The Last of Us Part II: Walkthrough & Boss Guide
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🗺️ Main Story Walkthrough
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This is a condensed story overview of The Last of Us Part II with notes on seven story fights. It follows Wikipedia's plot summary and TheGamer's boss guide, and it is not a chapter-by-chapter walkthrough. Spoilers follow.
The game opens with Joel confessing to his brother Tommy that he saved Ellie from a fatal Firefly surgery. Four years later Joel and Ellie live in Jackson, Wyoming, but their relationship is strained. Joel and Tommy rescue Abby from an Infected horde and take her to an outpost of the Washington Liberation Front (WLF), a Seattle militia of former Fireflies. The WLF attacks Joel and Tommy, and Abby wants revenge because Joel killed her father, the Firefly surgeon. Ellie finds Abby beating Joel to death; Abby spares Ellie and Tommy.
Tommy heads to Seattle to hunt Abby, and Ellie and Dina follow. Ellie meets Jesse, Dina's ex-boyfriend, and runs into the Seraphites, a religious cult fighting the WLF for control of Seattle. She tortures Nora for Abby's location and the next day kills Mel and Owen. A flashback shows that two years earlier Ellie visited the Firefly hospital in Salt Lake City, learned the truth about Joel, and cut ties with him. Back in the present, Abby ambushes Ellie's group, kills Jesse and takes Tommy hostage.
Abby's story starts three days earlier. Isaac tells her Owen has gone missing, she searches for him, is captured by Seraphites, and is rescued by Yara and Lev, who are branded apostates. Lev later goes to the Seraphite island to persuade his mother to leave the cult; the WLF invades the island, Abby betrays the WLF to save Lev, and Yara sacrifices herself so they can escape. Abby and Lev return to find Owen and Mel dead, plus a map to Ellie's hideout. Abby shoots Tommy and beats Ellie and Dina, but at Lev's urging spares them and orders them to leave Seattle.
Ellie and Dina live on a farm raising Dina and Jesse's son, and Ellie suffers from PTSD. When Tommy brings news of Abby, Ellie leaves to find her. Abby and Lev have reached Santa Barbara looking for the Fireflies, who are regrouping on Catalina Island; slave-keeping Rattlers capture and torture them, and Ellie rescues them. Ellie makes Abby fight her. Abby bites off two of Ellie's fingers, and Ellie nearly drowns Abby but spares her after a flashback of Joel. Abby and Lev sail to the Fireflies, and Ellie returns to the farmhouse.
⚔️ Boss Guides
Bloater (Hotel Flashback)
What TheGamer describes
The first Bloater is in a flashback with Joel, in a hotel, while picking up guitar strings. Ellie has a very limited loadout. Joel distracts the Bloater but Ellie must damage it: stay out of its eyeline and keep landing headshots. If it spots you, run until it loses interest and goes after Joel.
Bloater (Arcade, Day Three)
What TheGamer describes
The second Bloater appears in the arcade after you fall through the floor on Day Three. Throw a Molotov as the fight starts, stay out of sight behind the arcade cabinets, and use smoke bombs and trip mines, especially if you can lure it toward a mine.
The Rat King (Hospital, Abby, Day Two)
What TheGamer describes
You play as Abby in the hospital on Day Two. Stage 1 is a linear chase: keep sprinting. Stage 2 takes place in a room with a flamethrower refill: hit the Rat King with a short burst, then create distance, and stay in the central area. In stage 3 the Rat King splits; ignore the Stalker half and keep attacking the main body. The Stalker ambushes you later, and pipe bombs and the rifle are recommended against it.
The Last Scar (Seraphite Island, Abby)
What TheGamer describes
On the burning island, Abby faces a Scar she cannot beat head-on. Tap L1 to dodge each swing and then attack with Square; the number of L1 taps rises each round (one, then two, then three). Afterwards follow the button prompts during the scripted arrow shot from Lev and the Scar's fall.
Abby vs. Ellie (Seattle Theatre)
What TheGamer describes
You play as Abby while Ellie hunts you in the theatre, ending the central Seattle storyline. Throw a bottle or make noise to lure Ellie, then sneak behind her, using Listen Mode to track her. As soon as you run she will hear you, and you need to catch her a couple of times to finish the fight.
Ellie vs. Abby (Santa Barbara, Final Fight)
What TheGamer describes
In the final fight Ellie is wounded and Abby is reluctant. TheGamer says the tactics are similar to the Last Scar fight, with pacing that swings between frantically fast and methodically slow, and that it is not the hardest fight but shows how Ellie has changed. In the story, Ellie nearly drowns Abby but spares her after a flashback of Joel.
Sources & fact-check
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