Leviathan Seed

Land on the Leviathan Seed landing pad and jump up to the door nearby. Use Hypermode to destroy the Phazon vines and head through to the boss battle beyond.

Boss Fight: Mogenar

Mogenar is an ancient war golem that looks intimidating. In reality, he's not terrifically terrible. His attacks aren't too difficult to dodge, but it can take a while to actually hurt him.

Mogenar's Attacks

Mogenar's primary attack is a jumping maneuver that will send a shockwave out from beneath him when he lands. You can double jump over this relatively easily. He'll also periodically shoot out a shockwave at you from his foot, but that also can be jumped over or dodged. He can also send ghost hands out at you, which travel slowly and home in on you. Shoot these for health pickups.

Mogenar smash!

Apart from those, he'll sometimes bend over and shoot a laser beam at you from his mouth, but that can be jumped over, and also makes for a good opportunity to get behind him. He'll also periodically just charge at you and attempt to hit you with his body, which is difficult to get away from; just lock on and dodge laterally to avoid him when that happens.

Wearing Him Down

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Mogenar has four Phazon generators, each of which has a big red ball inside of it. There are three on his front side and one on his back. What you have to do here is fire at the balls until they explode, exposing the generators, which can then be destroyed with Phazon blasts.

The tricky part here is that the generators open and shut fairly regularly, making them somewhat difficult to hit, which doesn't even factor in the fact that Mogenar is constantly moving. Mog will also periodically shift the red balls between his three frontal generators, so that you may wind up shooting at one that's already been destroyed if you don't pay attention to the green energy that floats around when he shifts the balls. What's more, he can replace destroyed balls with fresh ones from the dispensers in the room.

Here's what you have to do to proceed:

Step One: Shoot the balls with your standard attack. Stay away from him, jump over his attacks, and keep hitting the red balls when their shutters are open; you'll see fragments falling off of them and they will gradually turn a pinker color as they take damage. For simplicity's sake, we'll hit the ones on his front side first and worry about the one on his rear later, but you can proceed in any order that you like.

Eventually the balls (or one of them, anyway) will shatter and expose a blinding white generator behind it. At this point you can continue on to Step Three, or continue to shoot at the remaining balls until they're destroyed as well.

Shoot the replacement balls before Mogenar can absorb them.

Step Two: Disrupt Mogenar's attempts at regeneration. If you destroy a ball and don't immediately destroy the generator behind it, Mog will eventually stop and send ghost hands to the dispensers in the room and grab two new red balls (even if you've only destroyed one of them). Stop attacking him here (the shutters will close anyway), and focus your fire on the red balls as they come in from the wall towards his body. Shoot both of them, or he'll suck one of them in to replace the red ball you've already destroyed.

Step Three: Destroy the generator. After destroying a red ball, you can destroy the generator behind it (assuming Mogenar doesn't shift another red ball in place in front of it). You have to enter Hypermode and fire on the generator while its shutter is opened. After a few good shots, it'll blow up, scatter some health on the ground, and be permanently unable to contain a red ball.

Step Four: Eliminate Mogenar's energy shield. After you destroy a generator, Mogenar will encase himself in Phazon and will be unhittable. Roll yourself up into a ball, get close to his feet, and lay down three bombs near each foot. That'll eliminate the shield and spread some energy on the ground.

Tying It All Together

You'll have to destroy the generators to destroy Mogenar.

You have a couple of options here: you can destroy all of the red balls before destroying the generators, or you can destroy a red ball, then the generator, then another red ball, then another generator. If you don't want to have to deal with step two above (which isn't too difficult, honestly), the latter method might be best, but if you destroy all the red balls at once, or at least the three on his chest, and manage to prevent him from regenerating them, you'll have an easier time of delivering your Hypermode attacks to the generators, since he won't be able to shift the balls around to protect them.

Tip: Destroying parts of Mogenar will usually scatter health and missiles on the ground. If you're maneuvering around, use your charge beam to pick up anything you see; you'll want to grab any health modules that you can find.

The hardest generator to destroy will be the one on Mogenar's back, as it's difficult to get into a position to aim at it. You can attempt to lock onto him and dodge around him to get a good view, but he'll often jump away just as you start firing. Good times to get into position to fire on his back are when he fires his mouth laser at you, when he charges across the ring at you, or when he stands still and summons replacement red balls. If you really have a hard time hitting his back, destroy one of the balls on his front side, then wait for him to regenerate it and use that opportunity to deal extra damage to the back one.

Aftermath

When Mogenar falls, you'll obtain the Hyper Ball, which will let you deal direct damage to enemies around you if you enter ball mode while in Hypermode. Use it to destroy the small charges on the ground around you, then hit the Seed's core with Phazon energy when prompted to do so. Congrats, you've saved Bryyo!

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