Which Sol gave you the most trouble (besides final boss)?

[11clock]

For me it was Jiequan. His attacks are ridiculously fast, and are thrown out constantly leaving you with no room to heal most of the time. His 3 hit combo was my biggest problem, because I could never tell for the third hit if he was going to do a normal or crimson stab until it was already too late.

[BurntSoyMilk]

Goumang. I was utterly disappointed that we had to fight those two random guys instead of her, so I lost any motivation to actually care about trying. Plus, multi-fights suck. By far, Her and Kanghui were the two hardest bosses for me.

[EldritchErin]

I found Jin to be a bit of an ass. But he was fun in the end once I became godlike at getting health potions from him.

[Dragoslove]

Originally posted by BurntSoyMilk:

Goumang. I was utterly disappointed that we had to fight those two random guys instead of her, so I lost any motivation to actually care about trying. Plus, multi-fights suck. By far, Her and Kanghui were the two hardest bosses for me.

That's funny. I found that fight super easy. I failed once or twice before I realized that you never want to take them down at the same time. You want to kill one, wail on her, then take out the other that you've gotten low and repeat.

[Black Husky]

Kanghui. The boss is not hard, I've seen many people do it swiftly without any damage taken. But the number of enemies that spawned, although they're all quite basic and easy to fight, can make this fight quite stressful for me. This boss on its own even stopped me from wanting to replay the game. On my second playthrough, when I got captured by Jiequan, I was like "oh I gonna fight Kanghui later" and I immediately lost the mood for playing this game. So I quit the game and never opened it again, that was 1 month ago, and I was planning to get all my achievements before I realized that Kanghui would be my worst enemy in my playthrough. Now I have 2 achievements left and can't complete them unless Red Candle decides to nerf Kanghui or I decide to conquer my worst fear and fight Kanghui.

[Black Husky]

My fighting style mainly focuses on parrying and Talisman, and with more enemies that attack at different times and patterns, focusing on all of them becomes hard. Goumang is fine because there are only two enemies that will attack me, and she only has 1 stage and not much health; the oldboy corridor (the part where you need to fight multiple enemies at the same time to escape from the Tianhuo research center, I don't know how to call it) was not a problem for me because that part is in the end game. I would have more and better skills at that time. Back to Kanghui, because so many enemies would swarm you, you need to kill them using the Charged Strike, or gather the enemies and use the Thunder Buster arrow to wipe them all out. Sometimes I can't charge my Charged Strike fast enough, sometimes I miss my arrow, and sometimes I run out of arrows because I relied on them too much. Many things can happen, and this fight stresses me out just by how many enemies will spawn in that short period.

[Black Husky]

TL;DR: Kanghui is hard, he's not strong or whatever, he's just too stressful to fight against, and there are too many enemies.

[Sir_Sam_Vimes]

Definitely Lady Ethereal, with Jiequan not far behind her.

[Surprise]

Originally posted by Dragoslove:

Originally posted by BurntSoyMilk:

Goumang. I was utterly disappointed that we had to fight those two random guys instead of her, so I lost any motivation to actually care about trying. Plus, multi-fights suck. By far, Her and Kanghui were the two hardest bosses for me.

That's funny. I found that fight super easy. I failed once or twice before I realized that you never want to take them down at the same time. You want to kill one, wail on her, then take out the other that you've gotten low and repeat.

i didn't had to do that, she did pop out from times to times and she took a lot of damage, i used my 3 arrows and she already lost half of her life

[Surprise]

Originally posted by Sir_Sam_Vimes:

Definitely Lady Ethereal, with Jiequan not far behind her.

I agree, i just finish Lady Ethereal she was a pain in her last phase

[Mr-Ace]

The Fengs (Fuxi & Nuwa) took me the longest besides the final boss. Which makes sense, they are really near the end of the game. It was the whole "slow guy is easy to dodge but hits hard, so even though he's slow the quick attacks (stage hazards, i.e. snakes) distract you & you get bodied" thing.
I actually didn't mind Lady Ethereal at all. Once I realized the real Lady Ethereal didn't have a shadowed face in the 3rd phase and I could just parry the clones until she showed up made it fairly straightforward. Charge slash for the win :)
All in all the bosses were great!

Edit: lol that's not what I said steam

[Roan]

Lady Ethereal.

Ended up being my favorite fight in the game after though, once I got the "dance" down. That third phase is insane.

[Dartu42]

Funnily enough its General Yingzhao who killed me the most besides eigong. He just hit really hard and i wasn’t used to the parrying or the tai chi kick, so It took a but before i finally got it. Set me up to think the other bosses would be much harder than they ended up being.

[Xaelon]

The one that took me the longest was Lady Ethereal. Her 3rd phase is really tricky.

The runner up would probably be...Goumang. I ended up fighting her first rather than General Yingzhou. It would have been nice to have the bow for that fight.

[leo_gear]

Originally posted by Black Husky:

My fighting style mainly focuses on parrying and Talisman, and with more enemies that attack at different times and patterns, focusing on all of them becomes hard. Goumang is fine because there are only two enemies that will attack me, and she only has 1 stage and not much health; the oldboy corridor (the part where you need to fight multiple enemies at the same time to escape from the Tianhuo research center, I don't know how to call it) was not a problem for me because that part is in the end game. I would have more and better skills at that time. Back to Kanghui, because so many enemies would swarm you, you need to kill them using the Charged Strike, or gather the enemies and use the Thunder Buster arrow to wipe them all out. Sometimes I can't charge my Charged Strike fast enough, sometimes I miss my arrow, and sometimes I run out of arrows because I relied on them too much. Many things can happen, and this fight stresses me out just by how many enemies will spawn in that short period.

I've been taking a long break from the game but eventually I'll come back for a 3rd playthru. Playing a parry talisman build would be fun to try. For this fight, I could see myself changing my build to a Water Flow + Mob Quell build just to see if that would work. Probably the easiest solution would be the fully upgraded Qi Blast to get multiple arrows after a talisman kill but then that's not really a parry talisman build...

My 2nd playthru was a Charged Strike build and Focus jade definitely made this doable with only charged strike. The more challenging part was parrying to stay still for Immovable jade. Found myself killing myself because I didn't just dash when I needed to.

[zebber]

Originally posted by Mr-Ace:

The Fengs (Fuxi & Nuwa) took me the longest besides the final boss. Which makes sense, they are really near the end of the game. It was the whole "slow guy is easy to dodge but hits hard, so even though he's slow the quick attacks (stage hazards, i.e. snakes) distract you & you get bodied" thing.
I actually didn't mind Lady Ethereal at all. Once I realized the real Lady Ethereal didn't have a shadowed face in the 3rd phase and I could just parry the clones until she showed up made it fairly straightforward. Charge slash for the win :)
All in all the bosses were great!

Edit: lol that's not what I said steam

That fight was probably the roughest for me, other than the final (which I still haven't beat - I've kind of let the game sit for a few weeks while I avoid the idea of failing a few dozen times against that boss).
The siblings almost felt like a taunt - Fuxi does NOTHING different in the second phase, with the first phase being a perfect introduction to everything he can do.
But the second phase introduces so much random noise that you can feel like a practiced pro during phase 1 and get stomped fast in phase 2.