u/fraxal17

For when you don't want to go through or learn the fight.

It took 4 attemps to get a no hit run. Probably one of the most challenging fights for Naoe, they always put me on my toes.

When it clicks and when the build does the work for you, it's pure bliss

It felt so cool to just shut him down. Build https://www.reddit.com/r/AssassinsCreedShadows/s/b5Qj99Clxd

These guys are usually not my favorite. Tanky as there is no armor piercing to help increase damage. This is nightmare and they feel so easy with the Bo.

Build https://www.reddit.com/r/AssassinsCreedShadows/s/Hw0tvH2ebc

Heighten Senses is one of my favorite abilities to enter a room/fight and it's always been notoriously flimsy with the Bo. When trying to activate it from a neutral position, the posture will always come out and immediately cancel the ability.

**The trick**

"Queue" Heighten Senses during a posture attack. The ability activates after the posture animation and the timing may seem a bit weird at first, but it's very reliable.

Clip for the example.

I had a pretty bad roll of Domain modifiers

• Enemies drop a poison cloud on death
• Lightning strikes around you
• Gain one earth shield every 30 seconds

Those poison clouds are horrible, they take enemy modifiers and remove 70% of your health upon getting poisoned. Lightning sucks as well as it is random and messes up with stealth, combat and parkour.

This run got fully carried by earth shields. It turned out while having the earth shield, I wouldn't get poisoned by the clouds and lightning wouldn't hurt me. The shields don't get destroyed by the clouds nor by the lightning strikes.

I lost the shields at a point because sloppy play and got back to getting poisoned and whatnot, so it's really a side effect of the shields.

My attempt at a Domain speedrun. Red Moon Domain has the best layout for speed. I got Eamon as boss (easiest). Bow to pick Daishos without risks.

I strongly believe Yasuke is better than Naoe to tackle Domains:

1. He has enough range to dispatch enemies from outside their operational range, without the risk of retaliation. As you can see, most enemies are sitting ducks for Yasuke's arrows. Teppo yields similar results.

2. Sheath attacks with Loyal Traveler perk (sheath attacks are postured and make the enemy vulnerable) are absolutely broken: they interrupt enemies, make them vulnerable and open them to whatever next move you want to unleash on them.

3. Naoe's closest move to "soften" enemies, vault sprint from the Legendary Onna Musha Headband, has been made useless in Domains against Daishos and bosses.

I really love Naoe's gameplay, but Yasuke is way above her in this mode.

This video to prove it is possible to recover from Sandayu's stunlock of death:

1. Situation: Domain has the increased impact modifier. Sandayu throws his smoke bomb and the stunlock starts.

2. The trick: every time he attacks, your character can evade the attack. Put your camera facing the center of the anomaly (where he threw his smoke bomb).

3. Recovery: Evade the attack. After the evade, the stunlock will continue, sending your character in the direction your camera is facing. When you are back in the ring, the stunlock stops. Kick Sandayu's rear side and call it a day.

Another option on some maps like Broken Sky Domain is to get pushed far enough in a corner of the arena. I have a video of this if anyone is interested.

One of my cleanest runs ever. Pathing is not optimized, I tried to get all the additional MODcoins. Bow is amazing.

These "extra moves" ain't gonna help if he can't move.

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It's the fight I go in relaxed. MS Prime is full of bs moves, Students are... full of extras I guess? Anyway, this one is always a cakewalk. I love you Eamon, don't ever change.

Almost perfect fight, I could have done without Hozoin's slap. Yasuke has a much easier time than Naoe fighting this boss.

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Build here https://www.reddit.com/r/AssassinsCreedShadows/s/eTFgry4nz7

It is by no means a perfect attempt, but a rather clean fight that shows well the different phases of the boss and how to react to them.

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Build here https://www.reddit.com/r/AssassinsCreedShadows/s/eTFgry4nz7