Spurned progeny help

[BladeDraconis]

I know, skill issue. Blah. I can't get him. Can someone potentially help?

[Shade]

I can

[DeadByDefault]

What is your precise issue?

Strategy is as follows:

Phase 1: Stay close to the feet and hack away at them whenever the boss is not attacking you.

Phase 2: Run up the stairs, use ranged weapons and spells if you can, dodge the boss's melee attacks. As soon as the boss begins casting the arena wide aoe, hide behind the remaining parts of the wall. Afterwards, use ranged weapons and spells again, dodge the melee attacks, etc.

[BladeDraconis]

Originally posted by Shade:

I can

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[Bardiche]

guys he doesn't care about learning to do it why are you telling him? he wants someone to do it for him

[Muhjyke]

I know you'll hate me saying this, but the fight is incredibly easy. That being said, it cost me a few deaths. Its a fight where you need patience or else you will die, he is very punishing.

Play it safe hitting his legs in the beginning, this is a short phase. Roll into the fire circle when he slams, run from the THREE explosions that follow you, dodge when he swings / slams his body.

Second phase

-Run up the steps and dodge when he swings his hand at you. Get hits in if you can.
-When his head is level and he shoots the arm out of his mouth, dodge it. As it goes back it will shoot out another two times. When he slams for a fire ring roll into it and attack.
-When he slams his hand, dodge and attack.
-When he is making a small bomb on the platform, run across the edge to the next area.
-When he is making a giant sun looking bomb, hide behind the walls along the edge (still on the upper area of the arena) He will eventually be exhausted after doing this when his health is low, go down and attack him during this until he dies.

Sorry if this is a bad explanation, I just did this fight and understand what you're feeling. Good luck, and serious be patient. It's a long fight but really easy (sorry) Don't be greedy either!

[BladeDraconis]

Originally posted by Muhjyke:

I know you'll hate me saying this, but the fight is incredibly easy. That being said, it cost me a few deaths. Its a fight where you need patience or else you will die, he is very punishing.

Play it safe hitting his legs in the beginning, this is a short phase. Roll into the fire circle when he slams, run from the THREE explosions that follow you, dodge when he swings / slams his body.

Second phase

-Run up the steps and dodge when he swings his hand at you. Get hits in if you can.
-When his head is level and he shoots the arm out of his mouth, dodge it. As it goes back it will shoot out another two times. When he slams for a fire ring roll into it and attack.
-When he slams his hand, dodge and attack.
-When he is making a small bomb on the platform, run across the edge to the next area.
-When he is making a giant sun looking bomb, hide behind the walls along the edge (still on the upper area of the arena) He will eventually be exhausted after doing this when his health is low, go down and attack him during this until he dies.

Sorry if this is a bad explanation, I just did this fight and understand what you're feeling. Good luck, and serious be patient. It's a long fight but really easy (sorry) Don't be greedy either!

Thank you for writing all of this out! I appreciate it. I got the strategy down but I’m having a hard time dodging his hand attacks. I dodge but get hit anyway. This is only my second souls game (after Lies of P) so I will be struggling for awhile.

[mayhem523]

You are probably dodging too late. Stay as far back as you can and as soon as the hand retracts fully, dodge to the side, wait for it to retract, dodge the other side. Basically dodge before it fires not after.

[BladeDraconis]

Originally posted by mayhem523:

You are probably dodging too late. Stay as far back as you can and as soon as the hand retracts fully, dodge to the side, wait for it to retract, dodge the other side. Basically dodge before it fires not after.

Sorry, I meant his actual arms swinging at you. Not the hand that comes out of his mouth.

[Peggasaurus Rex]

Originally posted by BladeDraconis:

Originally posted by Muhjyke:

I know you'll hate me saying this, but the fight is incredibly easy. That being said, it cost me a few deaths. Its a fight where you need patience or else you will die, he is very punishing.

Play it safe hitting his legs in the beginning, this is a short phase. Roll into the fire circle when he slams, run from the THREE explosions that follow you, dodge when he swings / slams his body.

Second phase

-Run up the steps and dodge when he swings his hand at you. Get hits in if you can.
-When his head is level and he shoots the arm out of his mouth, dodge it. As it goes back it will shoot out another two times. When he slams for a fire ring roll into it and attack.
-When he slams his hand, dodge and attack.
-When he is making a small bomb on the platform, run across the edge to the next area.
-When he is making a giant sun looking bomb, hide behind the walls along the edge (still on the upper area of the arena) He will eventually be exhausted after doing this when his health is low, go down and attack him during this until he dies.

Sorry if this is a bad explanation, I just did this fight and understand what you're feeling. Good luck, and serious be patient. It's a long fight but really easy (sorry) Don't be greedy either!

Thank you for writing all of this out! I appreciate it. I got the strategy down but I’m having a hard time dodging his hand attacks. I dodge but get hit anyway. This is only my second souls game (after Lies of P) so I will be struggling for awhile.

you dodge the moment yo use the hand coming down. Just that first frame of it happening. Any sooner, and you'll be hit. It's the same for when he swings his arms across the platform. When he does his reach attack where his mouth hand shoots out, you can time the dodge based on the fingers. He's done retracting and will lunge when you see his fingers open slightly more. Alternatively for that one if you're not eager to be close to hit the arm after, you can step off the platform onto the walkway and you'll be out of range

I found for me, dodging toward him worked best for all of these attacks, but I was also rather aggressive and wanting to get as many chances to hit him, and me playing this came after binging through several others. That being said, I can understand dodging being hard to get used to if Lies of P is your only other experience since dodging wasn't as much a focus in that one. Dodging in this game is very strong. After a couple runs, you'll have the timings down and be able to dance around that platform like it's nothing

[PomaReign]

Yeah this fight is heavily scripted for you to fight him a certain way if you're melee. Range characters that have tons of mana or ammo to burn through will find this guy easy.

[BladeDraconis]

Thanks everyone for helping! He’s been purged! Woo

[Kashra Fall]

Future reference for this fight. Just block. He can't kill you if you just block.

[grendel]

the hitbox on his hands is so dumb. i have clearly rolled out of the way and been killed by the hand hitting behind me. this fight is easy and I figured out what I need to do he just keeps killing me with a smash attack that is nowhere near me

[NC]

Originally posted by Muhjyke:

the fight is incredibly easy.

No, it's not, but okay, we get it, you're the best gamer. We're all super proud of you for being so special.

[xSTunZz]

all you have to do for is second phase is block, even if it drain all your stamina youll recover before the next hit and when he slams its your chance to punish, or even the 3 stabs arer fairly easy to dodge then punish