I agree with the dwarf thing because in D&D dwarves at their tallest can be 5 foot 5 and Wolverine is supposed to be about five four to five six depending on who drew him

you could swap the 18th level of fighter for 3rd level of barbarian and pick up totem warrior(bear, reflavored as wolverine) to take half damage from everything but psychic, to go with the unbreakable bones thing, but regen makes just as much sense. This is a fun video thank you for sharing it.

If your dm is cool with unconventional weaponry, you could ask for flenching claws (the ones described in Volo's guide, around magic items made by Illithids). Your DM probably knows you're making wolverine, so putting "My dwarf tore his way through the illithid stronghold with his new augmentations, his memory wiped by the illithids when they began to turn him into a thrall" just makes the resemblance closer

For Wolverine to hit 20th level due to his fights in wars, he would have had to kill 3550 guys with the Soldier stat block

Hmm, the bonus to History from Hill Dwarf racial could still be in character; Logan is OLD. Hell, he might've even helped with some of that stonework (the construction or demolition).

I recommend the tekko kagi for claws instead of the bagh nakh, they look and function way closer to wolverine's claws.

I love how the only weaknesses are: No magic damage (usually mitigated by DM) Weakish INT/CHR (not very common saves) And limited Rage (is that a weakness, or just a limitation?) Damn, Wolverine is do badass he basically has no weaknesses, lol!

Anyone care to mention how potentially you'll have more HP than a Black Dragon...

In Volo's Guide to Monsters they mention that thralls of Mind Flayers are altered to have flanging claws that do 1d8 damage for medium creatures. that could go along with the flavor and backstory for a character like this.

If shifters were better, they'd make the perfect race for wolverine

6:34 Actually what happens on a 20 roll you regain one hit point, thus you become conscious again.

Barbarian = Metal Bones. I love it. XD

Well the muramasa blade could be considered a magical weapon

To the creator, thanks so much for this build. I can feel like you really wanted the information out there with minimal other filler time. Great concise video. Highly entertaining, the best video like this I've seen.

Dwarf Battlerager is about all you need for wolverine.

Awesome build! May have to use it!

I wonder if doing Zealot Barbarian and Kensei Monk would flesh out some of his weaknesses without taking away his ungodly survivability.

Hey man! Been really loving these videos. Discovered them about a week ago and I've been binging. Wanted to make a request: I know you've mostly moved away from superheroes in your recent builds, but I'd love it if you could do Cyclops from the X-Men. I think it'd be a really cool challenge! Anyway, keep up the great content!

I did the same with Samurai. He has been a samurai in the past and the temp hp is a perfect way to get more health and regenerate.

"The best he is at what he does"...sort of. Really dig these videos, thanks!

The Durable feat pairs well with the Dwarven racial feat.

If this were a 3.5e build I would recommend the Feral template. It grants Fast Healing and a claw attack.

Incorrect rule: a natural 20 on a death saving throw is not two successes, it's makes you conscious at 1 HP. A commonly misunderstood rule.

Best one I've seen so far and I've enjoyed every one.

Episode 7 of the Fire Emblem stats: Logan. Wolverine's best weapons are in swords (specifically Japanese katanas), brawling (which is the closest thing Fire Emblem gets to his claws), and heavy armor (adamantium skeleton). He has a budding talent in authority because he tends to be thrusted into leadership positions on the fly and he's pretty good at it. He's bad at both types of magic because he's not a long-range combatant at all. His HP and defense are insane and his speed is pretty high but his luck, resistance, and charm are pretty lackluster.

This was the most recent video when I subscribed. It’s awesome how far the channel has come. #DecemberTulokRewatch

If I were to build Wolverine I would probably use the same spread as in the video, but go Shifter: Beasthide, keep the Soldier background and for classes I would take 8 levels of Totem Warrior Barbarian (First Totem of the Bear and then Wolf) and 12 levels of Soul Knife Monk. Now you have claws that can deal 1d8 slashing, piercing, blunt or psychic damage, if you get your con to 20 and get the Tough feat that should be 261 HP, and though you can’t heal as well you can gain your level + Con mod + 1d6 as temporary HP with +1 to AC, and not to mention all your resistances and immunities. And that’s just some of it. (And your attacks will be magical, so no one escapes your claws)

I feel like this could have benefited from the Dual Wielding feat...little extra armor, and easy weapon access. But it's really good for a katana Logan

I like this version of Wolverine build. Recently I'm building a female Dwarf version for a friend. I chose 2 levels of Rogue instead of Barbarian and use medium armor instead of unarmored. I like the Rogue sneak atttack with Brute force, and the 2nd level bonus "cunning action" dodge action combo with Dwarven fortitude. I also made a homebrew weapon of Brass knuckles with Blades (based on Dagger to avoid a possible 'NO' from DM) not unlike your Bagh Nakh (though the images of Bagh Nakh are not what I was looking for). Mine has slightly less HP (d8 vs. d12 for 2 levels), but just as effective in my mind. I chose to emulate the Rage with role play instead of mechanics.... mostly focused on Brute force for extra damage dealing. either way is just fine....but like you the end goal is 18 Brute for the healing factor, with Dwarven fortitude until then.

Meat shield builds like this are bittersweet for me because I find them so awesome in concept... but in practice they get boring very fast. Still, something like this would be pretty fun for a high level 1-shot. Also I now see how the Brute is a really awesome platform to take levels in and multi-class to other things thanks to that damage bonus. For example, a Brute/Monk could be a lot of fun, grabbing that bonus damage and Flurry of Blows along with Action Surge - and you could dish out some massive burst damage while being super hard to kill with high durability and evasive abilities! And that's not including splashing ranger for Hunter's Mark! Which now that I think of it - is a 3-class build that might also make for a compelling 'Wolverine-style' build!

Closest I've come to a wolverine build is a Mountain Dwarf Bear Totem Barbarian/Monk multiclass with the Dwarven Fortitude and Durable Feats. Patient Defense from the Monk Class lets you take the Dodge action as a Bonus Action, which lets you use Dwarven Fortitude to spend hit dice to heal which with Durable will be a pretty good amount of hit points, which you won't need to do as often with the Bear Totem damage resistance. If you ever got your hands on a Periapt of Wound Closure you could hypothetically heal for up to 20 - 24 points whenever you dodged for the cost of a ki point and a bonus action. I do feel if you did something that gimmicky the DM would make a special point of killing you.

Interestingly enough, the bagh nakh were also called the grayclaws in Forgotten Realms 2e, and were renamed tiger claws in 3e. They're 1d4 damage and cost 3-5 gp depending on the edition. Nice idea to use those.

I just rolled Wolverine with three levels in Barbarian to start. Used the new path of the beast for the claws. This new subclass was made for him.

God I wish there was a way to pick up a 2nd level spell, that way you could take Alter Self and give yourself REAL claws. But for that'd you had to pretty much go at least 3 levels in sorcerer which (while imo kinda fits as Sorcerer's are born with their powers such as mutants) would be a pretty big waste considering Wolverine in character has no other spells.

6:30 I have seen a lot of people get this wrong. A nat 1 on a death save IS two failures, but a nat 20 means you gain 1hp and wake up

Love the build, really well set up. Curious what you'd do for Sabertooth (similar enough to Logan with some interesting differences)

Back to watch again after the shout-out in the Psylocke vid. All hail the algorithm.

I would really be interested to see this build using a Dragonborn with the Dragon Hide feat.

Would love an updated Wolverine build with the Path of the Beast Barb

If you rolled your stats and rolled really well you could add/pair Durable with the Dwarven Fortitude feat! Once your con is 20 you are healing minimum 15hp a pop cause your always gonna get 10! Better dodgy healing!! With capstone that's minimum 25hp a round if being dodgy. When you use your 2nd wind, when you wanna heal and keep on laying the smackdown, you heal 1d10+ 28 that round!! SHEESH!! Only thing that makes this more awesome is have your caster put the haste spell on ya, then you can use your extra action to dodge + heal and still get all your attacks in! Beserker indeed!!

Logan is a short king and Hill Dwarf makes perfect sense to me.

3:14 - you get second wind back on a short rest my dude

My personal build for Wolverine post-Tasha's: Beast Barbarian 6/Samurai Fighter 14 Pros: Magical claws, more health from barb levels, temp HP to be even tankier, more Rages. Cons: Low INT/CHA, no auto-regeneration, limited range.

Idk why no magical weapon is a con here when it's totally feasible to happen along a magical magical longsword aka katana along your journey in a campaign.

You could take up the revenant subrace from the Gothic Heroes UA. While you do end up permanently dying once you accomplish whatever your goal is, you literally cannot die. You regain 1 HP every round if you’re under half your max HP, you respawn in a day after you die, and even if your entire body is destroyed you’ll appear a mile from your death location 24 hours later.

Great job with the build. But I felt a tabaxi would Make more sense thematically Also: 3rd lvl Barbarian can get bear totem warrior which gives you resistance to ALL but psychic damage

Expertise on Stone does make sense for Wolverine actually. In the Origins comic where they detailed his younger life he spent a majority of time in the Yukon as a miner. Not much of a stretch!

Came back to this video because I realize I had never seen it. I always thought wolverine would be too hard but this is a great build

If you have max con, the dwarven fortitude automatically gets the highest regain possible if you have the durable feat ( 15 hp everytime you dodge )

The one issue is his low str and you dont bump it up until way high level so his attack bonus is going to be real low but I guess with reckless attack not as bad

Why wouldn't / couldn't your katana you picked be magical? At the level he gets it in your build it could well be a +2

I'm not too big a RWBY fan, but is a build for Qrow or Torchwick too much to ask for.

This might Be The Strongest Build i've Seen Yet Along Side Samurai Jack & Afro-Samurai.

The new Path of the Beast Barbarian fits plus better claws

Hey Tulok. Would you consider making a build for Jadis (the white witch in the Narnia series)?

What about, order of the lycan and battlerager barbarian. Order of the lycan gives you lycan regeneration at 11th level, a bloodlust ability that activates (on a wis save) when your below half health to really enter beast mode, and battlerager is a barbarian class for dwarves, that use spiked armor and incorporate it into their attacks, similar to the claws. Or would battlerager be more Lady Deathstrike?

Wouldn’t adding a monk level for wis save to ac make sense?

Katana Wolverine isn't quite my spirit animal, but great vid!

Would've thought the 'Unarmed fighting' fighting style would be something Wolverine should take

You should look into building the 7 Deadly Sins obviously from the 7 Deadly Sins. Melodious, Diane, Ban, King, Gowther, Merlin, and Escanor. I think they would make fun and interesting builds.

Another great one, man. You up to taking suggestions? P.s thanks for taking my advice😉

Actually if you make a death saving throw as a natural 20 you get one go back says so in the PHB pg 197 so this would be op he literally would not die

Bro I just came back from his video on cowboy beebop and it’s so much slower, you never really notice the transition till you make the comparison. This is still good though, never change: always adapt.

Currently doing this build but instead traded one level fighter for bearbarian level and this build is insanely fun to play

I would have gone Ranger(Hunter)18/Barbarian 2. I guess the spells are uncharacteristic though

I would use the Alert feat rather than GWMaster because while the Katana is true to his story, it isn't what he is known for. He isn't ambushed because he can smell you coming.

OMG HE HAS SO MUCH HEALTH.

Since Brute is gone (which is fine cuz it was absolutely broken) can we get a redo on Wolvie? Just call it a reboot or ‘Return to Weapon X’

Hey could you do Leon Scott Kennedy from resident evil

a good weapon for wolverine in 3.5 is a "flufed" cats glove

I'm probable not the first one to suggest this and if I am good for me, but anyway here I go... theirs an easy way around your limited damage type dealing, in the comics Wolverine/Logan had a magic Katana called the Muramase forged from a piece of Logan's soul and it can weaken to outright neutralize regenerative healing factor like his own, so just make his Katana a magic Katana with neutralizing properties and that should take care of this builds limited damage types. My suggestion for a build I'd like to see; Uzumaki Naruto.

If anyone has a full level 20 character sheet of this I'd love to see it... Yes, I'm too lazy to do it myself right now.

What about taking one more level in barbarian to get totem warrior? Half all damage except psychic seems to fit his unkillable theme

"How to play half of Black Sails cast" Bi Bards Band: allow us to introduce ourselves...

Bagh nakh is Bengali for tiger claw. Where did you come across that?

Any chance you can do a build for Sabertooth?

Going by past builds one of them is probably Starfire, but I can't think of another one, there are too many stars to count.

Wolverine was also originally drawn as being very short.

I'd swap con/wis for str/dex and if my dm won't use UA, I'd use Champ and Unarmed Fighting. But you do you bub

The classic ones

I just noticed the blue and yellow borders you used haha

Can you make a brus li build?

A path of the beast barbarian/champion fighter would work pretty well for wolverine as well

You should create rogue of the X-Men.

Where is the 10HP/round healing coming from? Also, I'd suggest going Fighter 5 before picking up your 2 levels of Barbarian.

Please, Please, Please! River Tam from Firefly/Serenity!

Sadly, you can't add rage damage to weapon rolls made with dexterity, unless your dm allows it

When you roll ridiculously high for this

The only thing i have against this build is the the lack of speed/movement... Wolverine is very agile so 25ft falls a bit short of what we know wolverine is capable of... Squat Nimbleness is a MUST imo

Should've given him the durable feat on top of all that

Make a video with how to play with RAMBO

the problem with the level 4 being take take the feat dwarven resilience is as a dwaf you already have it before level 4

Tulok used to have a bgm apparently

Do the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom

Champion can Regen health at it's highest level

Problem: wouldn't the claws count as improve weapons? So we need to work tavern brawler into this build as well.

Ia there a low level version to this build?

Why No alter self with warlock so u can do it infinitely

Post-Sabertooth gang Wow Tulok used to talk slower. Shame Brute never made it- it really seems perfect for Wolvie.

Wow, watching this now it looks like Tulok is talking at x0'5 speed xD (I still like it tho)