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| Location | Ashina Outskirts, Ashina Castle, Sunken Valley, Fountainhead Palace |
| Deathblow Markers | 2 (Ashina Outskirts, Ashina Depths, Sunken Valley) 1 (Ashina Castle, Fountainhead Palace) |
| Status Abnormality | Terror |
| Weakness | Divine Confetti Malcontent Phoenix's Lilac Umbrella (with Projected Force) |
| Reward | Ako's Spiritfall (Ashina Outskirts) Gokan's Spiritfall (Sunken Valley) Gachiin's Spiritfall (Ashina Depths) Ungo's Spiritfall (Ashina Castle) Yashariku's Spiritfall (Fountainhead Palace) |
| XP | Ako's Spiritfall (Ashina Outskirts) NG: 812 NG+: 2639 NG++: 3958 Gokan's Spiritfall (Sunken Valley) NG: 2640 NG+: 4224 NG++: 6336 Gachiin's Spiritfall (Ashina Depths) NG: 1840 NG+: 3680 NG++: 5520 Ungo's Spiritfall (Ashina Castle) NG: 1960 NG+: 3136 NG++: 4704 Yashariku's Spiritfall (Fountainhead Palace) NG: 2840 NG+: 4544 NG++: 6816 |
Headless (首無し, Kubinashi) is a Mini-Boss in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. This Sekiro Headless Guide features all Headless Locations, special tactics and videos on how to defeat Headless easily, as well as tips, tricks, weaknesses and lore notes for the Sekiro Headless mini-bosses.
The Headless are large, pale-bodied apparitions with no head, from which they get their namesake, wearing only a fundoshi. They wield a large glowing purple blade which they use to attack.
The Headless are highly resistant to normal blades; the most efficient way to kill a Headless is by using a Divine Confetti which will allow your blade to harm them for a significant amount of damage. The Headless surround themselves with a black mist that stops those near them from sprinting or dashing, this can be dispelled by attacking them consecutively and dealing enough damage with a Divine Confetti empowered blade. Their attacks and abilities inflict the Terror status.
Mini-Bosses like Headless 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.
Sekiro Headless Location
Where to find the Headless Mini-Bosses in Sekiro?
- Ashina Outskirts (Ako): Found near the Underbridge Valley Idol. Head back up and along the cliff until you reach a small shrine with a note. Use your Grappling Hook to jump across and then turn back to the cliff. Jump across and grab on to the ledge and shimmy across it to the left. Then drop down and head inside the cave to find Headless.
- Alternate Route: Senpou Temple, Mt. Kongo : From the Bell Demon's Temple Sculptor's Idol, go back to the room with the centipede enemy, and then press up against the rotating wall (has a figure of a man) to fight this Headless.
- Sunken Valley (Gokan): From the Under-Shrine Valley Sculptor's Idol. Turn around and grapple across the gap there will be two rifleman to kill. From the rifleman double jump and climb the wall across the small gap. Jump up another wall then hug the next wall and shimmy across the ledge. This is a previously-inaccessible location in Ashina Outskirts. Run past or defeat the three phantoms and dive into the body of water to the right. Follow the cave until you can surface. The Headless will be in-front of you in the cave. You cannot reach this enemy until you obtain the Mibu Breathing Technique Latent Skill.
- Ashina Depths Hidden Forest (Gachiin): Hidden in the mist on the lower level of the Hidden Forest close to the buddha statue. From the monk at the Buddha Statue, grapple to the tree opposite the buddha statue, The Headless will be below you. NOTE: It is recommended to wait until you have defeated the Mist Noble and cleared the area of mist and Spirits. The Headless will remain after clearing the mist.
- Ashina Castle (Ungo): Found at the bottom of the lake near the Lookout Tower just prior to the Old Grave Sculptor's Idol. You cannot fight this enemy until you obtain the Mibu Breathing Technique Latent Skill.
- Fountainhead Palace (Yashariku): At the bottom of the Great Carp's lake to the right of the Flower Viewing Idol.
Headless Rewards
What do you get from defeating the Headless Mini-Bosses in Sekiro?
Ako's Spiritfall (Ashina Outskirts)
- 812 / 974 (without Kuro's Charm) Exp (NG)
- 2,639 / 3,166 Exp (NG+)
- 3,958 / 4,750 Exp (NG+2)
- 11,875 / 14,250 Exp (NG+7 and beyond)
Gokan's Spiritfall (Sunken Valley)
- 2,640 / 3,168 (without Kuro's Charm) Exp (NG)
- 4,224 / 5,068 Exp (NG+)
- 6,336 / 7,603 Exp (NG+2)
- 19,008 / 22,809 Exp (NG+7 and beyond)
Gachiin's Spiritfall (Ashina Depths)
- 1,840 / 2,208 (without Kuro's Charm) Exp (NG)
- 3,680 / 4,416 Exp (NG+)
- 5,520 / 6,624 Exp (NG+2)
- 16,560 / 19,872 Exp (NG+7 and beyond)
Ungo's Spiritfall (Ashina Castle Tower Lookout)
- 1,960 / 2,352 (without Kuro's Charm) Exp (NG)
- 3,136 / 3,763 Exp (NG+)
- 4,704 / 5,644 Exp (NG+2)
- 14,112 / 16,934 Exp (NG+7 and beyond)
- Bulging Coin Purse after Ungo's Spiritfall
Yashariku's Spiritfall (Fountainhead Palace)
- 2,840 / 3,408 (without Kuro's Charm) Exp (NG)
- 4,544 / 5,452 Exp (NG+)
- 6,816 / 8,179 Exp (NG+2)
- 20,448 / 24,537 Exp (NG+7 and beyond)
Headless Notes & Tips
- IMPORTANT: Without Divine Confetti, Headless fights can be much more difficult.
- Damage without Divine Confetti effect gets reduced in 10 times.
- IMPORTANT: The Terror Status Abnormality can be cured with Pacifying Agent. You can unlock Fujioka the Info Broker who sells them if you continue on until Ashina Castle before facing Headless and similar enemies, or find these across the world.
- It is recommended to not attempt a Headless fight if the player does not have at least 2 Divine Confetti and 2 Pacifying Agents, at the very least.
- Mottled Purple Gourd can be used to reduce Terror build-up significantly.
- Loaded Umbrella and specifically Phoenix's Lilac Umbrella can be useful for Headless fights as its deflect prevents any Terror build-up. The Projected Force skill, when used in conjunction with this version of the Umbrella, will add the Divine Confetti effect, eliminating the need for it.
- Malcontent can stun Headless, allowing you to get free hits in, but only three times per fight.
- A known bug when fighting a Headless is that if a Deathblow is preformed on it right as it starts to turn invisible, it will remain invisible until it is killed or the fight is reset. This bug is also present if Malcontent is used to stun the Headless right before it starts to turn invisible.
- The bug can also follows if he appears behind th player when he's invisible, he will strike down the player and shove it's hand through the rectum to grab and pull their head backwards.
- Headless are one of the few enemies in the game that you cannot use Stealth Deathblow on.
- Parrying the sword swings of a headless 4 times in a row will cause it to disappear and reappear behind you to attempt a grabbing perilous attack which is easily avoided and highly punishable.
- Ashina Cross combined with Divine Confetti and Ako's Sugar can be used to devastating damage. The headless slow swinging speed can be exploited to quickly release the attack with less risk of being exposed. Tested successfully on NG+7 without Kuro's Charm and Demon Bell.
- The underwater Headless fights are considerably easier for these reasons:
- They require 1 deathblow instead of 2
- Your movement is not limited by the mist created by the Headless above ground.
- You do not need Divine Confetti to fight them. This is possibly due to the fact that you can't use most items underwater.
- It is possible to use Divine Confetti prior to going underwater, which makes the fights fairly trivial.
Headless Lore
- Lore Theory: It is implied that the Headless are apparitions of the warriors the sugar candies are named after. This can be inferred by the first line of text in their respective Spiritfall items: "Fallen, headless spirit of..."
- Lore Theory: If the Headless executes a successful grab, it is possible it pulls out Sekiro's "shirikodama" - a mythical ball said to contain a person's soul, which is located inside the anus. This behavior is from another mythical Japanese creature called the “Kappa,” which could be found in water. This may explain why there are headless underwater as well.
Sekiro Headless Mini-Boss Guide & Strategies
Sekiro Headless Video Strategies
Sekiro Headless How to Fight, How to Beat, and Cheese
--Regular Confetti Strategy--
For this fight, you'll need Divine Confetti to deal considerable damage to this mini-boss. To start the fight, you'll want to jump and land as near as possible to the him to begin dealing early damage while he's "waking up". Attack him as fast as you can because the Headless won't be attacking in the first few seconds (even though it looks like it's winding for an attack). During the fight, the Headless will cast a mist around him that will slow your movement. To negate the effect, continuously land blows and that will disperse the mist surrounding him. Headless also has an attack where he becomes invisible, only to reappear behind you and perform a grab attack. When this attack commences, quickly turn around and start swinging. Your successful hits will pull him out of the invisibility cloak. His attacks are slower than average and easily deflected, but he also launches sweep attacks, so be ready...
Fighting the Ashina Outskirts' Headless is best reach through from the Demon Bell Idol located in Senpou Temple, Mt. Kongo. Right before starting the fight buff yourself with the following: Divine Confetti to deal damage, Pacifying Agent to resist and remove terror, Pellet to minimize health damage, and an Ako's Sugar to deal extra attack damage and posture damage. The reason for the Pellet is coming from this specific way may cause the Headless to attack early although it seems to be uncommon. Alternatively, popping the Pellet create a small buffer window where if your deflect wasn't perfect it will recover your last health. Jump into the center of the arena staying close to the direction you came in so you can quickly lock-on the boss and attack. You can get about 4 attacks in before you need to start deflecting. Most of his attacks are slow that you can chain deflect into attack and repeat until his posture is broken. Deathblow him and pop another Pacifying Agent to remove your terror bar. Repeat once more until he is defeated. The headless may teleport in which case he will almost definitely be right behind you so attack the air behind you to get some early hits in. The Headless likes to chain his teleport into a grab so jump away of dash. The mist he creates will slow you down so it helps to be aggressive to negate the mist altogether. Even attack power 4, this boss shouldn't take too long. -
--NO Confetti / NO Pacifying Agent cheese strategy--
First, to execute the cheese we need to understand a bit about the way the Headless act. Here are somethings to remember:
- Headless will never start an attack if you are behind them. "Behind" is actually quite generous here as it seems to be the full 180 degree back arc.
- If you are behind a Headless and if it has not started an attack it can do only one thing: turn ~180 degrees. The direction he turns depends on if the player is to the right or left of the Headless. The amount rotated is always the same, approximately 180 degrees, only the direction of the rotation changes.
- Headless will always telegraph their teleport ability. It will start with a normal horizontal swipe. If the player is close enough it will be followed up with the large long lasting 360 degree swiping attack. At the end of this attack the Headless will go invisible and attempt to teleport. It will try to prioritize behind the player; however if the space behind the player is blocked then a seemingly random location near the player (including the front) will be picked. If the player is inaccessible (grappling/on a branch/etc...) then the Headless will cancel the teleport. After a successful teleport the Headless will always try go for his grab attack.
- Headless will only do his ranged homing attack when the player is at a far range or if there is something blocking the line of the site to the player.
All that is needed to execute this cheese understanding 1 and 2. By getting right behind the headless, you can control his movements to perfection with room for error. Whenever the Headless turns he gives a small pause which is enough time for a single attack. Simply attack and then rotate with the Headless. Since you are behind the headless he will never start an attack. To keep this up you will need to hold down the sprint button consistently due to the slowing mist. The only hard part about this is determining to which direction the Headless will turn on his rotate. It will always be towards the player, but it can be a bit hard to determine when you are right behind him. If you are not behind Headless when his rotation ends, he will begin an attack.
The challenge is getting behind the Headless consistently. 3 and 4 help with this. The teleport can be baited by standing just outside the mists range. The telegraph is very apparently once you realize it requires a series of very specific melee swipes to occur. Once Headless teleports he will attempt to do his grab attack, if you are moving forward when he teleport he will always miss and continue to try to grab for several seconds. During these second you can run to the left of Headless (his right) with ease and get behind him and start the cheese.
The teleport is the safest way to begin the cheese strat, but if you can get behind headless during any attack you can start the cheese. Once his attack finishes he will be 100% predictable as long as you are behind him. I found the vertical swipes to be the second easiest. Just make sure you don't get to far to have the headless start range attacks. Maintaining the cheese will take bit of practice to keep it consistent which you may need to do for the harder headless (The one in hidden forest took me about 20 minutes at 4 sets of beads and 2 memory upgrades).
TL;DR: Stay in the 180 degree arc behind Headless and do a single attack, then move, to ensure you are always behind him. This strategy was posted by u/treemakesagame to r/Sekiro on March 24th, 2019. This guide has not been edited other than for formatting, spelling changes and readability for the Sekiro Wiki.
Sekiro Underwater Headless Video Strategies
Sekiro Underwater Headless Strategy Write-up
--Mottled Purple Gourd, NO Confetti / Pacifying Agent Underwater Headless Strategy--
For this strategy, simply use the Mottled Purple Gourd before the fight starts. No additional consumables (other than perhaps a healing gourd) are required (On the Headless with an extra apparition, kill the apparition first. Do not relent, do not move away from his melee and kill him asap even if it kills you provided you have a Resurrection).
The trick is to never leave melee, ever. Be on the offensive, always. The moment it looks like he's channeling anything or about to do a big swing (be it the Perilous Attack or anything that remotely looks like any kind of channel or cast), dash-swim through it so you end up behind him. While he's channeling his stuff, you can calmly swim back and hit him in the back (or use the time to heal). Mottled Purple Gourd will ensure you cannot die of Terror even if you make a mistake and get hit. Rinse and repeat.
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Trivial if you leave them until late game. They seem like they’d be early game because you find them early game. Don’t be fooled. Ironically by the time you get unlimited confetti you really won’t need much of it.
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Lore theory: This is a long shot, but I believe the headless were warriors who failed their masters, just like the drunkards. According to the seventh prayer bead necklace, the Juzou used to work for a master, most likely Isshin. However, He was banished from drinking too much and became the leader of the hirata bandits.For all of the spirit fall descriptions, it says “fallen spirit”, meaning all the headless(ako,ungo, etc.) failed their masters and now they roam as spirits. For further clarification of this theory, the headless and the drunkards even share the same deathblow animations. However,unlike the headless, you can stealth deathblow the drunkards, and the animation shown is sekiro slicing and cutting at their neck. This also gives a reason why none of the headless can be stealth deathblowed, due to their lack of a head and neck.
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The final underwater headless at the palace annoyed me somewhat, but the purple gourd works underwater. Drink, lunge attack after he throws a wave, swing once after the lunge, and run away. The second, illusory headless can't reach you with his wave attacks if you run away in the direction of the okami leader bonfire. The little wisp things you have to dodge are very annoying, but you can heal and reapply purple gourd as necessary.
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by FAR the worst arena of all of them... small space, constantly applying slow, wide swings that apply terror if you parry (and ofc if you get hit), then you have getting stuck on rocks when dodging or trying to move back to REPLY THE EFFING CONSUMABLES OR FINALLY, you get stuck on the edge of the pit as the cave you see, has a small level difference but you cant simply roll off that! No, you need to jump off or there goes that nice dodge where you were hoping to get that last hit in or get a quick pacifying agent on... the arena makes this fight 10 times harder than it actually is...
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would be effing great if applying confetti in combat didnt take 3 days...
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this boss disregard everything you learnt and force you to re-learn everything, and you have to grind for a consumable to re-try him again.
grinding just to re-try a fight is just bullshit design, and someone Fromsoft has a briliant idea to copy-paste this guy 5 times through out the game.
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A word of warning: the Umbrella does not block his grab attack if he's behind you, if you try to be smart and save Emblems by staying under the Umbrella after deflecting the 360° attack, you still need to walk forward to avoid the grab.
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"Wtf!?!...did he just...?"
Every player upon seeing his grab animation for the 1st time.
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Man who keeps putting those ahh sucking minibosses around every corner
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the divine confetti umbrella with projected force makes these fights wayy too easy
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for the underwater one in the fountainhead palace you can take out the other spectral version to make it easier as it halves the projectile spam
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Let's be real, difficult or not, this mini boss is absolutely terrifying and therefore rightfully inflicts Terror buildup.
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Not liking Terror does not made it a bad mechanic, in fact it makes perfect sense for it to be a thing while fighting apparition type enemies (I’d say the same thing about Frenzy in Bloodborne). The game shows you the type of enemy that will have that status effect buildup, and while you might die a couple times learning that, it’s a FromSoft game and you’re just gonna die learning some things. But the point is, you do have to learn. It also gives you all the tools to deal with this status effect. Yes, the tools are consumable or limited use and you might have to do some item management during a fight, but it’s a great way of making the player consider more during combat than just l1 or r1 spam. It makes the encounters feel unique and plays into their haunting aesthetic. Point being, it might catch you off guard on the first attempt of two, but otherwise if you succumb to Terror (or Frenzy for that matter), it’s on you.
That being said, these are come of the coolest mini bosses in the game even though I’ve gotten my ass kicked by them plenty of times. Especially in my first playthrough.
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I am mistaken or one of these guys just ripped my soul out and shoved it in his butt ?
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I spent most of my playthrough super scared of these guys, had tried using the lotus umbrella etc but was still getting my ass kicked. Then I came back (fairly late game, vit 19, atk power 10) and tried just actually using divine confetti for the first time (was scared of dying and losing it before, but in late game you can just buy it from merchants and have plenty of money to do so). Absolutely shredded them, it was easy. Didn't even use the umbrella and tried using Malcontent once or twice for the novelty, but really didn't need it at that point (though malcontent is super helpful). The sword alone with divine confetti was doing serious damage. Just went on a tour to each one and first tried all of them. So just use the damn confetti, it helps a ton. That and the purple gourd you can buy in mibu village is super helpful (basically a refillable version of pacifying agent).
Note I'm referring to the land dwelling ones above, the underwater ones are actually quite easy. just dodge and swing, no confetti needed. Can use an Ako's candy on the surface before diving down if you want. For the fountainhead pair, there's actually a primary and a secondary/phantom one. The phantom one has far less HP, so just take him out first, making the remaining headless quite straightforward.
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for the underwater headless all you need is some healing incase you get hit, all you have to do is dash around him while spamming thrusts and he likely wouldnt even hit you once
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Restricted dodging? check. Instant Death Terror Buildup? check. Almost necessary farmed item to make doable? check. Slow abnormal attacks that two shot you? check. Shitty Reward? check. Grab attack that can't be jumped over or mikiri countered, that's literally up to lucky positioning?..... check. Well designed 10/10
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I can style on every single enemy/boss in this game, but every single playthrough these ****ers manages to make me look like some punk ass ***** every single time.
**** you.
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Yeah people hate this guy because he does terror, he has an aoe slowing affect, and he likes to shove his fist up your anus, but my man has a badass sword so god damn cool.
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How do y'all handle the item juggling? The gourd, confetti, terror meds.
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Him sticking his hand in your ass is not a bug. Zullie the Witch did a good video on it. In mythology the “shirikodama” is the vessel that houses the soul and is said to reside in the anus. The headless is just taking your soul out of your butthole. Which makes him even more filthy.
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I am trying to defeat headless with base vitality/posture atk1 belldemon charmless no items by punishing teleport and perfect deflects. Anyone who has pulled this off? My nine healing gourds are not enough for me.
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literally jumped out of my seat the first time this guy teleported behind me in the dark and pulled my soul out my anus
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I will always hate enemies that require an item you get in limited quantities and that activates only for a short time to beat.
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i dont like how they moan when they shove your soul up their arse
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Ungo headless can be cheesed by standing on the edge of the wooden plank that goes into the moat, locking onto the headless from above the water, and spamming the Phantom Kunai.
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Their grab literally yanks the soul from your anus. Yikes.
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I feel like malcontent really trivializes these guys, but I don’t care to fight them without it because their slow aura annoys me. That probably makes them my least favorite mini boss.
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In late-game this can actually be a cakewalk. Pop an Ako, Confetti, Pacifying. Purple umbrella + spam r1 (also use ceremonial tanto for extra emblems)
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Lamest attempt at difficulty ever. From must've ran out of ideas
- So what's gonna be the gimmick of this enemy?
- Just make everything slow and retarded lol
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Still can't believe FromSoft give us access to this boss so early in the game. I somehow missed the right part and go straight to this mf and found a shortcut back to idol. My big brain after a few hours in the game and with the ego of a Soul-game veteran thought that was the right part. Of cause got **** up and had to go beating Lady butterfly. Beat her and also got 3 confetti. Went back, beat him with 1hp left then realized he's optional on wiki. **** me.
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i was playing with randomizer and decided to replace every single enemy in the game with the headless.
that was extremely terrifying.
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Some advice for anyone having trouble with these, mottled purple gourd, divine confetti, yashariku's (sugar/spiritfall), then run in, use Malcontent, then just start swinging, you'll probably either break their posture or health before they even attack, death blow, use Malcontent again, repeat.
Used this strategy in the late game with 13 attack power on basically every non-water headless and it turned them into an absolute joke.
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Stop posting bullshit about "Git Gud", or "go play something else" you scumbag "fans."
Some people will never be able to do what you can do, and they aren't "selfish", or "entitled" for wanting to be able to beat a video game they bought in the privacy of their own homes.
Who the f-uck is selfish here? The disabled fans who just want to experience the game in a way that is actually fun, or the elitist b@stards who are smugly satisfied with their own accomplishments and lying to themselves and everyone else about not only the game, but life itself?
NOT EVERYONE'S BRAINS, AND BODIES ARE MADE THE SAME YOU LYING "GIT GUD" SCUM. Your experience playing Sekiro isn't going to be identical to every other humans on the planet! How ignorant do you have to be to assume that?! Easy modes, or mods to make the game easier if necessary literally doesn't affect you in any way since Sekiro has 0 pvp whatsoever anyway! How DARE you tell disabled gamers who wanna play to
**** off, and "play another game" as if nothing could be done?! As if nothing SHOULD be done?! If you want the game to be harder for you then make it harder for yourself. Don't demand the world play the way you do!
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What poorly designed copy and paste mini bosses. I wish we got to fight the warriors themselves instead of their shitty spirits.
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fun fact after pulling whatever from your anus they put it in theirs. gross
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For Ungo's Headless (Ashina Castle Moat), I just kept dashing around it to avoid the white strand things it fired until it performed a melee. After that, I dashed in and attacked once, then ran away like a ***** to repeat the process. Got hit a few times, but as long as you keep on dashing youre bound to get in a heal sooner or later, and you can stall indefinitely to lower terror. Took a pretty long time, but it works!
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I have always despised these sorts of enemies in From's games that practically require annoying to get consumables like Confetti.
Sure, you can kill them without it, but it's so ****ing annoying. Just a big damage sponge and your mobility is limited as hell.
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cheese with "staying behind him" doesnt work, he keeps tracking you even while attacking
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this boss is a joke once you learn a deflect doesnt make your terror meter go up, add the terror gourd to the list and woah, much better.
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I'd personally recommend just moving in for the real one first in the underwater fight, because then you can attempt it *with* divine confetti, which you'll want to apply before entering the water. Then just swim at the real headless and start frantically swinging your sword. This usually works pretty well for me, although I sometimes needs a few attempts for it to work, because if you accidentally get caught in multiple shots at the same time, you'll probably die.
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This is one of the few enemies in the game I genuinely think are atrocious. Terror is an awful mechanic no matter where its used, and here it builds up like crazy and takes half an hour to go down if you don't have pacifying agents or don't wanna waste them. Took me until probably my 10th playthrough before I even TRIED killing one.
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I find the underwater headless are pretty hard since you can't heal and can't use items underwater. If you leave the water, the headless health will back to normal and you'll have to start again
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"It is possible to use Divine Confetti prior to going underwater, which makes the fights fairly trivial." - bullshit.
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isnt pulling stuff out of your anuses the kappa thing?
i wonder what connection these guys have to them
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These guys and the other apparition enemies with the terror balls and terror beam are incredibly simple once you have the purple umbrella shield.
From trying them early in the game to progressing enough to get the umbrella, it's a complete 180 in difficulty.
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what if these were the other 5 seven ashina spears because there were only 2 left right? and they were heroes of ashina which is close in that seven ashina spears were the most loyal and honourable of samurai, veterans that isshin thought to award with a high position of power and a spear, of course they dont have spears so there are bullet holes in this statement
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I never thought I would get fisted to death by a fat, headless demon with a katana...Thats life i guess
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Hardest bosses in game ranked from one to eight
1. Demon of Hatred
2. Headless 1
3. Headless 2
4. Headless 3
5. Headless 4
6. Headless 5
7. Isshin Sword Saint
8. Owl (Father)
This is my list
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5 HEADLESS?!!!
Holy **** i never knew about that, only killed two of them on my first playthrough LMAO
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Any boss that forces you to use a limited amount of items to beat it can get ****ed, this is just an exercise in frustration, the only boss I absolutely despise in this game, and there's ****ing five of them -___-
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While I understand the lore significance of these 5 bosses, holy **** does it diminish the rest of the game.
It's like Sekiro itself is a perfectly well cooked steak given to you at a well-known restaurant. Then the addition of the 5 headless is akin to your waiter taking a fat ****ing dump on your dinner
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I haven't seen anyone mention this but if you have the lazulite flame barrel and use the prosthetic attack for jt you don't need confetti (at least for the land ones)
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I deleted the game after this 1 lol it’s a game not a job how can u enjoy this bs it’s should be a requirement to play a demo digitally before purchasing because I would of never spent a dime
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How do they have hair if there's no head attached to it though
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Easy with purple gourd and divine confetti. Shredded in like 50 seconds he's so slow
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underwater ones are the worst, dont waste you confetti or any items, swim dash in, get a hit, then gtfo. just keep a cool head and itll be down in no time
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For Yashariku (Fountainhead), if you kill the lesser twin first, it seems like won't respawn unless you rest or fully die (the underwater ones normally recover HP quickly if you move out of their aggro zone).
Beat Gachiin first to get the stealth buff spiritfall, then use it, Mottled Purple Gourd and Divine Confetti on some land close to the fight (e.g. the roof where one of the carp keeper's daughters was). Buffed like this, you can swim down to the lesser twin and mash attack to kill him without alerting the main one (it seems to have only about half the HP of a 'normal' underwater headless and dies very fast). Then you can return to the surface and rebuff the same way if needed, or use Ako's Spiritfall instead for an attack buff.
It is possible to kill both in one Divine Confetti but it might depend on luck for what attacks they use so that you can break their posture.
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I just wish they didn't limit your attempts and practice by requiring so many consumables... which is a theme in a lot of Sekiro's fights, but at least all non-apparition enemies *can* be beaten with reasonable effort without any consumables
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Wow, have you guys seen their attack where they start flying, and then try to land on top of you? I was shocked, lol.
- Anonymous
This was noted by someone on the youtube video but use Gachiin's sugar/spiritfall and you can get through most of the fountainhead fight without having to deal with the apparition. I only had to dodge one or two attacks from the apparition from a distance and was able to take out the main headless with one confetti
- Anonymous
These are probably my favourite mini-bosses in the game for a bunch of reasons:
A) They actually need preparation. You can't just waltz in without confetti and pacifying agent. So unless you're in for a hell of a lot of pain, use these.
B) The slowing effect means you actually have to think when dodging and deflecting. Only the case of the terrestrial ones, but still a cool mechanic.
C)Horrifying as all hell. We all saw some disturbing **** in From games, but these... these are special, especially given the lore behind them. Really serves as a reminder of how ****ed up demons and ghosts were in Japanese mythology, even if these are just inspired by them.
D) Yashariku is my favorite, since the "illusion" one that's close to it is actually his twin brother that supposedly was never born. Ties great to the whole "halves your hp" mechanic that the sugar and spiritfall has.
Now, I honestly don't understand what some people complain about. This is a From game, you cannot expect to R1 spam every single mob and then just brag you won the game. There are multiple tools that affect apparitions, the whistle and the upgraded shield comming to mind first. You have all the tools you need to beat these pretty early (confetti, agent), and you get even more tools to make them trivial later. You can even farm the confetti from the samurai in the castle. Plus, the rewards are actualy relevant, since you can sell the candy and make money while using the spiritfall.
TL;DR: Git gud, stop complaining.
- Anonymous
whats up with the prostate massages these guys give... frombehindsoftware
- Anonymous
Here’s a tip most people don’t know about: The Headless does not have to disappear in order to be able to grab you, if you simply have your back turned to him, he can execute a grab attack. Also, once the red kanji symbol appears, he can grab you from anywhere, even if you are facing him.
- Anonymous
Honestly these fights feel very dumb. Legitimately done they're needlessly hard and if you cheese them with sth like the umbrella they're literally pointless. It's a shame they thought they were good enough to be implemented five times in the game
Fountainhead Palace: There is sunken house's rooftop above water just before them (where there is a lady that asks you to open the palace's door for her) so you can buff Divine Confetti and Pacifying Agent before diving in. Then just B swim there and cheese as much as possible of the non ghost one before it runs out. Might even kill him still buffed if you're good enough in avoiding the attacks and projectiles from both.
- Anonymous
Now I can be virtually fisted by an overweight headless man
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
so they terror you in like 2 hits unless u deflect so basically play perfectly the entire time to win
- Anonymous
use thrust attack on the underwater duo in fountainhead palace. It deals more damage to them and allows you more time to recover and dodge they sword waves.
- Anonymous
Wtf I couldn’t kill any (terrestrial ones) in my playthrough. Way too hard! Now learning they’re weak to confetti, I killed all of them in 1 go... wow wish I figured it out sooner... ps my lilac umbrella/projected force combo doesn’t give me confetti effect???
- Anonymous
If you're struggling with this or shichimen warrior seriously invest in the lilac umbrella and the projected force skill. You don't even need confetti, just spirit emblems and maybe the tanto if you have none of the emblem capacity skills. You could fight multiple headless at once and you'd probably be fine, lilac umbrella also negates the movement slow.
- Anonymous
I thought my charmless and belled run felt surprisingly easy until I tried to take this fecker down...
- Anonymous
This thing will more fair if they remove build up terror on a successful deflect and only add terror build up on blocking and making their attacks faster will make these little sh.t less annoying to fight against.
I could excuse the Terror-Buildup and small arena, But the Resistance to the Kusabimaru (Alongside relying on Divine Confetti) and the fact that they Slow you down is what broke this for me, the only one I'd recommend is Yashariku the Underwater one, all the rest can just be substituted by the candy which is easily farmable from Monks
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