Guitar Battle vs. Lou

The Lou Battle is a killer on Hard and Expert.

Guitar Battle vs. Lou
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Inspired by	The Charlie Daniels Band
Year	2007
Appears in	Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Tier/DLC	Battle for Your Soul
★★★★ (Expert)	N/A
★★★★★ (Expert)	N/A

Walkthrough

Since this is a battle song, your main objective is to try and hit the Battle Power that shows up. Lou will always activate his powers the second he gets them, but this isn't what you should be doing. Instead, you should save up your power and wait for a very note heavy solo in his section. If you've saved up enough powers, his meter will fall slowly. Unlike Tom Morello and Slash, Lou doesn't miss as easily, but he shouldn't be able to handle multiple attacks.

There is also a more simple way to beat him. If Lou's first attack is Broken string, Whammy bar, or Lefty/Righty flip (Or difficulty up in hard difficulty), immediately start over (unless you're hardcore and you think you can survive). If he gets anything else, power through it and make SURE you get your first power up. If your power up is not the whammy bar, start over. Once you have the whammy bar wait until Lou is going through the fast Misirlou like green notes and unleash, causing him instant failure. Be aware that the effect of the power-up won't start instantly, but will take about 1 or 2 seconds for it to start so throw it a bit earlier

Once you've depleted his rock meter, you must finish him off. You will be immediately taken to the last section of the song, and you must simply beat it. This isn't hard, as it is a rather simple section compared to what you've just done. The main thing to remember while battling Lou is to stay calm and make him lose before its time for a death drain and you have to start all over again.

The "Victory Solo"

In the battle, you get a part called the "Victory Solo". You have a very long solo with many power ups, and after that is Lou's solo, but his solo is only half as long as yours, (also Lou's solo is a part of Van Halens' Eruption). The Victory Solo gives you an easy way to beat Lou.

If you manage to defeat Lou before or during the Victory Solo, you get to play the last part of the song with Lou watching and not playing at all.

Rewards

Since Guitar Battle vs. Lou is the last song in the game on every difficulty, beating it on any difficulty will result in that difficulty's completion.

Upon beating the song for the very first time, one will unlock "Through the Fire and Flames" and then can play it during the credits. During this time the player can miss any number of notes and not fail the song. Normally, this song is extremely hard. (Even on easy)

Also, when you beat Lou for the very first time you can buy him in the store. The first time you beat Lou on Easy difficulty you will unlock the moonshot guitar, on Medium difficulty you unlock the St. George Extraordinaire! guitar, on Hard, Rojimbo is unlocked. If you manage to defeat Lou on Expert, the mother of all awesome becomes yours to purchace, the Distant Visitor guitar.

Videos

GH3 Final Battle Vs. Lou (including Death Drain)

Trivia

• There is a cheat that if you play on Expert, Lou will play on Easy. When you lose against Lou you do the Battle Mode Tutorial and then you press red button and you appear in the battle. You restart the song and Lou will be in Easy.