Advanced Dragun
| Advanced Dragun | |||
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| Health: | 5200 | ||
| Location: | Forge | ||
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This article is about the secret third phase of the High Dragun. For the regular boss, see High Dragun. |
The Advanced Dragun is a boss in Enter the Gungeon that serves as a third, more powerful phase of the High Dragun's boss-fight. It is the sole 'Advanced Boss' in Enter the Gungeon, and defeating it unlocks the 
Advanced Slayer Achievement.
How to Access
- For more information on the Serpent companion, see; Serpent
To trigger the Advanced Dragun fight, the player must be in possession of the 
Serpent, a secret companion that can be discovered after the Resourceful Rat bossfight, or from throwing the 
Weird Egg into burning goop. After feeding four items or guns to the Serpent, it will join the player as a companion until the High Dragun fight.
If the player has the Serpent in their possession, it will leave their side upon entering the High Dragun fight- joining the boss and periodically spitting spreads of bullets at the player. This can make even the non-advanced phases of the High Dragun considerably more difficult. After the first attack cycle of the High Dragun's second phase, if the Serpent is present, the High Dragun will crush it and absorb its power. This restores the High Dragun's health, and begins the Advanced Dragun phase.
Behavior
- Breathes a dense stream of fiery bullets towards the player, either sweeping the room or aiming at the player. The fiery bullets stick to the back of the arena.
- Pulls out two pistols and fires tight bursts of bullets towards the player.
- Pulls out two grenade launchers and fires a barrage of grenades across the arena.
- Pulls out two Uzis and fires two streams of bullets which form a stationary arc sweeping the arena. The stationary bullets then send out three waves of erratic bullets in all directions.
- Roars, sending down three fireballs. This creates three zones that prevent the player from shooting.
- Projects a large eye on the ground that follows the player and dims the room. While the player is in the eye, the Dragun sends out triangular bullets.
- Fires five skulls which stop mid-travel and fire bullets at the player.
- Fires a rocket, which sends out a large ring of bullets upon colliding with the wall, along with many bullets that travel in a wave pattern across the room.
- Throws large knives into both walls, which fire spreads of 3 fast-moving kunai at the player.
- Fills the room with moving bullets, similar to the Phase 2 attack. The player must dodge between circular safe zones, which some now also have bullets in their centers.
- Often the safe zones lead to dead ends, with ones containing a bullet in the middle showing the correct path.
Notes
- After defeating the Advanced Dragun, the base of the Hero of Time statue in The Breach turns into the Advanced Dragun's head.
- After killing the Advanced Dragun, its head will explode- instead of dropping a skull. This makes acquiring the
Obsidian Shell Casing impossible. - When Advanced Dragun does his massive bullet hell pattern covering the entire screen in bullets, any form of blank effect (blank, armor shattering, Dark Marker, etc.) will clear the first half of his attack.
- Since the Dragun and the Advanced Dragun are technically different bosses, the Advanced Dragun can be Jammed while the Dragun is not, and vice-versa.
- This also means that killing the Advanced Dragun does not count towards Frifle and the Grey Mauser's final hunt.
- Despite that, killing Advanced Dragun does count in regards to Dragun kill unlocks.
- Bringing two different Serpents into the fight (through combined usage of Rat Keys and the Weird Egg) will result in one Serpent disappearing for the boss fight, and not reappearing for the rest of the floor. However, the second Serpent will return upon the player reaching Bullet Hell.
- The Lord of The Jammed is still able to hit you while changing into the Advanced Dragun.
Fixed Bug Prior to a patch, encheesing the High Dragun during its transition into the Advanced Dragun would glitch its sprite- causing it to incorrectly use the sprite sheet of the Liches second phase.[1]
![Fixed Bug Glitched Advanced Dragun sprite, post encheesement[1]](/wiki/File:Cheese_Adv_Dragun_Glitch.png)