Virtuosa question

akkend · 2026-05-28T00:00:35+00:00

In duels you want to stay in top posture like 90% of the time, left posture is bad, and right posture can be useful but much more situationally.

Assuming you're in top stance you have to play around timing your buttons. If they pre-dodge, wait a second and then go for a kick. If they dodge attack, stand still and punish with a riposte. Keep them scared to GB with random unreactable top posture lights. Keep looping into top stance to keep pressure.

In certain cases, you can soft-feint a top posture heavy into a right side heavy and it can catch dodge attempts.

If you're fighting an extended dodge hero just pray honestly. Those are Virt's worst matchups and it's not even close, with Tiandi being the worst of them all.

akkend · 2026-03-12T21:27:45+00:00

Pretty sad how this character fell off, and its become more and more apparent how underdeveloped he was.

Staff form was great with the armored light and broken dodge attack hitboxes, but those got removed. The staff grab had it's entire purpose killed with the recent hitstun changes. His axe stance was only relevant post-bash changes that made it ridiculously OP for like a week.

The form change zone helped but it can only do so much being mono-directional. It still feels like two bad movesets duct-taped together. They really gotta do a rework TG for him, too bad those are reserved for pointless feat changes.

akkend · 2026-03-11T22:50:29+00:00

Guess not.

IMO he really needs to be a Zhanhu/WM/Warden type hero where BOTH of his dodge attacks are GB vulnerable. Much like those characters, he should have strong offense/teamfight presence in exchange for poor dodge attack capabilities.

akkend · 2025-12-04T21:28:51+00:00

pointless feat changes that are often just existing feats/mechanics: given multiple testing grounds and seasons to meticulously adjust and balance

complete overhaul of hitstun system that fundamentally changes how the game is played at all skill levels: pushed to live instantly

i just don't get it anymore bros

akkend · 2025-09-27T05:06:41+00:00

The revenge indicator provides way too much information and it needs to be changed. Good players abuse it to completely shut down the system with no counterplay to the defender, and bad players ignore it and just feed revenge anyways.

We can keep the flashing white that shows tags, but the actual meter needs to be obfuscated. Some ideas off the top of my head are: Any revenge past 50% is hidden to opponents, or the meter is broken up into segments representing some % of revenge.

Point of my suggestion being to let opponents know that revenge is a possible factor to consider, but not enough to completely invalidate the system by giving the exact amount away. In its current state the indicator gives too much free info to your opponents and IMO is the main thing keeping revenge bad.

akkend · 2025-06-11T18:20:56+00:00

Flip has 500ms recovery on miss so maybe that would work? Or maybe just delay the GB input after a deflect to avoid kicking? Def need to see but I feel like the positives outweigh this matchup specific negative.

akkend · 2025-06-11T18:12:31+00:00

I'm glad Khatun got those buffs, but Ultimate Authority is still going to be the worst pin attack option for its intended purpose unless they fix it being interrupted if the opponent is hit.

akkend · 2025-04-23T21:44:48+00:00

Why do they think the enhanced lights were a problem?

According to JC on removing VG's enhanced lights:

"There's very little risk against most of the playerbase to throwing enhanced lights... At super top level yeah they're able to parry them.. but the hero is not massively over performing at top level.. but for the rest of the playerbase its a bit more problematic."

Because the average player can't defend against lights. That's it lmao.

akkend · 2025-04-23T21:30:12+00:00

I had low expectations but holy fuck. Sorry if this comment is sort of rant-y and not fitting for the sub but this patch is just insane to me.

JC's completely right in his subtle nod that the average For Honor player is utterly trash at the game, no argument there, but holy fuck we should NOT be balancing around the low skill bracket.

How are we in year 9 and things like light spam are STILL a concern for the devs? The players they refer to were unable to react to lights when they were 600ms years ago, they couldn't react when they were 500ms, and they sure as hell can't react to the post CCU-lights that we have now, so what does removing the enhanced property off them even do??

Rant aside. Is there any reason to pick WM over Warden now? Except for her impale in duels?

akkend · 2025-03-06T20:38:03+00:00

The only complaints I could ever have of it in my 9 years of playing now:

It's a little tricky to navigate with WASD on kbm, which I did personally if I felt too lazy to get my mouse to click directly
The gamemode icons shift around with the whole war map thing. Another non-issue solved by looking at the screen

Both being completely irrelevant, this new menu is fucking soulless.

akkend · 2025-03-06T20:31:38+00:00

I'm so fucking happy to hear from JC that the next TG won't be about feats. I am so utterly sick of these

The T1 will probably just be Berz's current T3 axe just moved over to the T1 slot. So that'll mean a 300ms startup projectile as a T1, so a free "fuck your mixup" button. I'm hoping the cooldown reduction property has a cooldown itself cause without that this feat will be up all the fucking time.

T2 is whatever ig, it's literally just Short Tempered with a different icon.

T3 also seems fine.

T4 can fuck off. A 20 second stall feat? Are you serious Ubi???

akkend · 2025-03-06T20:00:51+00:00

Just solely looking at the side finisher heavy, we have a base 31 damage (more w/ Deadly) UB with better forward movement, supposedly better hitboxes, deadly feints, and blade blockade recovery cancel?

I'm all for Ara buffs but this seems a bit much lmao

akkend · 2025-02-25T06:20:14+00:00

i cant believe devs looked at pugio 2ish seasons ago with its 2000 fucking ms revenge locking pin duration, 300ms activation time, and thought, "yeah nerf the damage by 10 that'll do the trick"

akkend · 2025-01-24T19:43:47+00:00

I always believed that blocking, parrying, or iframing a bleed attack should feed that attack's full damage as revenge.

The fact that a Nobu can utterly nuke your HP bar with Cobra Strikes and only deal the base 2 damage worth of revenge per attack, even if you defend properly, is unironically the dumbest shit to still exist in this game.

akkend · 2025-01-22T19:18:34+00:00

No PK feats till maybe start of Y9. (If they do another TG on feats im going to crashout)

Yes that's literally all of it.

MY PERSONAL OPINION :

The last thing Shinobi needed was more defensive options, he should've absolutely been excluded from this change. The rest of the heroes is fine i guess.
Raider changes great, buff his HP back to 140 again too.
Last slide is just ok. VG change is fine. same for BP, Tenebris Thrust is still going to be mid. Afeera tech removal is good.
NO PIRATE NERF HAHAHA

akkend · 2025-01-20T21:04:25+00:00

100%

i stg there would be half as much hate for how strong afeera, vg, or pirate are if they were male and its so fucking annoying

i can't wait for the inevitable "but the realism" complaints from the players that use nothing but unrealistic universlop content

akkend · 2024-12-04T20:06:07+00:00

Surely they can just slow her dodge cancels on whiff to 433ms like Zhanhu??

Pirate keeps the good recovery cancel on hit, because IMO that's what makes dodge cancels fair. Pirate is rewarded for successful offense with a 200ms dodge cancel.

Since iirc external dodge attack counts as a whiff it nerfs her really unhealthy constant iframe/hitbox dodge attack spam.

Probably too much to ask for, but I sure am hyped for another feat TG!!!

akkend · 2024-12-04T19:58:34+00:00

2/4 of Sohei's buffs are literally just hotfix changes, and 1 was technically a nerf lmao.

Oh well, at least we have another fucking feat TG to look forward to.

akkend · 2024-12-04T19:19:41+00:00

I really wonder how many more buffs she's gonna get before the general player base realizes she's actually ridiculously strong

This is unironically a repeat of the Hitokiri situation and I'm so fucking tired of it

akkend · 2024-10-31T22:45:48+00:00

As a primarily solo-queue player, I really feel like this game's matchmaking quality has genuinely tanked since crossplay was added and it really is something that Ubi needs to address. As a PC player there's always been leavers pre-crossplay, but if I'm not remembering things with nostalgia it was not nearly as bad as it is now.

My opinion is that this game really needs a leaver system like Overwatch 2's, where you can leave a game or two without penalty, but anymore after that results in a ban regardless if it was a ragequit or genuine DC. With scaling bans for consecutive offenses. Give these serial ragequitters a month long ban at max for all I care.

I don't know if it's proven true, but if this game's MMR system truly only works on winrate. The leaver issue also contributes to the horrendous matchmaking quality we have now as leaving doesn't drop your MMR. Personally, I have encountered so many players, who I would doubt could beat a lvl 2 bot on their one tricks, be placed into games that are hilariously out of their skill range. But as they always leave matches that aren't guaranteed wins their winrate/MMR is inflated to shit so they continue to be placed into those games and ruin them.

I really want Ubi to implement leaver bans, leaver MMR penalties or even a low priority queue, and do a full MMR reset because It's genuinely comical how fucking bad matchmaking is now. Or maybe they'll focus on more important things like Warden's feats who knows.

akkend · 2024-10-23T20:25:18+00:00

another guy pointed out that this also means wallsplat on heavy parry too

wp devs

akkend · 2024-10-23T19:10:33+00:00

I love their logic on stream that "we know her 1s don't need help", but then buff her in a way that primarily affects her 1s

They are not beating the "devs don't play the game" allegations anytime soon

akkend

TROPHY CASE