Snake eyes shirafuji miniboss.

[Shalashaska]

impossible.

[Goonshall]

No he isn't, stealth over and backstab him to start the fight. Then when the warning comes up you just back up so he can't grab you.

[Shalashaska]

Originally posted by Gootypie!!:

No he isn't, stealth over and backstab him to start the fight. Then when the warning comes up you just back up so he can't grab you.

Impossible.

[1100011]

Shout out to Biobillybonez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpIgPwezAZc

Cheap, but getting two shot after a missed parry for the 50th time gets old... Include the stealth kill to get it over with faster

[Efesell]

All of their attacks can be parried.

Dash backwards twice when you see the perilous kanji to avoid the grab.

Repeat.

[Simple Kind of Man]

Originally posted by 1100011:

Shout out to Biobillybonez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpIgPwezAZc

Cheap, but getting two shot after a missed parry for the 50th time gets old...

this is sad lol

[Dou B Jin]

I would always run ahead and comeback when she resets to get a free life. Its possible to block her perilous attack if you dodge the thrust but still in range for the pull. Alternatively the Iron fan does wonder.

[Funpire]

Just cheese him. Backstab him at the start then fight down at the fog wall. Stay close and keep him in the corner and he won't do the kick shotgun death move. Stupid game is so easy to cheese.

[HypetheKomodo]

Difficult, not impossible.

Ignoring the cheese above, everything she does can be parried (even if the moveset is kinda weird), and you can back away from the grab. Don't recommend side stepping, the grab has pretty insane tracking.

One of the harder minibosses to me, at least.

[Kashra Fall]

Attack her until she counters you with either a kick or her grab. If she grabs you do not dodge it, instead wait till the precise moment it is about to land and simply jump on her head and get 3 strikes off. This does amazing posture damage (But takes practice.) and saves you from that one hit kill grab move (Depending on your HP.) Also, when she does kick you, dodge forward into her and strike, the shot will miss you.

[Xengre]

This is a joke right? No, really it is right?? Stealth attack her once and then just kill her. She uses a freaking gun which is already a crippling handicap, and her melee is slow as heck. Avoid her unblockable. She is just a slightly harder hitting tankier rifleman with a bit faster but still slow melee...

[Sad Pug]

This boss is not hard IF you take it slow and won't try to rush it (that's the worst mistake you can make in this game - take it slow and try to deflect). You don't even have to resort to cheese tactic of running away and dealing deathblow.
You can block bullets and snakeyeyes loads the gun pretty long.
When you see kanji symbol, jump on her twice and get few slices with your sword, it will deal her pretty nice posture damage.
She is really slow and her attacks are well telegraphed - use that your advantage and remember, when there is perfect deflect, she will be stunned for couple of seconds. You might even be able to use LB+RB ability.
Stand close - worst thing you can do is stand away, because they snakeeyes will load up the gun and you might get massive damage.
And to kind of repeat myself - block. You can block pretty much everything, even kanji sometimes, but for me it was better to just jump on her.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

She does a ton of damage, but her melee attacks are slow, and as long as you keep her close you can eventually wear her down. All in all she isn't that difficult. Although you want to avoid her grab - her grab has a very short reach.

With the demon bell in NG+, I had problems with both snake-eyes - took me probably 3-4 attempts to take each of them out. At that point the grab/shoot is pretty much a one-hit kill, so you have to be super careful about avoiding it. Even without the bell though, she can do a lot of damage if you let her hit you.

Be aggressive and deflect her melee counter-attacks while avoiding her dodge, and she can be beaten.

[Greb]

You can literally pull them into the poison and sit on a rock somewhere they can't reach you until they die from it. Or you can just git gud and robust that b*tch

The Gunfort one would be difficult if you couldn't sneak back from behind to get a cheeky stealth attack on it, plus there's a little ramp / hill thing terrain thing going on that makes them extremely confused so you can just wreck them.

Really though, they have a very small pool of attacks, are incredibly easy to deflect and dodge around, and both can be stealth attacked to remove half of their HP. If there's challenge, I can't see it.

Are you there early? Is your damage not up to scratch? Try using thrusts to remove chunks of HP at a time rather than a few small scratches. Do you not have a lot of healing? Explore! 8 of the 9 gourd seeds can be found before fighting Genichiro!

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Originally posted by Greb:

You can literally pull them into the poison and sit on a rock somewhere they can't reach you until they die from it. Or you can just git gud and robust that b*tch

The Gunfort one would be difficult if you couldn't sneak back from behind to get a cheeky stealth attack on it, plus there's a little ramp / hill thing terrain thing going on that makes them extremely confused so you can just wreck them.

Really though, they have a very small pool of attacks, are incredibly easy to deflect and dodge around, and both can be stealth attacked to remove half of their HP. If there's challenge, I can't see it.

Are you there early? Is your damage not up to scratch? Try using thrusts to remove chunks of HP at a time rather than a few small scratches. Do you not have a lot of healing? Explore! 8 of the 9 gourd seeds can be found before fighting Genichiro!

I'm not sure that being able to avoid fighting an enemy entirely by luring them into poison counts as a lack of a challenge, since that's avoiding the fight entirely. If you're 100% avoiding a fight, it's no different to lure them into poison than it is to use a mod to kill them instantly, or not fighting them in the first place by just running past them or such (they all require equal skill).

Though the stealth kill is a legitimate tactic in this game for sure, and can be helpful against a lot of mini-bosses.

[the]

Kick is alwasy followed up by a quick shot dash the shot and get free hits. Double backstep the grab and hit etc etc