Sekiro Beginner Tips
Buy All the Coin Pouches
Unlike in Souls and Bloodborne, you don’t lose all of your experience when you die in Sekiro. Instead, you’ll only lose half of your current skill experience progress and half of your money. Doesn’t too bad, until you realize there’s no way to pick up your lost stuff when you revive.
In Sekiro, constantly dying and losing half your stuff with each death can be extremely brutal, especially when you’re in the middle of learning the patterns of a really tough boss fight. It’s possible for the Unseen Aid mechanic to proc, but the more you die, the lower your chances of actually getting Unseen Aid, so it’s best not to rely on it too much.
If you want to really safeguard your hard-earned Sen, we advise purchasing coin pouches whenever possible. You’ll find your first vendor right after the Chained Ogre mini-boss, and you’ll need to pay him 50 Sen to get his business started.
Come back to him later, and he’ll have coin pouches for sale. Think of coin pouches as soul or blood items from the Soulsborne games, where you could pop them for a good amount of currency whenever you needed to level up or buy something.
By purchasing coin pouches, you’re essentially banking your Sen for safekeeping, and you won’t have to worry about completely running out of money.
