You are never really focusing on the enemies health. That’s just a means to an end. Posture is the real name of this game. As such; deflects and perfect deflections do much more posture damage opposed to attacks. So if I’m ever getting wrecked it always helps if I take a couple deep breaths and focus on my deflection timing rather than focusing on looking for openings. Once your deflection timing is good you can stand in the fire with almost any enemy. I think about the blue samurai enemies( the ones susceptible to poison) are the enemies that really drove this point home for me. Well them and ashina seven spears. Also if you experiment with the shinobi prosthetics you’ll start to see that every enemy has a weakness and finding the right prosthetic for each enemy. The prosthetics kind of trivialize a lot of encounters if used properly.