How to Beat Raker in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy — Chapter 15

After you and the Guardians have fought through every inch of the Church of Universal Truth's ship and cut down his personal guards, Chapter 15 in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy culminates in an epic showdown with the Grand Unifier himself, Raker.

NOTE: In Chapter 8, you have a snap decision to make involving Gamora chasing Raker. Depending on how you played this moment, Raker will either be at full power or slightly weakened.

Your first step will be to bring down Raker's golden force field:

• Concentrate your blaster fire on it and stay moving.
• Use the environment. There are explosive crates for Drax to throw and vents for Rocket to plant mines; these provide good damage without spending abilities.
• Use Groot's Entangle ability to slow Raker down.

Save your heavy-hitting Guardian's abilities for when the shield falls—once you break it, Raker's stagger bar will fill automatically, and he will fall to the ground with his massive HP now vulnerable.

Once the shield is down, act quickly: Activate Quill's Fan the Hammer ability for a huge stream of damage. Send all of your Guardians' heaviest-hitting attacks at the same time. Raker's health bar will melt away, but once his stagger bar resets, you will have to break the shield again to damage his HP.

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Raker is only one enemy, but many of his attacks can affect the entire battlefield while taking large chunks of damage from your health bar. Stay moving and keep an eye for damage radius warnings on the ground to find a safe spot when Raker launches his massive ranged attacks. He will also use an ability that will cast the battlefield in darkness.

When you are shrouded in darkness, you can't attack Raker. Instead, spend your time constantly moving—Raker will periodically attack from the darkness, but if you're keeping an eye, you can dodge these attacks. Keep biding your time, and eventually, the darkness will relent and you can begin targeting his shield again. Be sure to make use of Quill's Force Field ability for pockets of short-term invincibility—very useful here.

Raker will also make things very bright and slightly distorted.

You can still target and damage Raker during this time, but things will be tough to see, including the damage radius markers for his attacks. Stay on the defensive; keep dodging and dashing until things become normal again.

Repeat this process, and don't stop moving. It may take a while, but after a couple of times breaking Raker's shield and sending volleys of your heaviest Guardians attacks, you will soon have a well-earned victory against one of the more challenging bosses in this game.

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