Afro Samurai

• Swing at him until he does a dash attack. He will be briefly vulnerable afterwards. Use [Heavy Attack] combos and repeat the process.
• When you can, enter Focus mode and charge an attack. He will do the same thing. At the last moment, change the attack to the opposite of what he is doing and you should be able to kill him fairly easily.
• Use combos that he does not know. Because he was made from Okiku's memory of you in the past he does not know the things you have learned through your father's mementos or your side flips.
• Use the [Heavy Attack] four times combo. That does three slashes then a jump slash, which he does not block well. Repeat that combo until he is defeated.

• During his stage one battle, dash to the sides and hide behind a tree. Justice will approach the tree. Dash around it and use a three hit combo and stick on him with longer combos. If he pushes you away, get near another tree and repeat the process.
• During his stage one battle, avoid his gunfire when the battle begins. Position yourself so that a tree blocks him from shooting you. Slowly approach him. After you get close enough, he will stop shooting. At this point, hack and slash until he starts teleporting. Continue to attack him when he appears. After this he will lose his arms and start shooting spikes from the ground. Dodge the spikes, then Focus Slice them. Repeat the process until he comes after you in his mutated form. Fight this form in the same manner as you fought the first form.
• During his stage three battle, his shockwave attacks can be deadly. Let him do the windmill, then hit him with focus and [Heavy Attack]. A intermission sequence will play. Again, use the same strategy. Another intermission sequence will appear. Look for an attack where he lunges both arms forward. Get behind him and use focus and horizontal [Light Attack]; or a dash and slash. Eventually he will become stunned. Execute some combos until he has been defeated.

• Keep executing the "Obedience Training" move ([Heavy Attack] three times, [Light Attack] three times, [Heavy Attack] three times, then [Heavy Attack]). The last hit of that combo will hit him, then quickly press [Heavy Attack] three times to damage him.
• Run in somewhat wide circles so he cannot hit Afro. When he springs high in the air and lands, quickly get behind him and press [Heavy Attack] four times. There may be other opportunities to attack as well. If you run clockwise, you can get to his back after he does his shoulder-charge move. If you run counter-clockwise, you can get an opening after his kick combo. Cut off your combo after two moves if he blocks it. He will punch you after the third move, and once you are down it will be difficult to get back up.
• When facing Kuma in his second stage, block timing is important. In the first round he does a two hit attack. Block the first attack, then block second attack immediately afterwards and hit him with a combo. In the second round it becomes a three hit attack. You must block, then in the third round it is a four hit attack. Keep close to him so he uses the timed-block attack, and not his spin or dash attacks.

Block his attacks as he hits you. When you see a flash on his sword or a slight pause, attack him. Repeat the process until he is defeated.

• When you fight Ninja Ninja, every time you hit him with a normal attack he will clone himself. The only way to kill him is to use Perfect Slices (in Focus). The best way to do this is to attack him till you get Overfocus, then use that to destroy them as soon as possible.
• Parry their attacks, then pounce your opponent to destroy him with one hit.
• Fight until you get Overfocus. Then, back into a corner and get them as close in as possible before using Overfocus. If you do not kill them all while you are in Overfocus they will begin cloning themselves again.
• If you block, he will create clones. This will also happen if you swipe at his afro. You can kill him without going into Focus or Overfocus, if you are careful in what combos you use. Parry as much as possible and isolate them. Getting into the middle of them will get you killed.