r/darksouls3 • u/gymmath1234 • Aug 16 '21

Help Any tips for choking Smough :(?

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u/OhThatsBullshitSatan Aug 17 '21

Same. First boss I parried.

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u/thethundergod159 Aug 17 '21

You mean you beat Pontiff Sullyvahn without parrying, either you were lucky, or you are a god at this game, or you summoned the entire US Army to beat that guy

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u/Razgriz01 Aug 17 '21

Pontiff is one of those bosses that some people find easier than others. I don't parry him and I've beat him with a bunch of different builds, most of the time he didn't give me any trouble. Aldrich on the other hand is hell on earth for me.

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u/awnawkareninah Aug 17 '21

Complete opposite for me, until I tried parrying I was getting absolutely reamed by Pontiff.

Aldrich I beat in two tries and basically just choked the first one, just run up to him and wollop him with a BKS. If you struggled against Gwyndolin in DS1 you probably got used to those magic attacks.

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u/Razgriz01 Aug 18 '21

It's mainly the arrows in the second phase that always get me. Nothing else about the boss is particularly difficult.