How to defend against W.A.R.B.O.T.'s sky dive?

[Captain_Rage]

An Ornery Beefalo with a Nightmare Saddle is apparently too slow to outrun it. Are you supposed to stand close to the boss before it takes off to stop it from gaining momentum? Running far away in advance doesn't seem to be the way to go. Playing as Willow and the most helpful strategy so far been to tank the attack with a Bone Armor but the battle is still dicey.

EDIT:

OK, when you stand close to it when it is about to take off it allows you to dodge the dive a moment later. Guess it is similar to the lunge attack of the Dragonfly.

[Ridley]

I've seen people use the Lazy Explorer to dodge in the later phases.

[Captain_Rage]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I've figured out how to dodge the sky slam reliably. Now the homing missiles are the problem. Honestly, that attack is gnarly, haha. Need to find a way to evade the destruction of those nasty missiles.

Plus it turns out that after W.A.R.B.O.T. slaughters the player character and Beefalo it gets stuck in a loop and starts bombarding the Beefalo corpse indefinitely (the corpse that lingers from the Beefalo Gloom Bell). This fight is rather clunky and glitchy here and there. >_>