I personally absolutely love the poleaxe, you can get around people's blocks so easy with it, and I find it to be way more intuitive than the Messer. It's got good range, all right damage, and people don't really fight against poleaxes that much so they don't really know how to counter you that well. It's my main weapon for a very good reason.
I can't explain why the I love the poleaxe other than the stabs just feel amazing. People just don't counter stabs as consistently, and the stabs bring fantastic value to team fights with the health pool of the Knight. This coupled with the recent buffs to the damage and the stamina buff... I'm salivating
@@rkit6707 I always either do stab into alt stab faint OR overhead into stab, and then my most common thing is an overhead faint into a dragged heavy overhead that shit never gets countered and if you see them attacking you can just accel it into them almost instantly or you can look up more to drag it even more if they are still blocking
It’s always been great for me. It was the quintessential knightly weapon back in the day, and was more effective than most spears and especially swords on the real life battlefield. It was also highly modular, unlike a weapon like the halberd, which was forged from one metal piece. Most poleaxes were also the most sturdy weapons, sporting metal reinforcement on the shaft to make withstanding enemy attacks easier.
Pretty much my opinion also. I love it and its in the running for my favorite medieval melee weapon, with it competing for first place with the Polehammer, which is actually just called a Poleaxe in some languages anyway. I'll use it whether it's meta or not for that reason alone.
@@carroboi2981 Agree, medieval people didn't really bothered to "name them", so thats just "pollaxe" in most sources, regardless of the setup, it can have a hammer, axe, spike, beak, in any combination including a buttom spike, which is in rare cases a complete fuckin' spearhead kinda thing almost. Though that said it would be cooler imo if the "pollhammer" was just a skin to the pollaxe, since they are not different weapons and they are both knightly weapons.
I thought I'd like him just posting VODS and didn't like him originally switching but I loved this video and am glad you made the shift, thanks for the vid Ziggy!
Oh, and what a review, too! You went over every strength of the poleaxe: it's versatile mediocrity, it's impressive special and it's unique playstyle. I also think it would be nice if it did just a bit more damage, but, as it is, I consider it to be perfectly balanced. A solid choice for a weapon.
In duels, other than the borderline unreadable special, the best feature of pole axe is it's MASSIVE counter window. A decent duelist can engage in minute-long battles with other high level players and out-stam them.
I learned the game with the Halberd so when it came to using the knight class (I was trying to level up each class at the same time sort of thing) the poleaxe was an instant hit for me I didn't actually realise the poleaxes stats were so shortcoming but now that I've seen this it makes much more sense as to why I was getting mollywhopped after I started using it EXPECIALLY with like you say.... The alt swings I believe you have done videos on a few weapons that you said has a longer reach with the alt attacks so I get bamboozled alot Regardless of whether I'm top of the scoreboard though the game is fun, I just wish it ran like it was meant to
I was wondering why my range with the poleaxe felt so weirdly inconsistent, even within the same attacks. Thanks for clearing that up! Still love this thing to bits, its stabs and special attack are amazing and it just feels good.
I love the Poleaxe, everyone thinks longswords or a sword and shield or something are Knightly weapons, nah man Knights gon bash your brains in with an axe that is also a hammer.
I don’t know why but I always do decent when I use the pole axe. I’ve tried halberd and I suck, executioners axe I suck, war axe I suck, you get the idea. There’s just something about it that activates my “one with the game” mentality.
This is my main weapon, but I struggle with it a bit. It makes me feel bad at the game. Once I try out a dropped sword, I realise I'm not actually that bad, and I find it a lot easier, but I want to use a pole axe as a knight.
I tried battleaxe cus of your vids and I actually got really good with it and it’s my favorite and most comfortable weapon to use now. I think I’ll try out this pole axe thing in depth now O.o
i dont even know how many times in TO where i was in a team fight and i try to overhead counter a poleaxe special, its so fast and looks like an overhead and throws me off sometimes. Such a fun weapon tho
Poleaxe sits in that weird spot where it has bad stats compared to other weapons but it's just decent enough that a skilled player can use every bit of it to pull out a win against anyone. It's reach isn't as good as other polearms, the dmg isn't anything special compared to other chop weapons and the speed can't compete against faster weapons that gamble. That being said, sits in the weird dmg spot that will kill everyone in 2-4 hits no matter who it is, it's mediocre speed can be boosted into decent range with ripostes and counters on top of -10% stamina reduction and it's special has very long reach on top of being a 2HKO against anyone. I like to use this weapon when I'm on defense. On defense, you want to stall as much as possible until your team spawns in a wave to the objective. This weapon can consistently face anyone, is a polearm that suits team fights and encourages riposte/counter/specials as your tools to pull out a win which makes it a amazing compliment to officer so you can hold down a line and rally horn with your boys for a counter attack.
hey zigg just got into chiv 2 cause of the game pass and love it and found your channel. Wanted to recommend a video idea where you rank each objective and go over how they're skewed to which ever side, how to best defend or attack it and how you'd make it better. During my time playing I've already seen the kinda objectives that are basically free and the other ones that stop the game like molasses.
FINALLLLYYYYYYY I’ve been waiting for this video for the longest I check everyday to see if it there 😂but amazing vid ziggy I’ll try to join ur twitch more often now on love talking wit yah ❤
I mostly play Officer/Poleaxe/Mace on defence and Crusader/Messer/Morning star sometimes on offence. I pick up the messer from the ground whenever possible when I am playing officer. With the messer it's just so easy to quickly gank people with the heavy overhead drags while I use the stabs and special on the poleaxe to gank or swap to the mace to swarm the enemy when ganking. Frontlining in a pinch and staying behind offensive minded people when holding a line and protecting team mates is what the poleaxe excels at in my opinion. I prefer the officer with the poleaxe over Guardian/1h spear/mace playstyle. I have tried playing a bit of longsword and greatsword here and there as officer but I don't think they are as versatile when trying to play as a group support. I feel like you kinda need to pick Devastator to use the greatsword to it's full potential. The defensive anti-gank capability and overall versatility and good match-up spread as well as the chop damage bonus is what makes the poleaxe stand out for me. Stab/heavy stab/special is the bread and butter of this weapon, you don't have to commit to moving forward and being aggressive to be effective with the poleaxe, as long as you have at least one team mate close to you this weapon does not feel that much inferior to the messer and the heavy stab and special allow you to still finish people off quite quickly when the situation presents itself. The alt quick stab (try to use alt stab over regular stab whenever possible) allows you to do good damage and interrupt anyone charging at you when "anchoring" yourself in a position when lets say a 3vs3 is about to break out and you are at the front and most likely to be targeted by someone running at you with a heavy slash.
Pole axe legit has the trickiest animation if you figure it out. The combo stab is especially strong because it has no wind-up animation. You follow through with a slash or overhead and the poke legit comes outa nowhere
This is a stupid question, but do some weapons do stamina/health damage to your foe or do all weapons do stamina/health damage to your foe? At 6:28 Ziggy mentioned something about the warhammer and I could be reading into it the wrong way.
Weapons do stamina damage when someone blocks them, it's not the same for every weapon. The formula for this (that I discovered myself over a year ago) is 30% of the damage. If an attack does 100 damage, it does 30 stamina damage. Vanguard has 100 stamina, Knight and Footman have 80, Skirmisher has 70 and Archers have 50. Chop weapons like Axes get a 10% extra and Blunt weapons get 25% extra. Battleaxe special attack does 100 damage so it does 33 stamina damage. Polehammer special attack does 100 damage so it does 37.5 (which then could be rounding up or down, I dont know.) Not a stupid question at all.
@@Ziggylata I didn't realize there were so many numbers involved to explain as to why my weapon slaps me in the face when I yry to anti-gank sometimes haha. Thanks, man. Also, I can't find the answer on reddit or any other chat/community platform, but since I've used the Pole Axe I can't tell if its not doing its bonus shield damage or its just so little a bonus it doesn't actually matter statistically?
Fairly new player here but I recently have been having my starting menu screen be laggy and freeze for like 10 seconds at a time and losing connection in game sometimes...I have a new cpu with a 3080ti and such so that shouldn't be the issue and also my first 60 hours were perfect with no issues of anykind. Any help or tips would be appreciated : }
wait does the poleaxe's special STILL not change to blunt damage!? despite the animation havving you wack them with the hammer end!? all that aside i do love me poleaxe for the reasons you pointed out
I enjoy the poleaxe but the left -> right swing being so bad can feel really shitty in 1vX given thats how you swing after a counter, and of course overheads/stabs aren't as good in these situations
Everyone calls the cudgle shit. But strangely I've gone on one of my longers killing sprees while missing an arm using it. Somehow got 17 kills in that life. I guess a lot of it was just smart positioning on my part. I stayed with my team the whole time. Looking back at it I defintely should have scavanged for something better though.
Virgin metaslave vs chad historically accurate enjoyer
And then 90% of the players just "big weapon" enjoyer
no, winners vs a geek
@@edgar7304 I dunno, these 'winners' die pretty easy against my poleaxe...
Bonk enjoyer
@@shibe5198 poleaxe is shit, accept it.
We all know the best part of this weapon is the polearm dance on knight.
Same with the quarterstaff
@@knocksuecow2196 You're not gonna use quarterstaff over poleaxe tho are you
@@antoncabotta5364 I love both
I personally absolutely love the poleaxe, you can get around people's blocks so easy with it, and I find it to be way more intuitive than the Messer. It's got good range, all right damage, and people don't really fight against poleaxes that much so they don't really know how to counter you that well. It's my main weapon for a very good reason.
The Pole arm is just asthetically nice to look at
I can't explain why the I love the poleaxe other than the stabs just feel amazing. People just don't counter stabs as consistently, and the stabs bring fantastic value to team fights with the health pool of the Knight. This coupled with the recent buffs to the damage and the stamina buff... I'm salivating
I always do a stab followed by an overhead, rarely ever gets blocked.
@@rkit6707 Stab feint into alt stab 🙏 gets 'em every time
@@rkit6707 I always either do stab into alt stab faint OR overhead into stab, and then my most common thing is an overhead faint into a dragged heavy overhead that shit never gets countered and if you see them attacking you can just accel it into them almost instantly or you can look up more to drag it even more if they are still blocking
Zig:*wins game* lobby: "and I took that personally."
I was looking for this comment
It’s always been great for me. It was the quintessential knightly weapon back in the day, and was more effective than most spears and especially swords on the real life battlefield. It was also highly modular, unlike a weapon like the halberd, which was forged from one metal piece. Most poleaxes were also the most sturdy weapons, sporting metal reinforcement on the shaft to make withstanding enemy attacks easier.
Pretty much my opinion also. I love it and its in the running for my favorite medieval melee weapon, with it competing for first place with the Polehammer, which is actually just called a Poleaxe in some languages anyway. I'll use it whether it's meta or not for that reason alone.
@@carroboi2981 Agree, medieval people didn't really bothered to "name them", so thats just "pollaxe" in most sources, regardless of the setup, it can have a hammer, axe, spike, beak, in any combination including a buttom spike, which is in rare cases a complete fuckin' spearhead kinda thing almost.
Though that said it would be cooler imo if the "pollhammer" was just a skin to the pollaxe, since they are not different weapons and they are both knightly weapons.
"AD MORTEM INIMICUS" is heard echoing off in the distance
"The most VERSATILE weapon ever invented"
what a wonderful job you did editing this video!
Thanks Stridah! It means a lot coming from you :D
@@SlamFisher no problem!!
I thought I'd like him just posting VODS and didn't like him originally switching but I loved this video and am glad you made the shift, thanks for the vid Ziggy!
Really appreciate the holistic view you provide here! Not just raw numbers or abilities in isolation...the fighting game comparison was super helpful.
FINALLY, a guide on my favourite weapon, on my favourite class.
Thank you, Ziggy! People need to know
Oh, and what a review, too! You went over every strength of the poleaxe: it's versatile mediocrity, it's impressive special and it's unique playstyle.
I also think it would be nice if it did just a bit more damage, but, as it is, I consider it to be perfectly balanced. A solid choice for a weapon.
song at 4:32 is get up by akira ishikawa for anyone wondering
Yooo I’ve been waiting for this and I’m not disappointed. Amazing video ziggy! Congrats to Sam as well for managing with the sickness.
This was really good Ziggy!! Excited to see more.
Great insight. Won't make me put down the longsword, but great input. Love this game so much!
In duels, other than the borderline unreadable special, the best feature of pole axe is it's MASSIVE counter window. A decent duelist can engage in minute-long battles with other high level players and out-stam them.
As a polearm, one of my favorite things about it is its value in group fights in narrow places.
I learned the game with the Halberd so when it came to using the knight class (I was trying to level up each class at the same time sort of thing) the poleaxe was an instant hit for me
I didn't actually realise the poleaxes stats were so shortcoming but now that I've seen this it makes much more sense as to why I was getting mollywhopped after I started using it EXPECIALLY with like you say.... The alt swings
I believe you have done videos on a few weapons that you said has a longer reach with the alt attacks so I get bamboozled alot
Regardless of whether I'm top of the scoreboard though the game is fun, I just wish it ran like it was meant to
Ziggy can have 8 ppl in front of him with his back to the wall holding a pole axe and still live. Seen it, bros different.
Wonderfully edited vid
A pleasure to watch even when I haven't played since launch
That makes me really happy.
Hol up, hyper informative Ziggy? And im learning obscure weapon swing tech? Fuck yeH
I was wondering why my range with the poleaxe felt so weirdly inconsistent, even within the same attacks. Thanks for clearing that up!
Still love this thing to bits, its stabs and special attack are amazing and it just feels good.
The world’s most versatile weapon, the pollaxe.
The anchor also does 70 damage per throw, it’s my main now
Dagger best weapon in the game.
Babe wake up, Ziggylata just posted a banger.
8:30 what a blocking hitbox..
Ran into you awhile back, gotta admit you certainly were the only one in that duel lobby that gave me a run for my money with my own weapon.
This is some mad good content bruh so much information, almost feel bad absorbing all of it
Great video you explained the pros and cons perfectly!
Poleaxes are definitely one of my favorite weapon choices in the game, alongside Berserker Axe, the fist-hammer, and the bowtie axe.
This is an excellent video that exposed a lot of concepts to me. Subbed!
Im so excited for this video. I started using this weapon because of your streams!
I love the Poleaxe, everyone thinks longswords or a sword and shield or something are Knightly weapons, nah man Knights gon bash your brains in with an axe that is also a hammer.
You don't really need much of a shield in full plate armor. It can be nice, but you don't need one
@@Ziggylata ye
Chivalry 2 can be summed up with "if this worked"
I don’t know why but I always do decent when I use the pole axe. I’ve tried halberd and I suck, executioners axe I suck, war axe I suck, you get the idea. There’s just something about it that activates my “one with the game” mentality.
Poleaxe gang lesgoo
Appreciate these immensely, Ziggy
This is my main weapon, but I struggle with it a bit. It makes me feel bad at the game. Once I try out a dropped sword, I realise I'm not actually that bad, and I find it a lot easier, but I want to use a pole axe as a knight.
I tried battleaxe cus of your vids and I actually got really good with it and it’s my favorite and most comfortable weapon to use now. I think I’ll try out this pole axe thing in depth now O.o
DAng you have so many Archers running into melee range in this video
1:58 Menuda paliza.
i dont even know how many times in TO where i was in a team fight and i try to overhead counter a poleaxe special, its so fast and looks like an overhead and throws me off sometimes. Such a fun weapon tho
I use the mace because I like throwing my weapon at people, the mace won't stick to people so it makes it easy to get it back.
It's very effective.
Pole axe is my favourite knight weapon. I don't even know why, it's clearly inferior to the meta weapons. Something about it just feels fantastic.
Mount and blade: Chivarly.
I’m from 5 months after this vid and is wondering if at 7:10 is that still true about the +abilities not working
They're all fake except "Increased Stamina Negation on Block" which is now true.
love the fighting game reference
Poleaxe sits in that weird spot where it has bad stats compared to other weapons but it's just decent enough that a skilled player can use every bit of it to pull out a win against anyone. It's reach isn't as good as other polearms, the dmg isn't anything special compared to other chop weapons and the speed can't compete against faster weapons that gamble. That being said, sits in the weird dmg spot that will kill everyone in 2-4 hits no matter who it is, it's mediocre speed can be boosted into decent range with ripostes and counters on top of -10% stamina reduction and it's special has very long reach on top of being a 2HKO against anyone. I like to use this weapon when I'm on defense. On defense, you want to stall as much as possible until your team spawns in a wave to the objective. This weapon can consistently face anyone, is a polearm that suits team fights and encourages riposte/counter/specials as your tools to pull out a win which makes it a amazing compliment to officer so you can hold down a line and rally horn with your boys for a counter attack.
Just run around sneakily heavy-stabbing people for 2-hit kills. Turn into the windup animation to hide it partially.
Poleaxe very underrated
Good to see you upload again man
hey zigg just got into chiv 2 cause of the game pass and love it and found your channel. Wanted to recommend a video idea where you rank each objective and go over how they're skewed to which ever side, how to best defend or attack it and how you'd make it better. During my time playing I've already seen the kinda objectives that are basically free and the other ones that stop the game like molasses.
Uncanny timing
Quality. Worth the weight
All I could think about during the section where you talked about the special was that janky ass special I hit one time in duels where I teleported
Love the editing well done 👌🏼
BUFF POLEAXE
FINALLLLYYYYYYY I’ve been waiting for this video for the longest I check everyday to see if it there 😂but amazing vid ziggy I’ll try to join ur twitch more often now on love talking wit yah ❤
I mostly play Officer/Poleaxe/Mace on defence and Crusader/Messer/Morning star sometimes on offence. I pick up the messer from the ground whenever possible when I am playing officer. With the messer it's just so easy to quickly gank people with the heavy overhead drags while I use the stabs and special on the poleaxe to gank or swap to the mace to swarm the enemy when ganking.
Frontlining in a pinch and staying behind offensive minded people when holding a line and protecting team mates is what the poleaxe excels at in my opinion. I prefer the officer with the poleaxe over Guardian/1h spear/mace playstyle. I have tried playing a bit of longsword and greatsword here and there as officer but I don't think they are as versatile when trying to play as a group support. I feel like you kinda need to pick Devastator to use the greatsword to it's full potential.
The defensive anti-gank capability and overall versatility and good match-up spread as well as the chop damage bonus is what makes the poleaxe stand out for me. Stab/heavy stab/special is the bread and butter of this weapon, you don't have to commit to moving forward and being aggressive to be effective with the poleaxe, as long as you have at least one team mate close to you this weapon does not feel that much inferior to the messer and the heavy stab and special allow you to still finish people off quite quickly when the situation presents itself. The alt quick stab (try to use alt stab over regular stab whenever possible) allows you to do good damage and interrupt anyone charging at you when "anchoring" yourself in a position when lets say a 3vs3 is about to break out and you are at the front and most likely to be targeted by someone running at you with a heavy slash.
Yeah this is pretty accurate.
dude this thing slaps tried it out after this vid and god damn
Shovel may not be meta-viable
But it's the best meme weapon that can bonk people
That thing with swings is fixed now, and poleaxe got nice buff so I think this is a good weapon now
The swings didnt get fixed
@@Ziggylata really...that's sad
Pole axe legit has the trickiest animation if you figure it out. The combo stab is especially strong because it has no wind-up animation. You follow through with a slash or overhead and the poke legit comes outa nowhere
This is a stupid question, but do some weapons do stamina/health damage to your foe or do all weapons do stamina/health damage to your foe? At 6:28 Ziggy mentioned something about the warhammer and I could be reading into it the wrong way.
Weapons do stamina damage when someone blocks them, it's not the same for every weapon.
The formula for this (that I discovered myself over a year ago) is 30% of the damage.
If an attack does 100 damage, it does 30 stamina damage. Vanguard has 100 stamina, Knight and Footman have 80, Skirmisher has 70 and Archers have 50.
Chop weapons like Axes get a 10% extra and Blunt weapons get 25% extra.
Battleaxe special attack does 100 damage so it does 33 stamina damage.
Polehammer special attack does 100 damage so it does 37.5 (which then could be rounding up or down, I dont know.)
Not a stupid question at all.
@@Ziggylata I didn't realize there were so many numbers involved to explain as to why my weapon slaps me in the face when I yry to anti-gank sometimes haha. Thanks, man. Also, I can't find the answer on reddit or any other chat/community platform, but since I've used the Pole Axe I can't tell if its not doing its bonus shield damage or its just so little a bonus it doesn't actually matter statistically?
Banger upload as always. Love ya ziggy
Warclub S tier you will never change my mind
Not trying to
People will forget about the pole axe when we get staff.
Love your videos brother!!! I have fell in love with the 2 handed hammer the Knight Deleter
Try the Heavy Mace.
im offended you put my shovel at unusable honestly
This videos is great and hilarious considering yesterday
I just saw in my game love your content
Btw you're really skilled
I'm definitely a dane axe fan club guy. But the poax is good for when you want to mix up your gameplay little bit.
I love this weapon, I've been doing well with it recently on console.
poleaxe my beloved
yea my biggest problem with the poleaxe is i want to special all the time
Yeah its pretty good.
back in chiv 1 the weapon special would count as blunt dmg, dealing lots o dmg to knights, they should do the same for it in chiv 2
at 2:00 why did you just get mauled by everyone in the server
I dont like polearms in this game, but i had so much fun playing with poleaxe it might my fav now lol
Not to sound to far up your arse but I find your video reviews make much more sense the more and more I play the game. That was a lot of more.
love the vid mate
Thumbnail clean 🤌🏼
Fairly new player here but I recently have been having my starting menu screen be laggy and freeze for like 10 seconds at a time and losing connection in game sometimes...I have a new cpu with a 3080ti and such so that shouldn't be the issue and also my first 60 hours were perfect with no issues of anykind. Any help or tips would be appreciated : }
wait does the poleaxe's special STILL not change to blunt damage!? despite the animation havving you wack them with the hammer end!? all that aside i do love me poleaxe for the reasons you pointed out
No it doesn't.
luv me poleaxe, 'ate the masons. simple as
This should be named, Best no.5ish weapon in the game lol
Can you do a guide or over view on first vs 3rd person play style?
Haven't watch you in a while but nice to see you finally going first person
Glaive is my favorite weapon. Shoot me
I love you Ziggy ❤️
There is noooooo way the pole axe has the most fans :P i hardly ever see anyone use this weapon
I enjoy the poleaxe but the left -> right swing being so bad can feel really shitty in 1vX given thats how you swing after a counter, and of course overheads/stabs aren't as good in these situations
You can counter/riposte using alt-directions. It's a bit awkward on controller though.
hey I made the video let's GOOOOOOOOOO
i have always used the poleaxe it is my main weapon and always will be
Ayeeee played with you in a match!! God dam demon 🤣
poor horse
Will you do the limited time volly game mode??
It's really bad.
Hey it’s that guy
Everyone calls the cudgle shit. But strangely I've gone on one of my longers killing sprees while missing an arm using it. Somehow got 17 kills in that life.
I guess a lot of it was just smart positioning on my part. I stayed with my team the whole time. Looking back at it I defintely should have scavanged for something better though.
Smart positioning and ambusher being a better class now.
Shovel is op. Especialy one the arena
is anyone else having problems with ping after the crossplay update?