some advice, use charged attacks!

[CrescentMouse]

charged Heavies are pretty damn insane! with 28 strength, bonny's butchering knife, and the charged tear i was dealing 1400 damage per charged heavy. that's with just the charged tear. there's also the axe talisman and the different shouts you can use. and bosses leave some room to get one of these off. this seems pretty broken.

[StarlightAsh♡]

charged r2 attacks are a bit of a bait on bosses, you are actually required to know when you can get away with doing it so that typically does not work well in your first run, so while it can do a lot of dmg it also leaves you wide open to be punished