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Martyr Logarius is a very interesting boss that can give a lot of trouble to newer players due to all the magic attacks he throws at you, but he’s easily manageable if you play this fight patiently.
Upon entering the arena, you’ll want to approach Logarius by running through the side of the arena and using the pillars as a shield to his magic. Buff yourself up with a Beast Blood Pellet and a Fire Paper once you’re close, and go for him once there’s an opening. The best opening to engage him is when he casts a bunch of skulls - just dodge through them and punish Logarius.
Once you’re close enough to hit him, you’ll start a bit of an AI loop on him. If you hit Logarius two or three times, he will always backstep and try to attack you, but his attack is pretty slow. So what you should look to do is to always follow him after the backstep and hit him two or three times again. It goes like this: (1) you hit Logarius with two or three R1s or a R1L1 combo, (2) he backsteps, (3) you follow him and (4) you hit him again with two or three R1s or a R1L1 combo, then repeat steps 2 to 4 until the start of the second phase.
Once Martyr Logarius is a little below 70%HP, he will drive his scythe to the ground and start channeling an AoE explosion. It takes a few seconds for the explosion to come out, so you can attack him a few times before interrupting it with a backstab. So, what you’ll want to do is as soon as you see him putting his scythe on the ground, attack him with three or four R1s or do a R1L1L1 combo.
After doing so, wait for your stamina to regenerate to a little over half the bar and then perform a backstab (fully charged R2 to his back and another fully charged R2 for double damage while he’s staggered) - this will stop his channeling but second phase will start regardless.
During second phase, he loses his magic attacks and will focus a lot more on chasing you around and performing melee attacks with either his scythe (slower, easier to avoid attacks) or his sword (faster attacks, harder to predict). He will also sometimes fly up to the sky and plunge at you or straight up dive you, and these will be the main openings you’ll look for.
The last and most dangerous thing he can do in second phase that you should know of is that sometimes Logarius will drive his sword into the ground and it’ll start summoning a lot of flying swords that track you down. To avoid this, you’ll need to destroy the sword he drove into the ground and the best way to do so is to lock onto Martyr Logarius and then spam your right analog stick until it switches the lock-on to the sword, then shoot it with your Hunter’s Pistol.
One shot is enough to destroy it and end that attack, and you should roll right after destroying it because sometimes a sword will still fly into you and deal some damage if you don’t dodge.
Now that you know how to deal with his most dangerous attack, it’s important to talk about the openings. There are three main safe openings:
1. He will fly directly up and plunge at you after a few seconds. To avoid and punish this attack, you’ll want to turn your camera up to look at him and roll as soon as he drops down, preferably towards his back side. If you dodge this correctly, you’ll be positioned perfectly to backstab him before he recovers from this attack.
2. He will fly up and backwards, then dive at you after a few seconds. To avoid this one, you’ll want to roll to your right, right before he hits you. If you dodge this correctly, you’ll be positioned close to his back so you can either do a backstab or R1L1 if you feel like you don’t have enough time to charge your R2.
3. He will try to hit you with his scythe, which is usually a three-hit-combo. You can parry any of these attacks for a free visceral or R1L1 opening, but the easiest attack to parry is definitely the third hit as you can position yourself quite well for it. If you prefer or feel comfortable, you can also dodge the third attack into Logarius instead of parrying it, and by doing so you’ll be near his backside and it’ll become a good opening to backstab him for a lot more damage than if you chose to parry him.
These will be your main sources of damage in phase 2. It is also important to note that your gun deals decent damage to Logarius, so using Bone Marrow Ash a few times to speed up the fight isn’t a bad strategy either. Also, other than looking for these openings, you should always be running around the arena and away from Logarius in order to never get caught by his fast sword slashes.
Apply all of these tips to your fight and you’ll eventually kill Martyr Logarius.
