expect the ornstien rush at the start.

you mission is to manage distance, your back should always be face at the angle firthest from both.

now you have a choice to make, depending on what reward you want.

A. the better over all reward requires you kill Smogh (large lad) first, which is trickier, because he is slow, and ornstien will be attempting to rush you down. you objective is to orbit Smogh, you MUST maintain facing with both. but do not attempt to try to get kite distance away from orstein, just use smoghs lard size to body block ornstein by a close orbit. dont mind ornstein if he is behind smogh so much, focus on smough. keep close to him so you can orbit with less work, but watch for his telegraphed attacks. you can punish him more consistently then you can ornstein because his attacks have slow wind up and recovery.

B. If you just want this fight done, kill ornstein first. its easier. you can kite smough entierly when fighting ornstein, but just watch for his rushes as he likes to reach around ornstein. ornstein is very fast on recovery, so only hit him a coulle of times when the opportunity arises, do not over comit your stamina. if you are low on stamina focus on positioning both enemies and getting distance from smogh. ornstein has less hp so you get more work done for less.

after the first is dead the other will switch up, but the fight is your standard boss deul. just testing your composure and remaining allowance for mistakes/healing.

generaly, abusing the pillars in the duo phase can give you a moments breath, but its mostly a trap and may seperate the two. also you have been hording those resins, because you have the gamer disease. after the first fight or two when you manage to get one of them to less then half start useing them, and dont look back. THIS is THE fight. you will have better options in later fights.

all else fails, summon. as much as elitests will argue, it more important you get hours in and see the game. it will get you to improve. and you will learn to love this fight. you can always return for your annualy mandatory playthrugh.

praise the sun \[T]/

STR build 101:

Find the heaviest weapon you can. Bonk.

Find the heaviest armor you can. Anti-bonk.

The two builds I played were an int caster and a str big bonk. The caster had a much easier time with bosses but open world was more dangerous. The opposite for the str build, had to learn more timing and patterns for bosses but open world was a smash fest. Great sword in caelid is easy to get early and is pretty great, just pumping up str and hp/end and a little dex just to meet weapon requirements.

Try a lot of different weapons. Greatswords are fun, but big hammers are awesome too. I think the great club is easy to get early hammer