I hated every second of my fiber when i played nobushi. How do you feel when you play her? Shes a hero that has the right tools, but has been powercrept by new reworks and heroes. What changes would you personally like to give her that is invigorating for the game? This video had half and half of gameplay commentary and essay format :D If you enjoyed that, let me know in the comments everybody. Now i sleep since its been 36hrs. Box go hide now.

When you get somewhat good at Nobushi, playing her and playing against her is so damn smooth. Eskimo Pie's usage of her is still superb.

One of the best perks in FH that a lot of people don't really use is taking a break and playing something you'll enjoy 😉

It's sad that nobushi is one of many heroes that have just been overlooked in favor of others to the point where she can be played very well by people but in some situations you just can't do anything in fights

Oh God, I know how painful it is to play Nobushi so I feel bad for you Sol. Thank you for enduring these extra CBT sessions for our enjoyment!

When I first started playing FH, Nobushi was my first main hero. Can 100% say I was always pissed off when playing as her. But I can never get myself to hate the fox masked waifu.

Why did they thought that a dodge attack that can't dodge most attcks was a good design choice?

Ah Shurikens. Fucking fantastic feat. When were feats balanced in a big patch again?

Deepest gratitude to you from all nobushi mains out there. I was hoping you do her as next video someday. Didn’t have to wait for long ❤

Love how much effort you put into these videos. 40 minutes of nobu ? So much information and your detailed opinion of how the character can be improved and the pros and cons of the buffs. Underrated content creator for sure. Definitely deserves more than 100k subs.

I will say this, when I first started learning Nobushi, it was pre rework and I didn’t like her, after her rework I still didn’t like her and left her at rep 2, I didn’t come back to try her until pirate came out. When I did give her a good go, all I can say is she is punishing for beginners, but as time went on as I kept playing her, I found her to be VERY satisfying. There was one point that kept my drive going and that was when I beat two pirates that were ganking me. They were relentless, babysitting, they made sure if one was dying the other would step in. Despite all that I quite literally danced around them, I felt like I was playing a worse JJ. The icing on the cake they both rage quit after I beat them not once but the entire dom game.

I feel like Nobushi's unique 'thing' she is advertised as having (her increased range) doesn't even matter. Both because I'm pretty sure it's a lie and because every attack just slides people forward towards their opponent half the time so range doesn't matter.

She needs a soft fient kick, she needs an actual opener, and maybe a sweep like valk and do massive damage. Her kick needs to reach more, her zone in my opinion should be undodgeable this will allow her to stay on her enemy. Her special stance needs to be able to flow very fast like JJ or aramusha and black prior. A feat or maybe just a natural ability should be like shaman where bleed heals you for every successful hit, this will keep her in the gank fight longer.

70 reps on Nobu...yeah... The moment someone has decent reactions you can not get offense in The moment you get externalized you can not get offense in The moment someone knows how to deal with hidden stance by simply backdodging you can not get offense in. But annihilating an enemy because you hiddenstance and dodge all his attacks is incredibly satisfying

Bro, as your channel grows, your vid quality is just levitating my man. Excellent damn video brother. Keep on keeping on, you beautiful box you!

A 40 minute video?! Just what I needed 😌 Thanks for your hard work, Sol! 🙏

haven’t watched you in a looong time but i still love your videos man. also nice 2B background

Everyone says that the pirate is the first character in for honor to have a weapon. Little do they know that the shinobi as a shotgun

Very good video with second hand suffering and a nostalgia trip. I have no clue how/why I recently came back to get her to 70.. I somehow got used to the frustration of backrollers in 1vX, risky kick, abysmal oos pressure, and so much more that you showed in this video. I agree with most of your suggestions, I would love the light -> hidden stance back since small, unique parts of a moveset (Ex: longarm, shugoki's home run heavy) really add up in terms of variety even if they aren't super useful. A few things I'd like to add is give her a rollcatcher somehow and improve the side heavy hitboxes; if you throw a right side heavy to someone externally to your right, it looks like it goes right through their head and doesn't hit most of the time.. I think it can happen with both opener and finisher. That's all I can think of for now lol

Hell yeah. 26:35 That's my zone feint clip. Threw me for a loop when I saw that haha

Playing Nobushi is a lesson in pain. But as someone who loves Spears and Polearms? SOmetimes...sometimes the pain is worth it

I realized that I have incredibly similar Nobooshu outfit as yours, is funny, Sol. Thanks for your new video!

made me bust out the snacks for this one Solly. ps: your discord description is very catchy.

Great video and breakdown again Sol, have you considered doing a Valk one any time soon?

Just realized I was the Gryphon at 16:55 I remember that match and didn’t even realize it was you. I love your content man I find myself always rewatching your videos. Keep on grinding🔥💯

I propose we start calling this little series of sol’s The Pain Arc of his for honor yt career.

Nobushi feels like the last remenant of old for honor so I will never stop playing her

I remember playing years ago and loving playing Nobusi. Makes me sad to come back and seeing her struggling

Mans brought a blunderbuss to the battle and he’s not even from Europe.

still remember when hidden stance can't be guardbroken and can feint light attack, good times

I like your rework ideas, the only thing I'd like to add would be unblockable zone(on the initial spin) just to give here a bit better of a chance in a gank situation. Nobushi should be a high skill requirement character with an enormously high skill ceiling. I'd personally like to see more adjustments/bonuses to her hidden stances as well. Like maybe stamina recovery similar to Jang Jun or allow her to use it as cancel for attacks. Also make her chain lights faster, shit is still way to easy to parry.

I like that faraam is being used as a good reference point

I really liked the light hidden stance back in the day, it fealt really clean to use it

This is the best video i ever seen about nobushi as a rep 70 nobushi I agree with everything you said, and you said exactly the feelings of the nobushi Main, and unfortunately nobushi is not very popular and they do not care much about her, and we should not wait for Rework right now, although I hope Ubisoft don't Rework nobushi like any other hero to keep her special.

Very well said, for a character that i’ve played the most and feels near enough second nature I still find myself trying my hardest using nobushi, more than any other member of the cast, always said she simply isn’t fun to play to an extent because you always feel like your doing the most for the smallest reward, those who say she is a braindead light kick light kick spammer always stir me up for that reason 😂 and please ubi bring back the guaranteed kick 😅 never understood why they removed it in the first place.

I really needed this

25:15 coolest Nobushi outfit ever! I have never been able to get it because I always seem to miss the event that drops it, or maybe it was a once only event. I've never been able to figure that out.

She is officially the hero that has taken longest to get to rep 1, Even PK at her worst in PvAI was faster than Nobu.

I wanna know where you got that art from! love the style, if it's yours amazing job!

You should do a berserk video like this pls. LOVE your vids keep it up you're amazing!!

Ive been playing a lot of nobushi lately and I feel you Sol every time i try to do something i get interrupted like I am Kensei But it doesn't matter our waifu nobu is worth the pain

There's only 2 things I dislike about playing nobushi: her lack of unblockable, and also the dodge frames don't seem to exist half the time on dodge attacks. But I think she's great against dodge-focused heroes (including pirate I've found, so that's a win). If the enemy has really good reactions it feels almost impossible to do anything with her, especially BP turtles. But her hidden stance can sometimes psyche them out into trying to dodge a kick, leaving them open to an undodgeable heavy. I find that getting executions with nobu is easier than any other hero, personally. Also she's not great in team fights I think.

I still think tiandis chain bash is pretty terrible, although it can be used in neutral is frame disadvantage after the light ending the chain and you can’t chain after it too because dodge recoveries on tiandi aren’t on finishers but are on pirate and orochi for some reason, despite being a dodge specialist

My respects for Princess Mononoke on the desktop

to just touch on the part where Nobushi could backstep when she blocked an attack, we also have to take in to consideration that back in Season 1 RANGE was a very BIG part of what made nobushi unique. Most of the cast couldn't punish her lights because she was too far away, and she actually had MORE reach then most of the cast which made that backstep extremely useful because it reset her back to her own comfortable range. now with the first change to parries and GB being buffed the coming year, it lost its meaning because now everyone could punish with a heavy and a GB no matter the range. So it was a very good move for a very short time, still, it was used by my friend many time and it was always hype to watch him outplay people with it

Loved the video ! Though I think you might want to take the bleed attacks during gank into account before saying she's weak x) I mean, you can spam your dodge light attacks and viper's retreat again and again w/o feeding revenge, it stacks under revenge shields and allows you to remain safe even when the revenged opponent is focused on you (if he goes monkey brain as they all do). Nobushi is a menace, but yeah if they ever fix the bleed (cuz yeah that's pretty unfair in the current state lol) she'll need some love xD

I love Nobushi but I was thinking her kit is sorta outdated & this vid proves that. When I’m playing for fun I’ll gladly use her. If I’m playing for the Win I’m picking JJ. I agree with all the changes you’d like to see as well. I also think she should get dodge recovery side light or side heavy after her heavy undodgeable finisher❔Could help her anti gank somewhat better.

Thanks man 👍

0:12 *sights*... yeah, me too. Also, I been trying nobu and it's really freaking funny, but also really hard and punishable for a beginner

Love the 2b wallpaper

As a Nobu main for the past 3 years, she is literally just a character that is a prime example of "Ill sit back and let the new kids have fun." There is just somethings Nobu can do really well against but there are other things that make her feel useless in a way. Honestly I dont know what else she could get without getting a full on rework. Her undodgeable heavies are decent but she sadly has no unblockables. Ill say that her kit is really just good for duels or brawls as thats what I mainly play.

Man this video is a crack up

She was much more menacing when she had the revenge attacks feats. Gave you much more leeway to deal damage due to getting revenge more then once

Did not know that the revenge shield thing was a bug thought it was a mechanic that happened when u get revenge multiple times in quick succession

As a nobu main I can say she's a nice char. She has undodgeble heavy which helps her to stop annoying dodge spamers, her bleed damage is decent and if you nail her stance you will feel awesome in duels. Also her Lights are hard to parry cuz of wierd animation. She is good support in dominion and pushing people in walls is fun. However she needs an unblockable and they gotta do smth with dodge attacks cuz they don't work most of the time

Kensei acually had cool zone attack at release. but thing is you always needed to unlock and turn backwards to enemy so it instantly hit them.

I feel like a fix to the indicator bug when they behind you is ur ability to block either way but they have to be behind u. So instead of getting mixed by flawed game mechanics u instead have a good time

Fun fact: my first rep on anyone was Nobushi! Ofc I don’t remember much of my playtime with her since I dropped her shortly after for Cent, but I remember hardly using her move set, hell I didn’t know she had a dodge attack until just recently lmao 😂

Gryphon and everyone that came after him really just don’t need to exist.

i remember when i used to play for honor properly a little over 2 years ago and my friend was a nobushi main, they got her to something like rep 40-50ish and they hated every damn second of maining her, but they loved her so much that they couldnt just stop playing her, but playingg her made them hate the game for every second they played her

I feel like this when I play jorm, it’s not as bad as nobu but i still feel your pain to some degree.

It would be nice if her hidden stance dodged undodgables. I know that sounds dumb but it would be flashy and make her kit a little more unique. Also a charged kick that could be hidden stanced. It wouldn't have to be an immediate hidden stance feint like wardens bash feint but fast enough to dodge dodge-attacks (and if she could hidden stance undodgables it would be pretty fancy). . I wouldn't want the kick sped up though, maybe expand how long it can be delayed, it's already kinda juicy though. All the suggestions in the vid seem reasonable.

I recently downloaded For Honor because I love intricate combat systems and I instantly read the description of Nobushi expecting a character who had great range, poking potential, and something that was decently fast but as I've been playing her even her speciality of range since she has a freaking spear doesn't feel as dramatic as it should and I'm left so close to an enemy and my dodges don't seem to work and my spear can feel so much heavier and clunky than these other characters I see flying around and all they have to do is just dodge roll and my lunge attack can't reach them but yet some character have these lunges that easily punish chases. It feels underwhelming at times but I'm addicted to the feeling I get when I outsmart someone 😩

Highlander celtic curse and backward light goes brrrr

Every time i play nobushi i remember this song Mr. Burns - High To Be Loathed.

She was my first hero I ever played (besides tutorial Kensei) so I'm biased with her, personally I love her and think she's goated if you can properly us hs. I struggle whenever I fight people you are amazing at reactions, because of the little pressure she can put on, she kind of just gets blocked and my parrying isnt great with her (but is with Warmonger for whatever reason lol) so I usually get bodied. But 32 reps and honestly I enjoyed about 27 of them lol, she's fun just diff (and a rework would be nice and prob deserved)

I’ve seen what nobushi can do in the right hands and it’s scary, fun to play once you get good with her

Me: *Sees his half broken monitor* Me again: "2B! My already high opinion if you had gone up even more."

They Should also fix/improve her dodge attacks, particularly sidewinder, the timing to use them is terrible compared to most other characters

Nobushi has been my main since the vanilla release and I love it!

why does watching sol suffer make me want to play nobushi

months later... nobushi main still in pain but i just cant stop myself.

Sol is like old and tired anime expert xd

Good content 🙂

FEINTABLE LIGHTS!! The glory days

I used to main her years ago when I still played the game. I am a returning veteran now and oh my god, I was infuriated to see what they have done to her. She needs massive adjustments across the board.

Last time i played nobushi i got so mad I decided to take a break... it was, like, month ago. my sleep quality improved alot after that. But about the character herself, i still think she needs some sort of unblockable, and an forward dodge heavy to chase opponents. also actual i-frames on her dodges would've been appreciated.

I still love playing her. When you actually get to do the fancy stuff she can do with the I frames it feels great... Also the finisher plus WoS... Spicy.... Flawed.... But when she works damn that shit feels smooth.

One thing I noticed is that half the time when you get wall splat kicks you decide to light them, its a guaranteed top heavy from my experience.

im so delighted that I'll sleep 40 mins late the night before a final (exams make me wanna kms)

Nobu needs a way to catch people rolling away too. So tired of people just rolling away from you the minute you have revenge.

I played FH from the start and I do remember that back then, Nobushi was one of the best. Sure, she's been nerfed, like all and hasn't really had such a great rework like many of the other characters have. However, that said, like all characters in this game, in the right hands they've all got incredibly good potential. Good reads with Nobushi, for example while using Hidden Stance can pretty much negate every attack against you and give you an instant counter. It can also mask attack direction as well. Viper's retreat can move you out of danger while attacking and laying on a bleed. Way of the shark stacks bleed attacks making other attacks more powerful. In the right hands she's deadly. However, what I will say is that I think she needs some kind of stun attack, even a fraction of a second stagger because most of the time the hits that connect don't really stop an attacker's advance. I'd also like to see her sped up a little as well as she is a little slow at times.

Watching someone play my main like 👀

So this video is probably why nobishi was in almost all my matches last week.

LOVE IT

A couple months ago before my “break” I could anti gank it (was) awesome

2:30 cries in last gen Lawbringer

I would say most of the things u said in this video need to happen I would like to add that her dodge attack light and heavy don't feel like they give her the s she should have so I would say increase those a tad and I would like to see a heavy light heavy mixup I just feel it would help her chains a lil bit more just definitely doesn't need unblockables cuz I'm very tired of every new hero getting one and I have no clue what to give her for oos pressure maybe give a way to faint kick by going into hidden stance to get a dodge out idk but that's my opinion on the matter lol

Oh finly hand reveal lesgoo

As someone who is on last gen consoles and having a tv not up to par. Parrying nobushi’s bs lights is perhaps the hardest thing for me to do on my end.

I feel your pain when playing nobushi. I tried it for a bit, but it just isn't my playstyle and doesn't do very well in 1vs2-4 situations.

I remember when Nobushi was reworked I would tell people how it accomplished nothing and everyone hated me whenever I would say that, saying that you just gotta learn the hero and that she has situational blah blahs and whatever. Basically, "Git gud". Happy to know I was completely right.

I think Hit stun is so problematic rn. I’d like to see new hero have a mechanic where he can dodge out of block stun or hit stun (but a little bit tunned down) and of course not be so overpowered and have EVERY mechanic in the game. Thx for the nobu vid she is one of my favourite heroes but only when i can outsmart my oponents😁

My Right Bumper is falling off.

Sol out here making nobu look good what a chad

JESUS MY EARS, destroyed in 2 seconds

may I ask what that wallpaper is on your broken screen?

Me a Nobushi Main "This your first time?" **insert James Franco hanging meme

Heavy sweep finisher but on a 3 chain combo and maybe a look into that sidewinder form because imo that's the worst feeling thing she has

The revenge shield bug is caused when someone with any amount of shield activates revenge