Tezcatlipoca

Tezcatlipoca is a large sized tank-like Aragami resembling a Quadriga first introduced in God Eater.

NORN
''An Aragami resembling a vicious god fused with a slaughter machine. It's capable of burning a whole city with its incredible thermal power. Said to have first appeared off the southern coast of the Mediterranean, but details remain unclear.''

''Difficult to evade its tomahawk, which launches trench mortars on impact. When enraged, a tomahawk suddenly appears over its enemy's head.''

Music Theme

 * None



Battle Information
Blade Attacking Tips: Gun Attacking Tips: Status Resistances: Enraged Effects: Unbounding Tips: Other Useful Tips:
 * Pierce/Short Blades: Tezcatlipoca's slow attacks are easy to dodge using advanced step and jump plus aerial square attacks. Attacking the missile pods and/or upper body will cause above average damage. The missile pods are a safer target, compared to the upper body.
 * Sunder/Long Blades: The exhaust is weak to sunder attacks, but it is a little dangerous to attack since it will leave you open for a counter. The safer way to fight is to spam divine elemental bomb/radial Impulse Edge on the front legs and inflict Down on Tezcatlipoca. Once downed, its front armor will open up and become extremely weak to sunder attacks. Focus your melee attacks on the front armor until Tezcatlipoca gets back up. If its front armor becomes unbound, it is no longer necessary to inflict down on Tezcatlipoca to make sunder attacks effective on the said part. Note that the front legs will become resistant to Impulse Edge while Tezcatlipoca is enraged.
 * Crush/Buster Blades: Simply block or circle around Tezcatlipoca and wait for an opening to attack. Once you gain this opportunity, aim your melee attacks properly and focus them on the front armor. Be ready to use advance guard while attacking as a safety precaution.
 * Elemental: Blades with divine attributes are effective against Tezcatlipoca's body parts. They become especially weak to divine attributes when they are enraged.
 * Pierce/Assault and Sniper Gun: When using shot/laser type bullets, shooting Tezcatlipoca's head or helm will inflict serious damage. The helm will become even weaker against pierce type bullets once unbound. If you ever encounter Tezcatlipoca opening its front armor or while it is downed, fire advanced piercing bullets on said part to cause very high damage to it.
 * Crush/Blast Gun: Using bomb/radial type bullets, aim for the front legs continuously to inflict Down on Tezcatlipoca. Proceed to blast away at the exposed front armor. Using a gun with a high enough crush attribute, it is viable to use Tezcatlipoca's own Aragami bullets against it. The best way to shoot its own Aragami bullets is to fire them at point blank range. Keep in mind that the front legs' defense against crush type bullets will increase while Tezcatlipoca is enraged.
 * Elemental: Divine elemental bullets are very effective against Tezcatlipoca's body parts. They become especially weak to divine bullets when they are enraged.
 * Rage Indicator: White smoke arises from its body.
 * Tezcatlipoca's speed and aggressiveness will increase.
 * The head, upper body, exhaust, front armor and missile pod's defense attributes against freeze, spark and attributes will decrease.
 * The front legs will become very resistant to crush type gunfire.
 * Front Armor: Buster Blades' ground square attacks can quickly unbound this part. You can also attack this part with Long Blades or any type of bullet whenever Tezcatlipoca enters its deployed state to launch missiles or when it's downed.
 * Missile Pods: Attack it with the Short Blades' aerial square attacks to unbound it quickly.
 * Helm:  Fire shot/laser divine elemental bullets on this part to unbound it. Advanced piercing bullets are also effective.
 * Weak Points: To inflict Down on a Tezcatlipoca, continuously attack the following parts:
 * Front Legs using divine elemental bomb/radial bullets, Impulse Edge or its own Aragami bullets.
 * When Tezcatlipoca is inflicted with Down, its front armor will open and become vulnerable to gunfire and melee sunder attacks.
 * They usually stagger when their head, front armor and missile pods are hit by its weakness.
 * Just like other large Aragami, Tezcatlipoca will run away when they are low on health.
 * There is a chance to devour this Aragami when it's using its divine dome attack.
 * If you block its divine dome attacks once upon its execution, you will be able to enter the attack's area of effect without taking damage.
 * Tezcatlipoca's front armor missile will appear on top of a selected God Eater's head.
 * When Tezlatlipoca backsteps, it is usually followed by a forward leap. Tezlatlipoca will release missiles in both actions.
 * Tezcatlipoca's have excellent hearing and will usually join other Aragami whenever they hear you battling with them. Visual senses are somewhat narrow and below average as compared to other Aragami.

Aragami Bullets




Defense Attributes
''The numbers below represent a percentage estimate of the Aragami's defense (From 1% to 100%) for the specified attributes. The higher the value, the weaker your attack will be.'' Normal= Unbound= Enraged= Unbound-Enraged= Notes:
 * For the Upper Body and Front Armor, "N" refers to Normal State and "D" refers to Deployed State. Deployed State is entered when Tezcatlipoca opens its Front Armor to launch missiles.
 * [Enraged] status will override Normal and (Unbound) status for its duration.
 * Tezcatlipoca's front armor will also enter its deployed state when it's inflicted with Down.

Devour Rates= Unbound Bonus Rates= Note: The Tezcatlipoca in the Challenge Mission "Gods Eater" uses difficulty 10 rates.

Trivia

 * Tezcatlipoca is the Aztec God of night and destruction.
 * Tezcatlipoca's Helm is the dragon-shaped helmet on top of its skull-like head.