Puppet Stinger

Puppet Stinger
Statistics HP EXP BP MP 4000 1000 (1300 if both Derangement Speakers are destroyed) 500 100
Attacks Name Status Damage Energy Ball (red) Purple Beam x1 Purple Beam x2 Triple Beam Explosion Healing - - - 32 25 25 25 40 0 Notes: Healing will restore 80 HP to the boss.
Other Strength Weakness High Defense Electrical
Item Drops	Normal/ Replay/ Scavenger MP Boost2, Eau de Toilette, Ringer's Solution Bounty/ Nightmare Recovery1 Eau de Toilette
Location	Shelter

The Puppet Stinger is a massive Stinger class ANMC and one of the latter bosses in Parasite Eve II.

Strategy

It is flanked by two Derangement Speakers which slowly drain Aya's MP if they are not destroyed. Destroying these also cause the Puppet Stinger to recoil, cancelling its spells out.

Another, albeit MP/PE reliant, strategy to easily dispose of this creature is to negate all PE cast on/from it by pushing Eve back using Plasma (3MP per cast at Lv.3). This might get tricky, as its range is limited and Eve has a shield up, as well.

A very viable and useful strategy against the Puppet Stinger is to use Energyshot with the Grenade Launcher or Grenade Pistol with Grenade ammo. This will quickly take out the Derangement Speakers and each subsequent shot to the Puppet Stinger will stagger it. If shot at a constant stream of grenade shots, the boss will essentially be stagger-locked and becomes the most menial of bosses in the game.

Lvl. 3 Energyshot and normal grenade with Crystal Skull and Ofuda deals roughly 180 to 200 damage per shot, up to a staggering 380+ on its combustion startup where it drops its antibody effect.