Enemies and Bosses / Boss - Hundred Defilements
Byakue Boss
A giant Genma covered from head to toe in talismans that likes to charge around the battlefield with its enormous axe. As its body becomes stained with the blood of its victims, it gains an unholy strength - a strength that makes fighting it a serious challenge, even for an Onimusha. And as if that wasn't bad enough, while Blazing, it will become even stronger, and emit clouds of Malice to boot. The safest strategy is to try and deal with its attacks deftly enough that it doesn't get the chance.
- Health
- 16,000
- Maximum posture
- 8,000
- Posture regen delay
- 5 sec
- Posture break duration
- 12 sec
- Knockdown duration
- 10 sec
- Parry target speed
- 0.5x
Reference tables
3 tables
Battle priorities
Moves and counters
Attack patterns and practical responses for recognizing the enemy's punish windows.
| Move | Pattern | Counter |
|---|---|---|
| Rush | Charges across the arena and can continue into a follow-up. | Step off-line, then answer after the rush passes. |
| Axe brandish | Uses a repeated axe sequence with an extended active window. | Hold distance until the loop ends; do not punish the first swing. |
| Gas sprinkle | Spreads a gas hazard around its position. | Disengage before the cloud fills the close-range space. |
| Wide-range attack | Covers the space around its body. | Create distance rather than trying to circle inside the hitbox. |
| Jump attack | Closes distance with an airborne strike. | Move out of the landing zone and punish on recovery. |
Difficulty scaling range
Minimum and maximum multipliers across story checkpoints. Effective values apply those multipliers to this enemy's base health and posture.
| Difficulty | Health multiplier | Effective health | Posture multiplier | Effective posture | Attack multiplier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | 0.63-1.69x | 10,080-27,040 | 0.55-1.49x | 4,400-11,920 | 0.59-1.43x |
| Standard | 0.72-1.9x | 11,520-30,400 | 0.72-1.9x | 5,760-15,200 | 0.72-1.9x |
| Hard | 1.44-3.2x | 23,040-51,200 | 1.44-3.2x | 11,520-25,600 | 1.44-3.7x |
Lore
Hundred Defilements
Byakue guards the source of Kyoto's toxic fog. As the fight continues, it becomes coated in its own blood and grows more ferocious. Favor openings for damaging blows over long strings of weak attacks.
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