Boss Battle: Pandora, Goddess of Calamity


Pandora only acts like she’s not bothered that Pit and Palutena have made a mess of her forces and of her humble pocket of dimensional space.

Pandora will spit bombs and fireballs or crystals at Pit. The fireballs you need to dodge. Smack the crystals and bombs back at Pandora to cause damage. Your melee attacks and ranged attacks are not as effective as usual on her. Pandora also has a teleport that makes her completely invincible as the effect is taking place, and she likes to do this in the middle of your combos, or often just when you get close to her.

She will frequently attempt to dive into the ground and close the distance with Pit. When she bursts back up, she hits everything around her. It’s possible to dodge this if you’re spot-on with the timing.

After a short fight, Pandora concedes defeat and reveals the Mirror of Truth to Pit. Palutena orders him to destroy it.

Wait, what—?

A Dark Pit approaches! Pandora seems pretty confident that you’re finished.

Except Dark Pit has other ideas. He joins you in the second half of this battle, and it’s a good thing that he does so. Pandora is very disappointed with him and she means to take that out on both angels. When she turns bright orange, being close to her is dangerous, and she tries to suck you in closer to her to light you on fire. She moves much faster, and teleports more often, but still provides bombs for you to hit her with. It’s possible to mix it up with her in melee combat, but it is safer to stay at a distance whenever possible. Keep up the steady pressure and eventually Pandora’s fires are put out.

After the battle, Dark Pit takes Pandora’s fading powers for himself, and to add insult to injury, he gains the ability to fly freely. The situation is getting out of hand. Dark Pit has all of the skills that the real Pit has, and if he’s working for Medusa, the battles are going to get more desperate from here on out.