Yup he is designed to punish heals, you have to wait for an opening not just back up. It's a surprise because no enemies did this the whole game but it became standard in the series later.
I beat the game about hour ago. When I died like 10th time against him I started parrying from the very beggining and I just killed him without any lost of hp. For me not the hardest boss
You don't have to parry. Similarly to Manus if you are pure melee you just have to keep your distance from the boss and bait his moves. It's not worth staying on top of Gwyn because he has a few fast attacks that can easily fuck you if you're only dodging. So, keeping your distance, baiting his grabs and jump attack is the easiest way to win this fight, slow and methodical wins against bosses that literally don't let you use flasks. You can also get more poise and just gulp like 4 flasks and heal through his dmg if you have enough HP, at some point he opts for a slower attack which lets you dodge after healing.
I got frustrated with the death run on my first play through, and just gave up on fighting him and parried my way to victory. I was so tilted by that, because I saw his move set, and he seemed so much fun to fight head on but the death run just pissed me off. Few months later, I wrote a script that would hold/letgo "w" key on a key stroke, and played through the whole game again(I also missed dlc bosses on my first run since I didn't know that last bonfire= ng) And I was not disappointed, fighting him properly is so satisfactory, all it took was take the "press W to reach boss" away. But, the best boss fight in that game is hands down Artorias. Few years later I played sekiro, and holy heck did it remind me of artorias. On the other hand, in DS2, I'll use every single cheese strat possible, just so I can kill all bosses(5 left) in the single run, and uninstall the game.
I chose not to parry because I didn't want to parry. Stop commenting the obvious.
based , without parrying gwyn is actually fun-tough
ii swear he is hardcoded to charge you head-on as soon as the systems marks you as "healing"
Yeah, most souls bosses have that ai reading and counter healing inputs. It's hard to find an opening with Gwyn.
@@x8stormcrow8xSi tienes suerte que se quede trabado con un pilar podras curarte sencillamente,ojo pasa poco pero de que se puede se puede.
In elden ring the foreskin duo is coded to throw blackeflame at you when you heal, every tiiiiime lol
Yup he is designed to punish heals, you have to wait for an opening not just back up. It's a surprise because no enemies did this the whole game but it became standard in the series later.
Btw, Sekiro also has such mechanics
And if you die, the run back is like 10 times longer than the fight attempt.
Lol so true
i always used the pillars as cover so gwyn headbutts the pillar instead of annihilating me
Came to comment this exactly
The first time I literaly kill him without healing beacuse I didn't find a safe way to do it hahahahaha
The music : " plin plin plon...."
Plin plin plon always gets me
bro this meme is like 5 years old let it go
0:06 bro has no enemies
plin plin plon
Such a cool boss fight I love how you parry that at first and then leave 😂
Gwyn comes furious watching you heal 😂
But DID YOU... gib him time to heal his broken heart :(
If you parry/riposte, you have plenty of time to heal before he gets up again
Lmao, the struggle is real, reliving memories seeing this video.
I beat the game about hour ago. When I died like 10th time against him I started parrying from the very beggining and I just killed him without any lost of hp. For me not the hardest boss
Now its about the opposite
By this time, he really isn’t meant to be. It’s a mercy killing.
I feel like the battle with Gwyn is the only time in the game where parrying is almost mandatory to win the fight
You don't have to parry. Similarly to Manus if you are pure melee you just have to keep your distance from the boss and bait his moves.
It's not worth staying on top of Gwyn because he has a few fast attacks that can easily fuck you if you're only dodging. So, keeping your distance, baiting his grabs and jump attack is the easiest way to win this fight, slow and methodical wins against bosses that literally don't let you use flasks.
You can also get more poise and just gulp like 4 flasks and heal through his dmg if you have enough HP, at some point he opts for a slower attack which lets you dodge after healing.
@@SnakeHelah maybe but parrying makes the fight easier and defeats him quicker
Percs of not being able to move while healing😂😂😂
You can parry him.
No, thanks
better without parry
@@frakyo667 oh yeah, then try him as sl1 in ng7
@@aizensama21he is still more fun to fight normally. Parrying trivialises it
I got frustrated with the death run on my first play through, and just gave up on fighting him and parried my way to victory. I was so tilted by that, because I saw his move set, and he seemed so much fun to fight head on but the death run just pissed me off.
Few months later, I wrote a script that would hold/letgo "w" key on a key stroke, and played through the whole game again(I also missed dlc bosses on my first run since I didn't know that last bonfire= ng)
And I was not disappointed, fighting him properly is so satisfactory, all it took was take the "press W to reach boss" away. But, the best boss fight in that game is hands down Artorias. Few years later I played sekiro, and holy heck did it remind me of artorias.
On the other hand, in DS2, I'll use every single cheese strat possible, just so I can kill all bosses(5 left) in the single run, and uninstall the game.
And...ofcourse you can.. While not directly in front of him. 😂
Miyazaki daughter or something, playing 3 notes on piano
Miyazaki: we got new boss music boiis
parry, risposte then heal!
You can parry him it will be so much easy
Lmao this happended to me once
He's quite easy
But you're using miracles against him?
What are you wearing (armor and rings)?
No hit first try Gwyn is the easiest thing to do
Parry is for noobs 🤭
the easiest boss in the game after the asylum demon. finished it first try
Just parry him all the time , beat him 1 try one of the easiest bosses in the game pathetic
Yeah but thats literally no fun.
He's never supposed to be hard, what are you talking about. It's about the mission that you accomplished here, just let the old man rest finally.
You dont know parry but you said you no want to parry 😂
@thanhtranngoc5174 are you Quina from final fantasy 9?
Beat him today and was saying the same thing lol like just let me mf heal
Such a cool boss fight I love how you parry that at first and then leave 😂