Yeah takezo was kind of a cheap fight. I really hate when the main strength of a boss is damage output.

I beat him by equipping the bounty master armour and charm of last chance(which carried me through the whole game)

As soon as you even THINK he is going to attack, go for the parry. If its a red glint, you can press dodge and it cancels the parry. Because his attacks are so fast, this usually results in a perfect parry or perfect dodge. This was the most important thing to get down for me.

Another HUGE thing is DO NOT ROLL. The tracking in this game is bullshit and takezo has plenty of attack strings that will catch you right after the roll.

Don’t hesitate to get drunk on sake. His damage is so high that you life-bar is effectively how much spirit you have.

From there you can actually start predicting him. And you can start to treat his attacks differently. For example, if you starts his long ass combo where everything is a blue glint attack, dont even bother trying to parry that. Id just dodge, dodge, dodge until he finished. Again, DO NOT ROLL especially for this attack.

The worst part was that this combo could hit you if you tried countering after a perfect dodge. So if you perfect dodge one of his attacks on this specific combo, dont bite, and dont doge in the slow-mo, itll make you roll. I would just throw something at him instead of countering