How are you supposed to defeat the Eagle?

[0235]

Its now been 15 minutes of this boss fight, so far i haven't died, and i just keep hitting her again and again, constantly breaking her defence, sometimes giver her the ol's LB+RB power attack. She just won't die.

What Am i missing. my allies are just running around maybe attacking her every now and then, am i supposed to drop something on her?

[nfnntnntnntfn.srvr]

sarugami armor-mizu-no-kami charm

I was trying to evade her attacks although I play on lethal and I started DLC right when it was possible

SUCCESS!!!

you can check my screenshot confirming that I succeeded

[Tsunero]

I figured her out pretty fast but her ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mechanic really got on my nerves.

So she has 2 phases.

The simple way to deal with her is to bait her long thrust dagger attack which is extremely easy to parry, just takes patience. I just dodged / ignored all of her other attacks and just run away when she brings out her poop shovel spear thing.

Once she pulls you into a spirit vision at half her HP that's where her BS mechanic starts.

Doesn't matter if you made it to this point with 0 damage taken and full resolve, this vision will drain your resolve to 0.

If you make just 1 tiny mistake, you can start all over again.

If you manage to get through this, you get a cutscene and the fight will resume, now with a save point.

Rinse and repeat of the first part until she is dead.

Got her in Lethal in just 2 days, I went with maxed Ronin armor and nearly maxed katana at her with some Mizu no Kami and dmg charms.

[Witcher]

I beat her using Sarugami first on PS4, then Gosaku 2nd time on PC.

You need to switch stance when she changes weapon on you, and note her unblockable combo attacks.

[Diomedes]

.. Played on hard, and under geared, due to starting it up right into act 2... Took me maybe 20 tries.. You just learn and adapt, in understanding her attack patterns. You can also just abandon the quest and wait awhile until you upgrade your gear and charms more.

[PhantomSoul]

I've instantly beaten her. I used the sarugami armor though so maybe you could try that? Fully upgraded its super easy to avoid ther attacks and give her instant regret by slapping her back to where she belongs. In the kitchen. #jk

[Tsunero]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Witcher:

I beat her using Sarugami first on PS4, then Gosaku 2nd time on PC.

You need to switch stance when she changes weapon on you, and note her unblockable combo attacks.

I really hate the stance dancing so I just went with Stone for everything. lol

[Fungi]

The Eagle boss fight is a special case of frame skipping speed attacks = harder
In reality she can be a hard boss fight if you're not good at timings and reading attack patterns.

People that say 'skill issue' or anything like that are either idiots or cheesed the entire fight.
It's a buggy mess as some of her attack followups are just simply not able to be dodged nor parried. So the first thing you'll need to make sure to do is NOT GET HIT.

Secondly, keep your distance to bait out her more reasonable lunges and perfect parry her this will allow you to get like one to two hits in freely and even more if you're good at stance switching.

To add onto why I say her fight is just generally cheesy for no reason, take a look at her Animation speed.
In game it's roughly 30% faster than any other boss, Shimura for example can be a hard boss fight if you're not good. Her difficulty is just based on ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
Dev's failed to deliver something that really memorable from that fight other than the relief of actually finishing her off.

As a character I didn't connect with her at all and quite frankly forgot all about her post-fight.

[Alexoferith]

As you can see from others' comments, you need to have the two armour sets, especially the sarugami set with the charm.

1. you need to learn her moves so you can adopt tactics accordingly and most importantly, learn how to perfect parry her attack. There are plenty of youtube videos showing her possible moves. When you have the sarugami set on (normal parry is disabled!!!), you can follow up with 3 attacks. What I have found is that if you have learned Heavenly Strike. You can totally mess her up within a minute!

2. She has, well, I call it 3 phases. First phase, this is where you have to hurt her and deplete her HP by 50%. 2nd phase, you cannot really do much here but to avoid her attacks or rather learn not to lose all your HP. This phase seems to have a time limit. I have never time it but it feels like around 2 minutes max.

3. When this time reached, you will move onto the 3rd phase and what's more, even you have only 1 HP left, you will get your HP back when 3rd phase comes!!!

All these work in Lethal + mode. Hope this help. Good luck and have fun :)