Solar Saint

**Solar Saint** is the fourth boss of the game and the main boss of the Solar Solstice episode. He resides in the Solar Sanctuary, on the sun, embracing its warmth.

## Appearance

He is a tall humanoid entity that wears full golden armor, golden cape with the sun symbol on it and wields a big golden hammer with a sun-shaped sides.

### Introduction

After Champion enters the sanctuary, something very bright will flicker in the sky and land on the arena, revealing Solar Saint. He taunts Champion in sun language and stands up to start the fight.

## Behavior

Unlike his antipode, Solar Saint is more intimidating, more persistent, has more attacks and even two phases:

### First phase

1. **Melee.** Star Man tries to close the distance and attempts to smash the player with his nutcracker.
2. **Ranged.** Holy Sun swings his hammer and releases numerous little suns that fly around the arena and explode upon hitting ground.
3. **Special.** Sol Badguy jumps up high in the air and floats for a couple of seconds before landing where the player is heading towards. His fall creates a shockwave that deals moderate amount of damage the closer the player to it, to the point of being fatal if they are too close or directly underneath the boss.

### Second phase

Once Solar Saint reaches 15% of his health or less he lowers his weapon and starts to burst exploding homing mini-sun waves from his helmet, taking breaks every 5 seconds to follow the player for a moment just to repeat the process after. No ranged or special attack will be performed during that phase.

## Tactics

Solar Saint is a test of your speed and attention. He will be chasing you for the whole battle, forcing you to never stop moving. His ranged attack is not easy to dodge, but manageable if you jump away from the landing spots. His special, despite looking frightening, is actually easy to avoid if you are fast enough: when he jumps up, start going into one direction and immediately run backwards once he starts falling. That way you get time to damage him while he's standing up. If possible, you could attack him while he's in the air.
During his second phase it is recommended that you do constant circle strafing as his projectiles create wide explosions after hitting the ground. Be aware of your position as well or you might fall into the abyss! Heavy arsenal is a necessary pick here, but don't try and feed Saint supernovas as he will eat them and spit back at you. *Dude literally jumps off the sun to fight you, what did you expect?*

### Tips

* You can damage him during his introduction scene.
* If you calculate your steps good enough you can get him stuck on the platforms between pillars, which will buy you some time to gather health and mana if necessary before he performs his special again.
* You can stunlock Solar Saint in the air if you shoot him with Celestial Claw when he falls.
* There is a legendary soul and 2 large health pickups under the main bridge.

## Facts & trivia

* Solar Saint's counterpart in Astral Equinox episode is Moon Guardian.
* If you manage to make Solar Saint fall into the void (not the episode), he will teleport back in the air and land at the center of the arena.
* Aeturnum's projectiles bounce off Solar Saint.
* Solar Saint is one of bosses who has multiple phases, the others being Corrupt Spirit, The Evil, Storm Spirit and Keeper of the Axe.
* It seems that Solar Saint doesn't have an actual face, but the sun(?) instead as seen under his helmet. It is not stated if he's an incarnation of an actual star or just as powerful as it is due to his magic abilities.

## Gallery

* Introduction
* Ranged attack
* Special attack's landing animation
* Second phase attack
* Death animation