beg is the boss near the end of Chapter 6 in the Resident Evil 4 redo.
You’ll want to bring the ideal weapons and use the best strategy to conserve your health and ammo to take on Méndez in Resident Evil 4 – especially on Hardcore and Professional difficulties.
To help you complete Chapter 6, we’ve detailed the best strategy to beat Méndez below.
Please note that this is a guide for resident evil 4 remake so the exact boss strategy might not be the same in the original version.
For more help, you can visit our Resident Evil 4 walkthrough.
How to beat Méndez in Resident Evil 4
Here is our Resident Evil 4 Méndez boss strategy:
Preparing for the Mendez fight
For the Méndez fight, we recommend bring the TMP weapon. You can buy it from the merchant for 10,000 pesetas on standard difficulty. You don’t need it to beat Méndez, but it will make your fight much easier. That said, we managed to beat Méndez on our second try using the Red9 handgun.
We also suggest you bring at least one spare knifebecause you will be parrying a lot during combat, so your main knife might break.
If you happen to have fish, eggs, or vipers to spare in your inventory, you should also make sure you have charms equipped that increase your healing from those sources. However, the Charms are random rewards from the Firing Range, so you may not get a heal until the Méndez fight.
If you don’t have these items or charms, we recommend purchasing a first aid spray from the merchant if you can afford it. The merchant refreshes his supply of First Aid Spray fairly regularly throughout the game, so if you have room (and don’t mind spending the money) it’s always good to have some extra healing in a boss fight.
Fighting Méndez’s Strategy – Phase 1
First you need to break all the boxes and barrels on the ground floor and top floor to get all the resources you can hold. They contain ammo, health items, and crafting resources, but keep in mind that their contents are randomized for each encounter.
For the fight itself, you should go to the top floor and shoot the eye from Méndez’s back. This is where the TMP comes in handy, as its high rate of fire is ideal for attacking the eye.
When Méndez takes enough damage he will be shot and you should then run to him and use the knife where the prompt appears above him
Between shooting Méndez’s eye and stabbing him when he’s down, you have to parry and crouch when the symbols appear. These can pass very quickly, so the sooner you can take down Méndez the better, which is why the TMP is so good during this early phase of the fight.
Finally, you’ll want to balance your health items and your knife’s durability if Méndez catches you. You will lose health if you choose to mash the button to escape, but you will lose knife durability if you use the knife to escape.
Fighting Méndez’s Strategy – Phase 2
Méndez moves to the back wall once you damage it enough, and your new strategy during this fight should be to shoot the red barrels in his hands when they appear and use your long range weapons to damage his body when there are no red barrels.
We found it best to do this from the top floor.
Just like in the first phase, when Méndez takes enough damage, he will fall to the ground. Jump when this happens and press the knife prompt to damage it.
Méndez can still catch you when he dashes forward, but he’ll also throw flaming wood chunks. You can Avoid these fire attacks by running left or right
Keep repeating the pattern of destroying red barrels and shooting Méndez at every opportunity to take him down and once he takes enough damage the fight will end.
You’ll get Méndez’s Fake Eye for defeating him, which can be sold to the merchant, and if it was your first time facing Méndez, you’ll also get the “Grilled Big Cheese” trophy or achievement. Luis would be proud.
Our Resident Evil 4 walkthrough can help you through the village with guides on the Large and Small Cave Shrine puzzle solutions, the Church Dial puzzle, and the Del Lago, El Gigante, and Méndez bosses. When you reach the castle you have to tackle the treasure sword, the four slot wall, the dining hall bell and the exact time of the grandfather clock, as well as the dungeon Garrador, to two giants and to the bosses of Ramón Salazar. The island is next, and there are still puzzles with calibration puzzles, keycard locations and a hidden key, as well as the final bosses Krauser and Sadler.
Fight Méndez on Hardcore or Professional
Most of what we recommended above for fighting Méndez on Standard difficulty applies to fighting him on Hardcore and Professional, except for a few changes:
- Make sure to create a manual save right before the fight if you are playing pro, as there is no auto save.
- If you can’t get a good angle on his back eye during the first phase of the fight, shoot Méndez anywhere.
- You might want to switch to a shotgun when Méndez is close to get some powerful hits before switching back to a handgun or TMP.
- Méndez is more aggressive and gets up faster when downed – so try to fight him from the ground floor to get the knife thrown in time, or just keep shooting him instead of jumping on the knife , because you’ll probably miss the fast.
- Grenades are a big help when Méndez is down, but you might want to save them for the next fight.
- Bring several spare knives if you can! Since Méndez is more aggressive, you will parry a lot more.
Rifles can also help deal a lot of damage, either when Méndez is downed or far away in the second phase of the fight. However, in our experience, you need to have good aim or improved fire rate to use the rifle. And have enough time to dodge and parry when prompts appear.
Good luck for Mendez!
If you want more help with the Resident Evil 4 Remake, you can visit our walkthrough for more puzzle solutions, boss guides, and asking for help.
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