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| Location | Fountainhead Palace |
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| Reward | Prayer Bead A Beast's Karma |
Sakura Bull of the Palace (宮の桜牛, Sakura Bull of the Palace, Miya no Sakuraushi) is a Mini-Boss in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. This Complete Sakura Bull of the Palace Mini-Boss Guide gives you strategies on how to beat the Sakura Bull easily, as well as tips, tricks and lore notes. Mini-Bosses are special Enemies that are uniquely named and have 2 or more health bars. This means they require at least 2 Deathblows in order to kill, they are generally much more difficult than normal enemies, and they drop some of the best loot in the game.
Sakura Bull of the Palace Location
Where to find the Sakura Bull of the Palace in Sekiro?
- Fountainhead Palace: Found Fountainhead Temple area, by taking a left turn from the Flower Viewing Stage Sculptor's Idol
- This boss is optional.
Sakura Bull of the Palace Rewards
What do you get from defeating the Sakura Bull of the Palace in Sekiro?
- Prayer Bead
- A Beast's Karma - It's worth killing this boss as defeating it awards you a Latent Skill that increases your max Spirit Emblems on hand to +1, allowing for the possible max of 20 on hand.
- 19786 XP without Kuro's Charm (NG+7)
Sakura Bull of the Palace Mini-Boss Guide Strategies
Sekiro Sakura Bull of the Palace Video Strategies
Sekiro Sakura Bull of the Palace Strategy Writeup
This enemy can be made easier, or even trivial, by using stealth. Rather than approaching him head on you can grapple up to the roof to the left of where the Great Carp breaks the bridge, where there will be 3 Noble Warriors on guard. Alternatively, you can also jump up the broken wall to the right and reach the rooftops this way, which lets you avoid these enemies entirely.
The bull will start to walk around the corner of the small area he starts in as you approach. You can jump down and perform a stealth deathblow from the roof, which will take about a third of the bull's vitality. The rest of the fight is largely similar to the Blazing Bull: you can either stay behind him to avoid his attacks, or attack his head, which deals much more damage.
Be careful not to lure it too far away, as it can de-aggro and return to where it started, recovering to full health in the process.
This boss can be defeated instantly by using firecrackers to startle him while he is unaware. However, there is a bug that causes him to freeze in place when you remain undetected after he has gone into panic mode. To prevent this, deal any damage to him while he is panicking, and he will run into the wall, instantly becoming stunned and vulnerable to a deathblow.
This boss deals apparition type damage when using its horns, and as such the Lilac Umbrella tool can completely block the incoming damage. Following up a blocked charge with a projected force deals substantial vitality and poise damage and can occasionally startle the bull into crashing into a wall, leaving him stunned and vulnerable to a deathblow.
Sekiro Sakura Bull of the Palace Attacks & Counters
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| Example Attack | Example Counter |
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Sakura Bull of the Palace Lore
- The Okami are pale and bluish, consistent with Asian depictions of the dead
. The nobles live in an area overgrown by roots which I believe depicts the Japanese underworld "Ne-no-kuni", which betokens something like "land of roots". The Okami were likely all once human and turned into these beings by imbibing large volumes of Rejuvenating Water
Sakura Bull of the Palace Notes & Tips
- Notes & Tips go here
Sakura Bull of the Palace Image Gallery
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I just got the bull to run into the wall without sneaking up behind it. I sprinted from the bridge idol to the corner and popped firecrackers as soon as I saw it. Didn't expect that to happen, so I followed with chasing slice and it took off into the wall.
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am i the only one who can't pull off that firecracker trick?
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I don't know what I did but I killed all of his posture instantly, I was running along the wall when I reached the corner to inter where it was I jumped off the wall and fircrackered on top of him, ran around to his face hit him once and he ran off and I accidentally mortal bladed twice, he hit the wall, and all of his posture was gone
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Surprisingly, unlike the Blazing Bull, this fight’s okay. That’s because they gave him a wider arena, and heavily nerfed him to the point where he’s still difficult, but unlike the Blazing Bull, it’s somewhat fair. Now, I’m not someone who’s not into challenges; I love Guardian Ape, Genichiro Ashina, Owl (Father), and Isshin, the Sword Saint, all four of which are really tough. The problem with the Bull was that he was way too hard to be fought that early in the game, and it was required at the same time.
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There's a masked guard doing hackey-sack past where the Carp jumps up to destroy the bridge...
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If you use divine confetti or lotus umbrella to deflect its attacks, it doesn't do any damage to you. Not completely sure about the divine confetti though.
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The first thing I thought of when I first saw this bull was the huge horribly mutated bear from Annihilation.
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got him to one hit left and the dude just ran for the hills, turned the corner, and regenerated all of him health and posture instantly. SMH
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I jumped down and hit him with firecrackers, then he ran into the wall and he instantly lost all his posture, and then I killed him.
I think I broke the fight
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While in stealth and unnoticed, try using the Firecrackers on it's ass as it walks away from it's initial starting path to make it run into the wall across from it. If you try this when it has passed around the corner, it may just run all the way forward, calming down eventually and attacking you with all it's might or possibly even de-aggroing.
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Do the whole roof thing, but fight it head on. Literally. Hitting its head does almost triple damage and it gives a chance for you to stun the bull. Hit him 1-2 times after. his combo and deflect. He will hurt you through the deflect, so some rice is suggested for constant healing. Firecrackers are essential.
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Sneak to it from the roof, Firecrackers before it notices you, then attack once immediately. For some reason, if you just Firecracker it, it will jump once then glitch and freeze. I ran through my whole supply of Firecrackers at different points on it's path to try and figure out why it wasn't working. I think it's because it technically hadn't noticed me, so the game didn't consider it in combat and the frenzy behavior is only allowed to happen in combat.
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Lol this f****ng A$@hole ran away when his HP got low. All the way away. To De aggro and rest the fight. . . TWICE
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The image for him at the bottom instead shows the Corrupted Monk. Just saying.
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There's a lot of stuff missing here so I'm going to write down what I know. The aerial deathblow does no damage to the Sakura Bull. Attacking the head seems to do much more damage than anywhere else. Guarding and even deflecting attacks deals chip damage. Divine Confetti is effective
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NG++ got 6596 exp without kuro's charm and a heavy coin purse.
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Decent boss but... we need more lore theories. The blazing bull made sense as an experiment/desperate measure but this one seems a bit out of place. Is it a normal bull who drank the water and transformed? (same pale skin as the nobles) Are the branches imbued with the divine confetti effect? Was it to drive some apparitions away? (we can mention the shichimen warrior near the waterfall)
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I hit it with the mortal blade and it started jumping around, ended up ramming into a wall, filling it's posture meter instantly and stunning it, allowing for an easy deathblow.
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If you sneak up behind him, throw firecrackers just as he's turning around to face you, and then run behind him (so you're out of the way), he will rear-up and run into the wall. His posture meter fills up instantly and he loses his balance, with no damage having been given, and you can simply walk up to him and do the death blow. If you want to fight him normally, I'd suggest deflecting over dodging, as his posture meter fills up real quick with consistence deflections.
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Don't kite him too far, was beatin his ass and then ran away, then proceeded to de-aggros.
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Something is odd with this mini-boss. When I got to him he only had one deathblow.
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puppeteer the okami warrior that can do thunder attack near sculptor Idol, take him to the bull, watch them fight each other. One thunder strike from the okami warrior hits the bull around 1/3 of its health.
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Idk what happen but I literally did not even touch him(until deathblow). He some way some how ran into the wall and then his posture meter maxed out so I ran up and just dealt the death blow. I again did not hit him, block him or anything. He hit ME then I dodged his second strike and he hits wall and boom deathblow. It happen for anyone else??
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Divine confetti + 2 hits of purple fume spark and it's over in less than 10 seconds. Posture bar jumps to almost full on second spark.
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This bull is a jerk. We were fighting along the pathway and after spending 3 confetti and having him down to a sliver of vit he ran to his spawn spot. By the time I reached him he de-aggro'd and was back at full health. Luckily if you cleared the rooftops you can land a deathblow from there so I aggro'd him again and ran back to the hook point. Since he followed you get a clear shot as he tries to go back to his spot.
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As soon as I started the fight he rammed into a wall and his posture meter went to 100% and I killed him. It's complete random, but the easiest way to do it.
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Idk why every guide says to dodge and get behind. You can actually deflect his attacks and doing it to the charge inflicts huge posture damage.
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Divine Confetti does massive amounts of damage to this guy, so if you're having trouble try using it.
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Someone already posted this but they weren't sure how they got it to work so i'll clear it up. I firecrackered him two or three times to get a bunch of damage in (after jumping off the roof for a deathblow which for the bulls just does a third of their HP) and this caused him to do his rampage thing in which he ran straight into the wall and filled his entire posture bar up. So I believe you just need to stay in that confined area and get him to do his rampage for a relatively easy kill.
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Note that you CANNOT stealth kill this one I tried and got the red dot and everything and he just threw me off Easy boss nonetheless just firecracker and stay behind him Ako when hes close to death and you eviscerate him
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I'm not sure is it a bug or a feature - I scared it with a firecracker then used a purple umbrella (Phoenix's Lilac Umbrella) and then hit him immediately with a sword (triggering Projected Force skill) - got his poise 100% instantly - few hits and it's done.
Is it even considered chip damage at this point if he obliterates half your health through a perfect parry
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