Talk:Pure Vessel/@comment-26161357-20181022233517

I thought of something I haven't heard anywhere else about why the Pure Vessel is harder than the Nightmare King. With the Nightmare King, ultimately he wants you to beat him. His whole fight, as a harder version of Grimm's, is meant to be like a dance: he acts, you respond, repeat. He telegraphs his attacks and always gives you opportunities to hit him because it's a performance.

With the Pure Vessel, they're fighting to win. They don't deliberately give you openings to attack, and in fact you have to make your own, constantly dashing to try to hit them before they teleport away (kind of like Soul Tyrant, actually). They don't come to you like the Nightmare King, they make you go to them, and then sucker punch you while you try. The whole dynamic of the fight is different and inherently more difficult.