Bloodborne BL4 Boss Guide - Orphan of Kos [READ THE DESCRIPTION]

This video is part of a full BL4 guide that I wrote, which can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z... Orphan of Kos has two phases and the way they play out is pretty different, so let’s start off with the first phase. When you first enter the fight, Orphan will be standing on his mother’s corpse and staring at the moon. Once you get close enough, he will turn around and start approaching you. Right before he turns around is a good time to buff yourself up with a Fire Paper and a Beast Blood Pellet. And yes, you read that right, Orphan’s main weakness is fire. Despite what many people think, he is not a Kin, and his resistance to bolt is surprisingly quite a bit higher than his fire resistance. Anyway, Orphan will engage onto you and his first attack is always going to be one of the following two: 1. Orphan jumps and plunges at you, which you’ll dodge by running under him and then punishing with a backstab followed by another charged R2. 2. Orphan runs/dashes at you while dragging his placenta (yes, that’s his weapon) on the ground, followed by an uppercut. This attack is tricky to dodge and punish at first, but it’s important to learn it because Orphan likes doing it a lot and it’ll make the first phase faster if you manage to punish it every time. When he dashes at you, he’ll do an uppercut. Dodge away from that because if you dodge towards him he’ll hit you behind his back. After that, Orphan will slam his placenta which you can easily avoid by keeping distance, and then you want to immediately start walking towards him and circle him clockwise while he does another slam. If you circle him correctly, the last attack will always miss and you’ll get a free backstab opening. This is tricky to do and it’s an adaptation of a “no roll” dodge, but it’s the best way to punish him. Now that we got his possible openings out of the way, let’s go to the fight itself. Much like a lot of the other bosses, you want to fight Orphan of Kos at a certain distance and walk in and out of his range to bait his attacks. He will swing his placenta at you in many ways, and all of them are dodged by simply keeping your distance. Orphan of Kos is extremely complex and pretty much all of his attacks are punishable, but for the sake of keeping this guide easily accessible to beginners, I’ll focus on the easiest openings in both phases. Here are the attacks you want to punish and how to do it: 1. Jumping attack. He will do this quite a bit during the first phase… as I stated in the point about his openers, just walk under him and backstab him after he lands. 2. Dash while dragging the placenta. Once again, already explained previously. 3. Overhead placenta slam. Orphan will start walking towards you with his placenta over his head, then he will slam it to the ground. To dodge and punish this, you can either just walk up to him and circle him if you were close enough when he started walking, or you can walk up to him and quickstep towards him once he is slamming the placenta down. Either way, you should end up behind him after dodging, which means you get a free backstab opening since it takes him a while to recover from that attack. If you were too far away and afraid of walking up to him, you can outspace the attack and parry it for a free opening. Getting the backstab is better, though. 4. Charged placenta 180º circle. Orphan will stop for a second and start charging up an attack, then he will throw his placenta and drag it in a 180º circle motion from your right to your left. To punish this attack, stay a little close to him and quickstep diagonally to the right in a way that it looks like you’re jumping the rope that connects his placenta to his hand (also known as his umbilical cord). If you dodge this properly, walk towards his back and backstab him as he does the follow-up slam that will miss you. If you were too far away to begin with, instead of risking yourself and going into this attack, it’s better to just back off and let him do it while you just watch. 5. Four hit combo. Orphan of Kos will stop for a second while screaming and proceed to do a quick 4-hit-combo. Unlike the other attacks, your best bet to punish this one is to parry him and then use the opening to hit him. All of the other attacks are punishable too, but you’re better off just running away from them and waiting for the openings mentioned in the previous paragraph. Be extra careful with his projectiles, always dodge them forward instead of backwards because otherwise you’ll get caught by the splash damage. In case you’re curious about how to punish all of the other attacks, you can check out this gif album made by Dargonsouls with all possible phase 1 openings: https://giphy.com/channel/Dargonsouls... !!THERE IS NO SPACE LEFT IN THE DESCRIPTION, SO PHASE 2 WILL CONTINUE IN THE COMMENTS!!