I really despise Venom

[Degmograndfather]

Honestly its skill isue for sure
but feels so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad fighting him almost full health and 1 shots me. I play on hard and he still hits way too hard.

[Shiroe (cortana)]

dodge more :)

[✰N0ni✰]

you can sorta cheese it around the 2 reels in the "arena", very easy to break LoS and he'll just float around it allowing you to get free hits or pop a relic. good way to dodge his combo and sometimes he'll throw his sword onto the very top of these reels so that the follow-up AoE is midair and you can save stamina not having to dodge.

[Error3000]

personally I spammed weapon mod attacks at him until he died (used firestorm and bloodline), but yea the whole boss is a dodging excercise, you will get him sooner or later

[Ottomic]

I just beat him and what can I say, I hate Cancer way, way, way, WAY more.

The only actual ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ attack from Venom that I despise just because it can easily become undodgeable is that slam he does that spawn brambles all over the place. With Cancer there's at least a couple of attacks that you just have to pray will be able to dodge without getting a beanstalk up your ass.

Focus on dodging, try and get one of those engine things between him and you (very useful when he's in his floating phase) and try getting a DOT in your mods if you can, I had acid shot on my bulldog and burning shot on my tech-22.

I have both Barkskin and Blood Bond maxed out on my guy which means I could get nailed from time to time without getting 1-shot, but I also swapped to the crescent pendant (or whatever is called) that gives lifesteal and +20% damage at full health.

[Evilsod]

Venom was fine once I saw his attacks a few times, with the one exception of his slam attack that shoots out roots from the ground. The hitreg on that attack was so ♥♥♥♥, you could do the same dodge twice in a row and it would randomly 1 shot you the second time (especially with him having Spiteful so it was a guaranteed kill eventually).
What eventually seemed to work more consistently was that you had to dodge straight backwards away from him.

Still took me far too many runs, but most of those were my own fault, not just janky hitreg.

[Ologyst]

I share your pain. Apoc venom is a nightmare, and imo harder than annihilation.

[Denys]

I had more problems before I learned the patterns, now I killed him on Apocalypse in 4 attempts and it did not feel that bad. Just a heads up most bosses especially Venon get ultra tanky in coop. So I just killed him in solo instead. What helps me a lot is Invaders skill to teleport!

[Lowbei]

venom is def harder than anni