Romeo

[karol.pcgaming]

How do I deal with Romeo's fire combo? Can't really run away from it, no chance to parry it consistently and I am suppose to dodge then it is like 10 dodges.

[Army of Optimists]

I dealt with it by running away from the first half or so. When he catches up, either guard or parry as much of it as possible. Try equipping a Radiation Converter to mitigate the fire damage and you should be able to survive guarding it out.

Basically I just treated it like Malenia's Waterfowl Dance. Avoid as much as possible, accept that I'm probably going to take some damage there, and try to end the fight quick so I don't have to see it again.

[TyrantYuuki]

I dodged into him each time he leaped toward me for the next string in the combo.

edit: double dodged with p-organ ability and with the amulet that allows you to dodge even with no stamina.

[abdushaw]

You can stagger him when he is imbuing the sword, if you hit him enough times beforehand, unleash a Fable attack and it will most likely stagger him and he won't attempt to imbue fire again unless fight goes on for too long.

If you fail to stagger, make sure you're at max health & stamina and spam roll as soon as he starts attacking, you should avoid enough damage to survive through full combo, I advise against parrying unless you are a parry god.

[karol.pcgaming]

The funny thing is I got him to 1 hp on my 3rd try and now I am probably past 50 tries and I just can't ;/

[Lynfinity]

Originally posted by karol.pcgaming:

The funny thing is I got him to 1 hp on my 3rd try and now I am probably past 50 tries and I just can't ;/

Classic Souls moment. Do well on your first couple of tries (or on your first try), never achieve the same results for the next 20+ tries.

[karol.pcgaming]

Got tired of this boss. I bought a friendship wishstone and some throwables. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I will revisit him on the next playthrough :)

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

just tank it, the guy hits like a goldfish. step 1: hold l1, step 2: finish the job.

[MMB]

A Heavy weapons armoured charge attack can hit him out of this phase at the cost of 3 bars or just try circling him while running.

[Baron01]

I'm just freshly out of nearly 3 hour-long session attempting to kill Puppet King, who turn into Romeo in phase 2 of the fight so I have a lot of ideas, mostly angry thoughts. I literally killed him on my last try tonight.

1. You can definitely run away from him for half of the time. I have invested 10 or so points into Stamina so I could run for quite a while. You will have to guard and dodge last few hits, probably 3 or so.
2. Break his sword by perfect guarding. Once his weapon is broken, the encounter becomes must easier and his flame imbued phase is less painful. Watch out for Fury attacks, those still hurts even with broken weapon.
3. Make sure you equip best fire resistance gear.
4. Use Greatsword handle for its Fable art that guarantees perfect guard. This combined with running away early should mitigate most of his attacks during this flame imbued phase.