How to Beat Dario (Boss)

This is a boss guide on how to beat Dario in Chrono Cross Remaster: The Radical Dreamers Edition. Read on to learn more information on Dario, his Abilities, item drops, and the strategy to beat Dario with or without the Black Plate!

How to Beat Dario

Equipping the Black Plate

Given that Dario is a Black-innate boss with high attack power and strong Tech Skills, his attacks can easily take Serge down or any White-innate characters in a single turn.

That said, equipping the Black Plate to save one of your party members from his Tech Skills is a no brainer.

Beating Dario Without the Black Plate

There is also a way to manipulate his moves in such a way that he will never get to use his Tech Skills and Healing.

If you perfectly manilpulate Dario's moves, you can even beat him without having to equip the Black Plate!

Turn Counting + Green/Red Manipulation

Dario counters each Element use with a specific move on its own. Below are the corresponding moves he will make depending on the Element casted onto him.

Every time Dario counter attacks, his hidden move counter resets and he will move again on the 7th action point spent. To better explain how the action point mechanics work, refer to our move table below.

In total, you can consume 6 stamina for attacks and 1 element each turn. To abuse this, we'll want to manually control Dario's moves by using an element every 7th move so Dario will not use his own moves against your party at all and will only rely on his debuffs.

Be wary that not all counters are safe, from the list above, Conducta Rod and Recover All are the two worst counters Dario can use so avoid using Black or White Elements at all in this fight!

The Red or Green Moveset Cycle

For this fight, we'll want to only equip Red offensive Elements and Green offensive Elements. For our move cycle, we'll only do 6 light attacks then an Element cast per character, this will ensure that we will always get the most Element grid level we can get, simply repeat this forever and slowly but surely, Dario will slowly die without dealing any damage to your party at all.

Dario Boss Information

Dario Stats and Item Drops

Dario
Element	Black	HP	3500
Attack	130	Defense	130
Mag Atk	37	Mag Def	60
Drops (Common)	Dreamer's Bandana
Drops (Rare)	Perfect Pendragon Sigil
Steal (Common)	Nostrum
Steal (Rare)	Perfect Pendragon Sigil
Location	Forbidden Island (Home World)

No Star Level (★) will be earned from this battle.

Dario Abilities

Elemental Attacks

Tech Skills

General Tips

Beating Dario Will Give You the Mastermune

After defeating Dario, Serge's currently equipped weapon will turn into the Mastermune, which is Serge's strongest weapon in the game, known for dealing high chance of critical damage.

Beating Dario and getting the Mastermune is highly recommended especially if you want to take on the Criosphinx, Chrono Cross' superboss.

How to Get Mastermune: Weapon Stats and Info

Riddel is Required for the Battle

Riddel being a character close to Dario, is a requirement for this battle to trigger, as well as to unlock Riddel's Level 7 Tech Skill, Snake Fangs.

The manipulation of Dario's moves then becomes more important given that Riddel is a White-innate character, since Dario can easily take her down in a single hit with his Black-innate Tech Skills.

How to Recruit Riddel

Can You Recruit Dario?

Unfortunately, Dario is not recruitable, even after defeating him in battle.

You can check our list of recruitable characters below to find out who in the world of Chrono Cross can you add to your party!

List of Characters and Recruitment Order

Chrono Cross Remaster Related Guides

List of All Bosses

Story Bosses

Optional Bosses