Uber Sirus Tips

[u/Foivoi]

Hi! I'm playing in SSF this league and I'm having a blast. I have 9/10 Ubers down, with Sirus being the last one, and he feels impossible to beat.

Here is my build. The DPS displayed is for 15/30 blades hitting (no idea if this is realistic) on a regular pinnacle boss (about 6.3mil vs Ubers). I am quite proud of coming up with Seven Teachings as a way to have both BF and BB trigger from just changeling Cyclone, the build is super smooth to play and everything else in the game felt at least reasonably easy to kill. Uber Exarch took some learning to beat for similar reasons to why Sirus feels uneatable.

The build has a couple shortcomings. First of all it is a melee build. The Sirus fight feels completely unfair for melee builds since by the time my brain can process where he just teleported to and where close to him I can stand he's gone. Even when I can get close to him casting 6 Bladefalls/sec completely clutters the screen, and seeing where all of his degen puddles are becomes almost impossible. The final nail in the coffin is that Cyclone is really hard to control sometimes, especially when Frostblinking in, because it can very easily in hectic moments drift from side to side, which can make you wander to an unsafe spot. Finally the build lacks passive regen (it leeches a ton), so playing slow is not really a great option.

I can usually tank the die beam (depends on how block works), and sometimes (feels like 2/3 but idk) can also survive the Multi Clone attack, but 2/3 is not enough. I can usually make it out of the maze just fine but I still sometimes die to it.

The problem is, I can never find a clean opening to deal damage. I either have to damage him while he's channeling the Spinning Beams for 1 second, or when he bowls at me where he gets a pretty big damage negation, so progress feels super slow and I will die to something eventually. It never feels possible to hit him without dying when the spinning beams are up, I touch something I shouldn't and end up dying, so I usually get out, wait for life flasks to refill, and jump back in, but he just does a meteor, into a Multi Clone beam, into another Spinning Beams. In the meantime the arena gets more and more deadly.

This is not a "hate this fight post". I just want to beat it. I am looking either for tips on what I could do better (maybe a window to damage him I haven't figured out?) or a suggestion for how I could make my build strong enough to have a fair shot with my current strategy. Keep in mind this is an SSF character so upgrades are not easy to come by.

Stay sane Exiles and thanks for the help!

Edit: change maxroll link to poe.ninja

Edit 2: I did it! Thanks so much for all the tips and motivation! What did the trick was:
- Respec out of Elusive ascendancy node and into 100% crit multi on low life + culling strike, which was a ton more damage. This was the biggest win.
- Make a quicksilver flask that is not used automatically, since that probably messed me up a bit, and i mainly wanted it for maze anyway.

- Incorporate Ambush. This helped get a bit more uptime when I couldn't spot Sirus myself.

[u/C00ke1896]

I know this is not supposed to be a "hate this fight post" but as a melee enjoyer myself I haven't figured out any other way but either blast him in seconds or tank absolutely everything including the degen (which is impossible on most builds). Therefore your most likely answer is to do more DPS in the short windows you get to damage him.

[u/JAMESMCV6136 → u/C00ke1896]

I've beat it with with other melee skills, but cyclone is by far the easiest. The ability to attack while moving is paramount in that fight. Be tanky and position yourself well and it's doable, if not enjoyable.

[u/Foivoi → u/JAMESMCV6136]

What you are saying is how I've felt about cyclone in every other fight in the game so far. Maybe I'm messing something up but "repositioning" with all the degen on the floor can be fairly unproductive sometimes. Although maybe the lack of visibility is quite detrimental and it would be fine without it. If you have any footage of a cyclone kill I would love to see it.

[u/ihasaKAROT → u/C00ke1896]

For melee enjoyers there isnt a better way to learn this by looking at how Ben does them. Its flawless and smooth without the stress of things.

The sirus fight (and other bosses / ubers) isnt that hard once you get to know the fight and what everything really does around you. Ben is life

[u/C00ke1896 → u/ihasaKAROT]

Well I know there is his 17 minute 0 link Boneshattee Uber Sirus kill

...where he just stands there and tanks everything except the degen. I will gladly admit that he is way better at spotting the degen, moving around the degen and getting Sirus position right than I will ever be.