Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Technically gotta use the sword in the ending QTE to kill him, but the main point of this was getting to that QTE without being armed. The original plan was a wooden sword fight so I could do something more stylish while having lower damage, but unfortunately you are locked to Sam's sword in this encounter. I remembered this was a thing and decided to try it, though I was initially hesitant since I wasn't sure if you could fight him like this and keep him at full HP. Turns out you easily can; all you gotta do is just punch him while he tries to heal, as he'll do an avoidable counterattack that'll prolong it, and you can endlessly chain it until he gets all his health back. If this is set up correctly he won't heal again, if he does do it again I'm not sure if there's a limit or if you just get trapped in a loop of breaking him down and then him regenerating it back.
Fight performance was alright, but heavy attack/dodge off-setting could've been optimized a bit more. The third part of the heavy attack combo does the most damage in your unarmed moveset, so it's a good idea to figure out how many points you can hit him with that. His AI repeats sequences a lot throughout the fight, and I think there is at least one or two other consistent string of attacks you can fit the third heavy attack in and still safely dodge what comes next. Anyways, this is probably the last basegame thing I'll do with this game. Mainly wanna focus on the Sam DLC on the no upgrades run and I'll probably be done after that.
Technically gotta use the sword in the ending QTE to kill him, but the main point of this was getting to that QTE without being armed. The original plan was a wooden sword fight so I could do something more stylish while having lower damage, but unfortunately you are locked to Sam's sword in this encounter. I remembered this was a thing and decided to try it, though I was initially hesitant since I wasn't sure if you could fight him like this and keep him at full HP. Turns out you easily can; all you gotta do is just punch him while he tries to heal, as he'll do an avoidable counterattack that'll prolong it, and you can endlessly chain it until he gets all his health back. If this is set up correctly he won't heal again, if he does do it again I'm not sure if there's a limit or if you just get trapped in a loop of breaking him down and then him regenerating it back.
Fight performance was alright, but heavy attack/dodge off-setting could've been optimized a bit more. The third part of the heavy attack combo does the most damage in your unarmed moveset, so it's a good idea to figure out how many points you can hit him with that. His AI repeats sequences a lot throughout the fight, and I think there is at least one or two other consistent string of attacks you can fit the third heavy attack in and still safely dodge what comes next. Anyways, this is probably the last basegame thing I'll do with this game. Mainly wanna focus on the Sam DLC on the no upgrades run and I'll probably be done after that.
