Summary

  • A Palworld player defeated Bellanoir in just 36 seconds.
  • Their no-nonsense strategy revolved around Pal spam.
  • The player posited they could have deleted Bellanoir even quicker had they bothered to fully upgrade and condense their Jetragons.

One Palworld player defeated Bellanoir in just 36 seconds. The fan managed to outright delete the new Palworld raid boss by employing a rather no-nonsense strategy.

Bellanoir was introduced to the game as part of Palworld update 0.2.0.6, which rolled out to Steam users on April 4 before reaching PC Game Pass and Xbox consoles five days later. While technically a Pal, the open-world RPG's first-ever raid boss cannot be captured and instead exists purely as a combat challenge; one that many players have found rather difficult to overcome.

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Palworld Player Deletes Bellanoir With Jetragons

Many, but not Reddit user notqp, who recently shared their Bellanoir speedrun that saw them delete Palworld's first raid boss in approximately 36 seconds. Their strategy was simple: spam Jetragons and shoot a bit. The former part of the plan appears to have pushed the game to its technical limits, with the player's frame rate dropping to the low teens. But the game's performance wasn't the only thing that Jetragons brought to its knees, as Bellanoir quickly succumbed to their incessant barrage of attacks.

Reflecting on their achievement, notqp said that they could have defeated Bellanoir even quicker had they put more effort into their preparation. The player instead chose to confront the raid boss without fully upgrading their Jetragons using the Palworld Statue of Power, and without maximizing their ranking by leveraging the Pal Essence Condenser. And while the game managed to stabilize following the big frame rate dip seen at the start of the player's raid attempt, the all-out attack strategy could have feasibly produced a much worse outcome. Specifically, the player revealed their game had previously already crashed a few times just from swapping pals with so much happening on the screen. "My fingers were crossed the whole time," they explained.

My fingers were crossed the whole time.

Players interested in tackling Bellanoir can do so starting from level 33, which is when they'll unlock the Summoning Altar recipe. Building this structure is just part of the process of unlocking the fight, as the altar can only spawn Bellanoir in conjunction with an accompanying slab crafted from four Bellanoir's Slab Fragments. The game also has an alternate, more difficult variant of the boss, which can be summoned in the same way, just using Bellanoir Libero's Slab Fragments instead of their regular counterparts.

This beefy boss is far from the only novelty that debuted with the latest version of the hit game; Palworld update 0.2.0.6 also introduced 11 new items and many quality-of-life changes, on top of a variety of bug fixes and some previously promised anti-cheat measures.