You need to be pretty patient with the Blazing Bull, as it will always overpower you in a head-on battle. You can sometimes trip the A.I. Up against a wall and get a few free shots in when goes to. Blazing Bull is a massive bull equipped with fiery horns. Dodge to the sides and quickly strike to avoid getting hit by this massive beast! Make sure to equip Firecrackers for this fight! Check Out How To Beat Blazing Bull Corrupted Monk. General Naomori Kawarada Chained Ogre General Tenzen Yamauchi Great Serpent Great Serpent - the 2nd and 3rd fight Juzou the Drunkard Lady Butterfly Unnamed masked purple enemy Gyoubu Oniwa The Blazing Bull Shinobi Hunter Enshin of Misen Lone Shadow Longswordsman Seven Ashina Spears Armored Warrior Genichiro Ashina Guardian Ape in Sunken Valley Headless Guardian Ape in Ashina Depths Tokujiro. Sekiro: Defeating The Blazing Bull. One item which can really help when fighting the Blazing Bull is the Fireworks tool for your Shinobi Prosthetic. You can buy the Fireworks tool from a tent merchant shortly before the Chained Ogre boss for 500 Sen. Using the Fireworks near the Blazing Bull causes it to rear up in panic, letting you score some. The Blazing Bull inflicts the Burn status effect, amplifying the damage you take. With its wide, head-sweeping attacks, it's also hard to effectively dodge, let alone get around its horns to the.
Sekiro: Shadow's Die Twice is tough as nails - perhaps From Software's toughest game to date - requiring some genuine skill and a real shake-up of the tried-and-tested methods you might have used in the Soulsborne games gone by.
Our Sekiro walkthrough and this Sekiro guide hub are here to help though: below we'll gather each individual guide page we have for the game plus every step of our (currently in-progress) walkthrough, including a Sekiro boss guide and boss list taking you through bosses, mini bosses and any key moments in between.
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Sekiro walkthrough - our Sekiro boss guide and boss list
Our walkthrough is still very much in progress for now, as are our standalone guides to the game's various mechanics - keep checking back for more in the days following launch, but for now here are they key pages we've got for you so far:
Sekiro boss list and walkthrough - Ashina Outskirts
Sekiro boss list and walkthrough - Hirata Estate
Sekiro boss list and walkthrough - Ashina Castle
Blazing Bull Guide
Sekiro boss list and walkthrough - Senpou Temple
Sekiro boss list and walkthrough - Ashina Depths
Sekiro boss list and walkthrough - Sunken Valley
Sekiro boss list and walkthrough - Return of Ashina Castle
Sekiro boss list and walktrhough - Fountainhead Palace
The final Sekiro boss
Much more to follow!
Sekiro guide hub - all our Sekiro guides in one place
Like our walkthrough above, our list of Sekiro guides is still growing, and you'll see plenty more pages spring up here over the coming days and weeks.
Here's what we have for now.
Sekiro guides - systems and tips
Sekiro guides - collectibles and locations
Sekiro boss battle advice: key things to know about how to get through Sekiro: Shadow's Die Twice's bosses
Our walkthrough above focuses primarily on boss and mini boss fights, and so most of the time it's all about combat.
With that in mind, here are a handful of key things to know, or just generally bear in mind, when you're diving into boss fights or working your way through the game. Combine these tips with the specifics we run through in each of our boss pages above, and you'll be off to a flyer.
Sekiro boss fight pointers
- Bank the next Skill Point - If you know you're in for a boss or mini boss fight, and there's a Sculptor's Idol nearby, it's worth grinding out a few grunts until you reach the next Skill Point. You lose all your progress to the next point each time you die, so don't risk all that XP and just get the last few kills to tick yourself over before you take the next big bad on.
- Top up on Pellets - There's a vendor fairly early on, shortly after the second mini boss General Naomori Kawarada (on the far left of the next area, listen for the crow sounds to guide you to him). Use vendors when you see them and don't be afraid to fast travel back to them before boss fights to top up. A handful of Pellets can make the difference, and that Sen's got to be spent on something!
- Invest your Sen in Light Coin Purses - That said, if you have a load of Sen burnig a hole in your pocket then if you're not spending it on items, buy Light Coin Purses with it from a vendor. It sounds silly, but these can be 'activated' when you need them, and store Sen safely - you don't lose Light Coin Purses on death, but you do lose half your Sen.
- Be more agressive than you're used to - We cover this more in our Sekiro combat system guide, but it feels uncomfortable being aggressive in a game that's so punishing of your mistakes, but it's necessary. Know your rock-paper-scissors matchups for Perilous Attacks and how to counter them, get a read on your enemy's roster of attacks and prepare yourself mentally to attack, dodge, jump, and deflect at the right times. There'll be few major fights where you won't need to do all of these at some point.
- Practice, practice, practice - Don't ignore that friendly training zombie near the Dilapidated Temple. Every time your learn a new skill or make some significant progress, take the time to visit him and practice it. Set yourself a rule, like 'don't leave until you can finish every new training excercise without taking damage', and you'll be amazed at the difference it makes to your combat throughout the game.
- Use everything at your disposal, but don't rely on it - You'll find that a lot of bosses and general battles can be cheesed. Dousing enemies in Oil and then setting them on fire with a Prosthetic, for instance, or relying on the Firecracker Prosthetic to stun bosses and get some free hits in. These are all worth using, along with the items that are handed out along the way, but don't rely on them. If you use them as a crutch, you'll soon hit a boss that's immune to them, and then without the time spent mastering the foundations of combat, you'll really struggle.
Despite its status as an early-game Sekiro boss, the Blazing Bull can be one tough cookie. Its charging attacks and flaming horns combine to create a seemingly impenetrable offense. However, as Dark Souls veterans know very well, no boss is unbeatable. The Blazing Bull can be felled, you just need to know how and when to properly strike.
Sekiro: Defeating The Blazing Bull
One item which can really help when fighting the Blazing Bull is the Fireworks tool for your Shinobi Prosthetic. You can buy the Fireworks tool from a tent merchant shortly before the Chained Ogre boss for 500 Sen. Using the Fireworks near the Blazing Bull causes it to rear up in panic, letting you score some hits. The bad news is that the Fireworks have a very short range so using them can be risky.
Even without the Fireworks there are ways to reliably damage the Blazing Bull. Even if you have a supply of Dousing Powder you shouldn’t try to block or deflect the bull’s attacks. Since the bull’s attacks inflict burn damage they’ll still deal some damage even if you block/deflect them. Worse, if the burn status gauge fills up you’ll take damage over time.
What you want to do instead is try to keep pace with the bull by dodging and sprinting. When the bull sticks a horn in the ground to quick-turn, sprint over to its side for a quick attack. If you move to the bull’s side as its turning for a charge it will miss you entirely. Its flank will also be exposed while it’s turning, allowing you to score one or two quick hits.
Blazing Bull Guide Book
Once the Blazing Bull’s vitality is depleted enough it will stop recovering its posture. Keep up with the turning-charge attacks and the bull’s posture will eventually break, leaving it open to a finisher deathblow. You only need one deathblow to kill the beast so don’t let its seemingly unstoppable momentum intimidate you.
If the Sekiro boss Juzou the Drunkard is also giving you trouble, we’ve got a guide for him as well.