As a Bastion, Lonsdale boasts useful defensive skills and can counter the player’s moves. Fighting him without strengthened Jobs and a solid strategy will only make things difficult. When it comes to Lonsdale, slow and steady wins the race.

A stronger version of Lonsdale can be fought at the first Portal in northwest Halcyonia later in the game for the Bastion Asterisk.

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Stats and Jobs

Lonsdale doesn’t have allies with him in his boss fight, so players won’t have to worry about an enemy healer. The trade-off is Lonsdale’s strength. If players aren’t careful, Lonsdale can easily sweep their team without much effort. Here are Lonsdale’s stats/weaknesses and abilities:

Stats

Abilities

The player should avoid bringing magic users to this boss fight. Some suggested Jobs and abilities to unlock prior to this boss are:

Fighting Lonsdale

Don’t underestimate Lonsdale’s basic attacks and avoid using the Default command because he will counter those. Avoid bringing more than one mage because their weak defense will not be able to withstand Lonsdale. However, a Healer will need to be on the team during this boss fight.

To counter against Lonsdale’s Corporal Punishment, have a Shieldmaster use Reprisal and act as the tank. Additionally, Defender of the People will block up to 3 attacks.

Use a Thief’s Godspeed Strike and a Phantom’s Shroud. Remember: Lonsdale is also vulnerable to Daggers, so take advantage of this.

Magic can be useful in this fight as long as the mages aren’t pulling the aggro. Lonsdale can’t counter magic unless he uses Wall or Vallation, which increase Magic Defense by 25% and block 1 magical attack accordingly. A Red Mage can whittle away at Lonsdale’s HP while the Thief and Phantom dish out the heavier damage.

A Freelancer’s Square One ability will remove Lonsdale’s buffs. Get rid of Wall as soon as possible when Lonsdale goes to buff himself or this fight will drag out longer than it should.

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Tips and Rewards

Equip HP-boosting and Light-resistant armor.

Cancel Lonsdale’s immunity attacks with a basic attack, not a powerful one. If a mage is on the team, use Dark and avoid Light, Lightning, and Earth.

Lonsdale doesn’t drop any armor or weapons. Instead, players will collect the Bastion Asterisk and gain access to the Bastion Job.

Bravely Default 2 is available now on Nintendo Switch and Steam.

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