That's exactly what I thought when I saw it.

Or you could just do Monk with Way of the Four Elements and use Fist of Unbroken Air to do the exact same thing but easier and more effectively.

@@dethhollow Well, it's called a spirit gun for a reason, so it's gotta deal one of the otherworldly damage types. Hiei has necrotic, Kuwabara has psychic, so therefore Yusuke deals radiant.

@@itwasidio1736 Does it, though? I never saw the spirit gun as literally being like a weapon that burns people with light, if I remember right it mostly just smashes into people really REALLY hard.

@@dethhollow doesn't the bolt deal more damage???

Not terrible at low levels. When you only get two spell slots, it’s good to preserve them.

@@demi-femme4821 This.

Like bouncing a spirit gun off a mirror? ;)

Can work like the times Yusuke set up a trap for a spirit gun shot

I wonder if he could edge out his opponent in that situation.

Knife Edge Death Match, and the knives aren't used as weapon in that kind of fight

A Knight-Edge Deathmatch? What's that?

@@scumbad7953 watch the 32nd episode of this series and you'll see

@@JabezFuutonSpecialis ​ It took me making this comment to find out the differences in dub. Knife Edge Death Match sounds like an actual stipulation that has to be explained, but in the spanish dub it's called "Duelo a Muerto con Cuchillos", wich translates to duel to the death with knives. When asked, Kuwabara responds (translated): I think they are gonna duel to the death, with knives.

Druid build because he transforms and all of this other nature based stuff maybe circle of the stars??

I'd go Druid/Monk for Kurama. Kensei with whip as your weapon. Thorn whip pulls them close, but whip in general with your increased martial arts die would be powerful and druid for spells/versatility.

@@LupineShadowOmega Yeah, I could definitely see Druid/monk. Maybe some fighter for that action surge that really pulls the other two builds together. For Hiei, I’m thinking a lot of Bladesong Wizard so you can get some powerful spells like shadow dragon, which could be a good substitute for Black Dragon Fire

​@@bumble2442 Maybe take Metamagic Adept at some point for Kurama (Twinned Spell and Uh...Distant Spell?)

I've made a Kurama build over a year ago with this in mind! Unlike everyone else, I think Druid is wrong. Kurama never Wildshapes or anything of the sort. I don't recall him ever reverting to his fox spirit form after joining with Suichi, only "shifting" to Yoku Kurama. So Shifter Ranger 9(monster slayer) with Rogue 11(Inquisitive). Take druidic warrior for thorn whip and a regular whip. I'll write the full build with reasoning if people care.

So you can either Take a turn to use True Strike and then Roll 2d20 for one set of damage on your next turn or take both turns to attack and roll 2d20 on two sets of damage. There is almost no situation where spending an entire turn to roll the same number of d20s you would if you just attacked twice is better than just attacking twice. You are just wasting a turn to do half damage assuming you don't lose Concentration, the target does get killed by someone else, or are forced to target something else (Or pretty much anything happens beyond you getting to just stand there and stare at the baddie). The outcomes are both dice are too low and you just wasted time, once dice hits and the other doesn't which means you do the same damage if you instead just attacked twice, or both are high enough which means you wasted one set of damage entirely. Seriously, True Strike is True Garbage. Take Mending, or Prestidigitation, or literally anything else.

@@demomanchaos I literally said to not use it in combat. You didn't need to type an essay to tell me what anyone who's played 5e for more than a month already knows. My point about true strike is that you don't use it to attack a creature in initiative. Don't ever use it in initiative and waste a turn, but if anyone has it it has uses OUTSIDE of initiative with roleplay. Like in an archery competition, use it to gain advantage on hitting a target, trying to hit something in a chase sequence, or just want a better chance at chopping a tree down, these are the things True Strike is good for that's not combat, because WOW there is more to D&D than just combat. Is it a good spell? Hell no, but all I wanted to do was offer an idea to people that might actually find it useful in some instances. Free advantage on hitting random things that you normally wouldn't have otherwise where initiative and turns don't matter.

@@GoldDragon527 Outside of initiative you are also wasting 6 seconds in game to get 2d20 when you could instead just attack twice in that same time frame (Trying to hit the driver on a cart? Send two arrows at him, and most classes can do that twice in one round so with multi attack you are trading one Advantage for a pair or more of attacks which makes the problem even worse). I would say it might be useful for Rogues to get Sneak Attack but with so very many other options to get Advantage True Strike is still True Garbage. While you might be able to artificially generate a very specific scenario where it might have be good you really have to stretch hard to find the very few instances where it is in any way useful while almost every other cantrip has a large pool on instances where it will be very useful.

@@demomanchaos Guiding Bolt or Inflict Wounds when you only have two to five long rest spell slots at early levels, or only dipping spellcasting classes early on like here. Then swap it out when you don't have to be as conservative later on. Better use of your action turn one than healing or most offensive cantrips available to many subclasses of Cleric that aren't trying to mix it up with weapons. With Guiding Bolt, the advantage even pays off with more advantage, so you're ideally only using True Strike turn one if you're the party member handling long range against targets outside the melee teammates' reach. But, yeah, the scenario is getting more and more specific to make it pay off. True Strike is not a good spell/cantrip in general, mostly for if you know exactly what to expect from your party in a given campaign.

In roleplay situations wouldn't you have the party with you a lot of the time, though? It's still kind-of bad because you could just have someone use the Help Action instead for advantage, which would free up that cantrip slot.

Why not just go Way of the Four Elements Monk and use Fist of Unbroken Air, then? It literally shoots a projectile that can hit from 30 feet away doing 3d10 force damage and it can push the enemy 20 feet or knock them prone, making it feel stronger while also hitting way harder, as well. Not only can you follow it up with more attacks, because Monk, and get over to targets with anime speed, because Monk, it also just hits way harder than Guiding Bolt's 4d6 Damage. And unlike Guiding Bolt, you can increase the power by 1d10 by spending more Ki points, meaning at max level you can either fire 10 shots a day OR put all your energy into one really big shot by burning more Ki points at a time. Meaning you can fire bursts strong enough to really wow your allies at how much you've improved over time for that "Someone who can do that might just be able to beat Togoro" moment. The only real downside is less HP to work with, and you can easily make up for that with a few levels in Fighter or by using Eternal Mountain Defense to cast Stoneskin on yourself to give some of that anime extra-toughness. You'll even hit harder with your unarmed attacks, too, because Monk.

Watch the English dub. Justin Cook absolutely kills it as Yusuke and has some of my favorite comebacks from any piece of media.

I figure Dragon of the Darkness Flame has to be a seriously cheesed Eldritch blast or something

Kind of

Is Tasha's Caldron legal at your table, and are you using Feats? If so, is the Metamagic Adept banned, or just home brewed to Sorcerer only? I can understand choosing to make metamagic exclusive to Sorcerer so that they keep that element of uniqueness, which is a vary valid place for a DM to be coming from. But, if it's possibly just a matter of ignorance, don't be afraid to have a civilized conversation about it with your DM to see if they're more open to the idea than you'd expect when it's put in better context.

@@Shalakor I honestly forgot his exact reasoning, but if I recall it had something to do with the what he interpreted the spellcasting section of multiclassing in the PHB. He thinks the metamagic only work on spells you get from sorcerer, even if you have spells from another class. How he came to that conclusion I don't remember. Doesn't really matter too much to me since I'm not playing a sorcerer anyway.

Let's see, hiei I feel very probably has Monk in there, maybe kensei? He's really good with a sword, doesn't wear armor, and redic fast. Maybe mix with Bladesinger wizard? Or you could do the bladesinger wizard/eldritch knight combo and rely on stuff like Haste for speed. Kurama is probably some sort of Druid

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