Actually the (according to the devs) canon anime implies his apparent poverty is actually a facade. Seriously if he can afford to get a strawberry sundae every episode, all the stuff Patty cleans up and always having to repair or replace his coat, the guy ain't broke. It's mostly property damage as a consequence of his battles that burn holes in his wallet and with how quickly it gets fixed he's likely to secretly be pretty loaded. That said, a lack of wisdom would just as likely play directly into causing said property damage, his overall cocky attitude and his choice of "armor".
LordNul1 And Dante had to sell off most of the Devil Arms he got through the series because he needed more money. I doubt he's loaded, but he has enough money to get by . . . usually. Also he keeps losing power to the place, so he's either forgetting to pay bills or he has no money to pay them. But yes, property damage is probably eating away his funds as well
@@Hey-Its-Dingo personally nero feels to me like a zealot barbarian for the reved up red queen along with how he gets angry and with prolly like 6 levels into ek since nero uses magjc the least amount out of him dante and vergil
Because of his backstory, the fact that he's half demon, wears a lot of red and has weapons that supply 80% of his edge. But yeah I agree he is a massive goofball...just like Twilight Princess Link.
This build is fine, but I feel like it could be better. Sure, it fits the Devil Trigger requirements, but I can't help but feel like all the magical elements feel very un-Dante and I'm not a huge fan of having the guy whose known for being impaled constantly being so squishy in combat. So here's how I'd make a Dante: Race: Fallen Aasimar, it just fits Dante too well and acts as a nice Devil Trigger 1st Level: Take Barbarian, this will act to emulate Dante's hardiness, like tanking multiple scythes at the start of DMC 3. On top of that, the Rage mechanic can be re-flavored as activating your 'Style gauge' with hits taken considered part of your Royal Guard stance. This also has the nice additional effect of incentivising people to use a basic crossbow along with a longsword or greatsword to hit those far-away targets and keep that precious "Style Ranking" from running out, just like in the games. You also gain advantage on Strength saves while "Styling" and Unarmored Defense, so you can keep fighting while showing off those sweet abs. 2nd Level: By taking Level 2 in Barbarian, you'll gain Reckless Attack and Danger Sense. Reckless Attack is just great for any Barbarian, especially if you want to actually hit things with your 'guns', while Danger Sense gives you a bit more nimbleness to further help you style all over your enemies. 3rd Level: Take Path of the Storm Herald! This will let you pick either fire or ice based on what you want to focus more on. The Desert option will allow you to resist fire damage and, ultimately, counter when you take a hit, like the Royal Guard counter. Meanwhile, the Tundra option can help Dante regenerate while also eventually giving you the option to reduce a target's speed to 0... which can be re-flavored into your Swordmaster juggle combo. 4th Level: Speaking of Swordmaster, time to start unlocking some stylish combos! Take a level in Fighter and go for whichever Fighting Style suits you, like Archer to make the guns more useful, dueler or Great Weapon Fighting for Rebellion, Dual Wielding to copy Agni and Rudra, etc. You also gain Second Wind, because where would a half-demon be without a bit of regeneration, right? 5th Level: It took a bit, but we finally have Action Surge, which will basically let you cancel your combos into other moves. Combined with Reckless Attack, this could lead to some pretty fun setups between your guns and melee setups. 6th Level: Take Battlemaster as your Fighter Archetype, which will finally let you get this party started! Goading attack acts as a nice taunt that also helps your Barbarian utility, Parry acts as a nice justification to say you've got Trickster mastered (slipping away from most of the damage you would have taken, maybe even ALL with 'Style' going), and Riposte is just really solid utility to your 'Style' setup, allowing you to counter after your opponent misses. After all, DMC's an action series and you need to take every chance you can get to exploit those recovery frames, right? 7th and 8th Levels: Time to cash in on those untapped Ability Score boosts from Fighter and Barbarian. Nothing to say here, free stats are always good. 9th Level: Another level in Barbarian gives you that nice Trickster speed bonus along with Extra Attack. Always a good addition to your combo-monster. 10th Level: Take Level 6 in Barbarian for another Path of the Storm Herald skill. Enough said, really. 11th Level: Feral Instincts means you'll never be surprised, because Dante's always ready to crack some demon-skulls at a moment's notice. 12th Level: Another ability score, fair enough 13th Level: For your 9th Barbarian Level, you gain Brutal Critical. It's not too much of a Dante move, but it's fair enough to have for those cutscene kills. 14th Level: Another Path Feature, we're closing in on your more adept Dante Storm Herald skills, though! 15th Level: Dante gets stabbed A LOT. But no matter how many times he gets stabbed, he always keeps fighting! By getting Relentless Rage (Barbarian Level 11), you'll feel just as unkillable as the real Dante! 16th Level: Another ability score boost, never hurts to get these. 17th Level: Brutal Critical II, enough said 18th Level: You can FINALLY do either juggle combos or Royal Guard counters, your pick. Whichever feels more like your personal Dante playstyle, really. 19th Level: At this point, you've earned more than enough Style points to keep a combo going. Use Persistent Rage to make sure you've always got your 'style on'. 20th Level: Finally, one last ability score boost. Always helps to make your Dante physically stronger or more durable, otherwise he just won't feel like Dante.
When you mentioned the fact that Dante gets impaled and gets back again like nothing happened alongside his squishiness, it came to my mind another build idea: Monk 12/Fighter 8 Fighter is perfect for Dante due to his mastery of every single weapon in existance. Battle Master is fantastic because of the ability to read his enemies (and taunt them) and reflect his wide variety of skills like lunging attack (for impaling with Rebellion) or parry. Monk is a must go for Dante, the acrobatic buffoon. What is there to say for the core abilities of monks? Unarmed Strikes (leaving you free to choose a different Fighting Style than the one for d6/d8 unarmed strikes), Evasion, extra speed, stunning strike to jug your enemies around while murdering them in a stylish way, Frighten and Charm cancelation, the ability to run on water and walls, immunity to poison. Now, what subclass to choose with monks? Well, obviously Way of the Long Death, why? Because of 2 reasons, sustain thanks to the ability to gain THP by killing creatures and becoming virtually immortal at 11th level thanks to the ability to spend 1 ki point when being reduced to 0 HP to drop at 1 HP instead. Get impaled as many times as you want, you won't be falling down anytime soon. The tricky part are the stats, with fallen aasimar we can't do much... I would say: Fallen Aasimar (+1 Str, +2 Cha) 15 Str 14 Dex 10 Con 8 Int 14 Wis 10 Cha Remember Kids, you can't use armor if you want to do cool monk stuff.
Honestly, compared to Tulok's build... Granted, maybe what I would've done wouldn't really be Dante anymore. I would've put the Dexterity investment into Constitution instead to help keep you alive for longer, take some heavier armor to keep the AC better when kinda dumping but not really dumping dex, and replace Crossbow Expert with either Tough or Magic Initiate. Tough for the "I get stabbed but don't give a fuck" aspect. Magic Initiate because you can do what tulok did in his Bayonetta build and use your Eldritch Blast as your guns.
Dante wouldn't never be a barbarian, instead of Just taking classes for specific Powers and habilities, let's remimd that a class is also one identity of a character and Dante would never be a barbarian, i think remaining loyal tô what the characters is would be the best
@@williamverissimo9818 I hard disagree. If we're just using whatever class defines Dante the best on its own then you'd just go pure Fighter and lose out on a bunch of opportunities to reflavor things to fit the character better. Remember, just because someone's a Wizard it doesn't mean they have to literally have a long beard and wear a robe, it just means you've got a thing that you inscribe Spells onto to use magic. Once you realize that, there's loads of possibilities that open up for character ideas. A Barbarian doesn't have to be someone barely clothed wearing bones who screams at people. You could have your Rage be a taunt or a moment of focus, maybe a character has some battle-hungry alternate personality that takes over or they could take some drug that puts them into a crazed battle-frenzy, you know? In one campaign I played a boxing Barbarian/Fighter/Monk elephant that would glare at a target with a glint of focus in his eye before raising his hands as a sign that he's activating his Rage, and it was pretty fun. In the most recent campaign, I had a Ranger Dhampir Swarmkeeper whose swarm was a bunch of bats he summoned as the vampire powers he manifested after being turned. There's no need to limit yourself. Do what you want, but at the end of the day it's your character. As long as it's not changing the mechanics, most DMs won't mind and some might even encourage out of the box thinking like this.
I think one of my favorite bonuses from watching your videos is I get exposure to games and characters I know about, but haven't really delved into. I'm officially more interested in Devil May Cry now. So thanks.
You and me both! I have to do serious research into probably 30% of these with like a million other suggestions in the comments for me to check out next. Its great.
I can't fault him for that. Must die mode for DMC 3 pretty much fried me for royal guard. That playthrough left me on top of my friend group one upping at least.
Honestly mostly the same, maybe Dueling instead of Great Weapon Fighting since Vergil seems to use Yamato one handed more often than not. Really need to work HP Regeneration in here though. As both sons of Sparda are known for their insane even by demonic standards ability to take hits. Maybe a couple levels of monk since you always get a hand to hand style in each game. And for the unarmored defense since neither son of Sparda rock any armour.
Super super late but I made Vergil before with a pact of the blade Hexblade and tons of reflavoring for his attacks to be force damage, sword-based alternatives. (Circle of Death becomes Judgement Cut End, Eldritch Blast becomes summoned swords, etc etc) Gotta say, the boy was very good at the end. Might have him multiclass that last level though since the capstone ability for Warlocks is pretty underwhelming. Barbarian with a reflavored rage (Reflavored in this case being that he only looks different while using it, since,.,.Devil Trigger) is looking mighty tempting because of that..
@@getthegoons Rage isn't much different mechanically speaking from Devil Trigger. As Devil Trigger in the DMC series gives you immunity to knock back , increased damage, attack speed. About the only thing Rage doesn't cover is the health regen of Devil Trigger and for that we can just multi class Barbarian into the classes that do come with it. So technically we can just combine a couple of classes ability to emulate Devil Trigger and get a proper Dante. Since this Squishy Dante is just stupid. A pure paladin build is just wrong. Dante is a jack of all trades and a master of weapons. His strength is his variety of skills , abilities, weapons, and the ability to tell Death to go fuck its mother. Honestly a pure Vengeance Paladin Vergil makes more sense since Yamato and his blind obsession is basically his sole thing. And even then a squishy Son of Sparda is a big no no.
My take. Race: Tiefling. Dante has a demonic or devil heritage. Not an angelic one. And as far as Im aware Fallen Aasimars have to be evil which Dante is Neutral at worse. You could still say his father was a powerful devil while his mom was a human and tiefling twins were the result of that union. Alignment: Chaotic Good. In the anime Dante shows he cares little about rules and has no qualms about breaking the law. However he clearly has a conscience and actually refuses to kill anything other than demons. He gives an impression he doesn't care but has shown time and time again he actually does and has even declined the rewards from jobs before despite the fact he is in debt. Background: Haunted one. Dante is troubled by the murder of his mother. It's what drives him to do what he does. He hides it behind his devil may care attitude but on the inside it burns him alive and even has nightmares about that day. Class: Dante is a hard one to pin down. He has many capabilities. So a multicast is in order. Fighter (Eldritch Knight) This is where the bulk of your levels will go. Dante is a self taught fighter. He knows how to use every weapon. Has shown some magic prowess (just you typical evocation lightning bolts, firebolts, some force magic, so the limited selection of Eldritch Knight fits.) And he can summon his sword. (In the anime he could call Rebellion to his side, and in DMC5 he can summon Devil Sword Dante out of thin air.) Monk: Besides his sword and guns, Dante's next preferred method is unarmed. Not to mention he has a mastery over monk weapons as well (Nunchucks, Bo staff, etc.) Unarmored defense also works here as he never wears armor. Rogue: 1 level Just for some skill proficencies. Dante is a paranormal investigator and has shown to posses some detective skills in the anime and books. Barbarian: 1 level for rage. Raging will act as his sort of Devil Trigger. Canonically he rarely uses Devil Trigger so 1 level should suffice and only use it when you are taxed or are truly angry.
Tiefling is right, but he only looks like that when in DT...all the rest is perfect, actually the closest thing to real Dante, with the limitations of 5E
@@jakubgodlewski9104 He IS half human. The original games his mother was a human and his father is the demon king Sparda. The shit DmC reboot made him half angel half demon.
How did you miss the Aasimar Savior Barbarian??? Wings + Rage by level 3. Unarmored Defense. Endless healthpool. Great Weapon Fighting. Take multiclass in Rogue for crossbows.
If I was going to Multiclass for Dante, it would be Matt Mercer's Gunslinger Class. Basically Dante becomes the merger of Yasha and Percy. There you go.
@@ashenone4989 I would probably say pick Bear Totem to make yourself even more durable. Dante's big thing is taking swords through the chest, so that would probably help.
@@ForeverDegenerate That's neat and all but you should still combine it with Barbarian. I avoided the Gunslinger class because it's not official (yet).
Someone's probably already had this idea in the comments but whatev, A fallen assimar barbarian fits the main swordplay and devil trigger side of dante perfectly. you could reflavor the rage mode to be a devil trigger form and when the fallen Assimar form and rage mode are used at the same time it could be flavored as sin devil trigger it sounds like a bad ass idea thats maybe how I'd do it or maybe a zealot barbarian and samurai fighter multi class which sounds like it coul be ridiculously OP as a dante character the only issue would be that bonus action rage would get in the way of your bonus action fighting spirit on your first turn of combat but you'd have the rest of your turns to use fighting spirit so it probably still would be OP
Yeeees, I was so looking forward This build is S-S-STYLISH! Would just swap that 12 intelligence with constitution just for a little more HP. Other than that, good take on this one
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 Character wise, Arcana makes sense. But given Dante's absurd regenerative powers, CON 12 wouldn't be quite enough to represent that...but maybe his Healing Spells from Paladin would (which was exactly what you did). Honestly, it's a very hard character to make in DND with many different traits and I think you pulled it off quite well!
I played this build in a campaign last year, made the rest of the character original though - it was good fun but I decided to have a go at building Vergil today and damn I may have found my next backup character because it is such a fun build and surprisingly well optimised. Bladesinger Wizard 17 / Echo Knight Fighter 3. Get the Bladesinger live by reaching level 2, then switch to the fighter class for three levels, grabbing the Dueling style and Echo Knight for the Doppelganger. Then pump the rest of your levels into gaining spells themed on the Vergil's Summoned Swords and teleporting/opening portals (also took a few spells to summon demons as a nod to V and the occasional wind based spell because Vergil is in fact the storm that is approaching.) As for race, it wasn't optimal with Protector Aasimar but it gives him the flying speed and the Sin Devil Trigger at level 3 - reasoning over picking Fallen like Dante here was in DMC V, Dante has his standard Devil Trigger and later gets SDT - you can't use Vergil's original DT as it's replaced by the Doppelganger (Echo) but he does have an SDT that lets him fly off the bat so this was the switch up. Just homebrew a longsword or rapier to be a katana and you've got your Yamato (make sure it has Finess.) Flavour the Firebolt cantrip to be blue flame for basic Summoned Swords with spells like Ice Knife, Magic Missile and Mordenkainen's Sword to function as them at higher levels. And of course, summon your Doppelganger and send it into combat on your behalf while your feeble wizard health pool sits at the back throwing spells at your opponents. Oh, and grab Steel Wind Strike when you get 5th level spells for Judgement Cut, followed by Blade of Disaster at level 20 for Judgement Cut End.
> con 10 No. Just make a Warlock hexblade. Your eldritch blast is ebony and ivory, rebelion is your pact weapon, and you can have a couple paladin levels.
Zariel Tiefling, Vengeance Paladin/Order of Lycan Blood Hunter. Just 3-4 lvl of BH, to get the Order, the Hybrid form works well has a DT (res of all mundane damages if not silvered/magic, stronger attacks)
I probably would've gone more for a mash-up between Paladin and Sorc; Since there's a lot of meta magic and features that could probably make up the most important aspect of Dante; sheer style. Transformations are nice, but I consider that less important than his ability to always have. Though I could totally see if you wanted to emulate his DMC 5 state of basically transforming into destruction incarnate that this particular line of thinking makes more sense. I've always imagined the pistols as much an extension of his natural ability as physical firearms; I mean they never run out of ammo, so being able to hit a double attack then quickening a sourcing ray/magic missile feels pretty thematic to how tricksy he is. Want a rocket launcher? Fireball. Flaming Numchucks? E.t.c. Basically, I kinda imagine Dante being a nuke of a character being able to burn through magic slots with alarming ease to tear through hordes of demons. Going with a dragon or celestial linage sells the effect that a lot of Dante's abilities are just natural to him and that he can flip between his abilities with as much ease as some people do in breathing. Though I guess there wouldn't need to be a great dex at that point and I might as well switch it for con; considering that most of his cutscenes see him casually taking injuries that would seriously incapacitate anyone else. A great video non the less however! I enjoyed this.
Speaking of taking characters as a theme. I made a Lu Bu with the idea of 2 barbarian 18 cavalier fighter. Feats are, GWM, PAM, SENTINEL. With PAM + SENTINEL and 18 Cav's ability to get an AOO reaction per enemy turn you would live up to the "Do not Pursue". The Barb is there mostly for reckless and rage does fit in well with Lu Bu as a concept.
The best Dante build that I can think of would have to be a Blood Hunter by Matthew Mercer with levels in Monk. It's just not AL legal. Bloodhunter is the rest of your build with the Hunter's Bane helping in Devil hunting and Crimson Rite being your demonic power flowing into the weapon. Second level blood maledicts give you either spell sunder or fending rite for a fiends spell resistance. Third level go order of the lycan for a real devil trigger get regeneration down the line. Monk provides unarmored defense which is more thematic for the armor less Dante, ki points are all of Dante's styles with trickster being step of the wind, royal guard being patient defense and flurry of blows being a devil arm like Balrog or Beowulf. Go Kensei for sword master style and gunslinger with longsword and hand crossbow as your Kensei weapons. Stay as an aasimar for the the sin devil trigger, however protector aasimar is as appealing as fallen for flavor.
I went a more powergaming/munckin mix on my end: I actually went Variant Human (Because I couldn't find a proper race for Dante) Took the Variant Human Feat Option: Alert - Really not going to let them Demons get the jump on me, plus higher chances of getting in their faces and unleashing the hurt before they can either zip away or start doing crazy stuff. 17th Level Fighter (Champion) - Because lots of Damage and Action Surge - Going for the SSS Combo Rating 3rd Level Barbarian (Totem) - Mostly for Resistance to Majority of Damage - Little bit of Extra Rage Damage helps out too Focus on Dexterity and Constitution, while averaging out Strength and Charisma, and slightly mix dumping on Intelligence and Wisdom - none of them below 10 thankfully by the rolls. Took the following Feats: Mobile 4th Level - Hit and Move, Hit and Move, gotta get them combos goings Tough 6th Level - Tough to bring down, tough to stay down, watching out for those sword impalements Athlete 8th Level - Running around takes some energy, especially when running up walls and down massive building towers of doom. 12th, 14th, and 16th Levels were for ability scores I needed to even out those pesky odd numbers I rolled out. Though if I had the flexibility, would've grabbed the following feats had I could: 12th - Lucky - Sometimes a little bit of Luck goes a long way... especially when you flip a double head sided coin. 14th - Defensive Duelist - ROYAL GUARD! (Maybe not in the usual sense of it, but I would use it to cheese it on some enemies just to taunt them.) 16th - Savage Attacker - Just going in there for Damage Per Second mode. Again I rolled for the stats and used some of those levels for covering my ability score stats, but had I the chance... oh yeah.
I believe dante to be a little more durable than that, so i believe he would be more suited as a fighter, probably hexblade. Fallen aasimar is good, the transformation is awesome, and i do believe 1 or 4 levels in paladin are welcome. Multiclass for paladin 4/fighter 16 and i believe you're golden. Besides, that way you get more attacks, an extra fighting style (Long range) and more sturdyness from con (so you can actually survive being impaled, like he does on DmC 4, 3 and 1)
I had a pretty good idea for V. Shadow Sorcerer to at least 6th level, then some manner of Warlock to get Pact of the Chain, but none of the Patrons fit quite right. I know Griffon & Co. are technically Fiends, but the Fiendish Patron doesn't really reflect V's skills at all, and while Hexblades do have shadowy stuff going on, they're also way more about killing things with weapons rather than fighting with summons. He's literally condensed humanity held together by magic, so Variant Human is probably quite fitting, though I honestly have no idea what feat I'd want beyond Warcaster, which would definitely help keep Nightmare swinging longer. Also, Nero could be an Eldritch Knight or Monster Slayer to account for his Devil Bringer/Breaker abilities. Going Ranger, you'd take the Druidic Warrior fighting style to grab Thorn Whip and Primal Savagery, and going Fighter you could grab both Shocking Grasp and Lightning Lure from the Wizard spell list.
You could do nero now... with the way of astral self monk... it's almost like they played dmc5 and said "hey, this would be a fun subclass".. if you fudge it just a little bit simic hybrid would also work for fitting his arm in... just a thought.
Coming back to this vid Tulok, I hope you can do a Vergil build one day. I already had one in the back of my mind: Hexblade Warlock 1 Echo Knight Fighter 3 Kensei Monk 16 Fallen Aasimar of course just like his brother.
Fallen Aasmiar was a clever touch that I'd never thought of. I'd have chosen Zariel Tiefling without a second thought. But, using your Fallen idea, I have made Devil Trigger an Action Surge + Necrotic Shroud. Then his build would consist of Warlock Hexblade (for Legendary Sword Dante and summoning it whenever) /Paladin Vengeance (for spells like Misty Step which equates to Trickster teleportation)/Gunslinger Fighter (LITERALLY CALLED GUNSLINGER). INT is his dump stat because he doesn't show anything justifying otherwise, plus pretty it's obvious what a demon is (Vergil is the studious one who learned how the underworld worked). WIS can be about average because he could figure out Nero's parentage by looking at Yamato. Everything else should be as maxed out as possible.
how to play dante in D&D: pick up athlete and maybe mobile, for weapons if you want to go rebellion dante pick defense and GWM feat, for guns pick up x-bow master and two weapon fighting and use dualcrossbows...or if you DM lets you just pick gunslinger subclass. and done, DO NOT MULTICLASS, fighter gets THE MOST attacks just like dante, unless your going like cerbrus/fistweapon dante in witch case go monk. for vergil go fighter but go samurai subclass and use a greatsword and reskin it as a katana
@@BJGvideos Madason is an outlier in that he isn't a "chosen hero/descendant of chosen hero". He *is* a prince and probably the best spellcaster of the main protags, but he's basically just a dude.
There are a few things I disagree with from a thematic point of view but the biggest one is saying con is not very important to Dante when its one of his defining characteristics in the games. I mean he gets impaled on his own sword and walks around like it's not even there every other weekend.
now adays, only real change needed if your dm is not keeping guns out of the game is the gunner feat in place of the crossbow expert, so surprisingly timeless build it seems
I'm thinking I'll do a Hexblade/pact blade dip (5?) then rest paladin for my Nero character. If I can talk the DM into letting me use both a sword and gun/crossbow with extra attack. Since RAW Thirsting blade can only specifically be used for your pact weapon, not the Hex weapon. But I also considered just making the gun/xbow the hex weapon and focus for eldritch blast as powered up shots so that works too.
Okay a Dante that suffers from a low Con score . This build needs reworking . Dante has survived injuries that have killed full blooded demons. And he's a half blood. Even a Yamato armed Vergil couldn't kill him. And Yamato can sunder the barrier between worlds like a hot knife through butter.
Could have taken magic initiate warlock for Ebony and Ivory being Eldritch blast. They are multiple shots after all. Hellish rebuke for the spell learned to try to emulate royal guard. Doing this lowers the need for high dex which means you could bump up the con. Dante gets impaled all the time and walks it off, he at least has a +2 to con.
Honestly I would shuffle around dexterity charisma, and constitution. Charisma should definitely a little bit higher in my opinion considering how stylish he is and that he literally somehow talked Agnus into turning the opening cutscene for mission 17 in DMC4 into a Shakespearean stage play.
4:48 WHAT IN SATANS ANUS IS THAT !!! did you just use a gold orb ? ok drop the dnd books becose you need to hit that training mode and practise those combos dude
Cut him some slack, it's not like he used it while fighting flunkies on normal (or worse, very easy). It seemed clear enough to me that, going by the amount of health he was losing per hit, he was on hard for his first playthrough (working down instead of up, which is admittedly stupid, but there are a lot of people who do that, even for completely different games than their usual fair because they're overconfident).
@@lordnul1708 and I am one of those people. When starting at hard you would know the mechanics and gameplay like being in trial by fire. And once you finish you get to relax playing the game at lower difficulty and bump up the difficulty again for challenge. Stupid? Sure. Fun? Yes
@@lordnul1708 To be fair. If this was his first playthrough. It would be on normal difficulty. In dmc5 you either play the game first time on easy or normal. But considering he was fighting Vergil. It's understandable if he died. Vergil is no push over if you're not prepared for him.
@@silveredbullet802 or get all the achievements on hardest difficulty and only have to play the game once instead of multiple times for each difficulty.
Coming back here two years later because I've been comparing this with the Vergil build: Tasha's cauldron of Everything makes this build better since you can move your racial stat bumps around and have that dex match the strength and cap them both by the end. Tulok can rest easy now.
I still want the Fate franchise's Artoria. Like back when she was properly alive with all her King Arthur stuff instead of a Saber/Lancer Class Servant. Or Heracles. He'd be fun too.
Crossbow expert doesn't work like that. The attack you need to make to trigger the bonus action attack does not need to be melee, and you couldn't do what you suggest by attack with the longsword then firing the crossbow after the first round because ammunition weapons require a free hand to reload (same reason you can't use a shield with a crossbow). Technically you could attack with the longsword, drop it, reload your crossbow an fire it, then pick up the sword with your free action, but this is a bit janky. You can however attack 3 times with the same hand crossbow once you have extra attack, since it is a one handed weapon.
I would swap Intelligence with Constitution, guy gets stabbed with his own sword multiple times and he walks it off, you know he got good constitution.
I disagree with Paladin. I think Blood Hunter Lycan (if your DM allows you a demon transformation, doesn't change the gameplay), You get a transformation (devil trigger) after only 3 levels in the class.
hm, while I know strength is good for long sword, but it sounds like if you heavily flavour a rapier, you could do just dexterity as your highest stat. And these builds tend to be without magic items, so you could pick up the ogre gauntlets for that strength boost or a belt of giants strength.
I respect yr approach, but do you feel there's a build that incorporates Fighter or Monk? Maybe Barbarian where its Rage acts like the Devil Trigger? Also; will you ever work in vids that deal with the Gunslinger branch of Fighter?
Pretty surprising to see that pact of the blade didn't show up as a way of summoning different devil arms but you could see it as a dmc 1 or 2 Dante with the focus on rebellion and Ebony and Ivory and the later level devil trigger as the sparda transfermation from the first game or the sin devil trigger from the second
Can you make a video to play Nero as well? I know they will be fairly similar, but with Nero having the versatility of his different robot arms and not having to worry about getting the devil trigger until late game I'm hoping it will be just different enough to be fun in it's own right. Same can be said with V being a kind of Pokemon trainer in a way with his demonic summons.
Dungeons and Dragons, now featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series
is that a motherfucking Rata reference?
DND ft D from DMC
Wisdom being the dump would explain why he's always broke.
A character with higher wisdom would know better than to let Trish and Lady spend away all their money
Actually the (according to the devs) canon anime implies his apparent poverty is actually a facade. Seriously if he can afford to get a strawberry sundae every episode, all the stuff Patty cleans up and always having to repair or replace his coat, the guy ain't broke. It's mostly property damage as a consequence of his battles that burn holes in his wallet and with how quickly it gets fixed he's likely to secretly be pretty loaded.
That said, a lack of wisdom would just as likely play directly into causing said property damage, his overall cocky attitude and his choice of "armor".
LordNul1 And Dante had to sell off most of the Devil Arms he got through the series because he needed more money. I doubt he's loaded, but he has enough money to get by . . . usually.
Also he keeps losing power to the place, so he's either forgetting to pay bills or he has no money to pay them. But yes, property damage is probably eating away his funds as well
@@netherremains Now I'm picturing him appearing on Pawn Stars, haggling over his Devil Arms with Jr. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jr: Two talking heads on swords the best I can do is 20 bucks
I'm surprised you didn't go with Eldritch knight for summoning his sword whenever he felt like
Really needed that Paladin capstone, otherwise Eldritch Knight was my top choice.
I did an eldritch knight and worked out with my DM to bond 3 weapons i just had to sacrifice an attunement slots for a longsword and 2 hand crossbows
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 Since gunslingers are cannon now why take cross bow expert whole you can take the gunslinger feat and get 2 REAL guns?
I think Dante being a Paladin works a lot. But Nero would be an Eldritch Knight 100%
@@Hey-Its-Dingo personally nero feels to me like a zealot barbarian for the reved up red queen along with how he gets angry and with prolly like 6 levels into ek since nero uses magjc the least amount out of him dante and vergil
I don't understand why people describe Dante as edgy when he's the farthest thing from it.
He's a giant goofball.
Yeah honestly, if you're going to say either of the Sons of Sparda are edgy, it would be Vergil.
Because of his backstory, the fact that he's half demon, wears a lot of red and has weapons that supply 80% of his edge. But yeah I agree he is a massive goofball...just like Twilight Princess Link.
Dmc 2 and his backstory
@@kanashimi4356 yeah, especially the description for Majin Devil Trigger (aka desperation devil trigger) and the implications surrounding it.
@@lordnul1708 yeah twilight princess link isnt edgy the rest of the world is
This build is fine, but I feel like it could be better. Sure, it fits the Devil Trigger requirements, but I can't help but feel like all the magical elements feel very un-Dante and I'm not a huge fan of having the guy whose known for being impaled constantly being so squishy in combat. So here's how I'd make a Dante:
Race: Fallen Aasimar, it just fits Dante too well and acts as a nice Devil Trigger
1st Level: Take Barbarian, this will act to emulate Dante's hardiness, like tanking multiple scythes at the start of DMC 3. On top of that, the Rage mechanic can be re-flavored as activating your 'Style gauge' with hits taken considered part of your Royal Guard stance. This also has the nice additional effect of incentivising people to use a basic crossbow along with a longsword or greatsword to hit those far-away targets and keep that precious "Style Ranking" from running out, just like in the games. You also gain advantage on Strength saves while "Styling" and Unarmored Defense, so you can keep fighting while showing off those sweet abs.
2nd Level: By taking Level 2 in Barbarian, you'll gain Reckless Attack and Danger Sense. Reckless Attack is just great for any Barbarian, especially if you want to actually hit things with your 'guns', while Danger Sense gives you a bit more nimbleness to further help you style all over your enemies.
3rd Level: Take Path of the Storm Herald! This will let you pick either fire or ice based on what you want to focus more on. The Desert option will allow you to resist fire damage and, ultimately, counter when you take a hit, like the Royal Guard counter. Meanwhile, the Tundra option can help Dante regenerate while also eventually giving you the option to reduce a target's speed to 0... which can be re-flavored into your Swordmaster juggle combo.
4th Level: Speaking of Swordmaster, time to start unlocking some stylish combos! Take a level in Fighter and go for whichever Fighting Style suits you, like Archer to make the guns more useful, dueler or Great Weapon Fighting for Rebellion, Dual Wielding to copy Agni and Rudra, etc. You also gain Second Wind, because where would a half-demon be without a bit of regeneration, right?
5th Level: It took a bit, but we finally have Action Surge, which will basically let you cancel your combos into other moves. Combined with Reckless Attack, this could lead to some pretty fun setups between your guns and melee setups.
6th Level: Take Battlemaster as your Fighter Archetype, which will finally let you get this party started! Goading attack acts as a nice taunt that also helps your Barbarian utility, Parry acts as a nice justification to say you've got Trickster mastered (slipping away from most of the damage you would have taken, maybe even ALL with 'Style' going), and Riposte is just really solid utility to your 'Style' setup, allowing you to counter after your opponent misses. After all, DMC's an action series and you need to take every chance you can get to exploit those recovery frames, right?
7th and 8th Levels: Time to cash in on those untapped Ability Score boosts from Fighter and Barbarian. Nothing to say here, free stats are always good.
9th Level: Another level in Barbarian gives you that nice Trickster speed bonus along with Extra Attack. Always a good addition to your combo-monster.
10th Level: Take Level 6 in Barbarian for another Path of the Storm Herald skill. Enough said, really.
11th Level: Feral Instincts means you'll never be surprised, because Dante's always ready to crack some demon-skulls at a moment's notice.
12th Level: Another ability score, fair enough
13th Level: For your 9th Barbarian Level, you gain Brutal Critical. It's not too much of a Dante move, but it's fair enough to have for those cutscene kills.
14th Level: Another Path Feature, we're closing in on your more adept Dante Storm Herald skills, though!
15th Level: Dante gets stabbed A LOT. But no matter how many times he gets stabbed, he always keeps fighting! By getting Relentless Rage (Barbarian Level 11), you'll feel just as unkillable as the real Dante!
16th Level: Another ability score boost, never hurts to get these.
17th Level: Brutal Critical II, enough said
18th Level: You can FINALLY do either juggle combos or Royal Guard counters, your pick. Whichever feels more like your personal Dante playstyle, really.
19th Level: At this point, you've earned more than enough Style points to keep a combo going. Use Persistent Rage to make sure you've always got your 'style on'.
20th Level: Finally, one last ability score boost. Always helps to make your Dante physically stronger or more durable, otherwise he just won't feel like Dante.
When you mentioned the fact that Dante gets impaled and gets back again like nothing happened alongside his squishiness, it came to my mind another build idea:
Monk 12/Fighter 8
Fighter is perfect for Dante due to his mastery of every single weapon in existance. Battle Master is fantastic because of the ability to read his enemies (and taunt them) and reflect his wide variety of skills like lunging attack (for impaling with Rebellion) or parry.
Monk is a must go for Dante, the acrobatic buffoon. What is there to say for the core abilities of monks? Unarmed Strikes (leaving you free to choose a different Fighting Style than the one for d6/d8 unarmed strikes), Evasion, extra speed, stunning strike to jug your enemies around while murdering them in a stylish way, Frighten and Charm cancelation, the ability to run on water and walls, immunity to poison.
Now, what subclass to choose with monks? Well, obviously Way of the Long Death, why? Because of 2 reasons, sustain thanks to the ability to gain THP by killing creatures and becoming virtually immortal at 11th level thanks to the ability to spend 1 ki point when being reduced to 0 HP to drop at 1 HP instead. Get impaled as many times as you want, you won't be falling down anytime soon.
The tricky part are the stats, with fallen aasimar we can't do much...
I would say:
Fallen Aasimar (+1 Str, +2 Cha)
15 Str
14 Dex
10 Con
8 Int
14 Wis
10 Cha
Remember Kids, you can't use armor if you want to do cool monk stuff.
Honestly, compared to Tulok's build... Granted, maybe what I would've done wouldn't really be Dante anymore.
I would've put the Dexterity investment into Constitution instead to help keep you alive for longer, take some heavier armor to keep the AC better when kinda dumping but not really dumping dex, and replace Crossbow Expert with either Tough or Magic Initiate.
Tough for the "I get stabbed but don't give a fuck" aspect.
Magic Initiate because you can do what tulok did in his Bayonetta build and use your Eldritch Blast as your guns.
Dante wouldn't never be a barbarian, instead of Just taking classes for specific Powers and habilities, let's remimd that a class is also one identity of a character and Dante would never be a barbarian, i think remaining loyal tô what the characters is would be the best
@@williamverissimo9818 I hard disagree. If we're just using whatever class defines Dante the best on its own then you'd just go pure Fighter and lose out on a bunch of opportunities to reflavor things to fit the character better.
Remember, just because someone's a Wizard it doesn't mean they have to literally have a long beard and wear a robe, it just means you've got a thing that you inscribe Spells onto to use magic. Once you realize that, there's loads of possibilities that open up for character ideas.
A Barbarian doesn't have to be someone barely clothed wearing bones who screams at people. You could have your Rage be a taunt or a moment of focus, maybe a character has some battle-hungry alternate personality that takes over or they could take some drug that puts them into a crazed battle-frenzy, you know?
In one campaign I played a boxing Barbarian/Fighter/Monk elephant that would glare at a target with a glint of focus in his eye before raising his hands as a sign that he's activating his Rage, and it was pretty fun. In the most recent campaign, I had a Ranger Dhampir Swarmkeeper whose swarm was a bunch of bats he summoned as the vampire powers he manifested after being turned.
There's no need to limit yourself. Do what you want, but at the end of the day it's your character. As long as it's not changing the mechanics, most DMs won't mind and some might even encourage out of the box thinking like this.
I think one of my favorite bonuses from watching your videos is I get exposure to games and characters I know about, but haven't really delved into. I'm officially more interested in Devil May Cry now. So thanks.
You and me both! I have to do serious research into probably 30% of these with like a million other suggestions in the comments for me to check out next. Its great.
I have to say that your underutilization of royal guard upsets me.
I can't fault him for that. Must die mode for DMC 3 pretty much fried me for royal guard. That playthrough left me on top of my friend group one upping at least.
The first level shield spell can be very much used like Royal Guard lol.
I'd love to see Vergil built. Similar but I think he'd be different enough to be made
Honestly mostly the same, maybe Dueling instead of Great Weapon Fighting since Vergil seems to use Yamato one handed more often than not.
Really need to work HP Regeneration in here though. As both sons of Sparda are known for their insane even by demonic standards ability to take hits.
Maybe a couple levels of monk since you always get a hand to hand style in each game. And for the unarmored defense since neither son of Sparda rock any armour.
I think building Vergil as a hexblade could be cool since he always embraced his demonic side more and has more magic flavoured abilities.
I just commented on the video here with a Vergil build I made while bored - Bladesinger Wizard 17/Echo Knight 3. Might tickle your fancy.
17 Hexblade/3 Echo Knight
I see Vergil being more DEX based character Monk-Samurai based for me
Finally another game that features dante from devil may cry TM
Super super late but I made Vergil before with a pact of the blade Hexblade and tons of reflavoring for his attacks to be force damage, sword-based alternatives. (Circle of Death becomes Judgement Cut End, Eldritch Blast becomes summoned swords, etc etc)
Gotta say, the boy was very good at the end. Might have him multiclass that last level though since the capstone ability for Warlocks is pretty underwhelming. Barbarian with a reflavored rage (Reflavored in this case being that he only looks different while using it, since,.,.Devil Trigger) is looking mighty tempting because of that..
A+ for everything except the damage type changing.
It kills me that hexblades don't get Steel Wind Strike. I guess if you want to ignore the "elves only" thing he could be a bladesinger?
@@mmichaelson does anyone follow that rule? Does anyone play an elf bladesinger at all?
It's not reflavoring if the mechanics are changed.
@@getthegoons Rage isn't much different mechanically speaking from Devil Trigger. As Devil Trigger in the DMC series gives you immunity to knock back , increased damage, attack speed. About the only thing Rage doesn't cover is the health regen of Devil Trigger and for that we can just multi class Barbarian into the classes that do come with it. So technically we can just combine a couple of classes ability to emulate Devil Trigger and get a proper Dante.
Since this Squishy Dante is just stupid. A pure paladin build is just wrong. Dante is a jack of all trades and a master of weapons. His strength is his variety of skills , abilities, weapons, and the ability to tell Death to go fuck its mother.
Honestly a pure Vengeance Paladin Vergil makes more sense since Yamato and his blind obsession is basically his sole thing. And even then a squishy Son of Sparda is a big no no.
No bard dib for Vicious Mockery? He's definitely the kind of guy to talk smack in combat
dante talking smack to enemies is even a mechanic in the game
Honestly would've gone hexblade w a hit of pali. True poly works better as far as devel triggers go
Yeah Hexblade to 14th and the other six could be paladin, that way you can kinda get Royal Guards with the Hexblade Curse 50% avoid hits at 10th.
@@Helthegrim throw in a bit of samurai fighter for sword master
Finally! Dante's build looks awesome! I hope to see a Vergil build soon enough. Keep going, Tulok!
Can't stop, wont stop
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033😢
My take.
Race: Tiefling. Dante has a demonic or devil heritage. Not an angelic one. And as far as Im aware Fallen Aasimars have to be evil which Dante is Neutral at worse. You could still say his father was a powerful devil while his mom was a human and tiefling twins were the result of that union.
Alignment: Chaotic Good. In the anime Dante shows he cares little about rules and has no qualms about breaking the law. However he clearly has a conscience and actually refuses to kill anything other than demons. He gives an impression he doesn't care but has shown time and time again he actually does and has even declined the rewards from jobs before despite the fact he is in debt.
Background: Haunted one. Dante is troubled by the murder of his mother. It's what drives him to do what he does. He hides it behind his devil may care attitude but on the inside it burns him alive and even has nightmares about that day.
Class: Dante is a hard one to pin down. He has many capabilities. So a multicast is in order.
Fighter (Eldritch Knight) This is where the bulk of your levels will go. Dante is a self taught fighter. He knows how to use every weapon. Has shown some magic prowess (just you typical evocation lightning bolts, firebolts, some force magic, so the limited selection of Eldritch Knight fits.) And he can summon his sword. (In the anime he could call Rebellion to his side, and in DMC5 he can summon Devil Sword Dante out of thin air.)
Monk: Besides his sword and guns, Dante's next preferred method is unarmed. Not to mention he has a mastery over monk weapons as well (Nunchucks, Bo staff, etc.) Unarmored defense also works here as he never wears armor.
Rogue: 1 level Just for some skill proficencies. Dante is a paranormal investigator and has shown to posses some detective skills in the anime and books.
Barbarian: 1 level for rage. Raging will act as his sort of Devil Trigger. Canonically he rarely uses Devil Trigger so 1 level should suffice and only use it when you are taxed or are truly angry.
A thing about tieflings is that there are horns and a tail I can't even imagine a dante with a tail
Wouldn't he be considered a human passing tiefling?
Tiefling is right, but he only looks like that when in DT...all the rest is perfect, actually the closest thing to real Dante, with the limitations of 5E
He isn't half human, he is half angel and half demon if I remember correctly. So Aasimar does work and it does not need the character to be evil.
@@jakubgodlewski9104 He IS half human. The original games his mother was a human and his father is the demon king Sparda. The shit DmC reboot made him half angel half demon.
How did you miss the Aasimar Savior Barbarian??? Wings + Rage by level 3. Unarmored Defense. Endless healthpool. Great Weapon Fighting.
Take multiclass in Rogue for crossbows.
If I was going to Multiclass for Dante, it would be Matt Mercer's Gunslinger Class. Basically Dante becomes the merger of Yasha and Percy. There you go.
Where would I find this Barbarian subclass
@@ashenone4989 I would probably say pick Bear Totem to make yourself even more durable. Dante's big thing is taking swords through the chest, so that would probably help.
@@ForeverDegenerate That's neat and all but you should still combine it with Barbarian.
I avoided the Gunslinger class because it's not official (yet).
@@Cpt_JohnRackham Even though it's on D&D Beyond?
Also, I DID say Multiclass merger of Yasha (Aasimar Barbarian) and Percy (Gunslinger). ;)
I’ve got to vote for Joker, but most of those options are fun!
Someone's probably already had this idea in the comments but whatev, A fallen assimar barbarian fits the main swordplay and devil trigger side of dante perfectly. you could reflavor the rage mode to be a devil trigger form and when the fallen Assimar form and rage mode are used at the same time it could be flavored as sin devil trigger it sounds like a bad ass idea thats maybe how I'd do it or maybe a zealot barbarian and samurai fighter multi class which sounds like it coul be ridiculously OP as a dante character the only issue would be that bonus action rage would get in the way of your bonus action fighting spirit on your first turn of combat but you'd have the rest of your turns to use fighting spirit so it probably still would be OP
I think this has the EDGE for my next favorite build
Hopefully nobody LORDs that over you
Tulok: "You just cant be good at everything in D&D."
Me with my 96 stat rolled bard/Rogue multiclass: "I beg to differ"
Yeeees, I was so looking forward
This build is S-S-STYLISH! Would just swap that 12 intelligence with constitution just for a little more HP. Other than that, good take on this one
Fair, if I were power building that would be the move.
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 Character wise, Arcana makes sense. But given Dante's absurd regenerative powers, CON 12 wouldn't be quite enough to represent that...but maybe his Healing Spells from Paladin would (which was exactly what you did). Honestly, it's a very hard character to make in DND with many different traits and I think you pulled it off quite well!
I played this build in a campaign last year, made the rest of the character original though - it was good fun but I decided to have a go at building Vergil today and damn I may have found my next backup character because it is such a fun build and surprisingly well optimised.
Bladesinger Wizard 17 / Echo Knight Fighter 3. Get the Bladesinger live by reaching level 2, then switch to the fighter class for three levels, grabbing the Dueling style and Echo Knight for the Doppelganger. Then pump the rest of your levels into gaining spells themed on the Vergil's Summoned Swords and teleporting/opening portals (also took a few spells to summon demons as a nod to V and the occasional wind based spell because Vergil is in fact the storm that is approaching.) As for race, it wasn't optimal with Protector Aasimar but it gives him the flying speed and the Sin Devil Trigger at level 3 - reasoning over picking Fallen like Dante here was in DMC V, Dante has his standard Devil Trigger and later gets SDT - you can't use Vergil's original DT as it's replaced by the Doppelganger (Echo) but he does have an SDT that lets him fly off the bat so this was the switch up.
Just homebrew a longsword or rapier to be a katana and you've got your Yamato (make sure it has Finess.) Flavour the Firebolt cantrip to be blue flame for basic Summoned Swords with spells like Ice Knife, Magic Missile and Mordenkainen's Sword to function as them at higher levels. And of course, summon your Doppelganger and send it into combat on your behalf while your feeble wizard health pool sits at the back throwing spells at your opponents. Oh, and grab Steel Wind Strike when you get 5th level spells for Judgement Cut, followed by Blade of Disaster at level 20 for Judgement Cut End.
Absolutely gorgeous
> con 10
No. Just make a Warlock hexblade. Your eldritch blast is ebony and ivory, rebelion is your pact weapon, and you can have a couple paladin levels.
You only need 3 lock levels for all of that
Could have just taken magic initiate warlock for Eldritch blast and hellish rebuke to be a royal guard burst.
No.
@@moonlight2870 But, what if yes?
@@victorminor1283 you make a compeling argument. but have you considered no?
Now that both an updated version of wizard bladesinger and echo knight are available for play now it's Vergil's turn to become a playable character
Zariel Tiefling, Vengeance Paladin/Order of Lycan Blood Hunter.
Just 3-4 lvl of BH, to get the Order, the Hybrid form works well has a DT (res of all mundane damages if not silvered/magic, stronger attacks)
I probably would've gone more for a mash-up between Paladin and Sorc; Since there's a lot of meta magic and features that could probably make up the most important aspect of Dante; sheer style. Transformations are nice, but I consider that less important than his ability to always have. Though I could totally see if you wanted to emulate his DMC 5 state of basically transforming into destruction incarnate that this particular line of thinking makes more sense.
I've always imagined the pistols as much an extension of his natural ability as physical firearms; I mean they never run out of ammo, so being able to hit a double attack then quickening a sourcing ray/magic missile feels pretty thematic to how tricksy he is. Want a rocket launcher? Fireball. Flaming Numchucks? E.t.c. Basically, I kinda imagine Dante being a nuke of a character being able to burn through magic slots with alarming ease to tear through hordes of demons. Going with a dragon or celestial linage sells the effect that a lot of Dante's abilities are just natural to him and that he can flip between his abilities with as much ease as some people do in breathing.
Though I guess there wouldn't need to be a great dex at that point and I might as well switch it for con; considering that most of his cutscenes see him casually taking injuries that would seriously incapacitate anyone else.
A great video non the less however! I enjoyed this.
I feel like dante is one of those characters that need 20 in everything.
Everything but wisdom, lol
@@imhulki463 he's got super senses though lol.
@@skullkrusher-dx4kg oh that's right, perception is linked to wisdom
@@imhulki463 so is tracking and survival lol.
Speaking of taking characters as a theme. I made a Lu Bu with the idea of 2 barbarian 18 cavalier fighter. Feats are, GWM, PAM, SENTINEL. With PAM + SENTINEL and 18 Cav's ability to get an AOO reaction per enemy turn you would live up to the "Do not Pursue". The Barb is there mostly for reckless and rage does fit in well with Lu Bu as a concept.
You gotta do Virgil now, and Nero!
The best Dante build that I can think of would have to be a Blood Hunter by Matthew Mercer with levels in Monk. It's just not AL legal.
Bloodhunter is the rest of your build with the Hunter's Bane helping in Devil hunting and Crimson Rite being your demonic power flowing into the weapon. Second level blood maledicts give you either spell sunder or fending rite for a fiends spell resistance. Third level go order of the lycan for a real devil trigger get regeneration down the line.
Monk provides unarmored defense which is more thematic for the armor less Dante, ki points are all of Dante's styles with trickster being step of the wind, royal guard being patient defense and flurry of blows being a devil arm like Balrog or Beowulf. Go Kensei for sword master style and gunslinger with longsword and hand crossbow as your Kensei weapons.
Stay as an aasimar for the the sin devil trigger, however protector aasimar is as appealing as fallen for flavor.
That right on the edge joke gets this video a like already XD great job
I went a more powergaming/munckin mix on my end:
I actually went Variant Human (Because I couldn't find a proper race for Dante)
Took the Variant Human Feat Option:
Alert - Really not going to let them Demons get the jump on me, plus higher chances of getting in their faces and unleashing the hurt before they can either zip away or start doing crazy stuff.
17th Level Fighter (Champion) - Because lots of Damage and Action Surge - Going for the SSS Combo Rating
3rd Level Barbarian (Totem) - Mostly for Resistance to Majority of Damage - Little bit of Extra Rage Damage helps out too
Focus on Dexterity and Constitution, while averaging out Strength and Charisma, and slightly mix dumping on Intelligence and Wisdom - none of them below 10 thankfully by the rolls.
Took the following Feats:
Mobile 4th Level - Hit and Move, Hit and Move, gotta get them combos goings
Tough 6th Level - Tough to bring down, tough to stay down, watching out for those sword impalements
Athlete 8th Level - Running around takes some energy, especially when running up walls and down massive building towers of doom.
12th, 14th, and 16th Levels were for ability scores I needed to even out those pesky odd numbers I rolled out. Though if I had the flexibility, would've grabbed the following feats had I could:
12th - Lucky - Sometimes a little bit of Luck goes a long way... especially when you flip a double head sided coin.
14th - Defensive Duelist - ROYAL GUARD! (Maybe not in the usual sense of it, but I would use it to cheese it on some enemies just to taunt them.)
16th - Savage Attacker - Just going in there for Damage Per Second mode.
Again I rolled for the stats and used some of those levels for covering my ability score stats, but had I the chance... oh yeah.
Awesome dude can’t wait for snakes just recently I was thinking about playing a snake like character
Looks like he's winning at the moment, you may get your wish.
Dungeons & Dragons
Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series
I wanna see the box hider! (snake vote) btw amazing take on Dante
Thanks! Obviously the box is a simple pass without trace.
I think the box can also be a minor illusion and the hide bonus action (arcane trickster rogue)
Not going to lie, that Rebellion joke caught me off guard and I loved it.
I fully support the joker idea!
I welcome your support!
I believe dante to be a little more durable than that, so i believe he would be more suited as a fighter, probably hexblade. Fallen aasimar is good, the transformation is awesome, and i do believe 1 or 4 levels in paladin are welcome. Multiclass for paladin 4/fighter 16 and i believe you're golden. Besides, that way you get more attacks, an extra fighting style (Long range) and more sturdyness from con (so you can actually survive being impaled, like he does on DmC 4, 3 and 1)
That's some BIG boy *STENGTH* right there.
I had a pretty good idea for V. Shadow Sorcerer to at least 6th level, then some manner of Warlock to get Pact of the Chain, but none of the Patrons fit quite right. I know Griffon & Co. are technically Fiends, but the Fiendish Patron doesn't really reflect V's skills at all, and while Hexblades do have shadowy stuff going on, they're also way more about killing things with weapons rather than fighting with summons.
He's literally condensed humanity held together by magic, so Variant Human is probably quite fitting, though I honestly have no idea what feat I'd want beyond Warcaster, which would definitely help keep Nightmare swinging longer.
Also, Nero could be an Eldritch Knight or Monster Slayer to account for his Devil Bringer/Breaker abilities. Going Ranger, you'd take the Druidic Warrior fighting style to grab Thorn Whip and Primal Savagery, and going Fighter you could grab both Shocking Grasp and Lightning Lure from the Wizard spell list.
600 more episodes and this would have been perfectly timed
Totally going to play this next campaign
Dante. An aasimar AND a paladin. Now I've seen it all...
Edit: Except now we need Vergil.
You could do nero now... with the way of astral self monk... it's almost like they played dmc5 and said "hey, this would be a fun subclass".. if you fudge it just a little bit simic hybrid would also work for fitting his arm in... just a thought.
dante being a bit of a glass canon was surprising, but i can see it
Considering royal guard is a thing though...
@@greenhillmario do you use royal guard when you play dmc? Be honest
@@willnelson9906 I do lol
Coming back to this vid Tulok, I hope you can do a Vergil build one day. I already had one in the back of my mind:
Hexblade Warlock 1
Echo Knight Fighter 3
Kensei Monk 16
Fallen Aasimar of course just like his brother.
I built him as tiefling of zariel seeing as she is a devil who did infact wake up to justice
But was her dark soul filled with light?
Well, looks like the Player’s Handbook gets to have the sticker now.
Would love to see a Frieza in dnd, my next antagonist is actually heavily based on him
Oh Frieza could be fun, and I wouldn't have to worry about doing Saiyan stuff like I would with Goku.
Fallen Aasmiar was a clever touch that I'd never thought of. I'd have chosen Zariel Tiefling without a second thought.
But, using your Fallen idea, I have made Devil Trigger an Action Surge + Necrotic Shroud. Then his build would consist of Warlock Hexblade (for Legendary Sword Dante and summoning it whenever) /Paladin Vengeance (for spells like Misty Step which equates to Trickster teleportation)/Gunslinger Fighter (LITERALLY CALLED GUNSLINGER).
INT is his dump stat because he doesn't show anything justifying otherwise, plus pretty it's obvious what a demon is (Vergil is the studious one who learned how the underworld worked). WIS can be about average because he could figure out Nero's parentage by looking at Yamato. Everything else should be as maxed out as possible.
I was expecting a monk level since he goes hand to hand in every game.
I feel like constitution should be higher because of Dante's insane vitality
This is my Dante Build:
Stats:
STR: 15 (He's strong)
DEX 14 (He's quick)
CON 13 (He's tough)
CHA 12 (He's likeable and for multiclassing.)
WIS 10 (He needs other stuff more.)
INT 8 (He has a dept problem.)
Race: Fallen Aasimar OR Zariel Tiefling (STR 16 CHA 14.)
Backround: Entertainer (Acrobatics + Performance, Dante has some sick moves.)
Levels:
LV 1: Fighter 1 (Fighting Style/Archery, Second Wind. Athletics + Perception.)
LV 2: Fighter 2 (Action Surge 1)
LV 3: Fighter 3 (Samurai.)
LV 4: Fighter 4 (ASI: Bump CON.)
LV 5: Fighter 5 (Extra Attack 1)
LV 6: Fighter 6 (ASI: Bump STR.)
LV 7: Paladin 1 (Divine Sense, Lay on hands.)
LV 8: Paladin 2 (Divine Smite, Fighting Style/Defence, Protection from Evil & Good, Divine Favor, Cure Wounds.)
LV 9: Paladin 3 (Oath of Vengence.)
LV 10: Fighter 7 (Elegent courtier.)
LV 11: Fighter 8 (Feat: Crossbow Expert.)
LV 12: Fighter 9 (Indomitable 1)
LV 13: Fighter 10 (Tireless Spirit)
LV 14: Fighter 11 (Extra Attack 2)
LV 15: Fighter 12 (ASI: Bump DEX.)
LV 16: Fighter 13 (Indomitable 2)
LV 17: Fighter 14 (ASI: Bump DEX.)
LV 18: Fighter 15 (Rapid Strike.)
LV 19: Fighter 16 (ASI Cap STR.)
LV 20: Fighter 17 (Action Surge 2, Indomitable 3.)
i actually did a build like this with horizon walker and samurai, instead of paladin.
That would work a little better for a more dex focused build, I like it!
That is a great Vergil, or horizon walker and rogue to really get across his on hit kills on enemies.
Hey Tulok I was wondering if you could do a "How to Play Raziel in D&D" video. Fyi: I speaketh of Raziel from the Legacy of Kain Series
For a guy with such low Constitution, Dante sure does brush off getting stabbed a lot.
how to play dante in D&D: pick up athlete and maybe mobile, for weapons if you want to go rebellion dante pick defense and GWM feat, for guns pick up x-bow master and two weapon fighting and use dualcrossbows...or if you DM lets you just pick gunslinger subclass. and done, DO NOT MULTICLASS, fighter gets THE MOST attacks just like dante, unless your going like cerbrus/fistweapon dante in witch case go monk. for vergil go fighter but go samurai subclass and use a greatsword and reskin it as a katana
Now, how would you set up the typical Dragon Quest/Dragon Warrior protagonist (barring the one from DQ5)...
What's different about the one from 5? I would think the one from 9 would be the outlier due to the customizable nature.
@@BJGvideos Madason is an outlier in that he isn't a "chosen hero/descendant of chosen hero". He *is* a prince and probably the best spellcaster of the main protags, but he's basically just a dude.
I was waiting for this one! I wonder, how different would be a Vergil build?
We're already at 100% edge... but oathbreaker or conquest Pally maybe?
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 I love how Vergil went from Oathbreaker to Bard.
Oh boy, pretty nice. Can't wait for Vergil!
Do Zidane and freya from final fantasy 9!!! Love your videos!!!
I need to play it first! But yeah, the whole FF series is chalk full of potential waiting for me to explore
I never thought Dante would be a team player. He always seemed like the low-fuckery mercenary who kicked ass before taking names
There are a few things I disagree with from a thematic point of view but the biggest one is saying con is not very important to Dante when its one of his defining characteristics in the games. I mean he gets impaled on his own sword and walks around like it's not even there every other weekend.
now adays, only real change needed if your dm is not keeping guns out of the game is the gunner feat in place of the crossbow expert, so surprisingly timeless build it seems
I'm thinking I'll do a Hexblade/pact blade dip (5?) then rest paladin for my Nero character. If I can talk the DM into letting me use both a sword and gun/crossbow with extra attack. Since RAW Thirsting blade can only specifically be used for your pact weapon, not the Hex weapon. But I also considered just making the gun/xbow the hex weapon and focus for eldritch blast as powered up shots so that works too.
Okay a Dante that suffers from a low Con score . This build needs reworking . Dante has survived injuries that have killed full blooded demons. And he's a half blood. Even a Yamato armed Vergil couldn't kill him. And Yamato can sunder the barrier between worlds like a hot knife through butter.
Could have taken magic initiate warlock for Ebony and Ivory being Eldritch blast. They are multiple shots after all. Hellish rebuke for the spell learned to try to emulate royal guard. Doing this lowers the need for high dex which means you could bump up the con. Dante gets impaled all the time and walks it off, he at least has a +2 to con.
Honestly I would shuffle around dexterity charisma, and constitution. Charisma should definitely a little bit higher in my opinion considering how stylish he is and that he literally somehow talked Agnus into turning the opening cutscene for mission 17 in DMC4 into a Shakespearean stage play.
Now i want to see how a Vergil build looks like
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WHAT IN SATANS ANUS IS THAT !!!
did you just use a gold orb ? ok drop the dnd books
becose you need to hit that training mode and practise those combos dude
Cut him some slack, it's not like he used it while fighting flunkies on normal (or worse, very easy). It seemed clear enough to me that, going by the amount of health he was losing per hit, he was on hard for his first playthrough (working down instead of up, which is admittedly stupid, but there are a lot of people who do that, even for completely different games than their usual fair because they're overconfident).
@@lordnul1708 and I am one of those people. When starting at hard you would know the mechanics and gameplay like being in trial by fire. And once you finish you get to relax playing the game at lower difficulty and bump up the difficulty again for challenge. Stupid? Sure. Fun? Yes
@@lordnul1708 To be fair. If this was his first playthrough. It would be on normal difficulty. In dmc5 you either play the game first time on easy or normal. But considering he was fighting Vergil. It's understandable if he died. Vergil is no push over if you're not prepared for him.
@@frankkuncio2065 Vergil is the reason to use royal guard golden orb don't exist until Dante Must Die
@@silveredbullet802 or get all the achievements on hardest difficulty and only have to play the game once instead of multiple times for each difficulty.
Coming back here two years later because I've been comparing this with the Vergil build: Tasha's cauldron of Everything makes this build better since you can move your racial stat bumps around and have that dex match the strength and cap them both by the end.
Tulok can rest easy now.
Devil may make a sweet build. Huzzah!
Also yes, the bourgeoisie must be annihilated!
I would love to see how you'd build 2B
weird i dont play D&D but still rly like these vids
Hopes for Vergil
I SWEAR I've seen the thumbnail for a Vergil video.
Please make a Vergil and Nero build, that will be amazing.
Name: Dante
Class: Wacky wohoo pizza man.
*Turns on Devils Never Cry*
DM: Why do I hear boss music?
Me: Let's get this party started!
jojo, dante, joker[p5] all in one tavern
Dante:: hey the two of you are under aged.
It kinda makes more sense to swap int and con, IMO; Dante may not be *dumb* per se, but he's certainly better known for being tough.
I would have dumped Int and gone hexblade (Rebellion is a cursed sword), but this works.
If ya don't wanna use them hand crossbows, get Magic Initiate on Warlock for Eldredge Blast, and if ya switch Int and Con you'd get more Hp
I still want the Fate franchise's Artoria. Like back when she was properly alive with all her King Arthur stuff instead of a Saber/Lancer Class Servant.
Or Heracles. He'd be fun too.
Crossbow expert doesn't work like that. The attack you need to make to trigger the bonus action attack does not need to be melee, and you couldn't do what you suggest by attack with the longsword then firing the crossbow after the first round because ammunition weapons require a free hand to reload (same reason you can't use a shield with a crossbow). Technically you could attack with the longsword, drop it, reload your crossbow an fire it, then pick up the sword with your free action, but this is a bit janky. You can however attack 3 times with the same hand crossbow once you have extra attack, since it is a one handed weapon.
I would swap Intelligence with Constitution, guy gets stabbed with his own sword multiple times and he walks it off, you know he got good constitution.
I disagree with Paladin. I think Blood Hunter Lycan (if your DM allows you a demon transformation, doesn't change the gameplay), You get a transformation (devil trigger) after only 3 levels in the class.
Think he was going for official stuff but I agree
If we're talking homebrew you can just homebrew your own class for this
hm, while I know strength is good for long sword, but it sounds like if you heavily flavour a rapier, you could do just dexterity as your highest stat. And these builds tend to be without magic items, so you could pick up the ogre gauntlets for that strength boost or a belt of giants strength.
I'd love to see solid snake but I love joker as well
V would be fascinating as a build. :D
I respect yr approach, but do you feel there's a build that incorporates Fighter or Monk? Maybe Barbarian where its Rage acts like the Devil Trigger? Also; will you ever work in vids that deal with the Gunslinger branch of Fighter?
I read the thumbnail as “How to Play Dante in bed” and I thought this was going to be a very different video
Unrelated, but what was that version of Edge of Glory used? Sounds like a banger.
Could we get a punisher build? I know it's kinda simple, I would just like to see a different take on it
I’m intrigued
Pretty surprising to see that pact of the blade didn't show up as a way of summoning different devil arms but you could see it as a dmc 1 or 2 Dante with the focus on rebellion and Ebony and Ivory and the later level devil trigger as the sparda transfermation from the first game or the sin devil trigger from the second
I’m curious did you consider taking Oath of Watchers? Since it’s an oath made to battle things from other planes of existence?
Technically speaking Dante and Vergil would be Cambions, Nero would be a Tiefling.
I naively hoped Gunslinger would finally be allowed in :P
Big Boi Sword
No little boy swords allowed. This is the big boi sword clubhouse.
Instead of Crossbow Expert, I went with Mage Initiate and took Eldritch Blast.
Can you make a video to play Nero as well? I know they will be fairly similar, but with Nero having the versatility of his different robot arms and not having to worry about getting the devil trigger until late game I'm hoping it will be just different enough to be fun in it's own right. Same can be said with V being a kind of Pokemon trainer in a way with his demonic summons.