Confused about tutorial message

[Mr D Grim]

It says "when an enemy is fully withered. press rb to tear out their soul with your umbral lamp"
What exactly do they mean? cos i hold up my lamp and press RB but nothing happens.
rb without lamp just melees it to death. but it makes it sound like that's not what i was supposed to learn there.

[vegetarianwolf]

If you soul rip with the lantern and attack the enemy's soul (RT), their health bar will turn white.
When the bar is fully white, the enemies will be stunned and the lock-on will turn red. Once this happens just go up to them and attack with RB for a special critical attack.

Make sure you aren't using a weapon that can cause poison or burning or the enemy will die before you can soul tear them.

[zmanbuilder]

my ravager grand sword deals wither damage so i was doing that finisher a lot.

[Mr D Grim]

oooh i see it now. thanks!
my issue was i stopped attacking the soul when i saw the bar be completely white. but it needed 1 more attack to put the enemy in an actual state where it could be soul teared

[vegetarianwolf]

I've been running duel mangler axes (fire damage go sizzle) so I haven't seen that finisher until I tested it just now so we both learned something new today

[SlantedRhetoric]

Umbral finisher is really good for farming, seems to make the enemy guaranteed to drop at least one item.