Tips for Pure Vessel

[bobime, dorime, demomium]

This boss is alright. I can easily avoid most of his attacks. However, that specific one where he slashes his sword three times... I have great trouble with that one.

Do you have any tips to fight the Pure Vessel?

King regards.

I already beat the boss long ago, though I am leaving this open so that other people can get tips.

[Nibbie]

Jump.

Both his dash and three swipe attacks can be avoided by one big jump, and you can pogo off of him at least once to get some damage in too. Due to how quick his attacks are, I usually just jump more or less as soon as he appears on the ground, as there isn't a ground based attack that punishes jumping outside of the dagger spray, which you can dash through.

[RocketPotatoL62]

Originally posted by Sonic_RocketPotatoL62:

This was my charm loadout: Strength/Mark of Pride/Quickslash/Steady body

the biggest part of the fight is recognizing his tells to know which attack he's going to use, so you can act accordingly. He's fast.

Don't try to stay in the air too long or be offensive, you want to counter/dodge everything he does (like NKG)

If he does the lunge, pogo on his head and hit him again on the back as you land.

If he does the tripple slash combo, pogo on his head as much as you can safely.

If he parries you, your only safe option is to shadow dash through him to avoid the slash.

If he does the pocket dagger attack, do a quick hop and shadow dash through the projectiles. The furthest you are from the attack, the easier it is to dodge. I prefer staying at the center for this attack since I'll already see what his next attack is soon enough.

If he jumps into the air and does the downward smash, you're going to want to be very close to his face so you can hit him a ton of times with steady body/quickslash. If you mess up the timing, go to the nearest gap for a dodge then hit pure vessel 1-3 times at the end of the attack. (If you master doing this, you'll be able to beat PV much more consistently since it takes a lot of health off of him)

If he does the focus attack, dash away, avoid the orbs, and unload a few magic projectiles on him. 1-2 is safe, but unload 3 once you feel confident he's not going to counter you asap. It's easy to get caught in his next attack after the focus.

His void attack is a tricky one, since it can often be mistaken for other attacks. Be careful about the tell and try to pogo off his head and quickslash his back a couple of times.

With all this in mind, you'll be able to save your lifeblood from the bindings in pantheon 5 for the real challenge at the end.

tl:dr for the tripple slash specifically, you have two main options to dodge it.

A. you jump up and go for a pogo, chances are you'll parry that slash and get a hit in to boot.

B. shadow dash through him

imo the first option is significantly safer if you can pull it off.

[bobime, dorime, demomium]

Hey guys. Thanks a lot. I managed to defeat them.

It turns out that the most crucial aspects of the fight are as you said are the pogo part which must be done carefully as well as patience. I think I was being a lit more aggressive than what I should yesterday.

[Boksha]

You might have been too aggressive, but you still need to be pretty aggressive to make this fight doable. My first mistake when trying to fight him was trying to play it slow and dodge all his attacks after they're initiated, but if you keep attacking him it makes the rhythm of jumping and pogoing a bit easier if anything.

[bobime, dorime, demomium]

Originally posted by Boksha:

You might have been too aggressive, but you still need to be pretty aggressive to make this fight doable. My first mistake when trying to fight him was trying to play it slow and dodge all his attacks after they're initiated, but if you keep attacking him it makes the rhythm of jumping and pogoing a bit easier if anything.

Oh yes, I am aware that aggressiveness is required. Though I was being really aggressive.

[Nibbie]

Glad to hear you got through!

[itsabrody]

Don't jump.

Why does everyone jump so much?? I learnt his attacks by shadow dashing through him every single time. The only time I get stuck where the cool down is too long is when I accidently hit him in a parry. I only jump occasionally if he uses the void tendrils but other than that I only walk and dash. Just use quick slash, sharp shadow, mark of pride and strength. I every time I try jumping and down slashing I get hit.

It's an easy fight just shadow dash 4Head

[Doctor Fetus]

Originally posted by itsabrody:

Don't jump.

Why does everyone jump so much?? I learnt his attacks by shadow dashing through him every single time. The only time I get stuck where the cool down is too long is when I accidently hit him in a parry. I only jump occasionally if he uses the void tendrils but other than that I only walk and dash. Just use quick slash, sharp shadow, mark of pride and strength. I every time I try jumping and down slashing I get hit.

It's an easy fight just shadow dash 4Head

If you shadow dash through any of his attacks than come closer and try to hit him and he uses a triple slash on you as his second attacks (he REALLY likes to do that) you are screwed.

If you jump over him, than try to hit him and he does a triple slash you just shadow dash through him and you are fine.

I think that is the reason why everyone jumps.

Also if you use sharp shadow on him and he gets staggered you Will take unavoidable damage and lose a heal opportunity so it is three masks lost. Using sharp shadow against him is very risky and I personally dont recommend it.

[✯ El Juancho]

jump or dark dash

[Leoscar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo4ynQL3dks

[itsabrody]

Originally posted by Doctor Fetus:

Originally posted by itsabrody:

Don't jump.

Why does everyone jump so much?? I learnt his attacks by shadow dashing through him every single time. The only time I get stuck where the cool down is too long is when I accidently hit him in a parry. I only jump occasionally if he uses the void tendrils but other than that I only walk and dash. Just use quick slash, sharp shadow, mark of pride and strength. I every time I try jumping and down slashing I get hit.

It's an easy fight just shadow dash 4Head

If you shadow dash through any of his attacks than come closer and try to hit him and he uses a triple slash on you as his second attacks (he REALLY likes to do that) you are screwed.

If you jump over him, than try to hit him and he does a triple slash you just shadow dash through him and you are fine.

I think that is the reason why everyone jumps.

Also if you use sharp shadow on him and he gets staggered you Will take unavoidable damage and lose a heal opportunity so it is three masks lost. Using sharp shadow against him is very risky and I personally dont recommend it.

idk I learnt him that way and it stuck and I barely get hit doing it so it clearly does work to some extent or there's the fact that I could just be getting insanely lucky every single time I verse him and never get a triple slash after a dash attack (which you even added how he uses it very frequently) so I doubt I'm getting lucky. I only recall getting hit when he staggers once where I dashed super early on accident and flew right into his face because I'm bad like that. All it takes is simple timings and a bit of practise and it becomes a much easier strat then all the confusing jumping but that's just my opinion!

[FlappyPants]

Originally posted by itsabrody:

Originally posted by Doctor Fetus:

If you shadow dash through any of his attacks than come closer and try to hit him and he uses a triple slash on you as his second attacks (he REALLY likes to do that) you are screwed.

If you jump over him, than try to hit him and he does a triple slash you just shadow dash through him and you are fine.

I think that is the reason why everyone jumps.

Also if you use sharp shadow on him and he gets staggered you Will take unavoidable damage and lose a heal opportunity so it is three masks lost. Using sharp shadow against him is very risky and I personally dont recommend it.

idk I learnt him that way and it stuck and I barely get hit doing it so it clearly does work to some extent or there's the fact that I could just be getting insanely lucky every single time I verse him and never get a triple slash after a dash attack (which you even added how he uses it very frequently) so I doubt I'm getting lucky. I only recall getting hit when he staggers once where I dashed super early on accident and flew right into his face because I'm bad like that. All it takes is simple timings and a bit of practise and it becomes a much easier strat then all the confusing jumping but that's just my opinion!

Jumping is life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACOUL6CU0Bs