Rise of the Ronin - Weapon movesets (Odachi)

[@MidKnightOTC]

Nodachi Jigen-Ryu is a proc machine. Love using that style to instantly take someone out of the fight with paralysis before going after the small fry

[@luminousxd5269]

I hope they add the Gan-ryu moveset someday soon, it'd be really fun to fight with. 😊 Edit: Gan-ryu is the Nodachi fighting style by Kojiro Sasaki

[@LasttoLoad]

maybe in dlcs hopefully

[@brightsuperstition]

I've always hated the input for Tiger's Blade with Odachi in the Nioh games. It's so easy to accidentally input that move while you're dodging after doing a quick attack in low stance, since the input is forward+X. So glad that Tiger's Blade's equivalent in this game, Dancing Drunkard, got moved to a R1+Triangle input. Anyway, Jigen Ryu is my favorite of the Odachi styles. It's got cool normal attack animations, an Odachi version of Flowing Shadow that knocks down, plus the follow-up slash for Silver Lining is very sexy. Overall, I think Odachi in ROTR is an improvement over Nioh 1/2's Odachi. I feel like the Odachi in the Niohs never lived up to their potential as weapons with infinite looping combos through Sunset Breeze and Waking Winds. I particularly love how harder the weapon in ROTR leans into the whole "muscular" aspect of the weapon with how much the weapon uses its weight to just ragdolls enemies around with knockdowns, pushbacks, shoving, tackles and grabs. Hungry Wolf and Dragon King's Roar are perfect encapsulations of this.

[@LasttoLoad]

I usually flux with odachi to avoid tiger blade mostly but yea, it used to be an obstacle like spear back then. I enjoy how Odachi works so far in here. Combat styles manage to show how odachi can overpower the enemy through brute strength.

[@davidtsmith33]

Good ole Odachi.

[@holdencross6126]

13:55 How do you do this move with the Odachi? It looks sick.

[@LasttoLoad]

it is a follow up after the grapple when the stab put the enemy out of ki

[@holdencross6126]

@@LasttoLoad I noticed that this is a greatsword style. How would I equip it on the nodachi?

[@LasttoLoad]

@@holdencross6126 its Tennen rishin style for Odachi (you have to play with shogunate side to complete his bond missions). Greatsword doesnt have that.

[@oninomiru]

Odachi got nice moveset too. Not katana, but still nice.

[@lelouchstrife1891]

annoying you don't get the sword on shoulder stance that the normal enemies seem to have

[@normalguycap]

I've noticed so many incorrect translations with the moves. Like the Jigen-ryu's No Quarter. That last hit is not a rising slash but a sweep. So many of these. And whenever it says "wide-arching shockwave" it never is. Nothing wide or arching about it. Just a tiny aoe. I feel it's indicative of the quality of this game. They didn't treat it with as much love as older titles.

[@LasttoLoad]

No Quarter and Rays of Dawn look correct to me.

[@normalguycap]

@@LasttoLoad ray of dawn was the only one to have a decent shockwave from all the videos I've seen so far. But it's still not wide nor arching, those mean different things. And No Quarter, idk what to say. The describe a rising slash and that move has none. Nothing about that third hit goes up or in any way a rising motion. It's a sweep as it trips the enemy instead.

[@LasttoLoad]

@@normalguycap one major example would be Spear (Hozoin-ryu) Counterspark with no thrust involved, but I get where you are coming from.

[@uptheirons6520]

I hope There is kusarigama in this game. Best weapon evahhh...

[@LasttoLoad]

that would be a nice addition