Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (topic now 200% easier to find)

I’m starting to get a bit frustrated in the last battle…

I can make it to the second phase maybe 20% of the time, maybe a third if I don’t count the battles I start of poorly and die in a minute. When I do make it to the second phase, I can last for a bit, but I barely do any damage to him - maybe 0.5 inches of his health bar.

I just watched a video of the first part of the fight, so I’ll see if that helped at all. I don’t like trying to figure out how to play games by watching videos, because if I ever make it, it kinda decreases my sense of accomplishment. Kind of like how I don’t like to read strategy guides for strategy games - but with this one there is not way I would have made it without the help in this thread or a couple videos I watched.