Eidolon Gantulyst

The Eidolon Gantulyst is an enormous spectral Sentient Eidolon creature that can be summoned on the Plains of Eidolon at night, acting as one of the Grand Bosses of the landscape. This is the second of the 3 night bosses of Plains of Eidolon, preceded by Eidolon Teralyst and followed by Eidolon Hydrolyst. Much larger than the preceding Eidolon Teralyst, this one has replaced its right arm with an elongated boulder, and its massive weight creates shockwaves with every step.
All Eidolons are remnants of a Sentient that was defeated in a battle against the Tenno during the Old War, whose remains now wander the plains perpetually searching for their lost components. These fragments are, however, still formidable creatures armed with powerful attacks and near-impenetrable defenses, and are hostile to both Tenno and Grineer alike.
It is important to note players that have not unlocked Transference from The War Within won't have any means to properly fight the Eidolon Gantulyst.
==Behavior==
After Tenno capture the Eidolon Teralyst, they must offer their Brilliant Eidolon Shards on the Eidolon shrine located in the middle of Gara Toht Lake. This will cause the Eidolon Gantulyst to emerge from the lake, marked by a column of orange light.
The Gantulyst generally walk in one direction, even if the Tenno are nearby, though their attention can be drawn to specific locations by using Eidolon Lures found throughout the Plains at night. The Gantulyst has many different attacks and several do extremely high damage, and while most of those attacks are telegraphed, they may remain quite hard to dodge, even with extensive use of the Operator's Void Mode. Despite its massive size that towers over the Teralyst, the Gantulyst's speed isn't weighed down and moves much faster than its predecessor.
*Seeking Sphere: A sphere of light emitted from the Gantulyst's back which slowly travels to its target while firing somewhat inaccurate projectiles. These are very slow, and the sphere can either be dodged or destroyed with the Operator's amp.
*Summoning Scream: The Gantulyst glows green and screeches into the air. This will summon and buff Vomvalysts around it.
*Gantulyst Shields: After a Summoning Scream or a Regenerating Scream The Gantulyst deploys a large orange dome covering the area around it, which blocks enemy fire coming from outside the dome. The dome moves with the Gantulyst, who acts as its center, forcing Tenno to get much closer to the Eidolon in order to damage it. Additionally, the dome emits pulses of energy that sap the health of anything outside it in a wide radius (300m). The lures are extremely vulnerable to those pulses.
*Ground Stomp: Stomps the ground, sending out a ground shockwave that knocks back any Tenno in its path a great distance (100 meter radius).
**Knockback Pulses: If Gantulyst Shields are active, Ground Stomp is followed by 4 shockwaves with very powerful knockback. It can be dodged by jumping over them.
**Energy Pillars: If Gantulyst Shields are not present, Ground Stomp is followed by several pillars of light emerged from the ground, dealing heavy damage to anything coming in contact with them. Small patches of yellow smoke and teal-colored ground briefly indicate where the pillars will emerge.
*Ground Smash: Smashes the ground, sending out a series of high-damaging, homing quakes to the Tenno's position. These homing quakes can stagger the Tenno and are 25m high.
*Rock Swing: Swings its rock arm inflicting damage to Tenno struck by it.
*Laser Swing: Similar to the Teralyst's Gun Swing, the Gantulyst swings its gun arm while firing a continuous beam of light in a wide arc. The laser leaves behind a trail of fire, which explodes shortly after.
*Regenerating Scream: The Gantulyst glows green and screeches. This will cause surrounding Vomvalysts (that are not affected by Summoning Scream) to link to the Gantulyst and begin to regenerate its shield. Additionally, this will render it invulnerable to all damage until all linked Vomvalysts are destroyed.
*Sentient Residue: The Gantulyst will "bleed" teal blood on the ground after losing at least one of its Synovia, dealing damage over time to those standing on it.
*Star Prism: Fires a prism into the sky, which then explodes into multiple lasers firing in all directions, dealing heavy damage.
*Energy Spike: The attack Gantulyst uses upon the destruction of one of its limbs. This will emit five pulses of high damage. It will repeat this five times.
If the Gantulyst is still alive once sunrise hits, it will change course towards the nearest body of water. Upon arriving, it will become invulnerable and disappear in a pillar of blue light as it sinks back in, and all Eidolon Lures will self-destruct. The Gantulyst can still be killed en route as long as it has not reached the water.
==Strategy==
===General===
Dealing with the Gantulyst is essentially the same as dealing with the Teralyst, with a few key differences:
*The Gantulyst possesses 6 Synovia, compared to the Teralyst's four, thus requiring the use of 3 charged lures if players wish to capture it. These are located on each of its knees, elbows, and the back of its "armpits".
*The Gantulyst is much bigger, and moves much faster than its smaller counterpart. Because of this, hitting its weak points becomes more challenging.
The Gantulyst remains immune to 's abilities. For recommended Warframes to deal with the Gantulyst, refer to the Strategy section for the Teralyst.
Players who have control over the lures should stay as close to the Gantulyst as possible, in the event that the latter deploys its Gantulyst Shields (the orange dome). Lures outside the dome will not link to the Gantulyst's broken limbs and seemingly take fatal damage from the pulses the dome emits.
===Summary===
*Preparation Phase: Damage an Eidolon Lure and hack it to take control of it. The Lure can then be charged by either letting it absorb a nearby Eidolon Vomvalyst's spectral form, or by picking up the energy orb they drop (indicated by a blue beacon) and passing it onto the Lure. Each lure needs the energy of three Vomvalysts to fully charge. It is recommended to have three lures under control by the end of the hunt.
*Phase 1: The Eidolon Gantulyst's shield can only be damaged with damage; this can be done with the Operator's power (unlocked only after The War Within). The Synovia weak points will be vulnerable once its shields have been depleted.
*Phase 2: Destroy a Synovia; this will trigger an energy spike of 5 waves in a 65-meter radius and yield an Exceptional Sentient Core for each one destroyed.
**With no charged Lure: The Gantulyst will teleport away, regenerating 75% of its shield.
**With at least 1 charged Lure: The Gantulyst will not teleport away, regenerating only half of its shield.
*Phase 3: Once all Synovia have been destroyed, the Gantulyst will call upon surrounding Vomvalysts to heal it. Destroy these with the Operator.
*Phase 4: The Gantulyst's entire body will finally be vulnerable to damage. At this point it can be defeated.
**With 0-2 charged Lures (Killed): The Gantulyst will collapse to the ground, yielding only three Eidolon Shards and an Arcane Enhancement.
**With 3 charged Lures (Capture): The Gantulyst will be absorbed and dissolve into the ground, the Lures tethered to it will explode, additionally yielding a generous amount of Sentient Cores, one Brilliant Eidolon Shard (reimbursed), one Radiant Eidolon Shard, and drawing from a different drop-pool of Arcane Enhancements.
***When captured, the Gantulyst may also drop an Eidolon Gantulyst Articula, which can be placed in the Orbiter for Decoration.
***Capturing the Gantulyst is required to summon the Eidolon Hydrolyst, as it is the only way to obtain the Radiant Eidolon Shard necessary for the summoning.
==Tips==
* can remove the Gantulyst's armor, even while it's shielded; 22 hits will remove the Gantulyst's armor entirely, allowing weapons to deal full damage.
*As the Gantulyst is part of the faction, it is vulnerable to and damage, but resists .
*Due to the larger size of the Gantulyst, the Granmu Prism often becomes more viable than the Shwaak Prism which loses its ability to deal multiple counts of damage in one hit on the Gantulyst because of its relatively short range. The Klebrik Scaffold can be used as a complement to dispatch the Vomvalysts with ease.
==Trivia==
*Eidolon in Greek literature are spirit like images of a living or dead person.
*Eidolon Synovias are a direct reference to synovial joints, which are compound joints found throughout the body.
*The Eidolon Gantulyst was placeholder-named as "Bigalyst" during development and is still referred to as such in the game's files.
*Eidolon Gantulyst is sometimes referred to by the community as "Garry".
*The 3 night bosses of Plains of Eidolon together are sometimes referred to by the community as "Tridolons" (i.e. "Three Eidolons" - Eidolon Teralyst, followed by Eidolon Gantulyst, and finally by Eidolon Hydrolyst).
==Bugs==
*Even with charged lures the Gantulyst may still teleport away.
*Occasionally, the Gantulyst's Knockback Pulse stomp will emit additional pulses which may be erratically timed.
*If the Gantulyst is staggered while casting Star Prism (as when a Synovia is destroyed), its gun will wave erratically and may fire the projectile downward, making its lasers extremely difficult to avoid on flat ground. If on a slope, it is advised to move up-slope from the prism, avoiding it entirely.
*The Gantulyst's Synovias display as Teralyst Synovia, rather than Gantulyst Synovia
== Gallery ==
File:ArticulaGantulyst.png|Gantulyst Articula
File:Gantulyst.png
File:GantulystSigil.png|Gantulyst Sigil
==Patch History==
==See also==
*Plains of Eidolon
*Eidolon Teralyst
*Eidolon Hydrolyst
*Eidolon Vomvalyst
*Eidolon Shard
*Brilliant Eidolon Shard
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