https://youtube.com/watch?v=5naiT2KHb-w
I just beat my head against a wall on this fight for over an hour - at level 130. There is absolutely no way Phil is beating this boss even with all the cheese in the world. I can't imagine trying to use greatswords or halberds against this duo. If he couldn't adapt for the Crystallian fight, then he definitely won't for this one either. I'm already calling it: he will denounce this fight as unfair and skip it after ~2 hours of salt.
Unfortunately, even this boss (which was a real pain in the fucking ass for my uunga buunga STR/ FTH big dick colossal sword/ great hammers build) wouldn’t give him much trouble because of two reason: 1) summons, where I believe he finally got the Minic Tear and 2) jump + R2 spam which trivializes the fucking game.
You can beat these two fuckers by running around while zoning then out and dodging their shit until you find an opening to do a jump + R2 attack. Repeat until stance is broken or you kill one of them. Phil would have the patience to do some bitch, cheesy shit like this instead of using other great attacks such as weapon arts, great shield blocking, or dodge + R1 which provides you with some great poke/ strike attacks. But, no, jump + R2 is overtuned in this game, is the most reliable way to beat the game, and breaks enemies’ stances way too easily. I wish FromSoftware fixed how powerful this attack is but I don’t think they will.
The only boss that’ll give Phil some issues is Melania. And, again, that’s if he doesn’t use summons because then he can’t just zone her out, run in to spam a jump + R2 attack while his summon tanks and wails on her and breaks her stance. He would have to dodge her flurry of hits which I believe is almost impossible to fully dodge anyways.
I’m already on my second play through of the game and I haven’t used summons since my first play through around since Stormveil Castle as I thought it made the game way too fucking easy when this is arguably one of the easiest but amazingly content-rich Soulsgame.
Bottom line is that I feel most of the good salt has already been produced when he kept banging his head against the Evergaol crucible knight. Now, if he runs into a difficult enemy it’s an automatic “this is bullshit and I’m not supposed to be here, I’ll come back later.” He’s also confirmed he will be using summons so, yeah, completely little bitch is just giving up challenging himself and he’s just going to be using the cheesy shit he’s doing now. That’s why it’s really annoying to hear himself listen and call himself a Soulsgame pro when he’s doing the most cookie-cutter, pussy shit available. Phil doesn’t have one ounce of creativity and he’s just picking up and using the easiest and cheesiest weapons he can find while wearing a lot of armor. That’s fine for a solo play through but terrible for a stream with spectators as an audience.
Guarantee you he’s going to use Rykard’s GS the moment he gets it because it’s the best GS in the game. Game will be even more trivial after that.
So don’t hold much hope for him really struggling anymore, he’s made it clear that he doesn’t mind being told exactly what to fo and he’ll use every tool to his advantage.