Final boss close ranged talisman has wonky "hitbox"

[TakeMyLunch]

If you're next to the boss when they do their talisman swipe it instantly completes and you get grabbed without the ability to aerial counter it. This is the only thing I'm currently struggling with in the fight and feels very unfair since she can do it at any point of her combo and since the boss zips to you on every attack you cannot control your distance from her resulting in this wonky hitbox happening often enough to whittle me down to dead throughout the fight.
Great fight otherwise but please look into this.

[Scorpix]

She never used her talisman attack close to me. Usually at mid range. You still can try to avoid attack with dash

[Spoutz]

I had a different problem with that attack, if I whiffed the aerial parry and landed behind her, I'd end up getting grabbed. Seems like the hitbox is misleading in general

[TakeMyLunch]

Originally posted by Scorpix:

She never used her talisman attack close to me. Usually at mid range. You still can try to avoid attack with dash

At close range a dash past her you still get hit and a dash away she has all the range of the attack left. A double jump sometimes works but you can still get clipped by it.

Originally posted by Spetz:

I had a different problem with that attack, if I whiffed the aerial parry and landed behind her, I'd end up getting grabbed. Seems like the hitbox is misleading in general

It seems to only check if she has crossed you. I've gotten hit by it way above her after a double jump.

Honestly this attack in general just has a lot of hitbox issues. The closer to it you are the worse it gets. She really should be hard-coded to dash away every time she uses it.

[Ventus]

Air parrying those talisman will ultimately net you more damage quicker, but I personally didn't find that it was worth the risk to attempt it. I just dashed away from them until she brought out her talisman ground pound attack (sometimes she doesn't and returns to sword slashing attacks instead). Took longer, but much safer.

[Skater901]

Originally posted by Spetz:

I had a different problem with that attack, if I whiffed the aerial parry and landed behind her, I'd end up getting grabbed. Seems like the hitbox is misleading in general

THIS. Quite a few times I jumped a bit too high and missed the Skull Kick on her, fell behind her, and still got grabbed and Talisman'd. That's one of my few complaints with Eigong; I'd like the devs to tighten up the hit boxes on her grab, so that you can't get grabbed when you're behind her while her hand is grabbing in front of her. Or maybe she's using Force Grab?