Honestly the only real change Ardyn needs are 3 separate health bars. How is it that Cerberus has a better health bar system than his master? You legitimately need to empty the first health bar before the second phase begins anew with a second full health bar for Cerberus but Ardyn's fight tries to juggle 3 whole phases on one health bar that you can chew through. That makes for all types of wonkiness in the flow of the fight as the A.I. is seemingly more concerned with when to initiate the next phase than with just trying to kill you. So instead of getting super aggressive final boss Ardyn we get laid back Ardyn more concerned with synchronizing his phases to his single health bar. Honestly they also just need to remove Ardyn's phase two outright at this point and replace it with Aranea's aerial combat system (though obviously more personalized for Ardyn with armiger wings and stuff) and make the transition into phase 3 a cutscene. Give me dynamic free form battling Armiger Ardyn. It's funny cuz I noticed the Mystic King's fight actually utilizes Aranea's battle system in the second phase too so I refuse to believe it's not possible for Ardyn.
