SEKIRO- Everything about LIZARD NINJUTSU

🦎 I only recently learnt about this... and I think I know why no one talks about them...
Timecodes for time travelers-
0:00- Bonjour amigos
0:27- The 3 Ninjustu
1:26- Poison Bestowal
2:22- White Bestowal
4:25- White Bloodsmoke
5:20- Poison Bloodsmoke
5:58- Bonus data & Thanks
Music & Credits
Ho-Oh Appears! Pokémon HeartGold
Mustard's Theme - Pokémon Sword and Shield OST
Elegance- Hanafuda
Exploring Autumn Mountain - The Origami King OST
Bamboo Island - Skyward Sword
StylishSekiroRobes- www.nexusmods.com/sekiro/mods/83
Miyazaki player model- www.nexusmods.com/sekiro/mods...
Big thanks to my Patreons for the lifesize Gex pillow 🦎
/ limitbreakers

[@LimitBreakers]

While I cut this data for taking up way too much time. You can backstab lizards that chill on walls or trees. You need to knock em down (sword or shuriken) and VERY QUICKLY mash the stab button. You also need to stand behind them to get the backstab animation to ninjustsu them. Also the best ninjutsu is actually the Firecracker spam.

[@davidguerrero941]

I have not even played this game yet. But I still love your content, regardless.

[@Pharthrax]

You can also Vault Over them to get the backstab for the Ninjutsu.

[@thelvadem5713]

@@davidguerrero941 Yet? If you're having doubts on getting it, I must say it's amazing. Expect to die a lot though, might help prevent a permanent rage quit like with me (untill I found out expecting to die helps a lot). If you're willing to learn and never give up at 'brick wall' challenges, you'll be fine Have a wonderful day

[@nou8913]

Best ninjutsu are normal pills you get from completing that unkillables guy quest

[@alephnole7009]

I found this out on my first playthrough. And it always baffled me why they placed them where they did. Most of them aren't near any tough enemies or bosses. And the buffs don't last long enough to get to any such things.

[@bleachedbonez]

I still can't believe "I just like poison swamps" is an actual Miyazaki quote. Man knows what he likes and he fills his games with them

[@zacharycannaday6075]

I didn't know darksouls was filled with my unyielding temper tantrums when I die because I CANNOT F****** MOVE

[@BababooeyGooey]

imagine if each poison damage tick made the player character flinch

[@zacharycannaday6075]

@@BababooeyGooey Fuck. That.

[@Kawatsume]

@@BababooeyGooey I didn't know comments could create PTSD, but here we are.

[@SpeedKeed]

I'm one month from the future... Can confirm. Miyazaki still loves his poison.

[@magstau4177]

It's a *miracle* that you can make a *build* with this

[@blinboi7225]

A secret message for old man

[@liamzakhaev]

@Alex patreon supporters get early access my dude

[@Baldeagle96]

Where are the lizard builds old man

[@mayhem8914]

I see what you did there

[@ExtremeMan10]

@@Baldeagle96 I NEED MY CROCODILE NINJUTSU BUILD!!!

[@TheLilmuzzy]

Dude, thank god you found the lifesteal geckos. Now I can finally get past the mist nobles and finish sekiro

[@noahbennett2254]

all these actually came in handy during randomizer runs, since they can actually be in locations the abilities are useful

[@drakesdrum1]

even poison blood smoke?

[@noahbennett2254]

@@drakesdrum1 yeah for sure there's loads of area's that turn into clusterfucks where you can poison massive crowds at once

[@thebrokedad858]

@@drakesdrum1 Could poison a group of enemies if the lizard was next to them.

[@iotaje1]

Yeah it sounds like it would actually be very useful in places where you'd have lots of ennemies plus lizards.

[@Duv1995]

I actually found a way to use poison ninjutsu during the first shinobi invasion in ashina castle, i usually use bestowal on the geckos under the castle rooftops then grapple on the roofs to fight the ministry ninjas and its real cool. You can also lead them to the bottom where the geckos are and use their poisonous bloodsmoke if you want to be stylish lol.

[@kughdommed4582]

LOL

[@scrubzero1735]

Good idea

[@mkv2718]

i do the same thing! screw those ninjas!

[@0criticalHit]

There are a lot of green geckos in the serpent cave too iirc

[@ReifinDFanchon]

I love how much detail they put into this, and at the same time, make them as useless as the three Sculptors after Genichiro fight by strategically place them in awkward location. Thank you, FromSoftware.

[@TheKingsPride]

Hey man, I’d rather have a sculpture spawn after every boss fight and have a few superfluous ones than be completely out of resources and have to go find one at a terrible time. Just like the bonfires in DS3, I think it’s a welcome sight.

[@Alex-hp2rs]

@@TheKingsPride ok casual

[@Alex-hp2rs]

@@Swagmessiah8394 you don't know what quality of life means

[@daviokamoto2143]

@@Swagmessiah8394 not everything is made to make you enjoy it, it's not even a matter of being casual or not.

[@Ben_diez]

and thanks to granpa

[@junkszy912]

Breaking news old man DS2 has crabs. Or more specifically had a crab. There was an unused creature found called the tower crab. It has a model and was supposed to be in the lost Bastille.

[@coltbusick6644]

Deepest lore.

[@c.l.a.u.d.e]

You can perform a Backstab Deathblow on any Posture-broken enemy by simply unlocking the Vault Over Shinobi Martial Art. With this you can jump-kick down one of the Geckos on the wall before the Blazing Bull and use Bestowal to poison him for 1/4 of his healthbar.

[@agnacore]

Whoa, careful there -- this is starting to get *useful*...

[@inasilentway9835]

A jump kick poise break on a Gecko is non-lethal and will allow you to easily position yourself for a backstab deathblow and subsequent ninjutsu. However, like the video says, it is dreadfully circumstantial. I like to puppeteer them, kite them to an area with foes and then perform a ninjutsu.

[@PugsyP]

Maybe there were more stuff planned for the different ninjutsus but it was never finished, seems really unnecessary to just have it be unique otherwhise, especially the white one

[@YourPalKindred]

I think that's just it. There isn't any real use for it. This has been a thing since, well, idk but early. Like the pendant for example. It's just there because "Oh, neat". Doesn't need a use

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

Which is why the development of Elden Ring being 6 years as opposed too 2 is a good thing.

[@salsamancer]

It's probably not that hard to program, you just set some different colors and change the id of the buff out applies. Probably the engineers put it in just for fun.

[@zeallust8542]

@@A_Black_Sheep94 this is gonna be a long week and a half waiting for Elden Ring

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

@@zeallust8542 Sucks so many people don't have the required specs to play it.

[@TheGlenn8]

Ah yes. The "optional" ape duo bossfight. Just don't make the mistake of killing it before you get to the foggy canyon. Like I did....

[@TheRealFredbearPlush]

Really bologna how a main boss is optional. Especially one who drops two beads, a memory, and a ninjitsu

[@nithshithhith4398]

@@TheRealFredbearPlush None of those are mandatory for beating the game, and you can skip them by going to their arena early and unlocking the next Idol.

[@TheRealFredbearPlush]

@@nithshithhith4398 just saying it wasn’t smart doing so bc the Ashina Depths was intended to be your second journey right after beating the actual ape first at Sunken Valley and then facing him again

[@obscure.reference]

@@TheRealFredbearPlush doing corrupted monk first seems intended given that she’s the only of the three midgame bosses that is fightable before geni. even screen monkeys give you mortal draw which is invaluable in either ape fight. also it isn’t a main boss, main bosses are defined by giving you key items like the shelter stone/lotus of the palace/etc. stuff that actually progresses the game. double ape fight is just a a trap for people who lose the 1/3 gamble as to which area they find first.

[@TheRealFredbearPlush]

@@obscure.reference ok here’s the ideal journey by me simplified; 1. Defeat geni, talk to isshin and kuro, proceed to senpou temple 2. Get mortal blade 3. By this time you’re done with senpou temple and should be heading to sunken valley 4. Kill ape ;( 5. Now head to ashina depths, u got the headless ape to fight, a mortal blade and enough knowledge and upgrades to face him Heading to ashina depths first is pretty illogical bc you’d have to return to fight the ape. Ik it’s not a big deal but there’s a set order for it. It’s just the way it is im just a messenger

[@OroborOSX11]

That translator’s note came in clutch. Sugoi you for adding it.

[@seanylewl]

I think it's great, not everything has to have a mechanical purpose. Instead, they looked at how the ninjitsus work, and thought well these creatures have different blood, so the effect should be different - even if there is no real use for it.

[@revthescatman137]

I know but still!

[@Modie]

I think, it's probably more of a sign that they planned something more with these ninjutsus in the beginning so that they are more important but then removed the idea and these things were just already programmed so there was no need to take them out anymore.

[@GaMeRfReAkLIVE]

It adds a lot to the lore and immersion of the game. It follows the in game logic that is established and thats really neat in its own way

[@SatelliteYL]

“Sugoi means すごい” ahh thank you sensei that clears things up

[@spurguvitunhuora9119]

Thanks Miyazaki. For this minor detail we can now ignore instead of miss. As even during several playthroughs well likely spent 99% of the time during boss fights.

[@gio1890]

Tom Scott X Limit Breakers is the crossover I didn’t know I needed until today

[@rod1028]

I love how there are these super minor things in dark souls games that nearly nobody might end up seeing or using, this does really say something about how well made these games are and the amount of detail and lore they put in these games that the average joe might not find.

[@beardyjesus4591]

In Sekiro it is a leftover of underdeveloped mechanic, that developers decided to leave, 90% sure. Sekiro has quite a bit of loose ends and questionable gamedesign decisions.

[@viorp5267]

It's more likely that they planned this to be a more major feature and then just left it in.

[@_psdsc]

imagine thinking no one has found something in modern era, with datamining, bro.

[@SissypheanCatboy]

@@_psdsc yeah but datamining is for nerds who don't understand the fun of finding weird niche shit naturally

[@RomildoAugusto95]

I love Sekireaux!

[@faustlican5566]

What I find so fascinating about From's games is how weird their design process is. It seems like the team designs an enormous amount of mechanics and elements for a game, then those elements go through multiple levels of vetting and pruning. What we are left with is a solid game with remnants of cool features... that have no real point. Imagine a world in which all of these features were explored to their fullest extent. From's games would be even MORE dense then they already are.

[@obscure.reference]

adding every mechanic that occurred to them would bog the game down, especially their more focused games like sekiro and bloodborne.

[@shanec9672]

I feel like fromsoft games have things in them like this for verisimilitude. Not everything in the real world is useful either; some stuff is just neat, and while it's certainly not perfect game design, it makes the world feel a little more real because it is considered beyond its immediate usefulness to the player character. Probably just rationalizing this away because I love these games, but whatever.

[@bloodofphantoms]

like elden ring? I DOUBT YOU COULD EVEN IMAGINE IT...

[@bloodofphantoms]

UNTIL FEB 25TH

[@faustlican5566]

@@shanec9672 you're probably right. After all, like limbs on a tree, not every branch goes somewhere.

[@morg7764]

that transition at 1:42 was awesome

[@eclipserepeater2466]

I was real impressed when I figured out that using bloodsmoke on a poison lizard basically makes it into an attack. Too bad there's not really any places to use it.

[@BarokaiRein]

It's such a shame that you can't use bestowal during bossfights when their stance breaks or smth. It has so much wasted potential

[@enterusername6953]

Maybe that might be a little OP.

[@amimm7776]

Could you use the vault over skill to get it?

[@christianjoyce3853]

@@amimm7776 Nah, that only works on mini bosses. Makes sense since Bloodsmoke and Puppeteer won't have an effect on main bosses. I still think it sucks that bestowal can't be used on them though.

[@LautrecOfCarim]

I heard rumors of snakes being wielded like weapons in Elden Ring, looking into lizard warfare in advance seems like a favored thing to do. Heh.

[@DesDraculae]

There's a shield that uncoils into a snake that bites the enemy and inflicts poison as a counter attack. Haven't heard anything about regular snake based weapons though.

[@valentinvas6454]

Orochimaru builds incoming

[@GlueEater-ix9gl]

Wow the limits sure are beeing broken rn

[@GlueEater-ix9gl]

???????????? what in the sam hill fuck is this

[@sheevpalps66]

This reminds me of scrabble night at Four Armed Centipede Giraffe's house

[@A.R.T.4]

Reminds me of hide-and-seek at Priscilla the Crossbreed’s place

[@TheG119YT]

I thought the white coat looked really cool then I realized it was *that* kinda coat and it’s coolness went up 10 fold.

[@burntgrahamcracker2866]

See 4:06 this is why I’m subscribed otherworld is always appreciated even if it doesn’t fit the other songs in ff10

[@thegk-verse4216]

1:05 So that's the origin of what made me do rivers of salt

[@Crap_A.I_bird]

OOOOH, that why people like it so much Still their asshats but now it makes sense

[@heartbeat4atinman]

5:17 "But the most useless has got to be..." Miracle builds? "Poison bloodsmoke." Ah, close enough.

[@wizardothefool]

18 more sleeps till Elden Ring

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Assuming I sleep.

[@albin8166]

Very interesting details, love you videos Old Man.

[@peterlubin4881]

I started liking your videos before even watching them a long time ago, and I haven't ragretted that decision at all. Thank you, Limit-senpai 💋

[@DanteSuper95]

Ok 5:26 that got me

[@blakebailey22]

for as much as i pride myself on liking intelligent, dry humor, i'm forever powerless to fart jokes, especially with reverb

[@kevwritemeasong]

Thank you these are so great!!!!!

[@jadewedge6082]

What's kinda funny is I knew about poison and life-steal bestowal and thought "Man, it sucks that i'll literally never be able to use this ever."

[@filinkcyt]

So whose idea was it to design a whole new interaction for the skill when you use it on one of the like 8 lizards you see in the game? And in "unuseful" locations? It definitely is a good idea in the end for the player and adds a lot of unique flavor to the game, but man I cannot imagine ever convincing anyone in production to implement this. Maybe this is strongly pushed by Miyazaki himself. Always curious how the design process goes in these games.

[@Timmysteve]

2:57 𝐂𝐔𝐌 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐄

[@intro6598]

I've enjoyed it for a long time, but I didn't know about it. Thank you!

[@SigmarMale]

The insane attention to detail is really cool. Nice video, old man.

[@rol9834]

Old man probably has some Divine Heir blood in him

[@stairmasternem]

Weird obscure mechanic. I love it though. It means they thought of the idea of different creatures giving different effects. I’d love to see something like that in a Bloodborne setting considering humans, Beasts, and Great Ones basically exist.

[@bigfatbucko012]

Loved the vid and would enjoy more Sekiro if there is anything to talk about

[@milramas]

Lmao that Tom Scott greenscreen

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Finally, the useless data I needed desu gozaimosu.

[@rol9834]

Yametekudastop, onegai

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@rol9834 That is a meme I was unaware of, thank you for this blessed information.

[@ItsGBMoD]

konnichiwhats up old man, thanks for another wonderful informational video

[@TheKingsPride]

I never even considered using Lone Shadow Vilehand’s backup dancer against him, I just used the quit-out cheese to get a sneak attack. I entirely forgot the puppeteer ninjutsu existed.

[@DankbeastPaul]

If I'm thinking of the right encounter, if you enter from the door instead of the window, you can just sneak up on the mook and backstab him before the miniboss notices you

[@TheKingsPride]

@@DankbeastPaul yeah, but I didn’t realize that when you do that you could use puppeteer ninjutsu

[@sgtcarniev]

old man just cant handle the word 'bestowal' lol. at least we got the signature 'What.'

[@Lady_Vengeance]

Fuckin love seem Limit with the Sekiro content. Almost as excited for your Elden Ring content as I am for the game itself.

[@michaeljohnston8891]

Seems to me there was a lot more flexibility and creativity planned for the ninjutsu, but from probably never got the time to fully implement it

[@Illegiblescream]

Cainhurst blood arts look a lot like the Bestowal effect. We know that the Chikage came from 'the east'. It seems likely that the blood arts that Maria uses might have come from these shinobi techniques, alongside the chikage design.

[@SatsujinSakana]

0:23 I am only partially proud to say I recognise some of those faces-

[@crimsonstrykr]

Jesus, Zeus, Indra and Thor!!!! Save humanity!!!!

[@armbreaker8727]

If you use puppet ninjutsu on a centipede, he will run to enemy and explode.

[@coltbusick6644]

Adding this to the list of things I didn’t know about Sekiro after getting the Platinum Trophy ❤️

[@nomercy8989]

That's such a cool detail I had no idea was in the game.

[@belmontofastora3665]

I do enjoy when devs put small details like this into games. They may not be useful but they make the game seem more cohesive and it can show the attention to detail they developers have.

[@amar2470]

The attention to detail is just insane.

[@Lawliet31101979]

Thank you for the Gex enter the gecko ref,very cool.

[@loy2195]

Using bestowal on a gecko just turns you into the green knight from Castle Crashers.

[@junoglrr9119]

Finally limitbreakers did a vid on this :0

[@chloewinnaa1515]

HOLY THIS WAS UPLOADED ON MY B DAY

[@Monkeyman127]

What a fantastic opener, old man.

[@davidhensley3079]

Just wanted to say I really enjoy your videos, and I will keep on watching until you stop, so don't ;)

[@ThatOneGib]

if anyone's curious the song playing during the quick segment at 4:05 is FFX - Otherworld

[@elitebelt]

Damn it, Limit. That little "Otherworld" segment coupled with the "OVERKILL" pop up made me want to play FFX all the way through again.

[@briskgaurav]

I already end sekiro 2 times but i actually dont think about lizards and their jujstu ! thanks you are awesome dude ;)

[@BigBouncyBiscuit]

1:00 My man got rivers of blood 💀💀

[@tomtheterrifying8592]

I had no idea this was a thing in the game. Thank you.

[@echoinggarden6923]

never know those little details,ty

[@vandal_lbtm]

Everyone talking about randomizer runs or Fromsoft design philosophy but Limit's editing is the real Dark Souls of KZbin videos. For a moment in the script where Old Man says the word "overkill", he put in the overkill text from FFX and cut in a second of "Otherworld". Now that's overkill for a video that ironically has zero padding despite the basically useless subject material. Biggest respect.

[@hdmicord8200]

So this is where rivers of blood came from

[@noima13]

You can also use the vault over skill once you've posture broken an enemy to get behind them and perform a backstab deathblow, allowing you to perform the ninjutsu.

[@Patchwork_Dragon]

I have never seen this before, nor do I have any clue what it is, but the first 20 seconds have earned my attention

[@Arcrasis]

Tom Scott in a LimitBreakers video What a day this is

[@junkszy912]

You're really enjoying that Miyazaki model.

[@angolano197]

Love this channel l

[@theblackbaron4119]

Fronsoft are truly masters at half assing all kinds of mechanics in game.

[@BigDBrian]

getting hit by or deflecting lightning imbues the sword with lightning, which gets rid of any sword based buffs (like divine confetti)

[@demonicdude1328]

Blood smoke is the best ninjutsu because you can use on mini bosses when they die for style points

[@blak4831]

A quick note about losing Bestowal to lightning - when you said you even lose it when you deflect it, you... well, you didn't. Deflect it that is. You only blocked the lightning, which causes you to still take the chip damage even though you can still perform a reversal. If you time the mid-air block correctly you can deflect/parry the lightning like any other attack, and won't take damage. You'd probably still lose the bestowal as the lightning reversal is technically another sword buff that may overwrite it, but it's worth checking properly

[@blak4831]

Note: I'm not going to check it because I am categorically awful at this game

[@Damian125id]

You're correct about the chip damage being the one removing the buff, but parrying the lightning in time or not will still give you chip damage. You can use Sakura Dance instead that deflects lightning without getting a chip damage. Can't really tell if it cancels the buff though, i remember guys like ONG BAL uses the blood bestowal while deflecting lightning in the Divine Palace stealth run but i could be mistaken.

[@pohja4552]

Being struck by lightning would probably disintegrate the blood on the blade aswell.

[@villelepoaho4105]

Played trough the game three times, never knew you could get a poison blade from the lizards. Nice.

[@rostonrajaonarison1704]

Thank you old man

[@apa123APA]

What this video really taught me was that there are other abilities but Puppeteer.

[@vinegro4579]

I'm so sad we never got a sequel. I haven't been this 100% invested in a video game since I was a kid. The only game I ever got super good at and nerdy with. 😔

[@LunaCorart]

Loved the ffx reference

[@walkerbragg284]

This triggered my rivers of blood PTSD

[@DrunkedOwly]

2:13 there is a technique that allows you to jump after breaking an enemy posture to do a backstab, so you can backstab them if you if you hit them, jump and then deathblow

[@niklasmitfussl2639]

Oh wow, the inspiration for RoB. Lovely!

[@Shib_Inu]

Not going to lie, you baited me super hardcore w/ the thumbnail.

[@cillafawn281]

The "femur breaker" scream at 4:06 filled me with a certain sense of dread

[@Adi_Dps]

Ladder video

[@Eo-ms3kw]

Didn't expect that Tom Scott edit lmao

[@corndoug2605]

Loved that hardcore blitzball track you massacred those house-nobles to!

[@Mausyboi]

Using the bestowel ninjitsu then the floating cloud passage weapon art deals tons of damage especially with the damage sugar

[@beatrix4519]

never really used bestowal or puppet I'll have to try it out

[@Rollschuhschwein]

That Tom Scott reference was pure gold 🤣👌🏼

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

Giving us consumables that would activate these special bestowals would have been nice!

[@knightslayer6161]

Sekiro had a lack of enemies for its ninjutsu mechanics IMO. Only felt like this game was just getting started towards the end. It’s awesome through n through but a proper DLC with more varying enemies and story would’ve been dope.

[@TheTurtlebox]

I feel like the game would have been a lot cooler without the leveling/abilities unlock. No "this boss is a lot harder because I didn't find this item" and no cheese techniques. I killed the ghost monk guy without using the snap pods, then saw a video about them and it was stupid how it ruined the fight.

[@knightslayer6161]

@@TheTurtlebox game was fun grinding for abilities. A majority of skills aren’t all that but when you got a good one it felt rewarding staying alive and getting better.

[@DankbeastPaul]

@@TheTurtlebox bosses having unique mechanics is a good idea though, and you never HAVE to grind in sekiro as most of the unlocked abilities are secondary to just deflecting/attacking

[@loganwernicke7604]

I cant wait for you're elden ring content there's going to be new limits that must be broken

[@masterzoroark6664]

Vell, at least there is a option that some sort of bestowal will have an appearance in that Ring of Elden