Emma the Gentle Blade

[The Dogfather]

I am really struggling with this fight. If I do kill her I go into the Isshin figh, if I am lucky with 2 gords. I want to be able to end this fight with us much gords as possible because that stupid Isshin fight is another whole kettle of fish.

How do I avoid that stupid grab attack? Jumping up, dodging left, dodging right, dodging backwards does nothing. She always gets me and its starting to really annoy me now because that takes off such a large chunk of health and it causes you to be stunned and before you can even recover she has unleashed a flurry of attacks on you that kill you.

Videos recommend I use Ichimonji on her but I have no skills in that tree at all, it would mean massive grinding to level up that tree which I am just not prepared to do right now. Instead I focused on the first skill tree and second skill tree.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks?

[Nia夕莉]

if you see her started to wind up grab animation sprint away from her as far as possible and don't stop at least that's what i do

or hold sprint button and keep going into one direction and don't stop until her grab is completely miss

or just use umbrella it can deflect grab (when timed correctly which isn't really hard)

[Witcher]

Jumping backwards always avoid her grapple for me. Ichimonji Double is the most used combat art for me - you should get it. Otherwise you can buy Floating Passage and use this on Emma and Isshin.

[The Dogfather]

I have floating passage. I will try this.

[Witcher]

You may want to watch this video too - https://youtu.be/QKLCBkntiMs.

[Gamall Wednesday Ida]

Even just constantly *walking* around her can let you naturally avoid the grab when it comes out, and the ashina cross as well.

As a *reaction*, however, jumping to the side works well. Jumping back can work well, but if you're a bit late, you can get caught.

[Gamall Wednesday Ida]

Another thing: Ichimonjii (+double) is hands down the best emblem-free skill there is; you can grind XP fairly quickly from Antechamber and Dojo idols, using Bloodsmoke on groups and picking off the stragglers one-on-one.

The samourai and Lone Shadows in the area are tough enough to provide a bit of a challenge, keeping the grind from being boring, and providing training.

[LightLance]

In my memory Emma is the only enemy whose grab is fine countered with jump back+step back.
00:18
https://youtu.be/O__yaMDrprg
Also as mentioned before umbrella with right timing is usefull.

[Gamall Wednesday Ida]

LightLance původně napsal:

Also as mentioned before umbrella with right timing is usefull.

Spirit emblems are best kept for Isshin, though.

[LightLance]

Even on the NG+(no charm+demon bell) after the battle I had at least 10 emblems.

[The Dogfather]

Witcher původně napsal:

You may want to watch this video too - https://youtu.be/QKLCBkntiMs.

Thanks for this. I still have not completed this boss fight after numerous attempts this weekend which just put me in a foul mood. This game has totally broken my gaming spirit. I feel so demotivated to continue. And the kicker is this fight is considered easy compared to the actual end boss fight I am approaching of which I have no idea how I am going to do it without not wanting to murder a small village in the process.

I need to remind myself that sometimes a break away works wonders. I tried for weeks to defeat Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne and Sister Friede in the Ashes of Ariandel DLC for Dark Souls III and both left me in a state compete despair that I would never possess the trigger skill reflexes to defeat them without the aid of a friend or online summons but literally after breaking for a few weeks to play other stuff, I came back to both those bosses and killed them on the 3rd (Orphan of Kos) and 5th attempt (Sister Friede and Father Ariandel).


So if history is the best progenitor for the future this time in three weeks/months time I will boot Sekiro back up and kill them on 3-5th attempt.

[Witcher]

Saving Private Rhino původně napsal:

Thanks for this. I still have not completed this boss fight after numerous attempts this weekend which just put me in a foul mood. This game has totally broken my gaming spirit. I feel so demotivated to continue. And the kicker is this fight is considered easy compared to the actual end boss fight I am approaching of which I have no idea how I am going to do it without not wanting to murder a small village in the process.

Is this your first or second play thru? I'm guessing it's your first and you chose the shortest ending and face Isshin too early on. This ending was my 3rd play thru by when I have gained higher attack value and know Isshin's moves. You can fight other minions to gain more skill points to acquire Ichinmonji Double which others have also said is the best combat art that doesn't require emblems. It's also the only combat art which helps you require posture and can't be interrupted once executed.

[𝕊𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕒]

i recomend guide that i made with friend it might help
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2011802778

[Onni]

This video isn't a guide for the fight but them explaining how they took out Emma and Ishiin really helped me with my playthrough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnfWYWYMhB8

[The Dogfather]

Thank you for that