Sword Master | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Start as cleric. Use force to knock him off the cliff

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agrro, back off to the cliff edge where there is the little lip to stand on (as if it was made for it). hit the wall until he dives off the cliff for an easy kill.

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Parry, parry, victory

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Wait, do people actually think this guy is hard? I thought he was the katana dilvery service. Just bait out his anime iajutsu move and you're golden.

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Harder than Gael Orphan and Malenia riding Midir

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How good is he against Vordt, Gundyr and The Dancer?

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Is he a good summon for Champion Gundel?

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Brand new to dark souls, and I've got a question. I've gotten to the Vort of the Boreal Valley fight, and his summon sign isn't there. I am fairly certain I've killed him, so the sign should be there, right? Is there a special item I need, like the tower key. Im also not online so that may be an issue.

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After a great battle he decided to jump off the cliff what a dissapointment! LMAO

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Thank god this samurai didint pull out a glock 17 and a spear

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threw him off the cliff with force as a cleric, that felt so underwhelming compared to beating him fair and square

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I didn't win against him. In fact, my first death came from this guy but somehow upon respawning, he disappeared and left his dropped items on the stairs. Not sure that was intentional or not.

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holy ****, started a new run, died to this guy more times than I died to friede or nameless king...

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Chad Master, when everyone else is gone or dead in the Age of Dark in the Untended Graves, he alone stands with you to face Champion Gundyr, with nothing but a katana and some rags.

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if i killed him by pushing him off a cliff where do his drops spawn?

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this guy sucks cause hes at such an early level. im not sure if im supposed to kill him or find a way around

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What zero resurrections does to a mf

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the true noobslayer

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Killed lizard and Gundyr on first try no problem, runned away from a naked f**k with katana like a coward.
The he just suicided out of shame of bullying the new player.

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I was playing on my girlfriends account, (I still haven't actually played the game yet) but I killed both the crystal lizard and sword master first try with no damage taken.

I was proud of my self and felt like I needed to share.

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the real first boss

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He once used the weapon art on the stairs dashed down and plunge attacked me killing me despite having 80% of my health

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parry when he does the hold attack, easiest method

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I have a theory about this guy. The reason he is waiting outside firelink shrine is because he knows that heroes (or at least skilled warriors) gravitate towards it and they might have a chance of beating him in a fight, and when you beat him he decides to help you out of respect.

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DS3 devs lazy copying Sekiro guy like this

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Easy way to kill this guy early is to use the tree jump method to get on top of firelink shrine on your first visit. Walk around the ledge to the other side of the building and you can safely pelt him from above with firebombs or magic.

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it's undead merchant ( male ) from ds1

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i can beat 20 iudex gundyrs at sl1 using my fists, and still die to this bastard 50 times over

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Local weeb preys on newbies. No shame, says he "wants to test his limits"

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He is Miyazaki.

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Iudex Gundyr killed me once. This f*cker right here killed me like five times.

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Could this be a one armed wolf with two arms?

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if you mouse over the hyperlink to sword master's page in the npc list, it appears as "sword master Saber". is this intentional?

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This is just your friendly PSA warning you to not do contact medicine.

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Sword master can be summoned for Champion Gundyr after you kill him! I summoned him and a warrior of sunlight and killed Gundyr first try

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use him as bait against the dancer 10/10 would summon again

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Just parry this weeb, it's not that hard or just bait him to the edge and kick him. I've been seeing a lot of bloodstains near him. Probably because of the steam sale.

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He's actually easy to kill with good distancing and by using the weapon arts that lunge forward over and over again. Classes that start with these weapons are Knight, Herald, Assassin, Sorcerer, but everyone can afford a shortsword and R2 L2. Faster than dying trying to bait him to the edge of the cliff or running around trying to get a drop attack on him.

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Face him then panic, running around, fall to death. What he follow me and fall too.

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"Sword Master will act much more defensively then other summons" It should be than instead of then. Surprised no one has fixed this small grammatical error.

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Sekiro: Gundyr Dies Twice

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I just noticed it today, but if you kill him without looting him, his normal drops will also appear near the chaos blade in untended graves.

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When I got close to firelink shrine, I got a bunch of souls and found the katana on a second visit. No idea how he died but I never fought him

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Sekiro?

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Its me, or his Uchigatana has more range than the one you can use?

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I just started the game today and I ran away from him when I noticed it was too hard for me at the moment, later I went to check him again and there was only his gear on the floor. Did he fall to his dead or something?

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>Be him >Chillin outside firelink >Lifes gud >See some malformed goblin approaching you >Oh shid he has a weapon >Fight >Get parried to oblivion >Why even live?

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this is where you are now sekiro

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50 shades of getting owned by a 55 year old exhibitionist

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Did a cosplaythrough as him - only using the Black Blade. It was a really good run.

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Has the power of god and anime on his side

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the easiest way to kill this big ole chungus is to parry him while hes facing away from the cliff and using r1 spam with the dagger to push him off the edge.

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Kinda looks like Isshin, maybe they alluded to Sekiro with this guy? Or am I trying really hard to make a connection?

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Not sure why this tactic isnt in there for killing him. If you go onto the roof of firelink shrine you can shoot him with arrows.

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Lol it's very easy to beat him, just fireball him to death (that's why I started as Pyromancer class)

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that's why you should only max vigor and dex, that's the only way to be a truly sword master

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sword master more like casul slayer

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This is really Sekiro with the mortal blade.

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For me, i get the halbred at the high wall and use it. Just wait until he stand still and slowly poke him with R1

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The killer of casul twinkvaders

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If killed can he respawn?

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weak against most type of damage... if you can hit him :D

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started as a deprived, farmed for 20000 souls, bought the tower key then went and snuck up behind him and backstabbed him with a dagger, then it took 3 pummels from the club to kill him, all before going to the high wall

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He will help you fight the dancer but only if you havnt killed vort yet. I would only do this on ng+

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I simply killed him by falling off the cliff which then led to him jumping after me. Went back to the spot and his loot was sitting there waiting for me.

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I don't know if he got smarter or something but he started getting hard for me to kill mano a mano. I used to destroy this guy but now he's back on my level or something.

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If he isn't Shiva, could he be his bodyguard ? Taking the Chaos blade from his master's ashes, and vowing to protect those who defeat him, in order to clear his conscience ?

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You can cheese him from the roof with ranged spells, throwing knives, firebombs, and/or arrows. Requires the tree-jumping glitch or the tower key.

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Probably one of the worst summons. All he does is slowly follow the boss with his WA ready and then get destroyed. Not worth summoning.

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Can be cheesed by standing on the stone coffins that jut out over the cliff edge under the tree and just shooting him with cheap arrows. He never stops moving so you have to time it right, but he never figured out how to path his way to me so I had all the time in the world to kill him.

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I hated this guy

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Reload the game.

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I tres him off the clff and I didn't get anything bus souls. Did this happened to someone else? Do anyone knows a way to fix this?

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Force literally does nothing.

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this is where the game is really dumb, i'm a knight in full armor and i can only take 3 hits before i die, and that guy needs 25+ hits before he dies despite wearing only seaweed as armor

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Sword Master is one of the few NPC summons worth their salt if for no other reason than he plays very defensively. Having him for the Champion Gundyr fight at a low SL run makes all the difference since he serves as a perfect distraction. Wait for Gundyr to aggro to him, land a spam chain of R1 before he's pounded into the ground, then let Gundyr chase you so Sword Master can heal. 5-6 rounds of that even with a +0 weapon and it's over.

Night and day difference to trash like Sirris, who is aggressive as fuck and then tries to heal herself with a 5 second miracle 2 feet from a boss charging up their hydrogen bomb attack.

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In my my all bosses play through this guy gave me more trouble than the nameless king some how

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He (usually) strafes left to right while in the parry hold, and (usually) approaches when he is in his attack hold. I don't have any proof this will work for everyone, so you'll have to make sure your version of Sword Master follows these rules, but if he does, this can be some helpful non-cheese strategy.

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the sword master respawned and is attacking me in the Great Belfry. has this happened to any one?

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ah yes getting combo'd to***** by gundyr as sword master stands 30 meters away in parry stance

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In my playthrough he just fell of the cliff without me doing anything. He just stared at me for 5 seconds with his weapon sheathed and just jumped.. lol.. not that i complain about it.. i got 2 levels and his sword.

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I tree-jumped onto the roof to attack this guy with a bow on my first ever time through the game. He went nuts and threw himself off the cliff. Next gen AI design right there. I've had players do that to deny kills in PVP.

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this guy has no pants so he can show you how well he masters his sword

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He didn't drop his stuff when he fell of the cliff?

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The first time I mistakenly summoned him to help me beat Vortd, he died. Can he still help me know with the Dancer?

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I did a stupid roll and fell off the cliff, was about to face palm, then i see him jump after me, gwyn bless his soul. : ^)

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If you dont pick up the swordmasters loot in the firelink shrine, you can get it in the untended graves where it is in the shrine

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Me and the Swordmaster made out and the ferocity of us parrying each others loins rendered his armor to scraps.

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Trivia, he's hostile because you steal his chaos blade in the past...

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what happen if I left him alone and completed Irina light path?

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most useless phantom in the game

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Hey,
I unwillingly left Sword Master's gear (the one he drops when defeated) where it would lie. Eventually I made it to the Dark Firelink Shrine. When I went to where the Chaos Blade would be, the Sword Master's gear and weapon was there! Spooky.

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But maybe he's that one master that Shiva mentions in DS1 who he refers to when talking about the Chaos Blade? I mean, he does use the Chaos Blade when summoned and you can pick it up in the spot that this Sword Master would be in the Untended Graves. I'm more than likely wrong, but its just a thought!

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Don't bother to summon him to the Champion Gundyr fight. He has very low defense and dies quickly because of that. He is also no use as a distraction since he takes forever to target the boss and likes to just slowly follow him in his katana stance without getting in range to attack.

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I go there, lure him and then just leave and loot the rest of the shrines early accesable items...he dies somewhere in between, so i go to the bonfire and then back and loot his stuff...

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The swordmaster sign wont apear outsid The boss room and i have killed him. What is The problem

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So I recently got DS3 and I was wondering if the glitch, or whatever you would call it, people used to make him SUPER POWERFUL and kill the Dancer in early-game still worked.

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If I remember correctly, isn't there a "Eastern Shield" in a tree at the path towards him? Could that be hinting towards the "Shiva if the East" theory?

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I like mustard

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Can you summon him in front of Vordt's room once you have already killed Vordt? (I need help with the Dancer)

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