how did you beat Date Shigezane (dlc boss) on NG+

[DJ]

I am over powered af, literally 99 on heart. Max out stamina and cant block a hit. I got one shotted so ♥♥♥♥ing much and I can't always bait the attack that the boss uses his right sword. Man the ♥♥♥♥ part is when he does the sideflip thing while he's doing an aoe attack. When he does that, either I dodge that♥♥♥♥♥♥or I am dead. I can't block dodge cuz all my stamina will be taken away and I will just die the ♥♥♥♥ out with any attacks of his follow-up. I am overlevel af, level 360 on a lvl270 mission. I can't even get him down to 70%. I knew almost all his attacks and I do believe I am capable of dodging♥♥♥♥♥♥ Is he strong af or am I bad af?

[DJ]

I tried play him close range. I dodged many many ♥♥♥♥♥ bro many many ♥♥♥♥♥, and get him down to like 80%. One ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up block dodge or dodge, I am dead. I tried to play him in range, he just killed me with one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ quick auto. I am at 4k hp, he murdered me with just one normal attack. I believe it did 3.2 k. Not the last attack, just the quick step one

[Pajonk]

Sloth from Onmyo magic and no bosses get a chance. :D

[DJ]

he just murdered me with 4027 damage in an auto, full ---> 0

[Iri]

Kite him in a big circle staying on the edge of his range, bait attacks, go in for quick punishes, never overcommmit, recoil-backdash after blocking anything and never block a second hit in succession. If you literally can't block a single hit without being guardbroken, you are probably using light armor and that does screw you up in this fight.

[Lumsey X]

Most annoying move would be his running sword slash countered by precise dash to left and can be punished by 2 sword hits. You can stay at far range to mid range which should help you from him to bait out his moves and punish. Close range not advised if you dont know his dodge and punish window.The double projectile throw he does and punished with 2 hits. Most effective would be hitting the centipede hand head area. Either get to his back asap or run away when he does his 6 hit centipede hand sword slash spam and come in for 4 hit sword punish. That ladder hand sky slash move has 2 variations. Lastly his grab is highly pubishable too with 4 hit window. Wait till you get to sparrow flies mission XD

[DJ]

There's literally no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way. Now I am running out of elixirs. Only 3 for this boss. I tried literally all the strat I can think of. I can punish him with his right sword attacks, that will be at least 4-5 hits. But that means, I have to stay near him and bait that attack. I can't bait that attack everytime, I tried standing left and right to him hoping that may the case to trigger the attack. I can tell you that definitely does not work. The stay in distance strat is a bit better, but only doing 1 or 2 attacks cant beat this tanky ♥♥♥♥♥♥. I can get punished to death if I mess up one of his bs attacks. The random spin attack or some bs attack. I am trying so hard, I even try to attack him right after he finishes doing his running sword slash. I literally dodged right into it just to get a hit off. I came to my conclusion I can't do this ♥♥♥♥. I will just ♥♥♥♥ him up with the slow. He one shotted

[SolusiRadikal]

My Rifle build literaly n0scope this guy in no time even on Wotd, ezpz

[DJ]

the left arm thing is bs. Sometimes the second follow up won't pop. It's not that easy to dodge that, cuz you have to be perfect on the timing dodging left then right. When you hold block and then quick step, the hitbox feels larger. I don't know if that's intended or not. However, it really makes it suck a lot more with this boss. It happens a lot that I thought I dodged, but the fact is I didn't. My stamina just goes from full to 0 and I am dead on his next attack. The close range strat man, it will only work if the boss stays in a pattern. If he decides to ♥♥♥♥ me up, he definitely will. I can't dodge perfectly on the left arm attack. That attack is bs. There's a second follow up ,and I don't know what triggers it. There's even a 3rd follow up which i call it butt-spin-tail-♥♥♥♥-you-up

[awanderingswordsman]

The boss is so simple. Do not fight him close range. Wait until he attacks and stay out of his range until the attack is finished. Run in and attack his centipede head from the edge of your range so you are not in his range. Back off. Repeat until dead. You will kick yourself when you realizes just how easy it is. Also when he throws swords at you dodge left, not right as the second one tracks to your right pretty hard.

[kingfiction96]

Sloth, Weakness, and Fire Talismans

[Lumsey X]

Butt spin tail 360 degree spinarooni merry go round get dumpstered attack. Yeah thats the annoying 2nd variation to the super ladder hand sky im coming down on your face. LUL

[Iri]

If you are tired enough of trying to fight him by yourself and have ochoko left, I can try fighting him for you.

Originally posted by awanderingswordsman:

You will kick yourself when you realizes just how easy it is.

Yes, the fight is simple and straightforward, but a single mistake usually means death, and unless you are a god among men (and no offence, but you apparently are) you will be making mistakes in the timespan it takes to empty his health bar.

[awanderingswordsman]

I'm talking comparitively. if you use the strategy I mentioned he is one of the easiest bosses in the game. He has one gap close and you can just run from it. Other than that he will whiff his swings for no reason while you wait out of range and then just poke the centipede head (meaning you don't have to get close to him). That way you never have to keep up with all his whirling around or high damage attacks outside of the very few that have range. Think of it is a turn based battle. He takes his turn, you wait patiently out of range for it to end, then you have your turn where you poke him and back off.

He does do a lot of damage when he hits you but so do a lot of bosses. Quick change can certainly give you some breathing room but even without it, you just need patience. I'm out of the abyss so I can go fight him and upload a video with game sounds turned off. Might leave it unlisted and just post the link here though.

[DJ]

I rushed him down with sloth and spirit. Will come back to him and beat him down like a real man or a woman. I personally don't think close range strat is viable. There's this lvl1 no block/dash youtube video. The guy baits the right arm attack alomst everytime, and he doesnn't get those bs attacks. There's probably a way of baiting a specific attack , but I can't find it. I will probably do this boss again after NG+ and go through everything except the endless dungeon. Probably gonna reset my attributes and use a long range weapon like a spear to beat this boss

[awanderingswordsman]

You don't need a long range weapon for it.

Here's my vid I just recorded. The real enemy is the invisible wall near the edge of the map causing you to not be able to back up when you feel like you should have more space.
https://youtu.be/IdE4JbBcchs

The video stutters in a few parts and theres no sound effects cause of that audio bug. I also got greedy and got hit near the end once but to be fair I almost never see that sideflip move and didn't know it comboed a hit longer than all the other moves.