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Thanks for the sabimaru tip, anons. A full six-swing combo procs poison, allowing you to build posture easily afterwards.

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sabimaru + jump attack

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Start at the Gunfort idol. Sneak up from behind to back stab. Use Sabimaru. Next boss.

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Tip: get good

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spamming attacks doesn't work very well for building posture, and usually provokes the grab attack (which often happens after she deflects you). when you try hitting her 2-3 times in a row, you see the grab attack much more often.

the fastest way to beat her w/o cheese is to attack once.

she'll respond about 80% of the time with a melee attack, which are easy to deflect.

so you end up building an easy pattern. attack once. deflect. attack once. deflect. and so on.

her posture bar builds super fast when you do this.

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Sometimes this boss will get stuck in a loop where she only does her kick attack. Not sure what causes it

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This says you can sneak her by coming back from the Gun Fort Idol, but is that even possible?
I was able to grapple back from the Gun Fort to the ledge just below the bridge, but I couldn't find a way back to the bridge itself, let alone to Shirafuji's location.

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Just drop your cannon as a shinobi tool, that's all I'm asking for...

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i ****ing hate this ***** so much

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yo ucan actually cheese one deathblow by running past him, going on the hole at the middle of the bridge behind and jumping down in the void.. You'll loose 50% HP when respawning but everybody will have lost aggro, so you can just go back to the arena and stealth backstab him one deathblow

It's kinda inconsistent what will make you respawn without aggro or not, even by doing the same test 2 other times it only worked half the time but hey, if you REALLY have a hard time with him yo ucan try this to make the fight easier. You have to sacrifice one estus flask for one deathblow

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Isn't that an obvious reference to princess mononoke?

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Was very difficult for me until I found out her grab can be deflected. Feels weird, since this seems to be the only deflectable grab in the game (at least to my knowledge).

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Sabimaru ends this fight in seconds. She gets stunned as soon as poison procs, so you can basically slash without fear of reprisal and get the first death blow quickly. Lather, rinse and repeat. Then take your prayer head and get on with the game.

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As others have said, save at the idol near the Buddha statue. Kill the two rifle people near the tent. Then sneak behind the boss to clip off a health bar. Grapple back to the top of the Buddha and she should be in the poison. It takes a while to proc, but she will get whittled down. Then just grapple next to her and slice her up.

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if only you could do uno reverse card with her shots. Would be so satifying to give her a taste of her own medicine

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Many salty comments about this mini boss. It's a completely fair fight. She has clear telegraphed moves which you can deflect. This includes the grab which can also be deflected. Her close combat moveset isn't extensive either. Easy to learn the deflect timings.

She's aggressive and that's exactly what you use against her. After her kick she'll always fire her gun. Dodge towards her when she fires, which will give you a counter window to attack with either Sabimaru or Flame Barrel. Deflect everything else she throws at you and she'll go down fast.

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I pray to whatever God is up there that whoever designed this boss never gets to work on a game again. Among many other things I'm probably not allowed to say here.

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She hits too much in close combat, and she does that WITH A GUN. Simply, needs nerf. Do not say to me "git gud" etc., I played every Dark Souls and never said this except the Pursuer, and it was before i learned Pursuer was a puzzle boss.

This woman is op for the start of the game, even for an optional boss. After you turn back killing 5-10 boss, still hard af.
*1 hour later*
I watched guide.
- Sometimes she can hit you even while hugging wall.
- Her soldiers hits you when you are hiding behind rocks (They are killing you immediately with 5 shots).
- Her perilous attack has insane amount of time. I'm jumping when she attacks, and she just waits until i come down and i'm dead. So, jump isn't an option (it's good for 2-3 times but she definitely takes you 4th time: Which means you are dead, NO, ı won't calculate when should i jump like a chronometer, i still have a life outside. I'm just a normal souls player.).
-Her perilious attack has a huge range so you can't run away with dash either.

I will just follow the guide until to the end, i hate it when i had to this. But i have no choice. I died like a million times.

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This is so ****ing stupid. She has a gun. So she shoots me with it, and I die.

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You don't need to get all the way to the gun fort idol. You just have to take a few steps on to the bridge (with your umbrella up). Then head back hugging the wall and you can get the deathblow.

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Her recovery after her swipe-shoot attack is perfect for an ichimonji.

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just spam sabimaru boom boom boom, posture meter goes sky high, but make sure to stealth blow first running down from the gun fort. after the stealth deathblow instantly do a ichimonji double, then sabimaru spam, you'll finish in no time

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Killed me more times than Genichiro, and then was immediately followed up by the easiest boss in the whole game.

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Dumb me not taking her gold and let the corpse fall off cliff

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I just defeated her in my second try without the use of any prosthetic tools. Use the hold block method, where you hold the L1 button to block, and when she attempts to attack, quickly press L1. This makes her posture decrease slowly, while you are not getting any damage.
When she starts to shoot, dodge away, so you can hit her twice. If you block the shot, it gives you some posture damage, and she is attacking you right away.
When she does the o.p. grab attack, also dodge away. This also gives you the opportunity to hit her once or twice.
By having a lot of patience, you can beat her this way.

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If your playstyle does't involve a lot of prosthetic tools/items, this miniboss can be one of the hardest in the game. She's optional (unlike Shirahagi in the swamp later on), so run past her and continue on with the Gun Fort. Fight her later after unlocking the idol after the Gun Fort, or much later when you have more HP.
I'm on an NG+4 run and Shirafugi continues to be one of the only minibosses that surprise me with how tricky she can be. Her hits can usually be blocked/dodged easily, but missing even one can be a death sentence.

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if she jumps off a cliff for no reason, can you still get her prayer bead?

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you can get a free deathblow!
go past her shimmy along the wall, run to the bridge but turn back quick as the snipers will shoot at you. if youre quick and quiet enogh shell be yellow. wait a secound and you can sneak up and get a free deathblow. now just diont die.

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Urgh for someone who seems to be specialized in ranged combat, she sure hits like a truck up close. Just beat her in ng+ charmless and I'm now traumatized by how fast and devastating her swings are.

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I've been messing around with the game, and found out you can sneak up behind her for a free deathblow like Shirahagi. There's just a few extra steps that you need to do. 1st you run past her and shimmy along the cliffside til you're across but hidden from the other snipers at the Gunfort. Then you use Bite Down or Hiddent Tooth to kill yourself and come back. Optional to use a Gachiin, but at this point you just sneak behind her and get that free deathblow. Not a mindblowing discovery, but it's pretty cool to find out you can still cut her health down half if you want to.

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I died so many times to her until I used the poison blade and killed her first attempt. Use the poison blade. It melts her.

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For anyone who was stupid enough to trow her out of the plattaform like I did, just travel back to any idiol and she will respaw and you can kill her and get the prayers, no need to do it in NG+

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I found an easy way to cheese her: right behind where she is standing there is a small stone ledge. Lure and trap her on the corner of the ledge, then wait for her kick attack. Once she starts this attack, simply step back (don't sprint) and hit once. If you manage to do it right, she should only do kicking attack and nothing else and you could easily cheese her to death. Both healthbars, tested by me, discovered first try.

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SEKIRO IS NOT IN THE SAME UNIVERSE AS DARK SOULS!!!!!!!!! seriously you adding stuff up that is just a coincidence

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Pretty easy kill: firecracker then ichimonji double, if you do it twice should fill her posture all the way and you can deathblow, mixed with deflects the fight goes fast

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ok so i killed her buy pushing her down the cliff and i know there is no honor in that but who cares?? but the problem is that i did not receive my prayer bead !!!! WTF?? Where the f*&k is my prayer bead?? it took me a day to make that happen.

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Jump attacks are great on her. She has little defense against them. Just be sure not to launch yourself off the cliff. Sabimaru would probably be a more effective method, but I didn't know that at the time. Launched myself off about 3 times before I beat her. Also her warning attack is a grab not a sweep. Learned that the hard way. Had her one hit from dying on one of my attempts and she blew my face off.

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I saw her then I fled but this dumb mother*****er tried to follow me except he just committed suicide and i didn't get the prayer bead. ***** this dude honestly.

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Welp. Was 2 hits away from killing her and knocked her off the edge. Didn’t get the prayer bead. Fml.

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I've noticed that the Jump counter is kinda buggy on her. At least once every fight, when I jump dodge her sweep attack (the one where she shoots you in the stomach for 70% of your health if you get hit), I still get hit by it. I've even been hit in mid air at times. Anyone else experiencing this?

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One word: Sabimaru, the dude gets his posture broken almost imedietally and the poison also helps and even better is that it reset in the second phase so you can just do the twice and basically reduce him to a***** stain.

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1030xp on NG? I started a new game after finishing once, not as a NG+ but plain old NG, you can give back kuros charm too, but I just beat this boss charmless and got... 987xp, WTF??? Does kuros charm, on top of everything else, reduce the xp from enemies? I thought it increased it!

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This boss can also be Steath Deathblowed by sprinting past her and making it to the Gun Fort sculpture inside the mountain. Once there you can stealth kill all the small enemies and make your way back across the bridge and wall hug the wall back to the boss and simply crouch beside her on her back right and approach slowly for a Deathblow.

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I found that the aggressive approach was far easier. 1. Stun with Fistful of Ashe. 2. Charge up the Spring-load Axe and get extra hit right after. 3. Dodge back once and charge up your Ichimonji (Combat Art) 4. Rinse, Lather, Repeat. As long as you stay in her face, her posture bar will fill up after doing the above a couple of times.

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new images high-res added

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She seems to get locked in her kick animation on occasion, which I was able to exploit by repeatedly hopping on her head until her posture broke. Twice. If you notice she keeps kicking but not firing her gun after, I suggest you get up close and start hopping.

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*****ing finally, thank you for splitting the pages.

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As you're grappling up to her ledge, lock on and run towards her as soon as you land then get a subimaru combo in. Deflect if you don't see the red symbol or jump and jump attack her if you do. Repeat the subimaru combo at a safe point and you'll see her vomit, so you can land some more precious Vitality hits. This should pretty much fill her first bar with just a few more hits required. Rinse and repeat, always jumping over her perilous attack (although this also works for most attacks). If she steps back to make some distance between the two of you, either close the distance if your health is fine or use cover to heal up.

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I managed to push her off the edge of the cliff using the flame vent, however I did NOT receive her prayer bead. I am at 39 and about to finish my first play through. Hopefully she drops it in NG+

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I didn't know about sabimaru's effectiveness but oil + flame vent was a decent alternative to reduce vitality quickly at the beginning. It's also possible to wreck her with double ichimonji "frame traps" (if you see what I mean).

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