The Best Kenshi Defense/Dodge Guide 1-90 Defense and/or Dodge in less than a game day!

I stream everyday excluding Wednesdays at Twitch.tv/FrankieWuzHere Come on and drop by! I do a ton of Solo Challenge runs.
The mods I had enabled are just Nice Map, Mute flies, and the Redone UI - Clean Grey UI as well as a mod I created that spawned my character in Mongrel with the stats and armour to record the guide. I usually have these stats (A lil lower strength/medic in my runs I do on stream by the time I train here if not a little higher. The squad settings are all at the default 1x. If anyone has any criticism/feedback on something that was off, please let me know. Disclaimer I got pretty amazing luck as a Scorchlander... Expect a time of around 19 game hours to 24 if you don't get unlucky. If playing a Hiver... Expect a LOT longer. They are very rough to train. If using a Soldierbot (Agnu) Expect less downtime as he has a lower head hit chance relative to a Skeletons. Thanks for watching and I hope I saved you more time than you spent watching my guide! That's my goal in the end :)

[@huff3782]

Love your guides! You have the most brilliant strats.

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Thanks! More will be coming in the future :)

[@artistindependent4591]

Just another awesome guide from him. Ty so much. Im currently have my 1st playthrough the game. Your guides help me get through the learning curve so well

[@ironarcana970]

Frankie wuz indeed here, y'all.

[@Kraev369]

Thanks! Great information and its concise and to the point.

[@direben]

I never thought about the giving tech! Are you technically not committing a crime because you're just moving in their inventories, not moving it to yours?

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Exactly! It makes perfect sense :)

[@YaBetterHide]

this was great, randomly found this and i love it! thanks my guy! :)

[@SCARaw]

Frankie with another big video, nice!

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Thanks for watching and for the great performance fix mods Scar! :)

[@robbyloux]

If it's what it takes... I'll become Crab

[@Jacob-bm6wb]

singlehandedly making mongrel fall

[@joshvarges9230]

crazy strategies you got brother

[@Bill-Sama-Gates-Laden]

SICK! thank you Frankie

[@joak-web]

6:36 Interesting point for me

[@francolaplap879]

I'd love to see a strenght guide please!

[@garygordle5146]

howdy there frankie!

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Howdy!

[@gingiii]

you probably get asked this a lot but is samurai legs, assassin rags, crab helmet, wooden sandals(guessing?) best in slot for basically every build (i dont know about shirts). Love your videos btw

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Dark Leather Shirt :) And thanks for watching and for saying that!

[@tankbread8950]

what mods are you using, btw nice guide.

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Clean Grey UI, Mute Flies and Nice Map.

[@tankbread8950]

thanks, i will now rage quit from kenshi because i walked into a slave traders cage and accidentally enslaved myself@@FrankieWuzHere

[@AlexanderNunn-g1r]

Are scorchlanders underated?

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Absolutely. They are very very strong.

[@Viinan]

I never would've thought of this, thanks for the guide! One question though: How do you lose aggro on the guards as a skeleton after you're done lvling? It didn't seem like they were going to give up before your head was destroyed unlike the non-skeleton method.

[@FrankieWuzHere]

You can just leave and wait around 5 game hours to return. That's usually around how long it takes to lose aggro.

[@TotallyCircumstantial]

Your UI is nice

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Clean Grey UI if you want to get it yourself :)

[@TotallyCircumstantial]

@FrankieWuzHere thank you Frankie, and thank you for your infinite Kenshi wisdom.

[@FrankieWuzHere]

No problem! And definitely not infinite! I've been playing with a squad and making a base recently on stream and man... I am learning a lot.@@TotallyCircumstantial

[@ba3bos]

​@@FrankieWuzHereI can't wait to see some guides on optimizing base building mechanics (crafting, optimal job automation and resource calculations, and perhaps optimal sqaud composition (race and gear)) Even if not, please continue what you're doing, you're an invaluable asset to the Kenshi community

[@rampantsarcasm2220]

would high grade crab armor work? I'm having a really difficult time getting the crab raiders to sell it and i dont have my forging leveled

[@FrankieWuzHere]

You'll level up slower but absolutely. You can also pick up the Crab Queen when she goes to sleep to get Specialist/Masterwork from her if you don't mind being a bit cheap :P

[@ba3bos]

Excellent guide as always. I'm curious though, why the rusted blade instead of the rusted junk? If the purpose is to reduce damage why not go for the absolute lowest damage which is rusted junk ninja blades for 0.3 cut damage? do the guards not accept this low stat of a weapon?

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Rusted Junk means -1attack. The guards have around 70Dex on average. To make it easier as they can spawn as Dex boosted races let's say their wep skill is 65 and dex is 75. That is 140 total. They do cut dmg equal to 13 + 0.195(dex+weapon skill)cut dmg of weapon. So a Ninja blade Rusted Junk does 25.012 damage. Rusting blade is 27.664 damage. Waskizashi rusting blade would do 29.497 damage. But remember Rusted junk would be -1 attack ninja blade is only +1 or +2 for rusting blade. While Wakizashi is +6 indoors. That is (If opponent is stronger than you) the difference between +0.5x (+0.4x for rusting blade) XP. Also Ninja Blade has 1.2x AP meaning our helmet would only mitigate 87.75% instead of 90%. Which isn't a really big deal but it adds up.

[@ba3bos]

@@FrankieWuzHere thanks for explaining, now it makes sense to me. I have to back a and craft rusted blades now.

[@gorbashgrot8546]

What ui mod are you using?

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Clean grey UI. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1686585724

[@CGSudio]

Your guides are amazing! I am wondering where you get the specialist crab armor? I can only find info on it being worn by they Crab Queen.

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Craft or yeah Crab Queen. Samurai Arnour works too just Crab Armour is the best in this scenario. You can actually pick her up when she is sleeping if you want :)

[@CGSudio]

@@FrankieWuzHere Yeah as I had already followed your stealth and thievery guides I just looted her when she was sleeping. Got caught but she didn't wake up so tried again and got lucky!

[@FrankieWuzHere]

@@CGSudio Oh I mean you can straight up pick her up when she is sleeping. Then just loot her stuff haha.

[@Strawberry_ZA]

Early squad

[@Jacob-bm6wb]

wait if I don't have block on when training dodge how do I avoid killing them all with ma?

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Make sure to hold down the movement key and spam R. You can have block on if you really need to but it might result in less XP if you go too high in dodge.

[@imabignoob1015]

Im still to dumb even with a guide my stay gains slow downs when it hits 70+

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Make sure you have all the equipment listed and the stats as well! Unless you are playing a Hiver it should take around a game day.

[@imabignoob1015]

@@FrankieWuzHere thanks i manage to get it to 90 although not as fast as the tutorial but atleast i got it to 90

[@DegradationDomain_stuff]

Hehe, skeletons are balanced, lmao 😂

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Agnu is even more balanced hah.

[@spacesui-t]

@@FrankieWuzHere Agnu can't speak but then you can become one robot army and steal everything not nailed down so being mute it's not that big of a deal.

[@jandaldrichtabada216]

Can you make the fastest method for training strength?

[@FutureUnleashed]

walk around encumbered

[@Matthew-tv4fl]

Is there anything similar for melee attack?

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Not as fast but relatively close yes. My next guide is an anti-slaver recruit guide but after that an attack one will probably follow!

[@KonsaiAsTai]

Sure, "in less than a game day" ... provided you have at least 95 toughness (which sure takes longer than an in-game day), 50 strength (doable, but tedious with the usual encumbrance + corpse carrying method; also takes longer than an in-game day), masterwork skeleton limbs (lol, lmao even) and "pretty good" armor, as seen in the video. Clickbait. Dislike. Thought I could learn something new at 1k+ hours, but this is just shameful. No thanks.

[@FrankieWuzHere]

95 Toughness takes far less than a game day. 50 str is only doable in a game day with bed cheese (Which I don't do), Armour is around the world, Skeleton limbs take less than a game day that being said, the training itself did in fact take less than a game day. I pride myself on making quick guides that don't waste time or clickbait so sorry you feel that way. If you put a frozen pizza in the oven for 20 minutes do you count making it as taking 20 minutes or over an hour because you bought it from the store the other day, there was a lot of traffic, you needed to work for money to buy it, the education to get your job and for the pizza to cool off before eating? 😂

[@Baddaby]

Dude provided exactly what was in the title All of the other assumptions were conjured by your own head

[@ba3bos]

This is a textbook definition of shouting at the wind, dude invented stuff to complain about. This guide is both brilliant and does exactly what's in the title, as with all Frankie's guides.

[@afivey]

My dude you're not being entirely fair.

[@FutureUnleashed]

thats crazy you have 1k hours and you didn't figure out how to get 95 toughness in 1 game day. I have 100 hours and figured this out. Second. 50 strength is LEGIT an AFK leveling skill you can do behind the scenes! The fact you called this clickbait, I think it is you doing all the master baiting in this comment. Clown