Can you just kill bosses without learning patterns? (spoilers here)

[Celestial Lexi]

So I will say I basically played the game till the horseman guy boss and this was like the only boss where I felt I had to learn his different moves

most of the other bosses I just cheesed by slashing at them or getting stealth kills

how is the game moving forward? is it doable to just cheese your way?

I rather not learn the patterns because I feel like I'm forced to do them, I don't like being forced to play a certain way.


I also have elden ring, but played as a mage, so its very boring. I'm thinking of making a new character there with a melee focus. ANy let me know what you think please :) and yes git gud lol

[Fahrenheit]

Gyobu is the first main boss. Good luck playing the rest of the game if you can't get past him. And no, you have to learn bosses' movesets or you're gonna stuck forever

[Papa Het]

No.

[[Lethalvriend]]

Each boss in this game has specific moves and weaknesses. In some cases you can counter their movies without applying any kind of strategy, but most of the time you will have to learn how to beat the bosses. The boss you mention is actually the first boss of the game, all the rest are just mini-bosses/special enemies. If you don't have the patience to learn the combat system then maybe this game isn't for you. But if you keep trying, eventually things will click and you'll become a badass.

[Alexoferith]

You cannot stealth kill any of the MAIN boss. Mini-bosses, some of them, depending on their location. Mostly, if the mini-boss is in a room, unless he or she is facing you with their back, there is no way to stealth kill one of their lives.
In the beginning of the game, just to get you to get into the game, the Dev. has deliberately put them in a large open space so there are opportunity to stealth kill one of their lives. But as you progress in the game, even the mini-bosses, you will have no chance to stealth kill one of their lives. But by then, you will have gain enough confidence and skills to face them any which way they present themselves to you... :)
As regard to learning their moves, the simple answer is YES. Well, for the majority of gamers anyway. I am one of them. I don't have lightning reaction. But after learning their moves, I can at least cope with the onslaught.
Sekiro is NOT like Dark Soul games. In DS games, you can dodge away then move in for the hit, and repeat the process. In Sekiro, you cannot dodge ALL but only a few of the bosses' perilous attacks. The other, you have to react to it, ideally doing a perfect deflect/parry. With the appropriate combat skills, each successful perfect deflect will result in decent damage to the opponent's posture bar. And by keeping the pressure on them, i.e. no dodging but keep on the pressure, thereby giving them no time to recover their posture bar at all. In order to take down any bosses quickly, damaging their posture bar is the way to go, not their health. Not that you cannot defeat a boss by depleting their health. It will take much much longer and most likely, you will run out of health potions, pellets, sugars eventually.

[Sokurah]

Well thats basically the point of the whole game tbh. Learn the bosses moves and react accordingly.

Later you can really play around with them, try different strats and so on but you gotta learn what the boss has up his sleaves.

Learn how to react and what to use when, and when to attack in what way, or when its better not to attack.

[X YdoC]

No, to beat this game you have to understand your enemy and be quick, relentless, and fearless. A certain NPC tells you this several times. "Sekiro...remember...hesitate, and you lose." and "hesitation is defeat."

[Sero]

For most bosses u do have to learn patterns unless u have very good reflexes and can jus watch ur enemy's attacks to deflect but then by doin that u would jus learn the pattern overtime. It makes the game a whole lot easier for u once u understand how to memorise the moves n combos