what to do when you’re stuck at a boss

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i got stuck at the Kings Flame for about 1.5 hours today. i’m not super experienced with souls like, only played elden ring and sekiro in the past few years.

any advice on what to do when i hit a wall? i feel stupid just running back over and over. i eventually beat him without the specter help which felt good, but yeah.

any legitimate good advice is appreciated, i know i need to get good 🤭

[KoD]

Not much you can do except overgrind or learn the moves. And overgrinding feels pointless, as all stats reach their softcaps really soon and you cannot unlock moves or upgrade weapons ahead of the "planned" progress. Watch some guides, try to tweak your strategy and die, die, die again, until you finally succeed.
Good luck!

[TEAM SALTY]

You buy sekiro and play that first. This game isn't as easy as firstsoftware games.

[Shinkyi]

and im wondering when i will see harder bosses :c

[Scrundle]

Don't feel down about it, just keep at it. Importantly try not to get mad or frustrated when you die, instead ask yourself "WHY did I die, what did I do wrong?".

You can come to enjoy a powerful boss fight, even if you lose again and again, keep at it and I know none of the bosses in this game will defeat you permanently.

[Amene]

any legitimate good advice is appreciated, i know i need to get good 🤭

Honestly, 1.5 hours is not much recollecting some nastier adventures I had in some other games occasionally.

Other than that, when you hit some particular wall - record a bunch of attempts with OBS and analyze what you are doing wrong/misreading/mistiming/etc.

[JimbleSaurusRex]

you GIT GUD

[gtamike_TSGK]

Buy lots of throwables lol

[Cannonball]

Originally posted by TEAM SALTY:

You buy sekiro and play that first. This game isn't as easy as firstsoftware games.

Joke or not but Sekiro is really easy than the most of souls-likes because instant and non-stop parry/block + pause then you're in the menu/inventory.

[Miti]

Originally posted by Shinkyi:

and im wondering when i will see harder bosses :c

the first hard boss is in chapter 4 inside the cathedrale

[Pnume]

I've just reach the rabbits and I hate it.
This game is such a shameless fromsoft copycat that they even copied the bad thing like gank bosses

[Amene]

Originally posted by Cannonball:

Joke or not but Sekiro is really easy than the most of souls-likes because instant and non-stop parry/block + pause then you're in the menu/inventory.

No-charm starting with ng+ (sadly still only as an option) punish block pretty nicely.

[Phantom Limb]

Originally posted by Pnume:

I've just reach the rabbits and I hate it.
This game is such a shameless fromsoft copycat that they even copied the bad thing like gank bosses

And what exactly did you want? An easy mode?
I'd say that devs did a right choice of making the game as close to Dark Souls as possible. Because every other so-called souls-like games failed to deliver proper experience of enjoyable suffering. While this one managed to hit the right spot, it's sometimes even harder compared to madern Fromsoft titles like Elden Ring which is an achievement on its own.

[Pnume]

Originally posted by Amene:

Originally posted by Cannonball:

Joke or not but Sekiro is really easy than the most of souls-likes because instant and non-stop parry/block + pause then you're in the menu/inventory.

No-charm starting with ng+ (sadly still only as an option) punish block pretty nicely.

Still Sekiro is very forgiving of spamming the guard button repetitively.

Wo Long does punish that pretty brutally with a long delay after you press the parry button

[SteelaiRizel]

Originally posted by altruistic:

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i got stuck at the Kings Flame for about 1.5 hours today. i’m not super experienced with souls like, only played elden ring and sekiro in the past few years.

any advice on what to do when i hit a wall? i feel stupid just running back over and over. i eventually beat him without the specter help which felt good, but yeah.

any legitimate good advice is appreciated, i know i need to get good 🤭

Work on your perfect guards, timely dodges, and slamming in heavy attacks after patterns of moves.

As far as King's Flame, ill give you a hint. The space of the room is the answer. Play it in halves.

[Amene]

Originally posted by Pnume:

Still Sekiro is very forgiving of spamming the guard button repetitively.

Bosses will eat ~half of hp bar in Sekiro through block (if you do no-charm play). And trash enemies will eat significant portion of that. It really is a pity they didn't make that mode mandatory.