Cult Of The Lamb - How To Beat The Darkwood Heretic

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So you’ve defeated (and indoctrinated…) Amdusias, Valefar, and Barbatos, now you must take on Leshy. Leshy is the first Heretic you will encounter in Cult Of The Lamb, and they are no pushover as a result. They are a Bishop of the Old Faith for a reason after all. Leshy would love nothing more than to see your life ended and your cult destroyed.

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Leshy is on a whole different level to the bosses you have fought up until now. He has way more attacks, is packing a larger health pool, and is generally a trickier foe to deal with. He isn’t unbeatable, however, and with a bit of preparation, Leshy will go down and you can harvest his organs - literally.

Leshy is essentially a combination of Amdusias, Valefar, and Barbatos. He has very few unique attacks, and even then, most of those are just plays on attacks you’ve seen before. It’s almost like his underlings were preparing you for Leshy. With that in mind, you should already have the skills to overcome Leshy.

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For your weapon, you want something that hits hard. Axes are excellent for this as they are slow, hit hard, and scale better than their nimbler counterparts when you pick up damage multipliers.

The reason a slower weapon is preferred is that you don’t have much time to attack Leshy before he moves away. Faster weapons, therefore, won’t be able to leverage their high Attack Speed as effectively, giving them a higher chance of having a lower DPS.

Slower weapons also work better when killing Leshy’s minions, as they will always jump away after they take one hit. This makes swords and especially daggers far less efficient than an axe.

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