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13. DR. NEFARIOUS
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LOCATION: Launch Site
ATTACKS: Energy Shockwaves
         Dual Sweep Lasers
         Flying
         Energy Shield
         Holopunch
         Rocket Rain
RECOMMENDED WEAPONS: Plasma Storm
                     Heavy Bouncer
                     Decimator
                     Nitro Erupter
                     Gadgetron PDA
                     Charge Boots

                     N90 Hurricane
                     Splitter Rifle

Here it is: The final battle with Dr. Nefarious. The future of organic-
kind hangs in the balance. Don’t let us squishies down. Dr. Nef is a 
tough boss for the unprepared-So don’t expect to win unless you’ve got 
some armor (At least better than your starting armor) and some upgraded 
weapons. If you played R&C2, you have been spoiled by the Mutant 
Protopet: This final boss lays the Protopet to shame. Around as tough, 
if not tougher, than the difficult battle with Drek in R&C1, Dr. Nef 
takes you through 3 phases, and you’re going to need a heck of a lot of 
firepower. Which is why the Gadgetron PDA is nearly a required gadget. 
If you don’t have it, get it now: Go to the Qwark’s Hideout stage, and 
go around the underground ice passage near your ship. At the end of the 
path you’ll find a vending machine where you can buy the Gadgetron PDA 
for some bolts. Buy it! It will allow you to restock up on ammo for any 
Gadgetron weapon (Which means everything besides the Bouncer, Lava Gun, 
Megaturret Glove, Shield Charger, and Plasma Coil). The shipping fee is 
high (Ten-fold, actually), but it’s very useful to your survival here. 
Welcome to your fight with Dr. Nefarious:
The fight begins in a round arena, with Dr. Nefarious across from you. 
Dr. Nef has a wicked Holopunch, in which he’ll slap so hard that a 
shadowy hologram of him will fade across the ring and try to punch you. 
These come at a straight line, you lock on to Dr. Nef and keep circling 
around him. After doing some damage he’ll switch to a laser sweep; Much 
like the sweeping lasers you’ve dealt with before, excep Dr. Nef does 
two at a time. Either continuously back away from him, or stay in the 
middle so you can jump over both lasers at once. After draining more 
health he’ll immediately start blasting out Energy Orbs which act very 
much like Giant Klunk’s: They’ll explode into shockwaves on impact. 
However, Dr. Nef’s orbs at faster and more powerful, and he’ll throw 
out more than one at once. So keep moving and jumping all over the 
place, and use up every Plasma Coil shot you have, before moving on to 
the Bouncer. After depleting his energy you’ll go to a cut-scene in 
which Dr. Nef will fall to his knees and beg Ratchet for forgiveness... 
Before floating up into the air, summoning an energy shield, and 
blowing a massive hole in the arena.

Now you have to fight your way across a war-torn battle field of the 
toughest Tyhrranoids (And enemy troopers, and giant robots), in order 
to reach the plateau and finish your fight with Dr. Nef. Along with 
dealing with Tyhrranoids, Dr. Nef will be floating above you, mocking 
you, and firing energy blasts for you to avoid. Along the path are ammo 
and nano crates, and Space Rangers will eventually come to help you out 
a bit. You have two choices: Either take it slow and fight your way 
through the war-zone, collecting ammo and nano as you fight waves of 
Tyhrranoids. It’s long, and you’ll inevitably take some damage. Your 
other choice is my preferred method: Skip it. Use you Charge Boots: 
(Double tap R1) to zip through the field, and keep doing it every time 
the charge wears off. You can skip the entire sequence, zoom across the 
bridge, and continue your fight on the plateau. It’s less fun, but 
necessary if you’re losing health fighting the Tyhrranoids. At the 
start of the second battle, use your PDA and restock on supplies if you 
need them. And then finish your fight with Dr. Nef.
The final fight works much like the first, except that at the start 
turrets will fire a ton of rockets into the air, causing a hail-storm  
of rockets (As usual with the markers on the floor), Dr. Nef is now 
faster, he can teleport, and he can summon multiple holograms at once. 
The rockets are not a problem as long as you keep moving, so just try 
and dodge the holopunches as best you can while blasting Dr. Nef. Once 
you deplete your Bouncer and Plasma Coil, use the Annihilator, and if 
you run out of that use the Nitro Erupter. If that is finished, use the 
PDA. The fight is long, but you can prevail!

THANKS TO RAMY WATTS:
Hey Dan, I wanted to offer an alternative way to defeat Dr. Nefarious. 
You can use only your level 5 N90 Hurricane and level 5 Splitter Rifle. 
Now I had 100 Nano Points and the best armor (Infernox), but basically 
you use the Hurricane all the time with lock on mode and jump when he 
throws anything at you except for the lasers! When he uses the laser 
beams you can jump out of range (they're pretty short) and use the 
rifle with the zoom in. Now 8 shots are enough for him to blow the hole 
in the arena. Then you, like you said, boost through the robot army and 
in the final arena again use the exact same tactic.