Masha The Bear

Masha the Bear is the boss of Chapter 7: The Arena, and the penultimate boss of Mother Russia Bleeds.

Appearance
She is a heavily scarred brown bear wearing a metal helmet that resembles Nekro greatly, with the exception of the Mohawk, with consists out of a series of spikes.

Description
Masha is unique among bosses in that she actually makes an appearance in a earlier level than the one she is fought in, making an appeareance in The Lab, getting Nekro injected into her.

She is the champion of The Arena and the final challenge thrown at the players before proceeding to The Penthouse.

She is the most difficult opponent that the Arena can offer, as one can imagine, due to her variety of effective attacks and total immunity to attacks from the front.

Enemy Behavior
Her favorite method of attack is to preform a combo of claw swipes, although she can bat the corpses of fallen enemies at you for a makeshift projectile attack and can also preform a tackle attack. She also has a counter attack after being comboed where she roars, stunning the player characters if they are too close, and then either charging them or preforming a claw combo.

Strategy
She is at her most vulnerable when she is preforming her Claw Combo attack, as she cannot turn while preforming it, and it can also be dodged by dashing pass it, leaving her free to attacks from the behind.

Her charge attack will also cause her to be stunned if she collides with a wall.

The Girder is an effective weapon to use against Masha, as it will extend the range of your attacks, enabling you to get out of the range of her roar and trick her into slamming into the walls of the Arena.

Trivia

 * She is the only boss who is given a name instead of a title.
 * She is one of the only four bosses where the player character gets to use firearms against them, the other three being the Prison Governor, the Butcher, and the Tyrant.