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Golgra is the Gestral Chief inClair Obscur: Expedition 33.The living mannequins are known for their love of fighting for fighting’s sake, but unlike most of her comparatively harmless kin, Golgra is actually one of the Continent’s most dangerous brawlers. Players who think they can style on the game by challenging her to a duel on their first visit to the Gestral Village are in for a rude awakening.
With a massive reserve of HP and kick combos that hit like a truck, Golgra can one-shot even high-level characters. If you’re going to fight her, you need to be prepared.
All Golgra Fights
There are actuallyfour opportunities to fight Golgra throughout the game.Her moves and combos remain the same throughout, but when she appears as a boss in side quests,her stats are mercifully reduced. It’s when you challenge her to a duel in her hut at the Gestral Village that you need to really worry.
The three less-challenging fights with Golgra take place:
All fights against Golgra are one-on-one duels, except the battle at the Sacred River, where your party is restricted tojust Verso and Monoco.
The ultimate test against Golgra can be taken at any time after you’ve met her in Act 1, simply bytalking to her in her hut and challenging her to a duel.you’re able to choose which party member will face her, butyour chosen fighter should be Level 80 or even 90to stand a chance. For that reason, it’s much better tocome back near the end of the game to try your luck.
Best Strategy For Beating Golgra
Golgra’s combos have a decent delay before each kick, so with a little practics you may usually learn to parry and counter them after a few tries. The trouble is thateach hit that goes unblocked deals five to seven thousand damage; most characters will fall immediately on missing a block.
Equip weapons thatscale with Vitality and/or Defenseand max out those Attributes to help increase your character’s resilience, using Recoats if necessary. Recovery Pictos likeSecond Chanceare also vital, since with only one character a single mistake can end the fight if you don’t have a way out.
Once you’ve learned Golgra’s combos to the point where you’re able to reliably parry,Augmented Counterhelps wear down her health bar quickly.
Charactersbuilt to Break and Stuncan fill Golgra’s meter a few times throughout the battle; each turn she loses to Stun is a turn you don’t have to worry about parrying! Burn can also help speed up the fight, but you’ll need to inflict a lot of stacks at once to do any real damage.
Second Phase
When Golgra gets below half of her starting HP, she changes forms,using longer, more complex combos.Most of them are variations on the attacks from her first phase, but you should watch out in particular for when sheshakes the earth.This requires ajump counter followed by a gradient counter, which isn’t a combo that you see very often in the game, so it can come as a surprise the first time you see it.
Despite her burning appearance in her second phase,Golgra is neither immune nor resistant to fire damage.
Rewards For Beating Golgra
Each character that defeats Golgra in a duelreceives their Gestral-themed weapon:
Gustave or Verso
Monoco
Sidaro
You can get these weapons in other ways; for example, the winner of the Gestral Tournament when you recruit Sciel gets their Gestral weapon as a prize, and Sakapatates sometimes drop them as loot. Beating Golgra in her hut also yieldsGrandiose Chroma Catalystand (occasionally)Recoat, and it’s an efficient way tolevel up the Gestral weapons that you already havein your inventory without spending resources.
