Yes, we know. We've all been repeating this for most of the page now.yes, your normal attack does very little to nothing on damage, you can only kite, the huge damage is when you counter him while he's spinning his barrel over his head for a barrel hurricane attack, it's a big risk big reward , if you hit you took 1/3 chunk of his HP, but if you screw up , well...
The problem is that even if you hit the E-move with the correct timing, half the time it just doesn't work and you take two pips of damage.
So dodging his shit and killing him with the ass-slam seems more reliable, since we now know that that actually does damage, unlike the 1-2 hit.