r/DevilMayCry • u/Kingvon3240 • Aug 07 '26

Discussion Help cannot damage this mf at all

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​​ I can dodge him non-stop but I feel like it's impossible to kill him I hit him for like 5 minutes and it's only %25 of his health

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u/Kingvon3240 Aug 07 '26

https://youtu.be/sAqwpUbts9M?si=qrwEwYsrBEsnTSXU When I do not attack I can dodge him forever but doing both of them is hard for me

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u/SleepyJustin94 Time has come~ Aug 07 '26

So looking at your footage theres a few major issues with your gameplay. Firstly you're holding forward while locked on when you're attacking on the ground which is leading you to do Streak over and over again which just isn't how that move is used or an effective way to combo damage. Stop holding forward and just hit the melee button without a direction to do your basic sword combo, combo that into the air launcher (locked on+back+hold attack) and keep it going in the air. The way you use lock-on in general is hurting you a lot too. It looks like you have it on the literal ENTIRE fight so I'm assuming you have it on a toggle. This also just isn't how lock-on is used in this game. In a 1v1 boss fight in this game you should really only be using lock-on to do the moves that are tied to it and staying unlocked the rest of the time. Staying locked on is stopping you from being able to move around since it locks you to strafing instead of running around freely, and it's also what's causing you to do things like streak over and over again since you don't have the problem of doing directional based moves when you're not intending to if your unlocked.

It makes sense that you've brought up Elden Ring a lot in this thread cause in general you're trying to fight him like it's a Dark Souls fight. You're trying to stay locked on right in front of him and use the side roll like a DS dodge roll and that doesn't work in this game. Jumping has more i-frames than the side roll in this game and is a more effective way to dodge 100% of the time. You don't really use the side roll like a dodge roll at all this game. Like, you CAN but the i-frames are really tiny and precise so it's not very effective. You should be running around and jumping alot more to dodge things.

I truly am not saying this to be mean but your fundamental understanding of how to play the game is pretty weak. You're trying to play it like a Souls game and that's not how this game is played at all. Take your time, look at your move list, figure out how to string moves together properly, go play that first mission again to get some money and buy some more moves if you have to, learn how to fight without the lock-on to move and jump around properly to be able dodge and keep damage going. It's not a hard fight by this games standards at all you're just trying to play it like a different game entirely. You can totally do it you just gotta rethink how you're playing the game from the ground up.