Been doing this for a while, but forgot to make a strats post about it ๐
Saving some soul out of broken vessel to start off Lost Kin with a double makes the end of LK much more consistent since you don't run out of staggers.
Ideally you get exactly 4 doubles on BV so your damage lines up and you get to enter LK with 5 hits.
Otherwise, when BV is 1 shade soul away from dead, just hit it until you're at 7 or 8 hits of soul, then shade soul.
This saves around 3s optimally in Lost Kin, but probably saves more on average.
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