Unsheathe is so strong just imagine if they decided to give a long range magic attack with it as well. Luckily fromsoft would never do something like that.
The person you fought at around 10:47 gave you such a close fight haha. The fights that end with both people barely having any hp are the best ones imo.
Put a parry AoW on a off-hand Wakizashi. Not only do you get a power stance move-set from a dagger, but you also get a parry out of it, while keeping unsheathe for the 2 handed main. The best of all 3 worlds
This series is great! You should try out some whips, even if they aren't meta (fire giant's braid and magma whip). Another cool weapon you could try would be the sword of milos, you could use the regal omen bairn with it for a dung eater cosplay!
Unsheath is just so good. I miss the katana parry though, even if I was absolute t r a s h at pulling it off... Kinda makes we wish there were a couple more 'normal' katanas instead of so many magical ones. OH MY GOD ONE HEALTH, HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN!? At that point I'd have just thrown a knife! Props to that guy for not only more-or-less winning the duel, but not going for the e z finisher there, too!
Cool series. Looking forward to seeing when you get to the Lazuli Glintstone Sword. Sure, it's not much different from just slapping Glintsone Pebble on a longsword, but it's still my go-to weapon for much of my mage-knight playthrough because of how effective it is. I still find the Heavy Attack follow-up to the Pebble is one nasty surprise with decent tracking and range for rollcatching.
Hey Chase, great video as always! That fight with Toro was just amazing lol Also, i might've just got lucky a few times, but i find the Unsheathe heavy attack easier to roll-catch, even as a wake-up. Cheers man!
U know what I just thought about. U should initiate the buff flask bc ur summoning then into the fight so maybe they are waiting on u to buff first. That parry was beautiful especially with the amount of health he had left. Amazing
Fun Fact: Offhand wakizashi will power stance with any katana. Hope to see a mixed weapon showcase with it! Still posting for Family Heads :) Edit: that 1hp duel... holy...
I made the comment last katana episode wishing to see it. smiiiiidge disappointed we didnt get to see it this time but wonderin what he'll do when he inevitably must cover the waki
@@Vash141 I've actually gotten a bunch of parries with the waki. They're not as bad as you think. Worse than shields yeah but if you know the timing its really not so bad. It helps even more when people arent expecting a parry from a waki like you would from a shield.
1 katana left to go! Keep like that! Maybe you could try the ornamental straight swords for next video? They're the swords that grafted scions use, also a really unique attack after using the AOW, and also have B scaling with dex
For regular smithing stone weapons that have shared movesets, you should try mixing things up by trying less frequently used AoW. Like, Glintstone Pebble and Gravitas get used a lot but I don't think I've ever seen you try Spinning Weapon. Phantom Slash and Poison Moth never seem to get any daylight, for example. Just a suggestion.
@@anagoth9 spinning weapon isn't really useable at all unless you have a very long weapon to begin with, (think pike, or long halberd) and it leaves you wide open. It's ok in pve for status procs, or stun locking certain foes. Phantom slash is cool though.
the SHAMSHIR and possibly a non-"curved sword" in the other hand like a poke halberd. the Shamshir feels like it has a very short/cancellable recovery window, so it can flow into stuff like Double Slash really smoothly.
Dual Erdsteel daggers on a faith build as their physical damage scales off faith if infused with sacred/flame art. Katana level damage with a much faster moveset. Also you have not showcased daggers and this would be a nice entry as it's not status effect abuse. Love the series keep it up!
I knew nothing about Elden Ring before my first playthrough and I went with the samurai class because it looked awesome. I ended up sticking to the uchigatana for the whole playthrough and beat every boss/mini-boss with it except Rykard. Love this katana
Use the magma blade(dual wield) with the magma wyrm greatsword. Be a fire build and use the Nights Calvary armor set. Its a solid strength and faith build, really fun to use and kinda a cosplay. Switching between those is a good mixup and covers the greatsword/short sword weaknesses well
The ToroFinno invasion was the best of the bunch. Evenly matched. Do not underestimate the Brass Shield with Carian Retaliation. It will parry, and only use FP if the parry is a spell parry. The parry frames on the medium shield with Carian Retaliation seems to be on par with the Buckler.
unusheathe and piercieng fang are two references to rurouni kenshin right? unsheathe the signature move of Kenshin Himura and piercing fang (gatotsu) the signature move of Saito Hajime if im correct? love those skills!
Funny thing about Unsheathe and Moonveil Moonveil actually does LESS damage overall with its versions of the attacks, unless you also hit with both the beam and the blade It was supposed to be a trade off, higher potential damage with a more precise timing, or less damage but with more range. Unfortunately, it didn't exactly work out
Here's a challenge one: Clinging Bone. Shares the moveset of the bladed fist weapons but is somber and has a kinda underwhelming ash of war (dark hand). But the upside: you get to land dark hand on people in PVP.
I was kind of hoping DkS1>ER would just be a back stab god but oh well. Yeah unsheath go crazy. It’s my go to on the Nagakiba mainly because I loved my washing pole in DS3. Also, I am once again recommending the ornamental straight swords. Very cool ash of war
Bro i was thinking about trying a pvp build with a rotten battle hammer and a normal one, i just wanna see how you would play with it so if you’d like to showcase them i would really appreciate, otherwise you make amazing videos i love them :)
hi chase! try sacred relic sword and marika hammer!!! and also the maliket sword!!! those three weapons isn´t the best for pvp, but are amazing weapons with insane weapon art, at least for pve
did you know a lot of dex wepons will get just as much physical damage w occult as with keen? unless you want to use buff spells or certain specific ashes of war (or lightning) most innate bleed weapons are just better on a pure arcane build. another obvious example would be the scavenger's curved sword, it actually gets a significantly *higher* AR with occult v keen, like 50 more damage at 70 arc with min dex v 70 dex, and like 80-something bleed. (but maybe you avoid bleed on purpose?)
It's basically a less busted version of bloodhound's. It does all the same things, worse. It's still great, definitely above average, lets you do things that you can't really do with just rolling, like set up backstabs on heavies/certain AoWs on reaction, reposition to avoid stuff like the corpse piler combo, gapclose spammy mages safely, etc. If BHS was rebalanced to be dagger only or something, quickstep would get an opportunity to shine. As it stands, there's zero benefit to using QS over BHS, even though it's very good.
Just because I've seen some confusion about it. When you hit an ai, your damage isn't capped by their maximum HP meaning whatever the true damage of your weapon is, it will show the true number values. When you hit a human player, the max damage you can hit is their HP pool. If a weapon kills them then the number shown is whatever maximum HP they had left from the last hit. If you one shot someone it means your weapon does at least that much, not that is its maximum damage.
Idk if this is the right place to ask but how do you perform the light version of unsheathe on mouse and keyboard? Do I just have to remap my controls because with the default ones it's literally impossible.
@@DontJinxItYet See the thing is you can't because to enter the sheathed stance you hold shift + right click and to heavy attack you press shift + left click so once you let go of shift to unsheathe light attack you leave the stance altogether. Same issue goes for square off.
@@anitaremenarova6662 that's strange, i don't play M/KB so i don't know what causes this or how to fix it, maybe try mapping the weapon art button to something else (maybe the middle mouse button?)
@@brandentaft5164 To be honest, it can be kinda bs at times for the receiving end, surprises me sometimes how it can be accepted as an AoW, but in scenarios like meta gank squads that like hammering you down, it can really take out the whole field and save the effort
Unsheathe is so strong just imagine if they decided to give a long range magic attack with it as well. Luckily fromsoft would never do something like that.
@@yzwme586 i think he knows that
@@yzwme586 he knows that i think
@@yzwme586 r/wooooosh
@@yzwme586 woosh
@@yzwme586 sarcasm…
The person you fought at around 10:47 gave you such a close fight haha. The fights that end with both people barely having any hp are the best ones imo.
I can’t believe chase really had one HP left
the plot armor was too OP
@@zabafa9052 makes sense, dual uchigatanas is pretty anime of him
Commenting to show my appreciation for Chase’s lightning pot sniping skills. Highly underrated lol
So true. It’s like there’s that red arc shot line that only his eyes can see. Incredible.
nah man hes been a pot throwing god for years ds3 bros will know for sure lmao
Love how hyped Chase gets when his opponents almost beat him. That parry reaction was 10/10
Yes, this! ;D
Torro used a string-resin after they parried you for the extra damage riposte, stylin’.
Really just should have switched to a Miséricorde ;-)
How on earth did Torro not get that kill? Insane survival, loved the fight!
Started with low damage, but he got back in the fight in an epic way!
Even if he had gotten the kill you wouldn't have gotten to see it in the video.
@@minmus410 why do you say that?
the power of 2101 health
@@minmus410 I've seen chase lose idk what you mean
@@ascalontheknight1293 I've never seen Chase lose in the weapon showcase videos.
10:20 nice fight man. Torofinno with a nice build and deadly skills, and the clutch win. 10/10
sad that unsheathe + r1 doesn't act as a parry like in ds3, but overall it does great stagger damage
Put a parry AoW on a off-hand Wakizashi. Not only do you get a power stance move-set from a dagger, but you also get a parry out of it, while keeping unsheathe for the 2 handed main. The best of all 3 worlds
@@dankbudski it's actually specifically the wazikashi. Any other dagger doesnt give it the better moveset
This series is great! You should try out some whips, even if they aren't meta (fire giant's braid and magma whip). Another cool weapon you could try would be the sword of milos, you could use the regal omen bairn with it for a dung eater cosplay!
that lightning grease riposte was so amazing. i havent seen a single one in elden ring pvp before but they were always around in ds3. so beautiful
gold pure gold chase. that 1HP duel was friggin wild! lets go fist weapons next! seriously chase you rule thanks for all this incredible content
Hmm, I wonder what would happen if the uchigatana’s ash of war had, I don’t know, magic projectiles or something. Hypothetically, of course.
Or if Double Slash had some sort of ranged bleed ability...
@@EverTM That would be CRAZY… not overpowered at all.
@@DingusSauce I agree. Clearly, we shall become heroes, nay paragons, of the PvP community.
Unsheath is just so good. I miss the katana parry though, even if I was absolute t r a s h at pulling it off...
Kinda makes we wish there were a couple more 'normal' katanas instead of so many magical ones.
OH MY GOD ONE HEALTH, HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN!? At that point I'd have just thrown a knife!
Props to that guy for not only more-or-less winning the duel, but not going for the e z finisher there, too!
Yeah, ToroFinno... you should equip some fan daggers in situations like the 1HP cases Good game
@@ricktan5663 but the daggers are the cheap free wins not as fun
@@brandentaft5164 L take
@@naszarts thanks I'll make a crown out of it L:)
Cool series. Looking forward to seeing when you get to the Lazuli Glintstone Sword. Sure, it's not much different from just slapping Glintsone Pebble on a longsword, but it's still my go-to weapon for much of my mage-knight playthrough because of how effective it is. I still find the Heavy Attack follow-up to the Pebble is one nasty surprise with decent tracking and range for rollcatching.
Nagakiba + Barbaric Roar is super fun
Does a 3 chain heavy and gives armor; give it a try
ive been trying out the heavy attack altering ashes on a lot of random stuff, and the katanas are some of the most fun to run weird ashes on...
Hey Chase, great video as always! That fight with Toro was just amazing lol
Also, i might've just got lucky a few times, but i find the Unsheathe heavy attack easier to roll-catch, even as a wake-up. Cheers man!
U know what I just thought about. U should initiate the buff flask bc ur summoning then into the fight so maybe they are waiting on u to buff first.
That parry was beautiful especially with the amount of health he had left. Amazing
Great job! You're seriously the Mr. Rogers of Elden Ring. I'd love to see a Marais Executioners episode.
great content bruv, keep on with the excellent work
Seems like it was just a couple days ago that this series was on ep 30. Great video Chase
Damn I didn't even realise we were over 50 videos deep. Goes to show how entertaining the vids are
Fun Fact: Offhand wakizashi will power stance with any katana. Hope to see a mixed weapon showcase with it! Still posting for Family Heads :)
Edit: that 1hp duel... holy...
I made the comment last katana episode wishing to see it. smiiiiidge disappointed we didnt get to see it this time but wonderin what he'll do when he inevitably must cover the waki
Zero range and less damage. 2 katanas are better if you’re gonna dual wield
It can parry, but it's SUPER slow for being a dagger.
@@derek96720 parry frames on weapon parries are bad. Plus if there’s any lat, it’s not worth even attempting a weapon parry
@@Vash141 I've actually gotten a bunch of parries with the waki. They're not as bad as you think. Worse than shields yeah but if you know the timing its really not so bad. It helps even more when people arent expecting a parry from a waki like you would from a shield.
1 katana left to go! Keep like that! Maybe you could try the ornamental straight swords for next video? They're the swords that grafted scions use, also a really unique attack after using the AOW, and also have B scaling with dex
Loving the series so far Chase!
For regular smithing stone weapons that have shared movesets, you should try mixing things up by trying less frequently used AoW. Like, Glintstone Pebble and Gravitas get used a lot but I don't think I've ever seen you try Spinning Weapon. Phantom Slash and Poison Moth never seem to get any daylight, for example. Just a suggestion.
Spinning weapon was used in this vid no?
@@kraftpunk494 That was spinning slash. Spinning Weapon is the Magic AoW that spins your weapon out in front of you.
@@anagoth9 spinning weapon isn't really useable at all unless you have a very long weapon to begin with, (think pike, or long halberd) and it leaves you wide open. It's ok in pve for status procs, or stun locking certain foes. Phantom slash is cool though.
love your vids man
Hey chase, don’t forget the piercing fang and impaling thrust damage go fully through shields. They are great counters and useful at range as you saw.
Elden Ring quickly prevailed lol love the series man keep it up!
The red lightning buff decreases your lighting absorption by like 30
(I think)
Another great showcase! Hope you check out the Mantis Blade soon :) keep up the good work!
You've seen "what the dog doin?"
Now prepare for "how'd the blue die?" 15:52
Fallingstar beast jaw or great knife would b cool to see 😁
the SHAMSHIR and possibly a non-"curved sword" in the other hand like a poke halberd. the Shamshir feels like it has a very short/cancellable recovery window, so it can flow into stuff like Double Slash really smoothly.
I am now fully inspired to make the lightning samurai build that’s been on my mind lately.
That was so fun to watch!
Dual Erdsteel daggers on a faith build as their physical damage scales off faith if infused with sacred/flame art. Katana level damage with a much faster moveset. Also you have not showcased daggers and this would be a nice entry as it's not status effect abuse.
Love the series keep it up!
That last guy was a chad for not trying to finish you off with fan knives
That jumping L1 was beautiful chase
I knew nothing about Elden Ring before my first playthrough and I went with the samurai class because it looked awesome. I ended up sticking to the uchigatana for the whole playthrough and beat every boss/mini-boss with it except Rykard. Love this katana
I like how you sa hello to people in duels , like you were exited to see them :)
Hey Chase! Love the videos! Why did you start leaving your vigor at 58? Just curious.
He usually has it at 60 but sometimes he sacrifices king stat vigor for others lesser but necessary stats
It's like 30 less health, it'll rarely make a difference.
Of all the weapons showcased thus far the two standouts are the Uchigatana + unsheath and Ruins GS as the most powerful in PVP.
Use the magma blade(dual wield) with the magma wyrm greatsword. Be a fire build and use the Nights Calvary armor set. Its a solid strength and faith build, really fun to use and kinda a cosplay. Switching between those is a good mixup and covers the greatsword/short sword weaknesses well
11:24 1 HP lol. Chase the survivor.
wow that toro, parry with mid shield, then buff with the drawstring grease to crit, he was really good.
The ToroFinno invasion was the best of the bunch. Evenly matched. Do not underestimate the Brass Shield with Carian Retaliation. It will parry, and only use FP if the parry is a spell parry. The parry frames on the medium shield with Carian Retaliation seems to be on par with the Buckler.
unusheathe and piercieng fang are two references to rurouni kenshin right? unsheathe the signature move of Kenshin Himura and piercing fang (gatotsu) the signature move of Saito Hajime if im correct? love those skills!
11:05 not just any parry, either! Dude did the DS3 Pine-bundle parry! Fuckin' legend
Love the invasion gameplay!
Since Knives have such huge MV on them so their Arts of war do surprising damage, could you do a showcase with knives?
Funny thing about Unsheathe and Moonveil
Moonveil actually does LESS damage overall with its versions of the attacks, unless you also hit with both the beam and the blade
It was supposed to be a trade off, higher potential damage with a more precise timing, or less damage but with more range. Unfortunately, it didn't exactly work out
"Buffs make the fight last longer"
5:01 "hold my beer"
These were really good invasions!
What a great duel to end on
„I‘m Chase. Blade of the bro. And I have never known defeat.“
But a close call today sir
You should showcase the pickaxe! I recommend storm stomp for the ash of war as you get a free r2 out of it, but only if you are two handing it.
Here's a challenge one: Clinging Bone. Shares the moveset of the bladed fist weapons but is somber and has a kinda underwhelming ash of war (dark hand). But the upside: you get to land dark hand on people in PVP.
How in the world did you survive with 1HP??? That has to be the luckiest you've ever been in a match 😂
Apparently Chase found a way to sneak in Tears of Denial
@@chuckmastacheese high vitality stat can do it some times
Chase single handedly made me start keeping them Lightning Pots on deck.. lol
11:37 if only he had 1 less point of vigor
I was kind of hoping DkS1>ER would just be a back stab god but oh well. Yeah unsheath go crazy. It’s my go to on the Nagakiba mainly because I loved my washing pole in DS3. Also, I am once again recommending the ornamental straight swords. Very cool ash of war
Please use drawstring greases like the good old ds3 days 😭
A few days late cuz irl kept me away, but I'm all caught up and here for my weekly request to see a duelist greataxe
Bro i was thinking about trying a pvp build with a rotten battle hammer and a normal one, i just wanna see how you would play with it so if you’d like to showcase them i would really appreciate, otherwise you make amazing videos i love them :)
*Completely crushes opponent*
"Fun fight man, good stuff"
Kris blade soon please. It seems to be a really good magic weapon. Would love to see it showcased.
hi chase! try sacred relic sword and marika hammer!!! and also the maliket sword!!! those three weapons isn´t the best for pvp, but are amazing weapons with insane weapon art, at least for pve
Are you gonna do the Starscourge Greatsword showcase too?
The blade that got me through my 1st NG. Back when we were just discovering how insane bleed was.
Also, 11:27 was nuts
Chase, do you invade? I can’t seem to find invasions
One HP... ONE HP!?!? Chasethelucky strikes again haha and that parry from finno was godtier!
of course chase survived on 1hp on the uchigatana showcase. must be the katana anime powers
doesn't lightning slash gives lightning affinity for a couple seconds? so isn't it better to go keen for extra damage? or it doesn't work like that?
A tear for Toro, the uncrowned champion.
let’s all appreciate the challenge sir Torro provided
That's a very nice dex build you got there
Spinning slash is my go to because it does so much poise damage
Absolute menace with the pot accuracy as always lmao
Idk how you got away with 1 hp 😆 that was insane
Sword of Milos might make for an interesting showcase.
Hey Chase I didn't see you use the heavy attack version of the unsheathe weapon art. Any particular reason why?
It's much slower than the slice and doesn't do much extra damage.
@@anitaremenarova6662 it has slightly more range though if I remember correctly. Good for roll catching
@@JustinsHand Eh, that one is more of a PvE skill due to the poise damage. I imagine Chase also finds it easier to roll catch with the light.
did you know a lot of dex wepons will get just as much physical damage w occult as with keen? unless you want to use buff spells or certain specific ashes of war (or lightning) most innate bleed weapons are just better on a pure arcane build. another obvious example would be the scavenger's curved sword, it actually gets a significantly *higher* AR with occult v keen, like 50 more damage at 70 arc with min dex v 70 dex, and like 80-something bleed. (but maybe you avoid bleed on purpose?)
Even Uchi only gets a few more AR keen compared to occult
I'd like to see the bastard sword. Especially any niche uses over claymore
Medium shields with carian retaliation have damn near the same party frames as a small shield
So the legendary GucciGatana is on the menu today? Delightful 😁
Today we witnessed the first kill achieved using lightning slash
Super weird I had so hopefully right before 17:28 and it was like chase was talking to me lol
You should try out the watchdogs greatsword, it’s a little annoying to get but it has a s scaling in strength when upgraded
Just curious, but has chase lost a duel yet? I’ve missed a lot of episodes, but I don’t think I’ve seen one yet.
would it be worth it to do a strength uchi since it has good scaling plus the 2 hand buff?
Will you try out Quickstep? I'm curious if it's any good?
It's basically a less busted version of bloodhound's. It does all the same things, worse. It's still great, definitely above average, lets you do things that you can't really do with just rolling, like set up backstabs on heavies/certain AoWs on reaction, reposition to avoid stuff like the corpse piler combo, gapclose spammy mages safely, etc.
If BHS was rebalanced to be dagger only or something, quickstep would get an opportunity to shine. As it stands, there's zero benefit to using QS over BHS, even though it's very good.
Just because I've seen some confusion about it. When you hit an ai, your damage isn't capped by their maximum HP meaning whatever the true damage of your weapon is, it will show the true number values. When you hit a human player, the max damage you can hit is their HP pool. If a weapon kills them then the number shown is whatever maximum HP they had left from the last hit. If you one shot someone it means your weapon does at least that much, not that is its maximum damage.
17:10
Roy: K A M U I !!!
Vitality coming in clutch right there
try the ringed finger, it just seens a funny weapon for a showcase. Btw, nice tears of denial in the hammer guy battle XD
You should have cosplayed with the ronin armor
Sheesh, the guy with the Vyke's Dragonbolt buff was so unlucky going up against you
I hope chase demos a nice occult scaling thing.
Idk if this is the right place to ask but how do you perform the light version of unsheathe on mouse and keyboard? Do I just have to remap my controls because with the default ones it's literally impossible.
set up the stance then press whatever button you have mapped to light attack
@@DontJinxItYet See the thing is you can't because to enter the sheathed stance you hold shift + right click and to heavy attack you press shift + left click so once you let go of shift to unsheathe light attack you leave the stance altogether. Same issue goes for square off.
@@anitaremenarova6662 that's strange, i don't play M/KB so i don't know what causes this or how to fix it, maybe try mapping the weapon art button to something else (maybe the middle mouse button?)
@@DontJinxItYet I'll probably change it to CTRL, that's what it used to be in DS3.
Hey Chase, could you maybe try out the Sacred Relic Sword in some of your next showcases? Thanks!
I hate sacred relic sword AoW its so buggy the amount of times I've dodged through and still been hit is stupid
@@brandentaft5164 To be honest, it can be kinda bs at times for the receiving end, surprises me sometimes how it can be accepted as an AoW, but in scenarios like meta gank squads that like hammering you down, it can really take out the whole field and save the effort
@@armechaia4646 ye it's really nice for clearing lots of enemies too
Helphens steeple would be great to see