Corrupted Monk |
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| Location | Ashina Depths, Fountainhead Palace |
| Deathblow Markers | 1 (Ashina Depths) 3 (Fountainhead Palace) |
| Weakness(es) | Lazulite Axe; Fistful of Ash; Snap Seed (Ashina Depths) Shinobi Firecracker; Fistful of Ash; (Fountainhead Palace) |
| Reward(s) | Memory: Corrupted Monk (Ashina Depths) Mibu Breathing Technique (Ashina Depths) Memory: True Monk (Fountainhead Palace) Dragon's Tally Board (Fountainhead Palace) |
| XP | NG: 5500 (Ashina Depths) NG+: 13750 (Ashina Depths) NG++: 20625 (Ashina Depths) NG: 8000 (Fountainhead Palace) NG+: 12800 (Fountainhead Palace) NG++: 19200 (Fountainhead Palace) |
Corrupted Monk (real name Yao) (破戒僧, Depraved Monk) is a Boss in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. This Complete Corrupted Monk Boss Guide gives you strategies on how to beat the Corrupted Monk easily, as well as tips, tricks and lore notes. Bosses like the Corrupted Monk are special, dangerous Enemies that feature a special display on-screen when defeated, such as "Immortality Severed" or "Shinobi Execution".
The Corrupted Monk can be fought twice throughout the game: once with just one health bar and then again with three depending on the chosen ending.
Corrupted Monk Location
Where to find the Corrupted Monk in Sekiro?
- Ashina Depths - Water Mill: At the very end of Mibu Village, guarding the entrance to the Wedding Cave. Defeating this boss is required to collect the Shelter Stone.
- Fountainhead Palace: She will be faced at the start of this area. Defeating this boss is required to proceed further into the palace.
- Depending on the player's choices throughout the game (i.e. what ending the player is pursuing), the fight against the True Corrupted Monk at Fountainhead Palace may be automatically skipped entirely and inaccessible, making the boss optional. The Ghost Version found in Ashina Depths is required regardless of the ending desired.
- Featured boss in the Gauntlet of Strength: Severance.
Corrupted Monk Rewards
What do you get from defeating the Corrupted Monk in Sekiro?
Mibu Village (Corrupted Monk Illusion)
- Memory: Corrupted Monk
- Mibu Breathing Technique Latent Skill
- 5,500 / 6,600 (without Kuro's Charm) Exp (NG)
- 13,750 / 16,500 Exp (NG+)
- 20,625 / 24,750 Exp (NG+2)
- 27,500 / 33,000 Exp (NG+3)
- 61,875 / 74,251 Exp (NG+7 and beyond)
Fountainhead Palace (True Corrupted Monk)
- Memory: True Monk
- Dragon's Tally Board (First time only since it carries over to NG+)
- 8,000 / 9,600 (without Kuro's Charm) Exp (NG)
- 12,800 / 15,360 Exp (NG+)
- 19,200 / 23,040 Exp (NG+2)
- 25,600 / 30,720 Exp (NG+3)
- 57,600 / 69,120 Exp (NG+7 and beyond)
Corrupted Monk Boss Guide Strategies
Sekiro Corrupted Monk Video Strategies
Sekiro Corrupted Monk At Mibu Village (Illusion Monk)
The player must fight the single health bar illusion version in Mibu Village of the Ashina Depths to collect the Shelter Stone in order to proceed through the story. She is not an Apparition type enemy, so Divine Confetti will not deal extra damage to her however she is an illusion so, Snap Seed, Fistful of Ash and/or Lazulite Axe can be used to briefly stun her; with that in mind, it is possible to perform stunlocks and prevent any counter attack. If the player has the Phantom Kunai with swarming upgrade, this does a lot of damage. With the tanto to provide another 15 emblems, the Monk can be brought to about 25% health with Phantom Kunai alone. It may still be worth trying without the swarming upgrade. The Snap Seeds can also be used to significantly lower the Monk's health.
In this fight, the Corrupted Monk has a lot of health and takes very little Posture damage. Because of this, the only effective way to defeat her is to chip away her health by attacking when she is wide open, usually after her many swipe attacks. She has two perilous attacks, the sweep can be jumped, and a thrust that can be Mikiri Countered. Also, the Monk tends to use single big moves when Wolf is at mid range, jumping in for one air hit and two ground hits (let the landing cancel the air attack lag), then jumping away to mid range works well.
Many of her attacks have high ending lag, meaning the player can use this to their advantage and deal direct damage as she recovers. She has two jumping attacks one with a sweep and another with an overhead slash, which the player can run below and attack her exposed back; for the overhead slash, the player can also sidestep and strike as she lands.
One of her most dangerous attacks is a upwards slash that goes through Sekiro's defenses, meaning it cannot be blocked; however it can be deflected, though the timing is very precise. Another attack that should be avoided is a continuous spinning attack with the Naginata, which can quickly exhaust Sekiro's Posture gauge; since the area where she is fought is wide open, the player can run away when she performs this attack. She tends to perform this attack when away from the player, and has a higher tendency to do so if the player uses any consumable (such as the Healing Gourd).
The player will receive the Memory: Corrupted Monk and Mibu Breathing Technique Latent Skill upon defeating this boss.
Sekiro Corrupted Monk At Mibu Village (deathblow strat)
(Works in earlier versions, need to confirm on v1.03) On top of the stairs on the boss stage, right besides the stone door, there are 2 monoliths (one on each side). Get the monk close to one of the monoliths with her back facing it. Use a firecracker to stun/Bait her into a jump attack and run towards the monolith. Jump towards the monolith and use the monolith to double jump backwards towards the monk. Lock on mid air and the aerial deathblow red circle should appear. If done right, you can instantly down her from full health to 0.
(Works with v1.04) Using the same strategy above, but instead of jumping on the monolith approach very close to the monk from behind and using Aged Feather Mist Raven combined with Contact Medicine to teleport upwards, the deathblow red circle should then appear. It might be necessary to try multiple times from very close up to get the right angle, she should not be alerted if you fail the first time.
Sekiro Corrupted Monk At Fountainhead Palace (True Monk)
The True Corrupted Monk will be fought at the entrance to the Fountainhead Palace. She must be defeated in order to proceed further into the palace. The boss will have 3 health bars that must be removed to be defeated.
Phase 1
This phase is very similar to her illusion fight at Mibu Village, however, she takes significantly more Posture damage, which makes deflecting far more effective. She also has less health, considering there are 3 health bars. The same strategy of the Mibu Village fight can be employed here, as she has the same attacks. She tends to use her perilous attacks more often, though; additionally, she doesn't use her whirlwind attack until the third phase.
In this phase and all subsequent ones, she is susceptible to the Shinobi Firecracker, which can be used to briefly stun her; however, this is best used on the third phase.
Phase 2
At the start of this phase, the Corrupted Monk will disappear, and the area will be enveloped by mist. She then proceeds to summon three shadow illusions of herself to each attack the player three times. The shadows disappear in between attacks, making lock-on difficult. The shadows do not need to be defeated in order to the illusion to be dispelled; the Monk will eventually end the illusion and return to fight the player. However, she may cast the illusion again if the player is unable to deal the second Deathblow swiftly. If you are having trouble avoiding the shadows, killing yourself with a Bite Down pill will instantly dispel them.
It is possible to perform an aerial Deathblow on the Corrupted Monk as she casts or dispels the illusion by positioning Sekiro on the tallest tree near the temple and jumping down when the Corrupted Monk appears in a squatted over position. Doing this will immediately end second phase. This is best done the moment after the player Deathblows her in the first phase, by grappling the nearest tree branch and proceed to grapple to highest branch, located on the left side of the bridge (with your back to the Idol). From there, look down to see the true Monk and standing in the middle of the bridge; if so, plunge attack her from here. This branch is also extremely useful for dodging the spirits she summons during her second phase, as only the first one seems to be able to hit you there, and not often.
The rest of her moveset remains the same as the first phase; so employ the same tactics.
Phase 3
In this phase, a demon centipede will erupt from her body through her neck. She retains most of the moveset from the first phase, but is far more aggressive than before; on the other hand some of her attacks are a bit more telegraphed and predictable. In this phase she tends to use overhead attacks as a finishing move.
Notably, she gains a new perilous attack where the demon centipede spews toxic goo in front of her, which can inflict Terror. It is advised to sidestep or use the jump kick when she uses this and retaliate, as this attack has a quite lengthy ending lag. Another attack involving the centipede is a toxic cloud; however this is not a perilous attack.
In this phase she uses the whirlwind attack seen in her fight at Mibu Village. Simply run away when she starts spinning.
She is very susceptible to the Shinobi Firecracker in this phase. Simply use the Firecracker, hit the Corrupted Monk 3 to 4 times, and use the Firecracker again, essentially stunlocking her.
Living Force with the flamethrower also works very well; the burning state procs easily and does significant posture damage.
After depleting her third bar, make sure to perform both Deathblows when prompted to finish her for good. The player will receive the Memory: True Monk and the Dragon's Tally Board Key Item upon defeating this boss.
"Cheesing" at Fountainhead Place
As of update 1.03 you cannot deathblow the Corrupted Monk at the beginning of the fight. There's an extremely easy way to deal with the boss by exploiting its AI. If the player grapples the high tree behind the Corrupted Monk, a Deathblow can be used on her, essentially allowing to skip the second phase. This can be done as soon as the second phase starts, as she will disappear to summon her shadow illusions and return to the same starting point when dispelling it.
In the third phase, since Corrupted Monk doesn't gain resistance to "stun" effects like the Shinobi Firecracker and the Fistful of Ash after being hit, you can cheese the boss by stunlocking her with these items and hitting her between them (firecracker, 2 hits, firecracker, 2 hits, firecracker, 2 hits, etc.) until you deplete her posture or health bar.
Another way of "cheese" her is to attract her to the last tree of the right side of the stage (near to wall) in the start of the battle, basically when she appears in the stage, go back to the tree on your left (on your right if looking where you came from) and walk in the corner in the right side of the tree as if you were going to fall off the cliff (but you dont fall unless you jump). Do this until she starts attacking you, then jump to the cliff aiming the wall where you jumped, after that, wall-jump the wall to force her to perform the third hit of the combo and let the wolf fall. If done correctly, after you respawn it will be buggy at the edge of the precipice, and you can safely attack her.
Another of achieve the same result is jumping to the cliff and land on the another side of the tree, but in the most of the time the bug will not happen.
Immediately when the phase 2 starts, Fistful of Ash or Shinobi Firecracker and always don't let her teleport (recommended to use Ako's Sugar and/or Divine Confetti).
In the third phase, most of the time she will fall from the cliff and die. But he can also bug and can't die, and it can also happen to she still be bugged on the corner.
Sekiro Corrupted Monk Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Counter |
| Phase 1 | |
| Thrust Attack | Mikiri counter |
| Example Attack | Example Counter |
| Phase 2 | |
| Illusion attack | Deathblow when revealing herself |
| Example Attack | Example Counter |
Corrupted Monk Lore
Corrupted Monk Notes & Trivia
- The illusion version of this boss is one of two bosses that doesn't end with a special execution.
- The Fountainhead Palace monk can be poisoned with the Sabimaru in phase 1 and 2, but not in phase 3.
- Upon confronting the Memory: True Monk in order to increase Sekiro's attack power, it is revealed that she was the guardian of the Fountainhead Palace before being possessed, and that her name was Priestess Yao.
- She is based on a Japanese folk story of Yao Bikuni (八百比丘尼, "eight-hundred (years) Buddhist priestess"). The story begins with a fisherman who once caught a strange fish with a human face (Japanese mermaid-like creature called Ningyo, whose flesh is said to grant a long life). He served its meat to guests, but the guests were wise and hid the meat in their robes to avoid eating it. One man was drunk on sake, and returning home he thoughtlessly gave the meat to his daughter and she ate it. The daughter would later marry, but she stayed young as her husband grew old and died. After marrying and widowing again and again she eventually became a Buddhist nun and wandered various countries. But everyone she knew always died, she came to hate her immortality and her life was filled with emptiness and suffering. At the age of 800 years she finally died despite her immortality, having simply lost the will to live. The story is know as a cautionary tale for those who fear death and wish for eternal life.
- The Corrupted Monk is depicted as wearing a Hannya (般若) mask, often characterized by two sharp horns, metallic eyes, and a leering mouth. The Hannya mask is used in noh and kyōgen Japanese theater, as well as Shinto ritual kagura dances. It portrays the souls of women who have become demons due to obsession or jealousy.
- The Corrupted Monk is found during the beta version of the game, which was playable at E3, Gamescom and TGS.
Corrupted Monk Image Gallery
AnonymousFor the true monk version : using snap seed when she's just entered 2nd phase and starts using her illusion technique will stagger her and give you a free deathblow!
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Beat her after 5 tries only focusing on messing with her posture. Gokan Sugar is your best friend here
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Any tips for the Corrupted Monk version? She seems to have nearly limitless posture; with careful deflecting, I can take a tiny sliver of her health after deflecting some longer combos. Is that the main way to beat this boss? The high posture is messing me up; do I care to go for miikiri counters and jump kicks when the posture damage doesn't go anywhere?
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I used to hate fighting this boss, but now.... She's alright.
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True monk is also super easy, took me 4 attempts. Her jump into the arena and most of her attacks leave her wide open to a double ichimonji. This holds true for phase 2 as well; you can sneak in some normal attacks as she discorporates before summoning the ghosts. Phase 3 is the nastiest due to her even faster transitions between attacks. Use the purple gourd at the start of phase 3 and you should be able to survive through 2 worm attacks. She can now poise through ichimonji, so throw firecrackers to create openings for double ichi.
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The illusion was just a speedbump by the time I got to her, she's even easier than Genichiro. Deflection patterns are easy and slow, drops a memory, and with snap seeds being as potent as they are, I wonder whether rushing her immediately after Gyoubu and before Lady Butterfly, after grabbing ichimonji and midair combat art, wouldn't be a good idea.
I'd wager getting to the village so early would be far more difficult than the monk herself, those snake eyes *****es are ****ing awful.
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You can yeet yourself off the bridge after goomba stomping the swipes lmao
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got this down to a science because I thought they patched the 2nd phase lol. Double ichumingi first phase every chance you get posture builds super fast. save all spirit emblems for phase 3. I was running around like a methhead avoiding the invisible bugs in phase 2 I asvise the same. Phase 3 if you have dragon flash it doesn't matter what NG you're on, use it, run and repeat. If you don't have thar yet yet saving spirit emblems you can oil and flame him him just make sure you run fast as **** boi from end to end jump and dodge attacks as needed you'll be low on flasks more than likely. get down to low health and one tap for death blow and shotgun a PBR then go grab your girl (or guys) ass because you're done son!
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Literally my only issue with this boss is that on phase 3 she just starts one tapping like… bro wut?
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For the Illusion Monk, at least on Xbox, the contact medicine/mist raven cheese doesn't seem to work anymore - pillar method still does though
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I'm barely keeping my sh*t together in this run, so a boss fight with three deathblows was unappealing to me. I thought I would try the tree cheese to reduce those by one - trapping by the tree to the front right of the arena when you enter it and getting your first deathblow in.
Managed that (first try) and then.... No second or third round - immortality was severed (must have been a veeeery long fall down). Anyone seen or heard of this.
My bad really because, honestly, this boss fight can be rather fun. It just goes on for one more round than I'm really comfortable with. (I've *never* gotten that second round deathblow. But I have been smacked from the branch and sent hurling into the abyss many times! :D)
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If you run back to the entrance, all shadows will attack from roughly the same direction, enabling you to parry each one without changing direction much. The attack of each shadow is always the same, so the rythm doesn't change. After 3 "flurries" she'll always dispel.
For those who can't/don't want to aerial deathblow her after this attack. Might be possible to do it after the above - I haven't tried yet.
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After I beat Owl (Father), this mf was actually so easy. I didn't even bother learning her attacks. I deflected probably half of them and just straight up tanked her in Phase 1. Did an aerial deathblow to skip phase 2. At phase 3, whoever said to dodge the whirlwind attack must be high because that is literally free posture damage. After her whirlwind, just firecracker spam her to oblivion.
so annoyed that the sweeps and slashes are hardly distinguishable, keep defecting/jumping wrong
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Phase 1: jump on the right tree closest to where the boss lands at and jump behind her after her shockwave. use the piercing sabimaru until she is poisoned.
I was able to go through two full cycles until she was poisoned and she hit back. I got hit once, and healed. Deflect everything to raise her poise, no need to worry about getting hits in since the poison will bring her down low enough to get the yellow poise bar. Every time she jumps in the air, dodge so you can use Ichimonji: Double combat art to inflict massive poise damage. Try your best to keep the fight near the middle of the bridge/near the tall tree.
Phase 2: Do your best to get the aerial deathblow, If not, repeat phase 1, minus the poison strategy.
Phase 3: After your deathblow from Phase 2, eat an attack boosting sugar of your choice, I chose the Ako's Sugar. Then have firecrackers and fistful of ash equiped. When she stand up hit her with the ash. Hit 2-3 times. Some people suggest 3-4 hits but i had a few close calls where I was almost hit. 3 seems to be the sweet spot for me. after you hit 2-3 times then throw another ash and repeat until dead or you're out of ash, then substitute ash for firecrackers and continue.
I hope this helps anyone who is struggling.
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True Monk's challenge isn't the boss, it's how laggy that bridge is. Probably just me on that but lag in Sekiro is the WORST.
For 3rd phase throw ash then attack 4 times then throw ash and repeat.trust me,this works
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Really weird boss. The phantom version threw me off and I was convinced that I needed confetti to be able to damage her, therefore I didn't use any prosthetic tools. Turns out she was just blocking most attacks lmao. But yeah not the best boss by a long shot. Attacks are not that hard to parry but her poise regens so quickly and you deal so little since she likes to block so much, but then again maybe with some tools it would be easier.
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I just defeated the one at mibu village and I have to say that people who think this boss makes deflect useless are so wrong and probably gave us after deflecting 2 or 3 attacks. I cannot think of a more fitting boss to practice your deflects. Her attacks are also very easy to react to, and if you just keep deflecting every of her attacks, all her combos, then get in one or two attacks of your own between openings, then her posture bar will go up gradually.
just spam firecrackers in phase 3 and attack a few times in between
First tried illusion version,died many times at true one. Phase 2 grapple highest tree after 1st deathblow and then do an aerial deathblow,phase 3 spam ceremonial tanto and purple fume spark and jumping mortal draw
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Phase 1 : Use Ichimonji's double for fast kill
Phase 2 : immediately right after she enter phase 2 grapple on the tree then jump on her head and use deathblown this will make her enter phase 3 instantly
Phase 3 : I find mortal draw to be the best to kill her fast or alternatively just play slowly and keep calm don't panic and you should be able to get her easily
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First (REAL) main boss that I could defeat first try. Then I did a reflection of strength and beat it first try again. True version is easier than phantom version, change my mind
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Im bad and couldn't get the deathblow I was probably just doing it wrong so if you are like me and have to face the shadows don't panic. They spawn in 3 waves of 3 and they always spawn directly in front of where wolf is facing, just stand still and hold block that's all you have to do
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In Phase 1, do Ichimonji a lot. When Phase 2 starts, she teleports from wherever she was deathblown to the center, during this time you have to grapple to the tree branch furthest from the entrance and quick air deathblow her to entirely skip this phase. For Phase 3, either time your Mortal Blade move (but only once, twice is usually not advisable cuz she keeps doing quick ass moves) or spam Firecrackers and do Ichimonji. She is very vulnerable against Posture damage and recovers it relatively slowly regardless of how high her remaining HP is.
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I got destroyed more by the Mibu Village version of her then the Fountenhead Palace one
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Got to third phase and this is just ****ing misery. I hate this game so much but I will beat it once.
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I really ****ing hate the one in mibu village and i think its the worst boss in the game. but the one in fountain head is so much more fun to fight and is one of my favourites
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Phase 1. You can deflect until sweep attack, followed by ichimonji double. Repeat
Phase 2. Swing on the tree until illusions disappear then repeat Phase 1
Phase 3. Same as phase 1 but beware of her terror attack (side step to dodge)
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For the true monk, save your emblems for phase 3. Utilize firecracker to create openings and whack her with some ichimonjis. Incredibly easy to break her posture. you can do it!
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hot take: one of the worst bosses in the game. ruins the page of learning to deflect because it's pretty much useless against her
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this was a really fun and refreshing fight after the hell that was owl, im serious
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Pretty nice boss. Now that I've beaten the game quite a few times, I think she's actually the one boss that constantly gives me most trouble, and I think that's because (aside from firecracker-cheese) the only fairly consistent way to beat her is to simply deflect. Unlike most human-sized bosses, her perilous attacks are uninterruptible (a strategy I consistently use to win Genicihiro, for example), and she has quite a few very quick attacks, some of which make her jump back quite a distance as well. So with that in mind, my advice to new players or just players that are struggling with this fight and don't want to cheese it, is to take it easy, you can break her posture effectively with just deflecting, so just do that and you'll be fine. Every single one of her attacks can be deflected (except for perilous attacks and the third phase centipede terror breath, which is a very good attack to dodge and punish), so just do that and you'll fill her meter pretty quickly. With all of the deflect-upgrades, I think you can do each phase in maybe a minute or half a minute even.
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You can fight the Mibu village version before fighting Genichiro, while the other two bosses (Folding Screen Monkeys and Guardian Ape) are unavailable - the bell isn't on the table in Senpou Temple if you haven't talked to Kuro, and you can't enter the Sunken Valley without the Gun Fort Key she gives you (in NG+ you can activate the kite before fighting the bosses, but the Great Serpent isn't on the cliff yet, you need to take the Gun Fort path and attempt to cross the rope bridge in order to trigger the Serpent attack for it to be visible there).
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played sekiro for 8 hours straight and the combination of trying to kill her, then trying to kill owl, then trying to kill her AGAIN gave my ****ing left hand cramps from blocking so much. **** this game i love it so much
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I cheesed her by making her get stuck in the tree and dont regret a thing
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So I beat that one "young dude" at the end of the Hirata Estate revisited and then I encountered this boss... poor lady had no idea what was coming her way. My favorite encounter by far to deflect!
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From the section about "cheesing" her true form: "If the player grapples the high tree behind the Corrupted Monk, a Deathblow can be used on her, essentially allowing to skip the second phase."
I'm pretty sure this is intended, which is why the first death blow was even possible at some point. If it weren't, Corrupted Monk would be the only boss in the game with three proper phases that don't contain any lightning attacks to make things easier on the player.
This reminds me of Ceaseless Discharge where there's a unique death animation for getting him stuck in the gate, which wasn't removed in the remaster, yet to this day players insist it's a cheese.
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ghost version is the most obnoxious boss fight in all of sekiro
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After the struggle with illusion version, I was very demotivated when I reach the Vermilion bridge and she jumped forward with 3 lifes. But after few attempts I realized, that she is much easier there. Also I acidentally killed her instantly by plunge attack in her second phase, in my victory attempt. I thought it was bug then, but there it is stated, that it is legitimate technique.
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somebody needs to improve this sekiro pages. Too hard to read
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If you find the spin attack hard to deflect then one helpful tactic is to look to the right instead of the monk herself. As soon as you see the blade press to deflect.
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Easy pattern overall, just the shadow phase is a bit challenging, but you can just grapple around without the need for the cheese. Stylish boss, but one for the ego cause you can first try her at this point with your deflecting experience.
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If you are struggling with the shadow illusions of the True Form in Fountainhead Palace, there is a little cheese. As soon as she disappear, run to a corner of the stage and defend, facing away of the corner ofcourse.
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As of 10/16/2021, there exists a bug that can occur that will skip her 2nd and 3rd phase if you get her locked in the cheese spot by the tree on the right after the entrance. I don't know if anyone else has ever experienced this, but once I cheesed her into the tree spot and did the first deathblow, she eventually disappeared about 3/4 into her second health bar. I have no idea why this happened, I initially thought it was the start of the second phase as described in this article, but she didn't come back and I was rewarded with her memory and the Dragon's Tally Board. Has anyone else had this happen?
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if you struggle against illusion version you might try what helped me:get corrupted blade and tanto as well as try to stack all of the soul perks,before the fight use tanto and pallet to refil hp,when the fight starts swing cursed blade two times,then depending on the patten you might wanna dodge before 5th spin and repeat two cursed strikes,this way you will both build its vitality damage and her posture gage,when you run out of souls use tanto again and refil your HP with flasks,if you did this with all the cursed swings hitting it should be in about 25% hp,then all you have to do is fill the posture bar and win or use confetti and kill it
and i wasted on this thing more tries then the final boss before even thinking about using CB
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am i the only one who thinks the illusion monk was easier than the true monk? i beat the illusion monk my second try but the the true monk had me fighting her for at least an hour
maybe i’m just missing something
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just bought the game last week
at the true corrupted monk
my strat is to jump from point to point with the grapple during the illusions in the second phase. you do occasionally get hit but I can also say I saw the red-kill dot appear (but was unable to use it)k, so fyi as of the date of this post it appears 2nd-stage cheese is possible...
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with an umbrella, projected force, and dragon blood tanto, this boss is 100% trivialized. just tank all atacks with the umbrella, project force attack when she's done, and then run away to bring down your posture, rinse, repeat.
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That was amazing fight. If you really get into it, the back and forth becomes rhythmic. Haven't finished the game yet but this fight might be my favorite as of now.
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If you cheese this boss you’re lame
One of the best fights in the game if you do all 3 stages properly
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I love this boss but I wish it wasn't three phases long. Just the second phase and third phase would've been enough imo
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Divine Confetti does deal extra damage to her. Info here is wrong.
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this boss is pretty much trivialized by spamming the handful of ash and following up with the mortal blade
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The illusion is probably one of the hardest bosses without Kuro's charm and without consumables.
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After fighting the true form, the illusion version just feels like a slog with an endless posture bar
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I really enjoyed "True Monk" battle. I defeated her with acceptable style.
With "Corrupted Monk" I had a bad time.
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The Infested still confuse me a bit... So unlike Dragon Heritage, it doesn't appear that the Infested drain life from mortals upon reviving, do they? Otherwise, "killing" them without the Mortal Blade would spread something like Dragonrot.
Instead, the centipedes continuously revive the host until removed and are slain with the Mortal Blade. So are the hosts technically still "mortal," but merely puppeteered by the centipedes? Similar to those afflicted by Dragonrot, the infested mummies of Senpou vomit a sap-like fluid, which makes me think it contains the rot within the host, whom continuously degrade to the point of losing their minds, but are never permitted to "die." Except in rare instances, some monks pass on as if suddenly aware of their corruption, like the two high priests that give you the holy texts...
I would have posted this under one of those items, but their pages don't get trafficked as much. Anyone else got any insights/interpretations?
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Did anyone else find the corrupted monk harder than the True monk
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i can do phase 1 and 2 decently easily now but i have no idea what to do in phase 3
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In Mahayana Buddhism, there's the concept of Arhat monks who achieve nirvana to become Buddha, but are actually slightly corrupted because they fail to help elevate the rest of the world into enlightenment.
A lot of Sekiro's story seems inspired by the transition of Mahayana ideology into Zen Buddhism, with Buddha being affiliated with Dragon Heritage. Like the Dragon Heritage, Buddhism emerged far to the west of Japan, but the warring periods transformed Buddhist practice into a political tool, exhalting lords as spiritual figures. I suppose this is similar to the reasons for the Divine Child wishing to restore the Dragon Heritage to west.
The Fountainhead Palace perfectly illustrates Arhat, belonging to those graced with immortality, but who have become so engrossed in their purity that they become paradoxically impure. Senpou Temple suffers a similar corruption, having bastardized the Divine Heritage even further, even going so far to regard their enlightenment as a science, hunting down candidates for their experiments.
If the Corrupted Monk is like Arhat, then the Divine Child is Bodhisattva, which is a person on the verge of nirvana, but refrains from it in order to help others achieve the same enlightenment. Oddly, once you achieve nirvana, you can no longer communicate your wisdom with others, which also makes sense regarding how isolated Fountainhead Palace is.
(I hope I made it clear enough that I'm not saying Sekiro is 1:1 with Mahayana Buddhism, but that it kind of helps to understand the world it presents. Unlike a certain SOMEONE *cough Rakuyo cough*)
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Ok I just beat her, pretty easy for a main boss, just climb the trees and stealth deathblow her in the second phase and throw fireworks at her in the third.
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If anyone’s having trouble with the illusion one, just use snap peas until about half health were they stop working the use the phantom Kunai with tanto finish her off no need to worry about her posture
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I wonder what it was like to be one of the first people to fight a boss before there’s anything that can give you advice
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is the second phase skip intentional? They did fix the first phase skip so I'm assumming the second phase skip is not a bug?
Wait. What. She was easy as hell... I expected her to be way harder... Man, I shouldn't have used the FIrecracker, the first phases were a cakewalk and her last phase was way less aggressive than expected, it just took me 2 tries...
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if your a loser u can just spam fireworks and fistfuls of ash and just skip the entire 3rd phase
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either i’m loony or the second time around fighting the corrupted monk was easier than the first. granted i went through 9 gourds, 3 pellets and all my powders, i did it on my 2nd try
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anybody else find the glitch where the corrupted refuses to die? it keeps refilling the health bar and then kneeling like the fountainhead boss would when summoning clones. Killed it 5+ times with no result. ended up having to relaunch the game.
Im on the corrupted monk the one in Mibu Village the thing i found out and nerver seen anyone talk about is that phantom kunai take a lot of damage to her and since im out of snap seeds this is a good choice atleast i think so.
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How did someone figure out about aerial death blow at start of 2nd phase? Id never have thought about it in a million years
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LOL I love the piece of advice for Phase 2 there, "If you're having trouble with her illusions, just ****ing kill yourself."
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Illusion version: ash, mortal draw. ash, mortal draw. ash, mortal draw. ash, mortal draw. ash, mortal draw. ash, mortal draw. ash, mortal draw. ash, mortal draw. ash, mortal draw.
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When you enter the fight. On the left, you can jump over bridge's fence. Monk can't jump so she will detour around the tree jump back, she will turn around and chase you again when she near jump over the fence again and use mortal blade. Start all over for easy kill.
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despite what some of the below comments say. this fight is a perfect example of what i love about this game. They have long combos that punish you if you try to dodge them or block all of it forcing you to deflect. this is reinforced by the pauses in between attacks that let you get combos off if you deflect the attacks. the satisfaction earned from deflecting an entire string of combos and getting a empowered mortal blow which shreds at their posture is a feeling words cannot describe.
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So I just beat this boss, and from what I can tell, whether the illusion is an Apparition or not, it does take more damage when using the Divine Confetti, and when using the Mortal Draw. Seems important to know!
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this guy is brutal with the bell and kuro's charm activated
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It's honestly a pretty easy fight once you figure it out: Phase 1: just keep deflecting everything, jump over and kick her sweeping perilous attack, mikiri counter the thrust, I didn't even bother fightning her, her posture just went up and I used deathblow Phase 2: still the same concept, when she summons those shadows just stand near either wall of the arena and keep holding block, don't do anything, after that just keep deflecting and letting her kill herself.. Phase 3: you should have saved all your spirit emblems for now, just keep using firecrackers and hitting her 4 times, repeat.. I did this like 8 times and it got her down to 0 HP.. Just like with most bosses.. go there and just try to keep deflecting everything so you learn the patterns, most of the time that's all that's required (there are of course exceptions where deflecting doesn't do anything).
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You can ichimonji the***** out of her :D the leap attack leaves her stunned for a longer time than it does you, and blocking it doesn’t damage your posture too much. In the third phase, it’s even easier while she’s terror puking :D you can even get in some double ichimonjis if you’re fast enough
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coming back after years to finally attempt new game charmless, fake monk was a pain, surprisingly I first tried true monk first 2 phases are very easy phase three I cheesed with firecrackers after losing my +1 to terror lol
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