yada yada, he's supposed to be underwhelming. How prolonging the current age has turned him weak and hollow, etc.
Pfffff
I didn't phrase that right, when I said 'incredibly powerful', I mean that my standard build is Greatshield* + Some sort of halberd, along with some medium-weight armour, so by that point I was rocking Artorias's Greatshield and a fully upgraded Black Knight Halberd, and he was
handing me my ass.Everything about him was designed to kick my shit in, he never lets the pressure up and he moves like a mouse, so my halberd, with it's (Relatively) slow vertical strike as the one-handed light attack starter, was nearly useless, and as with practically every halberd, every time you miss, you get slapped with a good half-second of lag time as your character tries to fight the momentum, even if I did hit, like hell I was going to stagger him, so he gives me a good 3-hit combo with that sword of his while I pathetically trade with him, the second light attack wasn't much better, considering the fact that the range on it then is basically halved while his sword could hit me from way further than you think.
The worst part was that because his sword had some pretty impressive fire damage stapled on to it, he was still getting scratch damage on me through the Greatshield, and he can chain 3 or so combos together, backing up to heal was a dangerous proposition at best considering the fact he can leap across the arena in one or two strides so most of the time the best I could do was break even on healing.
He
won, it doesn't matter that I killed him, he beat me, he beat me into the ground until I gave up fighting with the style I had used through most of the game and exploited some minor aspect of him that I wouldn't have even known about had I not been spoiled, and even then he took me out twice through a full set of Havel armour, fire-resisting pyromancy, and a counter-damage boosting ring while I pathetically mashed the parry button at him with a parrying dagger, that's what I mean by 'it was my fault it ended up so easy, though.', because he deserved better.
I should really learn how to phrase things better.
*Yu-huh come at me m8 Oil foight ya'.