Rykard is entirely not fun.

[TheDude]

Yes, I know, git gud. But when I can see literally nothing because the skull spell blocks my entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ camera. Dodging does nothing. Blocking does nothing. This fight is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Cartoffel]

You know that he is a gimmick fight?

[Akemua]

It is literally one of the easiest fights in the game, because it gives you a weapon you chuck at him that does really good damage.

All you need to do is dodge, attack with the weapon they give, voilà

[Sgt. Flaw]

Jump attack with the weapon they give you

[Absurd]

use the spear bro, you cannot be this bad at the game FR my G... gud getting gud

[space]

he is the easiest boss as it's a gimmick fight like yhorm

[Daynov]

You serious? Of all boss battles this is the one you're having trouble with?

[Sc0rpiTr0n]

You can outrun skulls with sprinting.

He tends to be annoying and spam them few times in a row
but once he stops hit him with Serpent Hunter jump and running attacks.

[TheDude]

Originally posted by Sc0rpiTr0n:

You can outrun skulls with sprinting.

He tends to be annoying and spam them few times in a row
but once he stops hit him with Serpent Hunter jump and running attacks.

I tried running but his stupid skulls were literally blocking out my camera. If I stay locked on to Rykard whilst running I end up getting stuck on random ♥♥♥♥.

[Akemua]

Originally posted by TheDude:

Originally posted by Sc0rpiTr0n:

You can outrun skulls with sprinting.

He tends to be annoying and spam them few times in a row
but once he stops hit him with Serpent Hunter jump and running attacks.

I tried running but his stupid skulls were literally blocking out my camera. If I stay locked on to Rykard whilst running I end up getting stuck on random ♥♥♥♥.

Don't lock on until after all the attacks then?

[phosTR]

lol, it's literally the easiest bossfight in the game (yes, even more easy than Rennala) + it's a gimmick fight and a very fun one.

[THE IMPALER]

literally the easiest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fight in the whole game scrub get rekt

[[LZ]Icy]

Use ironjar parfume and the gimmick weap , u dont even need to dodge then.. also u can walk through his lava with 0 stagger xD i always face tank him for fun with a normal weapon xD

[xMaveric]

try using the weapon laying inside the boss room. the ash on it is the only thing you need

[M]

the only boss ive summoned a player to help me, like how tf do i avoid those attacks lmao. ive beaten the boss and im good with it, i dont like him very much too.

[Sin]

Originally posted by TheDude:

Originally posted by Sc0rpiTr0n:

You can outrun skulls with sprinting.

He tends to be annoying and spam them few times in a row
but once he stops hit him with Serpent Hunter jump and running attacks.

I tried running but his stupid skulls were literally blocking out my camera. If I stay locked on to Rykard whilst running I end up getting stuck on random ♥♥♥♥.

when he goes for the animation you can attempt to abort it with the weapon art of the weapon you find in the arena, if that works just fight on as you feel comfortable, if it doesn't turn away from him and run till you have enough distance to not get hit, than run diagonally across the arena, increasing distance to him .. skulls will look like they hit you but there is a delay before they explode and as long as you are moving in a straight ish line there is no problem..curving around the outskirts of the arena also works - what ever you have to do to stay away from rykards range.

if things get too annoying for you hit him with the weapon art of his anti weapon, look at his left (your point of view right) arm ... he staggers -> slams the hand into the ground next to him -> that's your queue to start up the next weapon art.
You can keep him stunlocked indefinitly like that. If you do it too early it won't work. Weapon upgrades might be required but you got to try, it should stun him every time if you waited for the hand slam.