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Ronin Alpha - The First Drifter is the Boss of Mirai Mirror. He is the final boss that comes before Resident Mind.
Appearance[]
Ronin Alpha appears as a classic Roblox noob with a large katana in the same color scheme. He appears outside of the ring, running towards the stage while Goliath Omega, his ally, rises from the water on the opposite side.
In the night version of the map, Midnight Mirror, Ronin Alpha spawns on the opposite side from where he usually spawns. He, Goliath Omega, and the dummies that are summoned during the fight all receive Guest-like colors. The only thing that gets chromashifted in Midnight Mirror is the explosion death effect that appears when Ronin spawns and dies.
In White Waters, Ronin Alpha's torso, Goliath Omega's torso, and Ronin's katana's handle are all given a random color. The dummies are also given a random color, but it doesn't match the color of Ronin. They now have blue pants and a sand colored skin tone, likely in reference to a common reskinned noob, depicted with these colors [citation needed].
Abilities[]
Slash[]
Ronin swings his katana in front of him with decent range. Each hit deals either 3, 6, 12, or 24 damage, relative to the difficulty.
Orbital Katana[]
Ronin stabs with his katana outwards, which then orbits around him rapidly twice.
Double Hit[]
Ronin throws his katana at a target, while the katana spins in the air, it can hit 2 times before coming back to Ronin.
Katana Jump[]
Ronin will jump above you with his katana pointed out while spinning at an angle, smashing into the ground. After, he jumps upwards and redirects his attack. This happens 3 times.
Evasion[]
Ronin will attempt to run around the player to get behind them in an effort to attack. Before attacking with one of the attacks above, he will block attacks with the same manner as 
Artisan's Parry, preventing all damage that would've been done to Ronin. If the attack is a melee attack and parried, the user of the attack will be stunned. By default, Ronin Alpha parries last for 0.33 seconds, but this time is reset with each successful parry, allowing Ronin to parry multiple fast attacks consecutively. This ability has 3 charges and restores 1 charge every 5 seconds.
Resistance[]
Any crowd control effect applied to Ronin Alpha (stagger, stun, silence, disarm, root, or slow) lasts for half its normal duration.
Ronin circles around the player, he will always start with Katana Throw and follow up with a Chain Slash afterwards. If an attack is on cooldown, Ronin has a minor delay before using another. Ronin attacks more often if they hit a wall or corner.
Tips[]
- Ronin Alpha is a very tricky boss to fight on Minutes or Seconds difficulty: If he parries your melee attack, you will be staggered for a short amount of time, and Ronin will dash behind you to attack. Since hosts that have below average speed are terrible at recovering from crowd control effects, it's not recommended to take risks, and it is recommended to attack Ronin at melee range only while he's attacking, with a few exceptions such as
Witness' Smite and Visitor's Beam. Only attack when a time-stopping tempo is activated or when you have the chance. - Like with Equinox, move in a circlestrafe as much as you can to avoid both melee and ranged attacks.
- Slow attacks like Prophet's Heavy Strike and burst combo attacks like Invader's Spin Slash must be timed for a moment in which Ronin Alpha is attacking, otherwise he will parry before the attack lands or is finished.
- Use “AOE” attacks (such as Witness’s Smite or Dreamers Eruption) to hit Ronin Alpha as these are not auto-parried. If, however, he is currently in a parry state and is hit by one of these it will get parried.
- Use Iris tempo to be able to predict his attacks, this will help you take less damage and beat him faster.
Trivia[]
- A rōnin is a samurai without a lord or master or who abdicated their power(; it directly translates into "drifter" or "wanderer". Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and has a value of 1 in the system of Greek numerals, further adding meaning to its name, "Ronin Alpha - The First Drifter".
- The echo Host of this boss, Drifter, was added to the game on April 4th, 2021, under the original name "Failure".
- Ronin Alpha is the only boss known to have their background music changed (Their theme was originally Avalon, Whilst being changed to Homestuck - Dance of Thorns).
- Ronin Alpha used to be able to parry during stopped time. This was later patched.
- Even so, he can still block attacks if he is already parrying while time is stopped.
- When multiple Ronins are summoned via the cheat menu from the gamepasses, the Goliath Omegas that are summoned with it will all be in the same spot.
- When multiple Ronins are summoned using the cheat menu, the more Ronins, the more Goliath Omega smashes there will be, making immense sound.
- Ronin Alpha is the only character in the whole game to have a voice, as he screams upon death.
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