Scorpioness Najka



Scorpioness Najka is a boss in Dark Souls II.

General Information
Located in the Shaded Ruins, Scorpioness Najka guards the path leading to the Doors of Pharros. When you enter the boss room only her torso is seen but after she is hit or enough time as passed she will come out of the sand revealing her scorpion body.

Summoning
The player is able to summon Manuscorpion (Taruk?) if the player has used the Whispering Ring to speak with him and exausted his dialogue.

Fight Overview
The fight reminds the player of the Chaos Witch Quelaag fight, but they are different. Scorpioness Najka uses both physical and magic damage. She is able to use a sort of Homing Soul Spear and Homing Soulmass. As for physical attacks she will swipe at you with her chelae or pincers, or she will swipe at you with her staff. She will also try to stab you with her stinger dealing two different types of attacks: one that pins you to the ground, or another that picks you off the ground and infects the player with toxic. After a certain amount of time in the battle she will go underground and move around. Eventually she pop up and try to damage the player. If hit the player flys into the air. If the player lingers behind her for too long she will slam her tail down killing the player or getting the player near death.

Strategy
The nice thing about this fight is that it is familar if you played the original Dark Souls, but a little different. What the player wants to do is stick to her side and get damage her as she is recovering from an attack. Avoid standing behind her at all costs. You can also fight her from the front, but it would be advised to have a high stability shield and light enough to easily dodge her stingers. Her Homing Soul Arrow can be easily dodged, but the Homing Soulmass is more difficult. The best time to aim for damage is while she is casting her Homing Soulmass. She takes a little bit of time to cast all the Soulmasses and a little bit more time after that for them to fire. You can dodge the Homing Soulmass by moving in one direction around her.

After a certain amount of time Scorpioness Najka will burrow underground and move around the room. You can watch where she is moving by the little puffs of sand that pops up from the ground. If she is traveling under the player or close to the player, the player will move more slowly. Eventually she will pop out of the ground. The player wants to wait for the exact moment and dodge this attack. It is difficult to dodge, but it can change the entire fight if you do dodge it.

If you summoned the Manuscorpion he will occupy most of her time until he is dead. Use that time to wail on her for a while.

Drops

 * Scorpioness Najka's Soul