Questions about [spoiler]Ji[/spoiler]

[Skater901]

I'm just starting to fight him, but I've got a few questions.

Firstly, is there any point bouncing on one of his three spheres when he's spinning them around him? I tried waiting, and it seems like after a short time, he just picks one of the three spheres and uses it. Since they spin so fast that I can't even see which is which, it feels like bouncing on a sphere is just as random as waiting for him to randomly pick one. So is there any reason to bounce on a sphere apart from getting a Qi charge?

Secondly, what do you do about the black hole???? There seems to be no counter to it; it just constantly sucks me in, and makes it hard to parry the knives he throws at me, plus it does big damage to me if I end up in the black hole. Whenever he pulls out the black hole, it seems like 50/50 odds that I'm just gonna die cause I can't stop the black hole and I can't escape from it.

[Scorpix]

1. One of sphere is a bottle with hp or arrow energy. It is the one you should aim.

2. the only counter is to run away and parry knives. It requires a bit of training but it isnt so hard

[Skater901]

Originally posted by Scorpix:

1. One of sphere is a bottle with hp or arrow energy. It is the one you should aim.

How do you even pick which one to aim, though? They spin so fast, I can't see what any of them are. Do you have to try to identify it before they start spinning, then bounce on it immediately when they start spinning?

[Scorpix]

Originally posted by Skater901:

Originally posted by Scorpix:

1. One of sphere is a bottle with hp or arrow energy. It is the one you should aim.

How do you even pick which one to aim, though? They spin so fast, I can't see what any of them are. Do you have to try to identify it before they start spinning, then bounce on it immediately when they start spinning?

Yeah. Check fast which it is and time your jump. It requires some training but after some time i was able to get bottle almost all of the time

[Eishern]

Maybe you already know this and have taken it into account, but parrying while midair works in all directions. So try to jump when he is throwing knives at you during the black hole, that way you dont have to care in which direction you're looking / moving.

[Seisachtheia]

You should absolutely jump on one of the spheres even if you don't know what you'll get, they're all beneficial plus not only do you get a qi charge you get an opportunity to deal damage. You can hit him 3 or 4 times for free or get a charged hit in.

For the black hole you literally just want to run away from it and keep jumping most of the danger in the fight comes from the knives and being in the air allows you to "all direction parry" no matter how many knives he throws at you. Also, don't look at the black hole look at everything else on screen, it never moves once he puts it there and it doesn't do anything else so use your energy paying attention to where the knives and energy rings are.

[Skater901]

Originally posted by Eishern:

Maybe you already know this and have taken it into account, but parrying while midair works in all directions. So try to jump when he is throwing knives at you during the black hole, that way you dont have to care in which direction you're looking / moving.

Dude I totally forgot about the "all direction midair parry" thing. :/ I already beat him, but thanks for the tip! Though imo, that's kinda cheesy that you can "any direction" parry while in the air... oh well. I shall exploit the cheese!

[Leif]

You can also jump up and hit the boss with an arrow to interrupt the whole black hole thing, thats how i did it:) pretty essential for the start of phase 2 imo.

[林博仁(Buo-ren Lin)]

Originally posted by Skater901:

Though imo, that's kinda cheesy that you can "any direction" parry while in the air...

Well Yi does turn around 360 degrees when doing the Tai-chi Kick so I guess that's acceptible.

[loki]

I can see the sphere when it starts, but if you find it difficult, you could fire an arrow, it would slow the time.

[Amrehlu]

Btw, you don't need to parry the knives at all. During the black hole, they travel in preset lines, they aren't tracking you. You can very easily just hop over them on their way out and then on their way in and it is impossible to end up inside the blackhole unless you aren't sprinting. In other parts of the fight, they track you a bit, but not during the blackhole from the orb stop.

It is as simple as hold Shift, jump over knife going out, jump over knife coming back. And as someone else said, use you arrows to interrupt the attacks you don't like the most, like the blackhole if it causes you trouble. The arrows aren't for damage, outside of finishing an enemy off when they're on the other side of the screen. The arrows are most useful when canceling enemy actions or stun locking enemies by doing stuff like;
Arrow > 1-3 hits > Talisman > Arrow > 1-3 hits > Talisman > repeat until out of resources or enemy escapes.

[Kriya Takagi]

When you realize "find the ball in the cup" skill becomes of use xp. I have been training all my life for this moment