An Aragami in human-form with wings of scorching fire. Capable of extremely aggressive attacks, shooting fireballs from both fists that explode on impact. Thought to have first appeared in the southwestern area of the Eurasian continent.
Charges by gliding: because of its fiery wings, it can be difficult to evade. When angered, its flames expand horizontally, so take heed.
Battle Information
Blade Attacking Tips:
Pierce/Short Blades: Make use of advanced step to quickly attack and then leave the Sekhmet's range. A good shield is recommended to block homing attacks. With practice, aerial combos are very effective against the head and fists, and can easily stagger the Sekhmet. Stun resistance is also recommended, as evading all attacks is difficult. The key is to take advantage of your greater mobility.
Sunder/Long Blades: Focus on using aerial square attacks to hit the fists and be ready to block any incoming attacks from it after your aerial attacks. When Sekhmet is enraged, spam your freeze elemental impulse edge on the lower body as it will become extremely weak against it.
Crush/Buster Blades: Circle around Sekhmet and wait for an opportunity to attack. Once you gain the opporuntiy, you can either use the buster blade's first ground triangle attack to hit the fist and dash away/block immediately or you can ready your charge crush and wait for Sekhmet to face you before unleashing your attack to the fist.
Elemental: Any type of blade with a high enough freeze attribute are the most effective weapon to use against Sekhmet. Your primary target should be the arm wings until Sekhmet becomes enraged. Once enraged, shift your attacks to the lower body as it will become extremely weak against freeze attacks.
It is dangerous to melee attack a Sekhmet as it has multiple area of effect attacks that can inflict Stun. Approach only after it uses certain attacks that have long backswing animation like its cross-shaped shockwave attack.
Gun Attacking Tips:
Pierce/Assault and Sniper Gun: Using overhead homing or pseudo-homing shot or laser type bullets is one of the easiest way to kill a Sekhmet. These bullets, like the IOD, usually land on its head which has the weakest defense against pierce type bullets. Manually aiming the head is very difficult and the only time that this can be easily done is when Sekhmet is downed.
Crush/Blast Gun: Using bomb or radial bullets, aim and fire on the Sekhmet's lower body as it is weak against crush type bullets. The head is also weak to crush type bullets but it is difficult to aim as it has a very small target hitbox. Freeze elemental radials are also good against Sekhmet's arm wings as well as the lower body (when Sekhmet is enraged).
Elemental: Always use freeze elemental bullets when fighting against a Sekhmet to maximize your damage output.
The best time to shoot a Sekhmet is after it attacks, make sure to keep moving as it has homing projectile attacks some of which can inflict Stun.
You may also opt to use homing bullets or pseudo homing bullets like the IOD and shoot while circling around it.
Status Resistances:
Condition
Resistance
Duration
Hold
Standard
Normal
Poison
Low
Normal
Bind
Low
Normal
Enraged Effects:
Rage Indicator: A reddish aura is emmitted by its body.
Sekhmet's movement and attacking speed significantly increases while it is enraged.
All of its attacks will be faster and have lesser backswing animation.
Lower body will become extremely weak to freeze elemental attacks.
Sekhmet's gliding attack will be covered in flames, making it impossible to dodge using side step (under the wing).
Unbounding Tips:
Head: The easiest way to unbound this part is to use small to medium sized freeze elemental shot bullets. This part is difficult to aim manually so use an overhead homing or pseudo homing bullet like the IOD .
Arm Wings: Any blade type or laser/radial bullets with a high freeze attribute can unbound this part with ease.
Fist: The Long blades' square attacks and the buster blades' ground triangle or aerial square attacks are the easiest way to target this part. Sekhmet's fist can be unbound by most attacks but its difficult to aim. This will require some practice.
Other Useful Tips:
Weak Points: You can inflict Down on Sekhmet by continuously attacking the following parts:
Arm Wings using any freeze elemental blade or laser/radial bullets.
Lower Body using freeze elemental bomb/radial bullets or impulse edge.
They usually stagger when their head and fists are hit by its weakness.
Just like other large aragami, Sekhmet will run away when they are low on health.
Unlike the Chi-You, Sekhmet's shockwave attack is crossed-shaped.
Sekhmet's flame chop, step back flame burst, 360 degree spin and large flame ball attacks can cause Stun.
There is a chance to devour this aragami when it performs its shockwave attack or 360 degrees spinning attack.
Sekhmets have above average line of sight but below average hearing. You can easily sneak up behind without it ever noticing you. It also doesn't notice immediately that there is a battle nearby unless it actually sees it.
Additional Information
In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet is both a warrior goddess and goddess of healing; however, the former seems more appropriate in relation to the Aragami. She was also portrayed as a lioness in Egyptian mythology; the upper body of the Aragami Sekhmet is based loosely off this fact.
Aragami Bullets
Name
Attributes
Description
Scorching Torpedo
Crush, Blaze, Divine
Fires three blaze/divine elemental orbs that stay in place and explode when something touches them or after a period of time lapses.
Scorching Blast
Crush, Blaze, Divine
Fires three simultaneous blaze/divine elemental homing shots that can cause Hold on the Aragami.
Scorching Ball
Crush, Blaze, Divine
Fires a blaze/divine element explosive shot that is effected by gravity.
Defense Attributes
The numbers below represent a rough estimate of the aragami's defense (From 1-100) for the specified attributes. The higher the value, the weaker your attack will be.
Part
Gun
Blade
Elemental
Crush
Pierce
Sunder
Crush
Pierce
Blaze
Freeze
Spark
Divine
Head (Unbound)
70
45, (10)
80
90
55, (15)
100
50, (20)
90
90
Upper Body
80
80
90
90
90
100
60
90
90
Arm Wings (Unbound)
80
80
80
80
80
100
30
90
90
Fist (Unbound)
90
90
45, (15)
55, (20)
90, (30)
100
50
90
90
Lower Body
40
90
90
90
90
100
80, [10]
90
90
Note: [Enraged] status will override Normal and (Unbound) attributes for its duration.
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