LogFAQs > #929615694

Lokarin posted...

Timing more than damage wins this fight, even if you wait until all 4 kings are up.

lol

By far the best way to handle the fight is to just havel up and tank hits while swinging nonstop. If you don't havel up, you should aim to dish out as much damage as humanly possible in the shortest period of time. You really don't want more than one King on the screen at a time

Even this run as a sorcerer, I didn't feel like timing was that important as I never really thought of the 4 Kings as "fast".

Metalsonic66 posted...

I've been putting off fighting Gwyn again for so long. I can't get the party down just right, and if I try to use a potion during the wrong point in one of his animations he insta-leaps at me, and then I gotta sprint for another two minutes to get back to the boss door after I die

This is the first time in like 200+ hours of playing Dark Souls that I did a pure sorcery build... And my god does magic tear through him. He could dodge the soul spears, but each one that hit took off like a quarter of his health.

I've gotten pretty good at parrying him though, so even my melee runs have been pretty good. Oddly though, Artorias always gives me trouble, no matter what my build is.
---

Assassins do it from behind.