Tips for Reimu?

[June-pie]

Reimu is just whipping my ass. I get through the first phase just fine, but there's so much crap flying everywhere so fast in the second phase, I just get overwhelmed. I got the bouncy blades, those do good damage but they're really awkward to use. They're the weapon you get in her area, so I assume that's what I'm intended to use, but I just don't know.

[Crawling Chaos]

Best weapon against ANY boss is Thousand Daggers, Bounce Knife is good only against regular enemies on Extra stage .
Some great and useful advises by Nepman ( https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198038371482 ) from this thread https://steamcommunity.com/app/851100/discussions/0/1645418261863104586/?ctp=2
Here's a few tips on kicking Reimus butt in her second form: First attack are cards and ying-yang balls, it's your medkit, quickly graze cards and destroy them (Holy sword, Thousand daggers or just simple time stop recomended), balls are slow and quite easy to evade.
Second pattern: fireball launcher: either stay directly under her and the moment she starts firing dash or time stop run into a direction furtherest, if you gonna TD then deviate here between time stop and real time using in midair, if you good at grazing you can graze fireballs as well for additional mp and hp.
Third attack: be directly underneath her and simply duck. there will be green balls left, stop time and evade those, they are quite easy with their whip motion.
Fourth attack: Another fireball launcher but this time going inwards. You can stay directly underneath Reimu wait for right moment and jump, or stop time go far away and then dash in that direction
Fifth attack: barrier, again try to be under her, wait for ofudas to start falling and evade those.
Sixth attack: lighting pillars, no explonation here nedded right? just move in motion while under Reimu, tossing daggers upward, or before attack starts time stop go far away and attack from there.
Seventh attack: Another fireball launcher, but Reimu stole Okuus gravity and will try to suck Sakuya in... crouch, yap just crouch.
As for her ultimate: Attack and evade, attack and evade.

[Syrel]

Just to echo the sentiment, Attack 1, the Highly Responsive to Prayers expy(her sprite even phases between her current and PC98 design during it), is an incredible Medkit, all the talismans are grazable, but the fireballs when they break aren't(but are destructible themselves), depending on your mood, you can either break them yourself for control, or go after Reimu while the YingYang Orbs bounce, she won't move onto the next attack till they're all gone

[DrewD00D]

A quick note that might help for any boss fight, while doing any of your skills, you are intangible, and can even still graze things. Thousand daggers has a long animation and can be used defensively as well as a nice offence. Can be especially helpful for Reimu's time stopping papers as if you do have the misfortune to be stuck by any of them you won't take damage so long as you are still in the animation.

[SirDani]

When time stops, you can spam thousand knifes, because doesnt consume mp
when reimu draws lots of cards, jump to them to recover easy. and... duck a lot

[Syrel]

Originally posted by DrewD00D:

A quick note that might help for any boss fight, while doing any of your skills, you are intangible, and can even still graze things. Thousand daggers has a long animation and can be used defensively as well as a nice offence. Can be especially helpful for Reimu's time stopping papers as if you do have the misfortune to be stuck by any of them you won't take damage so long as you are still in the animation.

Not quite true, most Skills have no I-frames, I think its just Thousand Daggers actually