I'm so stuck on Lady Ethereal

[oldFungus]

I've been fighting with her for more than three hours now but gained few progress, I just lost almost all my medicine pipes during second phase because I'm too busy trying to identify the real one to dodge or parry... I can barely get to third phase but once I get there, I'll be instantly killed by that floor-bombing skill. Can anyone please tell me is there anything I miss that potentially makes the fight easier?

FYI: I'm using the water-flow, with the jade that allows me to recover my internal damage through attacking.

[kukukachu]

instead of trying to hit every enemy, just focus on the parrying. When you get more comfortable at the parry, then learn to attack afterwards. As for the bomb attack, you just gotta parry off the two under her and then dash either left or right. The floor will break and before you hit the ground, you have some time to do major damage to her with the chi attack and slashes.

[bogo]

learn her move set, it stays the same throughout the 3 phases, then focus on parrying. for identifying her on second phase, once you get comfortable with parrying you can test each of them by hitting them once. If its real then you can put a bomb on her and stun her.

[Shiro]

There are several threads about this fight already, with comments that have the advice... but ok will try to help once more:
- In phase 2, focus on defending. Don't try to "identify" all – just stay safe and attack clones whenever you got free time, some of them will be real. You try to simply outlast her.
- In phase 3, floor bomb is not hard. Parry her clones twice, then dodge out of red ball. While falling down, you have some time to attack and talisman her.
- Jades wise, yours is good, and you can add "some of damage taken is internal" and "extra life". Faster pipe heeling is not necessary here.
- Yes that's total 7 jade slots; I also had 6-7 pipe charges by this fight. If you don't have that much yet, go look for secrets/items while farming some gold.
- Water flow is good, even better if upgraded. Tho I was told upgraded Full control is even better here (5 qi damage is great and you only have time window for 1 talisman application anyway).

Hope this helps!

[stevo]

It's basically all about learning the entire movesets. Which is why multiphase boss fights are garbage. Shame, cause the final phase is really well made. Such a shame you waste hours just getting there to learn it.

[Shiro]

Originally posted by stevo:

It's basically all about learning the entire movesets. Which is why multiphase boss fights are garbage. Shame, cause the final phase is really well made. Such a shame you waste hours just getting there to learn it.

Entire phase 2 moveset can be seen in phase 1 lol. In fact it's the same in phase 3 save for floor bomb attack. All you have to get used to is defending against several such attacks in a row.

[silph]

If you want to try a different strategy:

Equip the Focus jade (use 1 qi charge to make your charged attack bigger) and the Harness jade (the 1-slot jade that makes it so when you parry, if you're charging, you get fully charged right away).

Lady gets stunned whenever you charge attack her and this gives you a big window to do damage.

Also I think water flow is great for a lot of bosses but there's actually a lot of time to charge talisman with her. I just used qi charge because I never got used to full control timing. when you stun her just slash 4 times in the air and talisman.

I tend to hop and parry so I'm covered in all directions and it works well in this fight. Start charging before she comes at you, hop and parry and get some air, release the charge attack and if it's the real one she's stunned. If not just do it again. Just dash around the red attacks. Don't try to hit every single clone, if you miss an opportunity just stay chill. Check them when you're feeling safe.

In phase 3 bomb attack just what the previous person side. I also hop and air-parry so I don't even need to bother paying attention to which side comes at me first. So hop and parry, parry, dash and then fall back to hit her in the air with a charge attack/some slashes/talisman.