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[Jopax]

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Right, so the elite dude went down on the second attempt as soon as I figured out that you had to start blocking as his attack is about to start.As nenjin says, not a big deal compared to the centipede dude.
Then came Genichiro and hoo boy was that fight a doozy (not in the least because the first few attempts I forgot to remove the bell demon). Took about 20 tries I think? The wierd part is, it wasn't frustrating, he was a very straightforward, these are my moves, I occasionally mix them up, do your best ninja-bro! kind of fight. Like, every death it was clear what I messed up with, and best of all the arena was nice and wide so no chance for the camera to fuck me over. The second phase was a bit problematic because sometimes the lightning was kinda too quick to come out and I'd be animation locked so no jump would happen in time. Still, was damn satisfying once I beat him, probably my favourite bossfight to date. Also the ninjutsu makes farming the castle so damn easy and enjoyable, and finally, a source of divine confetti!
Then I gave the sunken canyon gun lady a try, turns out, your best friend is the sabimaru. Rush her face and spam that shit before she has a chance to react, the poison won't doo much but the poise damage is damn sweet. Two rounds of that and she's ready for some katana to the face action.

[Cthulhu]

Bloodsmoke plus divine abduction prosthetic basically turns you into ninja john wick for as long as your emblems hold out, you can mulch through huge groups of even powerful enemies

[nenjin]

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Right, so the elite dude went down on the second attempt as soon as I figured out that you had to start blocking as his attack is about to start.As nenjin says, not a big deal compared to the centipede dude.
Then came Genichiro and hoo boy was that fight a doozy (not in the least because the first few attempts I forgot to remove the bell demon). Took about 20 tries I think? The wierd part is, it wasn't frustrating, he was a very straightforward, these are my moves, I occasionally mix them up, do your best ninja-bro! kind of fight. Like, every death it was clear what I messed up with, and best of all the arena was nice and wide so no chance for the camera to fuck me over. The second phase was a bit problematic because sometimes the lightning was kinda too quick to come out and I'd be animation locked so no jump would happen in time. Still, was damn satisfying once I beat him, probably my favourite bossfight to date. Also the ninjutsu makes farming the castle so damn easy and enjoyable, and finally, a source of divine confetti!
Then I gave the sunken canyon gun lady a try, turns out, your best friend is the sabimaru. Rush her face and spam that shit before she has a chance to react, the poison won't doo much but the poise damage is damn sweet. Two rounds of that and she's ready for some katana to the face action.

This was my experience with Genichiro as well. It's not that his moves were hard to figure out, it's just that you had to repeatedly execute correctly.

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Also his jump multi arrow shot really, really got on my nerves. One of the biggest learning experiences for in this game for me has been: you can block and deflect missile attacks. Usually. Against Snake Eyes, I tried to block her "big shot" before I realized what it was, took a shit load of posture damage and some vitality damage and figured "Well ok, I guess that's what happens when you block bullets." No, it's only when you block *some* bullets. Same story with Genichiro. His jumping multishot bullshit move, all of those can be blocked. But his big fuck off charged shot, usually done at range, blocking that will wreck you and it can probably only be deflected.

[Egan_BW]

Spoiler: still genichiro (click to show/hide)

His big shot only does a chunk of posture and staggers you for a second when you block it, it's generally fine. Dodging it might open him up for a counter hit, but blocking is safe.

Spoiler: the fucking guardian ape (click to show/hide)

"yay I killed it!"
"FUCK"

[Cthulhu]

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genichiro is really bad with blockstring discipline, in fighting game terms.  Get in his face and R1 slow and steady and be ready to deflect if he uses something you can't knock him out of, but he frequently pulls out his bow or starts running in the middle of a combo, giving you free damage.   With some luck on his AI decisions you can no-damage him pretty easy

[Egan_BW]

Yeah he's a dummy.

[nenjin]

^

This is how I went from being frustrated to going "Wut?"

Haven't found many bosses like that yet though. Generally you assume most bosses will "poise" through your attack to penalize greed or poor judgment (as was Dark Souls' way), but in Sekiro this deliberately seems to not be the case with some.

[Jopax]

I think the game itself outright states that you can deflect arrows but not bullets, except with the shield prosthetic, or something similar, not sure, I still cba to use that thing against ranged folks, prefer dodging my way into stab range.

As for genichiro, pretty much every of his arrow attacks can be interrupted with a shuriken if you can read it in time, hell, I think almost everything but his one long-ass attack chain has several punishable spots that offer you free damage and a stop to the chain, and even the super long chain rewards you with a hit or two at the end if you didn't get poised during it.

[Ygdrad]

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I also had a relatively easy time against Genichiro once I figured him out. Any enemy with a large opening or those stupid jump attacks like Gen's will get completely destroyed by Ichimonji: Double. It's just free posture superiority.

[Egan_BW]

You can totally block and deflect bullets. Only exception I've seen is the snekeyes long range shots. Most of their shots you can still parry with no vitality loss, it's just the one they switch to when you're far away (and they can snipe you from across the map with it.)

The skill for midair deflection actually recommends that you use it to parry bullets in midair, because projectiles deal extra damage to midair targets.

[nenjin]

Spoiler: Snake Eyes Shirahagi, Sweet Revenge (click to show/hide)

When I deduced that he would aggro as soon as you came down in to the grotto area, and so really couldn't eliminate more than one mortar guy leaving two to fuck you up during the fight, I took a couple deaths to test things out. I lured him back by the bonfire and got up on the Buddha statue's hand.

He walked in to the poison then slowly backed up right as he would be about to make LOS, and just kept repeating that. I watched him slowly die of poison for three minutes.

I call that fucking justice after what Shirafuji put me through.

[Cthulhu]

I spent so much time on Shirafuji that I had her number when it came to fighting Shirahagi, beat her pretty handily in a straight up fight.

[Draignean]

See, what I did was use the Puppeteer on both her buddies in elevated positions, then laughed maniacally as they stunlocked her with their fuckoff-huge cannons.

[nenjin]

Well the second time around with the Ape went a lot better. You were right. That overhand slash is kinda mandatory to deflect if you want to get that fight over with.

[ukulele]

Just a question. 

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On the secound encounter on white snake mi juist bypassed it with the crow seconbdary? inmstead of beatidndg it, did i heese it insteadof facing it? sorry not a native eglish speaker