Mistral is a child soldier much like Raiden. She grew up in the middle of a civil war in a third world country and watched her family be killed by soldiers. She killed the men responsible. She's killed countless enemies but never had any real purpose until she joined Desperado.
Combat
She has the unique ability to use the arms of Dwarf Gekkos in combat. She can attach them to the back of her suit or detach them and lock them together to form a staff. She will also be accompanied by even more Dwarf Gekkos. While this might seem to make your situation worse, they will frequently just be bounced around by your attacks and when they die, they'll leave health for you.
At the beginning of the fight, she'll start with the staff constructed and start swinging at you. She has quite a few weaker attacks that she'll use and they are almost all something that Raiden can Parry. Be careful of her overhead twirling attack which is NOT something you can parry and can deal heavy damage while covering a lot of the arena.
She can also turn the staff into whips which can move in unusual ways. She can use up to two whips at a time and when she does, she usually will jump into the air at some point and use the whips to pull her towards you for a quick attack. This charging attack can be blocked however.
She may block your attacks with her staff but her defenses are rather weak so if you keep after her, you'll get a chance to hit her in Blade Mode during which you want to try and cut off a part of the staff (which will be highlighted for you). Be careful because if you take too long or miss too many times then she'll attack you. After cutting the staff, she'll leave for a moment, allowing you to focus on the Dwarf Gekkos and to replenish your health.
She will jump down to resume the fight but this will play out similarly to before. After her initial attack, go in for an attack of your own and when you get the chance, cut her staff once again. After this, you'll exchange a few more blows and when you get her under 75%, you'll trigger a cutscene where you'll exchange a few blows and then after she pulls you over her head, you'll be able to perform a mid-air Blade Mode attack and cut her staff once more.
Your fight will continue on a pipe in a different part of the refinery. On the pipe, she willl still attack with the staff but this is the point where she will start to make very liberal use of the staff as whips so be watchful for those attack patterns. You won't get another chance to cut her staff until you get her down near 50%. After that, you'll fight a little bit more but another scenery changing cutscene will happen shortly.
You'll now be down on the ground floor of the refinery and the fight will continue. She'll acquire a new attack which has her cause a wave with the whip that moves across the ground towards you very quickly. She will also start throwing the Dwarf Gekkos at you while she is rebuilding her staff and these will explode if they hit you. Otherwise, continue the fight as you did before.
The fight will keep going until you get her down to under 10%. After that, you'll have a quick time event where you'll block her attack by hitting:
- Heavy Attack + Activate
Completing that simple Quick Time Event will end the fight
