How to Defeat the Third Boss, Kuroki The Artist, In Sifu?

After ascending the multiple story Museum and brawling a ton of enemies, you'll finally reach a snow-covered battlefield for a two-round fight against the third boss of the story, Kuroki The Artist.

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The Artist attacks are hyper-fast, with multi-hit combos that can slice you to pieces in seconds. Your saving grace is going to be your Palm Strike Combo, which you learned from fighting The Artist's tutorial counterpart earlier in the game. Approach the first round as follows:

• Keep your distance while The Artist is attacking.
• When she stops, stumble her with Palm Strike Combo.
• Follow up with heavy attacks.

Repeat this strategy, stay patient with your defense, and attack during your windows of opportunity and you'll send the fight into a much tougher phase.

In the second round, The Artist is much more difficult. She'll rush you with a flurry of attacks with patterns that are difficult to memorize, then instantly create distance and throw daggers from range. To counter this offensive onslaught, proceed as follows:

• Stay defensive and stand your ground.
• When she's close: dodge back and forth. You can also parry her light attacks.
• When she's at range: wait for her to throw the daggers and dodge.
• Wait for her to finish attacking and hit with Palm Strike.
• Follow Palm Strike with heavy combo.

Make no mistake, this is a tough fight that is throwing you everything the game has taught you so far. It may take a few tries and a few more years of our hero's life, but you'll start to find patterns in her attacks. You may not dodge them all, but stay frosty and keep with it until you get the takedown prompt to end the fight.

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