Funny you said that because one of the ways you can cheese this boss without using your brain is to use dodge skill to eat their time stacks until you can clash with them normally.
Man, I'm tryharding the first time of it. It took me a fckn hour, a fckn hour cause i thought "oh hey, sure my silly blunt and slash with almost no effective sin could obliterate this silly boss" And oh boy do I'm wrong. Guess it's really killing my TIME
I beat it first try with my Established Bleed Team...but when I replayed it with other teams it became significanly harder because the other teams weren't built well