Basic Combat

Learn the fundamentals of combat in Bloodborne. This guide covers essential techniques like baiting attacks and counter-striking to overcome early enemies and survive the hunt.

Take the stairway directly ahead for a body with Blood Vial x4 and then backtrack and turn left to encounter your first Huntsman hiding behind the second carriage. The trick is to bait the enemy to strike and then go all out with your attacks to take him down in one go.

Near the first enemy there is a lever you can pull to lower a nearby ladder, but don’t take it, and grab the Blood Vial x2 on the body next to it. Kill the two Huntsmen playing dead at the end of the road before breaking the boxes in the corner to grab the Molotov Cocktail x6 and then climb the ladder.