Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Unbounded Counter (UC) is basically a charged parry, that can parry any attack except her Talisman dash (where she glows green).

Rules: I may not deal any damage outside of parrying, aside from 1 talisman once the boss's HP bar is entirely Internal Damage, to one shot each phase.
I am certainly not the first to do this, as can be seen here: youtu.be/_iD7n_GUjTE
(In hindsight, it looks like Reciprocation Jade is just more effective here than Last Stand, while also being way less risky for non-hitless play)

Despite parry only being a passive playstyle, there's quite a few tricky optimisations to get as many UCs as safely possible.

The Divine Hand Jade is amazing for this fight, letting you get lots of internal damage basically for free. Don't sleep on it. Admittedly, it's not that useful outside of this fight, and requires practice to make optimal use of.

0:18 - For her basic melee combos, you can always charge up a UC after the first hit. For most attacks that's easy, but for the triple poke, it's a very tight window to do consistently, and you don't even get a partial parry if you mess up.

0:33 - Predicting the delayed triple slash lets you get 3 UCs very easily.
Maybe it's possible to also react in time when she performs this from neutral, but that seems too hard. It's not safe to start charging a UC in neutral, because of her talisman dash.

3:37 - For her signature move in phase 3, you can hold the parry button as you're falling down. This lets you get UCs for the delayed triple slash if she does it. You do have to react to the mixup a lot faser though in order not to get caught by the talisman dash or more slices. I messed up in this kill however and sometimes do regular parries instead.

3:52 - This combo is just satisfying and very beneficial. 6 UCs, and if you use Water Flow style you can even fit a talisman before the delayed triple.