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[Discussion] Which Soulslike will you be playing this weekend and what's your favourite boss cheese in a Soulslike? (lemmy.zip)

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I've been playing anything but soulslikes recently. Climbing my way up the ranked ladder in League, played some Darkwood, and recently got obsessed with Pokerogue which has been a lot of fun.

Soulslikes can pose quite a challenge for players with their oftentimes quite brutal difficulty: insane boss patterns that leave no breathing room, high amounts of damage, status damage. Luckily, many bosses allow for strategies that exploit intended as well as unintended weaknesses to make the fights a little more bearable. So following up on @MissingInteger@lemmy.zip's suggestion, I want to know what your favourite ways to cheese a boss in a Soulslike is.

Cheesing could be a glitch in this case, like glitching out the final boss of the Bloodborne DLC to stop them from attacking or having Gyoubu or a certain hateful spirit jump off a cliff in Sekiro, as well as "intended" cheeses, like chugging consumables and Fable Arts at bosses in Lies of P.

I haven't done it myself, but I always found it incredibly funny to think about that the Capra Demon from DS1, a wall for many new players, can be killed from outside their fog of wall with stones and dung piles. Or a certain simian boss from Sekiro being very weak to the Mortal Draw to a point where he's in a constant stagger animation and just dies without any counterplay.

What are your favourite cheeses?

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[–] GrantUsEyes@piefed.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Very informative as always!

One day I might actually learn how to optimize a build in ER (or any other game for that matter) and do a SL1 run but it's not today...

I did get out of my comfort zone recently-ish and started the "magic" run from scratch (but actually settled on spellblade)... Glint sorceries do some really decent stance damage I've come to find! I might go for an all out busted magic run later but I'm a bit afraid the game will lose a lot of the cool coreography elements with the bosses spamming ranged attacks. Right now I'm just before morgott so I haven't even touched the busted spells. We'll see how it goes :P

[–] MissingInteger@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

If you ever have question about SL1 just ask me ;) I have an unhealthy amount of knowledge. SL1 is really about how good of a player you are moment to moment in fights and how much you know about the game. One side balances the other. I'm not that good moment to moment, but I'm very good at planing due to game knowledge.

Have fun with your magic run :)

Ranged sorceries can sometimes lose the "choreography look". It looks more like an anime moment. Spellblade fights can look like beautiful choreography. Here is a beautiful fight against Malenia. This fight is not optimized for damage but for style.

What's your current favorite spell and what's your "default" spell - the spell you spam the most?

For a spell blade I can't recommend Carian Slicer enough. Fast melee spell. High DPS. Awesome gameplay feel. You can for example smoothly transition from hitting with your melee weapon to casting Slicer with your Staff. If you have questions about sorceries in ER feel free to ask me.