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How to beat Hua, Deadly Betrothed in Phantom Blade Zero
Defeat this phantom bride below the Valley Sha-Chi tower.
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Hua, Deadly Betrothed is one of the first optional bosses in Phantom Blade Zero, below the Sha-Chi Tower in the Weeping Creek Valley, but you'll have to defeat her if you want to find a Flesh Lily for Yu'er.
The trickiest part of this fight is avoiding Hua's spider lilies, but here are some tips to defeat her, plus a video above of my successful run employing these strategies:
It can be a tricky fight early on, but she doesn't have all that many combos, and her blue parriable attacks are quite predictable, coming at the end of her four hit sequence. The real key to this fight is making sure you don't get hit by the lilies by making space and being mindful of the arena, while also countering her deadly red grab attacks.
Once you beat her, you'll get the Scarlet Wraithblade weapon, which can also summon exploding lilies.
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Sean's first PC games were Full Throttle and Total Annihilation and his taste has stayed much the same since. When not scouring games for secrets or bashing his head against puzzles, you'll find him revisiting old Total War campaigns, agonizing over his Destiny 2 fit, or still trying to finish the Horus Heresy. Sean has also written for EDGE, Eurogamer, PCGamesN, Wireframe, EGMNOW, and Inverse.
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