Juno Hoslow, Knight of Blood | Elden Ring Wiki

Unendurable frenzy can stop him spamming BHS. With enough FP he can be one shotted in a first playthrough but I couldn't quite pull it off in NG+ and the f**ker used a flask but the stagger from the frenzy incantations make the a solid tactic against him.

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I'm normally the first to cheese at the slightest difficulty but fighting this man toe to toe is the most fun I've had in this entire game. We're both dual weilding fast, high bloodloss weapons (me with dual scimatars) and both of us have bloodhound step.
It's a goddamn anime battle in here, *****es teleporting behind eachother and swooshing blade spins and saluting eachother.
****. I'm gonna be so mad when I beat this man, he is an absolute treasure.

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The power stance whip attacks have a vulnerable recovery. If light equipped, rolling toward those attacks can allow a safe R1. When very close he will prefer to dodge instead of attacking, so it is possible to attempt a roll catch until stamina is depleted. As others have mentioned, well timed jump attacks and guard counters can also help.

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I tried to not cheese him, but he kept cheesing me. So I whipped out Comet Azur and moved on

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Look...I tried. I'm a mage. He bloodhound steps away from every spell I throw at him. I could get him down to half most fights but he'd always get a nick in with those whips so I'd have to try to heal and then I'm done. After the 10th I didn't care about honor. I'm going Flame of Frenzy ending anyway. So I used Comet Azur and fried his punk ass with about 65 Int and the +9 Carian Regal Scepter. The tale of House Hoslow is told in YOUR blood

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Lvl 25, using a +5 cold great stars w/ wild strikes. 22 vig (27 w/ radagons), full raging wolf armor set, max dragoncrest talisman, & turtle talisman. Turns it into a 3-shot. Use a +hp+Stam regen flask as soon as you spawn, hit him with 5 poison throwing knives during his animation. Catch him with jump attacks, then wild strikes until frost and/or bleed. The animation for a jump attck with great stars (great hammers) has a perfect input on the dodge roll follow-up to dodge his attack after a BHS, if he chooses to avoid your jump attack.

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Jump attacks worked wonders for me

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Does fias mist work on him I swear they to make death and frenzy flame spells viable in pve

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OP NPC/enemy, teleports dodge perfectly on every attack, only way i can find is let him attack and counter, but all for nothing due to bleed building, you'll end up dead and out of crimson tears before killing

"extremely weak to status efffects" IF YOU CAN EVEN LAND A HIT ON HIM, pretty sure he has input reading, try attack? dodge
try heal? attacks and inflicts bloodloss
try dodging/rolling? cathes you mid roll
can't do anything against him except wait for death

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Had to cheese this buffoon clown at low level.

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Used Grafted Blade Greatsword +8. He doesn't dodge charging attacks. I'd hit and run until I could land a combo. I wore his armor and spoke to his stupid brother.

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poked him to death with rogier's rapier. interrupts his attack. be aggressive.

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For a no leveling and no upgrading run a strategy that worked for me was rot breath plus serpent bow and serpent arrows. Four blue flasks to have two flasks when invading him. Immediately rot breath him. Keep your distance and wait for him to do an attack that has enough recovery time for you to shoot a poison arrow. Otherwise he'll just dodge your arrows most of the time. He'll heal once, but with the two blue flasks you have enough to rot breath him a second time, which will finish him off.

Be sure to hold the button when breathing rot on him to get the full duration and use the directional stick to follow his movement during the animation. If you do it right you will roll catch him trying to get out of the rot spray and it will use your full FP bar @ level 1.

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Be warned, I didn’t get the emote the first time. I fought him, died, tried again and then got it. So if you want the emote, make sure it actually tells you that you have it.

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Crucible Horns incantation works gloriously against him. Once charged, has absurd range and throws him in the air. Most importantly, this does not make him invulnerable (unlike crit attack animation) so you can punish him mercilessly when he's getting up (I guess Giant Hunt works just as good, if you can land a hit). Moreover, you get enough hyperarmor for the charge to not be staggered (I've traded hits during attack and didn't even flinch despite using confessor set that have next to zero poise) and with Two Fingers Heirloom, Faith-knot and FTH boosting headgear it requires little to no Faith investment.

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Spamming Ice spear works great with him

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Is it morally correct to kill him besides gameplay reasons?

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An easy way for int builds against this guy is spamming Loretta's Slash. The damge is really good and he will be staggered with the down swing. Cojmbined with how quickly the AoW launches, he won't have time to heal

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Mohgs spear......spam L2....no bhs that

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I'm a mage but 2 handed the Great stars is the easiest strat, remember to always dodge into him and spam R1 you can probably hit him 4-5 times before he used bloodhound steps

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Being a human type NPC enemy and vulnerable to status effects I thought I wouldn't have too much trouble with him. I was wrong, I used the physik with cerulian hidden tear and tried to hit him with Ekzykes decay as soon as I was able but I don't know if he was using bloodhound's step to avoid the worst of it but I didn't once manage to inflict scarlet rot on him. So if anyone is planning something similar, have a back up just in case.

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You can see all the thumbs downers on specific comments, those players condone this kind of maidenless behavior in pvp. He's worth minimal runes because he's a completely honorless target. I crouched on his face 50 times then crapped after I finally beat him with this stupid uchi. Modern problems deserve a more modern solution, like rivers, stars, and moon. Hands down biggest POS in the game.

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Man's really should have just joined the volcano manor and fed himself to the serpent.

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Just hit him with scarlet rot and waited until he died. Pretty easy to dodge him, and he only has one heal so chip damage with ranged made him really easy.

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I'd probably feel bad for murdering Diallos' older brother that he so admired if Juno wasn't a bloodhound-stepping bleed-whip edgelord. Eat shield crash, nerd.

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Godskin Peer & Black Flame Tornado. As with all invisible-teleporting-but-holes - it will run itself right into your black flame blender, and get flattened by the final blow, so you can repeat.

Still will need an d ton of FP and some tanky HP unless you're one of those matrix-style-robots that can dodge everything.

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FROM: let’s make it clear that this guys an honorable Knight.
Also FROM: gives him bloodhounds finesse

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I know he's in a late game area and not meant to be easy, but this Juno is a proper c**t.

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Doing a low level/low upgrade run and beat him pretty easily with a +3 Great Stars. The trick was to roll into his attack and then lay into him with wild strikes until he steps away. He'd occasionally hit me with a followup but wouldn't stagger me, and the trades were quite favorable in the long run as he often didn't even get the second swing. Don't bother with the R2 followup, just let the first few swings work him.

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Crucible incantations worked smooth against him, but you need at least 40 vigor and 55+ poise, which you can achieve with crucible armor full set and also get the bonus for those incantations, also used a twin blade with storm assault, fancy fight indeed

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Was stuck on this try-finger-but-hole for a bit (2nd toughest for me after gargoyle duo), followed advice below about using shield and guard counter on Junos R1 attacks and paired it with bleed urumi and bloodhound step to move out of range of his other attacks, took a lil patience but he didn’t get 1 hit in

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He has input reading and uses the bloodhound’s step the moment you attack. A good strategy is doing a heavy attack or an AOW with a somewhat long windup (impaling thrust works great) so if he dodges towards you your attack will connect immediately after the iframes expire and before he can attack.

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I just used the wall build and killed him with a shield crash. Couldn't even respond to my attack before dying.

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If you’re using Magma Blade, you can use Magma Shower a few times and insta kill him. I don’t usually abuse that, but screw Juno!

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Didn’t move and killed him before he could touch me. Comet azur ftw.

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Abuses Bloodhound step like there's no tomorrow. His whips do cheap levels of damage and he obviously scales with your level because I was way overlevelled for the area and this poor excuse for game design beat me 6 times before i bent him over

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Gotta respect this guy for using bloodhound’s step, not abusing it. He uses it to escape tough scenarios, which is exactly what was intended of this ability. It took me only a few attempts to kill him, but the bloodhound’s step was never spammed more than like, twice in quick succession. People who have used this ability throughout the game should follow the example of our Knight of Blood here, if they don’t already.

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I've seen a lot of challenge videos, always wondered why they don't do this, now I see why. This guy really does deserve an realistic AI award. Blood, bloodhounds step, spam. Give it up for this guy

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there's way too much **** around his arena for you to get stuck on, but of course his AI pathfinding has no issue with it

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In Hoslow's hands, his whip does slash damage, but magically dulls to perform strike damage when it's in your hands.

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Bet this guy put all of his points into mind and arcane

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The tale of house hoslow is told in blood(hound’s step)

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I did this on a starting level vagabond I twinked out. Antspur rapier, make it poison. Juno is pretty easy to shield turtle, and once you see scarlet rot trigger, you run behind the pillar to the right and hide on the rocks with your shield up. Once rot wears off poke him until it’s back, hide a second time, win.

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I used an ice based ash of war with my great sword and with no armor. After many tries this is what worked for me

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This guy is toxic af

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Did they really expect us not to kill rykard by the giant mountaintops? bs quest in my opinion

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After many tries I found this way to be pretty effective: First, craft poison darts and a fetid pot (or poison pot) and have something like glintblade phalanx.
When the fight begins and Juno greets you, first take your wonderous physic and cast glintblade phalanx, then throw several of the poison darts. As he is still greeting you he won't dodge them, and he will become poisoned. Around this time, he will charge and the first glintblades will strike. Now you should avoid him and repeatedly re-cast glintblade phalanx when you have enough distance. (To gain more distance, you can hop on the boulder to the left side of the arena and hop of, the boulder will slow him down and buy you some time) After a while, the poison darts will stop inflicting damage. This is when you should run to the boulder, and as he tries to get on top of it, when you see the chance, throw the fetid pot (as you only need 1 hit, instead of several with the darts), which whill again poison him. Keep on avoiding him and casting phalanx untill he's dead.

This worked like a charm for me. My build is almost pure int (lvl 61 int, lvl 97 total), and i had a light-medium load to have more agility.

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Cheesed him with Morgot's Cursed Sword. I just spammed the weapon art. It staggers him for a moment to get a couple regular hits in. And when he teleports away from you the weapon art automatically follows him and catches him again

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i hate this dude my build is sooo trash against him

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Killed him quickly with Fortissax's Lightning Spear! The guy struggled to stand up!

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Now is probably a good time to point out that this dude is harder to kill than many of the bosses. Haven’t seen an SL1 no hit video against this mf.
Had to be said.

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The "Itachi" of Elden Ring

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if youre a faith build, once you spawn in IMMEDIATELY sprint to him and use inescapable frenzy while he does his gesture. if youre fast itll hit every time and you can start the fight in your favor

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Get your heaviest armour, heaviest shield. We dont need no rolling for this fight.

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Halo Scythe f**ks with this guys input reads, pretty much guaranteeing the AoW hits as long as you don't spam it.

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If you're a melee build, whip out your best shield and guard counter the s**t out of him. Watch the bleed bar and try to only GC his R1 attacks - when he hits with both whips, it builds up bleed like crazy and shreds your stamina even with a greatshield. I beat him at level 67 with a +9 weapon using this technique, purely because I wanted to speedrun to him and steal his build.

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Jump on the large rock to the left of where you spawn in, he always circles around it before jumping up, which gives you lots of time to setup or catch your breath. If you're fond of dragonbreath attacks, its the place to do it so long as you start before he does his first hop up. If he already has, he'll get to you before its ready. Start before that first hop - its really noticeable when he does it - and you can nail him everytime. Moonveil is also incredibly useful against him especially if he does a jump attack as he'll have no defense against it's R2 Skill vertical wave, and the R1 wave also works fairly well against his bloodhound step as he always seems to dodge just inside of where it extends to and gets nicked by it.

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Where did my HP go?

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Spam lighting spear when you get some distance, also you can comet azur in the begging of the fight while he pose.

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Wing of Astel's weapon art completely cheesed this fight for me. Just stay at medium range and bait him to walk in as he won't dodge the explosive smog.

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chain Giant Hunt when he is running at you

put bleed on the weapon for hemorrhage

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any long weapon + Giant Hunt (I used Cross-Naginata +15)
he reads the input and will bloodhound step towards you* even when the attack hasn't started, which locks him out of dodging or doing anything. he will then be impaled.
chain Giant Hunt until he is dead.
put bleed on the weapon for extra damage on the hemorrhage

*make sure you do Giant Hunt when he is running towards you

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he deadass ****ing JUMPED over a night sorcery this mf reads inputs

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Death poker shreds this guy

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Just realized who this is

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dose the red summon sign for his fight still appear even though i never got his red letter due to the oversight of not turning in previous letters and killing Rykard anyways lol ?

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Invisible sorceries work a treat (he makes no attempt to dodge) - I just spammed night shard while jumping away. The only relevant talisman I had equipped is stamina regen; magic boosting physick; offhand staff of loss, main hand the renala boss staff +9; 60 int; ~25 mind, only needed 1 mana flask.

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Absolutely trivialised with the Spiked Pallisade Shield (cold affinity works well) and Shield Crash AoW. Just repeatedly push him over until he is dead, he won't even get a chance to attack, or to heal himself.

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this mother****er breaks my poise even with a greatshield and then chugs his flask once and is back to full health, also reads inputs like crazy

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Surprised no one has mentioned that this character is weirdly similar to Belmont from Castlevania

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Me and Juno staring at each other after I cheesed him with the rocks and rotten breath

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Climb the rocks immediately to the right of the summon sign as soon as you enter. He won’t be able to reach you and you can easily snipe. Frenzied burst made him easy

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If you already defeat Rykard, can you still invade this guy?

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Edge,
Lord

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The original bloodhound's step and bleed user

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Does anyone else notice he only drops 158 runes whereas Diallos, if he defended the jars, drops a Numen's Rune worth 12500 runes? Turns out that in the end, he wasn't as insignificant compared to his brother as he thought...

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Its bad enough he actually hits harder than real bosses while also having more HP than actual bosses, but he also has Bloodhound Step with infinite FP. He doesn't just have any BHS, though. He can animation cancel his so you can't even bait an attack and then hit him with the pot to stop his Estus chugging or spells because he will always dodge it. In fact, the pot doesn't work on him even if you do hit him. I forced him to jump up on a little mound there and hit him square mid chest and it went straight through him. I've tried no lock throwing the anti-estus pot at the ground as he dashes to it and it shows the smoke on him then it vanishes. This NPC actually cheats. Best method is spam rotten breath at start and turn on netflix as you run for the next several minutes.

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man dual bleed weapons and bloodhound step, someone give this guy an originality award

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So basically Itachi without the killing his clan part

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This fight showcases why darksouls should be done. Miyazaki is showing his age and the lack of creativity he has at the bottom of his well. The further we get down the darksouls/er path - the less creative and more annoying the titles get. "difficult" is one thing. This fight is something else. (as a melee character). It's lazy af.

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Dragonclaw + Rivers spam made it easy for me. 2 claw attacks and 1 Corpse.
Rinse and repeat.

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he knew he's been had so he shot at the sun with a gun

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Godskin Peeler's Black Flame Tornado made this fight super easy - for those losing their mind.

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Give this guy heal on hit like malenia Fromsoft because bleed + high damage + long range + bloodhound step is too easy for a player to deal with

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Give this guy heal on hit like malenia Fromsoft because bleed + high damage + long range + bloodhound step is too easy for a player to deal with

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I've been reluctant to kill Juno on my first play-through because I thought it might affect Diallos' story negatively. Now that Diallos has died, I remain hesitant still because Juno could be the last blood-line of the House of Hoslow.

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Was dreading re-fighting this dude after how difficult he was on my first character with light dex weps. I'm using colossal swords this run and had an ez time Giant Hunt spamming him to death lol

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Honestly sucks that there is 0 interaction with him. Nothing happens if i wear Diallos' helm or finishing his quest at Jarburg.

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the fact that he rejected the invitation to be champion, he looked for a mark of murder, poor guy

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While Bloody Crow of Cainhurst was worse than this, this ****ing guy has bloodhound step on him which makes him impossible to hit most of the time with a melee characters. But at least there are good ashes of war with good range against him

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Wing of Astel default skill Nebula works really well

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Wing of Astel default skill Nebula works really well

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Frenzied Burst. 2 charged shots = madness. Rinse, repeat.

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Rivers destroys him. Never used it until his invasion and now understand all the bullshit associated with the weapon.

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I got him by spamming guard counters with a lance

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Literally cheating. I can very clearly see his weapon not hitting me, yet here I am with no status ailments and still dying from something that isn't happening. Great job FromSoft.

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Was fighting him, has about 25% health left. He was easy 50 feet away from me, did not swing, and I just fell over and died.

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Jojo's bizzare adventure

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Any squishy incantation caster can cheese him in tandem with Rot Breath and then spamming Unendurable Frenzy. Works wonders.

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Just another loser that spams bleed attacks while dodging infinitely. Love that he can also dodge out of healing but I can't.

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