Very cool how if you’re not at 100% health he can one shot parry you

Did it around my 10th try, all it was was down to patience. Don't get greedy because he WILL punish you. Got close to killing him a couple of times. You can try to bait him in by missing a attack and parrying him.
I also used a stake driver and I was able to get a regular R2 off before he got up after a visceral attack.

Holy moonlight sword transforming attacks work very well, especially the transformed to untransformed ground slam. First time I ever beat this piece of **** without cheesing. My guiding L1 + 40 vigor

I cheesed him mixing poison knives and the bleeding effect of his Chikage. If you're daring, you could try going for parries to speed up things.

i think people still hate this guy to this day because he's the first to have the cainhurst/crowfeather fashion and now nobody else can wear it without being called a "cosplayer"

40 vigor 31 End and 50 str with 9+ pizza cutter and the guy was gone, well not before he killed me like 10 times with some random ******* parry or spamming a gun until I ran out of stamina

Virgin "Cuck" of Cainhurst Vs. Chad Powder Keg

Hardest NPC in any Souls game ever, by far.
He was even more difficult than, like, 90% of the bosses.

why would you give an npc the ability to parry, its just an instakill and you can barely react to it

Apparently in ng+ he goes from 3510 to 9000, over 2.5x. On top of that it he gets a special health and damage buff even with using the Chikage with 15 skill.

Very strange npc.