Hehe and thanks! Yep, this boss is a handful until you work him out for sure!

Appreciate the comment, cheers1

He is the best guide ever. Watched his videos since Sekiro!

Cheers!

Brilliant!

Brilliant and thanks!

Awesome!

Yatsu-no-Kami is trouble (the next main mission boss). But I have a guide on that to help...it's rendering now 👍

@@fuzzybearbarian Lol, I was stuck on that bastard too. I ended up calling for help again.

Cheers mate!

I love everything EXCEPT Yokai Shift. I feel it's so weak and short that it's worthless. At some point I'll see if there's a way to improve it, but it's definitely not even a poor man's Living Weapon. Sad, because the power fantasy isn't there, which is one of the things I liked about Nioh. The rest is good though - especially the music. Holy shit they stepped up their music game this time around!

@@fuzzybearbarian So I beat the boss the first try after writing this comment and only used 1 elixir. Haha I was so proud of myself and also realized he wasn't as hard as I originally thought once I started following that tip of moving to the left which saved me alot of ki since I wasnt frantically dodging backwards. Just walking briskly to my left and avoiding everything pretty much. Absolutely agree. The music is insanely good and I feel Nioh 2 overall has so much more personality and really defined it's identity in alot of ways. They made so many small detail changes that I love, the level design so far is a huge step up, the yokai are much cooler and I love that their is more beast type bosses, the new perks and stats are great and the story telling seems to be a nice blend of cutscenes and reading. Yokai shift takes so long to charge up for me and it doesnt feel worthwhile to use. I basically only use it if I get caught in a pinch and to prevent death so I can escape a bad situation.

@@CantTreadOnMe Honestly, I use it so little I forget to use it to save my life haha.

@@fuzzybearbarian 🤣🤣 They need to fix it asap.

@@CantTreadOnMe I would love the game with Living Weapon like it used to be AND the burst counter mechanic. It'll never happen though, but we can dream.

Thanks!

I'm pretty sure I lasted about 20 seconds first time...

I don't know how, but I killed him on my first try!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 💯 true.

That's awesome, thanks for the comment.

I highly doubt that...

Glad I could help!

"miserable hours" might be a pretty common reference to Nioh 2 bosses lol.

Thanks mate!

Yeah, the trash enemies are practically mini bosses themselves!

@@fuzzybearbarian tried this strategy against the boss but he's still beating me a lot! (came really close once tho) It could be because my build so far is mostly evened out with 7's and an 8 in constitution and a 6 in strength

I get it. He was a handful until I worked out to pace myself on his openings. Most importantly, by keeping away from him he will teleport and when he does you must pull your stick away and hold run to quickly back away before he can hit. You can also use the feral burst to teleport away, though I find that can be hit and miss. I highly recommend going into settings and binding guard to spin the camera around to face enemies. You can use that to your advantage a lot with where enemies end up in relation to the camera, for each time you press block you'll instantly be facing the enemy. I can't live without that setting tbh.

Watch his ki bar. It has two bars on it. The normal purple ki that goes down from right to left, and a second red bar that goes from right to left after the ki is going down. The red bar is his actual stagger bar. So when he's out of ki that doesn't mean he'll go down and stay there to grapple - you have to have the red bar get full after that.

Fuzzy Bearbarian thanks for the reply, managed to take him down

@@prometheus7109 Awesome!

Fuzzy Bearbarian I’ve changed from odachi build to ninjitsu, but I have 12 points in my odachi skill tree I no longer need, do you know if it’s possible to swap them over to ninjitsu?

@@prometheus7109 Only by completely respeccing with a Book of Reincarnation from the Blacksmith - but be aware, every time you buy the book it jumps up in price a ridiculous amount.

His ki bar is about his ability to attack, but he has a separate stagger bar for the grapple. So he has 3 bars - his health bar on top, his ki bar on the bottom, and a red stagger bar that you see moving from right to left along the ki bar. You have to get the red staggar bar to go all the way to the left of the ki bar for him to fall for a grapple.

Fuzzy Bearbarian thanks finally beat him after a lot of tries - I think I may need to respec

@@jz9132 To a Dex build?

Fuzzy Bearbarian what do you recommend? I mainly use a sword or a spear, and right I am around level 45 but struggling in the first stage of Soaring... only doing about 150 per hit with the Torymesu (misspelled, the corrupted sword). I distributed the points evenly across all stats except for magic and dex

Don’t know if you made a video about this

You'll get him!

Also if you keep running to the left of him he can’t hurt you.

Got a link to a no damage video where all that's done is running to the left and using phantom?

Fuzzy Bearbarian I’m mean your guide is good too and no it’s not just running to the left you obviously have to keep your distance too.

Fuzzy Bearbarian and I should restate The phantom is the best I mean it’s the best for me.

Fuzzy Bearbarian links not working but look up tyranicon

Use the ninjutsu consumable items you have in your inventory and you shall get ninjutsu skill points. (Same for scrolls)

@@tefa7002 I know lol. Where did you get them?

Tyler Moses all I can really say, is explore explore explore, and even though I’m speaking the obvious, the game does reward you for exploring, found some good stuff, like the lantern fruit

Jevon Hilton I think I got ninja locks on this mission

Amishitman ninja locks, and the other locks, can’t remember, it’s mostly magic though

Nioh fights are still tough even when you know what to do - you still have to do it! But honestly, it's just practice and patience to get a feel for it all and then once you do you'll sail through.