Krimson KB Reacts: Jocat's A Crap Guide to D&D [5th Edition] - Monk

[@PlutoDarknight]

You can go ahead with Sun Soul, going Super Saiyan while firing Hadoukens. I go full JoJo's with Astral Self and Ora Ora my enemies into fertilizer for my garden instead

[@shinraset]

My personal pet project build that I keep trying to get off the ground. . . Pun most definitely intended is winged tiefling Sunsoul Monk

[@swintuch1369]

How do you like astral self? I wanna play It but idk if its fun/strong

[@PlutoDarknight]

@@swintuch1369 It's exactly what it says on paper. You summon a stand to act as spectral armor for you while you get to punch a lot. Early on, Astral Self replaces your relevant combat stat with Wisdom, which makes for decent roleplay opportunities when your wisdom is high since you will probably notice everything and everyone. At 11th you can deflect energy attacks and deal more damage if you land at least one hit and when you get to 17 you get even more AC and get to attack 3 times instead of twice [plus whatever you want to spend on Flurry of Blows]. It's literally just punching but with ghost arms.

[@lzngear7074]

Funny I used the Sun Soul like Hamon and yes my character was name Jonathan Joestar (wood elf) and had a adopted brother Dio (drow)

[@EpicBehemoth]

I did myself, my super form was called riot of the blood because I wanted a KoF reference

[@hermannlagrange634]

Kirmson KB: "Can I throw an Hadouken?" SHORYUKEN!

[@britishbluenekochan]

Spamming Hadoukens is fine and dandy. But it's way better to make your best impression of Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star by saying "Omae wa mou, shindeiru."(You are already dead) after touching the BBEG's general with your Quivering Palm, killing him instantly on a failed CON save or recieving 10d10 necrotic damage if he succeeds. Either way, you MUST describe the finishing blow like a Mortal Kombat fatality. I fixed it.

[@thedomoking]

It's 10d10 on a SUCCESSFULL save, instant death on a failed save.

[@crimzonshooter]

@@thedomoking either way: RIP General

[@thedomoking]

@@crimzonshooter I DM'd a lv20 tiamat fight once, that's how the party won. They spent up her legendary resistances and then she somehow failed the save

[@MegaVideoman23]

I like how he, in his crap guide humor, tied in his Thai knowhow, since he is half Thai.

[@phoenixtan23]

Krimson KB: Can I do a hadouken as a Monk? Me: Shoryuken.

[@tigerwarrior1787]

King Vegeta: *Gets one-shot by Frieza* Zarbon (probably): Kay Oooooh... Frieza: Yata...

[@ianfrazier366]

"ITS ALL WE HAD.......its shit...BUT ITS ALL WE HAD" 🤣🤣🤣

[@LocalMaple]

Chris Pratt: You wanna run that by me again?

[@Dewani90]

Me: (who still has the movie on it's original package still sealed) yep, all we have, for now... someday, somewhere we will get a decent movie based on a videogame... or I'll make it myself for effs sake, almost done rigging the 3d models myself.

[@burningcole2538]

Not anymore it isnt

[@thesheerwoodcrow5465]

“Yeah it’s shit….BUT ITS ALL WE HAD.”. XD

[@Kytseo]

As the chat said, Sun Soul is what you want if you wanna throw Hadoukens.

[@YAH93]

Hadoukens, Kamehamehas and Genkidamas.

[@Deuzen_FIN]

Digging the new scene transition at the start, KB. And yes, you can throw hadoukens, as well as many other flavors of martial arts both real and fictional. And you're not limited to purely unarmed; you have a limited selection of weapons available like sai, quarterstaff etc., allowing you to go full TMNT! (pizza not included)

[@a_cynical_mad_man_vods]

So in defense of Kensei Monks, at a mid level (somewhere between lvl 6 and lvl 11) you gain the ability to add you martial arts die to your weapon attacks. You have a long sword or a different high damage non-heavy weapon you can actually do really good damage, and you get two double die weapon attacks and an unarmed strike per turn without needing to use flurry of blows. I personally feel that it's the most consistent high damage monk in the game that doesn't require your opponents to make saves against them, like way of the open hands quivering palm.

[@shelbybayer200]

The funny thing, the cold open of this video was Jocrap (Wiggle Head guy) Kicking Jocat (Human Dude)'s butt

[@ryankeith8742]

The moment you said placed 4th at EVO, I knew who you were referring to.😂

[@mangermatilla]

Thank you for showing your Reactions... I'm so Happy watching with you... Thank you for the fun Videos... Keep up the good work ☺️

[@6Qubed]

1:00 he already said "beating up nerds"

[@skell6134]

Cant wait to see his reaction to video about Races,lol

[@appo9357]

I loved the Super Mario Bros movie. Still have the dvd. That and Howard the Duck.

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

Monk is fun, but starts slow. You can attack a lot, but without your later class features the damage can be kind of meh. And you don't want to get stuck in ranged combat. Some subclasses have ranged options, but the class focus is martial art. And if you can't get your party to throw in short rests here and there to let you recharge it, you can have trouble managing your Ki. On the bright side, if you don't let the enemy overwhelm you, close combat is your domain. Up to 3 attacks a turn at level 2, increasing more in later levels. The ability to try and stun (= skip turn & advantage on attack against them) on every attack as long as you have Ki left. Mobility options that rival many casters, allowing you to position yourself on the battlefield where you gain the most advantage, or hunt down pretty much anything short of fliers and long range teleport. Punching ghosts and other things immune to mundane damage. And increasingly ridiculous defensive buffs as you level up: From reduced fall damage & catching projectiles, over reduced AoE damage & shrugging off debuffs, all the way to straight up ignoring any poison/disease, buff to all saving throws, and no longer ageing or requiring food. And that's without whatever else the subclasses add. And unlike most magic users', your pool of tricks comes back after just a quick power nap.

[@TheWolfofice]

meanwhile, I'm multiclassing an Ascendant Dragon Monk/Bear Totem Barbarian

[@arcticwolf2742]

Hey, how did that turn out? I'm playing Ascendant Dragon Monk too! We've tweaked it to be less ribbon-feature-y, and actually decent. Like actual flight. And a dragon transformation as your capstone feature. Was thinking of dipping into something else with the three other levels I'd have, so you piqued my interest with the bear totem bar-bar.

[@TheWolfofice]

@@arcticwolf2742 The character is lvl 11 atm. Pretty tanky with bear totem barbarian and tough feat, but I also took brass dragonborn and subrace metallic dragonborn, and took Dragon Fear for lvl 4 feat. So I basically grab aggro with 1 breath (breath weapon), then use other attack action to use other breath (breath of the dragon) (turn into roar) to fear every enemy within 30 ft.

[@MrAgumon4]

I SEE THOSE SHEN GONG WU AT 2:45 JOCAT YOU AINT' SLICK

[@richardcarignan6313]

Way of shadow is basicly ninja. Has anyone told him about multi classing yet?

[@megatron1384]

Wow… the DSP roast outta nowhere lol

[@Coramelimane]

in 3.0 and 3.5 monk was the joke class because it required investment in 4 different stats to be viable with it's class abilities. Dex for flurry/Finesse/AC/saves Con for HP/concentration and saves Wis for class abilities and saves and Int for skills. the 4.0 rework made them more inline with a general dps where they focused more oon a dex/wis build since finesse was baked into their unarmed strikes and 5.0 carried that with int being their only really necessary sub stat but only for one archetype.

[@Makareno94]

wisdom... they also need wisdom in 5e... mostly for stunning strike thou and unarmoured defence

[@guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285]

Meanwhile 4e had the most hilarious handling of attributes in which in addition to wisdom as your primary stat ~depending on what kind of monk you were playing~ You might need Strength Dex Chr But it was cool though because Monks had some of the most hilariously stupid moves in the game in terms of what they could do and combo into. Like it made the most siezure inducing anime looking *boring.*

[@Coramelimane]

@@Makareno94 I didnt feel the need to mention wis since I mentioned it in the 4.0 section.

[@That1powergamer]

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[@Lockz1111]

Whoever it was in your chat who said monk was fun but poopy late game is way off, monk gets insanely good late game it's pretty middling in low level campaigns though

[@VME-Brad]

Trust the Fungus.

[@jesternario]

Ooh, DSP reference.

[@zannimask]

Are you a hadouken? Because you're down right fierce

[@animegx45]

Even when playing Monk, the only spell you ever need to cast is Fireball.

[@tigerwarrior1787]

Yes... become pseudo-avatar and cast FIREBALL! JUST FIREBALL!! JUST!!! FIREBALL!!!!

[@DvirPick]

@@tigerwarrior1787 To be fair, Sun Soul has more quantity of fireballs at 11th level since they're free at base level. It's just that they suck. Unlike normal Fireball, it doesn't spread around corners, requires a con save instead of dex and deals no damage on a successful save.

[@1musamune]

Oh Im sorry I confused MArio Mario with the Irish Spearman Cu Chulame

[@XtreemAlan]

Hello from the Super Mario Bros movie

[@omikun17]

Fireball spell that does radiant damage instead of fire damage Sun Soul monk

[@tigerwarrior1787]

It's pure Plasma... so... it passes the vibe check.

[@cjthelonewolf7410]

love the updated intro kb

[@athanasiaskondra1222]

do wizard next!!!!!!

[@neohamilton551]

I mean hadoukens are cool but so is punching ghosts.

[@tigerwarrior1787]

Now... hear me out... Hadouken said Ghosts...

[@neohamilton551]

@@tigerwarrior1787 I see your point, but here's how I see it: A hadouken is already a spirit based attack that should already be able to hit ghosts, right? It's a manifestation of your fighting spirit. Be able to punch ghosts is more impressive because it usually wouldn't be able to hit ghosts.

[@tigerwarrior1787]

@@neohamilton551 The moment you said "Manifestation of your fighting spirit", my brain went full JoJo. XD

[@ryttyr14]

I've played a Kensei monk once because the subclass fit perfectly with my character idea. But I must admit, compared to the other monk subclasses Kensei is very bland and in most cases you would be better off playing a fighter.

[@cnayluck1798]

I am now in a mental ward after stabbing 18 individuals due to you not reacting to fireball ... I mean wizard

[@MrRukrio1]

seriously Sun Soul monk is fuckin fun as shit. because you're not just doing Hadoukens, you get to go full on DBZ. and if you wanna spice things up, it muliclasses well with Cleric for BIGGER HADOUKENS. add in Tabaxi and congrats you no longer play DnD you're playing Pilots Vs Pilots Titanfall 2.

[@CryoJnik]

Well, one can rejoice for now Video Game Movies don't have to be absolute garbage anymore. All hail the Blue Blur!

[@lefteron6804]

Also series with Arcane.

[@crimsonwizahd2358]

Also Ryan Reyno-I mean Detective Pikachu.

[@SimonDouville1]

you cn throw better than hadouken you can throw FIREBALLS. as in literally the spell FIREBALL.

[@notimportant768]

Monk is ok but wotc are scared to make their damage and subclasses too good or interesting because stunning strike is kinda stupid

[@jf_kein_k8590]

Sadly, the Sun Soul Monk subclass sucks, as it's features are not very well written.

[@rontrezbeaugard8212]

Obligatory 1st

[@isden7778]

Obligatory who asked

[@SoulWhiteAngel]

God i still hate mario.....But hey i like mario kart

[@angelbabydragon]

So sad that the monk is one of those classes that in d&d is not appreciated

[@Plasmagon99]

From what I heard monk was appreciated more than ranger, but recently that under-appreciatingness has rolled over to monk because they are a martial class that scales like a wizard. Slow in the early game then okay in the mid and OP in the late game.

[@angelbabydragon]

@@Plasmagon99 put the wax remove the wax... rinse and repeat.

[@DGrayEX]

I've tried over a dozen different systems, and D&D is honestly just about the worst for playing a monk in general. It's the last system I'd willingly go for if I wanted to play a disciplined fist-fighter.