its not that painful if you know what you are doing. try experimenting with wallbounding or other tricks and the experience will not only be easier but fun
Lol, I got S rank on this fight by complete luck because his AI kind of broke mid fight and would neither attack me nor block my attacks and would just dodge sometimes, so I took advantage of that and demolished him lol. Idk why that happened tho, I was dodging around in circles a lot in hopes that i could find an opening to attack him but he never attacked for like 2 minutes straight so I did a full rush combo on him and he had 0 reaction.