Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Guide | How to Defeat Xelios

Here’s how you can beat Xelios in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.

Game Guide by Joy Rahman on Dec 08, 2025

Xelios can be a tricky boss fight in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. It relies on sudden movement and various attack phases, where it deals a lot of damage.

The fight rewards patience, positioning, and utilizing proper timing. It's important that you understand how to create openings and when to choose to dodge and release pressure to make this encounter more manageable.

This guide will explain how you will need to take on each stage of the fight and do consistent damage without having much difficulty. Xelios is covered in hexagonal panels, and it also uses breakable panels for cover.

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Initially, your goal should be to shoot until you blast a section open from its body to expose a weakness inside its core. When the gap opens from shooting, you can fire its insides to deal significant damage.

Xelios tends to move a lot, so you'll need to be careful of its constant moving attacks.

Charge shots are going to be important in the initial phase, as they can destroy a bunch of panels at once, allowing you to damage the core by making it more accessible to you. Keeping constant pressure throughout the fight.

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Xelios tends to fire warps across the arena in varying sizes depending on the phase it's in. They do less damage at the beginning, but can be deadly when multiple of them are released at once. However, they are pretty easy to manage as they can be destroyed by firing at them.

Whenever you successfully destroy a panel, small health drops appear, allowing you to easily recover your health without slowing the fight down. During the middle stage of the fight, it's important that you utilize your movement rather than aiming perfectly, since it's at this phase that Xelios tends to deal more damage.

During the final phase, Xelios moves faster and does more frequent attack chains. It's where movement becomes more important, as well as using the proper timing window. Xelios, in this stage, tends to fire large orbs that deal significant damage and can easily take you out.

Overcommitting at this stage is extremely risky, and you'll want to wait for the right opening to attack. Eventually, with steady pressure, patience, and proper movement, Xelios can be taken down.

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