Holy cow (or should I say moose?) this spirit is complicated. I'm pretty sure I've spent more time and effort analyzing Regal Ancestor Spirit than any other boss so far. I had to go back to the souls modding discord over and over again with detailed questions and deep mysteries to unravel. And after all that, this is what its combo chart looks like:
That's right, it's dead simple. I mean, this thing is a big hulking moose corpseāit's not exactly doing fancy sword dances. If it sees a problem it waves its antlers at it a bit or tries to step on it. Easy as.
So what gave me so much trouble?

he kinda sucks but he's trying his best.