Floating passage + living force or bestowal jutsu. Most arts take away any buff on your sword hindering damage output. Could use additional testing as I don't have all ending/arts yet.
I'm a sucker for quick draw from sheath techniques so I'm glad that Ashina Cross is pretty good for something that isn't that expensive to use. I also like Floating Passage because it puts enemies on the defensive.
It could also be “one heart” The “shin” in “isshin” is “Kokoro” as an individual word, which is used as the “figurative” heart or mind in Japanese. Actually now that I think about it, do we know what kanji make up his name? Because “shin” could be a number of things besides “mind”/“heart”
I just wish we were able to equip up to 3 Combat Arts, just like Prosthetic Tools, and toggle them mid-combat at will. That would be awesome, and would really showcase the utility of different Combat Arts for different situations. It would also make the intense grind for all the skills feel far more worthwhile.
@@lebigfrog2079 but to hit pause in this game your character can't do any action so you cant for example shadow rush into high monk which would be awesome.
Lol, I have literally been thinking the same idea! I was thinking about if they ever add a pvp mode so it wouldn't be super cheesy with prosthetics. 3 combat arts instead of 3 prosthetics.
honestly, i feel combat arts shouldn't cost spirit emblems. the ones that have long combos and high damage outputs also give the opponent a chance to strike back at the player, which really does balance it out and doesn't make it too op. making them cost emblems will make it so that you can only use them 4-5 times a fight, which really isn't enough considering the minimal damage most of them do. it'll cause most players to outright ignore those that cost spirit emblems because of their impracticality, which is a pity because they're sooooo cool to look at.
No need to worry about my username except for dragon flash too much range also mortal blade is just too much damage to be able to spam every time you get an opening
You do realize that if you are out of spirit emblems you can still use them. It only becomes a problem when you want to use the prosthetic, but unlike the prosthetic you don't need to have spirit emblems to use them, it just drains them if you have them, if that makes any sense.
My bad I forgot to mention the One Mind and Dragon Flash skills, you can still use them but in order to fully charge them you will need spirit emblems, will have to test Empowered Mortal Blade if you can still charge it without spirit emblems
I really wish FROM would stop making the coolest moves the least practical/worthwhile. Stuff like Spiral Cloud and One Mind are super cool looking but not worth the high cost for low damage output.
yeah i agree most of them are bad and you have only one skill to choose from they need a balance update for the broken values on them, like the mortal draw, it takes maybe 3 emblems but do less than shadowfall or shadowrush which cost half and it is very risky attack.
Praying strikes owns the first two phases of the final boss of this game. Interesting point not mentioned is that it's the only combat art that you can hit confirm with r1 and combo into. So deflect, r1, r1, praying strike, praying strike, praying strike. It's uninterruptible, and builds up poise damage super fast. Plus it works well with the descending carp passive ability.
That’s my experience as well. Praying strikes is super underrated. Doesn’t recover posture like ichimonji but it is faster, deals posture damage and can be interrupted. If I’m going for posture kill I use this ability
As soon as I got praying strikes I never looked back. Great skill for applying posture damage. I don't think this video really touched on how these skills fit into real life combos (which generally include r1 attacks)
The problem is you can get suck into spamming attack if you use praying strikes. And when The AI senses that you're spamming attack they're gonna throw out them unblockable moves and you can react to it cause you're stuck in the animation. I used it against Genichiro, was doing great until I he use the jump move and I can't get out of the way cause I was in praying strikes animation :(
Guys I found out that the ichimonji double is even better than we thought it was. If you get mid-air combat arts, you can hit one right after a jump counter (countering a sweeping attack) if you start as soon as you jump on them
Dont sleep on Praying strikes Exorcism. It can create an excellent combo moveset to your standard swing. Soon as an enemy deflects, deflect their attack and use it to break through their combo and follow up with standard attacks, or prosthetic combo tools like Sibumaru.
Really don't get why FROM always makes the coolest looking abilities useless and cost a resource. Make them good enough to use and put them on a cooldown so we can actually do cool shit. Great video though
^This... Alternatively, give some skills a limited number of uses (just like your items) but make them really effective in exchange... E.g., you can only use One Mind 5 times between each Rest so you can't spam it, but it utterly wrecks with those 5 uses.
You are supposed to make mixed attacks with them, like the Spiral Cloud Passage and the Flame Vent+Living Force skill is an OP combination, and just like that try to be creative with them Some combat arts are for stratigical uses like the Praying Strikes Combat Art can interrupt most of the Perilous Attacks (grabs especially) or most of the attacks that have hyperarmor.
This video showed me just how useful High Monk really is! I've always neglected my combat arts in tough fights (except for cheese strats) as I'm more focused on deflects and close quarters combat, and I hate having to jump sweep attacks from tough enemies. I never could've imagined that skill having so much utility on offer! Definitely gonna pick this up when I have the skill points to unlock it so I can axe kick some sweep spamming samurai in the face.
Some comments about the rather underrated skills Nightjar slash: reversal steps forward before slashing. The step-forward means a few things: first, in sekiro you may have realized that most enemies block only if they "Think" you are going to hit them. Sometimes you may have found if you attack on the edge of your attack range, you might just get a free hit. The step forward mechanism of nightjar reversal means it has a longer effective range than a standard light, meaning half of the time, if you place yourself correctly, they enemy wont even try to block. One of the cheapest ways to get vitality damage, as the followup backflip means you'll be safe even if they deflect it. Second, the slash is lightning fast. As fast as a light attack, if not faster, I kid you not. This means that you can literally use it on reaction to enemy attacks. If they hyperarmor through your slash, you're safe, because of the backflip. If they are smart and cancel their attack into a block, you still get away stock free. I honestly find this move filthy. It even works against certain perilous attacks, you are able to squeeze in that sneaky slash and backflip away in time. Praying strikes is meant to be used sandwiched in between a swordfight. Praying strikes can be executed almost immediately after a light attack, as fast if not faster than if you were to throw another light. Additionally, if it gets deflected, the combo isn't broken. Light-spam is countered by parrying, but not if you mix in some praying strikes. It is used to keep up a constant harassment against enemies. That being said, praying strikes: exorcism is not as useful, as the recovery from the third strike is too slow, and I find myself getting punished if I throw out the third strike. default praying strikes is virtually no risk, it interrupts quite effectively and is lightning fast.
To update those who look at the video the newest patch(1.03) reduced dragon flash to 2 spirit and 3 for one mind, now you only spend 3 spirit emblems to do the whole combination of spiral cloud.
Literally was looking for video demonstrating CAs to compare and build my way through to the most usefull ones. Glad it came from you man. Great stuff as always 👍
yup, me 3... I've got half a dozen points saved up, and didn't know if I should get Ashina Cross or not. I love the way the ShadowRush looks, but there is nothing cooler than Iado AFAIC
I have to say praying strikes is amazing. I’ve beaten Isshin sword saint while he still had more than 50% vitality with it. It comes out fast, deals massive posture damage and the 3rd hit knocks them back giving you spacing. But my favorite is shadow fall. Unblockable, closes distance fast, and looks cool.
I'm pretty sure that the advantage of praying strikes is that the enemy is stun-locked for the entire combo, so it's useful for enemies you can't get more than one or two hits in before you need to deflect.
IMO I wish there was a 2nd slot for combat arts. I rarely find myself having more than 4-5 quick slot items at any time even back in Dark Souls. So coming into a fast game like Sekiro where there's barely anytime to cycle through 5 items, I'd gladly give 1 quick item slot up in exchange for a 2nd active combat art. On a PS4 controller, I'd remap the controls to this setup; Up to change prosthetic tool, down to change combat art, left & right to cycle quick slot items, square to interact/eavesdrop, & triangle to use quick slot items. Also I think it's fair that some combat arts cost spirit emblems, especially the mushin arts. But it's ridiculous how Spiral Cloud costs an emblem for each attack. Hopefully, they'll lower some of the costs, or at least give some of these combat arts poise frames or the ability to interrupt some enemy attacks.
funnything is i use inchmonji to swap items it has about a second of attackand as long as the boss isnt power armoring it its really wasy to cycle items in fights where the people block
First game where I honestly feel like a master level swordsman, with so much focus on the technical aspects of swordplay along with all the flashy moves. Also appreciate how many special attacks aren't just the standard iaijutsu stuff you see with katanas in games.
Most of the bosses, especially end-game ones, end up using tons of skills Sekiro can learn. For example, Genichiro uses the Empowered Mortal Draw and Spiral Cloud Passage. Sword Saint uses Ashina Cross, Ichimonji Double, Dragon Flash, etc
I think the most useful thing about Floating Passage is that it's free, it starts fast, and most importantly each slash does a little damage through enemy blocks. I did a no-parry run recently and Floating Passage is a great way to get damage through enemies who won't stop blocking. You can whittle down more defensive enemies this way, but I wouldn't recommend it against big guys.
It also does 20% chip damage through guards. I believe that's the highest chip percentage in the game. Although that is 20% of Floating Passage's reduced damage per hit. But do to the fact that it is a 5 hit combo, compared to Whirlwind Slash's 2 hits, it's harder for enemies to deflect every hit.
Did a few rough tests on the moves once the v.1.03 update got installed. What I observed thus far: - Spiral Floating Passage seems to be now much more economical. Seems to use 3 Spirit Emblems instead of 7 for a full combo with one spirit emblem mandatorily being used for the opening strike. - High Monk and Senpou Leaping Kicks..as per the patch notes they do seem to have a reduced posture damage for the first strike but the final strike seems to have been buffed up as well which makes it more balanced or more sensible as a combo ender than before.
I think the Ichimonji Double, High Monk and Shadowfall are by far the best arts, way more useful than any of the others. I love how Ichi and Monk cost no emblems yet are 10 times more useful than most of the ones that do. Spiral Cloud Passage and Empowered Mortal Draw were both sooooo underwhelming.
I personally found praying strikes exorcism to be effective on Genichiro. Good way to interrupt his attacks and keep his posture in the same place or gain a bit.
Sucks that few are worth using. Nightjar Slash is an amazing tool for many situations. Praying Strikes is a good combo tool, Dragon Flash deals big damage but sadly it has no armour so you have to learn when to use for its full potential or simply do a quick version although still slow. Leaping Kicks\High Monk good for sweep counter but you lose some fun potential from the double jump. Ichimonji is super good, punish some attacks, recover your posture while dealing good posture damage to them. No spirit emblem needed... wow
@@dragonkamran Leaping Double Ichimonji - "Am I a joke to you?" If you unlock Leaping Combat Arts, you can jump into Double Ichimonji without windup. Great for shortening distance and punishing sweep attacks. No windup, no emblems, greater range than a Nightjar Slash, great damage and it recovers your own posture - absolutely broken. Depending on your timing, you can deflect one attack mid-air before landing the Double Ichimonji. Plus, you get to LARP as Genichiro and his leaping/stabbing combo.
Imagine fighting someone in real life, and you know when they're about to start throwing out different moves because they opened their 'inventory' to pick another combat art.
Thanks bro. I got my boy subbed to ur channel now. He was asking me how I know all this shit about the game and shared a shit ton of ur vids with him. He just got into the souls games and been a huge fan of Bloodborne but never played souls until recently so ur channel helped him a ton. Love ur content.
If you unlock Leaping Combat Arts, you can jump into Double Ichimonji without windup. Great for shortening distance and punishing sweep attacks. No windup, no emblems, greater range than a Nightjar Slash, great damage and it recovers your own posture - absolutely broken. Depending on your timing, you can even deflect one attack mid-air before landing the Double Ichimonji. Plus, you get to LARP as Genichiro and his leaping/stabbing combo.
@@borismuller86 Yep, start immediately as you jump towards an enemy, and you remove the main drawback of the art. Same with when you're bouncing off a sweep punish.
Always high monk/ leaping kick because it is like the mikiri counter to sweep attack. See the "perilous" symbol? If it's a thrust, doge forward to mikiri, if it's a sweep, drop kick them.
You didn't mention that big selling points for whirlwind slash are that it interrupts perilous attacks and it damages vitality even if the enemy is guarding
My Fav is High Monk , Dragon Flash & Shadowfall ✌🏼 Pro Tip : Dragon Flash ( Quick Draw & Charged Draw can be Enhanced by Divine Confetti altho only the 1st Initial Strike ). Now on 1.03/1.04 it costs 2 Emblems which is a VERY strong Art if u play NG+'s it Helps alott trust me. It deals around 15% more damage when u have Divine Confetti/ Sacred Flame Living Force buff... this is a Very good Art combined with Confetti buff to take out Tougher Enemies like ( Generals on Set Ablaze , Red Hat Dual Wielders with White Mustaches & Red Armored Heavy Trooper near Demon of Hatred... aswell as all LoneShadows it just melts their HP & Posture with only 1 usage with Confetti on &/or Ako Sugar. *Be mindful that Enemies on every NG+ Cycle , they deal around 50% more damage on every NG+ Cycle... which makes this Art pretty useful all in all* While ShadowRush : This Art is pretty straight forward... the unblockable nature of this Art is just Fun & Good in terms of damage , however i suggest you use this on tough fights against all Mini Bosses ( with the Exception of Equipping Lazulite Axe or Spark Axe it doesn't matter + Fang & Blade ). This will give you a Very strong follow up Attack while you're on the Air instead of mashing R1's... just use Axe when u jump after stabbing them with shadowrush... makes 4 Emblem uses very useful & DEADLY. This allowed me to Slay Ujinari Red Eye Elite with only using it twice ( Shadowrush + R2 Spark Axe + Fang & Blade )
@FightinCowboy The new update apparently makes adjustments to High Monk and Senpou Leaping Kicks by reducing the posture damage of the first blow. I know you're not into them, but what's your take on the way the work now?
@@FightinCowboy Update's going on so I haven't checked myself. Almost never used Mortal Draw or Empowered Mortal Draw. Wish there was some enemy where it is particularly effective like a plot line. Personally yeah i do love the Ichimonji Double. Nightjar Slash is so good for many occasions, Lady Butterfly is nearly helpless against a barrage of it except for the occasional deflect if your timing is slightly off. One Mind has some potential with decent damage and spirit cost. Dragon Flash is awesome for the long range. Spiral Cloud Passage was interesting if it weren't for the huge spirit emblem cost for full combo. Floating Passage itself is kinda ok since it doesn't cost spirit emblems, but very little vitality damage for that many blows and even lesser posture damage compared to regular sword attacks.
who in their right mind giving one mind and floating passage no poise in their animation? atleast maybe make them some sort of vampiric passive or cut the damn emblem
I actually think One Mind is underrated because you can dodge out of all the follow-up slashes the second you sheath the sword, allowing you to just leave it there, as well as it travelling very far forward with the first attack that staggers a lot of enemies, with the follow-ups often doing lots of tiny posture damage or vitality damage. I will say the one thing I'm not super sure about is the second follow-up which doesn't really feel worth it.
a good thing about the shadowrush thrust attack is that even without the emblems you can still perform the thrust but it wont give you the opening window for the followup attack so you gotta deflect the attacks after that
Floating Passage or Spiral Cloud Passage + Bestowal Blade Ninjitsu = Lady Maria If you don't mind spending a buttload of spirit emblems, this lets you jump into a large group of enemies and kill them quickly, easily, and in the most flashy way possible. This works best against enemies that either: 1) ...do a lot of blocking (your constant attacks will keep them blocking instead of attacking you while bestowal quickly chips all their health away) 2) ...have a small health/posture pool Because you're still vulnerable to flinching and don't cause much flinching to enemies, it's important to focus down the right targets. Some enemies have attacks that aren't easily interrupted. Keep these enemies in front of you and simply jump away when they stop blocking to do one of these attacks. This is made easy by the fact that both "Passage" combat arts can be canceled mid-combo. If you _really_ want to be safe with this method, you could always just use a red lump, but that may be too much of a waste. Spirit emblems are easy to acquire and stockpile, but red lumps are far more limited and probably best reserved for bosses.
Nice tutorial, great gameplay in your walkthrough section. One remark. You mentioned using ichimonji with jumping forward is strange (with the talent of using it in the air). I would disagree, it's best combo in the game for closing distance, especially after dodging swipes or even after jumping to dodge swipe vertically, jump on the head again and then when going down you can finish the jump with ichimonji animation already hitting the opponent. All 4 phases of final bosses can't handle jumping ichimonji even as gap closer.
i know this is before the GOTY edition but Sakura Dance is probably the goto combat art, (gained from Inner Genichiro). But obviously double ichimonji is base game greatness
Just wanted to say I have been loving all the Sekiro coverage. Prob my fave game to watch you play after Dark Souls 3 and Bloodbourne. Keep up the great work your the man. Ps I turn everyone I can in Calgary, Canada onto your channel.
People complaining about Spiral Cloud Passage... If you open with Flame-Vent into Living Force, then get your SCP combo off, you'll have taken almost 50% of SS Isshin's posture down, for example. It will also apply the burn effect, dealing more damage, causing a stagger, and stop posture regen. It's good for pressuring an aggressive boss due to its chip damage to both vitality and posture.
Utializing ichimonji Double for maximun effect is only after jumping or using the Feathers prosthetic tool.Only then you can have complete mastery of the Art!
Combat Arts from Temple Tree can interrupt some enemies attacks has a very small window of I-Frames, good to use from from other passives. Find it baffling didn’t cover these parts in this tree.
Cowboy thanks man. Been back in gaming for past two years. PS4 for one year. Far cry baited me in. Games like sekiro seemed way too hard for me man. I bought this game preorder. 3 hours in and only at my 3rd idol, I gave up. Found your channel, now I’m a shinobi killing machine. Playing along your play through has brought a whole new level to my gaming. Thanks man. Keep it up. Gonna do dark souls 3 next.
I kinda wish some of the combat arts was just put into the regular combat. The combat in this game use just as many button as Devil May Cry 5, they both have only one melee button and you can do a lot of great combos in that game. I hate you have to choose between Whirlwind Slash, Ichimonji and Floating Passage, what if you could unlock them as combos, and then you could have one of the Shadow Rush, Ashina cross, High monk etc as the LB+RB ability. I could see Icimonji being performed by holding the left stick up and press RB, or double press it or something like that. That's also the thing I like about Niho is you unlock all these different combos you can do. Of course FromSoftware are not action game developer and Team Ninja was, and Devil May Cry is kinda the godfather of that genre. But there are so many cool moves you are never going to use. Imagine starting with a Whirlwind slash, going into floating passage and end with an Ichimonji? How cool would that be?
The Ichimonji and Double Ichimonji are easily the best arts. High damage to vitality and posture, posture recover, and a stagger all for no emblem cost? It's the best value for some of the best output.
I think the spiral cloud passage is supposed to be used reactively, like a "get off me" kind of thing. Instead of using it for pure damage you can have it keep you from being surrounded and buy you time to reposition yourself.
Nah it's actually the 3rd strongest attack in the game after empowered mortal draw and one mind. It's to be used with living force or bestowal and it becomes the highest damage attack in the game
FightinCowboy, do you have a video on how to setup the elgato and what settings do you use for rendering the video? Is this video was captured in HDR? I can't get the same sharpness of the video.
As you saw yourself the Ichimonji Double as well as the Praying Strikes did charge enemy posture bars almost full. The difference being that Ichimonji is slow at the start up and thus bad at faster enemies e.g. monks, ninjas. tengu, etc. Both accomplish the same goal on different enemies. Ichimonji is really only good for bosses and elite (mini-bosses) that drive up the player's posture bar. @everyone saying worthless skill: Well, you know if you play games to have fun, you can have it and see using one mind as an additional challenge. Also it's the most underrated skill, imo and is even more undervalued by showing against archer enemies or just regular ones, they die with the first sheathed hit. Same goes for the Floating Passage/Spiral Cloud Passage. Heavily underrated. Remember that not every enemy is going to let your Ichimonji through and you need a faster move even when the enemy already finished it's attack. Many just see the damage and forget that good moves also need to have a quick start-up. It should be rated similarly to how moves are rated in a fighting game, were most quick 3 or 4 frame moves are really good as starters (in a 2D fighting game). Ichimonji in that regards have abysmal start up. Also where is the footage of some of the arts performed on bigger enemies? As always, I'll stay a Iaido weeb and will prefer Ashina Cross and One Mind for fun playthroughs.
If you unlock Leaping Combat Arts, you can jump into Double Ichimonji without windup. Great for shortening distance and punishing sweep attacks. No windup, no emblems, greater range than a Nightjar Slash, great damage and it recovers your own posture - absolutely broken. Depending on your timing, you can deflect one attack mid-air before landing the Double Ichimonji. Plus, you get to LARP as Genichiro and his leaping/stabbing combo.
I was so disappointed when I learned that you could only have one combat art equipped at a time. Imagine if combat arts were cumulative and you could do any/all of the arts you've learned at any time with different button combos. You would have to master the different combinations to do the different skills, so the more powerful combat arts would require more buttons instead of spirit emblems. It would be like Dark Souls + Fighting Game mechanics!
@@FightinCowboy quick question man, AOE, what does that stand for. Please forgive my ignorance, couldn't find it in the comments anywhere. Great videos btw, really like your boss guides. 👍👍
I know you moved on with sekiro but watching your guides helped me through sekiro i only didn't watched your genichiro , ape and true monk guide but i watched every guide including mini bosses. Once i was stuck in ishin the sword saint, it would have been over 30 to 40 minutes of fighting ishin (cuz how kong that fight is) and i watched your ishin guide again and after 2 to 3 tries I reached his lighting attack form and i dog watered him with his own lightning and beat the f out of him . Without losing a ressurect. And i got the homecoming ending 🤞 hopefully a sequel to sekiro would be great and i would immediately play it if it comes out.
Nightjar slash has to be my favourite. Great for chasing down retreating enemies to keep the pressure on, like the nightjar or these shotgun fucks. Hell, you can even dodge quite a lot of attacks with it too.
0:47 The two NPC in the background on the left are like: - Look! There is the TV with the camera crew and all over there. There is a guy speaking, this looks cool. - Yeah... For some reason I have a bad feeling about this.
If you unlock Leaping Combat Arts, you can jump into Double Ichimonji without windup. Great for shortening distance and punishing sweep attacks. No windup, no emblems, greater range than a Nightjar Slash, great damage and it recovers your own posture - absolutely broken. Depending on your timing, you can even deflect one attack mid-air before landing the Double Ichimonji. Plus, you get to LARP as Genichiro and his leaping/stabbing combo.
every combat art costing spirit emblems can still be used without emblems as a wekaer version senpou leaping kicks dodges sweeps and is a better punish than jumping. lots of later arts deal damage through blocks.
So after seeing all the arts what's your favorite? I think I'll always be an Ichimonji bro for life. 😅
The ichi double. Very good for posture damage
Double Ichimonji for Posture. Mortal Draw for Vit and because it looks cool. Hopefully the skills get balanced someday
Floating passage + living force or bestowal jutsu. Most arts take away any buff on your sword hindering damage output. Could use additional testing as I don't have all ending/arts yet.
I like the dragon flash
I'm a sucker for quick draw from sheath techniques so I'm glad that Ashina Cross is pretty good for something that isn't that expensive to use.
I also like Floating Passage because it puts enemies on the defensive.
1:09 - Whirlwind Slash
1:33 - Nightjar Slash
2:24 - Nightjar Slash Reversal
3:12 - Ichimonji
4:04 - Ichimonji Double
5:13 - Ashina Cross
6:21 - Praying Strikes
7:02 - Praying Strikes Exorcism
7:55 - Senpou Leaping Kick
9:02 - High Monk
10:18 - Shadowrush
11:21 - Shadowfall
12:07 - Dragon Flash
13:02 - One Mind
13:34 - Floating Passage
14:49 - Spiral Cloud Passage
15:33 - Mortal Draw
16:16 - Empowered Mortal Draw
Thx
Not all heroes wear capes :)
You should mention that in order to get floating passage you need to go to Hirata estate and go talk to the pot nobleman at the first idol
Thank you 👊
Yes
Fun fact : One Mind literally translates to "Isshin" in Japanese
It could also be “one heart”
The “shin” in “isshin” is “Kokoro” as an individual word, which is used as the “figurative” heart or mind in Japanese.
Actually now that I think about it, do we know what kanji make up his name? Because “shin” could be a number of things besides “mind”/“heart”
And mushin, in short, a flow state. 'Empty mind'.
@@Lachy314 Ashina Isshin is written as 葦名一心
@@deppudeppudeppu Does One Mind use the same characters?
一心 means "one heart"
As is usual with From games. The coolest looking attacks are the most worthless ones.
*laughs in Darksouls 3 vanilla Farron Greatsword*
I wouldn't say usual.
DS 3: Frayed Blade is one of the best katanas or the twin ugs
Bloodborne: chikage, blades of mercy, Rakuyo :)
@@te-jay6058 That's the katana I fucking main. Love it so damn much!
@@te-jay6058 i never knew i could love a weapon so much until i attained b.o.m and rakuyo
Doing the High Monk kick to counter swipes is one of the coolest things I've done in the entire game.
I just wish we were able to equip up to 3 Combat Arts, just like Prosthetic Tools, and toggle them mid-combat at will. That would be awesome, and would really showcase the utility of different Combat Arts for different situations. It would also make the intense grind for all the skills feel far more worthwhile.
Bro tweet this @ them
@@bishopwilson1016 Just made a Twitter to do this. Thanks for the encouragement!
Well, you can technicaly switch in by pausing and unpausing and equiping whatever arts...but I get your point lel
@@lebigfrog2079 but to hit pause in this game your character can't do any action so you cant for example shadow rush into high monk which would be awesome.
Lol, I have literally been thinking the same idea!
I was thinking about if they ever add a pvp mode so it wouldn't be super cheesy with prosthetics.
3 combat arts instead of 3 prosthetics.
5:33 the dirt kick disrespect lol
I wish we could do this in future pvp games lol
there is almost no rule in combat
It is a good thing that we can throw Fistfull of Ash on our enemies.
honestly, i feel combat arts shouldn't cost spirit emblems. the ones that have long combos and high damage outputs also give the opponent a chance to strike back at the player, which really does balance it out and doesn't make it too op. making them cost emblems will make it so that you can only use them 4-5 times a fight, which really isn't enough considering the minimal damage most of them do. it'll cause most players to outright ignore those that cost spirit emblems because of their impracticality, which is a pity because they're sooooo cool to look at.
No need to worry about my username except for dragon flash too much range also mortal blade is just too much damage to be able to spam every time you get an opening
You do realize that if you are out of spirit emblems you can still use them. It only becomes a problem when you want to use the prosthetic, but unlike the prosthetic you don't need to have spirit emblems to use them, it just drains them if you have them, if that makes any sense.
My bad I forgot to mention the One Mind and Dragon Flash skills, you can still use them but in order to fully charge them you will need spirit emblems, will have to test Empowered Mortal Blade if you can still charge it without spirit emblems
They dont.
use them without spirit emblems, theyre a tad weaker bur work nonetheless.
I just use the tanto
I really wish FROM would stop making the coolest moves the least practical/worthwhile. Stuff like Spiral Cloud and One Mind are super cool looking but not worth the high cost for low damage output.
Chaos2Frozen they can’t make it too op tho
@@huskytzu7709 I don't think making them underpowered is the solution though.
all combat arts are situational, find the right spot to use them.
yeah i agree most of them are bad and you have only one skill to choose from they need a balance update for the broken values on them, like the mortal draw, it takes maybe 3 emblems but do less than shadowfall or shadowrush which cost half and it is very risky attack.
@@kinh0t Do you have an example?
Using Shadow Rush against Owl is highly unrecommended as he will just Mikiri Counter it.
As well as every other thrust attack
Use it when he has just finished attacking
Anything that is a trust, even the spear tool. Of course he won't mikiri if he has his back exposed
But it's good against both Isshin
High Monk and Kicks skills are great if timed well against him tho
Praying strikes owns the first two phases of the final boss of this game. Interesting point not mentioned is that it's the only combat art that you can hit confirm with r1 and combo into. So deflect, r1, r1, praying strike, praying strike, praying strike. It's uninterruptible, and builds up poise damage super fast. Plus it works well with the descending carp passive ability.
That’s my experience as well. Praying strikes is super underrated. Doesn’t recover posture like ichimonji but it is faster, deals posture damage and can be interrupted. If I’m going for posture kill I use this ability
As soon as I got praying strikes I never looked back. Great skill for applying posture damage. I don't think this video really touched on how these skills fit into real life combos (which generally include r1 attacks)
@@jayjax229 That is true, also certain ninja tools, actually combo with certain skills as well.
Dude thanks so much ❤️
The problem is you can get suck into spamming attack if you use praying strikes. And when The AI senses that you're spamming attack they're gonna throw out them unblockable moves and you can react to it cause you're stuck in the animation. I used it against Genichiro, was doing great until I he use the jump move and I can't get out of the way cause I was in praying strikes animation :(
Pulling of Anti-air death blows with High Monk on those purple ninjas is the sweetest ng+ revenge I’ve experienced in gaming.
Guys I found out that the ichimonji double is even better than we thought it was. If you get mid-air combat arts, you can hit one right after a jump counter (countering a sweeping attack) if you start as soon as you jump on them
Dont sleep on Praying strikes Exorcism. It can create an excellent combo moveset to your standard swing. Soon as an enemy deflects, deflect their attack and use it to break through their combo and follow up with standard attacks, or prosthetic combo tools like Sibumaru.
Really don't get why FROM always makes the coolest looking abilities useless and cost a resource. Make them good enough to use and put them on a cooldown so we can actually do cool shit. Great video though
^This... Alternatively, give some skills a limited number of uses (just like your items) but make them really effective in exchange... E.g., you can only use One Mind 5 times between each Rest so you can't spam it, but it utterly wrecks with those 5 uses.
You are supposed to make mixed attacks with them, like the Spiral Cloud Passage and the Flame Vent+Living Force skill is an OP combination, and just like that try to be creative with them
Some combat arts are for stratigical uses like the Praying Strikes Combat Art can interrupt most of the Perilous Attacks (grabs especially) or most of the attacks that have hyperarmor.
IMO Ichimonji: double is the best one no spirit emblems and a lot of posture damage
Not to mention it can break through some hyper armor and recovers your own posture.
This video showed me just how useful High Monk really is! I've always neglected my combat arts in tough fights (except for cheese strats) as I'm more focused on deflects and close quarters combat, and I hate having to jump sweep attacks from tough enemies. I never could've imagined that skill having so much utility on offer! Definitely gonna pick this up when I have the skill points to unlock it so I can axe kick some sweep spamming samurai in the face.
Some comments about the rather underrated skills
Nightjar slash: reversal steps forward before slashing. The step-forward means a few things: first, in sekiro you may have realized that most enemies block only if they "Think" you are going to hit them. Sometimes you may have found if you attack on the edge of your attack range, you might just get a free hit. The step forward mechanism of nightjar reversal means it has a longer effective range than a standard light, meaning half of the time, if you place yourself correctly, they enemy wont even try to block. One of the cheapest ways to get vitality damage, as the followup backflip means you'll be safe even if they deflect it.
Second, the slash is lightning fast. As fast as a light attack, if not faster, I kid you not. This means that you can literally use it on reaction to enemy attacks. If they hyperarmor through your slash, you're safe, because of the backflip. If they are smart and cancel their attack into a block, you still get away stock free. I honestly find this move filthy. It even works against certain perilous attacks, you are able to squeeze in that sneaky slash and backflip away in time.
Praying strikes is meant to be used sandwiched in between a swordfight. Praying strikes can be executed almost immediately after a light attack, as fast if not faster than if you were to throw another light. Additionally, if it gets deflected, the combo isn't broken. Light-spam is countered by parrying, but not if you mix in some praying strikes. It is used to keep up a constant harassment against enemies. That being said, praying strikes: exorcism is not as useful, as the recovery from the third strike is too slow, and I find myself getting punished if I throw out the third strike.
default praying strikes is virtually no risk, it interrupts quite effectively and is lightning fast.
To update those who look at the video the newest patch(1.03) reduced dragon flash to 2 spirit and 3 for one mind, now you only spend 3 spirit emblems to do the whole combination of spiral cloud.
Literally was looking for video demonstrating CAs to compare and build my way through to the most usefull ones. Glad it came from you man. Great stuff as always 👍
yup, me 3... I've got half a dozen points saved up, and didn't know if I should get Ashina Cross or not. I love the way the ShadowRush looks, but there is nothing cooler than Iado AFAIC
I have to say praying strikes is amazing. I’ve beaten Isshin sword saint while he still had more than 50% vitality with it. It comes out fast, deals massive posture damage and the 3rd hit knocks them back giving you spacing.
But my favorite is shadow fall. Unblockable, closes distance fast, and looks cool.
Shadowrush reminds me of Saito from Rurouni Kenshin. Gatotsu!
I'm pretty sure that the advantage of praying strikes is that the enemy is stun-locked for the entire combo, so it's useful for enemies you can't get more than one or two hits in before you need to deflect.
IMO I wish there was a 2nd slot for combat arts. I rarely find myself having more than 4-5 quick slot items at any time even back in Dark Souls. So coming into a fast game like Sekiro where there's barely anytime to cycle through 5 items, I'd gladly give 1 quick item slot up in exchange for a 2nd active combat art. On a PS4 controller, I'd remap the controls to this setup; Up to change prosthetic tool, down to change combat art, left & right to cycle quick slot items, square to interact/eavesdrop, & triangle to use quick slot items.
Also I think it's fair that some combat arts cost spirit emblems, especially the mushin arts. But it's ridiculous how Spiral Cloud costs an emblem for each attack. Hopefully, they'll lower some of the costs, or at least give some of these combat arts poise frames or the ability to interrupt some enemy attacks.
funnything is i use inchmonji to swap items it has about a second of attackand as long as the boss isnt power armoring it its really wasy to cycle items in fights where the people block
This is a very best arts guide on youtube! Great job and thanks for clearing everything about skills!
First game where I honestly feel like a master level swordsman, with so much focus on the technical aspects of swordplay along with all the flashy moves. Also appreciate how many special attacks aren't just the standard iaijutsu stuff you see with katanas in games.
sekiro is a rythm game
The upgrade for Shadow Rush is basically the version of Shadowrush that Owl uses.
Most of the bosses, especially end-game ones, end up using tons of skills Sekiro can learn. For example, Genichiro uses the Empowered Mortal Draw and Spiral Cloud Passage. Sword Saint uses Ashina Cross, Ichimonji Double, Dragon Flash, etc
@@RiceeHD but cant we have lightning strikes too? T_T
Oh wait i forgot most bosses cant just jump and deflect them it'd be too op......but seriously though it looks so damm cool.
@@desync1224 Let's hope for the DLC
I think the most useful thing about Floating Passage is that it's free, it starts fast, and most importantly each slash does a little damage through enemy blocks. I did a no-parry run recently and Floating Passage is a great way to get damage through enemies who won't stop blocking. You can whittle down more defensive enemies this way, but I wouldn't recommend it against big guys.
It also does 20% chip damage through guards. I believe that's the highest chip percentage in the game. Although that is 20% of Floating Passage's reduced damage per hit. But do to the fact that it is a 5 hit combo, compared to Whirlwind Slash's 2 hits, it's harder for enemies to deflect every hit.
Did a few rough tests on the moves once the v.1.03 update got installed. What I observed thus far:
- Spiral Floating Passage seems to be now much more economical. Seems to use 3 Spirit Emblems instead of 7 for a full combo with one spirit emblem mandatorily being used for the opening strike.
- High Monk and Senpou Leaping Kicks..as per the patch notes they do seem to have a reduced posture damage for the first strike but the final strike seems to have been buffed up as well which makes it more balanced or more sensible as a combo ender than before.
I think the Ichimonji Double, High Monk and Shadowfall are by far the best arts, way more useful than any of the others. I love how Ichi and Monk cost no emblems yet are 10 times more useful than most of the ones that do. Spiral Cloud Passage and Empowered Mortal Draw were both sooooo underwhelming.
Bruh mortal draw is op what are smoking
Mortal Draw is like the easy mode for the game
Ichimonji Double always
Man, I could get Judgment Cut if I went for the worst ending?!
Well, it's a shame it's not nearly as practical as Dragon Flash.
Royal Guard.
You should time stamp the attacks in your description!
When you jump and then do a combat art (mortal draw for example) it does significantly more posture and vitality damage
I personally found praying strikes exorcism to be effective on Genichiro. Good way to interrupt his attacks and keep his posture in the same place or gain a bit.
Sucks that few are worth using. Nightjar Slash is an amazing tool for many situations. Praying Strikes is a good combo tool, Dragon Flash deals big damage but sadly it has no armour so you have to learn when to use for its full potential or simply do a quick version although still slow.
Leaping Kicks\High Monk good for sweep counter but you lose some fun potential from the double jump.
Ichimonji is super good, punish some attacks, recover your posture while dealing good posture damage to them. No spirit emblem needed... wow
Beat the game 7 times relying on perfect deflect, ALL of these are ABSOLUTELY useless. Better spend the emblems on the tools.
@@dragonkamran Leaping Double Ichimonji - "Am I a joke to you?"
If you unlock Leaping Combat Arts, you can jump into Double Ichimonji without windup. Great for shortening distance and punishing sweep attacks. No windup, no emblems, greater range than a Nightjar Slash, great damage and it recovers your own posture - absolutely broken. Depending on your timing, you can deflect one attack mid-air before landing the Double Ichimonji. Plus, you get to LARP as Genichiro and his leaping/stabbing combo.
Empowered Mortal Draw looks like you are doing calligraphy
Mortal Draw is basically Miyazaki's paint brush coming into the game to wipe someone out of existence.
“And thus... I write your end!”
One mind: " A technique performed by a fallen western Oni warrior, Isshin succeeded 1/100 its power after years of trainning."
Imagine fighting someone in real life, and you know when they're about to start throwing out different moves because they opened their 'inventory' to pick another combat art.
Well that's basically what happens whenever you see someone take a moment to think lmao
I saw the One Mind Combat Art. Now I'm motivated!
Thanks bro. I got my boy subbed to ur channel now. He was asking me how I know all this shit about the game and shared a shit ton of ur vids with him. He just got into the souls games and been a huge fan of Bloodborne but never played souls until recently so ur channel helped him a ton. Love ur content.
If you unlock Leaping Combat Arts, you can jump into Double Ichimonji without windup. Great for shortening distance and punishing sweep attacks. No windup, no emblems, greater range than a Nightjar Slash, great damage and it recovers your own posture - absolutely broken. Depending on your timing, you can even deflect one attack mid-air before landing the Double Ichimonji. Plus, you get to LARP as Genichiro and his leaping/stabbing combo.
Thanks so much for making this; other videos just show these moves in the air.
I really wish you could equip two and change skills on the fly. Shadowrush into air-charged Ichimonji would be god-tier
Was thinking the same thing, corrputed monk loathes double jump ichimonji after sweep face kick
Can you air-charge Ichimonji?
@@borismuller86 Yep, start immediately as you jump towards an enemy, and you remove the main drawback of the art. Same with when you're bouncing off a sweep punish.
Always high monk/ leaping kick because it is like the mikiri counter to sweep attack. See the "perilous" symbol? If it's a thrust, doge forward to mikiri, if it's a sweep, drop kick them.
Ashina cross, shadow rush, floating passage, empowered mortal draw / boss end skills: dragon flash, one mind
With the night slash you can use it to improve your stealth blow range
I think my favorite will always be the mortal blade slash just because it looks cool and feels so strong
Underrated on Whirlwind Slash. It's quick and does chip damage on both hits.
One thing that wasn't mentioned, One Mind is the highest damaging combat art in the game, and the entire thing goes through blocks.
You didn't mention that big selling points for whirlwind slash are that it interrupts perilous attacks and it damages vitality even if the enemy is guarding
You can interpret perilous attacks by just pressing r1 that isn't a selling point its still ass compared to mongi and mortal draw
parry-less*
My Fav is High Monk , Dragon Flash & Shadowfall ✌🏼
Pro Tip : Dragon Flash ( Quick Draw & Charged Draw can be Enhanced by Divine Confetti altho only the 1st Initial Strike ). Now on 1.03/1.04 it costs 2 Emblems which is a VERY strong Art if u play NG+'s it Helps alott trust me. It deals around 15% more damage when u have Divine Confetti/ Sacred Flame Living Force buff... this is a Very good Art combined with Confetti buff to take out Tougher Enemies like ( Generals on Set Ablaze , Red Hat Dual Wielders with White Mustaches & Red Armored Heavy Trooper near Demon of Hatred... aswell as all LoneShadows it just melts their HP & Posture with only 1 usage with Confetti on &/or Ako Sugar.
*Be mindful that Enemies on every NG+ Cycle , they deal around 50% more damage on every NG+ Cycle... which makes this Art pretty useful all in all*
While ShadowRush : This Art is pretty straight forward... the unblockable nature of this Art is just Fun & Good in terms of damage , however i suggest you use this on tough fights against all Mini Bosses ( with the Exception of Equipping Lazulite Axe or Spark Axe it doesn't matter + Fang & Blade ). This will give you a Very strong follow up Attack while you're on the Air instead of mashing R1's... just use Axe when u jump after stabbing them with shadowrush... makes 4 Emblem uses very useful & DEADLY. This allowed me to Slay Ujinari Red Eye Elite with only using it twice ( Shadowrush + R2 Spark Axe + Fang & Blade )
@FightinCowboy
The new update apparently makes adjustments to High Monk and Senpou Leaping Kicks by reducing the posture damage of the first blow. I know you're not into them, but what's your take on the way the work now?
Haven't tried it but you could always just jump off the head of it's that bad
@@FightinCowboy Update's going on so I haven't checked myself. Almost never used Mortal Draw or Empowered Mortal Draw. Wish there was some enemy where it is particularly effective like a plot line.
Personally yeah i do love the Ichimonji Double.
Nightjar Slash is so good for many occasions, Lady Butterfly is nearly helpless against a barrage of it except for the occasional deflect if your timing is slightly off.
One Mind has some potential with decent damage and spirit cost.
Dragon Flash is awesome for the long range.
Spiral Cloud Passage was interesting if it weren't for the huge spirit emblem cost for full combo.
Floating Passage itself is kinda ok since it doesn't cost spirit emblems, but very little vitality damage for that many blows and even lesser posture damage compared to regular sword attacks.
who in their right mind giving one mind and floating passage no poise in their animation? atleast maybe make them some sort of vampiric passive or cut the damn emblem
One mind could have a teleportation style of evasion after the first attack, being able to connect the second attack of it
Does Sekiro even have poise as a stat? I'm not sure it does actually; From learned in Dark Souls that too much poise was game-breaking.
@@jameswitherow5149 You can poise through a lot of hits with heavy weapons like the axe
I actually think One Mind is underrated because you can dodge out of all the follow-up slashes the second you sheath the sword, allowing you to just leave it there, as well as it travelling very far forward with the first attack that staggers a lot of enemies, with the follow-ups often doing lots of tiny posture damage or vitality damage.
I will say the one thing I'm not super sure about is the second follow-up which doesn't really feel worth it.
I beat Genichiro with 90% of Nightjar Slash Reverse attacks, they do posture damage and back you away real quick, and the animation is damn cool.
a good thing about the shadowrush thrust attack is that even without the emblems you can still perform the thrust but it wont give you the opening window for the followup attack so you gotta deflect the attacks after that
Floating Passage or Spiral Cloud Passage
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Bestowal Blade Ninjitsu
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Lady Maria
If you don't mind spending a buttload of spirit emblems, this lets you jump into a large group of enemies and kill them quickly, easily, and in the most flashy way possible.
This works best against enemies that either:
1) ...do a lot of blocking (your constant attacks will keep them blocking instead of attacking you while bestowal quickly chips all their health away)
2) ...have a small health/posture pool
Because you're still vulnerable to flinching and don't cause much flinching to enemies, it's important to focus down the right targets. Some enemies have attacks that aren't easily interrupted. Keep these enemies in front of you and simply jump away when they stop blocking to do one of these attacks. This is made easy by the fact that both "Passage" combat arts can be canceled mid-combo.
If you _really_ want to be safe with this method, you could always just use a red lump, but that may be too much of a waste. Spirit emblems are easy to acquire and stockpile, but red lumps are far more limited and probably best reserved for bosses.
The senpou leaping kick is my favourite one because it just suits the fighting style so well
Nice tutorial, great gameplay in your walkthrough section. One remark. You mentioned using ichimonji with jumping forward is strange (with the talent of using it in the air). I would disagree, it's best combo in the game for closing distance, especially after dodging swipes or even after jumping to dodge swipe vertically, jump on the head again and then when going down you can finish the jump with ichimonji animation already hitting the opponent. All 4 phases of final bosses can't handle jumping ichimonji even as gap closer.
i know this is before the GOTY edition but Sakura Dance is probably the goto combat art, (gained from Inner Genichiro).
But obviously double ichimonji is base game greatness
the spiral cloud passage or the floating passage works so well with the bestowal ninjutsu
Just wanted to say I have been loving all the Sekiro coverage. Prob my fave game to watch you play after Dark Souls 3 and Bloodbourne. Keep up the great work your the man. Ps I turn everyone I can in Calgary, Canada onto your channel.
People complaining about Spiral Cloud Passage... If you open with Flame-Vent into Living Force, then get your SCP combo off, you'll have taken almost 50% of SS Isshin's posture down, for example. It will also apply the burn effect, dealing more damage, causing a stagger, and stop posture regen. It's good for pressuring an aggressive boss due to its chip damage to both vitality and posture.
15:17 this dude is basically disrespecting your 5-cost spirit emblem spiral cloud passage.
your going to eat your heart out then when you see spiral cloud passage combined with bestowal jutsu then
Utializing ichimonji Double for maximun effect is only after jumping or using the Feathers prosthetic tool.Only then you can have complete mastery of the Art!
Thanks for making these guides, they have been incredibly helpful👌
HIgh Monk is my favorite ability tbh, it does tons of poisture damage to sweep attacks
Tnx dude i'm looking for this type of informative showcase you earned my sub 👍
Avoid sweep perilous attack by double jump then followed by ichimonji mid air is better than high monk
Combat Arts from Temple Tree can interrupt some enemies attacks has a very small window of I-Frames, good to use from from other passives. Find it baffling didn’t cover these parts in this tree.
Thanks for this video, cowboy. You’re a great speaker.
Cowboy thanks man. Been back in gaming for past two years. PS4 for one year. Far cry baited me in. Games like sekiro seemed way too hard for me man. I bought this game preorder. 3 hours in and only at my 3rd idol, I gave up. Found your channel, now I’m a shinobi killing machine. Playing along your play through has brought a whole new level to my gaming. Thanks man. Keep it up. Gonna do dark souls 3 next.
I love how the bandits on Horace estate look exactly like the bandits from the movie seven samurai
I kinda wish some of the combat arts was just put into the regular combat. The combat in this game use just as many button as Devil May Cry 5, they both have only one melee button and you can do a lot of great combos in that game.
I hate you have to choose between Whirlwind Slash, Ichimonji and Floating Passage, what if you could unlock them as combos, and then you could have one of the Shadow Rush, Ashina cross, High monk etc as the LB+RB ability. I could see Icimonji being performed by holding the left stick up and press RB, or double press it or something like that.
That's also the thing I like about Niho is you unlock all these different combos you can do. Of course FromSoftware are not action game developer and Team Ninja was, and Devil May Cry is kinda the godfather of that genre. But there are so many cool moves you are never going to use.
Imagine starting with a Whirlwind slash, going into floating passage and end with an Ichimonji? How cool would that be?
Devil may cry is just a button masher don't compare that with a dark souls type game
The Ichimonji and Double Ichimonji are easily the best arts. High damage to vitality and posture, posture recover, and a stagger all for no emblem cost? It's the best value for some of the best output.
I think the spiral cloud passage is supposed to be used reactively, like a "get off me" kind of thing. Instead of using it for pure damage you can have it keep you from being surrounded and buy you time to reposition yourself.
Nah it's actually the 3rd strongest attack in the game after empowered mortal draw and one mind. It's to be used with living force or bestowal and it becomes the highest damage attack in the game
For some reason floating passage stunlocks juzou really well which doesn't make sense when it doesn't stunlocks smaller guys
Weird. Maybe it has to do with armored vs. non armored since juzo is basically wearing only a cloth
@@FightinCowboy yeah maybe. I just got the combat art and thought why not try it. Between me and the other guy he couldn't barely attack
FightinCowboy, do you have a video on how to setup the elgato and what settings do you use for rendering the video? Is this video was captured in HDR? I can't get the same sharpness of the video.
As you saw yourself the Ichimonji Double as well as the Praying Strikes did charge enemy posture bars almost full. The difference being that Ichimonji is slow at the start up and thus bad at faster enemies e.g. monks, ninjas. tengu, etc.
Both accomplish the same goal on different enemies. Ichimonji is really only good for bosses and elite (mini-bosses) that drive up the player's posture bar.
@everyone saying worthless skill: Well, you know if you play games to have fun, you can have it and see using one mind as an additional challenge. Also it's the most underrated skill, imo and is even more undervalued by showing against archer enemies or just regular ones, they die with the first sheathed hit. Same goes for the Floating Passage/Spiral Cloud Passage. Heavily underrated. Remember that not every enemy is going to let your Ichimonji through and you need a faster move even when the enemy already finished it's attack.
Many just see the damage and forget that good moves also need to have a quick start-up. It should be rated similarly to how moves are rated in a fighting game, were most quick 3 or 4 frame moves are really good as starters (in a 2D fighting game). Ichimonji in that regards have abysmal start up.
Also where is the footage of some of the arts performed on bigger enemies?
As always, I'll stay a Iaido weeb and will prefer Ashina Cross and One Mind for fun playthroughs.
If you unlock Leaping Combat Arts, you can jump into Double Ichimonji without windup. Great for shortening distance and punishing sweep attacks. No windup, no emblems, greater range than a Nightjar Slash, great damage and it recovers your own posture - absolutely broken. Depending on your timing, you can deflect one attack mid-air before landing the Double Ichimonji. Plus, you get to LARP as Genichiro and his leaping/stabbing combo.
Praying strikes can also do lightning reversals as well
I was so disappointed when I learned that you could only have one combat art equipped at a time. Imagine if combat arts were cumulative and you could do any/all of the arts you've learned at any time with different button combos. You would have to master the different combinations to do the different skills, so the more powerful combat arts would require more buttons instead of spirit emblems. It would be like Dark Souls + Fighting Game mechanics!
There's mods on PC to keybind additional combat arts but I agree having multiple available would have been really cool.
@@FightinCowboy quick question man, AOE, what does that stand for. Please forgive my ignorance, couldn't find it in the comments anywhere. Great videos btw, really like your boss guides. 👍👍
Area of Effect, moves that hit multiple targets.
Dude, great video! Thank you so much
I like to use bestowal with whirlwind, feels really powerful. Haven't tried with spiral cloud yet, I imagine the visuals are pretty cool
Ive done it with floating passage and OH NELLY. wait till you get One mind...lol
So thats how you are suposed to use it hmm
@@cristianrosello997 damage output is still ass tho.
I know you moved on with sekiro but watching your guides helped me through sekiro i only didn't watched your genichiro , ape and true monk guide but i watched every guide including mini bosses.
Once i was stuck in ishin the sword saint, it would have been over 30 to 40 minutes of fighting ishin (cuz how kong that fight is) and i watched your ishin guide again and after 2 to 3 tries I reached his lighting attack form and i dog watered him with his own lightning and beat the f out of him .
Without losing a ressurect.
And i got the homecoming ending 🤞 hopefully a sequel to sekiro would be great and i would immediately play it if it comes out.
Nightjar slash has to be my favourite. Great for chasing down retreating enemies to keep the pressure on, like the nightjar or these shotgun fucks. Hell, you can even dodge quite a lot of attacks with it too.
0:47 The two NPC in the background on the left are like:
- Look! There is the TV with the camera crew and all over there. There is a guy speaking, this looks cool.
- Yeah... For some reason I have a bad feeling about this.
After seeing the spiral cloud passage I know what from software was inspired by while making the waterfowl dance
The shadowrush can be mikiri countered by owl but then again all of the combat arts are the perilous attacks of wolf
Cloud passage is actually pretty good at stunlocking the purple ninja kickers.
Anamnesis010 use floating passage and save the emblems.
Wonderful guide! My favorite is dragon slash, looks epic and the range.
You forgot the SaKura dance, but still a very good demonstration!
That didn't exist at launch
The coolest looking ones are nightjar slash one mind and spiral cloud passage imo but the most useful is definitely ichimonchi
Nightjar Slash and Reversal makes Genichiro's fight so much more interesting.
Mortal Draw was my go to in late game bosses
My favorite to use normally is probably the High Monk, though Dragon Flash and Mortal Draw are fun ones to use, too.
Holy shit, that kick counter on general, almost full posture bar!
All y’all complaining about the spirit emblem costs, I got two words for you:
Ceremonial Tanto
floating passage (and the upgreade I presume) is pretty great with the mortal blade. it just wrecks shit in front of you
The spiral cloud passage is good to inflict negative damage like burned status
I unlocked Ichimonji Double when I was about to fight genichiro and it was the one of best decision I have made In this game👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
If you unlock Leaping Combat Arts, you can jump into Double Ichimonji without windup. Great for shortening distance and punishing sweep attacks. No windup, no emblems, greater range than a Nightjar Slash, great damage and it recovers your own posture - absolutely broken. Depending on your timing, you can even deflect one attack mid-air before landing the Double Ichimonji. Plus, you get to LARP as Genichiro and his leaping/stabbing combo.
every combat art costing spirit emblems can still be used without emblems as a wekaer version
senpou leaping kicks dodges sweeps and is a better punish than jumping.
lots of later arts deal damage through blocks.