The Lion Dancer boss is everything wrong with souls games

[WormyLine21]

What the hell were the devs thinking. This is the least readable boss ever as he is the size of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ semi truck yet is so close to your face half the time all you see are his vestigial limbs dangling in front of your face, then it kills you in 2 hits with head jabs so fast even an F1 driver wouldn't react in time. This would be fine if his attacks were sparse but that is so wrong. When you get hit you can't heal after his combo ends because he jumps into the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sky the moment your lips touch that glass and he undoes what the health potion does, so your stuck avoiding attacks for 30 seconds while waiting to heal once.

Don't even get me started with the second phase,
Did you want to heal while he was in thunder mode? well good luck getting sniped across the arena with 50GW because you tried to heal after making the unforgivable mistake of getting hit once. And when you try to get a single hit in he summons 3 years of thunder around you to basically stun you and then instantly die to the bosses maulers.
The wind mode basically removes Elden rings forgiving hit boxes because if you were standing within 2 light years of the lion and it so much as sneezes and you didn't roll in time? say goodbye to your health bar.
And its ice mode? It practically is Dark Souls 2 the way your roll doesn't have enough i frames to get through every AoE attack it unleashes.

To add onto this train wreck of a boss fight even when you do get the chance to attack you practically have to spam the space bar to avoid the next attack that's coming directly to your noggin at mach Jesus. And just like healing you have to wait 30 seconds to get a single under powered hit in.

I tried to do this without summons for 3 hours and the best I could do was half health as one screw up meant certain death, and it seemed it would take longer than it took for me to beat Malenia (6 hours) so I destroyed it in 3 tries with summons. (1200 damage per hit, lvl 173, and I beat radagon with the same build in 1.5 hours earlier today)

Unless this boss is only meant to be beaten with summons and Cooperator, there is no reason it should be harder to beat as the first boss in the dlc than Radagon.

[Lucci]

i thought he was cool, me and my pet dungeater beat him 1st try

[Chibbix]

Yeah, I just bailed until I find more of those things that increase your damage/resistance.

Glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought his attack damage and hitboxes were crazy.

Wearing full crucible except gloves and he's 2 shotting me.

[Phantom Limb]

I have a strong feeling all dlc bosses have been made in such way so players should be summoning spirits for each fight.

[mentallyily]

i love him bro

[vasteel]

You have to go steady and clam. Mimic summon can be a great help in addition to NPC summon. Don't be greedy, only go in when you are sure you can land a hit, and stay away most of the time, especially when it is calling ice. One last thing, do not try to attack when it is biting a NPC, that is its I-frame (yep, this thing cannot be hurt if it is chewing people).

Best of luck

[DSANIC]

all bosses have a post like this lol

[VDRSK]

Originally posted by DSANIC:

all bosses have a post like this lol

I was going to mention this, if we accepted every post someone made about "the worst boss ever made" FROM seems to have never made anything but the worst boss ever made, which is quite the accomplishment. haha

[m̷a̷s̷k̷]

actually one of the coolest bosses in the dlc lmfao

[Senki]

well it only took me 2 tries mainly because I stacked some defense buffs and tanked a lot but I agree it's not a great boss

the camera especially is beyond horrible in that fight

[Crumps]

idk wym first blind attempt i took him to 1/3 hp left and another 5 attempts he was down. V readable and has some sweet spots. Large beast bosses are like that.

[Gooey]

Once I hit the giant dragon of this DLC, I realized the cat was a cakewalk and beat him with one of the cool katanas. However, I hate Malenia/Rennala and that stupid Yoda cosplayer. I'd rather fight two lions at once than have arena wide attacks, not even RadaBeast...

[Kami]

Honestly easiest boss compared that I actually started missing him as currently stuck on Gaius what comes after but find just staying under him & rolling into him if does any animation will work well enough.

[WormyLine21]

Originally posted by nos:

actually one of the coolest bosses in the dlc lmfao

Originally posted by VDRSK:

Originally posted by DSANIC:

all bosses have a post like this lol

I was going to mention this, if we accepted every post someone made about "the worst boss ever made" FROM seems to have never made anything but the worst boss ever made, which is quite the accomplishment. haha

The boss would be good and so is basically everything around it, the only problem I have is it feels like im playing on 40 FOV, the game speed is set to 2x, and the Lion is on steroids.

[Έρως]

Hah, wait until you get to Messmer where your screen will be 90% fire or black mist XD

[Rudel]

Killed him 1st Try with Blasphemous Blade, Mimic + NPC Summon. Wasn't even close.