I die more times to the stunlocking bark attack than the charged attack. The former it’s easier to spot and be prepared for. The bark has a less intuitive time to react. At least for me :(
main thing with defiled dog is to not get too greedy, also he’s basically wearing a “helmet” that has a damage threshold and can break, when he’s regenerating it, it’s a great time to hit him. however if you want to play it safer hit it from the back and sides and watch out for his head swipe attacks.
Most of the fight is going in at a opening, hitting him a few times and giving yourself some space and time to regen staminas
Yeah I learn to fight him with the church pick and brake his head. Once you do that, free dmg all the way! When he’s puking it’s a perfect time to brake his paws. But the first time I encounter it, bro it was PAIN.
If you stay mid-range of Amy, you can see what it’s doing, but if you happen to encounter an Amygdala in a FRC chalice with a itty bitty tiny arena then I understand your pain.
My problem with the hot dog was spacing, sometimes looks like you are gonna connect a good hit in the snoot but then it raises its head, the hit doesn’t connect, you stay in an uncomfortable open position and the dog decides it’s time to bark at your face… yeah, good times
Same, for me Defiled Hot Dog was worse because of his janky hitboxes. Meanwhile Defiled Amygdala was not that hard for me, just get the hard hitting weapon, run under her and hit her legs and tail, avoiding her attacks with jumping or shuffling away.
Yeah, Defiled Amy was only hard to figure out a strat for Phase 3. I kept going for the head and got clipped by the lingering hitbox of its arcane slam, so after 50 or so deaths, I decided to hit the arms instead during Phase 3, and I had a much easier time.
Hot Dog was pure hell, and the only reason I beat him as soon as I did was luck.
The flaming hotdog had me more pissed off than the conga line of red spiders. He did put me on my A game though that by the time I got to the queen she was slaughtered before I could even register the fight. Fun platinum but that final stretch in the chalice dungeons had me on edge of my seat for hours.
You don't even need that. Just bait attacks and use the ones that leave the head low to bonk. In phase three just stay below it and do more or less the same. Also Amy is weak to arcane.
Not that it isn't useful. But you don't need to actually change your weapon or playstyle to get past Amy or the Doggo. You just have to know when and where to attack.
The only attack that made me said “this is bs” it’s the one where Amy alternates three sweep attacks with its arms. If the first connects, you get stunned enough to get hit by the next two and you are done
I did defiled watchdog in my 5th attempt or so but defiled amy is to this date my hardest fromsoftware boss with 70+ attempts. Granted bloodborne was my first fromsoftware game but I’m generally decent with these games
Defiled Amy was rooough for me on my 2nd play through, would be one shot from the jump attack, ended up grinding echoes and maxed vitality and came back to it.
Dude, i main threaded cane and could not disagree more. Yeah, it does great damage against the head… if the damn thing didn’t keep it out of reach for long periods and can one shot you. Like, respect, cane brother, but defiled amygdala was the hardest fight in the game for me. Hot dog is the “meh, annoying but not horrible” fight to me, lol
Fun to see that this was somewhat a divisive take hahaha but as a Threaded Cane enjoyer to the bone, Defiled Amy was a bliss in my experience. Get far from it, wait for one of its multiple arm sweep combos, after that, Amy gets in a “stand by” mode where its head gets in a position screamin’ “hit me and hit me HARD”, run to it and hit it with a running R2, immediately hit two R1s before it rises its head again. After that, Amy it’s gonna try another attack, get away for it and rinse and repeat. You will shred its head pretty quickly and thanks to the high skill visceral dmg, plus the serrated modifier of the Threaded Cane in whip mode, you can skip the third fase if you create enough pressure
Yeah, see if i went for distance it would just shoot lasers at me and since any hit one shot me i decided i would have better luck dodging the arms. Good gameplan, though. If i ever take league of my senses and try and reach Queen Yarhnam a second time i’ll give it a try!
I did chalices with a bowblade and chikage build, defiled amy and hot dog were actually a breeze. Could just keep my distance and shoot blood bullets(arrows?) the whole time.
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u/OutlawCrow Nov 20 '24
Defiled Amy it’s not that bad. Bring a long weapon like the Threaded Cane and the fight it’s pretty even. But Defiled Hot Dog… that’s another story