Bayle. How?

[phosTR]

I have no idea how to even get this boss to 80% HP.

>Stack defense (phys, light and fire)
useless
>Use a greatshield
useless
>Light roll and attack with heavy weapon
useless
>Summons
dies

His head always moves when i'm about to hit him. Too fast for a giant boss like that. Insane damage. Wonky hitboxes. The bite (grab) has a strange timing to dodge/avoid.
The camera is utter trash but without it you can't see what he is doing.
The presentation is great, the lore too, but the combat mechanics? lol
Advices welcomed. Thanks.

>>>I have blessing level 15 btw<<<
EDIT: I'm level 160, 60VIG, NG. I'm gonna try the anti-dragon Katana like people said, i'm playing a melee character and i don't want to change to sorcery now. I'm gonna use the katana and summon Igon. Ty.

[MidnightMist]

If you have the stats for Impenetrable Thrones, I killed him in about 6 hits with it. I used Igon as a distraction to finish his quest line though, because you're a sitting duck if you charge it like I do.

[Sagimancer]

That indeed wonky hitbox is the most annoying thing. What worked best for me was just 1) Circle him avoiding his central fire and aim for the tail which seemed to receive greater damage 2) Fight without target locking, as this ♥♥♥♥ doesn't stop moving and camera has never been a soulslike decent feature.

I used Radahn's twin greatswords and blessing lv 11

[TheAlliedGhost]

i beat him BUT i RAGED when ever he input reads me and hops across the arena before my attack even comes close. IT looked awesome but it was a retarded boss.. Just like that Boss on the big ass hog.

[Funpire]

Originally posted by phosTR:

I have no idea how to even get this boss to 80% HP.

>Stack defense (phys, light and fire)
useless
>Use a greatshield
useless
>Light roll and attack with heavy weapon
useless
>Summons
dies

His head always moves when i'm about to hit him. Too fast for a giant boss like that. Insane damage. Wonky hitboxes. The bite (grab) has a strange timing to dodge/avoid.
The camera is utter trash but without it you can't see what he is doing.
The presentation is great, the lore too, but the combat mechanics? lol
Advices welcomed. Thanks.

>>>I have blessing level 15 btw<<<

Blasphemous blade + mimic + 60 faith, 50 vig, weapon mins, Alexander shard, Carian Crest, whatever else you want, cracked 2h charge, cracked fire damage, Flame, grant me strength... L2 him to death while you yawn around the map watching Igon scream filth in his direction.

[Dollmaker]

Summon his no.1 hater.

Igon.

[Xacktar]

Ignore his head, go for his stump leg.

[CourtJesterCowboy]

Hmmm, lots of videos of people online pretty much trivializing every boss with a properly made great-shield poke build. At face value, it sounds like you may not be properly leveled. It does matter. It isnt 100% blessings based, or they wouldn't have a recommended level of entry.

In all honesty, I am not even close to Bayle yet, due to putting all my energy into world exploration, but I am properly leveled and nothing has been like this, rage inducing difficult I mean... Deep down though, I expect I will need to drop my Beastclaw build for something more appropriate when I do get there, because the Dragons in general are borderline not possible with the Keen Beastclaw build I am running, but I have killed the first two mains and multiple random world/ruin bosses 1-2 tries with the Beastclaw build, so I will probably try a great-sword or something out eventually for the tankier bosses/dragons.

Do update us with what you manage to make work though

[LuckyCheshire]

Don't lock on to him except when he's airborne. That will make hitting him a lot easier. And yes, use Igon.

[Dedut]

New game or NG+??

[Silyon]

The most annoying part of Bayel I found was actually summoning Igon himself. Because the prompt defaults to "no" for some reason, I was simply too slow to hit the buttons and still get out of the way of his initial breath or leap onto me. Which usually led to a chain of getting staggered, trying to heal, getting staggered again, and death.

Dragon Cultist build, so he ended up melting in like three Ancient Dragon Lighting casts once I got lucky enough to actually get the summoning out of the way and engage. Didn't actually learn most of his dodges or dodge-timing because of that.

[Royner]

I stab him in the ass, second fase is worst

[ssj grumpig]

He's all sizzle no steak, amazing spectacle but the fight mechanics are awful. The dragon katana you get from the dude before the dragon area can wreck him pretty easily though, spam the Ash of War for easy posture damage

Also fight him a few times solo but do yourself a favor and summon Igon, I normally play solo and don't care about stuff like this but whoever did the voice acting poured everything in their soul into it, and it's worth experiencing firsthand

[Kefka]

yea, whether you use summons or not Igon is great

[SlackerSupreme]

Wing of Astel, and he'll stagger easily with the use of AOW, with mimic and Igon, the fight becomes rather trivial.

The current Impenetrable thorns build is also a solid option (haven't tried the build, but there's enough evidence that it ends his career without notice)

[Xaelon]

Originally posted by ssj grumpig:

He's all sizzle no steak, amazing spectacle but the fight mechanics are awful. The dragon katana you get from the dude before the dragon area can wreck him pretty easily though, spam the Ash of War for easy posture damage

Can confirm. The skill on that katana does big chunks of damage to him. Spam it into his wounded leg or head. Throw on the Godfrey Icon for even more juicy damage.