Paintmaster Sheo

Paintmaster Sheo is a quest boss in Hollow Knight introduced in Godmaster. He sits at the top of the Pantheon of the Artist in Godhome.

Behaviour and Tactics
During his battle, Paintmaster Sheo uses the following attacks/manoeuvres:
 * Great Slash: Paintmaster Sheo holds his brush over his head, charging this attack while a white aura flares around him. Sheo will then slash downward with his paintbrush, slamming the ground, and creating a damaging column of paint. Finally, blobs of paint will start falling in random locations around the arena. This attack is indicated by his paintbrush turning magenta.
 * Paint Spear: Paintmaster Sheo raises his brush behind his head, and then lunges a small distance forwards while creating a long javelin-like paint slash that reaches 70-80% of the arena. This attack is indicated by his paintbrush turning yellow.
 * Paint Stomp: Paintmaster Sheo leaps into the air, freezing at the apex of his jump to swipe his paintbrush downwards creating six paint blobs that fall in parabolic arcs. He then stomps downward, following a linear path from his jump's apex to the floor below, creating a small paint-splash. This attack is indicated by his paintbrush turning red.
 * Paint Splash: Paintmaster Sheo slashes the ground with his paintbrush, creating three paint blobs that travel in parabolic arcs, each landing at different increments of space away from Sheo. This attack is indicated by his paintbrush turning blue.
 * Roll: Paintmaster Sheo will roll backwards or forwards, covering ~40% of the arena. Sheo usually uses this between attacks as to re-position himself away from the Knight.
 * Leap: Paintmaster Sheo Leaps a short distance as to navigate the arena.

Paintmaster Sheo is the final boss of the Pantheon of the Artist, the second of five pantheons located in Godhome. At the beginning of the fight, Sheo can be seen painting the Godseeker's mask. He uses different colour paint blobs to attack, his signature Nail Art being the Great Slash, performed in the Great Slash attack. Unlike Oro and Mato, he does not use a great nail and he can be staggered after 12 hits. Sheo's attacks are all pretty fast, so Quick Focus is highly recommended. Healing is even easier when Quick Focus is combined with Shape of Unn as the player can heal by moving around and dodging paint blobs. This combo allows safe healing during any of the Paintmaster's attacks except the Paint Spear attack.

However, there are always opportunities to heal without the help of Quick Focus. The player can heal during Sheo's Great Slash attack and during the Paint Stomp attack. However, the paint blobs can hit the Knight during that time if they stand too close to Sheo.

A well-timed Shade Cloak means the player can always dash through incoming paint blobs in the Paint Stomp and Paint Slash attacks. Remain in place until Sheo starts the attack, then dash immediately. Dashing should only occur after the paint blobs have nearly touched the ground during the Paint Stomp attack, or else dashing too early sometimes results in the player dashing into another paint blob. It is better to dash towards the Paintmaster during his Paint Splash attack because this allows the player to get in some hits, especially with Quick Slash.

Spells such as Abyss Shriek can deal massive damage to Sheo when he is in the air. Descending Dark can be used for invincibility and damage Sheo when he's close. Shade Soul is not as useful because there's only one brother fighting, unlike in the Oro and Mato fight. Descending Dark does much more damage.

Trivia

 * Sheo loses all paint stains on his apron the moment he engages the fight.

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