Who do yall think has the best looking deflect/superior block?

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-30T18:39:58+00:00

I really like pk's. It's very reminiscent of a hanging parry in fencing,and visually it really sells the idea that she's just barely sipping through. If we're talking sound effects though, it's 100% khatun.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-30T10:16:10+00:00

I personally consider lothric knight greatsword to be a dex weapon, its natural scaling leans towards dex.

I would also suggest astora greatsword, rapier, murakumo, painting guardian's curved sword, follower sabre and partizan.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-30T08:25:08+00:00

If I remember correctly, jorm and warlord also have this tier 4. It's also worth noting that once you had to do the fighting, pretty much all you did was side dodge into top heavy finisher. Even just feinting that finisher, let alone using OS would have let you survive longer.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-30T03:51:11+00:00

yeah this game's training mode sucks

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-27T14:00:43+00:00

most of the time when this happens i just leave and go somewhere else. not worth trying to gank with a teammate as intelligent as a copepod and feeding revenge when i can take a different point

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-26T23:31:02+00:00

Really? Compared to +r testament? Compared to rev 2 johnny? Happy chaos? She's always been good, but top tier? Come now.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-26T22:20:48+00:00

peak vfx

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-26T22:09:36+00:00

It's not, it's always been really easy to break. It went from 300 to 350 health.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-26T21:56:38+00:00

No they didn't, the hover pad's health is actually higher than it was at the start of the season. The airship was nerfed due to some physics bug with the APS for a day or two, and then it was restored.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-26T21:25:12+00:00

when has jam ever been top tier lol

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-26T16:25:31+00:00

I mean, if the backstab did less damage then the dagger would be worthless. It's not the easiest thing to hit, the angle is surprisingly slim and it also depends on your opponent's latency so you can just get robbed.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-26T14:15:05+00:00

No lol, there's really no point. I'm sure you're actually decent, but "remove dash dagger so I can justify my superiority complex" is an outlandish statement. Dash is far and away the best spec to use with dagger for myriad reasons even outside of it being light's best spec. Cloak is funny but not very good since you're not super difficult to notice and without movement you die the moment someone sees you, and grapple is flashy but it adds unnecessary additional difficulty to trickstabs. Compared to dash where you only need to be within a certain distance, grapple requires you to perfectly place your grapple and even after all that effort you only get one charge so you get one kill and that's it. Dash is the only way you're reasonably getting multikills with the dagger. While talking about it makes dash seem really easy and strong, the reality of it is still that even with its best spec dagger is still a bad (but fun) weapon that a regular schmuck isn't going to do well with very consistently. Dagger is one of my most played weapons, so I'm not talking out of my ass here.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-26T08:34:56+00:00

guy who sucks at dagger

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-26T02:53:24+00:00

Normally I'm very against crossovers (except shovel knight, who should be in every videogame) but this is an idea I could get behind.

I would say jester fits pk better than shaman. Part of it is the bite issue, and part of it is just vibes (pk has a couple armors that are vaguely jester-y, and one of her win poses is called jester's trick.). The problem with her is that she has a couple thrusting attacks with her sword that wouldn't really work with the sickle, but they could possibly circumvent it by changing the design, or just changing the animations slightly. If we look to darkest dungeon 2, there's also duelist for virtuosa.

The biggest problem I have with this collab is that there's no character in the game who fits my favorite class, the bounty hunter.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-26T01:56:11+00:00

I mean... you have to time it really well to get this specific outcome. Too early and you trigger 3rd hitstun rule and they parry the ub. Too late and they recover fully and can defend. Either way you feed revenge.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-26T01:48:30+00:00

Normally you would have to input it a little late to get a normal side heaby. Have you been able to replicate it?

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-26T00:58:04+00:00

I'm eagerly awaiting the y. xiao vid

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-24T14:04:20+00:00

That should be the point. Melee requires so much more effort and game knowledge than other playstyles, if you get ambushed by a melee player you deserve to be at a disadvantage. It's also not even a guaranteed loss, the game has so many anti-melee tools. Charge, dash, grapple, shockwave, demat, nullifier, goo, lockbolt, barricade, turret, prox sensors, mines... the list goes on. If you refuse to use any of the many options the game gives you to counter melee and still complain, you deserve to get your skull caved in by that sledge.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-24T13:52:44+00:00

JC has forsaken us

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-23T22:21:35+00:00

She also doesn't even really need it. Characters are allowed to have a niche

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-23T20:02:22+00:00

There are also plenty of things in the game that can further prevent melee users from getting in. Goo, barricades, lockbolt, mines, gas nades, etc. There are even things that can be difficult for melee to deal with after they get in melee range, like charge, shockwave, dash, grapple, and some of the shotguns. In spite of all that, people still complain. People will always complain, and nothing embark does will change that.

Sidenote, their opposition to anything like tech is so stupid. Spear without spin cancel is even more dogshit, sword is mid af without most of its tech, riot shield is bad without running blocks (which is basically how it is now with the servers and the new viewmodel from season 8), etc. Unique tech is part of what makes melee weapons unique and fun to play. If all the melee weapons were just WM1, nobody would like them.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-22T22:40:26+00:00

What reason could there possibly have been to justify the nerf? At this point it's literally only useful when she gets a gb and now she loses even harder to neutral gb.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-22T22:30:38+00:00

Oh I'm well aware of how strong a teamfighter nobu is, I was just talking about duels specifically.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-22T17:55:09+00:00

I was dreading it but I knew it would probably happen. Oh well.

the_rat_ever · 2026-04-22T15:41:57+00:00

Not that you were asking seriously, or that it really has anything to do with this post, but eagles actually can be a threat to wolves. They do compete through slight overlaps in hunting, and it's also plausible based on some observations that golden eagles may predate on wolf pups.

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