What should I do when an enemy starts shining?

[Thrennerel]

I remember the tutorial showed me what to do in those situations but I don't remember what it was and the written tips in the game don't tell me much.What should I do?

(It is some kind of pose where they start recovering health while they start flashing some colour).

[Sentient_Toaster]

If you use a heat move -- any heat move -- on them, they'll stop regenerating and the fight will resume.

The "Kiwami" finishers -- one per style, three that you can and should pick up in the Soul tree, and one that only comes late in the Dragon tree -- are heat moves that you can use for this purpose, but only if you match your style to the boss's (e.g. use Beast mode and Essence of Extreme Beast on a boss glowing yellow, Rush and Essence of Extreme Rush for a boss growing purple etc) and if you're in heat mode. If you're not in heat mode hopefully you have a Tauriner or Staminan to drink, or you're just a few free hits from getting there.

As noted above any heat move will do, so you could always pull out a knife or grab a nearby sofa, drink Tauriner if you need the heat, and then pull one of the Essence of Stabbing movies. Doesn't have to be one of those Essence of Extreme <X> finishers.

[Thrennerel]

Originally posted by Sentient_Toaster:

If you use a heat move -- any heat move -- on them, they'll stop regenerating and the fight will resume.

The "Kiwami" finishers -- one per style, three that you can and should pick up in the Soul tree, and one that only comes late in the Dragon tree -- are heat moves that you can use for this purpose, but only if you match your style to the boss's (e.g. use Beast mode and Essence of Extreme Beast on a boss glowing yellow, Rush and Essence of Extreme Rush for a boss growing purple etc) and if you're in heat mode. If you're not in heat mode hopefully you have a Tauriner or Staminan to drink, or you're just a few free hits from getting there.

As noted above any heat move will do, so you could always pull out a knife or grab a nearby sofa, drink Tauriner if you need the heat, and then pull one of the Essence of Stabbing movies. Doesn't have to be one of those Essence of Extreme <X> finishers.

Thank you a lot :D I've been with this problem for a few hours now so I'm happy to know how to avoid it thanks to you.

It's a nice touch so that you'll need tauriners in some fights if you don't stand the bosses recovering some of their health.At least to me it makes the heat replenishing items much more valuable than they were in Y0.

[Thrennerel]

I edited wrong.

[Crystal]

Originally posted by Thrennerel:

I remember the tutorial showed me what to do in those situations but I don't remember what it was and the written tips in the game don't tell me much.What should I do?

(It is some kind of pose where they start recovering health while they start flashing some colour).

Press triangle. Or Y button.

Look at the colour of the boss flashing. If it's blue, you switch to Brawler style and press triangle. If it's yellow, you switch to Beast mode and press triangle. If it's purple, switch to Rush and press triangle.

You will perform a finisher / Desperation Move (DM).

[BlueCollarFurry]

The purpose of that is that you can unlock special boss finishers for each style. When they go into that stun mode where they double over and start regenerating switch to the style matching their aura and use it.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Well, that's the method. Not sure what the purpose is; maybe they felt that quick-time events were overused in Y0 boss fights, maybe they wanted to make deciding when and whether to expend heat more important by penalizing you if they started to regenerate while you had a low heat meter.

They seem to have changed their mind again since they didn't bring back this mechanic in Kiwami 2, AFAICT.