O'Rin of the Water | Sekiro Shadows Die Twice Wiki

Closer to the idol there is a rock against a wall, I accidentally pushed her into the corner and was able to keep swinging again and a again without her bing able to do anything else and posture broke for a deathblow that way

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This is a strong enemy. If she simply had an inescapable fog door, she would be right up there with all of the infamously strong bosses in the game (headless ape, etc).

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Her bad temper reminds me a bit of my wife

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to anyone going to attempt Corrupted Monk with her as a puppet, be warned: make sure you backstab her repeatedly to ensure the timer on the ninjutsu resets and she actually makes it over there.

I ended up giving up regardless though because she'd lose to a snail in a race, so make sure you are willing to spend 15 minutes on this

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Why would you hide him from me

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Her spiraling dive attack allows you to jump behind her and hitting her cancels the usual follow-up attack.

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I'd smash

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I love the theory which said she's jinza's mother. It makes sense.
Btw the boss herself is really great

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most fun miniboss imo, i wish she was a full boss

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I beat her with like 5 gourds as I thought I could just walk right past her lol. Clearly that didn't work, so I decided to fight her. I was debating whether or not to use divine confetti, then realized her attacks were pretty easy to parry so I just worked my way to one deathblow. Then I remembered she was weak to poison, so I decided to use Sabimaru on her last life and holy does that shred the woman. I think can actually deflect her attacks was because her move set is similar to a boss in Ronin: The Last Samurai, which is a mobile-inspired sekiro game. Really neat boss though.

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This boss is absolutely amazing. Today I encountered her with 3 attack power and 12 vitality (yes I skipped a ton of areas and bosses cause I like exploring in these games, same reason I found Ash Lake before getting the Lordvessel) and she whooped my butt.

Reading about ways to win (poison, divine confetti, cheese strats, etc.) I really felt like this boss was out of my reach for now. But then I read a comment saying that attack power doesn't really matter, and that the whole game truly is just a big skill check.

And so I went to work, I tried beating her but died over and over. Over the course of an hour I felt as if I was ready to go to bed when suddenly, it clicked. I was deflecting every single one of her attacks. I was jumping to punish the sweep. I managed to get a deathblow on her. "Good progress for this run" I thought, expecting to die promptly after. But no. The deflects kept coming, and soon I got my 2nd and final deathblow on her.

This boss was like what Genichiro is for many others. This was my moment. It really is a switch that flips on - hopefully it stays on for future battles haha! Thank you for reading my story :)

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Lady Snowblood.

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Smash. Next question

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Your deflects better be perfect if you don’t have kuro’s charm

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she's harder than lots of remnant bosses on charmless, unfortunate she's just a mini boss so you can't grind her moveset in a reflection fight.

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my only trouble for this boss i cant drink potions peacefully.....until i noticed tiny minigraves around me, suddenly all becomes easy, beat her fair and square, without sabimaru cheese, or mortal blade spam, i just need a reasonable second for heal or use convetti

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Too cool of a boss concept to be a mini boss. It's a shame they didn't expand upon her more and make her a real boss.

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She's so strong she crashed my game when i fought her

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Just focus on deflecting ( also use Gokan’s sugar or she WILL take over half your health) and use sabimaru after she does a combo of a flying sweep.

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This encounter reminds me of a japanese ghost story where a woman with a hidden face stops you while you're walking home late at knight and, after unveiling her deformed face, asks you whether she's beautiful and then whatever you answer she just R1 spams the **** out of you or something like that. First time I played I just walked past her cause in the story it's how you don't get killed, thinking it was a clever reference. Turns out it wasn't.

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I found her to be super enjoyable to fight, she's straight forward and her flowing animations are beautiful and weren't overly difficult for me to read. I killed her on my first attempt and while it was sometimes hard to keep posture down, it's easy to recover it after avoiding her perilous attacks. I think I only got a hit for damage on her <6 times over the entire fight, it's mostly deflecting. It's not possible to deathblow her with inconsistent deflect timing, perfectly deflecting 2-3 of her combos making sure to hit her in between when she steps back will fill her posture for a deathblow.

I think my 25 attempts soloing Melania Blade of Miquella on light load paid off here because O'rin of the Water moves extremely similarly to Melania and she doesn't even have 1/3 of her level of bullshit.

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This fight is so good. On NG+ now and this time just attack and deflect. Awesome.

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Improved Sabimaru absolutely melts her health for both phases. You really only need to proc it once in each phase because as soon as she reaches half health you can just focus on posture damage, removing the need for Divine Confetti. Just deflect her predictable, rapid attacks and jump over her sweep attack.

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Easy fight. I never had problems with her. She just repeats attack combo + sweep. Very predictable.

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She makes Genichiro look like a chihuahua

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This is the perfect fight for testing your ability to perfect deflect. Her perilous attack is easily side steppable (people keep trying to recommend jumping but i found the side-dodge a lot easier since she has like no range on her attack.) She can be somewhat punishing to your poise meter if you just block instead of trying to perfect deflect, but she basically has no other mechanic.

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I love how you cant just run past her

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The Sacred Flame Barrel is an expensive upgrade but is highly effective against apparition-type enemies. Just make an opening and do point-blank full charge and that would be at least 10% of their HP gone. A cheese method so not recommended if you have something called "pride"

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Use Sabimaru until she gets poisoned, that will stun her for a moment and you can hit with your sword. After tha stun is over, stop attack and just parry. Don't try to attack her at all, just parry. If you see the perilous attack, double jump on her head. By parrying her attacks you'll fill her pose very quickly and be able to deathblow her. Then repeat for the second deathblow.

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Playing a charmless run right now and she is giving me a ton of trouble. Took down genichiro in two tries but I can’t seem to touch her.

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One of my favorite mini bosses. All you have to do is parry and not attack and it's ez mode. Feels like a dance.

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I finally beat her. 1 hour of dying to memorize her moveset.

I got the first deathblow with almost no damage to her health. I almost dropped the ball on the second one but she dead af.

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But is she cute?

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Hit her with Mortal Draw a few times to reduce her health and her posture bar fills pretty quickly. All you have to do is block and hit her a couple of times when she's open. I tried it once with Floating Passage and died. The second time I used Mortal Draw and took care of her easily.

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At first I attempted to treat this fight as some sort of hectic dance, chasing her around the battlefield.

But once I started holding my ground and letting her come to me instead, the tides turned.

Also, as soon as the fight starts spam sabimaru for free poison proc and decent posture buildup.

Fun miniboss, wish I could battle her again.

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Cancer

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One of the best miniboosses IMO

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I found a way to cheese your way through her
Take her across the bridge and little bit in the land behind it
She will start heading back, go to her side and start hitting her push her so she would go into the left pocket and just keep her there if she tries to leave, punish her
You can go from the side/back hit her 3 times then turn around her hit her again
But be careful if u keep hitting her she will fall in River and you will have to reset the fight by sitting in the idol

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"A cursed flow draining out of a magnificent vessel"
~Urin

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Is o’rin a yandere?

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90% of the time you hit air. Great boss design from!

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Waifu ahead

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worst boss in the game

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You can cheese her pretty easily by jumping over her dive attack, hitting her once and blocking her five strike combo. She pauses long enough for you to use the Double Ichimonji on her. Usually she does her five strike combo again after that. Ichimonji her again until dead.

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After struggling with this lady for a while I felt so happy to learn that all you have to do is simply keep jump-kicking her. If you have fought her enough and died, I think you have a pretty good way of knowing when its safe to do it (besides when she does the swipe attack). But yeah, jump on her head all day.

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Maybe my favorite miniboss in the game, I love the spooky youkai aesthetic and her flowing, graceful style. Very good encounter, and very fun to fight.

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Are there any item description mentions of O'Rin?

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I'm coming for all dialogue and nope...
So disappointed
She gladed me in That samurai Quest but I just skip her and the dialogue gone (I think there's no new dialogue and I'm wrong) bruh I really want to heard it

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Well she kinda likes the blue shirt old guy in Dojo dadechamber, she ez if you know how to Parry and counter a slash

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Nice moves

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Maybe it's one of those I game hints from the Devs as to what is effective but.. The villagers beforehand drop fistful of Ash frequently, use it! There's a little pause before she starts attacking after one of her teleport forward movements, blind her then!
helps lower her health a bit before focusing on posture damage through deflections

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Not sure what the big deal is. I beat her first or second try. Downvote away, envylords.

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The best way to fight her is simple. Deflect deflect deflect, head bop. Turtling can't beat actually learning the game.

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How is this so goddamn difficult still?? I've beaten the game few times now, but this bish still slaps the ever-living **** outta me

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shes kinda bad tho idk guys

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I had an easier time beating her standing still. She's aggressive.

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How i best her without minimal efforts:
> Hided behind the small stone wall faced infront her
> Neared the wall to bait her to attack
> Spammed Mortal Blade
> Repeated step 2 and 3
> Win

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girl's slippery

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Every ****ing way you go in this game there is something waiting to oneshot you. GFY From Soft

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So does anyone know the lore/cultural reason she wears a bucket on her head?

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Her and the two snake eyes… why are the female minibosses the ones that kick my ass the most…?

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Surprisingly fun miniboss. Actually a much more interesting fight than the Corrupted Monk that comes right after her.
She's one of those fights that really displays Sekiro's combat at its best.

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Her posture regenerates faster than I can damage it wtf

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i cheesed her into falling in the water nothing happened i just got. a spirit emblem and when i rested she respawned

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Same strategy as headless. Turtle under the purple umbrella, cross slash followed by double ichimonji to regain posture and maybe strike her. Repeat. Easy.

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No way Sakuza is Jinzaemon's father. He's called LORD Sakuza. If Jinzaemon were his son, he'd be a noble, and he neither looks like it nor does he have the position of one (guarding the moat).

Plus, if the trivia section on Jinzaemon's page is correct and he has a "Westernized" accent, that'd mean his father is/was from the there as well. Do you think a foreigner would be a noble in rural Japan?

I think it's more likely that Jinzaemon's father knew about O'Rin because it's common folklore. In case you want to argue with fate: Remember O'Rin never called to Jinzaemon. She's even surprised when he shows up. I don't know why Jinzaemon heard O'Rin's melody from so far away, but we don't know a lot about his background and motivations in general.

People should be careful with assumptions about this sidequest because otherwise they might end up ruining its simple beauty.

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I geared up for this mini-boss, reading the wiki and learning of the cheese methods due to how tough the community says she is... beat her first try, no cheesing :) (although i did try to get a backstab on her unsuccessfully). I’m shocked i was able to pull it off. She’s one of my favorite mini-bosses now.

Strat i used: consecutive deflects, stick to her like glue, use Senpou Leaping Kicks or jump kick during her sweep attacks, and get her poisoned at the beginning of both her health bars (any version of the Sabimaru will work). This is a posture break fight and using Gokan’s sugar helps a lot because she will very quickly fill yours (seriously she dishes out a ton of posture damage).

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shes hot

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O'Rin's out for blood. I don't mind killing her because she'll attack you no matter what you say or do.

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just deflect and **** her up after she does a perilous (jump)

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Hey does anyone else have trouble getting the free stagger attack ?

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If you're having trouble with the deflects I'd recommend not deflecting at all and instead looping the same way she does. This fight got way easier once I started sprinting around instead of trying to deflect/dodge.

When she is preparing to lunge--or any time she phases out--start sprinting away from her (still target locked) and then loop either left or right. Her lunge will come up short or miss, and the follow-up attacks can be avoided by continuing to sprint to open space. After her last attack she'll be vulnerable to 1-2 hits or a poison combo.

If she gets too close to the edge of the map DON'T follow her. There isn't enough open space at the edges to avoid her attacks like this. This all needs to be done with the middle of the arena between you and her.

If she's doing that thing where she's just very slowly walking, she's waiting for you to rush her so that she can slice you. If you rush in you'll likely get hit. Better to throw a shuriken--she usually comes at you again after that. Or you can wait, but those moments feel long af.

The momentum of this fight is really cool with this strat. It has a very 'push and pull' feel to it, and the symmetry of both her and you looping back and then rushing forward to strike is really satisfying.

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Waifu

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Just parry her and punish on sweep just like the two centipede giraffe guy. Easiest miniboss.

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Very easy, very fast: Use some Gokan's Sugar (golden candy, 1 per health bar should do) and the High Monk technique. Don't even try to hit her: just deflect the attack, and use the High Monk when she starts a perilous attack. The High Monk with destroy her posture really quickly, the constant deflection will keep her from getting some posture back in the meanwhile, the Gokan's Sugar keeps you from losing your posture.
PS: He you need to unlock the High Monk technique, you can get easy and fast skill points with the two Nightjar spirits just before the Hidden Forest idol.

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I'm surprised to hear that so many people had so much trouble with her. I'm an incredibly average player, but she's one of the few (mini)bosses that I killed on the first try. Every time I created distance, she did the exact same charge attack that was easily blocked and gave an opening afterwards. Just repeated this until she was dead.

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I didn’t have trouble at all with her. I didn’t have any confetti, but you don’t really have to attack her. I just deflected everything and use Senpou Leaping Kicks to dodge her sweep and hit for posture.

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*floats through your sabimaru attacks, unleashes her chainstun string attack* psssh nothin personnel wolf

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If you really have trouble with this boss, you can stuck her behind the tombstone and spam mortal blade skill.

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Not sure if this was a bug but i was able to completely skip her by jumping into the river before the idol. Then grapple up the bridge and when i did the monk cheese monk actually didn't die but just started going into some weird praying stance and after a while standing back up and fighting.

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The guy that you visited after defeating rin wasn’t there for me so I never got a statue. Anybody know why he doesn’t appear sometimes and how to get him to appear? Thanks

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This was just long, patient fight for me. Learned her patterns, deflect-chained followed by Floating Passage, and jump kick after her sweep. Jump away after you've counterattacked and guard to restore posture. Once I did that, beat her taking only 2 or 3 hits.

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I think Jinzaemon was the son of O'rin, his father (presumably Lord Sakuza) tells him never to go into the forest as a child, O'rin says "you've brought this child in his stead" and this Jizo statue has pink instead of red cloth wrapping a child, similar to O'rin's cloth, almost like she's caressing her child after death. Also explains how he is the only one who can hear her music from afar. She could have just lured Sekiro, but didn't. There's a strong connection between Jinzaemon and O'rin.

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This game feels like you have to buy a luxury car with the change jar but then you do buy the car with the change jar.

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Really 1/2 my hp in one hit while attacking ~50x a secound plus doing insane stamina damage

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She gave me so much trouble before I remembered the description for Sabimaru. Decimated her after that. I was also at the endgame by then, so....might have had something to do with it.

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Had an easy time with her... just use mortal draw an decimate Her life bars. She only hit me 4-5 times with her vanishing thrust. But you can side step that pretty easily with the right timing.

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I'm surprised to hear that so many people had a lot of trouble with her. I had to try more than once, but I think I killed her on like my fourth try or so? She wasn't substantially more difficult than the average mini-boss up until that point IMO.

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Floating passage and divine confetti... Don't stop performing the skill, she'll be dead in a matter of seconds

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She has massive posture in NG+4 when you have only 14 attack power. And charmless/demon bell, a deflecting-focused strategy just doesn't work for me. Sabimaru poison? Yes but 10 of them for just a half of her health. Then you cant chip his vitality, or only after spacing her. Because, despite what is written in this wiki, you can rarely punish her after a good deflection… At this state, the most difficult enemy in the game for me.

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So, replaying this and reaching O'Rin today, I found that merely approaching her from the side- either side- before talking to or provoking her allowed for a free deathblow. Moving directly behind her, the prompt reverted back to dialogue. I spent a long time just circling her to make sure of the consistancy of this. It also took me two attempts to kill her and I was able to do the same thing both times, starting the fight with one free deathblow just for walking up along her side. No ceramic shard needed. Nothing. Anyone else?

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I bought Sekiro on release, I always play my first run of a fromsoftware game without any spoiler and because I played too much dark soul I was playing using only attack and dodge, ignoring posture and just chipping at vitality. This boss was the moment this method stopped working, after countless death I couldn't even take the one deathblow against her or the corrupted monk, ended up wasting all my confetti then put the game on hold for months in frustration. I kept reading online that you have to use deflect and playing Sekiro like a soul game make it harder so I gave this fight another shot yesterday and killed her in less than 15 try. Spam those deflect people !

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Jump over her sweep attack is the key, deal big damage posture to her.

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Dont try to fight her without Kuros charm. It is almost completely fu*king impossible on NG+. Absolutely garbage fight, terrible mechanics and extremely poor design. I guess even FromSoft fu*ks up sometimes.

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Thus Mini-Boss ist one of the simplest Bosses in a whole game... To kill her you need back off few steps and stand a near stone platform on which ywe we're safe. Now we just wait for her attacks and when come close enough to us that we can strike with the sword of immortality take a hit and repeat it till the end.

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I don't know why everyone said she is a hard boss, i kill her in my first try without dropping a single sweat. Heck I don't even realize she is a mini boss because i can't lock on her and you can talk to her. I though she is just a normal NPC, the one that Jinzaemon had been looking for (well she is indeed the woman he had been looking for). So i kinda panicked when the music changed and she took out her sword. No special strategy, i just fight her like i fight a normal strong mobs. (trade hit, parry, evade, jump etc) Her posture is also very low, it's so easy to deathblow her.

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Deffo worth waiting to get the Piercing Sabiaru (before taking on ths beeatch) makes for any easy first death blow and a couple of Divine Confetti will do it for deathblow 2 before taking on ths beeatch. Also a coupla Gokans can be handy. Using this method I beat her first time (and she skilled be bejesus outta me b4 that)

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Does anyone actually bother with sending Jinzaemon to her when all he does is watch as you get wrecked then gives you a one use item just rare enough that you will never use it. Then he dies dark souls style his quest complete no longer hollow... At least the Dr quest has experience and a few upgrade materials. I can't send the other guy to his doom or even the shady merchant but after he just watches Orin turn me into meat cubes my loyalty wavers.

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No wonder this fight was just a freaking nightmare. She caused no terror buildup so I killed her without divine confetti. Only beat her by using piercing poision on each phase otherwise her health and stamina regen are just endless.

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So I started a new sekiro run and I think she has been my hardest enemy since the first run thus far. I think my problem is that the Sabimaru will only poison her ig you equip the PIERCING submodel. Regular sabimaru barely ever gets passed her guard.

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