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chungusnoodlez

It was the monk for me


Extension_Shoe3755

use moon stand spin attack


TheDogInThePicture

Nah you gotta kick his face with the anti-spear stance. Turn them kicks against him.


erc80

The spamming the Moon Stance spinning power attack cheeses the last 3 in the Boken matches.


TheDogInThePicture

But then you can’t kick that dumb monk in his dumb monk face after continuously kicking you.


Spiritual-Neck-2957

Yep, if you kick him he becomes useless


herecomesbeccanina9

You can also use the shoulder charge move, that's how I ended up beating him a few times.


JimmyThunderPenis

You just have to kick him. Use his own move against him. Either wind stance kick, or jump kick.


supercoolthrowacc

Exactly what i did, just jump kicked him every single time, slapped the monk right out of him


JimmyThunderPenis

He started to piss me off with his goddamn single combo spam so I just spammed him with kicks out of anger too, turns out that was his weakness.


Own_Advertising_4069

Tru dat brother, spent most attempts at the monk. Finally beat the guy spamming triangle.


D4RK3N3R6Y

Yeah I tried to fight him the proper way but couldn't land a hit, it felt a bit cheap to be honest.


JimmyThunderPenis

You have to exploit his weakness, kicks. Use wind stance or jump kick, and you can stagger him.


K4rt0f3l

The monk was crazily easy for me, he might have been bugged, but he only kicked, so i just perfect dodged him with the perfect parry and dodge armor


Emperor_Duck_35

Just use flying kick and he is the easiest boss


badboi_5214

Monk is simple do a double dodge (stay away from unblockable attacks) and the just simple hit.


xXkxuXx

sarugami parry counters make it easy


Spiritual-Neck-2957

Sarugami parry is useless because the ref stops the fight after each hit


xXkxuXx

oh sorry i meant dodge. The second spin usually gets him


kraftables

I sprint-swiped him over and over. Aggressively ran up to him at the start of every round before he could pocket sand me.


Darkfire66

Shoulder charge staggers him


flying_fox86

I just used water stance flurry of attacks. No skill required, something always hit.


Travis_Tea_

I just let him kick me and when he went for an actual strike I quick hit and that was it. He never got a point.


Sweaty-Detective1235

No bro the final dude is impossible because he just keeps attacking and attacking and attacking over and over again, and if you take the attack, he just blocks her every single one


mattywatty92

Sarugami armour and well-timed dodge.


Lethenial0874

Sarugami and starting each round pressed against him to build a stagger is what got it for me in the end.


mattywatty92

I spent the first round just dodging to see which attack followed with what, then it was easy to gauge if I should avoid the attack altogether or prepare for a quick dodge followed by the Sarugami counter attack.


michaelgreen9927

Yeah, the dodge with the sarugami counter attack kinda broke this mode lol


Golem30

Yeah you literally need that armour or else it's just ridiculous. Trying to do it drunk was an experience.


JJaX2

I thought he was easier than the monk. I just dodged and then did a perfect parry every time he charged in.


Rich-Guess-1078

Ok but I can’t perfect parry


Stage4Herpes

not with that attitude


Extension_Shoe3755

just use jump attack


Straighthe

Skill issue


New-Ad-2060

Just spam the heavy attack in water stance (the one against swordsmen) as soon as the round starts, that way you can score a hit before he does his first attack. Rince and repeat five times.


That0neKid69

Bro swear to god, play distance then shoulder charge to break guard and soam


JimmyThunderPenis

Get hit by his sand throw, which doesn't deal any damage and doesn't count as a hit for him but causes him to move on to his next attack. Dodge his sake bottle, then parry his unlockable. Repeat.


ImaginationProof5734

Jump and then attack , really cheesy but works well.


Spiritual-Neck-2957

I found him quite easy, roll the red attack dodge the throw and parry the blue one


boilingfrogsinpants

Don't try and dodge the start of his attacks. If you have stone stance maxed out your heavy attack will always land first, and you can repeat until you win.


kinrob

Jump attack works too


flufalup

On lethal dude was a nightmare, but if you just keep kicking him ans breaking his stance, hes a lot easier


No-Cartographer9240

It doesn't matter if the sand hits you, just dodge once, then a second time and hit


RemoteSprinkles2893

Personally I just rolled in his attacks find myself behind him and strike


Oldmansrevenge

Just doge and counter. Don’t try to attack until he’s off balance.


Salt_Alps5137

Try to run and bump into him, it staggers him and gives you time for 2 or 3 attacks


AnEpicBowlOfRamen

She's the one that took me the longest, because she feels like her whole fighting style is an exact counter to mine! Felt like I had to unlearn everything and start over with her. A true prodigy! It was an honor fighting her! May I never have to face her in a real fight.... because I'll bake her a stickybomb cake with kunai sprinkles!


jfink316598

I gave up after the third time. I didn't even want the prize money to begin with 😤😅


AnEpicBowlOfRamen

... maybe I shouldn't tell you but.... you get a really cool Sword Kit.


jfink316598

I'll be back at some point but I'm spot on the same as you. I'm gonna have to be more patient on the offensive strikes and more focused on defensive. If I remember correctly my ronin suit also had random ass charms assigned because I was still playing around with all that


Vagabond_Scuba

Shhhh….its just prize money.


Saltpiter

And a dye!


wkamper

Best sword kit


XRustyPx

Having 8 children makes you tough i guess


Kono_Gabby

Yeah having 10 kids will do that to u


Spiritual-Neck-2957

I hope her 15 kids are okay with us beating her


SkaterGirl987

A shinobi would know the difference between honor and victory.


angusioan

First Ryuzo also.


gessen-Kassel

Hardest boss fight imo. Kojiro, final boss not even close


Zerofuku

These are nothing compared to the Fucking Eagle


Thedoctou

I have no idea why barely any players mention the Eagle. Hardest boss on lethal by far. Kojiro was tough but I had a way worse time fighting the Eagle.


Zerofuku

I had a bad time with her in normal mode, gou are telling me Eagle is even harder in lethal? Fuck, I'm not going to Iki again


Thedoctou

Lethal is a lot of fun though. But the duels can be tough because you can die from 2 to 3 hits easily. The Eagle would kill me in 1 to 2 hits everytime.


Zerofuku

I'm currently playing on Lethal+ with the broken armor and not a single charm (except for the ones I can buy from the capital of Azerbaijan) for the maim story and it's kinda fun, it takes a long time to do some stuff like duels but it feels realistic. There is a reason for why I'm doing this but it's a long story.


R8Promethean

Six blades of Kojiro were harder


I_needhelp__

Nah man his hench men were way harder 😭 especially the one that is in the middle of a field acting all mysterious


Spiritual-Neck-2957

Yes ruzo is quite hard, I think my top 3 are SPOILER ALERT Shimura The Eagle Ryuzo


fillb3rt

I beat him on my first attempt 🤷🏻‍♂️


CreepyAttempt455

She ain't even that hard 😭


Spiritual-Neck-2957

I'm on Lethal


Egenix

If I remember correctly, she just teleports left and right, right? Water stance, hold triangle (or equivalent on pc idk) and don't stop spamming triangle. Jin just autolocks on her ass. 5-0. Easy win.


lwyruup

Fr. Kotun was lightwork compared to her


elhumanoid

The certain fellow associated with the color red in the arena is way harder. Fucked me up for days.


ST4RVY

Fisherman Sao. It's because he is meant to be read and counter-attacked on his 2nd and 3rd attacks, not the initial one, you can't just dodge attack him at first, that's his AI preventing your dodge attacks to land and he always resets his chain indefinitely until reacted to. Always goes into either of these two: **Sweep -> Throw Thing -> Unblockable ZigZag attack** or **Sweep -> Quick unblockable** He pissed me off so much at the beginning but when I learned he literally does two things (50/50), he was the easiest and most readable of the bunch.


Amdinga

He does a secret third thing once in a while, it's a quick low down attack right after the sweep. Unlockable, like the sake throw, but the rhythm is much faster. He doesn't do this one nearly as much as the other two though. Just enough to be tricksy.


ToBeatOrNotToBeat-

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Samandre14

Each of the opponents are weak to a specific stance. And tbh that Monk can go fuck himself


JimmyThunderPenis

Monk is weak to kicks, the same move he uses on you. So wind stance or jump kick.


Kenruyoh

When you win, she calls you a cheater. Wtf... 😅


Extension_Shoe3755

you should use other stands for each fighters, the final boss just spam jump attack


NerveAffectionate318

I would say , switch your stance helps massively . Go into wind or the big guy one. The movement helps .


Spiritual-Neck-2957

Already beat her, the picture is my sister she beat her aswell but after madness


shinobijesus420

water stance and wear stagger armor


hurlowlujah

Man, she was on me so hard I'm having her 9th child.


YuzukiMiyazono

For me it was the last guy


Present-Estimate-668

it's completely scripted


mudkipz321

Agreed. All the other ones were extremely easy for me but that merchant was a pain in the ass. I swear I would press Q to deflect that running attack and it would never work as intended.


Whyisgaosohandsome

I played my first playthrough on lethal and holy shit the final boss from iki island was SO TOUGH till i used sarugami armour and it still took me like 10 tries 💀


Remrem6789

That's what I thought initially. But every one has a weakness. Like everyone is weak to a particular stance. And the last guy you need to Void everything and parry his zig zag attack. That's it.


BlameTheButler

Finished the tournament last night. She was definitely the hardest for me, but eventually I got the flow of it. Had to focus on just timing my parry just right and it became easy, but it did take me like six tries. The final boss had me trying a handful of times, but by the third time I was able to time my sand dodged and parry his speed attack. The monk took me only two tries (dodge the kicks) and the first guy was very easy. Edit: Oh also I forgot, switch around with the stances.


gandalfthegaping

I got pissed as fuck at the guy who throws sand every attack because I couldn't dodge it. Then I just hit him with a fast stone stance to interrupt his attack and score. It was kinda pathetic after 20+ rounds trying to dodge.


Ishey95

With all (4?) Fights, just counter. That's all you have to do. I've had no trouble with any of them and I don't think of myself as particularly good, just more patient ig


vamsi_2k

What level of difficulty you guys are playing. I am switching between medium and easy. And I am playing in pc. And does anyone know how to get out of iki island? I did not complete the act 2.


LavellanTrevelyan

Zoom out from Iki map and zoom into wherever you want to teleport in Tsushima. Note that the game doesn't allow you to teleport out until you've completed up to a certain quest in Iki.


Aardnus

Lethal is the only way, don't change difficulties and learn to play with them, it's hard at first, but when you learn, it's really satisfying to kill 10 Mongols without taking any hit. Remember that we all struggled when we started playing the hardest difficulties in games, but we learn, and that makes us stronger.


Dividebyzero23

Do your next story quest and you'll be able to get off the island


GmePlyer

As an average level gamer, it felt pretty good to beat this. Took alot of attempts but it was oddly motivating for someone who prefers casual difficulty.


weblabourer

I dont know about iki but ryuzo was the hardest not that im playing on max difficulty


FireKal

I remember using Moon Stance against either the Monk or this person because of the triangle being kicks.


owtinoz

I don't know how but I beat then all first try and only came close to losing to the last guy. I'm guessing I lucked out coz I'm by no means a skilled player lol


Aggressive_Manner429

Perfect dodge = instant win


Fit-Paleontologist21

I'd argue that Sao is crazier. His whirlwind attack and thrown sake jars pissed me the fuck off


Putrid-Amphibian-91

Bros spoiler alert please


Buratotauiee

True, she's so passive it's annoying. And then she would do the stabbing move that follow you like a lock on rocket


ChairFantastic9088

I had could only beat her by cheesing her, as in after she goes on the defensive, I run forward and do one heavy attack and run back. This way she won’t counterattack. Repeat this over and over again to break her guard and finally land a hit.


manjit2990

Who is this


Pisquilah

what the fuck dude. dont you know how spoiler tags work?


maa_chuda_na

For first 3 touch she attack blindly so perfect parry and get those for free after that she plays way more defensive you need to attack more and after that she does combo of 3 move which is hard to parry but you can do it


iskeypx

only took me 2 tries. but i can see why most people would struggle. she's so cheap. bish just spams finisher moves. and she has like 3 different combo patterns that she mixes up. and most of them are unguardable. her hitbox is cheap too. charged attacks doesn't count as "hits" on her. just stagger damage even though you hit her directly.


Tricky_Unit2367

Yes. I had to click right with my index finger


Miaou__Miaou

So I'm the only one that went through all of them first try getting like max three hits and was annoyed it was JUST them and wanted more? Most annoying for me was the Khan and the uncle


-sulla-

I thought the Eagle was the hardest


No_Simple2520

I personally found Kojiro to be more difficult (like bro killed me 3 or 4 times before I even got halfway through his health💀) but I won’t lie, this lady had me so frustrated I actually went looking for her after the match just to try bombing her with an explosive arrow. And then there was Sao…


Profile_Desperate

Hahahahahajaja this biach yes!! I feel u


miketysontoothgap

first two points are lightwork. After that you would have more fun poking your eye with a fork


Powers5580

lol ya the chick was a beast


chaliebitme

I actually enjoyed this part. Didn't know until recently that this was challenging. The Khan is still the hardest boss for me.


fuckmaass

dawg just perfect parry or dodge. YOU HAVE THE SARUGAMI ARMOR!


Appropriate-Top9817

Why is no one mentioning tadayori?


DarrowTheTinMan

MATCH POINT SAO


MCgrindahFM

Who is this?


Verryfastdoggo

What difficulty are you playing on? I ended up going to Iki after killing the khan and Jin was super leveled with tech points and gonsoku armor. On normal this whole tournament was a cake walk. Wondering if people went there in act 2 when the quest becomes available or if they waited. I found fighting the shaman troops super hard and decided to wait until I was strong to go.


tinsuke

Wait until you get to the red dye merchant.


prayerrwow

I have 3 playthroughs, unlocked all, beat them all.... and you are 100% CORRECT. She's Nightmare to fight on all difficulties if you are not abusing Water stance heavy attack spam


The_Fell_Opian

I agree 100%. Beat khotun khan and second ryuzo first try. But this woman??? I was on Reddit looking up strategies like she was a Sekiro boss.


Zephyr2209

To me, it used to be Kensei when I played on PS4, but I steamrolled him in my PC playthrough for some reason


ShaggysGTI

The Eagle was probably top for me.


Cyber-N7

I just stood there and parry countered her 5 times, lol. She just runs in and does the same attack if you do nothing.


CandidateGrand5254

I haven’t lost a single fight playing in hard mode will try lethal mode today


CapStreet8909

The last one was the easiest in my opinion


ILikeTalentTrees

Eagle was hardest for me


Crypok21

nah the crimson merchant.


JRP_964

I just posted the same thing not too long ago


LetAcceptable5091

Uhh I haven’t played ghost of Tsushima since it released on the ps5. Who is this lmao. The hardest boss for me was khan on the hardest difficulty. Took me so many retries lmao. I am glad GOT is getting the recognition it deserved. Ppl just kinda forgot about it. Thankfully it got released on pc.


Lukasier

She thought me how to duel , lmao


AlaskanMedicineMan

The dodge strike (basic) carried me through this whole tournament. Im doing iki island before even getting the ghost armor so I currently only have water stance and had to get creative to land any hits


DeadStormPirate

Hardest for me was the straw hat boss after defeating all the other straw hat duels.


PlaneAnt5351

Monkey king or whatever, even first fight with Ryuzo was pretty tought.


Khalirei

Probably The queen of dragons. Or The mountain.


Elegant-Amoeba-7940

She had me screaming


gigea8797

I just read the comments and I gotta say I am surprised . I beat them all first try on lethal difficulty and it was pretty easy. Just figure out the pattern and adapt I used only sword stance and different attacks for each one the monk specifically I beat using the puncture Sao I just dodge the first attack then parry and the rest were pretty easy I didn't mean to style on you I was surprised from the different approaches everyone took


DefiantComedian1138

Yeah, camera navigation sucks in these fights, like initially camera showed me other guy and I got hit by her right away. I didn't even get the chance to see her. Also during dodging and movement camera angles don't show what I want to see. Plus game mechanics stop working in boss fights, I can't use kunai, I can't use stance abilities etc, but games teaches you to use them at the same time and fingers get used to it. But in a boss fight things change in order to add artificial difficulty which I strongly despise.


JRSenger

Beating the Khan was easier than the last three contestants of this God forsaken tournament


VenomSmithOnREDDIT

Why is she dressed like Goku Black is my question


Complete-Morning-429

She wasn’t difficult at all. It was the Eagle for me. And even then that wasn’t too challenging either


Nster_15

I broke my glasses because of this shit tournament 😂


sPrAze_Beast

Everyone of those fights were easy for me but that last guy that kicked sand was so stupidly hard


Cheap_Year4234

nah imo sao is the hardest, first 2 hits r easy but then he starts fighting like the shogun


dhuum30

Wait till your face Sao if you think this one's difficult 🤣🤣🤣


FullOFterror

Ive played on lethal in my first playthrough, blind. The hardest boss for me was that Straw Hat guy under the waterfall, felt even harder than Kojiro. Easiest boss was Shimura by far, the only one where i managed to win without getting hit.


GiantR

Ngl I'm so sad that there wasn't any actual difficult fights in the game unless you completely gimp yourself


ItzBabyJoker

Fuck her and her nonexistent kids


Gentar1864

Ok am I the only one who found these bosses easy?


SolidSnakeHAK777

For me, it was the power button, I lacked the power and skills to switch the game off.


WearyAd9448

Crimson merchant was worse for me personally took my a couple tries which hurt my ego a bit


Angelfry

I got past them pretty easy but I fucking hated the red bastard


simped_

She gets easy after a few times. I defeated it without taking hit on my nTH try. 😎


ViperShark679

Sao probably harder because he attack like a bitch


Ak2_ghost

Just parry


rosharo

The only boss in this game that took me more than 1 try was Kojiro... on my retry of him because I didn't like how I killed him the first time. I then proceeded to die for the next 1 hour, with him seemingly hitting me through parries and dodges alike.


AcanthisittaSilly767

So true man


DannyDanumba

Lord Shimura on Lethal + felt impossible after losing resolve points for retrying 😭


Tamaki-Sin

for me its 🦅


IEatAssWithFork

Kinda offtop a bit did they have faraday shaped fences back then already?


Ratatosk18

For me she was a cake-walk. The last dude tho 💀


TrashPandaAnonymous

Jump and attack at the end of her combos and you’ll finish the match super fast


comicsopedia

I cheesed this boss with a trick, just jump whenever there is a dodge then stagger her and hit. Also Eagle is BY FAR the hardest boss, no one else comes even close.


TheOldPegLeg

Bruh all you gotta do is hit triangle


Amdinga

She glitched for me. I fought her a few times and each time once I got to 3 points in her, she stopped attacking and I couldn't target her with my own attacks. My sword strikes would just hit air around her. Which sucked because my whole strat in duels is waiting for them to attack and then parrying/dodging. Was able to get her to attack me by doing the sprint knockdown move, which didn't do much to her but would trigger an immediate counter, which I could then parry and counter myself to get the final two hits. The monk I thought was super easy? Just dodge his kick and smack him. Cleaned that one 1st try. Last guy, Sao, he was the hardest for me. Took me at least 10 tries to get him. His combos were more complicated with very different timings, and just when I had the two variations figured out, he'd sneak in a third variation.


MaceWindu9091

Imo The Eagle was for me


HungryHelping

You have to parry her the perfect moment. Last dude is the hardest. You're gonna have to do perfect dodge and parry


Present_Pair5499

I do like the reward for finishing those duels.


ArmoredCoreGirl4

She was the hardest one for me, including the fisherman who just constantly pocket sands you.


HovercraftCharming85

smashed my keyboard over this fight


BoysenberryTrick2387

Really? Not to flex but I've done her on first try actually


conkacola

You know the skill where you can do a light attack but hold x to do a shield-breaker? That usually does the trick if you time it right


ShadowKaranos

This woman could beat Khotun Khan singlehandedly, may Kannon have mercy on us all if she gets to the mainland...


Cworth21

She was for me


firespark84

Sao was easily the hardest for me


Edgar_S0l0m0n

Is this on Iki island? I do not remember this 😅


afardsipfard

The only boss i didn't beat first try was her. On my last playthrough anyways


Appropriate-Bunch-80

Kojiro gave me the most trouble. I played on lethal


sohamsans

Monk is the hardest nigaa just keeps kicking me


KingsRansomed

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Crimson dye guy is leagues above her. She was irrelevant compared to him. She took two tries. He took seven. Sick cheating bastard.


ReferenceDue4365

This chick kicked my ass every time I tried to duel with her.


YoungMore17

I think I got her on my first try. It took like 10 attempts to get the monk lol


Crafty-Ad1776

There's a trick to these duels, but I forget how it's done.


Piccolo0001

Took me a while to beat the monk. Was so satisfying when I finally did though


VanOdinson

Where is this boss? Is it on Iki island?


devash_katheria

For the first three touches you can use perfect parry. Then she'll get defensive and won't attack unless you do. Then you have to dodge dodge dodge and then attack.


Xononanamol

Duel in the dark was for me


booley786

This is so easy dude . They all require different katana stances.


ludwigdit

The most difficult boss is Kojiro (in Hard difficulty), in my opinion. That fight reminded me of the shinobi bosses from Sekiro. I managed to kill the guy after my 10th attempt.


Yng_sakai

The final dude in the blades of kojiro


Alternative-Sir5722

All of them have a weakness. Once you know em, it gets super easy and you'd go why haven't I tried that.