Homo Margo Boss Guide: Weakness and Resistances

Homo Margo is a boss that can change elemental weakness and can be fought during the Obtain Drakodios Quest in Metaphor: Refantazio. Read on to learn how to beat Homo Margo, their weaknesses, rewards, as well as the recommended party setup and Archetypes to use against Homo Margo.

Homo Margo Overview and Rewards

Homo Margo Quest and Location

Homo Margo Boss
Quest	Level	Location
Obtain Drakodios	50	Dragon Temple

Homo Margo Rewards

At the end of a battle, receiving a Spoil slightly reduces the EXP and A-EXP gained. If no Spoil is obtained, you'll receive the regular amount of EXP and A-EXP.

Solo Boss Battle

After defeating Homo Margo the first time with Malvirta Drako Eht, you will have another encounter with him as a solo boss.
Malvirta Drako Eht Boss Guide

Homo Margo Weakness and Resistances

All Elemental Weakness, Affinities and Resistances

Homo Margo Can Change Elemental Weaknesses and Resistances

During this battle, Homo Margo will be able to change its affinity at will when it prays. Homo Margo prays after every two turns.

During this time Homo Margo will be able to block any Light and Dark Skills. When it changes to an elemental affinity you will be able to attack using Slash, Pierce, and Strike Skills. After you reduce its health to less than 50% Gallica will begin assisting you by distracting Homo Margo and making it stay into your chosen affinity longer.

Recommended Party Setup Against Homo Margo

Best Characters to Choose

Character	Explanation
Protagonist	The Protagonist will be taking up the Wizard Archetype for this battle. This will allow the party to cover a larger range of elemental skills to help manage the changing affinities. You can also have him inherit the skill Gold Rush from the Merchant Archetype to deal Almighty damage ignoring the affinity and blocks altogether.
Heismay	Heismay will be taking up the role of the Faker Archetype and will be in charge of support skills casting debuffs like Tarunda, Sukunda, and Rakunda.
Hulkenberg	Hulkenberg will be using the General Archetype for party support skills like Matarukaja and Shelter Formation. She will also be taking advatage of the General-Faker Synthesis Skill Megidola which deals heavy almighty damage to the enemy.
Eupha	Eupha will be a default member of the party using the Summoner Archetype. She will be providing general damage and healing with her summons.

Recommended Archetypes Against Homo Margo

Best Archetypes to Equip

Archetype	Recommended Skills
Faker	・Tarunda ・Sukunda ・Rakunda
General	・Matarukaja ・Shelter Formation Synthesis Skill:・ Megidola
Wizard	・Botra ・Blizza ・Kandera ・Diagonal Slash Inherited Skill:・ Gold Rush
Summoner	・Summon Noctiluca Synthesis Skill: ・Summon Lizardman ・Summon Dragon God

Homo Margo is a tricky enemy to defeat with its rotating affinity. The Faker Archetype will have a big role in this battle since the enemy prioritizes removing debuffs and buffs before attacking, mitigating its ability to hurt the party. Make sure to use all of Faker's debuff Support Skills when you can. You can also use the General's Matarukaja for the same effect.

For offense, you need to keep careful watch of which affinity is currently in use and adjust your skill type accordingly. The Wizard Archetype will greatly help with this since it has a lot of variety in terms of elemental skills. The Summoner Archetype will be using a similar tactic with her additional Synthesis Skills.

All Archetypes and How to Unlock

How to Beat Homo Margo

How to Beat Homo Margo
Take Advantage of Your Support Skills Utilize Your Synthesis Skills Use Almighty Skills Be Patient

Take Advantage of Your Support Skills

Homo Margo prioritizes removing debuffs from itself and buffs from the party so take advantage of all your Support Skills. Not only will it help with your damage it will also mitigate Homo Margo's ability to attack you since it only has two turn icons per round.

List of All Support Skills

Utilize Your Synthesis Skills

When building your party make sure to check which Synthesis Skills will be made available to you based on your combination of archetypes. Doing this will give you more options when attacking.

List of All Synthesis Skills

Use Almighty Skills

Since Homo Margo has a lot of blocks and resistances one sure way to deal damage against him is to use Almighty Skills. Almighty skills ignore resistances and blocks when attacking making sure that damage is dealt regardless of its current affinity.

List of All Almighty Skills

Be Patient

Because of how Homo Margo fights you will need to be patient and wait for your chance to deal damage. Make sure to use your support skills to buy time and mitigate damage until you get your chance to hit it with the right skill. Once you reduce Homo Margo's health to below 50% Gallica will begin assisting. This will make a specific affinity of your choice stay for longer letting you deal damage for effectively.

Metaphor: ReFantazio Related Guides

List of All Bosses

All Story Bosses

List of Bosses
Homo Gorleo	Captain Klinger	Homo Fulquilo
Undead Grius	Zorba	Homo Avades
Monk Captain Gideaux	Greatworm Homo Butera	Heismay
Homo Jaluzo	Sergeant Xanth	Maintenance Chief Ceiba
Master Sergeant Glechom	Helmsman Cabio and Grand Chief Salva	Glodell
Sea Horror Homo Sabara	Treebeast Alento	Malvirta Drako Eht
Homo Margo	Louis Guiabern	Sogne the Icebound
Homo Gorleo (Second Fight)	Melancholia Zorba	Diabolus Gorleo
Diabolus Avades	Diabolus Butera	Diabolus Jaluzo
Diabolus Sabara	Diabolus Margo	Archdemon Louis Charadrius
More	Destroyer Charadrius

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Kokasados	Orgas	Kokasadors
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