Melee strategy(no shield) first sentence, equip a shield. Is this for real or a joke ?

Setup: light armour, black knight shield, fire reduction ring, chloranthy. Weapons strong bow and spells (best you got). As soon as you enter take left, keep shield up, go as close to the wall as possible (wall will be on the left side). Keep shield up and keep running front being as close to the wall as possible. In this process, there is huge chance of him hitting you, if you keep shield up, you will absorb jumping smash but may get hit by AOE after it. No matter what, keep moving forward (if you get chance can top up hp, though I wont recommend it). Target is to reach the wall side (left from the entrance) where one branch of tree is hanging vertical (should be the last branch on the left side). Now once you cross the branch beneath it and if firesage follows you properly, he will get stuck in that branch and cant move. Now he is free to kill, use any method you like (ranged is best). Sometimes he may not follow you exactly along the wall, so you have to circle the room once and do the same. With a little luck, he will get stuck 100%. I have killed him so many times in same tactics so it is guaranteed. Just have to overcome the initial barrage of attacks as soon you enter the room, then its piece of BIG CAKE....Happy Hunting. Comment if any doubt or let me know if it helps.

Easy melee strategy, assuming you have a black knight weapon:

Get up close, shield up. He generally spams three attacks: butt slam, over head strike, and swipe. The butt slam is easy to dodge even for slow characters, just back up. The overhead strike misses you, assuming you are snug up against his stomach. So does the second swipe. After the butt slam, strike. *During* the overhead slam, and the second swipe (from your right), strike. No damage, easy kill.

Its another Asylum Demon with some fire magic...where is your problem with that boss. Especially since you probably have one or two black knight eapeons to kick his butt...

Annoying inconsistent enemy weapon range...
OKAY! I got it alright?!?!

Stick to it's rear, but not to close.

Isn't it supposed to be the first chaos demon or something?

My brother died just as he killed this thing, and he didn't receive any of the drops. When he went back to the room, nothing was laying about, just his souls. Seems like a major oversight on the developers' part.

This is quite possibly the most obnoxious boss I've seen in the entire series. Is the fire explosion actually undodgeable if you're not in the back ~200 degree sector behind him when he charges it up?

boss gave me a fair amount of trouble if i'm honest, which seemed odd because i managed to kill stray demon on my first attempt. the biggest problem is the start of the fight; he can either do the side swipe, which is followed by an explosion that tracks where you are and is damn near impossible to avoid, or he can do the ground slam which is pretty difficult to iframe through. once you get close to him he's fine, but the first few seconds can be rage inducing.