Lies of P - Green Monster of the Swamp Boss Fight (+ tips in the description)

I actually have all the fights ready to upload by some time now but some things happened IRL that made it difficult for me to do so. Anyway, this boss is the first full-blown-Elden-Ring-like BS in the game (fortunately there's not a lot of those). He just doesn't give up on anything, he's fast, hits like a truck, has tons of AoE-like swings, delayed attacks, two chunky health bars and very weird and inconsistent telegraphs. Also very mixed opinions from the community on the phases: some find the first one harder, others the second one, but everyone agrees that either way this boss sucks. I've found the first phase somewhat enjoyable, but the second phase to be utter garbage. Gonna try my best to give some tips here:
1-Focus on deflects. In my experience there's not a lot of moves that you want to dodge through. Even if you don't Perfect Block (gonna abreviate this to PB from now on), blocking and aggressively rallying is the way to go imo.
2- Fire or electric buffs/weapons are very welcomed. Resistence ampoules are helpful but not mandatory (rembember that you can farm these where you met Venigni)
2.1- I found the Puppet Ripper to work the best for me, the long range gives you more opportunities to retaliate in comparison to other weapons due to the boss obscene range as well as the relatively short arena. Use and abuse of those R2 Swings!
2-Red charges should be perfect blocked. Don't try to dodge, it will simply hit you cause they have tracking. The non-charging ones are dodgeable but i just found it easier to also PB.
3- When he goes underground, the attack comes slightly delayed from what you would expect, this one you can dodge accordingly to the delay or run around as soon as you see the move.
Second phase specifically:
Shares a lot of moves with Scrapped Watchman, with a lot of BS built in.
I got absolutely screwed by the jumps here, but the way to go is to PB or dodge towards his initial position.
The Rushdown is best PBed on the first run, this way you stop all of the subsequent runs.
The spinning limbs into the ground is very similar to Watchman, you can PB and stick a hit between swings. The final red swing now also have the tentacles swinging to the side, so you should stay right in front of the boss to punish with a charge attack. If you failed to deflect the red attack, stay where you are, do not panic dodge into the tentacle sweep.
I believe that the crab walk with tentacles hitting ahead of him is best avoided by staying out of range, there's not a lot of ways of punishing him mid-attack and if his tentacles connect you're cooked. By the end of the string you can try a charged R2 if using the Puppet Ripper. There's a grab that i can't remember due to the time passed between me playing and posting this video, so try to look somewhere else if it screws you up too much.
There's always the specter to summon, although some find (me included) that the boss become even more inconsistent with the specter on, but try it nevertheless.
Hopefully this helps someone out there.
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[@hamti2624]

Good fight, this boss sucks so bad please keep posting