[spoiler=]anybody else finding that when the armadillos blow up in the second fight in chapter 11, that no matter where you run to after your final hit, the "nuclear" sized blast kills you regardless of health levels?[/spoiler]

yeah it makes very little sense but you block only took my one time to figure that out.

I know about the LT, i used it during the first armadillo fight, during this one it sometimes works when killing the first armadillo but not on the second one.

Um yes it does thats how I survived the second fight with the two only took one try, your just not doing it right

Why not use one of the nimpos right before the explosion? You should be temporarily invincible during the sequence. I haven't made that far yet so I haven't tried it.

when one is down:
go the the other side of the room
shoot it with incendinary shruiken/ fully charged arrow
then block
thats what i did