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I had to go kill Pthumerian Descendant to unlock Shaman Bone Blades in the shop, so here's a little cut of the bosses I went through to get down there

(Sandbox Mod used)

Fun boss! Glad I finally learned how to fight one, even if it's some backstab slop. The spinning attack is fun to dodge though!

Finally! This guy made me take a break from the game, the length of the fight combined with the variation in responses was testing my patience. I found some cool strafes and jumps but ultimately simplified it in order to get it done.

Also, the bug where he can just start moving immediately after phase transition and hit you with something before the explosion even dissipates is soooooo infuriating 😭Other than that, he's a top tier boss, 9.5/10

Wait why was this so fun 😭 I HATED it on my casual playthrough. It took me like 5 tries too, very quick. If you see me completely whiff parries it's because I was still learning (This was the first time I got to Phase 2)

I was going to do Ludwig or Logarius first but I gave them a few attempts (A lot of attempts to Logarius lol) and decided I'm better off doing them with some of the tools that are gated behind Rom dying, so she's next

Not the first boss you expect to see right after Amelia but I wanted to break from the main path for a little bit

Interesting boss. I enjoy Phase 1, I tolerate Phase 2 and I hate Phase 3. I didn't even intend to loop it at the end, I just kind of panicked when it kept jumping lol

Sorry to all the threaded cane fans, I wanted to do the whole run with it but the difference between it and the saw cleaver is night and day </3 it officially dies here.

Anyway, this boss was quite enjoyable, it's a little hard to see what she's doing but I had fun. I still have a lot to learn about her, clearly, but I don't think any of the Bloodborne fights outside of the DLC are ones I really want to master, at least not hitless.

I don't think I've ever had a frantic moment at the end as bad as this one LOL. I truly hate this boss. I will NOT be doing the chalice version

Of course, the winning attempt is the one where I tragically whiff the opening transforming attack on his head...

This was much harder than expected, he has one-damage hitboxes on his feet during the multi hit combos which infuriated me to no end. I also tried not to use fire paper for quite a while (I didn't want my plans to involve having to farm), and I kind of think buffless +0 will be too much for this run, the damage difference is absurd. Ultimately, when I stopped being stubborn and finally dropped the lock on, things got much easier.

Almost hitless... that was the first time I saw that attack in Phase 3 and I didn't want to redo it bc I'm lazy lol. I was still learning and testing some things on this attempt, so that's why you see me miss 40 transforming attacks.

Also I'm very bad at the fundamentals of this game, they don't come naturally to me at all like ER and Dark Souls do 😭

Midra's head appears to apply madness buildup on his charge attack before the actual hitbox comes out. I know other non-damaging moves (Maliketh Roar) count as being hit if you can still dodge them, what about this? It's definitely dodgeable with a tighter timing, but its different than a roar because I'm not actually getting the hit sound effect. Please let me know what the consensus is

There is a strange part of me that enjoyed all four hours that this took me...

Very cool boss, his big combo is really fun to dodge. Doesn't seem to have the mixup potential of a lot of Elden Ring bosses (At least while making sure to stay close), he's more like a really great DS3 boss. He didn't use every move here, unfortunately, but I did figure all of them out. Charge is still kind of a toss up for me, but I didn't use torrent or an AoW so that's a win to me!!

I swear I've tried rolls in every direction, sometimes they work sometimes they don't I know he only does it when you're on his left so I generally avoid being there, but sometimes that's where my dodges end up putting me after some of his attacks where he moves around a lot.

This boss is bad for obvious reasons but the winning attempt was actually really fun tbh... I'm pretty proud of figuring out how to escape the close range laser aura. The fact that I had to have two invincibility arts and a consumable to make it a fair fight is crazy though, FromSoft DONT DO THIS AGAIN!!

I literally have no idea how to rate this boss because the undodgeable moves are so horrendous but once you just accept that you have to use Raptor it doesn't bother you as much. IDK she has some fun attacks.

The BHS into Raptor seems consistent as long as you don't take CR2s directly in her face but instead space yourself out.

Thank you to MrCarnage for the general strategy!

Reupload bc I don't know how to make a reddit post apparently lol

Played a good amount of Sekiro, never challenge ran it. Basically just doing CLDB and base Vit/Attack. Also avoiding really OP prosthetics/arts, the only ones I have in mind right now are the mortal draws but I'll add more as I become more familiar with them. Probably avoiding Sabimaru just bc it's a status, but we'll see. The nice thing about this game is that I don't have to worry about not doing this guy hitless bc I can just refight him when I want to, I <3 Sekiro!!!

(Last minute and a half or so of my most recent Messmer fight, he's so cool <3)