Headless Ape fight

[Hobo Clyde]

blocking my path to next area and need advice in killing it, lilac shield helping with first phase but second phase hard to manage with other ape summoned, need advice.

[Shpeed Buscemi]

Abuse the second ape with Firecrackers if you must but if you kill Headless Ape first the other dies immediately. Headless Ape is weak to the Mortal Draw Weapon Art.

[Any Helpers]

Originally posted by Hobo Clyde:

blocking my path to next area and need advice in killing it, lilac shield helping with first phase but second phase hard to manage with other ape summoned, need advice.

Ok the most simple tip is to have the spear with the thrust and pull back.
So when he attacks like you crazy just perfect block them and i think on the third one he will go for some attack that you will think is blockable but it is then you block it. He should be laying on the grand NOT ATTACKING cause there is one attack he lays on the ground and swips his sword which is blockable. After you do that SPAM YOUR GADGET button like it means it or just press it once for the thrust and again for the retreat for the spear to bring that centipede thing out and deal a F ton of posture dmg, soo first phase save all dem spirit emblems.

[Garrett]

I found a small ape above the arena that you can puppet.
Not sure what it does, since I found it after the fight.

Otherwise I did what Cool suggested

[Hobo Clyde]

Originally posted by Cool:

Abuse the second ape with Firecrackers if you must but if you kill Headless Ape first the other dies immediately. Headless Ape is weak to the Mortal Draw Weapon Art.

what if you run out of spirit emblems?

[(Edgy) Asriel Dreemurr]

Bait Headless into doing the terror scream. Run away and the second ape will aggro and follow you. This will separate the two giving you time to get hits in on the second ape. You can use Ako sugar to increase your damage output as well.

Once the second ape is down, it’s just a repeat of the Headless Guardian Ape Fight.

[Engels78]

If you managed to kill Ape first time, this fight is really easy! Just kill second Ape asap using firecrackers! And first ape it is just second phase from first fight which is really easy, just bait those big sword attack and parry it and kill this.

[Hobo Clyde]

my question was what do i do if i run out of emblems in the middle of the fight? that happens more often than expected.

[wilco64256]

The only thing you should be using emblems for in that fight are for the loaded spear on the headless ape when you drop him with a big deflect, and a couple of firecrackers for the regular one. 3 loaded spears in phase 1, then 3 in phase 2 should be plenty and those only use 1 emblem each time. I usually set the brown one on fire with a couple of carefully timed flame vents and then a firecracker or two to finish him off before re-focusing on the headless one.

[MMB]

Ceremonial Tanto.

[Hobo Clyde]

made it through... finally

[Shucks]

Nice job bro.