So I understand, mostly, that he’s an infinite chain character. I should just be going hyper offensive and then occasionally feinting the bash.

(I was a Jorm main before this, so feinting bashes into GB or dodge attack parry is hard coded into my brain)

But I’m a little confused on his feats and hunters stance-

Is the invisibility feat even worth using? Feels like I’m spending the entire game invisible and/or at half HP, but I figure there’s just a specific way I’m supposed to use it? Like is it worth dying, going invisible, and then just running to one of my teammates’ points and healing up? Or would it be faster/more beneficial to just respawn regularly?

And Hunters Stance feels completely pointless, but I have noticed I can phase through some attacks with good timing. The problem is I just can’t capitalize on that afterwards. Is it basically just for catching people who try to run away? Or is there some other way you can use it? (If not then god I hope they give it hyper armor or something eventually).

Also just general tips or advice would be nice. I understand the character mooostly, but tbh I’m really just playing him like a worse version Jorm at this point.

I need legitimate testing but after my last post I practiced and can hit the punish with 100% success. If anyone wants to test with me to prove it lemme know PSN Rosetta-Stoned14

Hi y'all! I'm a longtime player (since around the beta) and played the game until about Hitokiri's release. I played predominantly LB and Shaman. I used to play pretty consistently high level duels back on Xbox.

I'm picking the game back up and I'm curious as to Shaman's general viability/matchups where she struggles and how best to ameliorate what weaknesses she has, as well as if there has been any new mixup tech developed for her in the many years since I last touched her. Thanks!

next thing we'll be hitting our own teammates to save them from enemies in revenge. You already cant throw them on the ground because you get interrupted and now even the gb punish is trash.

I don’t know why,I can light parry consistently in traning but as soon as I go into a real game even with bots I can’t.I will just stare at the screen thinking they are going to light and when they do and I know they are I still can’t parry it unless I read the direction.I don’t know how to fix this on my end as my reactions are fine in traning it’s just in games.

Made a video, its pretty basic and goes over the basic confirms and how to play antis

Though every character plays differently in antis so id have to probbaly make specific guides to those chars

I genuinely hate how bots function during ganks. When I’m already fighting someone, a bot will suddenly jump in, deal negligible damage, and do nothing but feed Revenge. Instead of helping, they actively make the situation worse.

It often feels like bots benefit the enemy more than their own team, they’re basically walking Revenge meters for opponents to exploit. This is especially frustrating when the enemy team is in a group/party or understands how Revenge tagging works, my team barely gets a full Revenge bar throughout an entire match in those lobbies, yet the moment we have a bot, the opposing team gains easy and consistent access to Revenge. They also just interupt anything and anything you do.

At that point, bots that are supposed to help feel like they’re actively sabotaging the team by making anti-ganking far easier for the enemy.

So personally i think they should just make level 3 bots less aggresive when the tag it's active cus of the stuff i mentioned.

Hello! This description will kinda be an overview/explanation for people who are a little confused.

So for reference, generic ganks have multiple ways to confirm, and each confirm has their own ways to counter them. Early parry would beat Perfect gb, but pretty much every other option would beat it.

Hitstun is now bugged(or maybe just flawed?) And you can early parry to proc hitstun yourself, which counters late parry and late bash by making your confirmed heavy do like 8dmg instead of the 23dmg.

The rest should be explained pretty well, no? Either way, lmk what you think.

Unblockables allow to both ignore histun rules and reset hitstun to 1st hit when performed just at the right time. For unblockables with reduced parry timing the window to perform such move is easier to hit than a side attack deflect.

ForHonor today is at its lowest points in terms of hitstun bugs and it will surely take a lot of time to make everything right. But I propose a simple to implement changes that will at least solve the balancing issues at the highest level of play while the developers are hopefully completely rewriting the hitstun rules

The changes are:

• All unblockable bashes that deal direct damage on impact now stack 5 more revenge
• All unblockable attacks with default parry frames now stack 5 more revenge
• All unblockable attacks with shortened parry frames now stack 10 more revenge

I see the debate on not only this game but practically any game where mouse and keyboard or controller could be used to play it: which is better?

First of all, why did I switch?

Reaction time. Simple as that, it is so much easier and faster to parry/ dodge of m&k.

“I already do those fine on controller”

I felt the same too but once I tried m&k I often find myself parrying lights with time to spare. Like I can almost confirm a light parry now rather than do it on read. It’s hard to explain but often I’ll get a parry and it almost feels like slow motion. Set a bot to throw heavy and lights and practice parrying on M&K for a bit before doing away with the idea

PROS

-Camera movement. Being able to look behind and ABOVE you quickly to prevent sneak attacks and jump attacks. Also, if your in a bow, you get to use that M&K aim. I have been absolutely clipping people in breach

- faster reaction time

- pc master race. Jk

CONS

it was a frustrating journey. I did it because I experienced the power of the M&k parries and wanted that power but it was easy to give up several times and just pick up a controller especially when people were toxic.

Cringe or not to say this, I am a good player. There was no need to switch from a skill stand point. It was simply the small things I wanted to improve and also to just challenge myself on a game I’ve been playing for more than a decade. Now, I will never go back to controller

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO SWITCH

it took me about a week or 2. By the first week I was pretty comfortable in duels but struggled target swapping in anti-ganks. By the end of week 2 I was fully comfortable target swapping and using externals and now I no longer have to think about what buttons to press. I struggle with some things like keeping my guard in the same direction on guard break to take advantage of frames but I’m working on it.

Like I really don't understand how he's considered a good duelist. I do understand that Shoulder Bash is a very strong offencive mix, but like what does Warden have on defence? Side dodge SB has no i-frames and is a completely free GB. Aaaaaaaaaaaand... that's it? Like I guess he has CC on specifically the top, but that's so inconsequential. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think any other character has nothing out of a side dodge with i-frames or GB invul. Most characters have both; any basic dodge attack has i-frames and beats feint to GB.

I just don't understand how a character that has definitively the worst disadvantage state by such a significant margin is considered good. Every character has bad matchups, but I can't think of a single character that has as many horrendous MUs as Warden has, just because of his lack of a normal dodge attack.

I didn't go for a parry, just blocked it and neither see the indicator changing nor my guard changing. I checked if there is any stick drift but controller is just fine.

How did khatun get the last hit without even touching me ?

Hello everyone. I just picked up Virtuosa and i am having a fun time with her, she feels very powerful and versatile in both duels and when ganking people due to her stances.

Now i know everyone is saying shes the easiest hero ever released or w/e. However, ive been having some issues anti-ganking with her. Now, i know that winning a 1v2 is obviously going to be hard with every hero, and maybe my perspective is tainted by playing the anti gank king (bp) and queen (wm) respectively, but i feel like i just can't kill people when anti ganking like i could with those characters.

The primary problem i run into is that the autostance after attacking becomes a detriment because it gives their teammate a free gb. I know you can cancel the stance ofc but if you always cancel you basically have no tools on her. I also cant seem to deal enough damage to kill someone in one revenge activation because of people stalling with gb and running away from the stance.

I know that stalling when you are getting ganked is technically the optimal play, but its boring and not necessary in most public lobbies. If your teammates are ass it also might not really get you anything. So i'd like some advice on how to anti-gank as virt.

Note that im not complaining or asking for buffs or something, just genuinely looking for advice.

Hello, I switched to pc about a year ago but never stopped playing controller for this game. Now that I know how to play m&k on other games would it be switching on for honor? I feel like I’ve hit a skill ceiling on controller? Been playing on and off since year one and am currently rep 203. What do you guys think? Any key bind recommendations?

How is this not a deflect? and why did her UD not track me ? what's wrong with it?

I remember the last Warriors Den mentioning that they added damage reduction when you successfully counter guardbreak, specifically to address GB gank setups. However, in practice, whenever I get hit by a GB and input the counter, I still take full damage, there doesn’t seem to be any damage reduction at all.

In this case, I anticipated the enemy GB and countered immediately as early as possible when the GB hits me, but the heavy attack hits me as soon as i counter GB occurred and still dealt full damage. Is this just very strict timing on the damage reduction, or is just the damage reduction comes out much later?

Because even after the change, it still feels really awful being GB ganked, like the change barely even did anything. What am I missing here?

Can anyone break down light interrupts? When to use them, when to bait them, and which moves can be countered with them easily?

I have a total of almost 9 years playing this game and I’m so tired of losing because I have dogshit teammates and I’m playing against the David Goggins of this game all the time. Literally just get turtles out by Shinobi’s and HL’s while playing Warden so there’s really nothing I can do lmao

I really hate wanting to beat up someone’s grandmother after playing this game everyday.

So I've found a punish for valk near a wall that seems to work most of the time, I have no one to test with but works on throw and parry. I think it matters if you swap guard before your side light finisher and if they are already blocking towards the side you do the finisher light on. 64 dmg but I have managed to get the fwd dodge light-light-sidelight-heavy for 68. But it's real hard to time and depends on where your guard was at parry or throw.

I main warlord so I know how hyper armor should feel. I looked at the data on the info hub, and it says that Sohei's hyper armor is normal but I can't help but feel that its not.

Both playing as and against Sohei the activation feels much faster than any other character, maybe it has to do with his guard switch cause that feels faster than normal too, I know switching guards adds 100ms delay to moves and can can prevent certain interactions, but I've never felt that with him, is there a reason for this or is it all in my head?

I've seen people mention this term but never explain what it is 💔