What’s a ridiculously laborious boss battle between pals? This is tips on how to take down each Shibata Katsuie and the half-Yokai Hachisuka Koroku on the identical time throughout The Shiftling’s Wise Judgement boss battle.
After you’ve made your means again by the waterwheel village, you’ll discover your two pals scrapping within the forest clearing the place you beat the Kamaitachi.
This battle is totally nuts. It’s robust preventing two enemies at the very best of instances, however two bosses on the identical time places you underneath relentless stress.
Lucky for you, there’s at the very least pleasant hearth on your two foes – regardless of them dropping their variations immediately to return and kick your tooth in. They’re additionally each human-style enemies like Saito Yoshitatsu, and thus are simpler to stagger than full Yokai.
Nioh 2 – How to beat The Shiftling’s Wise Judgement Hachisuka Koroku and Shibata Katsuie battle
Below is a video of my profitable run on my first blind playthrough of Nioh 2. It exhibits the final technique I employed to make it out alive.
As quickly as you drop down into the world, there’s a short grace interval the place you may throw Ninjutsu tools on the two bosses earlier than they aggro onto you.
But as soon as they begin coming, they don’t cease coming. The largest issue of this battle is squeezing in hits between the unrelenting quantity of stress.
What’s extra, the loopy vary of Koroku’s Kusarigama is controller-breaking stuff. I’d advocate utilizing a high-damage, low hit weapon to maximise the hits you do get off. Or you may go together with the quickest set-up you’ve obtained.
Hachisuka Koroku is the primary downside, and the very best technique is to make use of him to take out Shibata Katsuie for you.
Back off from each of them continuously, and so they’ll rush in direction of you. I do that due to the loopy Kusarigama vary – for those who sq. up you’ll get pinged.
As you may see within the video above, lots of Koroku’s strikes have a number of splash harm. If you retain Katsuie charging in direction of you, he’ll get caught up in a number of the assaults.
This additionally baits them into throwing out some impotent combos, so preserve alert to after they each end an assault on the identical time – these are uncommon alternatives to retaliate with sweeping combos of your personal.
Katsuie’s solely actual harmful assault is the place he throws his axe within the air – preserve backing off to dodge it.
Once Katsuie is down, it’s time to extra proactively go after Koroku.
I discovered most success not bothering to Burst Counter the transfer the place he jumps into the air and throws his Kusarigama. Just let him do the assault, keep properly again then hit him along with your lengthy weapon as he lands. Repeat this whereas additionally giving the remainder of his assaults a large berth and you’ll ultimately prevail.
There are a few issues to pay particular consideration to when preventing Koroku. First is that his black-and-white unblockable assault is absolute hair-tearing, controller-breaking, curse-baiting rubbish. This is one more reason to continuously backpedal and cheese his assault sample.
If you get caught in that transfer, you’ll almost certainly get spanked in a single hit.
Secondly, you have to air to hit his entrance with assaults. The laborious Kappa shell on his again protects from melee harm.
If you Sloth Talisman magic, once you’ve remoted him on his personal is an efficient time to make use of it for some free hits.
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