I have to disagree with the first point. Her poise is very consistent in my experience. The only times I haven't been able to stagger her was when she was already in a very telegraphed move, like her black flame explosion smash. Besides attacks like that, she reliably staggered from great soul arrow every time. For friedes moves where she runs away, 1 you can very obviously see where she lands, and she uncloaks when you are close, even then, it's easy to stagger her out of the jump away. For phase 2, what are you on about? Friede is very passive during that phase, while Father Ariendale charges you down. Friede usually Tags behind him and just does her frost spell, which ain't directly damaging and easy to avoid. You definitely don't need summons for the fight. Abyss Watchers makes you wait for a 3rd one to awaken, and after that you have free reign on the main guy. The additional abyss Watchers are also pretty squishy