer’s 12 August written guide changes that. It independently places Nue Malefact with the Male Purifier Shidou across the recurring paired encounters and describes the same half-health drain/siphon beat that makes focusing one target work. The overlap is now corroborated; the detailed Eurogamer-only specifics — Poison weakness, exact encounter levels, drop names and preparation loadout — remain one written guide and are recorded below as leads rather than promoted into settled game facts.

Focus one; the other gets handled for you

The whole fight resolves around a single decision made at the start. Splitting attention across both targets is what makes this encounter feel unfair, and the mechanic below is the reason focusing works.

• Focus one of the pair completely.CNo7C__2IYw 02:00
• At roughly half health the focused boss retreats and siphons from its partner, which fully staggers the partner for you. It happens twice.CNo7C__2IYw 03:30 and 05:00–05:30
• Eurogamer independently describes the Male Purifier reaching half HP, extending a branch to Nue Malefact and draining it to restore himself.Eurogamer Nue Malefact guide, 2026-08-12
• Watch the boss you are not fighting. It throws lightning bursts while your attention is elsewhere.CNo7C__2IYw 03:00

What the second source adds, without over-promoting it

Eurogamer makes this a two-source page for the paired-fight structure rather than a one-video page. It also publishes a much larger table of specifics: Nue Malefact as a recurring Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 6 and Chapter 11 boss; Poison as its weakness; Flame and Shock as the incoming damage to prepare for; named moves; levels; and rewards. Those details are useful, but they are not repeated here as the answer until a second independent source or a client frame confirms them. The page’s answer therefore stays on the corroborated overlap: focus one target, use parries to keep FP coming, and exploit the drain/siphon window when it arrives.

Stagger before you shoot, and expect to run out

The ranged opening most players reach for does not work here in the order they will try it, and the ammunition economy decides the back half of the fight.

• It blocks arrows while it is ready, so Koo’s abilities go in before the shots do.CNo7C__2IYw 02:00
• Arrows and bolts run out. Plan to finish the fight on Koo’s abilities alone.CNo7C__2IYw 04:00–04:30
• Spend on the cheap abilities. Several cost five points — the whole bar in one go — while the one- and two-point abilities can be chained.CNo7C__2IYw 07:00–07:30

Parrying is the sustain loop, not just the defence

Do not push. Letting them come to you and parrying is how Koo gets refilled, and Koo is how Emma gets healed — which means taking the occasional hit is affordable in a way it is not in most of this genre.

• Let them come to you and parry. That is also how Koo refills.CNo7C__2IYw 02:00–02:30
• Using Koo’s abilities regenerates Emma’s health.CNo7C__2IYw 03:00
• A yellow bar under the focused boss’s health fills toward a full stagger. That is the finishing window.CNo7C__2IYw 05:30–06:00
• Red flashing attacks cannot be blocked. Dodge them.CNo7C__2IYw 06:30

One label on this page is contested

The ability costs above are given in points rather than in a named resource, and that is deliberate. This creator counts them in "mana points" throughout; the combat guide cited elsewhere on this site calls the same gauge FP. One of the two is wrong and we do not know which, so the number is published and the noun is not.

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