For Honor: Lawbringer Realism Analysis pt.2

[@GoGoDani]

Thank you all for watching. I don't know if I will be able to get another For Honor video out anytime soon just due to how busy I am. When I do finally get around to it, feel free to let me know if there is any specific hero you would like me to cover. My therapist: "Animebringer isn't real, he can't hurt you." Animebringer: "Ｓ Ｈ Ｉ Ｎ Ｕ" 11:01

[@scotigaming2517]

It’s fine, we all love your content that you make!

[@liam5683]

Black Prior or Gladiator would be awesome!

[@hubjump]

Idk if you'll see this but look at the long arm from the lawbringer trailer. It's different. He sweeps the leg and charges if I remember.

[@theoni8702]

hey if you think about Thomas the tank engine move if you tried to stop it the point would go further in so if your not internally bleeding then you are now or your just straight dead

[@witchhunter6755]

The chonker will defeat le animebringer

[@theorochi534]

I remember when he had a animation back in the beginning of the game to where he stabs the minion with the spike and flips them over him. Wish they could have changed his long arm to that instead

[@GoGoDani]

Gameplay-wise, I think it would make his move less telegraphed as well :/

[@angryviper1]

I remember that 😥

[@mustardman1040]

I miss the minion-killing animations 😭

[@combustion5220]

I think they still have the animation in the singleplayer story

[@owenliboiron3762]

And then they would have add damage to it, say, 40 damage?

[@angryskeleton5676]

Lore wise if he can flip grown men over his back via the shaft then it makes sense that lawbringer can use it to block hits. But neither is very realistic to begin with.

[@GoGoDani]

That is a very good point. Further on that, he has some shafts which are made out of metal, so that might explain why it would work for that as well. But that's not realistic either as making a solid staff of hardened steel is not just impractical and a waste of materials, but it would give a terrible amount of hand shock I would presume.

[@lapantony]

@@GoGoDani I still doubt even a metal shaft would be fine after flipping or impaling the Phatty

[@drunkenskeleton299]

Are you my evil twin?

[@angryskeleton5676]

@@drunkenskeleton299 brother?

[@paytondstalker3453]

Everyone makes it sound like lawbringer is human. Well they are WRONG, he is clearly the pure reincarnation of justice itself.

[@johnmatteson2590]

Now I may be wrong, but it was always my assumption while playing the game (rep 113), that long arm of the law always went between the enemies legs. Then you hoist them over yourself by the groin, doesn’t mean that it’s any more practical, just possible. This theory is supported by how the move doesn’t do damage, but instead drains the opponent’s stamina a small bit. Also, the enemy just falls off your back. Law-bringer doesn’t have to pull the shaft out of them. Further supporting that law-bringer isn’t actually impaling anyone in this case.

[@johnmatteson2590]

Also, to those who would say that law bringer doesn’t put it between anyone’s legs, and that it always goes to the persons torso. Lawbringer is the tallest character in the entire game, and he intentionally gets low when he attempts the move. Showing that he is trying to get really low to the person to then preform the move. This leads me to believe that it is an error for the games animations, rather than Ubisoft intentionally trying to make him stab someone.

[@davidfromgeo]

The pole goes under the armpit, not between the legs.

[@jooot_6850]

@@davidfromgeo Yeah that definitely makes more sense. You could hook someone with their arm and your weapon like that pretty tightly, I'd bet

[@kerekes01]

These deserve waaay more love and attention, great work

[@enlight_8360]

Dani, not to come down on you in a crushing manor, but they’re called finishers for a reason. The enemy is already softened up and weakened to the point that anything hurts. Even an armored opponent would feel the pain of a hammer to the guts in this state. Them being in such pain that they are forced to take a knee is understandable for the most part. They’ve already been beaten, cut, and outright impaled.

[@ChadHansen69]

Hell hath no torture like retail work in November-December

[@raymondpan7093]

ICantFient Especially the restaurant scene. Lord have mercy!

[@hodarov1564]

Solaire! Solaire! Praise the sun, yes, yes.

[@drunkenskeleton299]

I’m working an ice cream parlor during summer. Everyday, suicide seems like a more attractive alternative.

[@arandomtuskanraider6180]

That little flip he isn’t impaling you he’s putting the thing under your arm, if you look closely you can see it under the other lawbringer arm

[@andresgarcia6724]

A random Tuskan raider you re right,good sight

[@samfish2550]

That was wierd alignment, it makes more sense but he normally jabs them in the gut, since he jabs them in the diagram normally I justify it as making the enemy keel over and then flipping them over useing their ribcage if you get what I mean. Makes very little sense, but more than stabbing someone with a blunt object through their gut and also dealing literally no damage. The arm thing seems more likely yes, but honestly there are far less sensible moves in the game.

[@AsianSadge]

Hey I’m new and really happy I found your channel and you’re doing some great work here! Just like to say that when looking at finishers I like to suspend my disbelief just a little more because at that point you’ve depleted the enemy’s life bar and they’re pretty beat up and exhausted, so I like to imagine that they’re weak enough to fall to their knees after what looks like an insanely hard blow to the gut. Or it could just be that I’m biased cause finishers are cool.

[@GoGoDani]

[ _tldr at the end_ ] Oh no trust me, I definitely suspend my disbelief too since my favorite execution is the "Hands on approach" just because it's hilarious when used on massive opponents like Shugoki. That being said I do have to throw that out of the window for these videos as the point is to be a nitpicky as possible to show where we can kinda draw a line. Unfortunately, the idea that someone could be "on the brink of death" and would be defenselessly standing with a weapon still inside of them is something more of a Hollywood dramatization. If anything, the first thing to give when severely injure is the legs. The leg muscles have a tendencies to seize, lock up, and/or just fail even in situation trauma that would even be considered physical. Like when you see a video of someone being scared and they end up falling to the floor instead or running away or spartan kicking the threat. If we were to take it to the extreme and say that the enemy was suffering from severe blood loss and major organ failure, I definitely don't think that the body's nervous system would be prioritizing the ability to stand while also trying to help the damage control. And that's just saying that if the damage was so severe that it wouldn't be practical to stand, setting aside that the pain of such injures would keel over most any person to have the unfortune of facing it. Sure there is the body's natural adrenaline, but most likely depending on the wound they suffered I wouldn't think that anything beyond a double dosage of morphine to the afflicted area would stop whatever pain they might be feeling. I'm sorry this was a really long response, that's probably how my videos get so god damn long. I don't know how to stop and tangent and not over describe something. Either way, thank you for watching! TLDR; I am intentionally nitpicky in these videos just for entertainments sake and I even like how ridiculous a lot of the executions are. That being said, most of the executions are extremely ridiculous. Thank you for watching and participating in the discussion! edit: Fixed some formatting issues

[@princeblasian3735]

I always thought the Long Arm move was how the Lawbringer puts the shaft between the opponent’s legs and pulls upward to lift the opponent. Not to impale

[@FluffyPanda-qe5rx]

almost looks like he's putting it in his armpit.

[@carboncoffee4057]

I always thought of Lawbringer's flipping move as more of a crotch lift throw. In my mind, he takes the shaft of the weapon, places it under the crotch of an opponent and lifts them from their legs, much like a wrestler would do.

[@rickberny1424]

Man, well made videos, this needs more recognition, if I have to nitpick just one thing would be the long arm: I know the animation it's a bit wonky but lawbringer doesn't actually impale the enemy with it, he's supposed to put the butt of the poleaxe between the enemys legs and then flip them over, and that make even less sense 😂

[@GoGoDani]

I hope your right because that's fucking hilarious. That's even more BM than Jiang Jun's choke into slap. Anyways thank you for watching!

[@Jcorella]

Well put together video. High quality stuff mate.

[@GoGoDani]

Wow thank you so much for watching! I love your videos!

[@FirePhoenix103]

I just realized...I feel so bad for Shaolin's block

[@skyhaven8159]

Finally, someone analyzing historical realism while acknowledging that certain aspects have to be changed for gameplay. Great video!

[@Vonechua]

I think hes putting it under the opponents armpit and dragging it up some how keeping the opponent on to flip.

[@josephrobinson6171]

Great video. When it comes to long arm though I never saw it as impaling someone, but rather going under their crotch and hooking them that way

[@tenjiku8251]

its the armpit

[@kiravremyanoi4772]

Damn,watching your videos gives me that spark that keeps people playing this game

[@eewweeppkk]

Had to read some comments and then go back to look to see it, but long arm really does seem to go under the opponents armpit, not impaling or between the legs as many have said. You can even see the opponent sort of clench onto the pole in their armpit, perhaps the idea is that lawbringer is going for a stab, the opponent tries to catch the pole to control it, but then lawbringer yanks THEM back with his poleaxe in response. If that was the intent I think its very neat execution, though I'm not sure if they would have thought about so many different actions at play through one single move. Anyway all that aside, I really enjoy these videos! I've probably been into the historical youtube scene for the past decade (Channels such as Skallagrim or Shadiversity or Lindeybeige come to mind) and I love playing for honor. One thing that I really, really enjoy about them specifically is that you just skip over the obviously impractical things. You just mentioned that people wouldn't spin in real combat, or that the combat is much more slowed down for balance, etc. while 99% of the time when watching more historical youtube channels, they'll go on and on and on about it. I understand that most people who get ALL of their combat or historical fighting info from pop culture might think that its accurate, but I feel like at this point its been said to death so the fact that you touch on the fact that it is unrealistic, but don't feel the need to break it down to the atomic level very nice.

[@ianhitchcock1019]

I know this video is quite old at this point and you may have realized it by now, but LB does actually have a “rebound” punish similar to what you talk about near 3:32. Upon a parry, if you light attack, he uses the momentum to thwack them in the head with the butt of the weapon. Additionally, landing a successful Judge Jury and Executioner (or any top unblockable heavy) finisher, a light attack after it lands grants a similar pole smack to the face. :) Edit: you talk about it at 7:05, whoops

[@Nutella.]

Great video! Would love to see something done on an assassin (mainly due to reflex guard and your comments on it) - so perhaps PK? (if we're staying in the Knight faction)

[@GoGoDani]

My goal is to at least do all of the knights as my knowledge is mainly comprised of European history, mainly middle ages. I'm thinking when I do have the time to make the next video, I'll do a poll or something to see what people want. If not that, I will probably choose between Conq or PK so I can get closer to completing the original base 4 knights of the game. Thanks for watching!

[@Deadeye-nn7xl]

Ah my favorite hero, lawnsprinkler.

[@bludripplayz5679]

Another banger vid dani boi! Don't worry we get that's your busy and I'll be waiting for the next video! I'd like to see conq or black prior!

[@oblivionfan345Tony]

I always took the flip as Lawbringer TRYING to impale an enemy, but they avoid the thrust, grab hold of the pole, and in turn Lawbringer pulls them in close and angles the pole under their arm before throwing them over his shoulder.

[@Labicklapoopycringy]

Great video, but about the finishers idk why you didn’t add, the stomp finisher, it’s imo one of the best finishers just because it puts the emphasis of how useful the spike actually is on a pole axe or halberd, they’re more important on halberds and lawbringers weapon is a pole axe but I think it would’ve been cool to mention this finisher

[@nemanjaz.9113]

A guy in the comments made a good point about the whole Thomas the Dank Engine Impaling Charge. When a guy stabs you in your stomach, and adrenaline BY SOME MIRACLE still keeps you going, you would either fall over, or try to go get AWAY from the tip. You dont walk sideways and you dont try to push against the weapon so walking backwards seems to be viable as a sort of ''Panic'' move when you dont tripe and fall over (Which, i think that the impaling charge actually knocks opponents down if they are out of stamina

[@MrRatman259]

One thing ima say on this is if you look closely on the animation of the flip move, he doesn’t really impale them. He puts the end of the pole axe in their armpit and flips them. Or that could just be a classic case of Ubi and their wack animations

[@guyperson7487]

I always pictured the long arm as going under the attackers legs instead of into them

[@spicy.crashbrodicoot1553]

In game you do have to take into control that the victim is close to death if not dead.

[@Flachwichser]

There's also the fact that his unblockable top heavy garuantees a light

[@nadir625]

An idea I got from your video about the long arm What if instead of Lawbringer stabbing the enemy in the stomach with the butt spike, he used the hook of the axe on the enemy's shoulder to pull them to him before lowering his body and flipping them over? It would make use of the most underused part of his weapon and would be less telegraphed

[@盧聖龍-n1t]

About the last finisher you were talking about, I think he doesn’t just sharpening his axe with his hand, there is an animation that he take something out of his butt and perhaps Ubi was just too lazy to make a texture of it lol

[@bushzillafishmlg7975]

The patty flip is more like going under between the enemies legs and flipping

[@itsDeej.]

get this man out of retail

[@BLUESTEELBOY1]

Also noticed with his side heavys if after a heavy from either from the left or right and switch to the other side and do another heavy he swaps hands rather the crossing his arms which is ridiculously hard to do.

[@doccock2115]

Ubisoft hire this man.

[@GoGoDani]

I don't even need to be paid. So long as they provide food and let me run around the office, I'm in.

[@FullAdDariusBR]

Long arm isn't a stab or thrust, it's a low hit between the legs. Somehow wierdly made animation, but it is this kind of attack.

[@ShengFink]

Aye I know I’m late but you missed one possible attack. When you land a top heavy finisher you can immediately input a light and it will do a little bop with the butt end. It’s a pretty cool move and I was sad when it wasn’t mentioned

[@nicolaspeigne1429]

I always thought that the Long arm move was you put the staff between the legs of the opponent and made them ride it to lift them, not realistic either but makes more sense than impaling them with the butt spike since the move does no damage.

[@actuallytweakin]

Dani: Im sure everyone cringed at the hand splitting part That one guy: No, i used to do that for fun in the military. I can't tell you how many times i split my hand while you all are in disgust about seeing it in a virtual battlefield.

[@lordmaniac9775]

One thing you have to remember about executions, is that your opponent has no health when you preform them. Most likely they're weak and weary, presumably from blood loss due to all the hits and stabs and slashes you've given them.

[@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong]

Also, lawbringer is definitely among the strongest fighters. It's fully believable to me that once he's gotten a few good hits in, it'd be a pretty simple matter for him to overpower you and basically kill you however he pleases.

[@jackfimbulowl4055]

6:25 mmmmm yes walk into the sharp pointy things instead of away

[@Rainman1_2]

So one comment on the long arm. It’s not him impaling them on the spike, it’s shoving the shaft of the pollaxe in between their legs and lifting them over his shoulder. Like a seesaw kinda. The reason it looks like it’s impaling them is the character models getting in the way. Again, the move is dumb for sure.

[@bryantheshorty6465]

LB does have a 2x chain light attack, u parry, get the guaranteed light and then light again

[@nedia8259]

I know it's a meme but is it even possible to deliver enough force to knock someone out the way that lawbringer does in the "knock knock" finisher?

[@noodlezz1174]

With warmonger you can stab an oponent after a parry by pressing guard break, maybe they can do the same for lawbringer with the spike being used after the parry.

[@michaelkeha]

The issue you see with most of the channels like Knightly arts is they aren't hitting each other with real weapons at full force for obvious reasons but it doesn't give you a proper picture of how the fight would be since you aren't actually trying to murder the other dude

[@taylorindustries]

5:10 ok how did he block that spike attack with the shaft of the weapon wtf

[@nostalgicpuns4156]

Can you put captions for those Russian words

[@spoof6862]

Good video, but with the long arm it looks like the butt goes under the arm. Still impossible, but slightly more believable since these are supposed to be monster men who are double the size of normal ones (minions)

[@orphanprism2286]

The lawbringer in the story physically says they use a pole ax

[@denkoden8102]

On the dura lex sed lex execution the latin translation is you have defended yourself well so it makes sense that he wuld sharpen the axe in the meen time so that the oponent gets a quick death in my opinin regarding that the axe is already sharp haha

[@michaelkeha]

Your mixing up crow's beaks and poleaxes

[@deltazenturo1701]

Law’s long arm to me feels more like placing the spike or shaft on between your opponents legs and flipping them over yourself for a takedown. Just me.

[@swolzer]

i think you forgot about zone

[@enlight_8360]

The long arm pick up is not an impaling move. It’s picking them up from between the legs. I understand that both of these are ridiculous, but this does no damage whatsoever.

[@tenjiku8251]

its under the armpit

[@enlight_8360]

Luis Saturn LB’s weapon is under his armpit. Tell me he’s not picking them up by their armpits my guy. You see him bend down right?

[@tenjiku8251]

@@enlight_8360 Look closely in the animation, he hooks them with it and they're holding on to it

[@enlight_8360]

Luis Saturn holy cow

[@tenjiku8251]

@@enlight_8360 you see it now?

[@Dillpick-sn9tp]

He forgot how after a combo you can bash to start another

[@tenjiku8251]

He puts it under your armpit smh

[@travaughnanderson3958]

U forget that Lawbringer is a fucking giant so hes one of the strongest prolly next to HL and Shugo

[@CrispyTreats680]

Do gladiator

[@wesselvanharrewijn3082]

shame you didnt even once talk about the pony execution or emote or signature.