Roonil Wazlib said:
Often he lands where you are about to reach. There is no really foolproof way to avoid it without the booster v. 2.0
Heck, I'd argue that with the booster 2.0 (which I am playing with) you still can't avoid him all the time. Maybe I just have a slower than usual reaction time... sometimes I attempt to keep moving... and it doesn't work. Other times I try to turn back but am -just- too slow... and it doesn't work. Other times I attempt to quickly jump up and boost past... and I end up jumping into him. Sometimes I simply don't react at all until too late.
I suppose if you just pause momentarily to check the general direction and distance the crystal is headed, you'd have better luck, but I do like to kill his first form before he shoots off the bajillion comets attack (or at least before he does it twice).
There's also the time where through some weird combination of jumping and boosting I ended up getting bumped to the same place as the Doctor when I defeated first form and he transformed. Really sucked because I knew there was nothing I could do about it. As soon as the boss meter came back up, BANG, -5.
Oh yes, fish missiles suck. They do.
And of course low boss meter = recklessness... which is the cause of death so many times... >_<
I use the Snake on Muscle Doctor, Blade Lv 2 on his first form. I usually get in two or three blade shots on 2nd form though before I switch. I use the snake for range, really... as the reasons you might not want to be close to him have already been outlined.