Difficulty rating of slave knight Gael?

[Sabaithal]

My impression of this fight is a bit skewed simply because I have fought him so many times I can solo a ng+9 version of him without difficulty. Still, his attack patterns, while fairly easy to see, always keep me on my toes even when I never get hit. It seems his attacks are a pretty good balance as far as telegraph:attack goes. He has three phases, and each one requires a different strategy to combat effectively. My opinion is that phase 1 is the hardest, phase 2 is the easiest, and phase 3 is somewhere in the middle.

I'm curious, whats the community rating of this boss? Do you find him easy or extremely challenging? Are his attacks fair or are the bullsh#t? Also do you think this guy is an appropriate "true final boss" of the game, and who is effectively the primary vessel of the Dark Soul?

[Sabaithal]

She gives more difficulty than friede. Mostly because dodging just does not seem to work with her. Half her attack combos will hit you before you have even finished the rolling animation, and most of her attacks have a 360 arc, making rolling behind her extremely risky. The only strategy that has worked was waiting for a particularly predictable pattern until the end (evading the thing outright) then bonking her in the face once before running off an repeating. It works, but it is not fun.

[Taco Cat]

引用自 Sabaithal：

She gives more difficulty than friede. Mostly because dodging just does not seem to work with her. Half her attack combos will hit you before you have even finished the rolling animation, and most of her attacks have a 360 arc, making rolling behind her extremely risky. The only strategy that has worked was waiting for a particularly predictable pattern until the end (evading the thing outright) then bonking her in the face once before running off an repeating. It works, but it is not fun.

This may help, though Game Theory isn't all that great anymore.
https://youtu.be/9ZmAiyPRGqE

[Pyro Penguin]

引用自 Sir Pike：

引用自 Sabaithal：

Agreed, Friede is probably the most difficult boss, but like most staggerable enemies, smart use of the Farron greatsword will still mess her up.

If you have a weapon that can knock her down or stunlock her, easy win. I did a chaos dagger + hornet ring run on her and it was actually pretty da.mn easy.

yeah i just spam heavy attacks on her with lothric knight greatsword, if your timing is good then she cant even get back up before you knock her down again

[Xengre]

Very good boss design (I would argue the best in the game in fact) and not to challenging.