How to beat Death by a Thousand Cuts (easy guide)

How to beat Death by a Thousand Cuts (easy guide)

Requirements

In order to beat the mission, you will need:

Super-SWAT Tactical uniform (reduces 50% of ALL damage taken).
Max level buffs (Face Level 7 or 8, I believe, although Level 5 or 6 will work too).

Buffs: Tea (further damage reduction),
Massage (Faster Face meter build up = healing during combat, negates almost any poison damage during face + you deal more damage with the Golden Cleaver).
Dragon Kick for more damage (although could be non-melee weapon damage only).
Moves: Stun Strike Follow-up (this is so stupidly OP, lol)
Roundhouse Power kick/spinning power kick.

P.S. Food Regeneration and Tea do not stack (at least I think they don't).

[EngineerGaming]

- equip mongrel tribe style (40% additional damage)
- collect/return all available jade statues (more moves)
- visit all health shrines (full health)
- drink dragon kick/tea (increases durability)
- massage (sharpen senses/ faster face meter gain **IMPORTANT**)
- eat food (full health regeneration)
side note: dying once will remove your face, regen, and durability but having everything listed prior you'll only have to retry 2 maybe 3 times

[al64inthedark]

To me the key was to unlock the second counter move that you do by pushing two buttons at the same time.
It allows you to escape the knife attack, while normal counter has to be done 2 to 3 time in a row and ends up being to random.
You can only unlock this quite late.