Inner Dracula | Boss Battles Castlevania: LoS 2 Guide

Inner Dracula

Inner Dracula's Golem form.

Yup, you are going to fight with your inner self. The fight is divided into two stages - against a blood golem and against a blood-vomiting snake-like creature.

Fighting against the golem is moderately difficult - his strikes are powerful, deal large amounts of damage and most of them cannot be blocked, but his movements are extremely slow and easy to predict, which makes them easy to avoid. At the beginning the golem with use melee attacks and a stomp-like attack - he will jump high into the air and crash down, generating a shockwave attack of blood, which you can avoid by jumping above it.

When the golem's life is almost empty, you will receive a prompt to get close to and grab him, initiating a QTE sequence. If you done everything correctly, Dracula will rip a part of golem's body and absorb it, giving you access to one of the most useful skills in the game - double jump (Demonic Wings). They allow you to jump a second time while being in mid-air, which probably isn't the best combat-oriented skill, but it's required to get to most of the hidden treasure in the game.

And here's his blood-vomiting snake form...

Back to the fight - every time you bring the golem's life to zero, the Inner Dracula's true form (that of a vomiting snake) will appear. Attacking him in this state is rather difficult, as the only place you can hit him is his head - aerial combat and usage of newly acquired double jump is the only way for you to harm him.

The snake-like creature has 2 attacks :

• Blood Vomit - it's an attack that you can't block, that is why you should attack him from the opposite side to his vomit attack (he will move his head from left to right / from right to left, so it's quite easy to avoid getting hit by it). If he starts vomiting from the right side, you must attack him from the left, hit him a few times and jump back to dodge the blood vomit.
• Power drain - just as he's going to return to his golem form, the enemy will start a suction-like move and will drain all your Void and Chaos Magic with that, leaving you with empty reserves of them. You can't avoid this attack in any way.

The enemy is in the snake-like form only for a short time, after which he will resummon the golem. Rinse and repeat until Inner Dracula's health drops to zero, ending the fight.