Might even kill him still buffed if you're good enough in avoiding the attacks and projectiles from both.Now I can be virtually fisted by an overweight headless man so they terror you in like 2 hits unless u deflect so basically play perfectly the entire time to winuse thrust attack on the underwater duo in fountainhead palace. Also he does jump in the air to get closer to you, its not an actual attack but it can be one. Then just B swim there and cheese as much as possible of the non ghost one before it runs out. It deals more damage to them and allows you more time to recover and dodge they sword waves.Wtf I couldn’t kill any (terrestrial ones) in my playthrough. You could fight multiple headless at once and you'd probably be fine, lilac umbrella also negates the movement slow.I thought my charmless and belled run felt surprisingly easy until I tried to take this fecker down...This thing will more fair if they remove build up terror on a successful deflect and only add terror build up on blocking and making their attacks faster will make these little sh.t less annoying to fight against.Something I just found out today after finally mopping up all these ugly mothers is the two in the water at the Palace share the same life. The mist he creates will slow you down so it helps to be aggressive to negate the mist altogether. confetti is especially rare in NG), their attacks are so unpredictable (sometimes slow, which makes deflects hard, and sometimes they're really fast), honestly disturbing perilous attacks (you know), the slowdown effect that makes the whole ordeal feel like a genuine nightmare, their unnatural animations and, well, lack of head, the terror build-up that makes blocking useless... i never fight these dudes beyond NG. Just run away and get distance. The moment it looks like he's channeling anything or about to do a big swing (be it the Perilous Attack or anything that remotely looks like any kind of channel or cast), dash-swim through it so you end up behind him. Someone tried this?Important tip that's only briefly touched on in the strategy, using the pacifying agent/purple gourd before the fight will buff your resistance to terror, rather than letting the first lot of it stack up faster.when you have 10 attack and Malcontent you can just use divine confetti, then Ako and stun lock them, pretty easyhe did the grab animation the first time i met him and i never went back in thereIf you're having a hard time or ran out of confetti, just get upgraded umbrella (Phoenix's Lilac) and destroy them. Alternatively, popping the Pellet create a small buffer window where if your deflect wasn't perfect it will recover your last health. Jump into the center of the arena staying close to the direction you came in so you can quickly lock-on the boss and attack. Mottled Purple Gourd will ensure you cannot die of Terror even if you make a mistake and get hit.
This means they require at least 2 Deathblows in order to kill, they are generally much more difficult than normal enemies, and they drop some of the best loot in the game. It always just teleports behind me then instantly does the insta-kill grab.
Simply attack and then rotate with the Headless. The Headless are ghostly, time-manipulating, optional encounters. Now learning they’re weak to confetti, I killed all of them in 1 go... wow wish I figured it out sooner... ps my lilac umbrella/projected force combo doesn’t give me confetti effect?? It happens to me just once after NG+6, in the forest. I found the vertical swipes to be the second easiest. During these second you can run to the left of Headless (his right) with ease and get behind him and start the cheese.The teleport is the safest way to begin the cheese strat, but if you can get behind headless during any attack you can start the cheese.