Great Colored Carp |
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| Location | Fountainhead Palace |
| Weakness | Truly Precious Bait |
| Reward | Great White Whisker |
Great Colored Carp (ぬしの色鯉, Nushi no Irogoi - Guardian Spirit Carp) is a Boss in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. This Complete Great Colored Carp Boss Guide gives you strategies on how to beat the Great Colored Carp easily, as well as tips, tricks and lore notes. Bosses are special, dangerous Enemies that feature their own arena, a large and prominent health bar, and a variety of unique moves and abilities. You will need to perform multiple Deathblows on them in order to defeat them, and filling their Posture Gauge is the only way to accomplish this. Decreasing their health will make their Posture Gauge deplete slower. The Great Colored Carp however is a special boss; it cannot be killed through combat and must be evaded to progress.
Feeding the Great Colored Carp a Truly Precious Bait (Pot Noble Koremori's or Pot Noble Harunaga's) will kill it.
Feeding the Great Colored Carp a Precious Bait will grant 1x Treasure Carp Scale the first time, and 3 the second time, from the feeding attendant. Subsequent feedings will prompt the feeding attendant to say he doesn't want the great carp to get fat, and will not reward you with more scales.
The Great Colored Carp will become non-hostile after feeding it Precious Bait. However, feeding it only Truly Precious Bait will NOT make the carp non-hostile.
Great Colored Carp Location
Where to find the Great Colored Carp in Sekiro?
- Fountainhead Palace (alive) / Sunken Valley Passage: Guardian Ape's Watering Hole (dead)
- This boss is not optional but killing it is not required to progress through the level.
Great Colored Carp Rewards
What do you get from defeating the Great Colored Carp in Sekiro?
- Rewards: Great White Whisker
- Giving the Great White Whisker to the Feeding Attendant Grants you 1x Divine Grass
Great Colored Carp Boss Guide Strategies
This enemy has a one-shot attack and can only be defeated by completing its quest.
Great Colored Carp Lore
According to the Great White Whisker the Great Carp is biologically immortal, yet the Fountainhead Palace's Lake is filled with Great Carp skeletons, meaning others have killed it before.
Theory: the current Great Carp is a former okami, evidenced by its numerous humanoid teeth. If true however, it's odd that it doesn't have red eyes like the confirmed former okami carps.
Great Colored Carp Notes & Trivia
Only feed one Precious Bait at a time, then talk to the Noble Father to receive Treasure Carp Scale(s). Feeding more before talking to him, is a waste of Precious Bait items
Voice Actor, homages, and other trivia go here.
Great Colored Carp Lore
- The Carp appears to be a brocaded carp of the type Taisho Sanke or Showa Sanke. The Legend of the Dragon's Gate tells the story of carp that may transform into dragons if they can leap up a massive waterfall [4]. As a consequence, carp are considered symbols of success and transformation in Japanese culture.
- Nushi (主), the first word in the Great Colored Carp's name although rendered in phonetics, most often indicates "lord" when used in modern writing. However, the ideograph 主 was once also used as a particle in the names of Shinto guardian spirits of nature. These were most often depicted as animals who resided in one place for a very long time and so developed supernatural power.
Great Colored Carp Image Gallery
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AnonymousThis mf is the only, THE ONLY enemy that kills me on NG+ cycles.
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In the Hirata State we can find a Mibu Balloon (I think it's the green one) on a boat. Which means there is a connection between Mibu Village and Hirata State. So the red eyes carp we find in Mibu Village is probably Harunaga in the present.
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I that killing it is useless, possibly an useless kill if fed Truly Precious Bait. The reward or prize, or treasure is trash...So I think I will leave fish alone, fed his Previous Bait, got my 4 scales, got my Lampis Azuli (or how's the name), and done. Live buddy, live.
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"This enemy has a one-shot attack". You mean its combo is only one attack in length? Because I got hit by it a couple times and it didn't one-hit-kill me, though I do have 9 out of 10 prayer necklaces at this point, and it did a TON of damage.
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If you head to its lair immediately after giving it the truly precious bait without resting at an idol, it seems to go completely docile. I thought it would be gone as I went to loot the items in the cave, almost had a heart attack when it swam up next to me. But then I realized it didn't care, even if I slashed at it with my sword.
Still gave me the creeps, though.
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why does the fat fish got to the bodihistasdas i screwed up by spelling guradian apes water hole i think the bait make him fly until the fish died and landed
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I can't be the only one that sees a human face when looking at the carp.
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Is there a way to get this great carp to eat the main character?
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Step 1: activate Demon Bell. Step 2: Travel to Fountainhead Palace - Flower Viewing Idol. Step 3: kill the flute noble behind you repeatedly. Step 4: Obtain 2 Grave Wax every 5-10 kills!
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How did the dead carp end up in the Guardian Ape's watering hole? Simple. We are told the waters of Ashina flow from the Fountainhead Palace through the land all the way to that watering hole, so anything floating downstream would end up there. Someone at the palace noticed their pet fish was dead, and flushed it. Case closed.
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You can feed two precious bait together to get 4 treasure carp together. Confirmed and tested.
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I must have found an extra 2 scales (or a bug)? Bought everything from Harunaga, but I have 4 scales left over
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I fed the Truly Precious Bait to the carp and both pot nobles are now dead? HALP
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FUN WITH TIME TRAVEL 1) Travel to Hirata which is 3 years in the past. 2) Get Truly Precious Bait from Pot Noble Harunaga to kill the GC. 3) Leave the past. 4) Harunaga can’t wait and kills the GC (corpse at the bottom of Fountainhead next to Headless). 5) Harunaga becomes the new GC (has human teeth). 6) Feed precious bait to the Harunaga GC. 7) Harunaga GC dies. Pot Noble kills himself over and over again in continuous time loop.
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Does it make a difference which Pot Noble's Truly Precious Bait you give to the carp?
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Just like everything else, nothing good will come of you taking the bait. Poor fishy!
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As if Fountainhead Palace wasn’t already one big reference to Bloodborne’s Fishing Hamlet, the Great Colored Carp makes me think this must have been somewhat like the relationship between Kos and the villagers. Go figure we kill it and find its corpse washed up elsewhere (though thankfully this time without a gross man-baby in its guts).
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You can feed it 2 Precious Bait at the same time and still get 4 scales you don’t need to talk to the attendant after the first one
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You dont need to feed one precious bait at a time. I just did it, fed three bait in a row and got all 4 carp scales.
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I am wondering why the death body of great carp appears in sankey valley?
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This shouldn't be considered a boss imo, just like the great serpent.
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The carps attack isnt a one-shot, its just high damage. I had 8 prayer necklaces and was able to get hit and survive. There was also enough time between attacks for me to heal to full health again and swim further in and repeat until i was past him
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After giving the Truly Precious Bait to the Great Colored Carp, I got the whisker from the headless ape location. I think gave the whisker to the Caretaker before receiving the 4 Treasure Carp Scales. After resting the Caretaker is dead and there is a bag floating within his corpse that I assume contains the 4 Treasure Carp Scales but I can't loot the bag because it appears to be floating to high. Am I screwed as far as getting those 4 Treasure Carp Scales?
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> he doesn't want the great carp to get fat He is already pretty fat for my tastes lol
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Can you kill the carp with your sword in the water cave and does this get you another item?
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What is the story explanation for the carp ending up dead in the guardian ape lake? I know that we poisoned it on behalf of the pot elders but how and why did it end up there?
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From the fountain head palace grounds idol, go through the palace with all the red robes nobles. Exit out the back, turn right and loo up tongrappe onto the roof. From here, go to the front of the palace on the left side ( left as in facing out towards the the rest of the area) look up and to the left carefully and you can grapple to a tree branch, then look down and grapple to another one. You are now in the detached part of the palace area, go towards the lake following the buildings until you reach the lowest platform. You should see an idol on the right and a tall, purple robed noble who is friendly on the left. Talk to him. The bell to feed the fish is located behind him on his left your right. Hope this helps
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IMPORTANT: If you are trying to buy all of the Pot Noble's wares in a single playthrough (When one dies all of its inventory is transferred to the other) You will need to grab the whiskers and turn them in to the Carp Servant at Fountainhead Palace. After you have done this, you must return afterward and claim the scales you did not receive from the Great Colored carp via feeding it bait. I've found that after this I was able to get every item from my Pot Noble and have a scale left over. (Provided you've found all other world treasure carp scales)
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Did I f*** myself out of getting more scales by giving him the Truly Precious Bait first? Or do I still get enough to buy the rest from the Pot Guy?
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Guys, how can I get to the Feeding Grounds? I just don't get it
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I killed the fish by feeding him the Truly Precious Bait (got from the potty guy) wondering where did he disappear to until I met his corpse in the Watering Hole
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When i saw it turn hostile, open it's mouth and lunge towards me my heard dropped because i thought it's going to vore me
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