Stance damage bar

[CAPTAAAAAAIN]

We have it on Sekiro, why not in Nightreing? Sometimes I feel the bell hunter has it infinite

Edit: Im stupid AF I forgot to mention im talking about a visible bar, sorry everyone e.e

[Julez]

Bell bearing definitely has stance. He occasionally gets on his knees to get a breather after downing you for the 5th time.

[huh]

BBH has no light stagger animation, just the normal one that you can riposte (when I'm not mistaken).
Thats why it seems like he never gets staggered.

[CAPTAAAAAAIN]

He can even tank wylder charged ult D:

[MBOmnis]

Stance damage does exist. You can test this at the dummy with Executor's Suncatcher. Do not attack and only deflect its hits. You'll see it get staggered from your deflects alone.

The problem with BBH is what "huh" mentioned. He doesn't have a "light stagger" animation (where he gets simply interrupted but does not fall to a knee to allow a Critical Hit), so you never get to this "middle point".

[CAPTAAAAAAIN]

Originally posted by MBOmnis:

Stance damage does exist. You can test this at the dummy with Executor's Suncatcher. Do not attack and only deflect its hits. You'll see it get staggered from your deflects alone.

The problem with BBH is what "huh" mentioned. He doesn't have a "light stagger" animation (where he gets simply interrupted but does not fall to a knee to allow a Critical Hit), so you never get to this "middle point".

nono, im talking about a bar like in sekiro, something like but smaller

[MBOmnis]

The bar exists, it's just not visible to us. I don't think FromSoft would add such a thing here.

[palacentes]

he has stance... since he has a weirdly fearsome rep in this game, maybe your team mates were not attacking/ being passive. So it feels like he has a lot more.

His stance health is nothing special. A run of the mill 80 which most soft or medium bosses share.

Flinching to Wylder's ult isnt stance break. Its different flinch mechanic. This guy doesnt flinch, but you can just stance break him properly.

[Gwenolric]

Depth 3 you stance break him in average of 2 to 3 which is why if you are playing normal Nightreign, and have a lot of status and not a lot of stagger damage, you could kill him without even seeing take a knee. Added to that the fact that newb more often than not take a very long time to kill him since you constantly either revive or respawn, you could have him reduce his current stagger bar by quite a lot.
And as "huh" said, if you have an Ironeye, when the mark pop for 95% of the Boss it will trigger either a mini-stagger where they flinch and it cancel the attack or a full stagger when they go down. BBH does not mini-stagger, either you kill him or make him kneel or you die, you can't Wylder Ult Cancel a big attack or anything.

[Felix]

Literally every souls game has stance damage on most enemies.
It's only a separate bar in Sekiro because parrying and stance breaks are a core part of combat