Manus of the Abyss S25 Pt2 Let's Play Dark Souls No Shield
2Manus, father of the Abyss is a very ferocious boss in Dark Souls that requires a little practice learning to dodge his palm smash and arm sweep. Once you've mastered dodging those, he's really not terrible with the proper strategy in phase 2.
The 2nd phase of the fight isn't ALL that bad if you have quick reflexes, but can easily near insta kill you. If you don't want to use the silver pendant then things get a whole heck of a lot harder however.
You can dodge his "shotgun" dark magic attack if you react early enough or abuse invincibility frames. His circle of dark magic is his easiest to dodge magic requiring you to sprint toward him, since they dissolve before they reach him. His rain of magic though, I've no clue how to dodge. I'm sure you can, I just don't know how, I've not fought him enough to figure it out.
If you summoned Sif here and haven't fought him back in your own time, you get a special cutscene before the fight. Nothing game breaking but a nice addition all the same.
Manus is quick and does a ton of damage, high vitality helps tremendously here. It will be the difference between taking 3 hits and 2 before dying, which doesn't SOUND like a lot but trust me, in the heat of battle you will appreciate not dying for a bit longer.
Of course if you can either dodge competently or have a greatshield you won't need it for Manus, but for those of us not skilled enough that crutch really helps.
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