The hitbox on this boss is jarring compared to the werewolfs with insanely fat hitboxes that block you in a corner if they are slightly near you. This guy my weapon can cut straight through and it misses. Very frustrating.
I think a good idea would be in the first stage, instead of backstabbing, you should use transformation attacks to build up beast meter and when second stage hits it should be pretty close to full if not full and then move on to back stabs. He will stand no chance. Although, imo fighting him regularly is way more fun and rewarding.
@@wavyassassin8017 Transformation attacks is when you attack with your weapon in one mode and then in the middle of the combo you switch to the second weapon form (with L1). This way instead of the switching animation it will make an attacking animation. I’m a noob too but this is explained in the beginning of the the game in the tutorial messages spread in the floor. But to be honest I have very rarely used it. Apparently some enemies are weak to this type of attacks but I’m to busy trying to stay alive to investigate that shit.
@@charlyrob7334 oh...that , didn't know it was called transformation...I'm thinking he means an actual transformation...he said a beast meter ..so I was lost
@@Tizona sir I did it like a few minutes ago and I did it twice and both times the it would keep attacking and not go to the cocktail what am I doing wrong sir?
It still works because Fromsoftware always intended it to work this way. They designed the boss to be beaten this way. It’s not a glitch or cheese. It’s how you’re supposed to kill this thing. At least based on how FromSoft designed BSB
Sadly didn't work for me solo. I died so many times so in the end, just got a friend to join me in multiplayer - she brought fire paper, cocktails and (those explosive bottles of fire lol) and we beat him first try! So we sort of used your strategy, but mostly she distracted him while I went up behind and slashed
Just fyi this isn’t a cheese method. You get the blood cocktails right before the fight. The item description clearly points at the blood starved beast. The blood starved beast is programmed to ignore you and be attracted to the cocktail. Fromsoftware is practically begging you to do this. You’re a hunter using a Hunter tool to take down a beast. There’s an actual glitch method that insta kills the boss. Now that is cheese.
Before Beast, go berserk parry. You can take somewhere around half health and then throw oil at him and cocktail, and 2 solution is to parry him untill half healt and then run away find some wall and trow blood cocktail and spawn attacks and trow cocktail agin and take many as you can carry
I still have a lot of trouble with this one. I wasted so many cocktails. Botta grind for 15 mins just to get more. Then die again and again. I'm down to my last fire paper and idk what to do
@@Tizona when I throw the cocktail, he hust goes wild for like 3 seconds then turns around and almost stun locks me. Can't get consistent hits off on em
yeah i honestly don’t know, i just tried it again today and it still works fine for me. pungent blood cocktails are supposed to last around 10 seconds. Either way if you can get the backstab on the beast it does a ton a damage.
I got recommended this method twice. I tried it, and just failed, using both my cocktails and last fire paper. Now I’m stuck using electric paper, Molotovs, and needing to grind for echoes to buy the cocktails again before bolting through old Yarhnam and hopefully not getting hit by anything. Not only that but I have to hole the visceral attack won’t be dumb and miss despite me practically being in the bsb’s ass!
i tried this once, BSB said "pungent blood, screw that" and proceeded to tear into me. didnt even bother to investigate the area for a second, just ran straight towards me.
@xitrinx you can farm blood vials at the great bridge, kill 1 big guy holding a brick and after that go to the right and you will see a man with a hat kill him and go inside and kill more. Then go outside and lure 2 warwick and go back inside the house. Its a cheesy easy way to kill them. They get stuck at the door way
Both the the warwicks drops 3 blood vials and if you kill the guy down stairs with a wheel chair, you can also farm him for bullets each death he drops is 4 bullets
I've beaten this game 6 times. I took about 3 years off from playing and for some reason this is the boss that troubles me. I used to beat this little rat without cheesing and now I'm getting smoked.
Beat BSB first attempt with a level 3 saw cleaver, 2 fire papers and some back-up antidotes. Was BSB supposed to be hard? This was my first ever time fighting em
The insight bath sells them at this stage of the game, but you are unlikely to have very much insight prior to beating BSB and getting the chalice dungeons going.
That’s really weird, I’m not sure honestly. Just make sure you’re using the pungent blood cocktail, throw it around every 10 seconds and stay behind him
You really gotta get it off before he agro on you, if not then it really won't work but once you get him on the blood then basically he will stay as long as you don't let them run out, always stay behind him and not on his side.
Is there any way to get more fire paper, I can't find anymore. Edit: beat the skinny bastard a week ago, all I did was dodge under her attacks and poke her from behind with the extended hunter's axe. Then lob molotovs at her when she charges her poison explosion, it takes around 5 molotovs to kill her from the beginning of her third stage.
@@Tizona Thanks, as it turns out I used up all the fire paper available to me lol. Do you know if you can parry her poison blast attack she does near the start of her third phase?
Werewolves, they give approx 1000 echoes each. I just defeated him earlier today and only ended up needing to use two blood lures even though I had run out of fire paper. As long as that first lure is thrown before he has a chance to aggro you it was pretty easy to keep him distracted, the fire paper just speeds the process a bit.
I don't get why people say this is a hard boss fight, I did him without any cheese or any of the stuff he used.....you only need blood vials and antidote.
@@CITYZEN50 Wow good for you dude you must be progamerswag2000. Some people struggle on some bosses you may find easy while they may kill orphan of kos on first try while you keep repeating it.
I’m pretty sure once you run out, you run out. I did find electric paper to the right of the Grand Cathedral. Two hunters can be killed, one is a pain in the ass and spams his blunderbuss while the other, when killed, will drop 4 electric paper
I tried literally everything. From bullets to blood cocktails and now have i no money no blood and nothing.....so frustrating. The blood sidnt even work.
i feel you i can grind and fight and die but just to get to this boss is just game quitter... boss like these where you have to walk 1000 miles is good to be cheesed.i dont mind fair fight but the walking is just time wasting.
Idk what I’m doing wrong every time I try this method it doesn’t work like I got so close and just hits me while I’m rolling toward to dodge her hit and ended up dying this shit is so damn hard can I summon someone To help me if I can do that?
Bruh I almost did it with 2 of those bottles then slammed molotovs then he just started attacking me relentlessly and I died to poison before he could hit me again
I tried the strat with alfred, i couldnt get a lot of backstabs in but he helps a lot cos bsb will get distracted by him while i can throw molotovs or heal
Im late af to this game and this vid but this mf is not attracted to the blood cocktail at all. I’ve thrown in the corner I’ve thrown it against the wall and I’ve thrown it behind the beast. I’ve probably thrown about 11-14 and never once has the boss went to one of them. Anybody know why?
I tried this multiple times but it never seems to work for me, I’ve been trying to beat this boss for 8 days and counting someone please tell me what else I can do
you have to get behind the enemy and hold R2 until its charged all the way, if the attack connects to their back, you can come up behind them and press R1 to do a backstab
I didn't know i could do 1500 damage in 5 fucking seconds 💀💀💀💀 Thx bro I lost my save file , soci had to fight this dude again , I don't even know what's wrong with me , i beated him on my 2nd try before i lost my save file . Now i know it was luck that helped me lol
ur just fuckin wrong bro... you get the potion before you fight the boss. did you throw the potion? probably not... throw the fuckin potion and the boss will be distracted... easy kill... come on brotha sharpen up
it does, the pungent blood cocktails are in the game for this boss fight. look up the pungent blood cocktail on the bloodborne wiki and it’ll tell you that it works on this boss.
He came in.
He slain the beast.
Walked out with no sweat of his brow.
A sub isn't enough.
much appreciated bro :)
The hitbox on this boss is jarring compared to the werewolfs with insanely fat hitboxes that block you in a corner if they are slightly near you. This guy my weapon can cut straight through and it misses. Very frustrating.
Yup the method so effective worked in my first try. The grind for the cocktail is long tho
I think a good idea would be in the first stage, instead of backstabbing, you should use transformation attacks to build up beast meter and when second stage hits it should be pretty close to full if not full and then move on to back stabs. He will stand no chance. Although, imo fighting him regularly is way more fun and rewarding.
Yeah well... I've been stuck with this bitch for 5 days and tried everything except this. So the normal way is anything that allows you to kill it.
Transformation? Bro we're noobs . I didn't even fucken know u could transform
@@wavyassassin8017 Transformation attacks is when you attack with your weapon in one mode and then in the middle of the combo you switch to the second weapon form (with L1). This way instead of the switching animation it will make an attacking animation. I’m a noob too but this is explained in the beginning of the the game in the tutorial messages spread in the floor. But to be honest I have very rarely used it. Apparently some enemies are weak to this type of attacks but I’m to busy trying to stay alive to investigate that shit.
@@charlyrob7334 oh...that , didn't know it was called transformation...I'm thinking he means an actual transformation...he said a beast meter ..so I was lost
@@charlyrob7334 it's actually really good , it's been carrying me
This method made the bsb easier than the cleric beast. Thanks so much. You just gained a sub
thanks man, glad i could help! I subbed to you too
@@Tizona sir I did it like a few minutes ago and I did it twice and both times the it would keep attacking and not go to the cocktail what am I doing wrong sir?
OOOOOMMMMGGGGG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WORKED😭🙂🤩😍😊
@@Kinji_Hakari
Same here, the beast doesn't go for the cocktail at all, when I throw it.
@@livingforjesus8551 It’s because it’s either too far away or you’re in the way of it, so it attacks you instead.
Oh my god! Thank you so much for this guide! I was struggling so hard against this boss but with your method I beat it first-try!
I killed him, screamed YES!!! Then died of poisoning RIGHT after lol. Luckily I had gotten the achievement and echoes before the poisoning got me.
that booodborne timing at its finest
I did this method and for some reason I couldn't backstab the bsb but I still won. Thank you for this
I know I'm a little late to the guide but Thanks so much! I was stuck on this guy until I did this and I did it first try :)
Just picked this back up after elden ring def happy I did but man this bsb was a pain in the ass
Do you think Alfred could replace the pungent cocktails as a distraction?
he helps, but it still sometimes suddenly switch to you. I'd say it's best to have both imo since he also does deal a good amount of dmg
Very helpful. Happy to sub my friend. Finally sinking my teeth into my first From game since Tenchu and I need all the help I can get!
Hey thank you man I really appreciate it, glad the video helped you out!
"hey, this is actually working!"
BSB: *becomes immune to backstabs, does undodgable instakill grab from across the arena while facing away from me*
Thank you so freaking much I tried this with zero heals and still managed to do it first try
Still works as of April 2024Thanks man. Tried like 20 times used all my antidotes n fire papers before i saw this vid but luckily i had what i needed
It still works because Fromsoftware always intended it to work this way. They designed the boss to be beaten this way. It’s not a glitch or cheese. It’s how you’re supposed to kill this thing. At least based on how FromSoft designed BSB
@@6O8gamer07 Never would have guessed. I wouldve been stuck for hours LOL
@@DeepspaceTrading There’s an actual cheese tactic you can do where you lure BSB to the back and when he jumps he glitches into the wall and dies.
I don’t have fire paper, I feel like that’s why I’m failing so badly
Sadly didn't work for me solo.
I died so many times so in the end, just got a friend to join me in multiplayer - she brought fire paper, cocktails and (those explosive bottles of fire lol) and we beat him first try!
So we sort of used your strategy, but mostly she distracted him while I went up behind and slashed
glad you were able to beat it! this boss is pretty annoying
It’s hunger was it’s greatest weakness
Just fyi this isn’t a cheese method. You get the blood cocktails right before the fight. The item description clearly points at the blood starved beast. The blood starved beast is programmed to ignore you and be attracted to the cocktail. Fromsoftware is practically begging you to do this. You’re a hunter using a Hunter tool to take down a beast. There’s an actual glitch method that insta kills the boss. Now that is cheese.
Before Beast, go berserk parry. You can take somewhere around half health and then throw oil at him and cocktail, and 2 solution is to parry him untill half healt and then run away find some wall and trow blood cocktail and spawn attacks and trow cocktail agin and take many as you can carry
If you use treaded cane you can just go to his right and once he attacks it's a free charged back stab.
Thank you so much, this boss is always a pain no matter what.
He doesn’t get distracted by the cocktail for me?
I still have a lot of trouble with this one. I wasted so many cocktails. Botta grind for 15 mins just to get more. Then die again and again. I'm down to my last fire paper and idk what to do
what problem are you having? i’ll try to help
@@Tizona when I throw the cocktail, he hust goes wild for like 3 seconds then turns around and almost stun locks me. Can't get consistent hits off on em
yeah i honestly don’t know, i just tried it again today and it still works fine for me. pungent blood cocktails are supposed to last around 10 seconds. Either way if you can get the backstab on the beast it does a ton a damage.
@@Tizona oh I beat em. Got used to his moves. I'm past the shadows of yharnam boss now lmao.
nice job bro, keep it up
I really felt the little dance at the end 😆😆 I tried two times this to beat him but failed, gonna try this method
I murdered this boss with this strat, just figured it out by reading the item description
Excellent video my man. Very helful indeed. You earned yourself a sub, a like and I hit the bell for notifications. Well done!
much appreciated bro, glad i could help!
@@Tizona- From Arizona?
nah man, the name comes from a sword in Terraria lol
I got recommended this method twice. I tried it, and just failed, using both my cocktails and last fire paper. Now I’m stuck using electric paper, Molotovs, and needing to grind for echoes to buy the cocktails again before bolting through old Yarhnam and hopefully not getting hit by anything. Not only that but I have to hole the visceral attack won’t be dumb and miss despite me practically being in the bsb’s ass!
i tried this once, BSB said "pungent blood, screw that" and proceeded to tear into me. didnt even bother to investigate the area for a second, just ran straight towards me.
Bro I used another method and he had literally 1 HP and he just comboed me 💀
This doesn’t even work for me cause he keeps jumping backwards away from the wall and then hitting me.
thank you so much bro you the goat fr
Even 2 years later this helps out thabk you
Thank man did this first try and had no more blood vials really helped
thanks for watching! :)
@xitrinx you can farm blood vials at the great bridge, kill 1 big guy holding a brick and after that go to the right and you will see a man with a hat kill him and go inside and kill more. Then go outside and lure 2 warwick and go back inside the house. Its a cheesy easy way to kill them. They get stuck at the door way
Both the the warwicks drops 3 blood vials and if you kill the guy down stairs with a wheel chair, you can also farm him for bullets each death he drops is 4 bullets
this mustve been patched...he aint goin for it fml
Homie goes there for 4 seconds and rages on me, one hitting me
@@Raelexx my attacks just phase through half the time, I think a recent update/patch may have bugged the BSB
I've beaten this game 6 times. I took about 3 years off from playing and for some reason this is the boss that troubles me. I used to beat this little rat without cheesing and now I'm getting smoked.
ive been stuck on this boss for 2 days lol and hes the 3rd one. Im probably never gonna be able to beat the game
I like how i hit him with a fully charged attack and hes not stund
This be hella pog man!
totally rocking game for sure!
thanks man! glad you enjoyed the vid :)
Believe the cocktails have been nerfed. Took 10 in with me and he ignored them all and came after me. Cocktails working for anybody else?
I owe you bro .. i was about to break my controler
I know this comment is pretty late, but this was super helpful thank you for making this video!
Beat BSB first attempt with a level 3 saw cleaver, 2 fire papers and some back-up antidotes. Was BSB supposed to be hard? This was my first ever time fighting em
The bath messenger doesn’t sell me any blood cocktails
The insight bath sells them at this stage of the game, but you are unlikely to have very much insight prior to beating BSB and getting the chalice dungeons going.
this game would be so good if i wasnt forced to farm for everything
Ive tried this method but he does not care about the cocktail and just attacking to me any reason ?
That’s really weird, I’m not sure honestly. Just make sure you’re using the pungent blood cocktail, throw it around every 10 seconds and stay behind him
Same! Wasted 3-4 of them and he never went to it
You really gotta get it off before he agro on you, if not then it really won't work but once you get him on the blood then basically he will stay as long as you don't let them run out, always stay behind him and not on his side.
@@timholloway8821 ive already beaten the game twice without doing any cheese thank you for info tho
Thanks man much appreciated
no problem man glad i was able to help
I run out of paper fire .
And how you fixed him with your knife behind him , When you droped the blood bottle on the wall .?
Is there any way to get more fire paper, I can't find anymore.
Edit: beat the skinny bastard a week ago, all I did was dodge under her attacks and poke her from behind with the extended hunter's axe. Then lob molotovs at her when she charges her poison explosion, it takes around 5 molotovs to kill her from the beginning of her third stage.
not sure tbh man, you can look up all the locations for fire paper and see if there’s any you missed
@@Tizona Thanks, as it turns out I used up all the fire paper available to me lol. Do you know if you can parry her poison blast attack she does near the start of her third phase?
im pretty sure you can’t parry it
@@Tizona ok, thank you
no problem bro
holy shit thank you so much
no problem bro 🗿
my blood cocktails only last about 3 seconds and bsb rarely notices them
never mind i was just using my cocktails poorly, great video!
Yo, i trew at the wall some of that blood cocktail and the beast just ignored it
i don’t have enough echos to buy them. what’s the best way to farm?
Werewolves, they give approx 1000 echoes each. I just defeated him earlier today and only ended up needing to use two blood lures even though I had run out of fire paper. As long as that first lure is thrown before he has a chance to aggro you it was pretty easy to keep him distracted, the fire paper just speeds the process a bit.
update, i killed his ass normally. no equipment
I don't get why people say this is a hard boss fight, I did him without any cheese or any of the stuff he used.....you only need blood vials and antidote.
@@CITYZEN50 Wow good for you dude you must be progamerswag2000.
Some people struggle on some bosses you may find easy while they may kill orphan of kos on first try while you keep repeating it.
@@CrawLBoss my comment was edgy af, people struggling with bosses can use anything in their inventory to kill it..sorry for the edgy ass comment.
I parried him when he was sooo low my my character decided to just attack him and he killed me…. 6 Years and I still cant kill him
I really can't seem to do this even though I've done like every strat out there. Also I can't find any more fire paper
I’m pretty sure once you run out, you run out. I did find electric paper to the right of the Grand Cathedral. Two hunters can be killed, one is a pain in the ass and spams his blunderbuss while the other, when killed, will drop 4 electric paper
Damn thanks dude!
I throw the pungent blood cocktail and it doesnt attract. The beast still comes after me and literally ignores the cocktail. Help?
This doesn't work well in your second playthrough. I'm about to throw this gawd damn game in the garbage. I don't need the stress.
I tried literally everything. From bullets to blood cocktails and now have i no money no blood and nothing.....so frustrating. The blood sidnt even work.
i feel you i can grind and fight and die but just to get to this boss is just game quitter... boss like these where you have to walk 1000 miles is good to be cheesed.i dont mind fair fight but the walking is just time wasting.
Idk what I’m doing wrong every time I try this method it doesn’t work like I got so close and just hits me while I’m rolling toward to dodge her hit and ended up dying this shit is so damn hard can I summon someone
To help me if I can do that?
How tf do you stun it like that, my charge attack doesn't knock it down
Bro how do u have the option to buy that blood beast thing I can’t buy them and I used all my insight to buy them I just can’t beat this boss
istg bro u r a life saver
Wow thanks. Beat it on the first try
thats wassup bro
Bruh I almost did it with 2 of those bottles then slammed molotovs then he just started attacking me relentlessly and I died to poison before he could hit me again
unfortunate bro i hope you got it
@@Tizona came back with 7 bottles and got the job done with 4 and a fire paper and beast pellet he got slammed
Where can i find more paper fire?
I can't buy the pungent blood cocktail do you know how do i unlock it in the shop
you unlock it in the shop by getting the Saw Hunter Badge
Yeah I don't know where you got 10 seconds from but maybe the PS5 version is different
I don't know why this game is so consistently inconsistent but it's starting to get on my nerve
Had I known that this game's combat was purely based off of randomness, I wouldn't have bought it
I bought a PlayStation for bloodborne and ended up liking God of war more
Think this might work if im going for a gun only run?
Not sure honestly, you’d have to find a way to make your gun do an insane amount of damage lol
who else watching while on the pot?
how is it possible for them to patch this ? Its been 7 years
it's not patched, this isn't even a glitch it's a game mechanic
That makes a lot more sense, you just make it look so easy, I somehow mess up
i appreciate that, it definitely is a little tricky, try to make sure the cocktail is hitting the wall. that usually helps me
thank you 👍
It’s different on ps5 he doesn’t go for the bait like that lol
Never worked for me. This guide doesn't work and still sucks when I try.
Does this work with alfred summon?
I tried the strat with alfred, i couldnt get a lot of backstabs in but he helps a lot cos bsb will get distracted by him while i can throw molotovs or heal
How do u unlock inside shop
Im late af to this game and this vid but this mf is not attracted to the blood cocktail at all. I’ve thrown in the corner I’ve thrown it against the wall and I’ve thrown it behind the beast. I’ve probably thrown about 11-14 and never once has the boss went to one of them. Anybody know why?
you have to throw it when he is near.
Is this good with kirkhammer
I’m not sure honestly, try it out and let me know how it goes!
I tried this multiple times but it never seems to work for me, I’ve been trying to beat this boss for 8 days and counting someone please tell me what else I can do
THAT MEANS I F***ING CHEESED THE BOSS, NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Click bait title, yet again no cheese to be found. Also, couldn't figure out how to set the game to easy.
my bad bro i’ll leave some lactose free provolone cheese hidden in my next video you obnoxious weirdo
The pungents wouldn't work on him...he still attacked me. Looks like I'm shelving this game....
How do you backstab ?
you have to get behind the enemy and hold R2 until its charged all the way, if the attack connects to their back, you can come up behind them and press R1 to do a backstab
the shit only last two seconds
How do you do a backstab
you gotta land a fully charged R2 attack on the enemies back, that'll stagger them. then you walk up to their back and press R1 to do the backstab.
Ur the man thanks .
What is that weapon?
Saw Cleaver, it’s one of the starting weapons
@@Tizona is that weapon better than kirkhammer?
i highly doubt it
@@Tizona thank you sir
@@malik3286 I've used the saw cleaver and the Kirk Hammer and the Kirk hammer is better stats 100%
That’s for the strat was ezpz
This boss sucks hard. The hitbox of his grabbing attack is just plain stupid.
How to get fire sheets?
In Cathedral Ward there’s an NPC named Alfred that gives you a couple if you talk to him.
@@Tizona i wasted it for first few tries, need another way to get it
so apparently there’s 6 of them that you can find in Old Yharnam, if you look up “fire paper bloodborne” you can find a list of locations for them.
Dude I got him to 5 and died to grab
good luck bro you got it
What are your stats mine isn’t doing that much damage
they weren’t that high in this vid, i think i was only about lvl 25-30, don’t remember the exact stats but i pumped strength and vitality
@@Tizona thank you I tried for a long time to kill this boss
no problem bro, glad i could help!
I didn't know i could do 1500 damage in 5 fucking seconds 💀💀💀💀
Thx bro
I lost my save file , soci had to fight this dude again
, I don't even know what's wrong with me , i beated him on my 2nd try before i lost my save file . Now i know it was luck that helped me lol
I just tried this works really good with kirk hammer
Useless strategy. If you hit him once he agros end you make no progress
ur just fuckin wrong bro... you get the potion before you fight the boss. did you throw the potion? probably not... throw the fuckin potion and the boss will be distracted... easy kill... come on brotha sharpen up
So i failed on mu first time now i lost also all blood devoys now i have to grind souls cuz 10sex shit costs 2K 🤡
Worst boss ever
This does not work. AT ALL lol
it does, the pungent blood cocktails are in the game for this boss fight. look up the pungent blood cocktail on the bloodborne wiki and it’ll tell you that it works on this boss.
@@Tizona Thats fair I just suck
👍👍👍💯
thx