Musha has that cool edge. The stylish edge. Where yes you cringe but you cannot deny the grace. The man literally does "hmph. Cool guys don't look at explosions"
Something you can think about for Dragon Palm Strike is that, to a certain extent, this is a real attack. This is (albeit a bit dramatized) a palm strike to the solar plexus. Something like that will knock the wind out of you at the very least, but with the skill and the strength that we can assume Aramusha has, he may very well have broke the sternum, punctured the heart or lungs, and most likely hit the pressure point in the center of his chest. Done correctly, heavy strikes to pressure points can damage the nervous system. I will admit, for the average person this would not be lethal, but Aramusha is trained in this sort of thing. If you can shatter bricks and boards with a forward palm strike, you can absolutely shatter the ribs.
Pressure point attacks are largely ineffective and borderline fictional. A forward palm strike would not have the force to shatter ribs, but it can certainly crack the sternum. The lethality would be the result of cardiac arrest, which is a possibility when the chest is hit extremely hard, which is why baseball pitchers wear chest guards.
I can get behind a fractured sternum but pressure points are very in effective, you cannot cause permanent damage to the CNS by hitting a spot really hard, you could argue that in for honor characters are canonically superhuman but max I can give you is that he may have broken the ribs
@JD Power I mean law enforcement trains a bit with those don't they? Can't be that useless. Plus I don't know what hitting someone full force would do to one honestly. Musha is not a weak boy. Not by any stretch. The man can look at a massive spiked metal kanabo and has the strength to not just deflect the angle of the attack to lessen the force. But full on *block* it. Not try to redirect that force but full on meet it head on and stop it. Never mind his swords of BSitim, his arms remain arms and not red jelly. Imagine those arms hitting something vital full "lethal force"
@@holidaysamekichi5673 Didn't kojiro sasaki use a nodachi though? If I'm not mistaken, that's the guy that fought musashi on a beach, right? If so, that could be another skin for kensei if he ever gets another one and aramusha could get one for musashi.
@@Kurt20051YT in record of ragnarok, he adapts Musashi Miyamoto’s style into his own and utilizes something along the lines of Aramusha’s style. But that would be cool to see for Kensei; would be a cool to see a sort of ‘rivalry’ style setup
with twin dragons, the warden wasn't trying to attack him after he was stabbed, he was reaching out to aramusha for mercy or sum, but aramusha aggressively palm struck his hand away.
I don't know why they needed to add a "reference to bombs" to a literal explosion lol. It's like they wanted to make sure we knew it was an explosion, even though it's obvious.
I'm pretty sure the Dragon Palm Strike execution is a reference to a scene in Kill Bill where it's called the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart technique.
6:21. It's possible that the reason it's called that is because of Aramusha's motions throughout the whole execution: He's always moving with a consistent flow to his actions much like how a stream has a consistent flow with the water. However, they undoubtedly gave the execution that name because they wanted it to sound like an anime attack.
I hope we get an ornament for aramusha during a hero fest where it removes the hat entirely, almost every helmet has a unique beard and we never get to see them
If I'm not mistaken, both nobushi and aramusha have this explosive execution, and it's more than likely meant to be feat execution of nobushi's fire trap. As to why aramusha has it I don't know.
yea some character were given executions that are based off of feats. however the aramusha one was added before that was in the game. its just proof the devs thought it was either a good idea or didnt consider it at all.
@YouDonWannaKnoMyName I think there should be an execution to Aramusha based on his feats, but it should be feat he has. And the fire trap isn't one of them.
Just thought I'd say this, I'm pretty sure "In The Forearm" is a reference to the musashi duel scene in the Westworld show. I haven't watched the show so Idk what it's about but I've watched the duel scene and it was pretty cool
Something I've thought about for the thibgs where the opponent catches things that they shouldn't (think fast), I think people tend to try and catch things thrown at them. I mean the amount of times while at school that a guy threw or tossed something randomly and I just caught it instinctively. Now granted, I'm not a soldier, I don't have their level of mental discipline or fortitude, and personal experience might not be the best of reasons, but its good enough for me.
Well, guess that kind of figured. I’m rather surprised to see so many stabbing executions though. I mean, from what I know of the way Musashi’s style fights, his style was mostly slashing seeing as the Katana and Wakizashi are mainly slashing swords. So it’s kind of weird to see him thrust his swords more often than slashing his swords.
While otherwise a great grading, I think that the world of For Honor has established an (at least) low magic level setting. With the Wyvern, bracelet, Jorogumo and the BP event that I don't remember the name of, we've seen time and time again that there is at least some kind of magic in the world that some people are capable of using. I don't think you could fault the realism of an execution like Tiger Palm Strike when it is possibly realistic in that setting.
When I grade realism, I do not base it on what's realistically possible in the world of For Honor for that very reason. Since the limits of reality are often twisted in For Honor, I cannot accurately know what's 'real' by that worlds standards. Therefore I only use what's real in the standards of our world.
In the bare-handed beat-down I don't think the final blow is hitting the warden in the back of the head I think he is punching the warden in the back of the neck probably to break it.
23:42 This execution is an abridged version, and reference to the 'Five Point Palm Exploding-Heart technique' from the Quinton Tarantino movie Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I think its a super cool, i do agree with you though it is unrealistic cause it uses movie magic.
New here, ima probly watch all of these very cool and I love the depth of the ratings. The one where he stabs the head and then cuts it off is his best one tho, it’s so dope, hella unrealistic but so dang dope.
Bare hand beatdown is 10/10 because Falcon punch goes bonk. Probably his most salt-inducing execution because of the length alone lol Since one of his executions is using pressure points, they should have made a Hokuto no Ken reference execution instead.
To be honest, aramusha is my main, have him around 35 reps. But even i didnt expect a 78. I thought it would be around 73 but as a representative of the mushas out there, im hqppy with th3 final grade.
They’ll usually just shrink the weapon now. Before the character would put away their weapon really slowly, so to make it faster they shrink the weapons now
Maybe it’s me but doesn’t the Aramusha feel like he’s very heavy to play with? I don’t know, there’s just something about the way he moves and fights makes it seem so clunky. Almost as if he’s as heavy as Lawbringer. Ironically, Lawbringer feels lighter to play than Aramusha
What I will say really quickly is that I don't think these are classic Uchigatana, but either chisa katana or Kodachi, considering their length. They're obviously not going to have the same individual stopping power that an Uchigatana or Nodachi could, but they make up for it with their light weight, which gives them better defense with quick movements and more efficient stamina consumption. It makes for a good defensive style which is greatly represented in Aramusha's moveset
4:12 "I wanna see more of his personality come out in his execution" Later in the video: "Ugh why is he being so casual, wasting time, showboating, you just don't DO that on a battlefield"
Hey, Raven! Sorry if this is a question you answered somewhere else, but will you ever be doing the Universal Executions on Executions Graded? They're not always great, but I figured it would still be interesting.
For barehanded beatdown. I first thought you were right and he hit the back of the head, but I now relise after watching the video that he most likely punshes right on the very top of the neck, which could defenitly break the neck like this. Also for dragon palm strike. I think he first hit's the neck with his fingers creating a airpocket in the artery, then he hit's the other side of the neck sow it swells causing presure to build in the artery's around the neck, to then punsh him in the chest pumping his hart forcing the airbuble to shoot right into his brain. This could maby work, but you have to be sow extreemly well versed in human anatomie to make this happen that I would say it's still unrealistic.
@@joeyvanhaperen7715 I get that, but your airpocket story sounds made up. Also, I'm pretty sure you'd need to hit the head to cause any kind of stroke.
@@mekacrab Just look up how strocks work. Hit to the head will not cause a strock just a concusion. A strock is bloodcloth or gas bubbel getting loged in the vanes inside the brain.
Hey Raven Knight, I noticed that on the barehand beat down it seems that Aramusha actually strikes him in the back of the neck for his final attack. When you slowed the video down I could see the contact more so around the neck area
With regards to Perfect Execution...wouldn't the fact that it is two slashes to the neck make it more realistic? You could say neither one on their own could do it, realistically. But if the first one simply cuts open enough of the neck to decrease resistance for the follow up strike, wouldn't that make it more realistic then any of the other attacks that decapitated? There'd be less to cut through in comparison to the first blow.
Unrelated question, where and/or how are you learning Japanese? I can sense that you're progressing quite quickly, and I'm stuck with hiragana. If you don't mind me asking of course, You can always disregard this comment
Heyyyyy Raven. I have a question: If you could make a monk hero for For Honor, what would they be? (Like what would their asthetic be like, their origins, moveset, etc.) I put my idea here if anyone wants to rate: *Asthetic:* Like Shaolin *Origin:* Another Wu Lin (yay.....). I don't really have any ideas for this :/ *Moveset:* 1. Has three stances (I know, crazy) a. Mantis Style, which would focus on counterattacks/redirecting attacks b. Monkey Style, which would focus on disorienting opponents (Low damage, quick attacks) c. Dragon Style, which would focus more on defense and grounding an opponent (Low damage, immobilizing, grappling) 2. Mantis Style: a. You enter Mantis stance by holding backwards and inputting guardbreak (This has a quick animation and has no recovery) b. While in Mantis Stance, you have no guard c. You can immediately follow up a parry with a light attack (It works like Berserker's light after a heavy) which knocks the opponent back a very small distance (12 damage) d. You can deflect while in Mantis stance (Deflecting would be a redirecting attack), deflect an attack and input guardbreak to deal 100% the attacks damage back to the attacker (It would be an unblockable bash. The animation would be a circular redirection into an elbow to the chest. Maximum damage of 30 though) e. Your chains consist of: Light-Light, Light-Heavy, Heavy-Heavy, Heavy-Light (The finisher heavy pushes back a little bit, but otherwise, no properties) (Light opener and finisher are 10 damage. Heavy opener is 20 and finisher is 22) 3. Monkey Style: a. You enter Monkey Stance by dodging backward and pressing guardbreak (This has a miniscule amount of i-frames and low recovery) b. While in Monkey stance, you have dodge recoveries (You cannot dodge attack from a dodge recovery, although you can deflect. 300 milliseconds) c. On a parry, you can immediately counter by pressing guardbreak, which performs a knee to the face which stuns for a short time, sends the attacker back a bit, and does 8 damage d. Dodge forward and press guardbreak to perform a quick grab and strike to the head from below (Stuns for a short time, barely knocks back, 0 damage, does not guarantee an attack, 500 milliseconds) e. You can dodge forward or to the side and press Heavy at the same time to perform a forward or side dodge attack f. You can deflect an attack and press guardbreak to perform a knee to the face which does 8 damage, stuns for a short time, knocks the attacker back a bit, and guarantees an opener light g. You can immediately follow up a parry with guardbreak to perform a strong unblockable punch to the chest that knocks back and does 28 damage (The attack is 900 milliseconds, is only guaranteed on a light parry, does not grant an execution, and cannot be feinted) h. Your chains consist of: Light-Light-Light, Light-Light-Heavy, Light-Heavy-Light, Heavy-Light-Light, Heavy-Light-Heavy, Heavy-Heavy-Heavy (Light opener and chain Light are 8 damage, finisher Light is 10 damage. Heavy openers and chain Heavies do 22 damage, finisher Heavies do 24. Also the Heavy attacks would be kicks when it comes to animation) 4. Dragon Style: a. Dragon Stance is the default stance that you start in after spawning or being revived. You can switch back to it by inputting full block from neutral (This does not activate full block. If you switch stances and run to another location, you will enter in the same stance you were in when you began running) b. After parrying, immediately press guardbreak to perform a quick punch to the chest (It works like a bash, 466 milliseconds, 12 damage, small knockback, ONLY after a parry), hold guardbreak after a parry to perform a 966 millisecond grapple which unbalances them (Sweep does no damage, guarantees a finisher Heavy with no properties) c. Heavy openers can be soft feinted into a trap like Nuxia's by inputting guardbreak, but they don't chain on miss (Trap pushes the opponent back a bit and unbalances them if the opponent is out of stamina) d. You can activate a full block (Wait don't leave) which behaves very similar to Aramusha's full block. It lasts for 500 milliseconds, and can be activated 200 milliseconds into any attack (*attack* ... not bash or grapple) recovery (When an opponent hits your full block, input guardbreak to perform a quick Dragon Style palm strike to the chest, knocking the attacker back and doing 10 damage. You cannot cancel this recovery with full block) e. You can perform a special attack on an unbalanced enemy by inputting heavy while targeting them (30 damage) f. Your chains consist of: Light-Heavy Heavy-Light Heavy-Heavy (Light opener does 12, Light finisher does 13. Heavy opener does 23, Heavy finisher does 26. Finisher Heavy is undodgeable and works like Afeera's finisher heavy, except it unbalances out-of-stamina opponents on hit) Links to videos I got info and inspiration from: *Mantis:* th-cam.com/video/TTyo56rjdAg/w-d-xo.html *Monkey:* th-cam.com/video/PTRhmC6_wFE/w-d-xo.html *Dragon:* th-cam.com/video/a3sqfYCMCN4/w-d-xo.html What I put here is very much incomplete, as I came up with it in less than 4 hours, so any modifications to balance or make it cooler or more realistic or more practical are very welcome :) Also please correct me on anything regarding fighting styles, as I just had this idea and don't know much (If anything) about fighting styles.
Execution in 24 minute it seems to be that he is hitting pressure points and hits his heart which suppose to stop it or explode it. I have no idea if there is people who can do it, but if you have for honor charecter strength it is possible.
I've been hit numerous times there. I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never suffered a collapsed lung from it. At most I'd offer a 2 for realism if that was the case.
I like the way you put all of these dump actions by the end of your video and just speak right the same word what I am gonna yell at the motion designer😂
24:44 One out of 2 things happened here either A th-cam.com/video/SupiKUiDpCk/w-d-xo.html or B warden didnt expect him to be punched by a dude with 2 swords and by mix of shock and the hits he sustained before executed he went into cardic arrest
Also, pressure points are not what movies show, they are not mystical points on your body that when punched in a certain order makes your heart stop, a point of pressure could be the point between your eyes and nose for example
Honestly I'm gonna start off by saying that I love your whole system, I love your content, I love how much work and effort you put into it and your videos, however Aramusha and Kyoshin and similar heroes show flaws in the system. For example this system would do better in an actually realistic game. For Honor, in most senses is not realistic. Most strikes on the battlefield would kill in one hit, some wouldn't do anything to opponents wearing armor. You applied a system that focuses completely on human physiology when every hero is in some way a supernatural deity in some way, some a demigod, from hero specific feats, to inhuman moves, stances, and styles of fighting. I don't want to be the person who uses their godlike status to excuse EVERYTHING, weapons, even made of fictional steel would have limits much like their bodies do, however it's hard to balance realism and For Honor effectively. It's like judging whether or not you could easily crush someone's head because Omni Man did it in his universe. Yes, he has superpowers being a alien from space, so you would say "Duh of course he can he's super strong" And For Honor is not that different at all, all the heroes are large, even compared to pikemen and soldiers, and it's apparent they are hard to kill judging by attacks they live through (Can take damage from, but also can live through, except Hitokiri's funny button) Every hero can kill soldiers and pikemen, even with shields in one hit from any move. You cannot judge these heroes by human standards. Yes, Heroes like Peacekeeper and Shaman are smaller, Lawbringer and Shugoki are huge. You could easily judge according to weight and height and overall build too, same for the more medium sized heroes. In some cases when dealing with supernatural heroes you could implement a For Honor universe variant, where score/judgement/stats are fitted according to their world, which brings me to the issues with efficiency, you have to think of how efficient it would be on For Honor's battlefield, since that's where they are actively doing the execution, and you can use the soliders interrupting executions as a reason to fill in for "This takes too long, you're exposing yourself to attacks" which is Completely valid, the only issue is even the fastest executions can be interrupted, so when you grade long or short executions you think of them in a scenario that would least benefit them. Yes battles are fast and chaotic but its not always the case, and can be unfair for score when you're always judging the long executions as if it's in the same field as the shorter ones, it's hard to balance that perfection of efficiency and flair when they almost always oppose each other. For example Centurion has a lot of personality in his executions but he shows off a lot and takes a while in most cases. Aramusha more often gets the job done while having his personality in there, though the more they express themselves, the longer they usually take. Again, your system is ASTOUNDING but I feel like it doesn't work properly in some examples or cases with heroes and their executions, especially if you're setting them at the same exact standards as the Modern Day average male, and every hero is far from that in some capacity. However yes some executions like Vortiger's Regard or Shugoki's Head Crush one, or Aramusha's Rebel Just For the Kicks, do not make any sense, I feel like they should be judged by the standards of the characters, not normal people, because none of them are normal people, so you're taking their amazing feats they put on display and scale their power down to average joe terms and go "Yep we can't do that" and yes that works for the unnecessary or physics breaking executions like mentioned before, but sometimes that unfairly works against executions that have the sole purpose of showing off their strength, speed, and power. Again man I love your content and everything about it, this was just a thought I had and wanted to put out there ❤
Please Read. Okay Raven night era music dragon fist execution and the lucky one are completely realistic and highly lethal let me tell you why... It's clear to me that culture affects some of these executions like hitokiri kicky executions with kung fu and these executions kung fu is exemplified with the kick one being a iron finger strike through dedicated training of his fingers he's toughen them a name that a specific neck vertebra and disjointes it. High level of skill and decades of training are required. The Emojis are clearly to represent his chi. For the dragon fist go back to Kung Fu Panda this is a pressure point or nerve cluster attack. Intended to send his opponent into convulsions or a seizure that's why he looks like. And watching Kung Fu Panda look at the shifu scene you'll see the the contact points are the same chi. I'm sorry about for for honor's sloppy cartoonish executions. I hope this cleared everything up these executions are clearly based on Japanese culture.
Going to get this out of the way first. I would give dragons palm, and beat down realism scores of 0. Bc they implement those anime motions and styles. The moment an executions partakes in an anime style, that breaks realism standards, it should automatically result in a 0. (Thats just my opinion though) 2nd point. I, also in my personal opinion, don't find musha cool in the slightest. He tries to come off edgy and cool, but he's FAR too ridiculous to even be taken seriously. So why he tries to portray himself as this edgy ronin. To me, he just comes off like careless 8th grader. Thus, he's just cringe. He's too anime and unrealistic for me to consider him as someone who could square off against the higher caliber warriors in the game. Ergo, if I was to grade him, his cool factor, it would be hurting drastically. (But this is all just my opinion. You obviously feel different about the character. And I respect the perspective you have on the character.) And despite my personal bais. I love this series, and appreciate the effort you put into it.
i agree, but i will actually lose my marbles if you don't think kyoshin is ten times worse as far as cringe goes. At least aramusha has skill when using his weapon, kyoshin uses his sword in reverse grip for half his moveset which is unnecessary to say the least. Don't even get me started on orochi. I feel like compared to some of the aesthetics that other samurai give off aramusha is def not the cringiest one.
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BP is the "it's not a phase mom!" edgelord, Aramusha is the "nothing personnel kid" edgelord. There is still a difference.
Musha has that cool edge. The stylish edge. Where yes you cringe but you cannot deny the grace.
The man literally does "hmph. Cool guys don't look at explosions"
@@thegrayone5666aramusha is edgy and they know that, and absolutely embrace it
Black Prior is a Sociopath, Aramusha is a psychopath
Aramusha is the fun one bp carries the shield so they don't get their teeth knocked out because they started quoting MCR
I log how there’s literally an ‘edgelord’ weapon set lol
Something you can think about for Dragon Palm Strike is that, to a certain extent, this is a real attack. This is (albeit a bit dramatized) a palm strike to the solar plexus. Something like that will knock the wind out of you at the very least, but with the skill and the strength that we can assume Aramusha has, he may very well have broke the sternum, punctured the heart or lungs, and most likely hit the pressure point in the center of his chest. Done correctly, heavy strikes to pressure points can damage the nervous system. I will admit, for the average person this would not be lethal, but Aramusha is trained in this sort of thing. If you can shatter bricks and boards with a forward palm strike, you can absolutely shatter the ribs.
Pressure point attacks are largely ineffective and borderline fictional. A forward palm strike would not have the force to shatter ribs, but it can certainly crack the sternum. The lethality would be the result of cardiac arrest, which is a possibility when the chest is hit extremely hard, which is why baseball pitchers wear chest guards.
I can get behind a fractured sternum but pressure points are very in effective, you cannot cause permanent damage to the CNS by hitting a spot really hard, you could argue that in for honor characters are canonically superhuman but max I can give you is that he may have broken the ribs
@JD Power I mean law enforcement trains a bit with those don't they? Can't be that useless.
Plus I don't know what hitting someone full force would do to one honestly. Musha is not a weak boy. Not by any stretch. The man can look at a massive spiked metal kanabo and has the strength to not just deflect the angle of the attack to lessen the force. But full on *block* it. Not try to redirect that force but full on meet it head on and stop it. Never mind his swords of BSitim, his arms remain arms and not red jelly. Imagine those arms hitting something vital full "lethal force"
Still waiting on my Miyamoto Musashi Elite skin for him
What if, hear me out, Record of Ragnarok Kojiro Sasaki?
@@holidaysamekichi5673 Didn't kojiro sasaki use a nodachi though? If I'm not mistaken, that's the guy that fought musashi on a beach, right? If so, that could be another skin for kensei if he ever gets another one and aramusha could get one for musashi.
@@Kurt20051YT in record of ragnarok, he adapts Musashi Miyamoto’s style into his own and utilizes something along the lines of Aramusha’s style. But that would be cool to see for Kensei; would be a cool to see a sort of ‘rivalry’ style setup
@@holidaysamekichi5673 Wait are you talking irl or like a show/anime? Lol I was talking about irl history
@@Kurt20051YT A show in this case, lol
with twin dragons, the warden wasn't trying to attack him after he was stabbed, he was reaching out to aramusha for mercy or sum, but aramusha aggressively palm struck his hand away.
The beeping is likely a reference to bombs in general, and he also dies the 'cool guys don't look at explosions' cliche.
I don't know why they needed to add a "reference to bombs" to a literal explosion lol.
It's like they wanted to make sure we knew it was an explosion, even though it's obvious.
I'm pretty sure the Dragon Palm Strike execution is a reference to a scene in Kill Bill where it's called the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart technique.
its called pak mei if I remember and I saw a video once of a movie where a guy breaks a brick in between two bricks.
If you look carefully, in the Flowing Water Strike (don't remember the original name) the sword in the left hand does a 180
6:21. It's possible that the reason it's called that is because of Aramusha's motions throughout the whole execution: He's always moving with a consistent flow to his actions much like how a stream has a consistent flow with the water. However, they undoubtedly gave the execution that name because they wanted it to sound like an anime attack.
Well you can put any japanese words together and it will sound like an anime attack.
I hope we get an ornament for aramusha during a hero fest where it removes the hat entirely, almost every helmet has a unique beard and we never get to see them
That'd be pretty badass
An ornament or a helmet?
31:14
I don't think I've ever heard Raven get so mad about an execution before.
He was disappointed because up till then the ones that were dumb were funny this one is underwhelming
I know right, why Raven was so mad. “It’s just a game”
If I'm not mistaken, both nobushi and aramusha have this explosive execution, and it's more than likely meant to be feat execution of nobushi's fire trap. As to why aramusha has it I don't know.
yea some character were given executions that are based off of feats. however the aramusha one was added before that was in the game. its just proof the devs thought it was either a good idea or didnt consider it at all.
@YouDonWannaKnoMyName I think there should be an execution to Aramusha based on his feats, but it should be feat he has. And the fire trap isn't one of them.
Maybe it is oil that he uses for his fire arrow bow
Just thought I'd say this, I'm pretty sure "In The Forearm" is a reference to the musashi duel scene in the Westworld show. I haven't watched the show so Idk what it's about but I've watched the duel scene and it was pretty cool
Something I've thought about for the thibgs where the opponent catches things that they shouldn't (think fast), I think people tend to try and catch things thrown at them. I mean the amount of times while at school that a guy threw or tossed something randomly and I just caught it instinctively.
Now granted, I'm not a soldier, I don't have their level of mental discipline or fortitude, and personal experience might not be the best of reasons, but its good enough for me.
Well, guess that kind of figured. I’m rather surprised to see so many stabbing executions though. I mean, from what I know of the way Musashi’s style fights, his style was mostly slashing seeing as the Katana and Wakizashi are mainly slashing swords. So it’s kind of weird to see him thrust his swords more often than slashing his swords.
I like to imagine Aramusha has connections with Oni, or is probably one himself.
While otherwise a great grading, I think that the world of For Honor has established an (at least) low magic level setting. With the Wyvern, bracelet, Jorogumo and the BP event that I don't remember the name of, we've seen time and time again that there is at least some kind of magic in the world that some people are capable of using. I don't think you could fault the realism of an execution like Tiger Palm Strike when it is possibly realistic in that setting.
When I grade realism, I do not base it on what's realistically possible in the world of For Honor for that very reason. Since the limits of reality are often twisted in For Honor, I cannot accurately know what's 'real' by that worlds standards. Therefore I only use what's real in the standards of our world.
I feel like Rebel Just for Kicks is a reference to Majima's heat action, "Mad dog; Maul", which is why I bought it.
It’s a reference to the song “Rebel just for kicks” by Portugal. the Man
In the bare-handed beat-down I don't think the final blow is hitting the warden in the back of the head I think he is punching the warden in the back of the neck probably to break it.
I am pretty sure the thing aramusa kicked and caused Warden to blow up was gunpowder. I mean it would make sense I guess?
24:00 he’s attacking the pressure points
Indeed...
Finally after it feels like years
23:42 This execution is an abridged version, and reference to the 'Five Point Palm Exploding-Heart technique' from the Quinton Tarantino movie Kill Bill: Vol. 2.
I think its a super cool, i do agree with you though it is unrealistic cause it uses movie magic.
New here, ima probly watch all of these very cool and I love the depth of the ratings. The one where he stabs the head and then cuts it off is his best one tho, it’s so dope, hella unrealistic but so dang dope.
Bare hand beatdown is 10/10 because Falcon punch goes bonk. Probably his most salt-inducing execution because of the length alone lol
Since one of his executions is using pressure points, they should have made a Hokuto no Ken reference execution instead.
It’s not Texas Smash. That’s a Falcon Punch
He wasn't disarmed in 13:56, if you look he has 2 knives on his belt.
I don't count cosmetic weapons. If he wore a different armor set, those knives wouldn't be there.
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To be honest, aramusha is my main, have him around 35 reps. But even i didnt expect a 78. I thought it would be around 73 but as a representative of the mushas out there, im hqppy with th3 final grade.
As a Rep 70 Aramusha… I thought it would be higher but I’m satisfied with the overall grade
I really enjoyed watching this type of videos :)
I feel like if for honor wants to do hand to hand executions they should do something at the start that prevents the warrior using their weapon
They’ll usually just shrink the weapon now. Before the character would put away their weapon really slowly, so to make it faster they shrink the weapons now
@@Juntou I meant like for things like realism like the enemy knocks the weapons away so it makes sense for the warrior to use their hands
Maybe it’s me but doesn’t the Aramusha feel like he’s very heavy to play with? I don’t know, there’s just something about the way he moves and fights makes it seem so clunky. Almost as if he’s as heavy as Lawbringer. Ironically, Lawbringer feels lighter to play than Aramusha
Could you rate kyoshin executions next? Great vid btw!
What I will say really quickly is that I don't think these are classic Uchigatana, but either chisa katana or Kodachi, considering their length. They're obviously not going to have the same individual stopping power that an Uchigatana or Nodachi could, but they make up for it with their light weight, which gives them better defense with quick movements and more efficient stamina consumption. It makes for a good defensive style which is greatly represented in Aramusha's moveset
18:44 Part of me thinks you just wanted to do that edit again because you liked it so much.
You would be correct
4:12 "I wanna see more of his personality come out in his execution"
Later in the video: "Ugh why is he being so casual, wasting time, showboating, you just don't DO that on a battlefield"
Where's the contradiction?
Hey, Raven! Sorry if this is a question you answered somewhere else, but will you ever be doing the Universal Executions on Executions Graded? They're not always great, but I figured it would still be interesting.
I think its fair to do the 2 hand to hand executions differently from the other, since they both could be seen either way
For barehanded beatdown. I first thought you were right and he hit the back of the head, but I now relise after watching the video that he most likely punshes right on the very top of the neck, which could defenitly break the neck like this. Also for dragon palm strike. I think he first hit's the neck with his fingers creating a airpocket in the artery, then he hit's the other side of the neck sow it swells causing presure to build in the artery's around the neck, to then punsh him in the chest pumping his hart forcing the airbuble to shoot right into his brain. This could maby work, but you have to be sow extreemly well versed in human anatomie to make this happen that I would say it's still unrealistic.
What ? Creating airpockets ? I feel like you're making this up, or is that a possible thing to do ?
All of what you said sounds extremely unrealistic.
@@mekacrab nope It's possible to cause someone to get a stroke with a punsh, you need extreem
Super human preciesion to do it, but it is possible.
@@joeyvanhaperen7715 I get that, but your airpocket story sounds made up.
Also, I'm pretty sure you'd need to hit the head to cause any kind of stroke.
@@mekacrab Just look up how strocks work. Hit to the head will not cause a strock just a concusion. A strock is bloodcloth or gas bubbel getting loged in the vanes inside the brain.
@@joeyvanhaperen7715 yeah ok, but do you have any reference of it happening from a hit ?
Hey Raven Knight, I noticed that on the barehand beat down it seems that Aramusha actually strikes him in the back of the neck for his final attack. When you slowed the video down I could see the contact more so around the neck area
With regards to Perfect Execution...wouldn't the fact that it is two slashes to the neck make it more realistic?
You could say neither one on their own could do it, realistically. But if the first one simply cuts open enough of the neck to decrease resistance for the follow up strike, wouldn't that make it more realistic then any of the other attacks that decapitated? There'd be less to cut through in comparison to the first blow.
Unrelated question, where and/or how are you learning Japanese? I can sense that you're progressing quite quickly, and I'm stuck with hiragana.
If you don't mind me asking of course, You can always disregard this comment
Heyyyyy Raven. I have a question: If you could make a monk hero for For Honor, what would they be? (Like what would their asthetic be like, their origins, moveset, etc.)
I put my idea here if anyone wants to rate:
*Asthetic:*
Like Shaolin
*Origin:*
Another Wu Lin (yay.....). I don't really have any ideas for this :/
*Moveset:*
1. Has three stances (I know, crazy)
a. Mantis Style, which would focus on counterattacks/redirecting attacks
b. Monkey Style, which would focus on disorienting opponents (Low damage, quick attacks)
c. Dragon Style, which would focus more on defense and grounding an opponent (Low damage, immobilizing, grappling)
2. Mantis Style:
a. You enter Mantis stance by holding backwards and inputting guardbreak (This has a quick animation and has no recovery)
b. While in Mantis Stance, you have no guard
c. You can immediately follow up a parry with a light attack (It works like Berserker's light after a heavy) which knocks the opponent back a very small distance (12 damage)
d. You can deflect while in Mantis stance (Deflecting would be a redirecting attack), deflect an attack and input guardbreak to deal 100% the attacks damage back to the attacker (It would be an unblockable bash. The animation would be a circular redirection into an elbow to the chest. Maximum damage of 30 though)
e. Your chains consist of: Light-Light, Light-Heavy, Heavy-Heavy, Heavy-Light (The finisher heavy pushes back a little bit, but otherwise, no properties) (Light opener and finisher are 10 damage. Heavy opener is 20 and finisher is 22)
3. Monkey Style:
a. You enter Monkey Stance by dodging backward and pressing guardbreak (This has a miniscule amount of i-frames and low recovery)
b. While in Monkey stance, you have dodge recoveries (You cannot dodge attack from a dodge recovery, although you can deflect. 300 milliseconds)
c. On a parry, you can immediately counter by pressing guardbreak, which performs a knee to the face which stuns for a short time, sends the attacker back a bit, and does 8 damage
d. Dodge forward and press guardbreak to perform a quick grab and strike to the head from below (Stuns for a short time, barely knocks back, 0 damage, does not guarantee an attack, 500 milliseconds)
e. You can dodge forward or to the side and press Heavy at the same time to perform a forward or side dodge attack
f. You can deflect an attack and press guardbreak to perform a knee to the face which does 8 damage, stuns for a short time, knocks the attacker back a bit, and guarantees an opener light
g. You can immediately follow up a parry with guardbreak to perform a strong unblockable punch to the chest that knocks back and does 28 damage (The attack is 900 milliseconds, is only guaranteed on a light parry, does not grant an execution, and cannot be feinted)
h. Your chains consist of: Light-Light-Light, Light-Light-Heavy, Light-Heavy-Light, Heavy-Light-Light, Heavy-Light-Heavy, Heavy-Heavy-Heavy (Light opener and chain Light are 8 damage, finisher Light is 10 damage. Heavy openers and chain Heavies do 22 damage, finisher Heavies do 24. Also the Heavy attacks would be kicks when it comes to animation)
4. Dragon Style:
a. Dragon Stance is the default stance that you start in after spawning or being revived. You can switch back to it by inputting full block from neutral (This does not activate full block. If you switch stances and run to another location, you will enter in the same stance you were in when you began running)
b. After parrying, immediately press guardbreak to perform a quick punch to the chest (It works like a bash, 466 milliseconds, 12 damage, small knockback, ONLY after a parry), hold guardbreak after a parry to perform a 966 millisecond grapple which unbalances them (Sweep does no damage, guarantees a finisher Heavy with no properties)
c. Heavy openers can be soft feinted into a trap like Nuxia's by inputting guardbreak, but they don't chain on miss (Trap pushes the opponent back a bit and unbalances them if the opponent is out of stamina)
d. You can activate a full block (Wait don't leave) which behaves very similar to Aramusha's full block. It lasts for 500 milliseconds, and can be activated 200 milliseconds into any attack (*attack* ... not bash or grapple) recovery (When an opponent hits your full block, input guardbreak to perform a quick Dragon Style palm strike to the chest, knocking the attacker back and doing 10 damage. You cannot cancel this recovery with full block)
e. You can perform a special attack on an unbalanced enemy by inputting heavy while targeting them (30 damage)
f. Your chains consist of: Light-Heavy Heavy-Light Heavy-Heavy (Light opener does 12, Light finisher does 13. Heavy opener does 23, Heavy finisher does 26. Finisher Heavy is undodgeable and works like Afeera's finisher heavy, except it unbalances out-of-stamina opponents on hit)
Links to videos I got info and inspiration from:
*Mantis:* th-cam.com/video/TTyo56rjdAg/w-d-xo.html
*Monkey:* th-cam.com/video/PTRhmC6_wFE/w-d-xo.html
*Dragon:* th-cam.com/video/a3sqfYCMCN4/w-d-xo.html
What I put here is very much incomplete, as I came up with it in less than 4 hours, so any modifications to balance or make it cooler or more realistic or more practical are very welcome :)
Also please correct me on anything regarding fighting styles, as I just had this idea and don't know much (If anything) about fighting styles.
Execution in 24 minute it seems to be that he is hitting pressure points and hits his heart which suppose to stop it or explode it. I have no idea if there is people who can do it, but if you have for honor charecter strength it is possible.
He didn’t cause a seizure, he hit the solar plexis and most likely collapsed a lung with the force used maybe a 3 on realism instead
I've been hit numerous times there. I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never suffered a collapsed lung from it. At most I'd offer a 2 for realism if that was the case.
That's a nice Aramusha 👌
I like the way you put all of these dump actions by the end of your video and just speak right the same word what I am gonna yell at the motion designer😂
24:44 One out of 2 things happened here either A th-cam.com/video/SupiKUiDpCk/w-d-xo.html or B warden didnt expect him to be punched by a dude with 2 swords and by mix of shock and the hits he sustained before executed he went into cardic arrest
So you might die and it's realistic
Have you ever been punched without expecting it?
Head over heels is a judo takedown (real life martial arts technique), surprised it only got a 1 on the cool factor.
Realism doesn't equate to coolness.
@@RavenKnightYT but you also bagged the execution for being unrealistic too.
@@RavenKnightYT th-cam.com/users/shortsXhuVbJYns44?feature=share
The throw in real life.
You should feel ashamed you used the word dominating more times in this vid than in the war mommy one. I am apualled.
Good vid btw
Raven I don't know much about it but what about pressure points
Attacking pressure points wouldn’t kill but it would probably immobilize the person
Also, pressure points are not what movies show, they are not mystical points on your body that when punched in a certain order makes your heart stop, a point of pressure could be the point between your eyes and nose for example
I think u Schuld add an „Disrespect“ Factor
He’s been my main for years not expecting the highest grade tho sadly
Same over here. Although, I thought he would get a 72% so di did better than I expected!
Aramusha is the sans of for honor
FINALLY
Hopes are not high
Honestly I'm gonna start off by saying that I love your whole system, I love your content, I love how much work and effort you put into it and your videos, however Aramusha and Kyoshin and similar heroes show flaws in the system. For example this system would do better in an actually realistic game. For Honor, in most senses is not realistic. Most strikes on the battlefield would kill in one hit, some wouldn't do anything to opponents wearing armor. You applied a system that focuses completely on human physiology when every hero is in some way a supernatural deity in some way, some a demigod, from hero specific feats, to inhuman moves, stances, and styles of fighting.
I don't want to be the person who uses their godlike status to excuse EVERYTHING, weapons, even made of fictional steel would have limits much like their bodies do, however it's hard to balance realism and For Honor effectively. It's like judging whether or not you could easily crush someone's head because Omni Man did it in his universe. Yes, he has superpowers being a alien from space, so you would say "Duh of course he can he's super strong" And For Honor is not that different at all, all the heroes are large, even compared to pikemen and soldiers, and it's apparent they are hard to kill judging by attacks they live through (Can take damage from, but also can live through, except Hitokiri's funny button)
Every hero can kill soldiers and pikemen, even with shields in one hit from any move.
You cannot judge these heroes by human standards. Yes, Heroes like Peacekeeper and Shaman are smaller, Lawbringer and Shugoki are huge. You could easily judge according to weight and height and overall build too, same for the more medium sized heroes. In some cases when dealing with supernatural heroes you could implement a For Honor universe variant, where score/judgement/stats are fitted according to their world, which brings me to the issues with efficiency, you have to think of how efficient it would be on For Honor's battlefield, since that's where they are actively doing the execution, and you can use the soliders interrupting executions as a reason to fill in for "This takes too long, you're exposing yourself to attacks" which is Completely valid, the only issue is even the fastest executions can be interrupted, so when you grade long or short executions you think of them in a scenario that would least benefit them. Yes battles are fast and chaotic but its not always the case, and can be unfair for score when you're always judging the long executions as if it's in the same field as the shorter ones, it's hard to balance that perfection of efficiency and flair when they almost always oppose each other. For example Centurion has a lot of personality in his executions but he shows off a lot and takes a while in most cases. Aramusha more often gets the job done while having his personality in there, though the more they express themselves, the longer they usually take.
Again, your system is ASTOUNDING but I feel like it doesn't work properly in some examples or cases with heroes and their executions, especially if you're setting them at the same exact standards as the Modern Day average male, and every hero is far from that in some capacity. However yes some executions like Vortiger's Regard or Shugoki's Head Crush one, or Aramusha's Rebel Just For the Kicks, do not make any sense, I feel like they should be judged by the standards of the characters, not normal people, because none of them are normal people, so you're taking their amazing feats they put on display and scale their power down to average joe terms and go "Yep we can't do that" and yes that works for the unnecessary or physics breaking executions like mentioned before, but sometimes that unfairly works against executions that have the sole purpose of showing off their strength, speed, and power.
Again man I love your content and everything about it, this was just a thought I had and wanted to put out there ❤
Please Read. Okay Raven night era music dragon fist execution and the lucky one are completely realistic and highly lethal let me tell you why... It's clear to me that culture affects some of these executions like hitokiri kicky executions with kung fu and these executions kung fu is exemplified with the kick one being a iron finger strike through dedicated training of his fingers he's toughen them a name that a specific neck vertebra and disjointes it. High level of skill and decades of training are required. The Emojis are clearly to represent his chi. For the dragon fist go back to Kung Fu Panda this is a pressure point or nerve cluster attack. Intended to send his opponent into convulsions or a seizure that's why he looks like. And watching Kung Fu Panda look at the shifu scene you'll see the the contact points are the same chi. I'm sorry about for for honor's sloppy cartoonish executions. I hope this cleared everything up these executions are clearly based on Japanese culture.
I apologize for my phone's autocorrect
"hese executions are clearly based on Japanese culture" but... Kung Fu (& Kung Fu Panda) are Chinese Culture
7:53
Going to get this out of the way first. I would give dragons palm, and beat down realism scores of 0. Bc they implement those anime motions and styles. The moment an executions partakes in an anime style, that breaks realism standards, it should automatically result in a 0.
(Thats just my opinion though)
2nd point. I, also in my personal opinion, don't find musha cool in the slightest. He tries to come off edgy and cool, but he's FAR too ridiculous to even be taken seriously. So why he tries to portray himself as this edgy ronin. To me, he just comes off like careless 8th grader. Thus, he's just cringe. He's too anime and unrealistic for me to consider him as someone who could square off against the higher caliber warriors in the game. Ergo, if I was to grade him, his cool factor, it would be hurting drastically.
(But this is all just my opinion. You obviously feel different about the character. And I respect the perspective you have on the character.)
And despite my personal bais. I love this series, and appreciate the effort you put into it.
i agree, but i will actually lose my marbles if you don't think kyoshin is ten times worse as far as cringe goes. At least aramusha has skill when using his weapon, kyoshin uses his sword in reverse grip for half his moveset which is unnecessary to say the least. Don't even get me started on orochi. I feel like compared to some of the aesthetics that other samurai give off aramusha is def not the cringiest one.