General Kuranosuke Matsumoto |
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| Location | Ashina Castle |
| Deathblow Markers | 2 |
| Useful Tools | Loaded Shuriken Loaded Spear |
| Reward | Prayer Bead |
| XP | NG: 280 NG+: 2520 NG++: 3780 |
| Sen | NG: 89 NG+: 801 NG++: 1201 |
General Kuranosuke Matsumoto (侍大将・松本内蔵佑, Samurai General - Matsumoto Kuranosuke) is a Mini-Boss in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. This Complete General Kuranosuke Matsumoto Mini-Boss Guide gives you strategies on how to beat General Kuranosuke 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.
General Kuranosuke Matsumoto Location
Where to find General Kuranosuke Matsumoto in Sekiro?
- Ashina Castle: Found directly up the stairs, straight in front of the Ashina Castle Sculptor's Idol.
- This boss is optional as you can take a shortcut over the rooftops to a sculptor's idol on the left side of the castle in a window.
- Accompanied by some guards.
General Kuranosuke Matsumoto Rewards
What do you get from defeating General Kuranosuke Matsumoto in Sekiro?
- Prayer Bead
- There is a chest next to his spawn point containing a Divine Grass
- 280 / 336 (without Kuro's Charm) Exp (NG)
- 2,520 / 3,024 Exp (NG+)
- 3,780 / 4,536 Exp (NG+2)
- 11,340 / 13,608 Exp (NG+7 and beyond)
General Kuranosuke Matsumoto Notes & Tips
- This General hits harder and takes a bit less damage than the previous two.
- Use the Loaded Shuriken to interrupt his Posture recovery move if needed, and use Chasing Slice to follow up if you have it.
- The Loaded Spear works great on this enemy, because he has attacks that have poise, making it hard to hit him and get away. Use the Spear to deal damage and stay out of range.
- You can Stealth Deathblow him once if you kill all the enemies, and then run away and come back.
General Kuranosuke Matsumoto Lore
- He is likely based on the general Ujisuke Matsumoto (松本氏輔), one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the warlord Moriuji Ashina.
General Kuranosuke Matsumoto Mini-Boss Guide Strategies
Sekiro General Kuranosuke Matsumoto Video Strategies
Sekiro General Kuranosuke Matsumoto Strategy Writeup
From the Ashina Castle Idol, head towards the stairs and grapple yourself to the right roofs. Make your way towards the roofs that line the stairs. Near the center will be a grapple point to cross over the stairs and reach the left roofs. Head towards the boss while on these roofs until you can lock on him. Jump down and perform a deathblow. As the boss gets up, kill the rifle wielding enemies. If some of them live, descend the stairs so they won't have a proper angle to shoot you. You may now fight the General at the base of the stairs or lead him to the base as you bypass him and run back to kill the last rifle enemies. Alternate deflect and attacks to quickly whittle his health and posture. Avoid his perilous attack by jumping over the sweep then pressing jump again to damage his posture. Shurikens work well if you time it between his attacks and Shinobi Firecrackers can give you opportunities to get some attacks in.
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this the worst mini-boss ive fought yet hes completely retarded and shouldnt have been in the game if you have to fight him like hes a dark souls boss
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Goddammit Fromsoft, why is there enemy spam around every ****ing miniboss in the game? I could count the amount of minibosses that don't have 5+ guards around them on one hand.
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Has anyone tried leaving him alive to see if he'll still be there to fight the interior ministry when they arrive? Cause i'm on the "Make Ashina Great Again" bandwagon.
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I’ve probably fought this guy ~25 times since launch and I only just realized that he’s different from the first two generals.
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This guy is a joke just use the shurikens to pick his guards off then sneak up on him. He shouldnt be too hard if you know how to deflect.
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Kawarada and Yamauchi took me hours to beat (was still trying to break my old Dark Souls habits). Then I spent two days getting my tail handed to me by Lady Butterfly. But that's what I love about this game, you DO get better! I sauntered into the castle slaughtered the bull in my first try and looked up seeing this big boy on the stairs. I had one healing gourd left and normally I would have run for cover but I was so pumped and in the zone after hours of getting my teeth kicked down my throat by the bosses leading up to him I figured "I got this" and man did I ever. Killed him first try! I really think From uses three nearly identical generals on purpose so you can see how much you've improved over time.
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This *****er took me so long on NG+. He has this one dash attack that I don't have the reflexes to react to, and its an instakill with no charm and bell demon. And just generally learning to perfect deflect him is agony, but if you don't you die to chip damage.
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Getting hit mid air during his horizontal swings is ridiculous. Is this made by fromsoft's interns?
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Don't know why, but this motherf*cker gave me more trouble than the f*cking Seven Ashina Spear on my first run
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Where do you find him after the interior ministry show up in the castle and you haven’t beat him yet?
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jsut jump down and deathblow him then run around and pick off the riflemen. once theyre dealt with continue your fight with general buttmunch.
The best strategy for this guy seems to be, to first, take out all the rifle guys with the load shuriken on top the roof, and then stealth killing his first health bar. Other than that, just finish the fight like all the other samurai generals. Still overall a fun mini boss like the other samurai generals.
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Wonder if theres any lore as to why this guy drops Unrefined Sake...thats Isshins favorite drink. He's also in an interesting spot on the map and talking to monkeys.
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Really straightforward, pretty simple tactics. Get the drop on him and remove one deathblow, then take out the gun adds. Then just dodge, deflect, attack. Repeat until deathblow. Lol only miniboss I was able to kill first go, but I'm bad so *shrug* probably got lucky.
you could also leave him until you climb up the roof. from antechember idol drop down to the hall underneath, kill the few enemies in the hall (all easily and quickly stealthable) and open the big door.
this is the door thats right behind him so now you can backstab his first deathblow and lure him into the building to fight without having to deal with the two billion trash enemies that are around him.
(without having to kill these annoying enemies each attempt would take 2 minutes instead of 20)
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