SEKIRO SHADOWS DIE TWICE | How to kill Great Shinobi OWL
9How to beat the Great Shinobi Owl:-
To prepare, equip the Whirlwind combat art - it's essential here - and the Firecracker Prosthetic if you're a fan of it, although that's optional.
Your main goal is to try and bait him into one of two specific gap-closer attacks, where he throws either one or two shuriken and then either darts towards you for one or two slashes, or does a frontflip attack. They're similar, but not exactly the same and need to be handled differently.
The one you're after is the frontflip. He'll normally throw two shuriken (occasionally one just to mix it up) and then jump up in the air and frontflip towards you, slamming his sword down on the ground. Bait him into it by sprinting sideways in front of him, about half to two-thirds of the arena's distance away from him.
Keep sprinting sideways in the same direction and he'll miss you, landing where you were instead of where you are, and that's your opening: quickly sprint to the side or back of him and perform the Whirlwind strike combat art, and then back off and repeat.
There are some other moments where you can get a free hit or two in as well, if you want to speed things up.
The first is when he does a two-slash gap-closer attack. After the second slash he'll pause for a moment - you can't get a free hit here, but it is a long enough pause for a Firecracker to be safely performed, and then you have two or three free hits before you can back off again.
The other is when he does his poison cloud attack, where he pops up a little stink bomb and a gas cloud appears - when he throws up the little ball you can get one and only one free hit in before backing away.
Beware that will 'curse' you for a short period, not dealing any damage but preventing you from using any items or prosthetics, so you can't heal or use Firecrackers, but it doesn't last long and, if you're confident of rinsing and repeating the above methods for free hits, you won't need to be doing any healing anyway.
Finally, beware he slightly changes his roster of attacks for the second phase after his first Deathblow's down. The main thing to worry about is the cloud of grey-black smoke - that means he's about to use a Firecracker of his own, or that he's using smoke as an evasive tool that'll remove your lock-on from him and impair your vision. Just avoid it and use the above methods though, as all of them work exactly the same.
And that's it! Be patient and don't get over-excited trying to get more hits in than you know you can safely land, and he'll go down surprisingly fast. Just try to get a good feel of the range you want to be at when sprinting around the arena to safely bate his gap-closers, and respond accordingly, and you'll be just fine.
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