I’m rage quitting hard atm. Can’t beat Soul of Cinder

I’ve beat literally every boss in this game in 3 tries at the most. Can’t even get this dude to his second phase. This might be a game ender for me desu

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is it true that dark souls is intended to be played on controller? 3 is the first one i played, and it felt absolutely horrible on controller for me, i ended up beating it with kbm instead.

nameless king and twin princes are literally harder than soul of cinder.

hit him and run away until 0% hp

Nameless king is hard because of the horrible camera and unavoidable fire attack in the first phase.

With Soul of Cinder I’m just getting more and more frustrated and it’s becoming harder and harder.

Soul of Cinder was both kino and shit at the same time because blatant fanservice.

Protip: Don't get hit and hit him until he dies.

How is it fan service?

Git fucking gud ?

It's literally every player character from dark souls 1 turned into a boss.

first phase is intended to be everyone who ever beat Dark Souls 1, second phase is literally the final boss of Dark Souls 1

is there one of his forms that is particularly buttfucking you? I know a lot of people have trouble when he pulls out the curved sword

Also second phase is literally gwyn including his theme

Really helped me to not use a slow weapon and little to no armor. That might be basic shit you already know but maybe you're thinking too hard since you've done it so much recently. I had to step back for a day from Sekiro final boss.

>nameless king
really? I got him first try

yeah i didnt call him a difficult boss but compared to soul of cinder he is basically more tough.

So can I parry him in phase 2 then? I remember Gwyn was a walk in the park because I just spammed parry

the big twist is you can't parry him, he's really easy though because he doesn't have that much health and he likes to spam the wombo combo that you just run away from when you see him about to do it. The first phase is the hard part

Every boss in this game is incredibly easy, except midir fuck that shit.

I thought he was easy the DLC bosses are way harder

>walks backwards
>midir absolutely btfo

which forms are you struggling with?

it's almost as it depends on build and playstyle

just run away when he's in the curved sword phase and do as much damage as possible in the magic phase

Kind of arbitrary that phase 1 SoC is unparryable and phase 2 is parryable with no riposte.

Chillax and try again tomorrow

you mean that there are bosses harder than pontiff? Oh..

Indeed

harder how? Pontiff is already super fast and can kill you with not even a full combo

I guess it's mostly a matter of preference. How do you quickly switch targets or walk slowly on mouse & keyboard though?

am I the only one that has huge problems using the d pad while in combat?

He’s probably the fourth hardest imo, although one of the bosses who is harder is optional.

There's DLC bosses with massive health pools or 3 forms in a row, Pontiff won't seem hard when you get to endgame.

When he hits phase two, dodge his first attack, do one hit and then run the fuck away from his combo.

P2 is so much easier than P1, as you can pretty much punish any attack of his, so just try to get through P1 and you should be fine.

Take a break for an hour and then give it another try.

It's a BS boss for me as well, but good luck!

I do an occasional claw grip with either hand so I can keep control of the sticks while dodging or using d-dad

are they faster than Pontiff? I literally could not catch up with him