So, Ren hayabusa...

[Tether Me Daddy]

Let me just say, i'm a long time fan of Nioh (Nioh 1 is probably one of my all time favorites).

With that being said, never in my life, i've been more dumbfounded by a boss in a video game Lmao...

I guess should've been angry, but for some reason i just laughed my ass of at how ridiculous he is.

i) First 7-8 times, i literally died within 10-20 seconds, as any 2 of his attacks(quick attacks, not skills) fully depleted my ki bar, only to be finished off by izuna drop( i was lvl 158, with full dragon ninja light armor)
ii) Took a while to get used to the fact that his cross map leap attack has a whopping 0.1 sec animation.
iii) Had to stare at the screen for 2 full minutes upon finding out he can final blow u after his unblockable grab attack.
iv) But what literally made my jaw drop is that he actually attacks you DURING your knock down animation(I Repeat, not when u r knocked down, but during the animation of u falling to the floor) , which has no invincibility frame, and of course during which u can't block. I don't think i've ever seen a human enemy do that in both nioh 1 & 2.

Anyway, i did beat him after around 20 tries by just spamming moonlit snow redux like a noob, but i honestly don't know what i'm supposed to do on higher difficulties.
He clearly has more speed and damage than all other human enemies, and is at this moment clearly above my skill level.
Onmyo doen't work since he just dodges everything, plus i didn't really see any form of opening from his attacks, since he'll just block everything.
I know u can knock him down if u hit him with kunai/shuriken during his leap attack, but its so quick i can't realistically pull that off.

Any helpful tips would be highly appreciated.

P.S. i'd really like to see ppl whining about Nameless king or Midir take on this guy...

[GrayHound]

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Evey other boss has some kind of completely unfair BS but Ren is fair. Maybe the only one.

I don't even know what to say fam, i genuinely find human bosses more interesting than yokai ones(Except hanzo on ninjitsu mystic art mission), but until this point no one was this BS with speed and damage.

You dodge until he does a flying swallow and then combo him.

The safest way is to use Odachi and its MSR move to trivialize the fight as Ren often doesn't have hyperarmor and MSR has stupid range and amazing burst damage. You can attack him halfway across the room.

[Tether Me Daddy]

If u go back to the OP, that's exactly what i did, but it just felt...stupid...

[Elden John]

Long Range Attacks are key to defeating Ren. It took me like 5 or 6 Attempts with the Switch Glaive exclusively in Mid Stance because it has the longes reach. Having a lot of Break and Ki Damage helps a lot either, because he doesn't have that much Ki to begin with.
That being said, i can only recommend using some of the stronger Yokai Abilities to interrupt him while casting or to give yourself a breather every now and then. (I used Yatsu-No-Kami & Lady Osakabe)

[SkorbiOwO]

Just go Yokai form (mine was purple and spam he cant do anything)

[Long Dangler]

If you're happy to cheese there's an extremely easy way to do this boss on any difficulty with fists. Reckless charge/dreadslayer into an instant rising gale pretty much infinitely combos him. As inputs it looks like (L1 + Square, wait for 3rd hit, Triangle, Forward + R1, L1 + Square...).

[Thorba]

Was just beating him and indeed one of the hardest bosses so far (over 10 tries). The game became a bit easy lately but this boss and the final boss from the second dlc was a real challenge. Thought i could breeze through the rest of the game but now i am afraid what the last dlc has in store:)