Wuchang Fallen Feathers: How To Beat Nightmare Demon

In this extensive guide, we’ll go through how you can find Nightmare Demon in Wuchang Fallen Feathers, its moves and strategies to fight it.

The Nightmare Demon mirrors your skills and abilities (Source: 505 Games)

Wuchang Fallen Feathers borrows several gameplay mechanics from other Soulsborne games. One of them is the ability to fight your Inner Demon, which is basically a evil version of you. She has the same abilities, skills and moveset as you do, and the Inner Demon is quite adept at using these against you. However, by the point you reach the endgame in Chapter 4, you will unlock a more vicious fight with your mirror self, but this time around, the enemy is called Nightmare Demon. Although optional, we highly recommend undertaking this fight for the experience and the rewards. In this guide, we’ll explore how you can defeat the Nightmare Demon in Wuchang Fallen Feathers.

How To Find the Nightmare Demon in Wuchang Fallen Feathers?

Go across the Plant Bridge — Go across the plant bridge (Source: 505 Games)

You can only unlock this fight after you’ve crossed the point of no return in Chapter 4 and reached Worship’s Rise in Ruins. Start from the Annalum area and proceed across the plant bridge. You can decide whether you want to engage the enemies here or avoid them.

Eventually, you’ll soon reach a set of stairs that lead to a gate. You should be able to recognize it by the Shu Sanctum placed right next to the gate. This is the exact place where you faced off against the Gluttonous Monstrosity earlier on. Once you enter the gate, the boss fight with the Nightmare Demon will trigger.

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All Nightmare Demon Moves

The fight with the Nightmare Demon begins (Source: 505 Games)

The battle with the Nightmare Demon has three phases, and she can unleash different attacks, based on which phase you’re on. Let’s take a look at the moves available to her.

First Phase Moves

During the first phase, the Nightmare Demon will wield dual blades. You can easily get caught up in her combo attacks using these blades, especially since she’s quite quick. Besides the physical combo attacks, she can also utilize the following spells during this phase.

Whirling Flurry: She will spin quickly for a couple of seconds as she moves forward.
Sudden Strike: A sudden attack with the sword followed by a kick that can knock you down if it connects.
Blade Dance: This is a flurry of attacks using the blade with minimal windup.
Shadow Lunge: Lunge at you with the blade several times before ending the combo with a powerful jab.

By now, you might be familiar with these moves since you’ll have likely performed them countless times on enemies. The only difference here is that the Nightmare Demon will use the moves against you.

Second Phase Moves

As you drain the Nightmare Demon’s health to about 50%, the second phase will begin. In this phase, the boss will wield Li Jiao’s Fang axe. One of the major drawbacks when she uses this weapon is that she can now fire a cannonball at you using the Draconic Bombard skill.

If hit, it will cause Burn and fire damage. You also won’t be able to parry this attack. So, dodging is your only recourse. Besides the light axe attacks, she’ll also use the following skills during this part of the fight.

Whirlwind: She will swing the axe thrice and then slam it down on the ground.
Earthshatter: Another axe slam attack that deals AoE damage. You cannot parry this one, and this attack gives her Resilience, which means you’ll have a harder time interrupting her attacks.
Colossal Smash: A smash attack that has a slow buildup, but can deal severe damage.
Rampage: An uppercut attack, which again has a slow buildup.

Third Phase Moves

After you reduce her health by two-thirds of the total, the Nightmare Demon will enter its final phase. The phase begins with the boss switching to a longsword and then drinking a healing potion. She will regain her health, putting her HP back to 50% once more.

At this point, she will unleash Feathering Windstrike, a devastating attack where her blade glows purple. You cannot parry this particular attack. Apart from the basic heavy and light attacks, the following are the discipline skills that she’ll use in this phase.

Crescent Arc: A quick dodge and a lunging counterattack.
Blink Kick: She’ll move low and then unleash a kick. You won’t be able to parry this.
Corrosive Flurry: Watch for her purple blade strikes, which deal Corruption buildup and Feathering damage.

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How To Defeat Nightmare Demon in Wuchang Fallen Feathers

Let her come to you and prepare to parry (Source: 505 Games)

By this point in the game, you have quite a bit of experience dealing with your Inner Demon. The Nightmare Demon has the same moveset, but the only difference is that she’s a boss. You can use parries, counterattacks, and heavy attacks to knock her down. However, she’s quick to recover, which gives you minimal time to capitalize on such situations. Unfortunately, stunning or knocking her doesn’t open her up for a devastating Obliterate attack, unlike most other humanoid bosses.

Keep in mind that she’s extremely quick during the dual blade phase, but with that particular weapon, she lacks range. So, use that to your advantage. Similarly, when she switches to the axe in the second phase, she can launch ranged attacks, but most of the attacks have a slow buildup. So, you can easily get out of the way of most of them and parry the rest.

In her final phase, you’ll have a trickier time predicting her moves. Also, you can’t parry her Blink Kick and Feathering Windstrike attacks, which complicates things further. In this phase, you can stack Skyborn Might and then repeatedly use Ethereal Form to auto-dodge the attacks you cannot parry. This ability is also crucial when you want to gain some distance and use a recovery item.

Rewards for Defeating the Nightmare Demon

The following rewards make the entire fight with this optional boss worthwhile.

Bo Blood, which allows you to upgrade Maddening Incense.
Everlight Stone Needle – Continuity, which enhances Tempering duration.

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