Mimolette (Boss)

Mimolette is the fifth Boss of *Mad Rat Dead,* appearing after The Cat in stage 5-7 ("Vs Phantom Moon"), and playing a minor role in the game.

## Info

Mimolette is the Boss of Stage 5-7, called upon by Rat God after Mad Rat's reunition with Heart in a hallucination created by her.

Their stage gives the Trophy Mimolette upon S+ Rank completion.

## Description

Mimolette is a giant, floating wheel of melty mimolette cheese, with several blinking eyes covering its surface. It is dotted with holes that expose a gray and black inside, similar in appearance to that of cracked paint. The sclera of its eyes are usually a highly saturated reddish-orange color, with slitted black pupils surrounded by a yellow iris, and cyan eyelashes. These eyes however can change colors to have a purple sclera, and light blue iris.

It is surrounded by an aura composed of three rings of colors, two of these rings being composed of a circle of triangles. The innermost ring is composed of dark red triangles dotted and outlined in a lighter red. The middle ring is composed of dark purple triangles that gradient outwards into transparency, outlined and dotted in white. The outermost ring is a bright cyan dotted with a dark blue pattern, and it fades into transparency at its edge.

Mimolette's core is black with gray splotched all over it, each splotch relatively close to each other, and varying in size. A large, oval-shaped, red eye appears in the core's center, with red strands moving outwards from it, creating cracks in the core's surface.

## Strategy

Mimolette's battle has a time limit of 999 seconds, making time of little concern, and can be split into four separate phases, each indicated by it getting hit by Mad Rat. Mimolette can take three hits, and is defeated on the fourth hit. Therefore, its battle can be split into four phases, phase one occurring before the first hit, phases two and three occurring after the first and second hits, and phase four occurring after the third hit.

Mimolette only has two attacks, the first being that its eyes will switch to a purple color, and it will summon purple balls of light that track Mad Rat's movement and explode into yellow orbs splotched with purple, similar to Mimolette's core, before fading away. The second is that it summons yellow, triangular nightmares with three eyes and large, lolling tongues. These nightmares appear to resemble slices of Mimolette itself, however Mimolette itself loses no mass when summoning these cheese slice nightmares.

Mimolette's other actions consist of occasionally moving vertically to relocate itself within the stage, and sometimes simply idling where it floats.

### Phase One

Phase one is simple enough, with not much going on aside from Mimolette moving around every so often. In order, Mimolette's attacks are to use its purple orbs, cease their usage, summon three horizontally-moving nightmares in the stage's center, use its orb attack again, moving to the bottom of the stage and summoning two nightmares above itself which move horizontally whilst Mimolette uses its orb attack, and then returning to the center of the stage.

Not much movement is required for this phase, and the main area the player should stay in is the stage's lower half. For the orbs attack, the player can simply use the L stick to move to each orb's edge, just out of the attack's range, whilst using the charge button (X) to build a combo. The first set of nightmares summoned is in a vertical column. The nightmare in the middle will move left, with the other two moving right, before the three return to the stage's center, and then repeat the movement with the exception of each nightmare moving in the direction opposite of the previous way it went, before disappearing. For this, simply sit in the stage's center, then move to the bottom of the stage after the nightmares come back to the center the first time.

After this set of attacks, Mimolette will return to the center of the stage and crack open, exposing its core alongside exposing itself to attack. After hitting Mimolette, phase 2 is initiated.

### Phase Two

Mimolette summons four nightmares, one in each corner of the stage. However, the nightmares in the upper right and lower left corner are closer to mimolette than the others. Immediately after doing this, Mimolette will use its orb attack whilst the two nightmares closest to it slowly move downwards, with the others moving upwards. Mad Rat should stay at the top of the stage, moving left or right when needed in order to not get hit by the nightmares, or Mimolette's orb attack. If needed, Mad Rat should move to the other side of the stage entirely by jumping, then charge-dashing in the air over Mimolette.

The nightmares will repeat their movement four times, their speed increasing and Mimolette moving to the stage's bottom on the fourth turn, before disappearing. One nightmare seems to linger at the bottom of the stage, however, and moves from left to right before disappearing alongside the other three. After all this, Mimolette will return to the stage's center once more, and expose itself to attack.

### Phase Three

Phase three is the most cluttered of the four stages, with Mimolette summoning several nightmares on each side of the stage, all of them moving horizontally across the stage in varying directions, and some even taking a moment to pause and charge their energy, before moving at an increased pace, similar to Mad Rat's charge dash. For this, Mad Rat should stay on the left side of the stage, alternating between the two centermost platforms in order to avoid the nightmares.

Mimolette will then move to the bottom of the stage, and use the orbs attack once more (but at a significantly faster rate than in the previous phases) after summoning even more nightmares. At this point, the nightmares will be all over the place, most moving horizontally, some charging while doing so, and some even moving diagonally. Mad Rat should move to the right, then drop down to the platform below the lower middle platform after Mimolette summons two orbs, move left onto the last platform before the ground itself, jump upwards onto the lower middle platform, then jump again onto the upper middle platform, all while avoiding the orbs. If following these exact directions, avoiding the nightmares shouldn't be too much of a problem.

After this is done, every nightmare will disappear at once, and Mimolette will return to the stage's center and expose itself to attack once more.

### Phase Four

Mimolette will summon two nightmares on the right side of the stage, and then immediately switch into the orbs attack. The nightmares will move horizontally across the stage. For this, Mad Rat should simply stay at the bottom of the stage, moving slowly to each orb's edge to avoid them, but making sure to charge-dash to the opposite side of the stage after reaching the area directly below Mimolette, in order to not get trapped and then forced out of one corner and into the path of the nightmares.

Mimolette will then move to the bottom of the stage, the nightmares disappearing. It will continue to relentlessly use its orbs attack, but without the nightmares to worry about, Mad Rat can simply move freely in order to avoid them. However, they should make sure to stay on one side of the stage regardless.

Mimolette will return to the stage's center, and then summon three horizontally moving nightmares in the center as well. It will then continue to use the orbs. Mad Rat should stay at the stage's bottom, resuming the evade and charge-dash method from earlier until Mimolette and the nightmares are finished, and Mimolette exposes itself to attack once more. Mad Rat should then attack Mimolette, and end the battle there.

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