King of Puppets broke me.

[Clumsybeast]

I beat all 3 Dark Souls.. Elden Ring.. Blooorne.. Sekiro..
I beat Nameless King.. And i beat Malenia Blad of Miquella..
But this dude.. lol I give.. I been beating the whole game solo with no specter help..
And tried like over 20 times with this dude, but i just cant seem to beat his second phase.
So for the first time ever, i am gonna have to have a NPC help me. lol

[darryl]

lol!

[MostlyPanda]

once you figure out how utterly simple phase 2 is, you will regret using helper.
no real souls vet would rely on help.

thats for casuals.

I also have some "good" news. Puppet King is a childs play compared to the bosses that comes after.

Edit: If you beat Malenia and you struggle with Puppet King... just admit that you abused Mimic Tear in Elden Ring.

[Clumsybeast]

Originally posted by MostlyPanda:

once you figure out how utterly simple phase 2 is, you will regret using helper.
no real souls vet would rely on help.

thats for casuals.

I also have some "good" news. Puppet King is a childs play compared to the bosses that comes after.

Edit: If you beat Malenia and you struggle with Puppet King... just admit that you abused Mimic Tear in Elden Ring.

No mimic used. But his second phase is not easy, everyone i know who are Souls vets agrees he is super hard. I havent used the specter yet. Still deciding if i really want to.

[MostlyPanda]

Originally posted by Clumsyninja:

Originally posted by MostlyPanda:

once you figure out how utterly simple phase 2 is, you will regret using helper.
no real souls vet would rely on help.

thats for casuals.

I also have some "good" news. Puppet King is a childs play compared to the bosses that comes after.

Edit: If you beat Malenia and you struggle with Puppet King... just admit that you abused Mimic Tear in Elden Ring.

No mimic used. But his second phase is not easy, everyone i know who are Souls vets agrees he is super hard. I havent used the specter yet. Still deciding if i really want to.

then let me spoil you the tactic to make it easy.

Dodge towards him and get behind his back. This makes him stop his attack chain, and you can just chip away his health...

Again, Puppet King is easy. Took me 7 tries.

EDIT: your souls "vet" friends suck then.

[Clumsybeast]

Originally posted by MostlyPanda:

Originally posted by Clumsyninja:

No mimic used. But his second phase is not easy, everyone i know who are Souls vets agrees he is super hard. I havent used the specter yet. Still deciding if i really want to.

then let me spoil you the tactic to make it easy.

Dodge towards him and get behind his back. This makes him stop his attack chain, and you can just chip away his health...

Again, Puppet King is easy. Took me 7 tries.

EDIT: your souls "vet" friends suck then.

Dude you can look at my achievements and see i beat the games. lol (Well except Bloodborne which is one PS4. Looks at other comments, everyone is having trouble with the dude. lol All vets. Good for you tho.

[SteelaiRizel]

Originally posted by Clumsyninja:

Originally posted by MostlyPanda:

then let me spoil you the tactic to make it easy.

Dodge towards him and get behind his back. This makes him stop his attack chain, and you can just chip away his health...

Again, Puppet King is easy. Took me 7 tries.

EDIT: your souls "vet" friends suck then.

Dude you can look at my achievements and see i beat the games. lol (Well except Bloodborne which is one PS4. Looks at other comments, everyone is having trouble with the dude. lol All vets. Good for you tho.

No offense they kinda suck then. I beat him first try myself. With the tyrant murderer dagger. His second phase is easier than a lot of the fights from the souls games .

Dodge to the left or towards him, he will hardly ever hit you. Then just wail on him. He staggers a lot easier than his first phase.

But ya he is just a skill check. If he does his big flame combo just run away for half of it then dodge left for the rest of it.

There ya go, all the advice you need to beat him. He is not that difficult.

[Powercrank]

the boss fight is intentionally drawn out by giving the easy 1st phase a big health pool while making him run away & knocking you back the entire time. then phase 2 is another super easy joke until the end when he catches fire and kills you with his insane 10 string homing combo.
they literally designed the fight to be an easy waste of time until the end where it gimmicks you to death. it's a terrible boss.

[SteelaiRizel]

Originally posted by Powercrank:

the boss fight is intentionally drawn out by giving the easy 1st phase a big health pool while making him run away & knocking you back the entire time. then phase 2 is another super easy joke until the end when he catches fire and kills you with his insane 10 string homing combo.
they literally designed the fight to be an easy waste of time until the end where it gimmicks you to death. it's a terrible boss.

Ah yes that gimmick you can completely avoid without even remotely being touched and may not even happen if you keep aggressive and on him.

Oh dear.

[Clumsybeast]

I freaking beat him!!! Without using specter. lol I threw items at first phase, then second phase i found if you dodge left you avoid most of his attacks. Then when he did his flame attack i used the shield arm to block most of it, then dodge the rest. Then just repeated the left dodge until i beat him... God i was so scred when his health was so low.

Just wanted to try one more strategy, and managed to work. If it failed i might of used specter, idk.

[Clumsybeast]

Originally posted by SteelaiRizel:

Originally posted by Clumsyninja:

Dude you can look at my achievements and see i beat the games. lol (Well except Bloodborne which is one PS4. Looks at other comments, everyone is having trouble with the dude. lol All vets. Good for you tho.

No offense they kinda suck then. I beat him first try myself. With the tyrant murderer dagger. His second phase is easier than a lot of the fights from the souls games .

Dodge to the left or towards him, he will hardly ever hit you. Then just wail on him. He staggers a lot easier than his first phase.

But ya he is just a skill check. If he does his big flame combo just run away for half of it then dodge left for the rest of it.

There ya go, all the advice you need to beat him. He is not that difficult.

I dont believe you beat him on your first try at all. No way you can beat that unless you are lucky, or psychic and just know what he is going to do.

[SteelaiRizel]

Originally posted by Clumsyninja:

Originally posted by SteelaiRizel:

No offense they kinda suck then. I beat him first try myself. With the tyrant murderer dagger. His second phase is easier than a lot of the fights from the souls games .

Dodge to the left or towards him, he will hardly ever hit you. Then just wail on him. He staggers a lot easier than his first phase.

But ya he is just a skill check. If he does his big flame combo just run away for half of it then dodge left for the rest of it.

There ya go, all the advice you need to beat him. He is not that difficult.

I dont believe you beat him on your first try at all. No way you can beat that unless you are lucky, or psychic and just know what he is going to do.

Well i did. I destroyed his first phase with throwables, used them up, took a few hits and used half of my healing.

Then took on his second phase, activated my crit buff from my fable art and went to town.

It helps i rely on dodge far more than perfect block or block in general.

I always prepare for a boss. If i dont know who it is i just load up based on the area. And there was puppets all over so i figured electric then. And got lucky in that regard. His first phase is super weak to it.

[Jester]

First phase = parry
Second phase = dodge

[SteelaiRizel]

Mind you , the bishop killed me 24 times. Take that as you will.

[The Royal Pain]

Glad you beat him, but he is one of the more reasonable bosses in the scheme of all of them. The King form is just a giant mook in essence. I had more trouble with the Clown out front because the Clown had much jankier movement. In comparison, the king's swings felt kinda, slow?

When it came to Romeo, meanwhile, it felt like I was fighting a Stalker. I didn't even notice his flame puddles because I was already trying to avoid the background fires as it was, so any *more* fire just got put in the 'avoid this' bin. For a climax boss I'd say he's fantastic. Just another case of 'some people will call him a wall'. Again tho, kudos.

[Medina_Rico]

Good stuff, bro!

He was super hard for me, too. Took me around 2 hours worth of attempts to get him. These bosses have more than a couple of patterns and the timing is always something that takes a while to grasp a hold of (least for me).

When I beat him, I felt a little lucky because I didn't have his moves completely figured out, but I hit him enough to kill him because one of the sequences I did have the timing down for, he did a lot. He surprised me one time when I thought it was only a 4 hit move, and one time he threw a 5th swing in there, lol. I almost died at the end, too, because I tried to kill him with my Fable Art and he lived. Then he was on my azz.

It's crazy seeing and feeling how far you've come from the time you first encounter a boss, and the difference when you beat them.

If you want to see my winning run.
https://youtu.be/6LT3xEDH4v8?si=GJK-XndpoKno2sdr

Anyways. Good luck moving forward!