Saika Magoichi |
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| General Info | ||
| HP | Amrita | Location |
| ?? | ?? | Immortal Flame The Watcher in Darkness |
| Drops | Sakai Rifle Kuro-Garasu Armor (L): Do Yatagarasu Armor (L): Kote Yatagarasu Armor (L): Hizayoroi |
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| Defenses | ||
| Weak | Resistant | Immune |
| Lightning/Earth | Fire/Wind Poison/Para |
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Saika Magoichi is a Boss in Nioh. This is the 15th Boss that players will encounter. The player will have to face this enemy in order to proceed with the game.
Saika Magoichi is the head of the Saika, based in western Kii Province (present-day Wakayama Prefecture). The name "Saika Magoichi" is adopted by each successive leader of the Saika; the current Magoichi is a man whose real name is Suzuki Shigetomo. The Saika are a band of traveling mercenaries skilled in firearms, cannons, and other guns. They prefer to fight small guerilla operations than large-scale battles, but they will fight for whoever pays them and have no allegiance to any lord. In the employ of Ken'nyo of Honganji Temple, they occupied Ishiyama Honganji in Osaka and put up fierce resistance against Oda Nobunaga, but they were later defeated during Hideyoshi's Kyushu campaign. They revere the sacred crow Yatagarasu and are said to be able to see spirits and other invisible presences.
Saika Magoichi is the name given to the leader of the Saika Ikki (Buddhist fanatical group). He is famous for arming his troops with arquebuses and donning the yatagarasu as his family crest.
Location
- Saika Magoichi is found in the Immortal Flame Main Mission within the Sekigahara Region. To access the boss, the player must fight their way to the top of a burning tower.
- Saikia is also the boss in The Watcher in Darkness Sub Mission.
- Not optional.
Drops
- Amrita: ??
- Co-Op Amrita: ??
- Other: Sakai Rifle, Kuro-Garasu Armor (L): Do, Yatagarasu Armor (L): Kote & Yatagarasu Armor (L): Hizayoroi
Combat Information
- Health: ??
- Ki: ??
- Can be critically hit when out of Ki.
- Can it be parried? Can it be Stunlocked?
- Twilight: Y/N, different attacks?
Strategies
Video Strategy
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Strategy 1 (Melee)
Saika Magoichii likes to throw bombs and use ranged attack when engaged, but he will also try to dash William sometimes. Dodge his dash and attack him afterwards, this is his weakest moment. Dual katanas and use low stance are very useful when fighting him, use guardian spirit to knock him down also helps. You can also throw items at him while he is airborne (i.e. kunai). This will cause him to fall to the ground for a Grapple attack.In the immortal flame mission, the fire to the sides is more dangerous to you than to the boss. You can push him into it for damage, but if you stand near the fire, and he grabs you, he will probably throw you into it, which generally kills you.
Secondary Cheese Strategy is to use a good odachi and use high stance and spam heavy attack.
Strategy 2 (Magic)
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Saika Magoichi Twilight Strategy
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Attacks
Saika Magoichi has two attack phases. In the first phase, ??. In the second Phase, ??
| First Phase | |
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| Yatagarasu Wind Blast | Saika summons Yatagarasu, who shoots 3 gales at the player. Counts as elemental damage. Not blockable , inflicts wind debuff. To dodge, if near, get behind the bird, if away, move to the side a bit, between the gale shots. |
| Mid-Air Shot | Shoots the player with a firearm while in mid-air (blockable). |
| Mid-Air Bomb | Throws a bomb at the player while in mid-air (blockable). Generally followed by 1 or 2 shots |
| Grapple | Grabs the player with his legs while in mid-air (unblockable). He has to be flying close to you to grab you. Move away from initial position to avoid. If Saika teleports and you lose sight of him, he might have teleported behind you for a grapple, so dodge, then turn around and block, in case it was a shot |
| Aim & Shoot | Shoots the player while his legs are on the ground. Can shoot multiple times , low ki damage, can be side-stepped. |
| Swordplay | Attacks you with his sword while his legs are on the ground. |
| Sword Dash | Dashes forward and slashes you |
| Second Phase | |
| Description and Counter | |
| Attack Name | Description and Counter |
Yokai Lore / History
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Notes & Trivia
- Voice Actors, if any
- Similarities to other titles
- There is a glitch where Saika can fall through the floor of the arena in co-op. This seems to mainly be the result of a ground grapple attack, which clips him through the floor when he attempts to get up. This renders the boss fight unfinishable as the exit will be outside the boss arena. The only options are to exit the mission by killing yourself in the fire or reloading the game.
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AnonymousI love how you never know if that completely ordinary door you're about to open is going to cost you everything.
- Anonymous
Read people saying everywhere Juro-Gumo was the easiest boss so far, but just got at Magoichi and this was terribly easy, even while underlevel (76). His bullets and wind attacks are somewhat slow, you can easily dodge and get him down with magic/kunai for a grab. If you get luck you can just stuck him into a corner/wall when he falls and keep hittin, it's a pretty simple fight.
- Anonymous
Whoever said "parry his dash attack" is a god. This boss almost made me break my dualsence, i even had to pull up the price of it on my screen so it remind me that i cant afford breaking it. But "Parry his dash attack" got me to his 50% health faster than any of the tactics i tried first try! Couple more and i will win ez!
- Anonymous
first time i fought him he annihilated me within 15 seconds.
second time i fought him i annihilated him within 12 seconds.....the difference between the first and second fight is for the second fight i was level 100 (increased from level 96 i was during first fight) and:
--equipped 6 pieces of warrior of the west gear (5 armor and 1 bow)
--equipped 7 kunai
--applied protection & steel talismans before fight
--managed to sloth him
--used yellow rarity chidori-jumonji spear (565, level 2 familiarity maxed, quick attack damage 10.6% & close combat attack (enemy electrified) 11.9%
--raiken was my guardian spirit attack
before i entered the room i applied steel and protection and as soon as i entered the room i slothed him, then i activated raiken and got him to below 50% right away.
after that i used my kunai to make him fall to the floor and used final blow on him 3 times...it was over so fast and easy that i lmao with relief. i had spent the previous 3 or so hours farming amrita to level up and was fully expecting to get my ass handed to me by him several times in a row but nope, this worked.
my stats are:
body 13
heart 11
stamina 20
strength 22
skill 25
dexterity 10
magic 21
spirit 20
he is really weak to lightning so the attack multiplier on my spear shredded him when i used my spear in high stance while in living weapon mode.
hope this info helps someone else to beat him.
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The run up to the boss fight game me cancer, and I didn't even die.
- Anonymous
One key part about this fight is to NOT roll side-way. The boss "arena" is the most deadly part of the fight since it has fire all around (which either kills you really quick or make you waste your Living Weapon in a single second). Pushing the boss into the fire can be a simple yet efficient way of ticking his health a bit.
One part of the arena is an instant death hole trap which can be seen from the floor below. It's actually possible to kill this boss by striking him toward that part of the area, but doing so will make you unable to gain his drops as the drop will fall in the fire on the floor below.
- Anonymous
When he's far from you, block his bullets and bombs and dodge his wind attacks and hit him with ranged attacks afterwards. When he's near you, take your chances and spam some attacks, short-distance fights are not his thing. Just watch out his flying grab and hit him when he falls to the ground. Cool boss and kinda tricky, but not really hard.
- Anonymous
Spam Flowing Shadow with a katana. Sometimes if you position yourself right (around his back) and begin FS, you'll end up on his side, and he will try to shoot you where you were previously (completely missing you). Use FS again, he will do the same and he will not block as he is shooting. I could get 3 FS in before he started blocking or just flew up and teleported to another location. Rinse and repeat. Although it is harder to pull off during the main mission boss fight when his arena is surrounded by fire, so watch out not to over-spam it. During the side missions though, it's entirely a viable option. Buff up with anything you want beforehand, and spam away. Be sure to dodge his flying carpet bombing and volley fire though!
- Anonymous
Spam melee attacks, he does not block right away, unlike some bosses, so you can get him with a bunch of hits. And if he does block, You can keep going anyway and push him to flames despite his block, though he is fire resistant( 70 per tic, it helps). It's best to be near him because he spams bullets and bombs. Always keep your health high and roll from his gun.He has a stun lock gun combo, where he shoots you three times with huge stagger power per bullet. You won't be able to do anything if you are hit by the first and will get hit by the other two. You can knock him out with a throwable if he flies, and use a finishing blow. Just beware not be hit by his flying grab:
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- Anonymous
Absurdly easy fight. This shouldn´t be considered a "boss". There are common yokai enemies that are more dangerous than this guy (like the big monks with the long tongue)
- Anonymous
You people in the comments are fkn angels. This was the most tilt inducing fight I've ever had in this game til I read that you can throw things to knock him down
- Anonymous
I found another glitch where when I entered the boss room with host, he had 40% health
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Shurikens are your friend here. As soon as he flies up, just tap him with a plain ass shuriken and he'll fall down and you can use a ground finisher. Rinse/repeat. EZ mode.
- Anonymous
Dude took like 8 high attack axe hits with 1 pixel of life left and then killed me... I stared at that pixel the entire time.
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