Talk:Champion Gundyr/@comment-85.24.253.53-20200123141848

I suspect that the game must've been patched since the writing of this article, since certain things in the description doesn't seem to match.

I was around quite late for DS3 (i.e. didn't get it until the last few days of 2019), so my playthrough is quite fresh as of the time of writing.

This is the only - as in, literally, one, single, and only - boss that I finished on my first try, throughout the game. The Nameless King in particular, with it's heavily luck-based attack-patterns, kicked my arse left and right probably twenty or so times (if not more) before I beat it. Even Iudex Gundyr (yeah, the... First boss), if for naught else than the fact that the second phase makes an already iffy (if we're being generous) camera-system outright bad by way of how it's designed, gave me significantly more trouble, than this guy.

Most majorly, I was never - not once - interrupted whilst healing. Granted, I'd heard of him before I fought him, so having heard that he "almost teleported straight to you the instant you heal", I was careful about pacing my healing out, but still, I was constantly afriad of a heal-counter that never came. He never interrupted an attack to dash over to me whilst I was healing, and I could always heal fully, and without retaliation. Aside from that, I didn't feel that he was quite as unreleting, even in the second phase, as this page makes him out to be; that one Drakekeeper with the great hammer in Dragon Shrine in DS2SotFS was far, far more aggressively unrelenting and difficult to handle, at least to me.

I was SL140 when I beat him, which I suppose may or may not be over-leveled (I have no idea what level you're "supposed" to be when you beat him), pure VIT and STR-build using Fume UGS with Havel's set. I didn't parry him once (I don't know how to parry properly, and at this point I'm to afraid to ask), I just... Dodge-rolled and hit him when he was finishing combos.

Perhaps most importantly, even if the reason I booted him *is* that I was massively over-leveled, that doesn't change the points about him giving ample space and time to recover/not being all that unreleting, and most importantly, never once interrupting my healing. If he genuinely used to cancel combos and attacks, to dash over and insta-smack you the second you glanced at your estus-flask, he has - without a sliver of a doubt - been nerfed in some patch or other.