Do I even need to put a spoiler warning here?
"Potions Smotions" achievement.
Final bosses: Tinker Tub - 00:37 / The Magic Lamp - 04:10
Just a guide video to help out a friend needing to know how win the last boss battle without using potions. And yeah, I'm aware of the fireball attack I used on the Tinker Tub, since it didn't hurt it, it didn't count.
Tinker Tub isn't all that difficult, but it's very easy to slip and screw up, especially after you hit it twice since it'll deploy more tinker bats against you on its counterattack.
NOTE: You CAN use a recovery potion before the battle against Nega Shantae starts, but if you do it DURING the fight it will void the "Potions Smotions" achievement.
As for Nega Shantae her battle starts pretty easy and all of her attacks are fairly telegraphed, however after attacking her enough times she'll charge up and become much faster and spend a lot less time preparing her attacks.
The monkey dance attack is particularly troublesome, it's not strong but it's fast enough to throw you off and make you get hit several times in a row, Nega Shantae might use the monkey bullet up to 6 times on her second phase.
The elephant dance is very easy and goes just to half of the screen (3 stomps) on the first phase, however during the second phase she'll stomp 5 times through the entire screen and the timing to avoid that is pretty strict. You can backdash, but I'm more used to walking under it.
The mermaid dance is very difficult to dodge if you don't know what you are doing, and to make it worst it takes 1/2 heart on each hit (1 entire heart on Magic Mode). There are two ways to avoid it, one is shown here, but another is just to stand under Nega Shantae and wait for 3 series of exploding bubbles (6 on the second phase) and then backdash before she falls on you. The second method can be pretty difficult to pull since the timing is very strict.
