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A guide on how to beat Painted Love, an Optional Boss in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. See Painted Love's weaknesses, attack patterns, and how to dodge and counter its attacks.
| Painted Love | |||
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| Weak | Resist | Immune | Absorb |
| None | None | None | None |
| Weakpoint | None | ||
| Quest | Optional | ||
| Location | |||
| All Painted Love Rewards | |
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| EXP | 6,806,250 XP |
| Items |
・Clea Music Record ・Clair Outfit (Verso) ・Colour of Lumina x1 ・Grandiose Chroma Catalyst x1 ・Perfect Chroma Catalyst x1 |
To fight Painted Love, you must head to the Endless Tower located southwest in the world map. The Endless Tower is only accessible after unlocking Esquie's flying ability at the start of Act 3.
Additionally, you must make your way to the Endless Tower's 11 stages, as Painted Love is the enemy for Stage 11 - Trial 3.

Most of Painted Love's attacks hit multiple times, with the single hit attacks capable of dealing a lot of damage and applying debuffs. As such, it is important to dodge and parry all attacks to mitigate as much damage as possible.

If you are not confident with your dodging and parrying, you can opt to bring Clea's Life, Cheater, and Base Shield, which will effectively heal your characters to full every turn. Base Shield serves as a buffer for whenever your characters are suffering from Burn.
Take note, however, that this costs 90 Lumina points, which will reduce the amount of points you can allocate for other Offensive and Support Luminas.
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Although you can target either the Curator or the Paintress in this fight, they share an HP Pool. Take advantage of this by using attacks that hit multiple enemies, as well as those that apply debuffs like Burn.
| Painted Love summoins a Void cross. | |
| How to Dodge | Watch the Curator's hands, and dodge when he flicks his hand. |
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| How to Counter | Similar to dodging, watch the Curator's hands, then parry when he flicks his hand forward. Parrying when you hear the Curator grunt will help with the timing. |
| Painted Love attacks. | |
| How to Dodge | Jump over the initial attack, then dodge when you hear the Curator grunt. |
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| How to Counter | Jump over the first attack and perform a Jump attack, then parry when you hear the Curator grunt. |
| Painted Love performs a Gradient Attack. | |
| How to Dodge | N/A |
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| How to Counter | Wait for the slow motion of the attack animation to wear off, then press the Gradient Counter button. |
| Painted Love summons a black hole. | |
| How to Dodge | Dodge when the black hole implodes (the outer circle goes towards the center). |
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| How to Counter | Wait until you hear the sharp noise and the grunt, then parry right after. Your visual cue is the black hole imploding. |
| Painted Love attacks from afar. | |
| How to Dodge | Jump over the first attack, then dodge as you hear the sound cues (sharp noise for the first two attacks, then a rumbling noise on the third one). |
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| How to Counter | Jump and counter the first attack, then parry as you hear the sound cues (sharp noises for the first two attack, then rumbling on the third attack. |
| Painted Love attacks swiftly. | |
| How to Dodge | Ignore the initial windup, then dodge as he swings forward. Dodge another time, then dodge twice in quick succession. Dodge another time, then wait for him to swoop down before dodging one last time. |
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| How to Counter | Listen to the Curator's grunts for the parry timing. Ignore the initial windup, then parry two spaced out attacks. Afterward, parry twice in quick succession. Parry another time, then wait for him to swoop down before parrying one last time. |
| Painted Love manipulates Rocks from the Monolith. | |
| How to Dodge | Dodge when you hear a low rumbling noise. Do this three times. You can also watch the rocks and dodge when they stop moving backward. |
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| How to Counter | Wait for the small rumbling noise each rock makes as they are about to fly, and parry when you do. |
| Painted Love throws Chroma waves. | |
| How to Dodge | Listen for the rumbling noise and dodge three times when you hear them. Dodge the fourth attack after a short delay. |
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| How to Counter | Use the rumbling noise as your window to parry. Parry three times, then wait the short delay out before parrying a fourth time. |
| Painted Love performs a combo. | |
| How to Dodge | Ignore the initial windup (until the curator brings his brush behind him). Dodge the first attack when you hear the sharp sound, then the second attack when you hear a grunt. Dodge the two consecutive mid-air attacks, then wait for a while before dodging the downward attack when you hear his grunt. |
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| How to Counter | Listen to the Curator's grunts and the rumbling for the parry timings. Ignore the initial windup, then parry twice. Parry twice quickly, then wait out the animation before parrying as the sword comes down. |
| Painted Love scatters Chroma. | |
| How to Dodge | Dodge as soon as the sound cue ends. Do this four times, then delay your fifth dodge by a bit. |
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| How to Counter | Parry the attack as soon as you hear the sound cue end. Do this four times in a row, then wait a bit before parrying the fifth attack as it will be slightly delayed. |
| Painted Love summons Void meteors. | |
| How to Dodge | Wait for the paintress to summon 7 meteors above her. The meteors will shoot clockwise from the lower left. Dodge as soon as each meteor flashes. |
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| How to Counter | Wait for the paintress to summon 7 meteors above her. The meteors will shoot clockwise from the lower left. Parry when you see the flash and when you hear the short sound cue from each meteor. |
| Painted Love flies into the air. | |
| How to Dodge | Dodge the first attack as the Paintress swoops down. Wait a bit, the dodge the second attack as she swoops down again. Wait a bit, then dodge the attack when she is right beside your character. Dodge again afterward. Wait for the sound cue, then dodge as she swoops down for the final attack. |
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| How to Counter | Listen to the five sound cues for her attacks (sharp sound for the first four, rumbling for the last attack). Parry the first attack when she swoops down, then the second attack when she swoops again. Parry the two consecutive attacks when she approaches your height, then parry the last attack as she swings down. |
| Painted Love unleashes. | |
| How to Dodge | Ignore the initial windup until the Paintress twirls and brings the brush over her shoulder. Dodge three times in a row, then wait a bit before dodging twice. Wait out the delay, then dodge when she swoops down. Dodge the upward attack, then wait until you see her moving downward before dodging the final attack. |
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| How to Counter | Listen to the sound cues for the parrying window. Wait for the rumble before parrying the first attack, followed by two attacks with a sharp noise. Wait a bit, then parry two attacks when you hear the sharp noise. Parry the next attack when you hear the sharp noise, then the upward attack when you hear the rumbe. Finally, parry the final attack once she swoops downwards with the rumble sound. |

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