These were nice and kept my palms from getting too sweaty, but dodging right was really the secret ingredient for me. Some other stuff that helped was using a few spirit stones before starting to get my amrita gauge full, and using a tengu soul core helped me avoid some attacks while doing a great job of knocking out his ki for some free grapple damage.

Master the way of the samurai in Nioh, then unleash your inner darkness in Nioh 2 each expertly remastered and enhanced for PS5. This felt cheesy, but it worked after two tries (after failing countless times the previous hour I played). In this expansive collection, journey through Sengoku-era Japan to face nightmarish foes and legendary warriors in blisteringly fast hardcore combat. He will cut you to ribbons if you go left but didn't seem to understand how to deal with me if I went right.

Constantly move to your right, his left, and just hit him with normal attacks, dodging when necessary, nothing fancy.

Start off the fight with an honorable gunshot wound to the head to knock him over while he's standing there.

I tried all my stylish moves, but he would just punish me any time I tried to do anything cool. I was the recommended level 65 (sword user) and I've been clearing the rest of the missions with relative ease, though, so I knew there had to be a trick. He's fast, he has some brutal attacks that can't be interrupted, he can instantly follow up big physical attacks with magic spells, and I had a hard time getting him to run out of ki. I never rage at games but I spent an hour yelling at this dude last night as he steamrolled me over and over again.

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