TheEikons and their Dominantsplay a huge role inFinal Fantasy 16. Each massive entity has its own human counterpart that canharness the elemental powerthe Eikon provides, and Clive will come across them all during the game’s story.
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You will come across one of these Dominants very early on in the game, just after you have finished the brief jump back in time. Clive and his two squadmates are looking totake out the Dominant of Shivafrom the Ironblood. to do so, you will have tofight the Dominant.
How To Beat Shiva’s Dominant
Luckily, fighting the Dominant of Eikon is an easier feat than taking on the all-powerful Eikon itself, and this fightwon’t be much of a hasslefor you at all. When the battle starts, you will have a handful of smaller enemies surrounding you, with the Dominant on the other side of the arena. Take the time towipe out the smaller enemiesfirst so that you won’t have to worry about them. With all of them taken out, you can then lock on to the Dominant and focus on her.
She has pretty basic attacks to look out for:
Your strategy should be to justkeep attacking her with anything you’ve got. Get in close and hit her with your sword, remembering to dodge out of the way of any retaliatory attacks she gives you. When she begins to charge up her area-of-effect attack, get out of the area and hit her with some spells, preferably a Charged Spell.
When you have a chance to get in close,use Phoenix Shift and Rising Flameto do some big damage to her, and then just keep repeating these steps until she reaches about half of her health.
At half health, she will move into her second phase, whichplays out just like the first phase, except she will be more aggressive and bring a new attack to the table:
Just keep attacking her, just like you did in the first phase, and be sure tokeep dodging her attacks. Fully utilize your Eikon Abilities to drain her health as fast as possible.
With this strategy, she should give you at leasttwo Staggered moments, at which point you can reallypile on the damage. Eventually, she will go down without barely an issue.
