Zhuo Bi, the Gatekeeper: boss guide

Name as guides write it: Zhuo Bi, the Gatekeeper Reported · Game8. Steam's achievements do not list this boss, so the name is reported, not official.

At a glance

How the fight goes

What he does

Zhuo Bi carries a huge shield and has no other weapon. Game8 and Fextralife describe slow, heavily telegraphed shield slams, a sliding charge with the shield, a backward leap that ends in a ground slam with jagged rocks and a delayed second hit, a spinning swing, and a high dive. Fextralife adds a quick back-leap slam that sends a sonic blast across a wide area in front of him.

Phases

No guide describes separate phases or a mid-fight change, so we do not claim any.

How to beat Zhuo Bi

• Stay close and behind him. Fextralife says most of his attacks only cover the area in front, so his rear is the safest place to fight from.
• Break the shield, then punish. Game8 says to charge the Dread Axe Phantom Edge to break his blue stagger bar; Fextralife says heavy attacks from the front stagger him in a few hits; TheGamer says nothing damages him until his guard is fully broken, and that Iron Gauntlets and the Dread Axe have the best shield-breaking power.
• TheGamer says you break the guard mostly by parrying his attacks. When it breaks, the game prompts you to mount him and stab his eye; expect about four of these cycles to finish the fight. Fextralife describes the same opening as critical strikes while he is staggered.
• On the shield smashes, block the early hits and save your parry for the last one, which is the parryable hit (Game8; Fextralife marks the last slam of the earthblast string blue).
• Dodge the slides and the high dive. Game8 says the screen greys out before a slide, so get ready then, and a weapon skill can interrupt it. Sliding hits drain Sha-Chi (Game8). Fextralife marks the last slide and the dive as red-glint attacks.
• Move to his back or sidestep the rock-burst slam: the rocks rise in front of him and a second blast follows when he lifts the shield (Game8, Fextralife).

Blue marks mean parry, red marks mean dodge Reported · TheSixthAxis Reported · TheSixthAxis. The combat guide covers timing and the Sha-Chi meter.

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