This is a hard boss I normally have a lot of hard time with on normal playthroughs, let alone a souls level 1 run. I easily took over 100 tries to get this beaten, prob took few days of just trying. Over and over.
I had to really learn it's move sets and time that dodging correctly. I died so many times to either being too greedy with my attacks or mistiming my rolls. Esp in the 2nd stage where his attacks are super fast, but there is sometimes a slight delay before he swings. Those darn fire balls got me so many times.
Despite dying so many times, this one I had a lot of fun with. It took me fewer tried with Elana & Sinh, but I found those to be more bullshit & infuriating respectively bosses to handle due to how Elana summoning works and Sinh refusing to stay still lol