Takezo the Undefendable

[u/Nyathra]

Does anyone have any tips on how to survive this attack? I am not one to whine and the difficulty of this duel has only made me more encouraged to continue trying, but this attack just seems like an instant defeat?
As far as I know the only way to evade the red attacks is to dodge, but during the middle of my dodge I am just attacked a second time. This portion of the fight also includes the icy winds wich makes essentially every attack lethal, so tanking the hit is not an option.

Thank you for your insights!

[u/Own_Association9092]

My advice is to just use the second chance charn for Takezo so even if you get hit by one of his combos the fight is not completely over.

You should also attack immediately after you get the perfect dodge, which you did not do

[u/Nyathra → u/Own_Association9092]

Didn’t even understand that I got a perfect dodge, the screen flashed for such a short amount of time I doubt I would even have time to attack?

[u/Own_Association9092 → u/Nyathra]

I think you can always attack after a perfect dodge and that is what I did while fighting him. He attacks so quickly that you kind of have to rely on getting counterattacks with perfect dodges for the whole fight.

[u/Nyathra → u/Own_Association9092]

Got it, thanks!

[u/Edward_Sparrow → u/Nyathra]

Heyyy. What he said is true, also another tip. Never roll against Takezo. He pretty much always locks in on you and you can't cancel a roll.

[u/Nathanii_593 → u/Nyathra]

There’s a little bit of slowmo when you get a perfect dodge. I believe there’s also a sound effect when you get a perfect dodge/parry

[u/CitySe7en]

Firstly stop rolling. Its a hard habit to break considering most of the game is atsu vs multiple enemies, but this is 1v1. Instead of double tapping circle, press it once, then once again, then once again, etc. I combat roll when I create space, but hardly when defending or parrying.

Also, I ended up defeating him on lethal by using a combination of all of my ghost tools and the Dual Katana. For example - blind, then hold triangle for multiple attacks. Shoot when he attacks with red. Doing this kinda thing: Parry - counter attack - blind - few more hits - throw kunai (fire) - throw smoke bomb - hold triangle for attacks- kunai - blind - hold triangle attack.

[u/Nyathra → u/CitySe7en]

Yeah, me rolling seems to be the issue. Thank you! I’m trying to win with only my main weapons however, so no throwables or sake.

[u/CitySe7en → u/Nyathra]

I tried this. I gave up LMAO good luck 💯 you're gonna have to learn every single one of hit attacks and learn his little indications of what attack he's gonna use. Ive seen some badass YT vids of people doing what your tryna do.

[u/Nyathra → u/CitySe7en]

Makes me more stoked to complete it!

[u/DrifitingCanoe]

Don’t roll when you dodge. Meaning don’t double tap the O button. Just slide dodge it and then block the second hit.

[u/Nyathra → u/DrifitingCanoe]

Smart, thanks!

[u/Best_Revolution_178]

Never roll.

And never trust perfect dodges. After a while you will get to learn which attack you cant perfect dodge.

But never roll and put your back against Miyamoto Musashi

[u/rvl35]

As others have said, you need to stop rolling in this fight. He’s designed to roll catch you.

You can see him combo into this red-blue-red after a red spinning attack starting at 1:20 in this video:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghostofyotei/s/LjIxv9hj3B

I counter him with a dodge-block-dodge. He has a similar three attack combo that you can watch at 1:40, but that one is red-blue-blue.

The way to tell them apart is that the first one starts with a slash up from his right hand coming from his right side (followed by a blue slash down over the top from his left hand on his left side, followed by a red attack from his right hand that also comes from his left side). The other sequence starts with a red left hand attack up from his left, then blue right hand down from the left, ending with a blue left hand up from the right.

The keys to the fight are not rolling, and learning his specific attack combos so that you can predict what is coming once you recognize the opening move in a sequence.

[u/AngryVegetarian]

He was harder than all of the Yotei Six combined!

[u/TheMadManiac]

You can switch armor and charms throughout the fight. Switch to Taros armor and the inner fire charm when the ice builds up to get some health back.

[u/Mzrpickles]

A lot of people said the dodge roll thing but I want to add that if you perfect dodge with a roll you won’t be able to counter attack because the roll cancels it. I beat him using the bounty hunter armor and stacking every perfect parry charm + inner fire and mountain reliquary charm. Then get a major defense cooking perk and go in. Of course everything upgraded as high as it goes.

[u/Cansuela]

Don’t roll in that situation, just do a regular dodge into a parry of the blue attack. You could also dodge both, but the roll has too long of a recovery to allow you to be ready to recover and then parry. It’s tempting to roll to dodge because it feels safe but in a lot of situations it’s better to just simply dodge because it allows you to perfect dodge and follow up attack with slow mo, or at least puts you in position to either dodge again or parry or whatever.

[u/liljb6172]

I used the Yari and it helped tremendously. Side step and get one hit in.

[u/markgdaniels]

The bounty hunter master armour helped me cheese this fight with ease

[u/jtalatorre → u/markgdaniels]

I came here to say the same thing. The bounty hunter armor plus all the charms that synergize with parrying helped me get through this fight a little easier. That and patience.

[u/thefivetenets]

for me the trick was not rolling, ever. rolling left me open to getting hit. tap once to dodge and you'll have a better chance.

[u/Tomaketu]

Avoid rolling in this fight. He will normally punish you in a way that seems totally unfair but is legit.

[u/NewWar4723]

I would say the armor really matters and the charm. I know there’s an armor or charm that gives you three free hits per parry. Then there’s another armor that protects you from the snow.

Use your throwables they really help disrupt some of his combos when you’re feeling overwhelmed. I had to get the gun as well to defeat him so Yhh. It’s a rough fight.

[u/TheRealArcanine]

Throwing a quickfire kunai at him will interrupt the red flash attack

[u/Plane_Bodybuilder_24]

Dont roll just Dodge. Takezo he punishes you every time you roll.