Is Sirus even possible for melee?

Had my first try vs Sirus yesterday with Blade Flurry. Yeah I was overwhelmed with the chaos storms, but got him to 2nd phase. But let’s be real, I can’t see any melee build besides cyclone being able to win there. Every second he spams his laser and there is not enough time to stand still and attack. That’s like the melee thing. Standing still and attacking.
So how can a melee build win this fight?
Where are the damage windows for me?

Any not melee class user (and some GGG staff) reading this:

But we have animation canceling now! No more being locked in your animation, thus standing still and getting hit!

Rather cancel, try to dodge and never do damage, then screw up one time and die.

Or you know, have about 1000 aps, so that you atleast get some in, before you HAVE to move again. If you dont run a skill with a base 0.75 aps multiplier, that is. In that case, you better have 8 endu charges and be stun immune to get any hit in on anything past t11.

Blade Flurry is also just .. meh, since its melee and even channeling, but not Cyclone.

Let me introduce you to "melee ranged"

i don't think range is the main problem. i think it hard because melee have to stay in place for too long.

some players play DOT/Minion build and spend 90% of the time running around and still fail.

Above poster is right...Do you know that my minions like are uber trash in Sirus fight ?

They just go in the hole and die like lambs to slaughter.

The fight is just stupid. You just have to build around chaos resistances I think or Chaos Inoculation. I do not see other way of actually doing him without this.

And I believe every carry out there , stacked chaos resistances on a boss killer and that's all.

One of the first 15 to beat Awakener in SSFHC was a melee build, IIRC it was even a five link. Alkaizer most likely ran a melee build, and there was a frost blades build that beat it in softcore.

The "how Sirius fight works" video i watched was done by a melee character, that was literally one of the first people to beat him.

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VolcanoElixir wrote:

One of the first 15 to beat Awakener in SSFHC was a melee build, IIRC it was even a five link. Alkaizer most likely ran a melee build, and there was a frost blades build that beat it in softcore.

Cyclone?

A good melee build should be able to tank pretty much all of his attacks with no issues. I took the liberty of checking your Dominik der Dominante character, i assume that's the character you used?

Sirus big laser is actually a combination of 5 lasers, 1 fire, 1 ice, 1 lightning, 1 chaos and 1 physical, all of which applying the corresponding ailments. Your issue is most likely the physical part. Against a 10k physical hit, which is a very conservatory estimate of the damage he does, you take 120% of the damage, i.e 12k. No wonder the fight seems impossible to you. You might want to boost your physical defenses by a lot, i have a hard time understanding how you managed to get past Drox and a few other obstacles with desastrous defenses like that but anyway, you will have a hard time doing Sirus, but that's definetely more of a build issue, not a general melee issue. There are plenty of vids on YouTube where melee builds just facetank his shit all day long.