Headless Rider

Headless Rider is an Anomaly Hunt encounter in Neverness to Everness. The fight takes place in Hethereau and is part of the game's weekly combat loop. Headless Rider is weak to Psyche damage.

Lore and Description

A supernatural entity that appears only in the dead of night, roaming the city streets on a black motorcycle. The legend describes it as targeting high-speed street racers, challenging them to races and harvesting their reckless psyches with a terrifying scythe after victory. Bone-chilling blue flames will burn away all passion.

Quick Facts

Strategy and Mechanics

Recommended Team

The team picks below are aligned to the Psyche weakness. Pulling any of these into the active rotation is the highest single-stat increase you can apply to Headless Rider's clear time.

General Combat Guidance

Fill the boss's break meter with consistent attacks and reward-heavy defensive inputs. Successful parries and dodges contribute significantly more to the break bar than a hit, and a clean parry also fills the Esper Cycle Meter instantly. Save ultimates and heaviest skills for the stagger window that follows a full break. Headless Rider takes greatly increased damage while staggered, so burst output during this phase largely determines whether the encounter clears quickly. Build the team around the Psyche weakness. Characters aligned with Psyche will see the largest damage multiplier, and team compositions that can enable elemental reactions on top of that attribute will apply additional pressure to the break bar between stagger windows.

Weakness and Resistances

The table below lists the boss's raw resistance value for each of the six elements. A lower number marks the element the boss is most vulnerable to. For Headless Rider, that element is Psyche.

Challenge Level Stats

The table below lists Headless Rider's HP, attack, and defense at each of the encounter's difficulty levels. Higher levels yield better drop rates and progression materials at the cost of a tougher fight.

Drops

Headless Rider drops the following materials when defeated. Higher challenge levels increase the drop rate. Each item links to its own wiki page for details on rarity, usage, and acquisition notes.

Encounter Notes

Headless Rider shares its Psyche-weak slot with Beat King in the same Hethereau cluster. Pairing Fadia with Haniel covers both encounters and keeps Charging Knight Spark Plug stockpiled for Psyche Esper progression.

Combat Statistics

Element Weakness and Resistances

This boss is weak to Psyche damage at 16% resistance, the lowest of the six elements. All other elements resist damage at 20%. Players should center their team around Psyche damage to clear faster and at higher challenge levels.

Recommended Espers

Psyche-element Espers are the strongest picks for this fight. The recommended 3-character roster below covers the bulk of community team builds and clears the fight efficiently at high challenge levels:

Lore Description

A headless rider that appears only in the dead of night, roaming the city streets on a black motorcycle. The boss legend frames the encounter as a challenge to street racers; the rider wields a scythe and surrounds itself with bone-chilling blue flames.

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