That's because you were supposed to get onion boy to help fight him. he dies in like 20seonds if you do the side quest. He is joke, one of the easiest bosses in the game, even without storm ruler. He can't hit worth a . He just has a lot of health.View attachment 1859
Beat Yhorm... this was probably the first boss I really struggled with since the tutorial boss. At first I thought he was just resistant to the stuff I prefer using (fire and physical) so I changed up my equipment and tried again a couple of times. And then I randomly noticed the item drop at the throne and got the Storm Ruler... and I'm not really happy with how you're supposed to get a puzzle boss' item DURING THE BATTLE, change up your equipment without being able to pause, and then figure out how to use the item's special ability under pressure when you barely have enough time to pull it off when you KNOW what you're doing. (Took a bunch of tries before I figured out you could STORE the charge and that you were supposed to unleash it with the 'skill' button to create a storm instead of as a strong attack to create a shockwave that did jack-diddly-squat). The battle started feeling really epic once I knew what I was doing and struggled to get enough distance to charge up the sword in time while being pursued by basically OoT Ganon on steroids, but the way the boss gimmick was presented isn't really what I'd call good boss design, especially not after all previous bosses being beatable by just hitting them with whatever you'd got. (Greatwood, Deacons and Wolnir both had weak points you needed to hit to deal damage, but none of them needed you to use a specific weapon and all had very clear tells what the weak point was)
And yeah, in every game in the series, there is at least one boss that punishes not completing a side story. It's too encourage exploration. Though side quest in 3 are stupidly cryptic. Like, crouching at an unremarkable cliff across a lake for 10 seconds so a tornado can sweep you away levels of cryptic.
You're actually supposed to help him in the tower right after the great rotwood, follow him to slay the demon, then rescue him in the cathedral of the deep. He is in a well off to the corner outside the door of the first bonfire. He then helps you fight yhorm by kicking his in with storm ruler and tanking all the hits with Catarina armor. You probably dont even have to fight, you can just watch with some popcorn lol. he is like the Iron Tarkus of dark souls 1.
When I first started reading this I was like "How can this be possible, she beat pontif", but you missed onion boy.
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