An Optional boss is mandatory for me for some reason? (spoilers ahead)

[RobroFriend]

So i got lost in the game (nothing new) ended up fighting the guardian ape and finding The Mortal Blade and ended up being even more lost than before and couldnt find out where to go... so i ended up looking how to get to the hidden village and it turned out that where the optional boss was, was the pathway i need to go... but everytime someone shows a video of getting there the boss isnt there?... so like? am i just ♥♥♥♥♥♥?
I didnt mind the guardian ape too much but this gank fight is a ♥♥♥♥♥ with two giant brutes that constantly run you down and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up one deflect usually costs half your health or half your posture and with the two of them beating you down it tends to just be an infuriating mess. Am i just going to have to power through this awful gank fight to continue the game?

[Air]

Honestly, learn the first part of the fight, try to save all your healing for the second half. Then you play chicken and chip at the other monkey untill its dead, then the fight becomes easy again

[Keagian]

You can avoid it if you grapple up to the left opening when you enter the corridor from the poison swamp. For some reason this doesn't spawn the boss and most videos have players that usually skipped the Guardian Ape.

[RobroFriend]

Originally posted by Air (ง︡'-'︠)ง:

Honestly, learn the first part of the fight, try to save all your healing for the second half. Then you play chicken and chip at the other monkey untill its dead, then the fight becomes easy again

i usually kill the solo headless monkey with maybe only using 1-2 gourds... but the gank just escalates it into running away for 15 minutes when i just dont want to sit there doing that( never really been a fan of gank fights for that sole reason

[RobroFriend]

Originally posted by Keagian:

You can avoid it if you grapple up to the left opening when you enter the corridor from the poison swamp. For some reason this doesn't spawn the boss and most videos have players that usually skipped the Guardian Ape.

already tried that. The boss aggros as soon as you get jump down to grapple, in turn making a fog wall right infront of the hook spot...

[Air]

Originally posted by Wrath:

Originally posted by Air (ง︡'-'︠)ง:

Honestly, learn the first part of the fight, try to save all your healing for the second half. Then you play chicken and chip at the other monkey untill its dead, then the fight becomes easy again

i usually kill the solo headless monkey with maybe only using 1-2 gourds... but the gank just escalates it into running away for 15 minutes when i just dont want to sit there doing that( never really been a fan of gank fights for that sole reason

Hrm, if you have the Lady Butterfly kunais, IIRC, they tend to chunk the extra monkey pretty hard, but dont quote me on that.

I agree tho, the game is clearly not made for multiple adds fight, and this fight is absolutely atrocious lol

[Tenerezza]

Why some videos doesn't have anything there is that the monsters only spawn there after you killed them at there original location.

If you always went pas that before killing them you can bypass that, granted you probably wanna come back here later as they drop upgrade materials.

[RobroFriend]

Originally posted by Air (ง︡'-'︠)ง:

Originally posted by Wrath:

i usually kill the solo headless monkey with maybe only using 1-2 gourds... but the gank just escalates it into running away for 15 minutes when i just dont want to sit there doing that( never really been a fan of gank fights for that sole reason

Hrm, if you have the Lady Butterfly kunais, IIRC, they tend to chunk the extra monkey pretty hard, but dont quote me on that.

I agree tho, the game is clearly not made for multiple adds fight, and this fight is absolutely atrocious lol

hmm ill try that, i remember seeing the kunai but i forgot where its in the upgrade tree?

[RobroFriend]

Originally posted by Tenerezza:

Why some videos doesn't have anything there is that the monsters only spawn there after you killed them at there original location.

If you always went pas that before killing them you can bypass that, granted you probably wanna come back here later as they drop upgrade materials.

sooo i somehow ♥♥♥♥♥♥ myself over cuz i went one way? thats like accidentally going to irithyll dungeon first and because i did that theres 10x the silver knights leading up to aldrich... -.-

[miqz]

Just use firecrackers, cant say how much attack i had when doing it since i did the guardian ape after getting the mortal blade and whatever it was after the monk
But you should be able to just kite around a bit till they arent together, firecracker the ape and get her to about half of her posture
Then repeat till its dead, is how i did it atleast

[Fenrir_El]

I fought him only after I got into the divine place. The gorilla cave has several entrances and you can avoid fighting him.