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Now that i look at it again those charms aren't optimal for fighting Radiance, i'd suggest going with Soul Catcher, Spell Twister, Shaman Stone and Mark of Pride.
When it’s doing it’s radial rays or radial spikes. It’s a good opportunity to do uo slashes while dodging those to build up soul and it’s why I like quick slash as it’s both damage and soul build up quickly. All soul use is for Abyss shriek when you can stand below the boss and am not forced to move. Don’t bother healing here,
Otherwise, you’re just dodging. Don’t bother chasing the boss much, if it’s over a spike pit, just go into dodge mode, I always found the horizontal spikes the hardest to dodge, to the point I sometimes tank it in exchange for doing shriek damage, with hive blood, the better you get at dodging, you effective get back your last health. And the grub charm gives you even more soul for abyss shriek spam.
Phase 2 has floating platforms, this might seem daunting but it’s an easier phase. Again, don’t go chasing, wait for him to come to you. During his three radial ray attacks, if you’re far enough away, you can free heal. This makes this stage of the fight go by swimmingly.
The final phase is more about just dodging so you will likely be fine and hopefully have some soul to heal up before the climb.
It is hard, and I did the same as you bang8ng my head against the wall. Don’t grind too much. If you’ve got other things in the game to do, do that as a break :) sometimes you need time for your brain to unwind between grinding a boss.
i cant say every combat tip, but i suggest you look at realya's video on it. it helped me a ton.
aside from that, play defense over offense and good luck!
Depending on your platforming abilities, you might want to tone down the health-related charms in favour of damage boosters/supports, and learn to dodge her attacks properly. As suggested above, there are videos (like Relyea's as mentioned above) that can help you learn her attacks so you know how to prepare your self in advance for each stage of the fight and not be scrambling at the last second. This fight is very structured even if it doesn't seem that way at first. Once you learn everything she can do and when it's likely to happen, it's easy.
To reduce the number of times you get hit, learn the attacks and learn to carefully hop around/over/through them as much as you can and save Shadow Dash only for a last resort. Shadow Dash should always be ready for the wall of light attack as much as possible. You can walk away from the wall of light to give it time to recharge but you're just setting yourself up to fall behind and get hit when another attack comes up.
Just like with Soul Master/Tyrant, you can dash under the light balls and let them disappear into the ground when you have room but to save your dash or if you just don't have the room because of floor spikes (which you can pogo by the way), I think I picked up this tip from Relyea back when I was learning: you can control the direction they move in by doing a *small* hop and then taking a few steps to the side of where you hopped so that the ball will track where you were and harmlessly hit the ground.
You REALLY want Quick Slash for this fight, since it doubles the damage you do per jump (two hits per jump instead of one) AND doubles the amount of soul you get per jump. Quick Slash beats out Fragile/Unbreakable Strength (which is only 1.5x damage instead of 2x, and no extra soul) by a ton for this fight.
Finally, since it wasn't already mentioned: for all phases, you want to stay as close to the center of the arena as feasible, only going a little to the left or right if the Radiance appears there (just ignore her entirely and focus on her attacks if she appears far to the left or right). If you're getting hit with multiple attacks at the same time, that means the attacks were coming from the far side of the arena and spent so much time to reach you that the next attack is already beginning. This doesn't happen at all if you stay near the center, and move towards incoming attacks when you see them to get through them as soon as possible. And actually on that note, you really just want to move as little as possible. Dodge homing orbs by side stepping (without jumping or dashing) if they appear above you, don't double-jump unless you really have to and you rarely have to use the dash. And most of all, stay near the center.
Until you're very experienced with the fight, you will take damage either way so it's good to learn how to prepare for and dodge each attack even if you do plan to try tanking through it. Tanking without even learning what you should expect to deal with during the fight will just make it take a little longer for you to die on two-mask damage bosses.
(Personally I feel it also seems not as fun to not believe in yourself and just resign yourself to getting hit a lot when you can learn not to, but we all enjoy the game in different ways after all.)
Of course, I'm not trying to tank radiance. I learned (I hope so) her attacks and trying dodge them (As Relyea said "defense before offense"). The problem is she's spamming them one by one, so there is almost no room for mistakes.
Actually, the only boss I tanked was the watcher knights, because 2 of them at the same time produce a bloody mess all around the arena.
That said, you can't truly tank this fight anyway unless you get very lucky. Since even with Deep Focus you need to land 3 hits before you can heal from taking damage once, you'll have to dodge most of what's coming at you, but at least getting hit a few times early on won't mean you're that much more likely to die later on in the fight, as is the case if you spend all your soul on attack spells. That peace of mind will help look at the attacks used against you more calmly, making it easier to pick up what you're doing, both wrong and right. Being able to stick around longer also helps with that; if you die constantly you'll be spending more time slapping the Hollow Knight and watching the Radiance's intro than actually fighting and learning.
About charms. I use Soul Catcher, Shaman Stone, Lifeblood Core and Unbreakable Strength.
Fair enough and you described that well - Radiance is spamming the attacks, but she's still technically spamming them one by one.
In the first 3 stages with the big platform, you have the advantage that you can spam right back at her a lot of the time (especially if you get used to the timing for sidestepping the swords and the light beams). In the 4th stage of the fight, the little platforms mean dodging requires more concentration but now you have the advantage that you can properly hit her with the down spell (which gives i-frames!) + you technically can use the whole screen to dodge if you're careful to listen for the light wall's sound queue as well as the sword wall's sound queue.
Also, Radiance does signal what moves she's doing but the signals are similar-looking and only give a moment's warning (like with Broken Vessel/Lost Kin) so it can take a while to be able to react to them quickly.
I get what you mean, but I was disappointed and unsatisfied when I had to beat BV and LK at first using Defender's Crest. I wanted to progress for the time being, but I knew I wanted going to learn to do those fights better, and I did. I'm not even a person who normally enjoys boss fights or cares that much about them, but somehow this game is different for me in that area.
I've got nothing against extra masks, especially when trying to get your first win or when doing shell binding in pantheons - I use Lifeblood Heart for those. I just thought having both Lifeblood Core and Joni's Blessing on was a bit much.
Nice! And a well-rounded charm combo too (for damage, soul gain, and extra life). You're probably just getting better at dodging too though. :P