Tips to Beat ALL the Special Interception Bosses | Cummander Bootcamp Vol.8 | NIKKE Guide (2024)

You missed an important note about Grave Digger:
Upon reaching his final phase: YOU MUST NOT FAIL THE FIRST CANCEL RING OR HE WILL DO HIS BIG ATTACK AND END YOU.
The bunnies reloading you can be crucial OR you can use Admi for her reload buff if you have trouble busting out your reload.
If you are using Modernia as this video suggests I dont think you should burst with her. Modernia does more damage when not bursting.
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Blacksmith: He will transition upon reaching Tier 7. He begins with a cancel ring of 3 that you must stop or you wipe
Blacksmith post tier 7 his gatling guns hurt less but his missiles are still dangerous. when its time for Dirty Noodles FORCE COVER TO RELOAD your team so that when the Noodles grabs someone you can switch if needed and hit the cancel rings
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For Modernia
If you have D USE HER. D starts the fight by giving you a huge boost to burst guage and extending the timer of your first burst. This can make all the difference in breaking the core on your first go.
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For the train:
Sakura + Ludmilla can give you the time needed to survive and break the first phase of turrets.
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For Chatterbox
Modernia and a Well positioned Laplace can wipe ALL missiles coming at you. Put Modernia dead center and pick a wing for Laplace
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Ahh, finally we reached the era of Nikke where guides and funny reviews get recommended in youtube. Great work, as a veteran player since launch, it was hell but also fun to get learn the info on this vid the hard way.
And kudos to the comments sharing more tips, lets make nikke community a rich one cummanders.

Started Nikke recently and I am really appreciating this bootcamp series to learn the basics of the game. Thanks for making all these guides.

that modernia face skip animation is all that I need. that's the first time I know about that. now she stepped down from my most annoying bosses to the easiest.

Note about gravedigger's attack and triple cancel rings
- If you failed the cancel with the ring on the BOTTOM, you can still use the barricade to block the attack.
- if you failed the cancel with the ring on TOP, that is an unblockable attack (the lightning goes over the barricade). Hope that helps.

I found your channel before the anniversary and i must say it is amazing your guides are clear and precise, I'm totally F2P and you're helping me a lot to advance in the game keep the great work and the cursed thumbnails

finally a good guide to interception. I have been looking for decent guides for interception to no avail. i am happy to see discover this channel subbed.

Amazing high quality stuff as usual! truly a gem

Thanks to you I managed to get one more tier 9 gear for my Naga today, your videos are really nice and helpful!

This came out at just the right time. I literally unlocked special interception a few days ago and was getting frustrated with the first couple bosses. Ill keep the chatterbox tips in mind for tomorrow and hope for my first clear or stage 7+ run.

For the turret iframs on train, the turrets have a red blinking light 3 times before they shoot. From what I have semi tested and done in game, there is a window roughly around the third time they blink where you would want to then go into cover. I've seen other people say that there are multiple different windows available on it which makes it all the more confusing

Im new to Nikke, this guide really helped ngl. Just finished Modernia, but wouldn’t have been able to do it without this video. Thank you!

11:31 thank you for this guide on Gravedigger. Managed to fully beat it for the first time with the comp you showcased. All that's left for me to beat is Alteisen

new nikke player here. this channel makes me love and appreciate the game more. great content

At first I thought the Noise tip had been patched or something, until I realized the I-frames were the reload animation. A damn good guide, and its helped me a lot. Thank you!

Perfect timing!!!!! I was about to ask for a special interception guide cause I'm really struggling to do them, but the guides from other creators don't explain how and why to play, they just put a whaled team and beat the sh*t out of the boss lol

Thanks for the guide, the laser missiles switch stance trick in Alteisen boss fight works like wonder, finally able to clear Alteisen!

I'm yet to finish chapter 16, but this guide videos are so good I just enjoy watching them. Great quality

Some extra PC Client tips: 1. When I was first clearing Chatterbox, I found it helpful to limit the fps to 30 frames. It made it easier to hit the missiles. 2. When clearing the Train, you can use a wider aspect ratio (iirc 21:9) and windowed mode to see more of the boss, similar to landscape on mobile.
Good luck clearing!

Thanks for the tips. I was able to beat Modernia thanks to your guide.

2:38 Been playing this mode for like 4 week's, it's my first time hearing this. Thanks

I've been doing interception for a while now but when I first started there weren't many guides to clear them without someone using all pilgrims/meta characters to nuke the bosses and not actually explaining anything, so I had to go online to obscure sites like Nikke gg to figure out tips like not shooting modernias wings and chatterbox missles being slower in 30 fps, not destroying the core, Gravedigger danger circles, a guide like this was really needed!

Yoooo thank you so much man! Today is the first time i beat an EX boss and it's Modernia. RH is a beast she carried me all the time even she at elemental disadvantage. Thank you king 👑

I needed this guide so bad thank you lord

Thank you for this guides!

You're the reason I use Noise consistently now

Finally beat chatterbox special yesterday, this will definitely help with the others

Awesome video. For me, Laplace is my designated SI beater.

This is just what i needed, i'm 3 months in the game and all i can defeat are Chatterbox & Modernia (also occasional Blacksmith).
Luckily, i just got Noise last week and immediately start building her, so i guess now is the perfect time to test her out.

Very helpful guide. I started playing nikke 5 weeks ago when Ludmilla banner release and was able to unlock interception EX & full clear 4/5 of the bosses thank to yours guide series 👍
Beating the train is gonna take me a long time tho 😂

that was actually super useful. Thanks!! :D

Very useful, especially the bit at Modernia where you skip the cutscene at certain point, idk how it works like that but it increased my chances to get to at least level 7 significantly, thanks

W guidelines keep it up giga chad legendary commander

Not going to lie before watching this video I wasn’t able to make it pass stage 3 damage on any boss. Now even using the same team thanks to your tips, I could make it to tier 9 damage multiple times on different bosses this is helping me advance a lot since I can almost consistently get tier 9 equip. Thanks a lot man sending love and support your way ❤❤

How could you know what I exactly want 😂 I thought that maybe I should search some videos about the bosses and then I found this, it’s so useful 😊

Love your guidance ❤

Thanks man, you helped me a lot!!!

Thank you so much for this, i been having trouble with these bosses since yea I'm mostly use a random unit

Pseychie, thank you for the guide - instant bookmark: even with RH on my side, I was frustrated as all hell with SI until you broke down the fights into easily-understandable steps that made the fights easier to comprehend. Now I've taken down Modernia, Blacksmith, and Chatterbox: only the two worst Interception bosses to go!
And @TimaeuSS was right: RH absolutely demolishes these bosses, just need to get me some D for some instant burst.

Loved the Modernia tips. If only my healer wasn’t so determined to get her last wing down. 😭

Sheesh! this guide takes me all the way to Phase Gauge 9 Only in Modernia though but it really help me a lot I mean a lot.

I unlocked EX Interception a couple of days ago. The boss of the day was Chatterbox and I was able to clear him on my 1st try. I thought they'd all be around the same difficulty... boy was I wrong. Modernia slapped me the next day (only half-way clear) and today Alteisen was even worse! FML! 😭
I'll try out the tips in your guide next time!

Thanks this guide was perfect for where I am in the game

Thank you for making this

this guide help me alot about train...till i watch this vid i think train boss is about defence and cover...thanks pseychie

This is what I needed

was able to brute force the train with red hood on my 6th day of the game, thank you for the guide

thank you for making this video

1 years of free to playing and i finaly beated some off them thank to your video huge thanks on you ( tho i must admit red hood and the new year gave me huge boost on my account since i got god tier drops )

thankyou this so helping for new player like me on bossing.

I hate it when the weekend full burst day is on Alteisen, just like this weekend

would love to see a PVP guide at some point ♥

Jackal for SI Alteisen works. The team share damage can spread out the turret damage among three nikkes. The rng factor is the Turrets targeting one of two the nikkes that are not covered by jackals team share. Only thing you need to do is heavy dps the missile launchers and you'll breeze through the rest of the fight.

Pro tip for Gravedigger, some shield characters (Poli is my example) can block the last stage of his attack once giving you a second chance. I’ve had a few runs where I was able to make it by shielding at the right time and then having everyone at low hp finish the fight.

Like you said SI was when I started paying attention to team comps and strategy for this game. Still working on gear and comp for Train but I can beat all the other bosses now and have started overloading gear.

this information is very useful thanks bor

I use 2B + Dorothy for all of the special interceptions. And my tip for train is manual Scarlet's auto attacks on the missle launchers in teh beginning. Then when she reloads, switch to your second DPS, in my case 2B, and continue targeting the missle launchers... then when Scarlet is done reloading resume to manual her auto attacks. Doing it this way my team has just enough damage to destroy both missle luanchers before they even fire one shot. Looking at your guide makes me think that the main strategic differences between our teams is that you actually try to tank the enemy, when I just try to shoot it harder.

I was this close to buying a pack that had that T9 item in it, but needed to look it up to see if it was worth it. Glad I did, didn't realize you needed 200 of that item to get a random T9 piece, I thought you were getting 200 pieces lol

My 4 cent, hope it helps someone (i am gonna say things not mention or fully mentioned in the video)
For Blacksmith: Prob at the start you will need a AoE burst to deal with the bombs if you don't like i-frame (i hate it) but when your dps is decent you can just take those down with regular shots in burst, a unit i wanna mention here is Drake, her burst can destroy all the bombs and deal damage at the same time, you just need to time it right, i was using this alot at the start (using a burst AoE will also help you to cut wasted time, when you don't have the dps you can spend several seconds to just attacking theme), second unit i wanna mention is Harran, she will help you both with the bombs and with energy generation, for starter can be nice (she was my pair with Drake to kill those every rotation). Also, time very well the burst window when he reach end of bar 7 (last 2 bars left) he will jump away from you and you will need to hit 3 qte, if you don't you are prob dead and this is usually the most diff. point of the fight, if you can survive with all your covers you can also just use it if you can't make it in time, you will remain without cover on anyone but afther that the fight it's over, the other quick time event it's easy to do (unless he will rng stun your best dps). I also wanna mention Marciana, the fact that she can heal in burst II position is key to not mess up your burst I unit or waste a slot to run another burst I (supp+healer), also Pepper with Privity in manual can heal, alot. (also Privity+Marciana it's really good) A core like Dorothy, Marciana,Privity, S.Anis+flex seems really a nice and full of sinergy comp (esp. if your s. anis has not the lv9 burst), if rng shots smiles to you just Marciana+Privity can heal you well
For Modernia, note your dps positions, if you put all of theme on one side they will all focus one wing at the time, at the start when you lack dps you really want this bc killing one faster can help you survive but later you can destroy both bf she is dead, you prob will need to change dps positions in reagard of what level of dps you have bf just reaching the point where you just kill her with ease
For Gravedigger: A unit i want to mention is Poli, she can be your second burst II with Guilty and her long atk% buff + the shield can be really really comfy to deal with the missiles (you just need to shot 1 down and the other will just bash on the shield, if you poli is invested you can even tank both) it's not a key to this fight, it's just a comfy pick if you really hate to deal with those (like me). If you miss S.Anis Sugar will be your best friend, Noir (even alone) is also a unit that can help so much in this fight bc of her damage to interruption parts+recharge magazine
Train: For what i know, the turrets just glich out, this is why they miss but i really don't wanna try and try again until i get good rng. If you miss Ludmilla you can try to use Sakura+Diesel, a not even much invested (lv5 pieces that give hp) can tank the turrets shots in the 30 second Sakura burst effect is up but you need to time pretty well her short taunt window. Also, when you destroy one of the turrests the other goes into berserker mode and deals so much more damage, it will just oneshot you even in your next try. So be sure to destroy both at the same time. (you will notice that Diesel can tank both with sakura in burst but if just one fire she is istant death)
Final note, A2 is a very good unit for this fight and if you use Sakura+Ludmilla you kinda just wanna stay on the first spot, just focus the launcher and then just attack the other side and wipe the next launcher+take both the other 2 turrets low, then you can start to kill the set of turrets you are at. You have 30 second to skip phase 1 and you don't wanna risk to take launcher shots while sakura+ludmilla effects are out and you can gain more dps if you make the boss waste his time when you change spot, only to just again destroy everything (you already done that by stalling, launcher down and turrests next to down), next he will move again and regen. a set of turrets and launcher but if at that point you can deal the damage bf you face it again congrats, in the 30-33 seconds you skipped phase one. (with good dps you can even just ignore the other side and just attack the body afther the launcher to get at the next phase without moving from the first spot)
The problems now starts in phase two, with ludmilla+sakura you have to hope that the other 3 dps are really strong or you will not be able to clear both qte and missiles, in this regard A2 can clear those while you just shot at the body (or in one swing later)
I don't have Modernia, Scarlet or Bunny/Schoolgirls and i hate to i-frame so i really need to work hard without the chet code that's i frame and power comps lol (not only in train, in general) and by using this strat i can get at least at stage 8, as you, when you figured out what to do it's just a matter of dps (sh*t boss lol)
For chatty: not much more to add, really, he is also the less problematic
overall this mode is fun but bosses like train (unbalaced) and the cruel rng really gunned it down (i can't use a crystal on a unit i love bc if she don't really wanna ammo mag up and i get it...i f up that unit, i wanted to OL one time Helm bc i really like her and i got shafted, same with Dorothy (and here i needed to do it, she is strong and deserves the OL), i needed to spend additional crystal to get rid of it, very very bad and sad, also, lock lines cost being 2 is sub-human.)

Good video;
A weird comp for train that I've been using for ages: Liter, Makima, D, Scarlett, Modernia. Dorothy does higher damage than liter, but liter's attack buff outshines the damage you can do in a short window (and teams with liter generally end up doing more damage overall unless there's water weakness). D let's you kill off pretty much everything on the train *before* missiles are even fired.

You can also close the App mid fight and try again without losing a try. If you need to change team or smth

wow learn a lot from this vid :)

Tyvm for the guide

Thanks!

I got my first full clear of the train with nothing but pure DPS. At the start I grabbed my Modernia and just blasted the missile turrets on the first pass. The first 30 seconds of the fight is hell but once you get the momentum and break the back half as long as you have 2 DPS you are golden.

With crown as a part of my team, she trivializes literally every special interception boss, from Alteisen to gravedigger

A2 is really good for train too because she deal extra dmg for parts. As long as you have leveled T9 gear you should be able to destroy the turret in time

THANK YOU!

train is a stat check boss, if you can break the top guns before it fires it's one of the easiest boss, if not it's the hardest interception.
grave digger on the other hand is always going to be a pain in the a. one thing I found helps a lot since it doesn't attack you at all if you don't f up the rings, you don't need to bring healer. just build max damage.

only had trouble with the train, hopefully i can finally take it down completely

With Alteisen, the only automatic wipe is in its first phase with the laser. With the second phase, you have a second chance.

thank you bro alstein and modernia is realy pain in the ass for me

Finally cleared ch 16 in under a month. Now the guide is relevant to me honestly I'm probably not prepared for the ass whooping I'm about to receive.

thank you, just in time
on 16-15 atm

Pseychie! This guide is amazing so good I have T9 gear now and now I don't have a clue what to do with it! I have a piece at level 5 and (somehow) and its asking to enchant with a gem locking it to the Nikke, how do I know which pieces to use gems on? How does this system work? Boot camp save me!

I haven't unlocked SI yet, but Gravedigger interception I actually cleared because of healing.
I use Pepper as B1, due to having shotgun and good damage even, but in last phase, wait for boss to do 1 or 2 ticks of damage, then activate burst and the Pepper heal will leave everyone alive with some hp, this is what led me to finally clearing it, I didn't have enough dps to clear every round of circles, but if I let one of them through in phase 3 then heal it up as the damage ticks, I now got enough damage to reach the finish.

From my experience.
Grave Digger I take the hint and bring sniper dps's red hood and alice get rid of one cancel ring per shot it's effective and quick.
For blacksmith Biscuit was invaluable at the start ( my first few runs) she recovers destroyed cover so I let my cover die and get repaired to not die it's not always going to work as he can aim for someone twice but it helped and someone with AOE like harran for booms.

My team that beats every boss with ease , Dorotry,Blanc,Red Hood,Modernia,Noir

As a phone user Graverdigger was the last boss I was consistently able to full clear.

I thought modernia is the worst boss possible and only ever got till the 2nd checkpoint. Watched this video for 5 minutes and beat all checkpoints, i will never try something on my own again, tyvm.

Cool that really help

How does element damage work? Like do Nikkes also take extra damage or is it only against enemies?

Wow I didn't know Ludmilla and Sakura can do wonders against Alteisen (train). I still don't understand when to taunt and the way some units work great together, this is something new.

I'm at a point where I am struggling to get manufacturer gear as well as tokens to get overload gear and can only consistently full clear chatterbox. Just pulled my first Liter as well so I'm hopeful to start clearing some more bosses soon, but its rough being undergeared and skill levels.

I have noticed on gravedigger that occasionally on his 3rd phase his big attack will only go through cover first like in the first 2 phases. So I'll usually wait and see and the instant I see both cover and health going down I hit escape and restart.

i appreciate tomas the tankin dankin as the worst Si boss sense it one shots u with any attack

That thumbnail is f*cking incredible.

For Chatterbox, if you destroyed it core armor it will do super charge like 10:33, dont push cover mode or your team will be annihilated.
You can manually use invincibilty skill by Noah to reduce it to 0, but if your DPS damage are enough just carefull with Chater or digger check burst.
Snow white can cheese push phase to 7 but you need luck or whale to gear or limit break her, lol.

A trick I accidently found while fighting chatterbox with centi.
If you level centi's skill 1 to lvl 7 with bastion cube lvl 2, she will have near perfect uptime with chatterbox's slam attack, causing her to negate all damage from said slam attack.
It may be different for others account but hope this helps.

Huh, I never knew about the Modernia trick. I just thought she was OP as hell, and that my defenses were garbage. Turns out I did the opposite of what the game expected from me, but I thought I should leave the core alone due to Chatterbox going apesh*t over it. Good to know, and thanks for the guide!

After i got Tia, Naga, Dorothy, Red Hood & Modernia, im killing everything in Special Intercept really easy.

For Alteisen, just bring Sakura and Ludmila then bring all the heavy hitter you can. In the first burst you will take zero damage, from the train due to Sakura and Ludmilla burst.
You just need to focus on breaking all the part and reach stage two between burst 1 - 2.
Easy train.

12:48 My team of Liter, Blanc, Noir, SAnis, Scarlet, CAN take a phase 3 drilling attack from full hp and cover (which is usually where I'm at since the previous phases are super easy to interrupt), thanks to Blanc's shield, albeit not by much.
That said, I usually have no problem breaking the rings (I stay on Scarlet), even in phase 3 when there are 3 of them.
As for the train, after failing so many times with advised comps, I found the most working strategy being Sakura+Ludmilla as a burst 1 tank core, then Scarlet (main DPS), Blanc and Noir. Sakura's 1st burst and S1 use makes her 95% resistant to wind damage (85% from S1, 10% from elemental advantage), pretty much nullifying the first green beam barrage from the train. Ludmilla taunts the second and gets low on HP with no cover, but thanks to the bunnies she doesn't die but stays at around 20% HP. After that my DPS is high enough to break bar 7 and trigger phase 2, at that point nobody takes damage anymore (I tried and the team CAN take one train slam, just one tho) and heals back to full.
Notably, in the final damage log, Sakura shows 0 damage taken total, absolute madlass.

Regarding Boss Modernia, Shift Up has now patched out the need to Skip the Cutscene once you see her face to focus the core to start the battle (As of the Privaty Maid/Crystal Chamber update). Edit: you can still skip at Modernia's face and the focus of the core still works.

The thomas image caught me off guard XD

An interesting composition that I found can work...fine? if you don't have any MLBs, Few Overload Gear parts and limited Level Skill against Alteisen is to bring Liter, with Red Hood and another Burst 3 DPS and then...Biscuit and Nero as weird as that sounds.
The Thing is: Biscuits Skill grants brief invunerabilty towards a Defender with 50% or less HP two times, but can also repair Covers with her Burst if need be and Neros Burst Skill is a Taunt. If done well Nero can absorb every Turret and Missile Hit at least Twice. If done correctly it will most likely get you to the part where the train breaks in two.
It can be EXTREMELY frustrating at times, since the team can't beat it...at all without proper DPS investment. As Referance: I use Red Hood (No LB, Skills LVL 6 & 7) and the newly realeased Winter Owner: Ludmilla (2 LBs, Skills Level 6, 1 Overload Gear) and my most optimised Run was just missing 15% of the Last Healthbar, so just barely shy of killing.
It's probably not a super good composition, but hey it's working for me.

Personally I use Blanc and Noire for all 4 bosses they are both very useful and very powerful.

I use Liter, Centi, Rapunzel, Modernia, and Scarlet. For Modernia fight, I destroy the core and controlling Scarlet I aim low on her body. I don't destroy the wings until last health bar.

I managed to fully clear modernia, two days ago. No t9m dropped which it sad but it means I can get a chance every week when I clear modernia. The other bosses I can’t fully clear. Chatterbox can almost fully clear just not enough dps I think. Blacksmith can’t break the turret nor have a taunt character. Grave digger I can’t keep up with the rings and the train can’t kill the turret, these bosses I can only clear stage 3. But hopefully I can get characters or know extra tips maybe I can get a better stage clear.

im trying to do grave digger rn but with only isabel and mriv as my sSG units i cant. having ur progress locked behind meta units is crazy