How to beat the first boss?

[Potato]

I can go through phase 1 easily but he is just too quick in phase 2 and have a wide range attack with his tentacle. I manage to got 1/3 phase 2 health bar after several tries but I can't beat it for the life of me. I tried to downloading a trainer but got a virus instead. And there is no coop since its still the prologue I guess. Is there no other choice rather than delete the game?

[Ricochet]

On the second phase, you will be prompted to press summon or something when his health i down from 75% to 50% and the fight will be over.

[zmanbuilder]

you should be building your spirit gauge, after you use it it will auto end the fight, it should be filled by the time you get the boss down 1/3 of its health

[Often]

I'm assuming you're playing it on gamepass since you don't own it on steam?

You have to basically do the same thing. Parry and dodge the normal attacks, parry the red attacks. Parry the grab twice to get him to 1/2 health and then you can summon and win the fight. Phase 2 isn't too bad once you get the parry timing down.

[Zanzibrr]

Beat his first phase, parry his crit attacks in 2nd phase (about 2) and then you can use the divine beast attack to end the fight.

[zmanbuilder]

other advice would be to use the sword and not the pole arm, the sword has a easier parry

[Taddy Mason]

if you can pin him up against a wall in the first phase, you can stun lock him and in the second phase, just keep running away from him until he does 2 or 3 of his red attacks. deflect those and you should be able to trigger the prompt to use your divine beast that triggers the cutscene ending the fight.

if you look at their spirit guage, when you're deflecting the big red attacks, you're reducing their maximum bar and therefore the amount you have to reduce their overall spirit to trigger your own special attack against him and other bosses. your heavy attacks/spirit attacks do the same thing, but smaller so it's less noticeable.

i fought him in the demo, on game pass, and then again when the game launched. i hate him and think he should have been switched with the second boss. by that time, you're given so many more options to deal with bosses in general. the second boss is objectively easier than him and becomes a regular enemy later on, too. should've been the first boss.

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by zmanbuilder:

other advice would be to use the sword and not the pole arm, the sword has a easier parry

Nah, polearm is a lot better. It deals way more spirit damage, more regular damage, and has a lot more reach making it much easier to keep hitting him.

[Johnnie Walker]

lol I completely ignored the guardian summon ahahahah, baited 4 parries and killed it

[Orphen]

Literally grind your gauge to 25 before fighting him, and he dies so fast. Just wait for his attacks and parry. Same for 2nd form just focus on parrying his attacks then when he uses the musou (Red Attack) make sure you parry and you can use triangle to truck him on a grapple skill.

[Ashtrails]

if you're struggling, don't forget you can straight up _block_.
all of his moves can be blocked (except the red ones, of course) and you can punish his 'thrust' easily for spirit regain.

block, be opportunistic and wait to parry his charged attack, he will be staggered and pulled towards you.
repeat until you get the button prompt for auto-win : )

[Potato]

Originally posted by Orphen:

Literally grind your gauge to 25 before fighting him, and he dies so fast. Just wait for his attacks and parry. Same for 2nd form just focus on parrying his attacks then when he uses the musou (Red Attack) make sure you parry and you can use triangle to truck him on a grapple skill.

But isn't your rank reset to lv 10 or something after you died? You need to plan more flag to increase that rank and there isn't anymore in the area.

[HighLanderPony]

Phase 2, block his attacks that aren't red. Quick attack him after he attacked and is recovering, to get some spirit back (so you don't break). Then parry anything that's red and follow up with quick attacks then a spirit attack till his stance is broken, then do a takedown (spirit attack on broken stance enemy). He'll be dead in about 3-4 cycles.

[Potato]

When you parry red attack. Should I just press B or use Left Analog + B? Because when I use Left Analog + B some time my character will just dodge out of the way instead of parry. But standing still and press B sometime does not work either

[Zeon]

Originally posted by Potato:

Originally posted by Orphen:

Literally grind your gauge to 25 before fighting him, and he dies so fast. Just wait for his attacks and parry. Same for 2nd form just focus on parrying his attacks then when he uses the musou (Red Attack) make sure you parry and you can use triangle to truck him on a grapple skill.

But isn't your rank reset to lv 10 or something after you died? You need to plan more flag to increase that rank and there isn't anymore in the area.

In the demo you could restart the boss fight get your lvls back then quit to main menu. Upon reload you retain the levels outside the boss arena.

[Taddy Mason]

Originally posted by Potato:

When you parry red attack. Should I just press B or use Left Analog + B? Because when I use Left Analog + B some time my character will just dodge out of the way instead of parry. But standing still and press B sometime does not work either

I always used the Analog + B as i found i would always take damage if i missed the timing with just B and would rather miss the chance to deflect and counter by completely dodging the attack and thus give myself more time and another chance to get it next time.