Stealing boss weapons

[VectorX]

I was wondering, is it possible to steal boss weapons with the Swordsman ability Rustling Leaves? So far after attempting 2 bosses it hasn't really worked for me no matter how many times I counter them. I know you can steal special swords from masked enemies so I'm curious about bosses.

[MemeLord]

No, bosses usually fall under the category of "Weapon Master" enemies, which basically means they can't be disarmed, they probably don't even have unarmed moveset built in.

[Velesianus]

Originally posted by MemeLord:

No, bosses usually fall under the category of "Weapon Master" enemies, which basically means they can't be disarmed, they probably don't even have unarmed moveset built in.

Aye, I'm not aware of any main story boss that has a recoverable weapon and I tried on all of them using double charged deadmans.

That said, there are quite a few unique weapons you can steal, they're just not from the BBEGs.

The very first thing I do on a fresh run is get the substory 4 gauntlets so I can block blades with gunman and the second thing is to sprint over to the trainer and grab deadman's hand.

I do this so I can then steal the elemental swords from random gold sneaks.

I figured out that, based off of a DPS meter, this is the best way to get an early poverty build at the start of the game which is quite useful for Legendary/Ishin runs.

[Napalmburner]

You can actually disarm Amon. Atleast you could in the OG version of the game, it was one of two ways to reduce his super-high defence so you could actually damage him.
The other way was to get him into his Wild Dancer phase. (I think)

As for disarming bosses? Nope. All it does is open em up to a couple of hits. Would've been neat if you could disarm them, though if that was the case you could probably cheese every boss with it.

Also why does it take so damn long to disarm a normal enemy with Swordsman Rustling Leaves?

[VectorX]

Thanks everyone! I figured you probably can't but wanted to make sure.