How Did You Clear "The Chinese Bellflower Dagger?"

[Scriggleton]

I never rage at games but I spent an hour yelling at this dude last night as he steamrolled me over and over again. He's fast, he has some brutal attacks that can't be interrupted, he can instantly follow up big physical attacks with magic spells, and I had a hard time getting him to run out of ki. I was the recommended level 65 (sword user) and I've been clearing the rest of the missions with relative ease, though, so I knew there had to be a trick. I tried all my stylish moves, but he would just punish me any time I tried to do anything cool. In the end, here's what worked for me:

1. Start off the fight with an honorable gunshot wound to the head to knock him over while he's standing there. Run over and stab him while he's down.
   
2. Constantly move to your right, his left, and just hit him with normal attacks, dodging when necessary, nothing fancy. He will cut you to ribbons if you go left but didn't seem to understand how to deal with me if I went right. This felt cheesy, but it worked after two tries (after failing countless times the previous hour I played).

Some other stuff that helped was using a few spirit stones before starting to get my amrita gauge full, and using a tengu soul core helped me avoid some attacks while doing a great job of knocking out his ki for some free grapple damage. These were nice and kept my palms from getting too sweaty, but dodging right was really the secret ingredient for me.

What sorts of things did you do to win?

[Final★X]

引用自 Kashra Fall：

Did it when it appeared. Tonfa made short work of him, no spells, no gimmicks, just a good ole fashioned beat down =P.

Did the same thing, only I used fist.

[Gautsu]

He tends to run right into the odachi lunge skill. Run away, dodge his fire, lunge, spam ommyo and ninjitsu, repeat

[Sharethepain]

Its all fun and games until you meet Saito in the Underworld though, in the normal game you can overlevel him and overpower him, in Underworld hes hundreds of levels above you, has passive regen and takes almost no damage.

[Battleshadow]

By banging my head against my desk. But seriously, the guy is an ass but doable. Just kept taking acouple a swipes and backing off rinse and repeat.

He's like a 2h heavy knight that runs around like a ninja for whatever reason...

[Engels78]

引用自 Jet：

I ground him into dust spamming Axe strong attack over and over, empowered by a Barrier Talisman. But really, it boiled down to

引用自 Nigrescence：

I got good.

I use this tactic 90% of time... And I almost only put points into stamina... As Fighting Cowboy advice for Axe/Hammer/Odachi built 😁

[Player Zer01]

not going to lie as i had the anger when fighting him. he cheap and annoying plus to boot hes an option boss (which is team ninjas thing). best thing is i when odachi, sacred water, and stayed close while punishing him for trying to pop any magic. most of his attacks you can side step and he leave himself open. the major annoying part is that in this tactic he didnt loose stamina for when he dodged.

[Amene]

引用自 Nigrescence：

I got good.

Pretty much the same.

Learn when to dodge him, when to block, etc. I also backwaved / parried him a lot - but mostly backwaved as it's mostly immune to mistakes as you block either way.

Wish more enemies were like that ...

[OldWhovian]

I used switchglaive stance change combos every time I baited him into casting since he's defenseless then. Honestly one of the easiest human bosses in the game as long as you're not using Axe or Odachi.

[PerfectLife]

引用自 Desolate Eden：

I waited until I completed the entire game and all sub missions then went back and did it when I was overleveled lol, hes too annoying to deal with otherwise for me

I just waited till DotS when he came back up again (I'm playing all missions all difficulties) and tubonuked him, I should go back to DotSam and do the same.

[Shrimp Fried Rice]

would you like the secret to cheesing any human boss?

clay bells

there's nothing that tells you this but you can summon 3 cats at a time and just grapple spam while they do a ton of ki damage

[PerfectLife]

引用自 ~LONG LONG MAN~：

would you like the secret to cheesing any human boss?

clay bells

there's nothing that tells you this but you can summon 3 cats at a time and just grapple spam while they do a ton of ki damage

I was in a sub mission with Magara Naotaka as the boss, there's two cat's right before his arena so I was like, "everyone says 3 cats is super broken so lets see".

Yup... easiest boss fight of the game so far I think especially with great soul cores and a "extra damage on winded enemies" augment. Poor guy was sent beyond infinity in record speed.

[Jpfletch]

I was using switch-glaive at the time and spammed mid/low stance transition attacks for the most part. The fight took a good amount of tries and frustration though. Another helpful switchglaive attack for grapples was Mind's Edge to reduce Ki. I beat him with no consumables left and almost no hp though lol.

[Evilinferno]

at lower difficulties you can cheese him relatively easily with an Odachi's Charging Bull skill
just charging bull->Ki Flux->cb->kf etc. (doesn't need a perfect ki pulse, just flux asap)
the ki cost is low enough that you can instantly get all your ki back and more with flux and if a humanoid tries to block then most of their ki is gone.

not sure what kind of buffs he gets in the higher difficulties but he manages to get out of the loop and attack you with super armor quite often

[Mattheson]

I spent so much time fighting him that i honestly don't remember most details.

I just know that i punched him until he suddenly died.

[아줌마]

I got all up in his face with my dual blades. If you put constant pressure on him and stay close, he doesn't seem to use his magic and because of that, I could kill him before he put up his barrier buff. I was 5 levels underleveled.