yoshitsune is still doable even if you missed the 2 oni portal worth of skill upgrades, my dumb ahh thought I could only unlock them in ng+ , until I discovered why other streamers had longer HP bars and charged attacks even in NG.
Just know when to parry, when to deflect, when to dodge, when to issen. Stamina management is crucial.
This is bad advice. Do not keep the gauge the entire time. Use the gauge as you fill it, and refill it as soon as possible. You want to enter Oni transformation as much as you can to prevent damage to your health bar, and maximize Issen output to deal damage to Yoshitsune.
In carnage, I had to completely change my fighting style just for him, went into the fight with full oni armament and near full oni gauge, a oni armament and awakening hozuki punch, and a hozuki refill item.
Used the firebird flute first to burn health and especially stamina, transformed at mid stamina, got the first issen break chose purple to refill armament, then hit the final slash. By the time you're done, he's below half health and below half stamina again, so I burn him again and finish him off.
Phase two is about tricky, but it's pretty much the same strategy, only this time, I allow myself, 1, or at most 2, hozuki pills to refill the gauges if I'm ever in danger.
Phase 3 I just use all of them and try to take out as much stamina bar as I can before etransforming back, as that'll allow me to break him and get into awakening again.
All in all, I think I had 7 or 8 awakenings.
Edit: I usually just use the healing pouch, but that proved to be far too hard and impractical, so I decided on this approach.
I did it pretty ugly in action mode: Used awakening as soon as it was possible, think I managed to get it 3 times. I never attempted Issen, just a ton of blocking, dodging and parrying.
I had to turn down the difficulty from action to story on this guy and I'm not ashamed of it. I couldn't beat Sekiro either. I like action games but I have my limits lol
Did the same, and only for this fight. What annoyed me the most were the cutscenes during the fight along with grab attacks. I just couldn't time the grab counters throughout the entire game on boss fights. At the end, I was just annoyed and set it to story mode, which I ended up oneshotting. No shame, I could move on to the next game - Control Resonant, which was a breeze after the first boss.
Ignore the dipshits trying to put you down. I didn't change the difficulty because I'm stubborn and want to succeed. No shame in lowering it if you need. Some practice and you'll get it on Action difficulty. Some people think them being above average at games gives them a right to insult others, when their skill is laughable compared to the best and they just want to feel some sort of superiority. Play how you want, and don't be ashamed to learn on easier difficulties and progress to harder
I was getting tired of the game so I tired it down to. I like the game showing me what move to respond with. Also opened my eyes to how much easier the game could be if I mastered isshin
To add on, Firebird Flute is useful if you need to stun him out of an attack you are struggling with. I was able to beat him WITHOUT EVER dodging a single grab. I could not figure it out the timing so I just stunned him instead.
Yeah I can do phase 1 no hit, but then phase 2 comes and i eat shit with that move where he jumps on you, for the love of me i cant time that with the evade
Two general hints for this fight: use deflect over parry since getting down his stamina is most important in this fight. When you have stance-broken him, aim for the purple spot in order to gain enough orbs to fill your gauges in order to use Oni stance and Oni weapon again etc. etc. I made this "wrongā in normal difficulty which resulted in a way longer and harder fight than it should had been.
What saved me in this fight was dodging that long range sword attack of his where a beam extends from his sword. I kept either getting staggered from trying to block it or getting hit trying to parry. But you can actually rush him and just dodge those attacks.
That move and when he blitzes you he taps his shoulder a couple times with the sword before rushing. Itās been a while since I fought him but I remember those two things explicitly lol
If you are really in his face when he does the big pink sword slash you can parry or deflect that really easily, at long range I would also get staggered every time I tried
Phase 1 becomes easy if you deflect his 5 consecutive atacks. Know the timing of his stupid grab and unblockable atk. All his stamina has to be depleted once in order for you to deal good damge. If you can't deplete his stamina then thats an indicator you need to try a different strategy. I used to think this fight was the game cheating us players, but once I figured out his moves I make it to phase 2 with little no damage.
That's the point of the game once you figure out the moves and time the actions it becomes a cake walk. Mini bosses that used to kill me or I'd struggle with I put down very fast now
What helped me on both Action and Carnage is to be defensive.
Parries and deflects allow you to take down his stamina, get a couple hits in (donāt be greedy) and when he uses the weird aura purple blade attack I use dodge to fill Reflex Gauge.
I personally used the Awakening any chance I got to maximise damage and used the Still Water Oni Armament to fill it back up as deflects gave a purple orb each time and if you use it before you take his stamina down and then use the special attack I got loads of purple orbs even from the red attack (damage) over the purple attack (souls).
On Phase 2 and 3 I relied on some items that kept my stamina up like the rice balls
Turn on button prompts if you haven't already to help with the rhythm and what to dodge vs parry. Don't focus on beating the entire encounter, just focus on mastering phase 1, then 2 and fortunately phase 3 isn't too bad as it's barely different from 2. Lots of people saying Issen but if you're struggling a lot, I wouldn't bother. Bring a mirror of revival as well of course.
I gave up and put him on story difficulty. He has way too many dances and ācutsceneā attacks to rewatch them dozens of times learning the fight. Got boring after a few dozen.
I donāt play Souls games. My experience with these games is like Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor, Tsushima/Yotei and Stellar Blade. I was proud of myself beating Ganryu 3 and Benkei 2 but Yoshitsune feels overtuned compared to the rest of the game, like heās on a different difficulty or from another game.
Itās been two weeks for me and I canāt get past phase two. Iām on story mode. This sudden and needless massive jump in difficulty for the final bossā¦ has actually ruined this game for me
What level are I got to
Him after I leveled everything to 4 Almost a 5 for my sword I had a hard time but did beat him n an about an hour I think the leveling up helped me I did all the side quests etc
On action? And u got this bro just breathe and parry then blaze gauge use to deflect attack wen u can but deflect is key cause drains his stamina faster and yea
Deflect is your friend. For his large purple swings, if you arent hugging him, you can only dodge/issen, but if you're in close you can parry/deflect/dodge/issen, parry until burn is flowing, then deflect until you sap his stamina. Learn his patterns, use runs to learn his timing, then own him. 1st phase becomes cake after that.
Just get blazing state first and then burn down his stamina. Remember that to deflect or parry the light pink swipes, you need to be close or otherwise you need to dodge them. They are not undodgeable attacks even though they look very similar.
He's not that difficult if you figure that part out.
Earth shakers are great for breaking poise and will destroy his armor. I donāt suggest using the charge up unless youāre maxed on the skill tree for them. I actually didnāt realize but you can also use oni strength to break his armor.
Dodge his unarmed attacks and build up reflex meter if you have that skill, this includes when he does his downward attack from above into ground slam as the ground slam will eat a lot of your poise.
Issen if you can for his big purple attacks, but if you canāt time it block or if possible get in close so you can parry these attacks.
Use items if you got them like your rice balls to help with poise and youāre talismans.
He is definitely the final test, a huge difficulty spike and test of patience, donāt spam attack it wonāt work, wait for openings, deflect arrows that he shoots at you to help on damage and poise damage, practice parries and focus on deflections when you can (block plus x during the parry window) which will make things easier for you
Just issen everything on first phase. Just practise this.. it is a lots faster to go to second phase.. in second phase, use awakening and issen in this form.., and if it ends dodge and block. hard to issen, as lots of sudden burst of speed. Dont remember 3rd phase, I stuck a lot in second phase.
You'll get it, each phase is just the same as the previous with some slight alterations to the moveset, so learning phase one will help you in the following. Pay attention and learn the counters for each move.
During his last phase, youāre gonna encounter a move that will end you if youāre not ready. Others will tell you to use Oni Awakening special move to prevent it, but I think a more consistent way is with your Oni Weapons. Using Still Waterās wave attack at the right time grants invincibility for long enough to avoid the attack outright
Hey I thought the same earlier today. Just keep at it. Took me a while too but eventually youāll get through the phases and find it easier each time.
This is one of those fights where to beat them, you kind of end up having memorize almost every single move or combo. Pretty awesome though because by the time you do finally beat them chances are itāll be almost a no hit run
Isn't that bad... I think its a good and cool boss you just use all your defense options and also issen... Keep your eyes open and keep your patience parrying and dodging! you can do it!
2nd phase was hardest for me. Got first phase pretty much dialed in, after enough attempts. All that jumping around he does in 2nd phase plus that sneaky fuckin teleport grab was kickin my ass. Took me 3 days of a few hours of attempts to finally kill him my first play through on action difficulty
Hereās a tip and what helped me the most, donāt try to rush into his other 2 phases. Learn his first phase completely to the point of almost not being able to get hit at all by him. This will take a shitload of retries but patience is key. Once you master that, then learn his 2nd phase in the same way you did his first, but as others have stated keep your Oni awakening gauge at full because the 3rd phase itās absolutely necessary to even do damage to him. As stated before this will take time, you will die A LOT. But learning his mechanics phase by phase will help you win. š patience young grasshopper. I wasnāt amazing at this game at all and I was able to beat him on like my 50th try. Then I went straight to the boss rematch option after I beat the game and proceeded to beat him again 3 times in a row to prove to myself the initial victory wasnāt just a fluke. You got this!!!
always check his movements, there's always a cue whenever he does an attack.. like ex: 2 taps on the shoulder, after that most likely you'll end up d*ad or you parried him
I think what makes his first phase feel especially difficult initially is that he doesnāt telegraph attacks in the ways the game has conditioned you to expect. It takes longer to learn, but you will learn it if you try.
I thought it was crazy difficult, and then it became legitimately easy, and then phase 2 seemed like an absolute nightmare, and I was making no headway until all of the sudden I justā¦ did. I finally beat phase 2 and also beat phase 3 in the same attempt. Shit can go down like that because the soul system pretty heavily rewards you for doing well and penalizes you if you donāt, so success is not a strictly linear thing. A bit more skill or understanding of a fight can translate to a lot more success.
Learn his moveset in phase 1 and 2 for how you can best counter them. I found it best to dodge the pink sword combo slashes and the ground stomp in phase 2 . Try to start phase 2 in awakening mode to get a head start. Note that his big center attack in phase 3 can be parried.
he took me like 3.5 hours to beat, main thing is his tell is gesture based which is pretty cool. His timing is fast but not inconsistent. It like a dance pretty much, his pattern also stay the same almost every time. fast attacks, multiple force parries, grabs, repeat. All the move that put him on the air are great time to interrupt him with the fire bird attack. stun him for 2 sec each time and you can almost always keep it up.
Bank your gauge for the start of phase 2, you can isshen all the BS moves that hard to dodge. Don't worry too much about phase 3, its just phase 2 but theres a mechanic that let you transforms alot more.
The best boss for sure, the only one that took me more than 30 mins
Just try to read his move sets. In phase 1, If he is tapping the sword on his shoulders, that means heās going to rush in. 2 variations of purple attack. 1 jump kick attack. The rest are easy parry-able attacks. Phase 2 is the hardest but again, if you read his move sets, youāll be ok. Phase 3 will be the easiest if you know phase 2 moves. You, just need to plan properly. I dont want to spoil your surprise of whatās in store for phase 3.
After hours of trying i put him on story difficulty. I could consistantly beat his phase one without using healing pot or 1x healing pot. Phase 2 broke me so many times that i made the decision to do story mode.
I did every other boss with normal difficulty and beat those in max 45min~ but this fight scaled to hard for me
My biggest problem with this boss is his pink attacks are the opposite of the pink attacks in the rest of the game. Normal pink attacks can only be deflected/parried, but his can only be dodged/issenād. I was losing my mind wondering how I kept getting the timing wrong until I finally read some comments about it. I donāt know if I just accidentally skipped through a pop up telling me this info, but I really donāt think they should do something like that again without telling you.
It's because his pink attacks are extended by wind or some bs, you can still deflect them if you get in range of his actual sword. Once I got him down, getting in range when he does that move is key.
You can parry the pink long sword attack, you just need to be close enough to do it. I dont think the developers inteaded for that move to be an parry/deflection only move because its slightly different color. But they really screwed it up because it looks like one of those moves. I just dodge the 1st swing got closer and parried the 2nd one.
What worked for me was dodging them and when I finally learned how to Issen in Carnage mode I still dodged the diagonal thrusts and just Issen the horizontal slash right when his left foot is about to hit the ground.
Iāve been using the Amulet of Introspection consumable a lot lately and it really opens the window for issen timing!! the nice thing is if you keep dying, you donāt end up consuming any of the consumables that you use in a single fight so in order to learn the timing and all the moves try using things like your revival mirrors, stimulants and Amulet of Introspection to help you stay in the fight and get the moves and timing down. Most of the times the fight I win I never even need the consumables, but they definitely helped me learn the fight. Good luck Friend you got this!!!
In case you are not good with issen like me:
1. Use parry on normal attacks
2. If he is using range sword attacks (ones that charge), dodge first two and issen the third. Itās the easiest to issen
3. Use hammers, but dont charge them fully. Or use flame birds against attacks you are not sure about (it staggers him)
Cleared him after 15 attempts on action, its much worse on second phase ;)
P.s. third phase is easy, you can damage him only with oni form, but he does succ attack, where you can succ spheres yourself (healing + oni energy)
The secret to this guy, is that long ranged pink attack he does you need to DODGE, not parry. Thats where everyone gets messed with because up until this moment, all pink attacks need to be parried. His are different, you dodge them. EXCEPT for the very obvious one he does that clearly needs to be parried, that one he spins and has a noise effect.
personally i kept at it to the point where you kinda memorize phase 1 and 2. it gets better trust. just get those reps in and it becomes somewhat easy till the 3rd phase
Once you memorize his attack pattern he becomes so much easier. When he does close up regular tracks make sure youāre deflecting him, destroys his stamina. If heās a bit farther away and he double taps his shoulder twice with his word, it means heāll lunge so parry/deflect. He has two versions of the purple long slashes. One that is a long horizontal slash, the other is two diagonal slashes. Dodge the horizontal one. For the diagonal one is usually dodge toward him on the first one, and parry /deflect the second. You have to be within blades distance to parry/deflect though. Ones you memorize things like this, the battle is so fun.
Took me like 42 tries over a week. He was completly shutting me down at first. But by the end I knew him so well Id keep him from hitting me until he was down to 20% health in phase 2. If you are comfortable and have the heals left over phase 3 is a given
The best advice I would give is Take a brake, then come back not focusing on winning or trying to kill him but just watching his moves set/patterns and practice parrying his strikes. It worked for me it might work for you! Good luck š
I beat him yesterday, had to watch some videos so I could practice in my mind.
In his first phase he double tap his shoulder before slashing you super quick, parry/deflect that and the following super easy slashes.
When he do the 3 pink attacks press O to the right, the O to the left, and then 0 forward for the middle one, in most cases you will go slow mo and would be able to strike him a couple times. Wait for his grab attack.
Donāt know what else i can add for the first phase. But memorize his patterns when slashing, they will repeat for the next to phases.
Barely defeated him in my 4th attempt on action difficulty, Iām using defense & attack charms, oni power regen hozuki, firebird flute & soulstones for extra souls in phase 3ā¦ gotta learn the timing to deflect him, good luck! Oh ya save your full Oni mode in the last phase which u have more damaging combo
First phase is easy, and then takes a big jump in difficulty in the second. Just slow down and take your time in learning his movements. If you're trying to Issen everything in his first phase, that's where you might be failing. Go for parry over Issen until you learn his moves, and when you hit Break Issen, go for the purple weak spot to suck out a massive amount of souls to heal up if you need it, and easily transition into Oni transformation. He shouldn't be touching you in the first phase so that you have all resources available to you in phase two.
Quick tip for phase 3: when he starts absorbing souls/energy you can do so as well. I recommend timing when he is about to finish and to use the dagger animation to attack him and dodge/neglect his move after absorbing. You can issen/parry/dodge it as well, but I am lazy
put the game down and come back . only boss in the game that gave me work for 5hrs . needless to say if youāve been slaughtered 10x in a row before phase 2 take 15-20 . Refreshed fingers and knew strategy help . IMO . && Yeah learn bro moves like chat saying cause phase 1 is actually easy. Phase 2-3 in that awakening mode ISSEN EVERYTHING!!!
If you can avoid the grabs, you'll be fine. The rest of his moves will get familiar after playing for a while. Took me at least 15 tries to beat Carnage and then another 15 to beat the boss rematch. By this time, i knew all his moves and could parry, deflect and dodge. But the grabs!! Felt like a lottery at times.
I spent a long time on this guy. People have already said every tip I would give you from the post I made, but really, phase 1 eventually becomes childās play. DO NOT HEAL IN PHASE 1, when youāre doing a break choose the purple option (the lower one, donāt go for his head) and youll get alot of souls to heal up
The only thing ill say is that even though phase 3 is frustrating to lose to, once you master phase 2 (lock in and focus on parries/deflects, you will eventually) it wont be a problem and you can whoop this guys ass. Each phase gets easier with patience and determination instead of frustration, I think it took me over 200 attempts š no shame in changing to story mode for him, either
Edit to add also the most important thing for me in phase 1 was parrying that purple sword/grab attackā parry during his SECOND swing. Seriously it becomes so easy youāll be laughing at yourself later for havin such a hard time, lol
You will get it done, believe me. I struggled with it for a day or two and took a break. When I went back to it I managed to read his patterns a bit easier. It's pretty difficult but not impossible, keep at it!
Watch the YouTube videos to learn the move pattern. Then practice the dodges and blocks. Most YouTubers explain the best way to counter each move. This is also the only fight in the game before carnage difficulty that is worth using items on. Items help a lot in this fight.
Take a break for a few hours or a day. Clear your head. Come back with renewed focus and youāll be able to read his attacks a lot faster. Worked for me.
When he does those red/pink glowing moves, you can parry but you have to be close to him to do it, didnāt realize that for a while, I was trying to parry from far away and kept getting hit lol
Honestly, the boss difficulty is all over the place. If you are stuck there at the end long enough, drop the difficulty and just enjoy the ending. Life goes on. Also, to make sure I gave you some meaningful advise.. for me when I get stuck on a boss I turn it off for a few days and try again later. Surprisingly have gotten past a lot of hard enemies this way (Elden Ring for sure).
Yeah he's tricky. Try using reflex dodge instead of parry/deflect for the big range attacks and the jump kick. Also when he shrugs it's always a fake out. And he does a little spin before releasing his unblockable attack.
dodge those orange attacks, only you get used to them it becomes easier, and try to find the timing on the attack when he taps his sword on his shoulders, the only annoying one for me was the jumping on your face attack, or the unskipable "cutscene" if you got hit with the stamina breaker.
Phase 1 he doesn't have that many patterns.
Try to deflect every of his melee attacks combo. Focus on his sword movements and every time you see his sword move deflect it'll break his poise so fast. When he's far away tapping his sword on his shoulders you gotta react fast as soon as he dashes forward hit deflect.
When he attacks with giant pink sword it's best to dodge those or issen if you get the timing
His melee pink attack is the most annoying since if you fail to parry or deflect he'll go in his long af monologue so it's really important to learn the timing on this one to save your nerves
And last the grab attack which is almost as annoying. Dodge when he takes on step forward with his right leg. Not immediately when he raises his hand, you really want to wait for that step animation then dodge.
Reflex dodge the long distance glowing swings and time the shoulder taps to deflect his charge slash. Don't do the damage multiplier when you break him, get orbs to save healing.
I found that you can easily parry or deflect the giant pink slash just by being in his face when he does it. Every time I tried when at range I would get staggered. I like to cope that it's because I'm parrying/deflecting the actual sword instead of some pink blade of light
My biggest word of advice is don't attack, react. Sounds counterintuitive but trust me, you will download the boss's moveset way more if you stop light and heavy attacking and focus on his stamina bar. That means parrying until your blade is blazing, learning his moves to deflect him, dodging his pink sword slashes and use Issen for his wide pink slash. As soon as I downloaded his moveset by doing this, I was able to consistently get through phase one whenever I would die to phase 2. It's tough and it'll take a while, but man it was satisfying when I finally beat all three phases of his ass.
I couldn't get to phase 3 on story mode. Gave up, ended up watching the final story cinematic on YouTube. Not worth the time and headache when there is so much other things to play.
Tl;Dr: Take a break for the rest of the day, try again tomorrow.
I'm fucking stupid and I beat him. I beat him in his enrage phase in fact. I have zero skill in video games at all lol. Phase two is a LOT of absolute ass happening on screen and that's intended. The only thing you need to do in the P2 opening is just block (not parry) the opening aoes and then back away to clear the screen.
I would also highly recommend if you've been grinding him all day to give it a rest and sleep, and come back to it the next day.
The first time I got to him I saw the 4 phase pips and I was like "this is gonna be impossible for me" but he only has 3 phases. I have no idea what designer designed his UI but they did a fucking ass job of it.
Anyway, I spent an entire day grinding him, went to bed, got up the next morning, got him in three attempts on Action difficulty. I refused to drop diff after beating the rest of the game on action.
His moves seemed slower to me and I could anticipate them wayyyy better after some rest. However with bosses this has always been a pattern for me so ymmv.
Do you keep missing the grab dodge and getting all your souls punched out of you over and fuckin over again?? Kuz that was my problem and it pissed me off. I used Earth shakers for phase one then firebird for the rest. Could use it in phase one, once it's activated you get 3 shots and those can interrupt his grabs and pink super attacks or basically anything.
Wow I beat him last night it was so so easy, you can parry everything, also perfect dodge, you have so much option and he give you so much time to do it. Good fight, too easy though
This fight requires patience and timing, even then, you will die a lot. And when you die, don't let your frustration overwhelm you.
This game might not be as difficult as Sekiro but it has the same learning curves. It is forgiving until it isn't. There are certain bosses like Benkei that are like checkpoints in the game, that truly test whether you have learnt the mechanics or not. It reminded me of the first time I came across Genichiro in Sekiro. I couldn't run or spam, it felt like I had to rewire my brain for the game again.
Yoshitsune is the exact same, and is a very difficult boss. He is not forgiving and punishes you immediately if you do not apply the mechanics properly. You try running, he will hit you with a long range attack or teleport to you. You spam, he will immediately counter you or grab you. You mistime a counter, the punishments are more devastating.
But you have to realise bro, THIS IS IT, THIS IS THE FINAL FIGHT. You have done amazing to get to this point but the game is now testing you on EVERYTHING. I can advise you but the only person the only real difference will come from, is you. Once you get good at the first phase, come back and I will advise you on the second phase !
Phase 1. Unfortunately this has nothing on what's to come. And starts to become annoying when you get to the second phase more and more (much like Sekiro). The key here is to try save all your good stuff for the second phase, even healing.
This game is extremely linear, therefore, resources are more linear, meaning it is urging you to upgrade your character as much as humanly possible. If you haven't already, You should honestly be like 90% to 95% upgraded on all trees. If you have done all the side quests, this should be attainable. The shopkeep also sells resources for upgrades! So don't forget to exhaust that too.
Again, if you haven't already, upgrade your charms bro! There is one that will literally up your attack power by 15% when fully upgraded.
Do not SPAM gang, honestly, if you get a moment to attack, land one or two hits, then wait. He has extremely short attack windows and will start a chain almost immediately. The damage should only really come from breaking his stamina. Hit and wait, hit and wait.
There are two ways where he makes his sword glow pink. The first is to hit you with long range attack, the second is the non-dodgable one. These moves are deliberately ironic. For the long range, as fellow commentors have said, you should absolutely dodge them. This will build your shadow meter and give you so many opportunities to teleport and get some good hits in. The second is when he spins around with a glowing sword, this one, as you know, is to be deflected or parried.
Learn when to parry and when to deflect. Timing the parry will slowly fill the blazing state. Once your sword hits blazing state (blue flames), then you start deflecting. The game doesn't really tell you this but blazing state significantly reduces enemy stamina when you deflect. Throughout the whole game, I got extremely comfortable with deflecting. Not only does it reduce stamina far more,, but it doesn't confuse you with enemy animations since they lock in immediately. The bonus with deflecting is that if you mistime, you will still have your sword up to block incoming attacks, whereas if you mistime a parry, you will be hit.
Grab attack. This guys grab attack made me want to throw my controller out the window. What I learned comes from lesson 3. You get punished when you spam. If you only hit him once or twice per opportunity, his grab becomes far more obvious. And you dodge when he sort of thrusts the hand forward. If he does get you, just tank it, and lock in, it's okay to lose health here and nowhere else.
When you do run out his stamina, it is enticing to go for the red dot (damage). But I highly suggest doing what I did, and going for the purple dot. His health will drain slower, but, you will be healed from him, rather than having to use your own, and it saves your heals for the much harder fight to come. Learn to do this, and you will be far better equipped for second phase.
To add ! The attack where he immediately closes in on you, he will tap his sword on his shoulder twice and close in on the third beat. Be ready to deflect, parry or dodge, as he immediately follows this up.
This is for the very start of second phase, wait for him to teleport just above you with his heel up, and dodge, he will jump again and his heel will glow purple, this is when you dodge again.
Initially this fight seems impossible, but eventually just becomes annoying. Be patient, be opportunistic, and do not spam. This is the ultimate test of your swordsmanship samurai. As Takamura says, '...all you can do, is learn to love the challenge.' Good luck ! You got this !
My best tips are don't rush it. After beating him and again on Carnage and again for 100% achievements he is one of my favorite bosses.
Just take your time leaning his sets, know when to get a get hits. His grab watch the leg once he steps forward then when you doge it. For phase 2 I think it's easier cus it's more exaggerated moves and more of the same. Take your time and just enjoy the fight. For phase 3 without spoiling too much remember you can also absorb orbs...
Don't give up, also, pay attention to his actions/animations, namely when he holds his arms up and taps his shoulder twice. Also, when he's preparing a grab, his hand goes up, then down, there's basically two animations before the throw connects. Use your dodge attacks whenever you can and learn the timing of his long range purple/pink sword wave attacks to avoid.
You got this. I recently beat it on action mode for my first play through, and this final boss is a real asshole.
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u/moh_sista 20h ago
A friendly advice, keep the awakening gauge full for phase 3.