The attack in question is the 'charging' delayed flurry of slashes that leads into a single slash that launches-- mostly horizontally. On 9.0, it seems to break shields, catch rolls, and of course can't be spot dodged as it's multihit.
Now, I've beaten Classic on 9.0 a couple of times with a rather random assortment of characters (tend to use those with counters to take advantage of situations where I might normally need to spot-dodge with some free damage). After a few tries, none of the formes are particularly bothersome except for the blade form-- which I've resorted to beating via sac'ing a stock literally every try. The clone-of-you form is laughably easy, as with the normal stages leading up to the master core stage, of course, as fighting AIs is nothing compared to people. Likewise, basic rolling and spotdodging along with a few power shields will easily get you through most of the other forms quite easily... but how does one deal with that damned 'barrage into heavy slash' attack? It's irksome to deal with a boss that's neither familiar from brawl boss battle mode in shape nor humanoid enough to treat like a real fighter, but that 'follows you like a grab' into an attack you can't shield, spotdodge, nor run from? The ****?
I don't have the patience to play classic mode a dozen times just to trial-and-error out some stupid side-boss's singular attack that can't be evaded, but grinding custom moves via anything less than home-screen-aided slots is slow enough going to bore me to tears-- if anyone's actually dodging that attack somehow rather than being hit by it every damn time, please clue me in. I'm starting to think that my method for the giant's grab (don't even bother trying to evade half the time and just tech it) might be the simplest method of surviving. That, or shielding as much as possible then buffering a spot-dodge before taking the tail end... but, given that's the only dangerous part... myeh..
As it stands, my method's been 'die every time it's used, but try and kill them first'.
Now, I've beaten Classic on 9.0 a couple of times with a rather random assortment of characters (tend to use those with counters to take advantage of situations where I might normally need to spot-dodge with some free damage). After a few tries, none of the formes are particularly bothersome except for the blade form-- which I've resorted to beating via sac'ing a stock literally every try. The clone-of-you form is laughably easy, as with the normal stages leading up to the master core stage, of course, as fighting AIs is nothing compared to people. Likewise, basic rolling and spotdodging along with a few power shields will easily get you through most of the other forms quite easily... but how does one deal with that damned 'barrage into heavy slash' attack? It's irksome to deal with a boss that's neither familiar from brawl boss battle mode in shape nor humanoid enough to treat like a real fighter, but that 'follows you like a grab' into an attack you can't shield, spotdodge, nor run from? The ****?
I don't have the patience to play classic mode a dozen times just to trial-and-error out some stupid side-boss's singular attack that can't be evaded, but grinding custom moves via anything less than home-screen-aided slots is slow enough going to bore me to tears-- if anyone's actually dodging that attack somehow rather than being hit by it every damn time, please clue me in. I'm starting to think that my method for the giant's grab (don't even bother trying to evade half the time and just tech it) might be the simplest method of surviving. That, or shielding as much as possible then buffering a spot-dodge before taking the tail end... but, given that's the only dangerous part... myeh..
As it stands, my method's been 'die every time it's used, but try and kill them first'.
