You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Crew Leader Boss #56 of 74 · Meigu Lake

How to beat You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Crew Leader

Our strategy, built from the fight's numbers, followed by the game's own codex entry.

• Parry the blue flashes: 1 of You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Crew Leader's 27 attacks flash blue before they land, and a timed parry stops them.
• Dodge the red flashes: 3 attacks flash red. They can't be parried, so dodge through them instead of blocking.
• The tightest tell is Four-Hit Trident Combo: only 0.53s from the flash to the hit, so react to the flash, not the swing.
• You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Crew Leader adds new attacks below 50% HP, so expect the moveset to change at 50%.
• Bring Frost: it deals 30% more damage to You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Crew Leader.
• Shock builds up 30% faster on You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Crew Leader.
• You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Crew Leader's Sha-Chi bar is 2,400: perfect parries and Guard Break attacks drain it, and an empty bar opens the boss to a finisher.

Every attack You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Crew Leader can use, read from its ability data. The cards show the in-game animation with its timing: wind-up, the red or blue flash, the hit window and recovery.

Attacks

27

Red flash (dodge)

3

Blue flash (parry)

1

Tightest tell

0.53s

New moves below

50%

From the start

Below 50% HP

All 27 attacks

Attack names are ours: the game doesn't name boss attacks. Times are seconds from the start of the attack; the reaction time runs from the flash to the first hit after it.

Parry Trainer

Test your timing on You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Crew Leader's real attacks: parry the blue flashes, dodge the red ones.

Elemental and status resistances from the boss's own config. You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Crew Leader is weak to Frost, Lightning.

Base attributes from the boss's config, and the same values at the level the fight runs at.

Calculated Base values come from the enemy's own config. The game raises them with the area level; it fights at level 19 here (difficulty multipliers are not included).

Each kill gives 66,000 Remnant Dust at this level.

Other forms of this fight

The same character appears as these boss entries (phases, rematches or story versions).

Boss	Base HP	Sha-Chi
You Loong, Leader of the Blackwater Crew	9,000	2,400

Granted when the fight ends, read from the fight's reward script.

Reward	Count
You Loong's Deluge	1
Loong Trident	1
High-power Pump	1

• Achievement: Turning the Tide

The boss's spawn point on the Meigu Lake map. Nearest Bell: Blackwater Crew Dock.

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You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Crew Leader lore

The codex entry the game unlocks for You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Crew Leader.

On an island in northern Meigu Lake, Soul encounters You Loong again. Drawn here by instinct, he wields the Blackwater Crew’s treasured Loong Trident, while Sha-Chi rises from his damaged Loong Helm. His once-disciplined techniques are now wild and vicious, driven by bloodlust. Even the surging waves seem bent on slaughter.

He was once a reckless youth, a bold leader who gathered heroes and fought to defend the Mandate against the Maskwalkers. Now Sha-Chi has consumed him. He clings to his last shred of clarity only to return here.

But the Blackwater Crew’s headquarters is no longer what it was. His fellow crew members have become fish-headed monsters, turning on the village they once swore to protect. The villagers who once brought them food and drink have either fled or been devoured.

He still remembers his duty as their leader. But there is no one left to protect.

In-game codex

Boss order

Boss #56 of 74: the previous fight is One-Eyed Archer, the next one Yan Qiansui, the Zither Maiden.

Data: Phantom Blade Zero 26367565 (CL-302256, UE 5.7.4). How we source this