Cyberpunk 2077: How to beat The Kabuki Twins / champions? Cyberpunk 2077 guide, walkthrough
Last update: 21 July 2023
On this page of the guide to Cyberpunk 2077, you will find information on how to defeat the Twins in Kabuki. The fight with Certo and Esquerdo may occur as part of a side questline called Beat on the Brat: Kabuki. You will learn where the fight arena is, how to prepare for the fight and what to do when fighting two bosses simultaneously.
How to find the Kabuki boxing arena?
Defeating the Twins in the Kabuki neighborhood of Watson is part of the Beat On The Brat questline, which is all about boxing matches for money.
You can experience this introduction to street fighting right after you complete the prologue of the game. Exit V's apartment, where you start act 1, and go down the stairs to the lower level of the apartment building. You will reach the arena where Coach Fred is located. You can agree to a sparring session with a fighting bot. After a successful sparring, Fred will tell you about the opportunities to fight in arenas in different parts of the city.
The Twins are located on the arena in Kabuki.
You may have trouble getting to the fight arena because it is on the roof of the building and the door on the ground floor is closed. To solve this problem, go left and head towards the stairs marked in the picture.
Later on, while climbing, you can use the yellow ladder or simply jump to the higher shelves and grab them.
The arena is shown in the attached picture.
Preparing for the fight
You should be able to defeat the Twins rather easily, even with a low-level character, but still, it is worth taking care of a few things:
- Try to invest some development points in the Body attribute, so that V will do more damage in melee combat and will have more health and stamina points.
- Pay attention to perks useful in close combat. This mainly concerns the perks from the Athletics skill category, and in particular the two-level Steel and Chrome perk, which increases melee damage (by 10% and 20% respectively).
- Refresh the basics of fist fighting before you start the boxing match - you can check out the built-in tutorial or practice "dry" - V can perform fast attacks and stronger loaded attacks, block punches, dodge, and counter-attack by pressing the block button just as the opponent is striking.
- Make sure you have at least 2000 credits. This will allow you to bet that money and, if you win, get another 2 thousand.
- Save the game as a precaution in case you lose the fight and credits, or if you simply find out that the Twins are still too strong for V. Before starting the fight, look in the Journal and check the difficulty level for this quest. Try to make it Moderate, not High or Very High.
Boss fight - The Twins
Talk to Certo and Esquerdo to find out that you have to fight them simultaneously - this will be a two-on-one fight. You can decide on a small or a big bet on who wins.
Once you start fighting, try to attack one of the twins. Your goal is to create a situation in which only one enemy remains on the ring as fast as possible. Certo and Esquerdo look similar to each other, but wear different clothes, which will help you recognize who you're fighting with at the moment.
Avoid situations in which you lose sight of one of the twins. He can then easily perform an attack that you will not notice and, as a result, you will not be able to react.
During fights, try to block punches or jump back/to the side. Remember that you can defeat each of the twins much faster if you rely on counterattacks, i.e. press (not hold) the block button just before V is about to get punched.
Defeating twins will gain you 500 or 2000 credits as well as experience points.