Master every boss fight in Gears 5, from the Swarmak to the Matriarch and Kraken. Learn boss weaknesses, attack patterns, and effective strategies to conquer each encounter.
Each act of the story campaign has a boss in the final chapter, here is described how to approach the fights.
Act I Chapter 4
Boss Fight: Swarmak
Boss strategy: The Swarmak will target his guns on anyone out of cover, so try staying out of his sight by moving between covers, next shoot the glowing blisters to make serious damage, dodge his machine guns and his back cannon as they can destroy your cover, you can find a Boomshot near the pillars on the left, once you make enough damage a cutscene will trigger, then target his head to finish him off.
Act II Chapter 5.
Boss Fight: Matriarch
Boss strategy: the Matriarch is blind like a Berserker and is vulnerable to cold, so you can use Jack's ultimate Flash, Cryo canons or shoot the ice where the Matriarch stands on, after she freezes, get around her and shoot its back, after you deal enough damage, Reyna will start to mess with Kait's head, then the Matriarch will change her tactics, she will begin to throw her spikes at you, she can do in two different ways, if she knows where you are, she will throw a single spike at you or she will throw spikes around, if the spikes hit you tap the button to remove it and dodge her charge. You can let yourself get hit by the spike so she will charge at you, shoot the ice before she reaches you and she will fall on the water, repeat the process of shooting her back, after she gets about a third of her life, Reyna will show up again, now instead of the Matriach charges at you when she knows your location, she will pounce, be careful as when her lands she will break the ice, so if you are close enough you will fall on the water too, after she freezes get around and shoot her back, do this enough times and Reyna will mess Kait's vision, and you have to finish the fight this way.
Act III Chapter 4.
Boss Fight: Kraken.
Boss strategy: shoot his spiracles(the openings on the Kraken tentacles), he will spawn some leeches, so be careful, after you destroy two spiracles he will pull of the tentacles of the platform, and you and your squad will fall to another platform, now he will surround the area with his tentacles, there is an ammo cache on the ground, repeat the process and after you destroy 3 spiracles, he will retreat, now head down the path and proceed through the bridge, when you reach the next area, the Kraken will engage again, this time he will throw 3 Flocks at you, destroy 4 spiracles to proceed, the platform will fall and you will slide down, after that advance to the elevator.
The Kraken will reveal his face and take down the elevator, now you are trapped below the rocket. After the Kraken opens its mouth, glowing tentacles will come out, shoot the glowing parts to destroy his tongues and avoid his attacks, after you destroy about 10 tongues, the Kraken will invest again, his tentacles will destroy a door but block your escape route, destroy more 10 and he will advance towards you, the rocket will start to take off burning the Kraken and unblocking your path, run through the tunnels to escape the fire, after that, a cutscene will trigger to end the chapter.
Act IV Chapter 2.
Final boss fight: Kraken
Boss strategy: As soon as you reach the top of the gate, get to the turrets and destroy the Flocks, there will be about three, after you kill them, the Kraken will appear, as he opens his mouth and the tongues come out aim on its glowing parts, when you destroy about 10 tongues go to the rail gun shoot his fangs, next he will try to suck you in, just fire on the tonsils on his mouth, repeat the process of destroying the tongues then go to the railgun again, after you destroy two of his fangs, he will start to bite, dodge his attacks as his bites are instakill.
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