King of Puppets boss fight

[Shio]

Anyone got some good adivce? Hitting a brick wall there right now.
First phase is alright unless I hit a bad seed. So I'm going into 2nd phase with 3-4 vials.

But 2nd phase I never get much hits in. I'm playing with the sawblade (which is a bit slow jeah, but worked so far...)

[Sighborg]

I just went super aggressive - threw a ton of electric vials at him, had a spectre for distraction, used fable attacks and tried to stagger ASAP.

I used the Electric Coil Stick - he seems weak to lightning so it helped. Also decent stagger.

[Endex]

I found Aegis to be VERY strong in the second phase. Pair that with an electric weapon, practice the moveset a bit and you should be good (hopefully)

[Shio]

Jeah, electric was also pretty good against the king. Hm maybe its time for the stick again.

[DoNotDisturb]

On Romeo electrical dmg do ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Overall this boss fight is big pile of ♥♥♥♥. Specter do nothing just die easily after second sub phase of robot and if he survives his is just annihilated by Romeo, in few seconds. Only chance is perfect block, but Romeo doing different combination of his combo. Sorry but how I can learn something when is always different. Devs knew why this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ boss after 2 hour mark. ♥♥♥♥ this boss.

[plump pickle]

Dodge the 2nd phase. He never hit me on my run when I just dodged to his left (so forward right).

[Nana]

Some tips for 2nd phase:

1. Always try circling around him, alot of his attacks will miss if you're constantly moving to his sides which will create more opportunities to get some hits in.
2. Your best time to strike is right after he misses his unblockable attack (the one where he lifts himself up on his scythe) or the scythe pull where his eye flashes red before doing the move, you can space yourself just out of range of either of these attacks and charge up a heavy attack while he's swinging at air.
3. When he lights his weapon on fire ready to charge at you with the 10-hit combo, try to run away as far as possible and keep dodging to his left side, if you can successfully keep moving to his side or back during this flurry, you can avoid most of the hits, you might still have to parry one or two swings towards the end if he manages to catch up to you.

Hope that helps, good luck!

[Dogtooth]

get the cube wishstone that restores specter hp, and use electric bombs

[nu]

I had a lot of trouble with Romeo as well. What I did is I stopped trying to block and focus on dodging. He will whiff and give you a lot of time to attack. Apply electricty to your weapon and go ham on him. Just watch out for his second phase (when he applies fire), he may do an insane string of attacks that will one shot you.

[Shio]

Thanks for the good tips guys. Rare thing to see so much helpful stuff on this board. Btw I'm playing without the spectre, so this fight is maybe a bit different for me :D

[Insanity Factor]

This boss is definitely a bit of a wall. It's probably gonna take me 100+ tries of just bashing my head at the aforementioned wall, and then sleeping over it to maybe beat him :D It's a bit disheartening when these 2-phase bosses have big meaty HP bar even in the first phase, I've always hated having to whittle down the health all over again when I inevitably fail.

Oh well, time to get back to trying to git gud, or just ragequitting xD

[Aldroen]

Dont bother paring his attack and just go dodge and slap him one hit at a time whenever you get a chance. Once he starts charging up for his third stage where he goes all berserk you can cheese it by throwing those electric bombs which should nearly kill him.

[The Rank Below Bronze]

i went in with the shield legion arm and saved it for the second phase. just block attacked my way through the second phase on my first try. it was stupid easy

[Insanity Factor]

Well, eff me I suppose, I think it was 6-8th attempt or so, and I got the bastard's 2nd form down. Literally just spamming "double-dodge right" (he did his damn fire ignition supercombo twice, second time I actually tried timing the dodges and it worked, not a single hit from the combo) and get in one swipe with the extended sword of the ark. It was definitely a fight of attrition. Oh, the "can dodge while out of stamina" amulet came in REAL handy in that fight too...

[Shio]

just beat him without a specter and 5 vials. Took me probably 2 hours or even more, idk anymore. But not trying to parry him is just the right tip to that fight. just dodge or run away and wait. He has so many openings if you just stay away. Most of the time he just attacks 2 times and is open even for one slow 2handed attack. The jump and the weird acrobatics attack when he stands on his sword also leave him open enough to land a full charged heavy (from the glaive hilt).

Funnily, you all talk about a him charging or making a huge flurry of attacks didnt even happen to me. At around 60-70% I just landed a full heavy into a fatal attack followed by a heavy that put him in under 30%. Boy melted so fast it was funny.

[Homeless.]

Aegis and dodging for second phase, kept blocking the first one and using charge attacks, took a while