Shiva fight in Initiation (Can't Combo?)

[Parboleum Loyce]

Whenever I either counter her or stun her then hit her, it cancels out of my combo, meaning it seems like flawless freeflow would be impossible which would make getting 100% on the dlc a lot harder without it

[Parboleum Loyce]

I think the problem is she has some inconsistencies with the martial artists on when you can actually attack her, which is really annoying, but it seems vaguely possible

[Arkham Obsessed]

It’s been a while since I did this one, but as I recall I was real careful to rack up combo’s before I faced her so the points for three trophies would already be in the bag (so to speak) before she even entered the fray.

[JonoAMano]

Arkham Obsessed is correct, get all 3 medals before the second round, that way you can cruise through the final boss fight.

If you're working on the The Flawless Display achievement, that unlocks when you battle Shiva and her minions inside Sheldon Park in the main game, not from inside the Seishinteki Kyoyo challenge map. You're going to lose combo anyway because the story fight is split into two sections; the criteria is not taking damage. It's Flawless Display, not Flawless Freeflow.

Batman and Deathstroke will lose combos with her in the Seishinteki Kyoyo map because of their brute force tactics. Only Bruce Wayne's moves are smooth and consistent with Shiva, but none of them count for the achievement.

If you haven't reached the Shiva part of the main story yet, copy your save so you can reload it in case you want to repeat the fight without replaying from the beginning of the game:
Steam \ userdata \ Steam User Number \ 209000 \ remote \ SpSave_v2_0.sgd

[Parboleum Loyce]

I ended up not managing to get all 15 trophies, and ran out of retries doing the challenge campaign. I wasn't going for Flawless Display I just thought "Hm, I keep getting more than close enough that flawless freeeflow would definitely be enough"

I was playing Bruce Wayne and I think my problem is that she's annoying because sometimes she awkwardly takes on properties from being treated as armoured when she needs to not. Like for example, when a martial arts master attacks you with a single counter move, you generally get to hit them and then they'll try to hit you but you can counter that too. This works on Shiva too, except the problem is it also stops your combo because it seems to count it like you just punched an armoured enemy.

I have to admit I don't really like the fact that instead of being something interesting she's just a weird combination of armoured and MAM which is quite annoying

[EbonHawk]

Originally posted by Pybromancer:

I ended up not managing to get all 15 trophies, and ran out of retries doing the challenge campaign. I wasn't going for Flawless Display I just thought "Hm, I keep getting more than close enough that flawless freeeflow would definitely be enough"

I was playing Bruce Wayne and I think my problem is that she's annoying because sometimes she awkwardly takes on properties from being treated as armoured when she needs to not. Like for example, when a martial arts master attacks you with a single counter move, you generally get to hit them and then they'll try to hit you but you can counter that too. This works on Shiva too, except the problem is it also stops your combo because it seems to count it like you just punched an armoured enemy.

I have to admit I don't really like the fact that instead of being something interesting she's just a weird combination of armoured and MAM which is quite annoying

MAM? Mom's Against Melee?

I have tried to find the meaning of that, but can't..

[JonoAMano]

Martial Arts Master?

[EbonHawk]

Aha, seems rather obvious now. Thanks.