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this iteration of him. Rather than him riding around on a stupid little horse, he's a proper badass in this.

When he does his rocks from the sky attack it's most consistently avoided by sprint+jumping to the side instead of rolling. I never once got hit jumping but it happened a few times rolling.

When in the second phase he'll follow that up with a shit load of attacks, you can block it all with enough stamina but you will take chip damage from the AoEs. You can avoid it mostly by just keeping sprinting in a sideways direction, but rolling on the 5th attack (count out each hit 1, 2, 3, 4, roll). He sometimes does that neutrally as well.

Assuming you don't get hit by the upswing of that rock attack, you've got enough time to chug a potion before you start sprinting to the side before he chucks those rocks. Basically it's a free heal window.

No idea how to consistently dodge the clone dash attack.

When he does the grab attack it's a free heal/attack window in the second phase, if you have a hugely damaging weapon art that takes long enough that he'll recover while you're still attacking I kinda recommend just trading the blow with him a lot of the time. But you can give yourself a bit more time if you dodge forward and diagonally as he'll have to turn before attacking you.

The best moments for getting damage in outside the grab are IMO:

- At the end of the 3 hit combo where he crosses the swords before the final hit. Roll forward through and hit.
- He does a long combo starting with an overhead strike with his right arm, two sweeping strikes across his body left to right, then a big and quite delayed slam/sweep from right to left which is followed by an AoE. In the first phase you can roll the sweep and then deliberately block the AoE for a free guard counter. In the second phase, you'll want to wait a beat and then roll FORWARDS through the AoE to avoid getting hit, then get a hit in.
- The move he normally opens with (the long range purple electricity slam) is super easy to punish, roll forward through it and get a hit or two in.
- The jumping somersault is another obvious one. But watch to ensure he doesn't do a second and catch you in it.

When he does the gravity stomp/suck you in AoE, if you didn't manage to roll it to prevent getting pulled in, start sprinting away from him as soon as you can and roll back twice when he crosses the swords. You should avoid damage pretty consistently.

Oh, the huge AoE he often opens phase 2 with is avoidable if you run far enough away but good luck spotting it and reacting quickly enough. I suggest just blocking it. You easily have time for 2 flask chugs afterward anyway. I usually snuck in a boiled crab for extra damage resist during the windup and then healed and used a mana flask after.