Emma, the Gentle Blade | Sekiro Shadows Die Twice Wiki

Killing her is so harsh. At least Isshin craves battle and probably wants to die but she’s a doctor who only wanted to prevent bloodshed. There’s not even a memory of her to top it off.

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To be fair, I was, in fact, acting like I won't get command grabbed. For 70% of my HP. By a 4'11" woman.

My bad, G.

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this is probably the best comment section in this website

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When I first started Sekiro and fought Great Shinobi Owl, I thought that his attacks hit like a SUV. Then on NG+2, I fought Emma and holy hell she hit like a dump truck. Her Ashina Cross is basically a posture management skill check if you can't perfectly deflect all her attacks yet. You fail to deflect the first of two strike and your posture is nearly full, you're dead. 11/10 boss.

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When I first played Sekiro and fought the Great Shinobi Owl, I thought he hit like an SUV. But then I fought Emma, the Gentle Blade my a**, I thought, holy hell...she hit like a dump truck. The posture damage even if you deflect her attack is just enormous. Her Ashina Cross is basically a posture management skill check because if you haven't been able to memorize her moveset (thus able to deflect them) and your posture is nearly full prior to said Ashina Cross, you're basically dead. 11/10 boss. Shame it's a short fight.

Also, I swear her Ashina Cross have different deflect timing than Ashina Elite's or Isshin's. Hers is just faster.

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I just cant bring myself to do the shura ending

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Well good to know I'll never be happy again after killing the nice doctor lady who helped me through my first two playthroughs. For Other guys, a death blow to the throat is nothing personal, but putting a sword through her neck was genuinely a little upsetting, time to go to bed and pray I don't cry in my sleep because I've witnessed murder

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But why? Why would you do this fight? Why would you do any of it?

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Ako's Sugar helps to break her posture in no time.

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Dodge forward+left when she attacks,then do double ichimonji. Rinse and repeat. Or you can just hold sprint and bait attacks then come forward and ichimonji double or single slash

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Fu** kuro and emma. All my homies obey the iron code

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Man some of these comments are funny AF.. but damn she really is no joke, especially on ng+2

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After hitting with her grab attack, sometimes she follows up with a slice that you need to dodge away from, other times she does not use that. Is there something that'll tell in advance whether she'll use her sword? Are those two different grab attacks that look very similar?
I wouldn't be surprised in that case, because even with 5h+ spent on these bosses I still couldn't consistently dodge-iframe her grab, and if there were two different grab attacks with different timings than that'd explain things.

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"Be cautious as she likes to grab often, sweep moderately, and thrust sporadically."
damn she a freak

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I know I'll be sent to the horny mines for this or whatever, but I do find her movements during the fight quite alluring. Makes me wish we could've gotten a more complex fight against a swordswoman that fights like her.

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I appreciate the fact that even if what we're doing in this ending is totally immoral (and we only do it for the trophy), the game accepts that, and still gives us a fun fight, instead of a troll boss like Sans in Undertale.

The only problem with this boss fight is that it's too long: 3 phases, 1 for Emma and 2 for Isshin. That took some patience for me.

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Gentle blade?? What the hell would she be like if she was being rough??

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don't even think about trying to heal she'll ****ing teleport across the room to gank you

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This was the most sad fight of any fromsoft game. F

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Why do they expect us to beat this fight with just 1 hand on the controller???

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Get rid of her with Mortal Draw. She won't even touch you. Use the Tanto to replenish some emblems afterwards. She's so annoying I really don't have the patience to fight her every time.

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Should stay dead when beaten the first time, hate the run back to Isshin makes you fight this annoying fight every single time

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Easy mode is buffing with Yashirikus or Akos suger+Divine Confetti+Spiral Cloud Passage.

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Ds2 grab boxes return

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Doc Mitchell should have been like this.

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Is it just me or does she take absolutely no posture damage from Mikiri counters? I didn’t fight her until NG+2 though, so maybe that has something to do with it.

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Got a real Lord's Blade comin' at ya

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Emma, the "gentle" WWE suplex champion

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How do i beat this boss? The screen just gets blurried when the music intensifies and water seem to get out of my eyes

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She can three hit kill and body slams me while my hits scratchs her. Just imagine a doc trained in sword is wiping the floor with a trained shinobi whose father is the master shinobi. Not saying she's hard just use umbrella for her grab and ashina cross and deflect those damn normal attacks but dying to her? Man ftom is really pissing me off with this one.

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"i onLY HaVe A pasSiNg INTEReSt iN ThE BlAdE" Floaty gap close and disengage rivaling the sword saint and a ghostly apparition (o'rin). Janky delayed strikes (teehee I only have a passing interest in the blade), ashina cross but her damage is still endgame boss worthy, her long thrust feels like it has better range and shorter startup than ****ing Genichiro's edgelord mode, she can casually flip and throw the Wolf. I was afraid she'd pull out a (double) Ichimonji or Floating Passage. Madlass is probably trying to gouge Wolf's eyes out in the deathblow animation after Wolf stabs her in the throat. What is she even doing watching Owl cut us to pieces on the other routes, go **** his **** up for Kuro or maybe Isshin could get off his ass.

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Absolutely hated this boss

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Emma, the Gentle Blade: [body slams you]

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Is no one else going to point out that she is literally O’Rin of the water with Ashina Cross?

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I just spammed jump attacks. one of them hits her everytime and if you immediatly jump again she has only one move that can hit you, which she rarely uses

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Tried to do vault over on her maybe get a different deathblow, but Sekiro just jump on her and she was crouched down. Would have been interesting if it were possible to use the puppeteer ninjutsu. But that would be cheesing Isshin.

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I has question. I'm on the new game because I wanted to do the other 3 endings first and I'm now completing the Shura ending but Emma is not Emma the Gentle Blade for me. Her name is Emma Juken for some reason. I don't know if that is supposed to make her harder or something but she can almost 1 shot me with full 20 vitality.... I do have the Kuro's Charm if that changes anything. Anybody know why her name is different?

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You can cheap your way out of this fight very easy, she's powerless against the floating passage technique. Also vs mortal draw (but you'll kinda need the spirit emblems for the next phases).

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After deflecting her long combo, do a double ichimonji, then deflect again right after. One of the two ichimonji hits is guaranteed to do damage, both deal posture damage, and most importantly, both hits lower your posture gauge by a generous amount.

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How does Sekiro knows she is skilled with the sword? He never saw her wielding a blade in my first playthrough.

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Staying aggressive and continuously attacking her is the most important thing. Obviously this concept applies to pretty much every boss in the game, but especially so with her. She has an extremely fast forward dash attack that can catch you off-guard if you try to distance yourself, she doesn't have overly complex or fast counterattacks when she deflects you, and as long as you go toe-to-toe with her, you'll be able to react to her Ashina Cross attack and just hit her out of it instead of dodging away. Also, when you see her pose with her sword over her head she's going to do a four-hit combo. Parrying the last hit will allow you to throw her off balance and give you a free thrust attack, but even if you fail the last deflect and she throws you off balance, just immediately face the other direction and charge up a thrust attack. She will always follow up her four-hit chain with her Ashina Cross, and you'll have plenty of time to intercept it.

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柔剑 should be better translated into soft or flexible blade, suits her style better

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Spiral Spear Cheese She can be easily defeated using only spiral spear, you will use somewhere around 13 emblems, but you will save all your healing items for the upcoming battle, Simply Run around Her and poke her, it seems she gets double the damage if you hit Her just before she attacks, so you will want to aim for those moments to hit her with spear, keep your distance run around and hit her, it's just that simple. But remember, hit Her with the Basic thrust, dont try to do any charged rush with spear or pull Her. If someone could put it in The strategy section it would be nice :)

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That moment when you go for the "All boss" trophy and watch Emma get a deathblow from you. Close the game right there and now, become sad. Lay on your bed and think about your life choices and why you do them, then in the dark read the wiki about Emma. Feeling empty. You got gud in Sekiro but you'll never git gud with your feelings. 10/10 FromSoftware.

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This is so unfair. How am I supposed to kill this boss while I have these tears in my eyes?

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when she puts her blade away you should attack her instead of running away, she will lose balance and you can even land a free hit

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I wish there was a way to fight her without forsaking Kuro. Such a great fight (and the cutscene before it) with an awesome musical theme. I love Shura ending, but it would be nice if we could have a friendly duel otherwise :)

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I'll kill her only one time to get the platinum trophie on PS4. NEVER MORE. TOO MUCH WAIFU.

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Now I know why From makes bosses twice as tall as the play character. It's goddamn impossible to see the tells for Emma's attacks.

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Shadowrush, firecrackers, and patience helped me the most. This one was rough

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Grab attack sometimes hits even if you dodge away from her...

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The hit box on her grab attack is*****e

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She and O'rin share a lot of animations, i wonder if there is some reasons behind it, or if it is convenient.

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Emma the Gentle *****, ***** i hate this boss fight

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Easy strat to deal with her, if she goes for an underhand sword swing deflect it then you have enough time to double Ichimonji (not the charged version). If she overhand swings then deflect and get ready to deflect her double slash, rinse and repeat.

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The "Gentle" part in her title is a *****ing lie.

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Emma doesn't drop a memory, correct?

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I ship her with Sekiro so hard

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I don't think I've ever been this angry at a video game in my lifetime. All of her attacks look exactly the same, her grab has twice the range it should, and she has instant damage counters if you even think of trying to heal. I've done all bosses aside from the shura ending, and I legitimately think she's harder than Sword Saint Isshin.

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When firekeeper had enough of your shiit..

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At least she found a demon to fight...

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The Iron code is absolute

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if u choose to side with the Owl and kill Emma, I dont think u have humanity

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i can tell u there are no rewards ! :D

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NO NOT EMMA

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