Traitor lord, HELP.

[jackzamora]

I just got to traitor lord and I'm struggling hard, anyone have charm suggestions, or tips?

Update: Beat traitor Lord, and got an Awoken Dream nail, and the Pure nail, Thank you all for your help!

[Noborus]

Shadow dash through him, both of his most frequent attacks can easily be dodged by simply dashing through them, you just need to get the timing down. Stay close to him, otherwise he might try to through disks at you, or send shockwaves towards you.

[sugeno]

I'd use Shaman Stone, Spell Twister and Soul Eater. He just face tanks spells so easily. When he does dash, you can shadow dash through him, or you can get like 3 swings and a descending dark. When he does his jump lunge, you can follow him in the air, or dash out of range. With his spinny scythes, you can simply dash if he caught you, or find the safe spot and spam Shade Souls at him. If you get caught with his ceiling high beams, you can descending dark and since it has iframes you wont get hit. If you dont have a lot of these charms/abilities, Shaman Stone is bought from Salubra, Soul Eater is in the Resting Grounds with the bandage boys, Spell Twister is right by Soul Master's arena, Shade Soul requires you buy elegant key and go by where Cornifer was in City of Tears, and Descending Dark is in the lower part of Crystal Peak. Good Luck with Traitor Lord!

[roymaster45]

Seconding Coco's suggestion to stay close to him. Dodging his slash attacks is fairly simple compared to trying to dash through his shockwave or dodge the orange disks.

Pogoing off of him tends to be a pretty solid strategy so long as you time your jump properly when he does his downward slash attack.

Charm suggestions:
-Quick Focus and Shape of Unn (or at least one of those, since his speed makes healing windows fairly short)
-Nail/melee build: Unbreakable Strength, Mark of Pride
-Spell build: Shaman Stone, Spell Twister, Soul Catcher (Soul Eater is definitely nice, but it takes up a lot of notches and having Shaman Stone + Spell Twister already helps quite a bit with your damage-per-soul)

Spells are definitely a great help for this fight, and Descending Dark in particular tends to absolutely break a lot of the late-game bosses. Honestly, though, if you have a fully-upgraded nail (which is 100% possible by this point in the game), I think you should be able to get by with melee attacks and maybe 2 or 3 casts of D.Dark.

Good luck!

(EDIT: sorry, not sure why this comment got posted twice.)

[Brokenito]

just need to time the dark dashes thru him well , might die a couple times but will get very ez if u get the hang of it. The boss is literally a dash tutorial - every attack being easily dodgeable by dashing through it

[Leshiro]

I like using Sharp Shadow against him because you dash through him a lot so you deal a bunch of damage

[kanna]

Originally posted by Broken BS:

just need to time the dark dashes thru him well , might die a couple times but will get very ez if u get the hang of it. The boss is literally a dash tutorial - every attack being easily dodgeable by dashing through it

Glad to see you're getting the hang of the fight! You're right it makes a good Shadow Dash tutorial, but it can be done without ever dashing as well. Like with many bosses, once you get the hang of his attack rhythm, there are lots of ways to handle him.

[UnAware]

I feel like sharp shadow + dash master makes this fight really easy.
When you stay close to him, he'll really have only 3 attacks:

1) regular dash
-Just dash through him with sharp shadow

2) jump slash
-Honestly just stay still, he won't hit you unless you are far away

3) shockwaves
- either shadow dash ( a bit risky if he does another one ) or descending dark with the invisibility frames. Even mixing should work just fine

I usually just keep smacking him nonstop with keeping those 3 moves and answers to them in mind

[AlphaBunny]

you need 2 dash through him.

[BobEsponjaDrogado]

ashee

[dduynguyen152]

Sharp Shadow is good. And don't hit, just dash :)

[best_looking_baboon]

I also got stuck on this boss fight. I suggest fully upgrading your nail and getting the unbreakable health charm

[Glimmer]

You can also cheese him with Minion charms. Have any of the minion charms (more is better) Weavers, Grimmchild, Glowing Womb. Have Grubsong as well if using Womb so if you take damage, you have SOUL for your minions. Defenders Crest is also a choice with Womb to make your minions hurt more.

Just keep jumping around in the top right corner of the map, clinging to the wall. The only attack you need to dodge is the shockwave. (You may not even need to do this, if you have Hiveblood to recover 1 heart of damage and he doesn't spam shockwave. Additional heart charms also work). Let your minions do the work, just keep yourself tucked way as much as possible in the top right. Do little hops and keep clinging to the wall.

It's even easier with Cloth, as she does a little bit of damage as well, and will deal the killing blow. But you need to have rescued her from the Mawleks and Aspids. (The dark area where she's hiding beneath the ground from enemies, then pops up after you defeat them).