RS Raksha is available to defeat now. Learn the requirements to start the fight, as well as the strategies and its special attacks to defeat Raksha successfully. 

How to start defeating RS Raksha?  

Raksha, the Shadow Colossus is a new solo and duo boss that can be found underneath the Anachronia Swamp Fortress. To defeat it, you have to meet these requirements: 
- Access to Anachronia
- RS membership 
- Completion of Raksha, the Shadow Colossus miniquest
You can speak to Laniakea in the ruins to the south-east to complete the short quest which can lead you to Raksha's lair. We also suggest that you reach level 120 Combat and have at least tier 80 gear. 

RS Raksha strategies for four phases 

The fight with Raksha should be completed in four phases, and the next phase can start when Raksha loses 25% health. 
Phase 1: You can mitigate Raksha's attacks with Prayer and available defensives. During this phase you need to clear all Shadow anima pools. 
Phase 2: You should focus on shadow pools after the ceiling collapse attack. Besides, you also need to expel orbs immediately, or you will take 2-3k typeless damage. 
Phase 3: You need to clear Shadow anima pools and kill Shadow manifestation as soon. 
Phase 4: During this phase Raksha only has tail sweep and shadow bomb attacks. At the beginning of phase 4, you should move within melee range of Raksha with using Protect/Deflect Melee in order to manipulate Raksha into performing the far less dangerous tail sweep in place of a shadow bomb. You also need to avoid a blast of energy by hiding behind a partition or dealing enough damage to break its concentration. 

Special attacks of RS Raksha, the Shadow Colossus 

Raksha can use various special attacks every 4 auto-attacks during phase 1 to 3 and every 2 auto-attacks during phase 4: 
1. Auto-attacks: lunging and biting player with melee, launching spikes at the player with ranged and discharging a shadow ball of energy as magic. 
2. Tail Sweep/Charge: This can be performed when the player is in melee range, dealing around 5,000 soft typeless damage, disabling protection prayers, stunning and binding the player for 3 seconds. You can use Anticipation or Freedom in advance to prevent Raksha from disabling protection prayers. 
3. Shadow Blast: Raksha can go to the center of the first arena and discharge 5 blasts of shadow energy, dealing around 3,000 magic damage each hit. 
4. Shadow anima pools: performed after each tail sweep/charge attack. Players should kill these pools as soon as they appear. 
5. Shadow Bomb: applying a 6 second stun and bind, dealing heavy magic damage and disabling protection prayers if players are caught in the radius. 
6. Ceiling Collapse: dealing around 6,000 soft typeless damage if caught in the radius.
7. Shadow Strengthening: increasing the combat level ad stats after drawing energy from the shadow pools. 
8. Poison Mind: You can use Freedom to prevent this attack. 
9. Shadow Manifestations 

Hope this guide can help you kill RS Raksha effectively. Don't forget to buy cheap RS3 gold from us. 

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