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Alpha Reaper Boss Guide: Recommended Setup and How to Beat

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Tales of Arise - How to Beat Alpha Reaper
This is a guide on how to beat Alpha Reaper in Tales of Arise! Learn more about Alpha Reaper's stats, weaknesses, attack patterns, and the best party setup including Artes and Equipment for this boss fight!

Alpha Reaper Stats and General Info

Alpha Reaper Location

Map Actual Location

Alpha Reaper can be found in the northern edges of the map, across the bridge leading into the village in front of Viscint's gates. From where you get the Sub-Quest Dohalim, Big Game Hunter, move across the bridge and head north where you'll find the simian zeugle alongside other Apes.

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Alpha Reaper Stats

Recommended Level: 25
Alpha Reaper
HP: 74390
Attack 657 Defense 346
Elemental Attack 563 Elemental Defense 307
Penetration 983 Resistance 1035
Weakness Resistance

Item to Drop

Astral Flower Titanium Vambrace (2)
Sturdy Megabone (3)

How to Beat Alpha Reaper

Tips

Use Earth-based Attacks

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Unlike the Apes it's surrounded by when you encounter it, Alpha Reaper is particularly weak to any Earth-based Artes that you may have. By using this weakness against it, you can focus your attacks onto its vulnerable right arm, which is where its Weak Point is.

With persistent elemental attacks, you can more easily break its Weak Point open, which will leave it stunned and vulnerable to further attacks.

Use Dohalim's Boost Attacks

Use Dohalim

As a fast-moving zeugle, you can slow down Alpha Reaper's attacks by making use of Dohalim's Boost Attack, which will prevent it from being able to jump around the area you fight it in consistently. Be sure, however, to re-use the attack whenever it becomes available as it wears off and could allow the zeugle to attack you with more speed.

Take Out the Apes First

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When you first encounter Alpha Reaper, it will be surrounded by two other Apes. Throughout the fight, if you do not eliminate them first, they will be able to do much of the same attacks that Alpha Reaper can do, which can complicate the battle as you will have three enemies capable of performing Jump Attacks to deal with.

Eliminate the Apes immediately for your party to be able to better focus on attacking Alpha Reaper itself.

Recommended Party Setup for Alpha Reaper

Party Members

Leader Members
Alphen ImageAlphen
Lv.25
Shionne ImageShionne
Lv.25
Dohalim ImageDohalim
Lv.25
Law ImageLaw
Lv.25

Equip Attack Increasing Accessories

Alpha Reaper has decent defences that it uses to block out most of your attacks. By equipping your party with Accessories that can increase your Penetration or Attack Parameters, you can better cause damage against the Gigant.

Alphen Equipment and Artes

Alphen ImageAlphen
Lv.25
Equipment
Flare Claw
Topaz Mail
Warrior Emblem
Ground Artes Aerial Artes
Rising Wyvern Devastation
Sword Rain: Alpha Stardust
Eternal Devastation Luna Rondo

Use Boost Attacks to Stagger

Outside of Dohalim's Boost Attack, you can also utilize Alphen's attack to cause Alpha Reaper to collapse to the ground in a stunned state. From here, you can make use of Alphen's Eternal Devastation Artes to cause the creature elemental damage – targeting the Weak Point during this will help to break it easier later on.

Shionne Equipment and Artes

Shionne ImageShionne
Lv.25
Equipment
Innocent Lily
Middy Blouse
Pierce Emblem
Ground Artes Aerial Artes
Healing Circle Toxicity
Spread Glacio Celestra
Freeze Lancer -

Primary Healer

Have Shionne focus on keeping the party alive. Many of Alpha Reaper's attacks can take a significant portion of your HP away, so be sure to have Shionne focus more on healing than attacking.

Be careful of making use of her Healing Circle Artes however, particularly when Alpha Reaper is not affected by Dohlaim's Boost Attack, as it can allow your entire party to get hit by its attack when it jumps.

Dohalim Equipment and Artes

Dohalim ImageDohalim
Lv.25
Equipment
Pulque Shaft
il Qaras Traditional Attire
PIerce Emblem
Ground Artes Aerial Artes
Stalagmite Tornado Drive
Elusive Deity -
Lionheart -

Allow to Freely Attack

Dohalim comes with several Earth-based Artes when he joins your party – you can leave him to conduct his attacks on his own with little input. For Dohalim to not be the focus of Alpha Reaper's attacks, you can use Alphen to distract it long enough for Dohalim's Artes casts to finish.

Law Equipment and Artes

Law ImageLaw
Lv.25
Equipment
Flaming Knights
Zeugle Shell Vest
Warrior Emblem
Ground Artes Aerial Artes
Talon Storm Eagle Dive
Steel -
Fang Blast -

Interchangeable With Other Party Members

The benefit of having Law in your party is that he can cause significant damage against Alpha Reaper, particularly against its Weak Point. The trade-off, however, is that Law can be easily knocked out due to the nature of how he attacks – you may wish to use Items instead of your CP to heal or revive him in these instances, or swap him out for either Rinwell or Kisara for more firepower or defense respectively.

Alpha Reaper Attack Patterns

Physical Attacks

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When attacked, Alpha Reaper will use its arms to inflict damage to any attacking character surrounding it. Even if you're attacking from behind, the Gigant can quickly spin on its feet, hitting anything around it that can knock them out in one hit, or drastically reduce their HP.

Jump Attacks

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Dohalim's Boost Attack, while it slows the Gigant down, only stops its ability to perform fast and long-ranged jump attacks that are difficult to avoid. Either way, its Jump Attacks consist of it jumping up from its position before landing directly on top of you – performing Perfect Dodges to avoid these attacks is difficult, but is your only defense from them.

You can stop the process of its jump by hitting it with either Dohalim or Alphen's Boost Attack, or by breaking its Weak Point.

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