The Four Kings Guide

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The Four Kings

Easily one of the most difficult bosses in the game, The Four Kings reminded me of games with a time challenge mode.  High poise and high damage output seem necessary to defeat this challenge along with a love of pain and suffering.  Magic casters be wary and pray that you have enough awesome spells to put this guy down quickly. Despite all of these warnings, I've got to say, I love this fight.  You can literally feel your pulse skyrocket as the battle goes on, sweat beading on your forehead as you desperately try and figure out how to dodge that one magic spell he throws at you.  All in all, a great fight... I just wish that I had known about the shortcut back to him the first time I played through this game.

Recommended Gear

  • Heavy Armor with High Poise
  • A highly damaging weapon, big or small. 
  • Additional Estus Flasks

Move Set

  1. Horizontal slash - A moderately damaging attack but slow and easily blocked.
  2. Vertical slash - A moderately damaging attack but easy to dodge, either left or right.
  3. Magic Slice - A moderately damaging attack that is difficult to avoid in any way that staggers you.  Heavily damaging if you have no mag defense.
  4. Grab - Slightly damaging but will drain humanity, it staggers the player and it is difficult to dodge.
  5. Magic Explosion - An easily-identifiable, moderately damaging Magic explosion.
  6. Thrust - Easy to avoid but heavily damaging.

Strategy

The single, most-important thing to know about this boss is that it's a timed battle.  The longer you are in the Abyss, the more 'King's appear.  With this in mind, make sure you get right into the fight without wasting any time.  If your melee, charge directly at the first King you see with your shield up.  Either absorb the inevitable sword slash or try and dodge right as he swings. If you don't get to him fast enough, he'll launch a nearly impossible to dodge magic attack that staggers you.  If you can avoid it, good job, if not, make an opportunity to heal immediately after.  Then relentlessly hit him with the most powerful weapon you have, dodging or blocking at the appropriate times. If he starts to glow, he's about to explode in a fairly small radius so dodge backwards twice and wait for it to go off.  If you don't bring him down quickly, a second King will join the fight, making this boss ten times more difficult.

Notes

You may summon Beatrice for this fight if you summoned her before the Moonlight Butterfly.  Her summon sign is before the bridge to the fog door, on the right, behind a wall. 
The Four Kings are notoriously more difficult in New Game Plus, so be careful if you're going through a second time. 

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