Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty’s first boss, Zhang Liang, is a difficult buyer, particularly when you’ve by no means performed Sekiro, and you are not notably used to this recreation’s parry-centric recreation fashion. He is tremendous aggressive, laborious to dodge, and when your combating companion says he’ll get the boss’s consideration so you may heal, he simply…does not.
What’s worse, Zhang Liang has a second part the place he eats some demon sweet, goes actual pink, and grows a spiky arm that he is keen on swinging everywhere. There are particular issues you are able to do to make this struggle simpler, comparable to grabbing the polearm podao weapon from the chest within the village elder’s hut, or levelling up your wooden advantage to get that little bit of additional well being. Both approach, here is my finest technique for beating Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty’s first boss.
Find out how to beat Zhang Liang’s first part
Zhang Liang comes at you swinging his massive mace, and sadly, if you need this struggle to be over rapidly, you are going to should deflect his assaults (B on keyboard and controller). This may shrink his Spirit Gauge (proven beneath boss well being) and ultimately trigger Spirit Disruption, letting you carry out a Deadly Strike (LMB + shift or Y on controller) which takes off a giant chunk of his well being. You may know when he is open to a Deadly Strike, as a result of he’ll cease transferring and a pink dot will glow in his chest, Sekiro-style.
The quickest, although most tough, method to scale back his Spirit Gauge is to deflect each assault, rapidly hitting him in-between every with quick assaults (LMB or X on controller). Zhang Liang is a boss that turns into infinitely more durable when you do not deflect him on every preliminary assault, as a result of he combos for days, and offers you little respiration room when you mess up. It is higher to regulate the tempo of the struggle by deflecting these first assaults, and stun locking him with a couple of slashes after every to gradual his momentum whereas chipping down his Spirit Gauge.
That mentioned, when you do not feel capable of deflect all of his assaults, then you must at the very least intention to deflect the crucial blows the place he glows pink. Deflecting these reduces his Spirit Gauge by an enormous quantity, and supplied you’re dealing some harm, needs to be sufficient to tip him into Spirit Disruption.
Whereas most of his common assaults aren’t too laborious to deflect, listed below are those you really want to be careful for:
Leaping mace slam
He jumps into the air together with his mace and slams it down on you. The deflection timing is difficult as this assault massively hastens on the finish, so you must press the enter whereas he is nonetheless within the air—do observe that is totally different to the slower leaping slam the place he goes excessive into the air later
Uppercut crucial strike
He glows pink and lowers his mace earlier than swinging it in an uppercut. You need to time the deflection for the immediate his mace reaches the ground behind him, however typically I simply dodged this one since its vary is restricted and it hurts if it will get you.
Operating crucial strike
He glows pink and readies his mace earlier than sprinting at you. The trick to coping with this assault is to not deflect as quickly as he will get to you, since he delays a second earlier than truly swinging. Wait a second when he arrives, then hit deflect.
After deflecting his crucial strikes or common assaults, you’re protected to hit him till he will get up for the previous, or begins blocking for the latter. For me utilizing the polearm, Zhang Liang was typically stun locked by assaults after a deflection, so it is properly value getting some hits in then.
Find out how to beat Zhang Liang’s second part
Zhang Liang’s second part is loads to take care of: he grows a giant spiky arm that he tries to whip you with, and has quite a lot of annoying shockwave assaults, sending stones spiking in direction of you thru the bottom, or spiking the bottom round him. The excellent news is that you simply solely have to get him to half well being, and you are able to do this by baiting out his pink crucial strikes. Particularly you need to ensure you deflect the assault the place he fires his spike arm at you, since this virtually utterly fills his Spirit Gauge, and he is often surprised for lengthy sufficient after that you may get a sneaky combo in to tip him over and carry out a Deadly Strike.
As soon as he is at half well being your companion will let you know to “launch the ability of the jade” and it’s good to press Y+B on controller. This may end the struggle early and prevent some hassle. Zhang’s pink crucial strikes appear fairly random to be trustworthy; one time he did the spike arm launch proper on the very starting, whereas one other time I needed to hit him a bit earlier than he did it. Both approach, there is no level making an attempt to get tremendous aggressive with this part and deal plenty of harm conventionally—not when you may bait these crucial strikes.
As within the first part, there are a couple of assaults I might recommend searching for:
Spike arm crucial strike
He glows pink, then fires his spiky arm at you from a distance. That is the crucial strike that it’s good to deflect to make this second part much less painful, because it does huge Spirit Gauge harm, and usually offers you sufficient time to combo that right into a Spirit Disruption so you may stab him.
Thrusting cost
He spins his mace then comes charging at you from a distance. Just like the leaping mace slam from the primary part, this can be a very quick assault, so you will need to deflect a bit early with a purpose to take care of it.
Stone spikes
He crops the pinnacle of his mace in opposition to the bottom then sends out spiking stones in direction of you. This may be deflected like some other assault and that is a way more dependable method to take care of it than dodging. After you have broken him a bit, there’s an opportunity he’ll begin doing two of those in a row, so do not chill out after you have handled one.
The opposite crucial strike to be careful for is when he fees up and comes working at you flailing together with his mace—often after you have already broken him a bit. You may deflect this on any of the person mace blows, however be warned: he’ll instantly comply with up with one other pink assault firing his spike arm. If you happen to can deflect each that is an instantaneous Spirit Disruption, however when you mess up on the spike arm, you will get grabbed and he’ll deal a variety of harm.
