They finally let him out of the cell they have him play DBD in.

the irony of being able to predict the blindspot by it just being the same blindspot every time

Scott "only reacts" Jund back at it again, reacting to his own gameplay. I love it.

fucking yes, narrated thought duels are back my absolute favorite content

i like seeing a competent caster use all these new spells. Whenever i run into casters it's just someone lightrolling away and spamming swift shard/slicer.

That catch flame blind spot predict was absolutely nasty

An good option of AoE spell for invasions is Messmer's Orb, since it can deal almost 2k damage if you stack all fire damage bonuses and charge it. The hosts and phantoms seem to have a really hard time dodgin it due to the delayed explosion, so you can rollcatch their recovery from being knocked down from the first cast with a second uncharged cast. Killing the host by Messmer's Orb into rollcatch Messmer's Orb is just dumb fun.

Let's go i was waiting for this to come out good to see u back at narrated duels and yes its morally correct to heal yourself if someone uses swift strike.

As for blindspot, most people using it are pretty simple, so you can bait it out and bonk them on the recovery. Another potential solution, though im still testing it, is charged R2 on light greatsword, if you release it as they use the ash, the hitbox is active at the very start of the swing, and as it comes from your lower side, if they end up there, they get smacked before their strike lands, which will often knock them out of it. (not your better by any fu*en means, but have been looking for counters for basically everything so any knowledge is good knowledge given the game revolves around knowledge checks at this point, at least for a while)

Yeah! Back to good old days narrative duels 👍

The gkat running attack is identical to its crouch/roll attack meaning you can chain these attacks together with very slightly different timing. It's an insanely good vortex. Rakshasa gkat also has the poke r2 and hyper armor. The followup r1 also prevents people monkey mashing out of hitstun since the followup poke is so quick.

Saw a clip of someone using the new mage spell that teleports you into inescapable frenzy. They would teleport through an attack and then do the frenzy grab as a roll catch and it worked surprisingly well

I was totally looking towards a pyromancy/pure faith build in pvp, since Catch Flame has reigned for too long. I'm glad at least Fire Serpent can stand a chance for that short-medium bridge.

11:20 You can actually switch sides with blind spot, just tested it out on some mobs because I remember doing it before. The guy was just being brainless. The skill despcription reads "Leap into close quarters to take advantage of the enemy's blind spot and gore them from the side. Inputs determine which side you strike from. This attack slips below the opponent's guard." Not entirely sure how precise the timing is but if you strafe left or right before you press the ash of war, you'll always move in the direction of the strafe. Unsure how well back/forward works or if there's some kind of intermediary directionals though.

Please keep making more of these. Your Dark Souls 3 one's were how i originally found you and they were amazing and i don't even play that game or this one but you explain it so well it's like listening to someone talk about anything with insight whether it be fighting games, MagicTG, W40k or any other hobby people have a passion for.

This is what i asked for on stream. These are the best videos you make Scott!

It's nice to have you back. You were always my favorite to watch.

I’m so happy narrated thought duels are back, these are so much fun

Love these Scott, keep at it

Dude. I loved watching you do this with DS3 back then. Awesome to see you doing it again.

Glad that you're back to ER content! Kinda surprised I haven't seen you use crucible breath, it's excellent for duels and fills the same close-mid range slot you use the flame of frenzy for except the damage can be boosted by the crucible set further.

reminder that you can aim blindspot to attack from the left as well as the right. So if your opponent actually knows what they're doing it becomes a lot harder to trade with catch flame.

Miriam’s vanishing is a very useful and bad ass sorcery for pvp. Check it out. You can soft chain spells from it as well. Example being Miriam’s vanishing->Carian piercer.

Please keep doing more of these Scott.

Love these type of videos man appreciate ya❤

An incantation combo I’ve been really enjoying in Invasions is the final boss spell into multilayered rings of light and then into Knights lightning spear. But honestly I might add flame serpent to it or replace rings of light with it since it tracks better. If the first incant misses it means nothing, but if it hits, you get a ton of pressure and they’ll usually panic roll and eat your follow up incants.

The narrated thought duels are back!

Fun to see this series back again. Can’t wait to see more dlc setups tried. On my own testing for sorceries, gravitational missile is a killer spell specifically for the aiming down part. The AoE is huge, and the distance can be mixed up by free aiming slightly further away on the ground, so it’s hard to punish. Getting a knockdown also lets you set up Glintblades or a Sword Phalanx and keep the pressure on. I then mix it up with Blades of Stone to hit players trying to punish my AoE spam with their own ranged attacks, since they have the same animation. Blades of Stone then gives me even more mixups because it blocks like of sight, as you pointed out with that lightning spear kill in this video. Also fun in PvP, although I’m still trying to figure out how best to use it, is Miriam’s Vanishing. It’s a slow teleport, but it has two advantages that I can see: 1. The ending animation (where you emerge from invisibility in a cloud of smoke, obscuring your animations) can be canceled into casting another spell. 2. It seems to break enemy lock on? If that second thing is true and I’m not just imagining it, this should be a solid get off me tool if the opponent is locking on a lot. Hiding the cast animations is also really fun. I enjoy mixing up that animation cancel with Carian Slicer to sneak in a hit, and Comet to punish people not reacting (or reacting with a ranged counter) when they are far away. Then when they get wise to this, I begin cancelling into Gavel of Haima for hyper armor trades.

I appreciate your input to the ER community, Scott. You were missed over the last two years

Narrated Thought Duels are the best content on this channel.

The way i describe fire serpent is its a plus on block projectile, but it also has a really fast cast time

another spell i like using is the giant golden arc incantation. Big hitbox, tracks, moves slowly enough that you can run behind it and start roll catching.

I guess i have to start finding the worst weapons again.

God, seeing narrated thought duels again takes me back to when you were the supervillain of the DS3 Reddit, glad to see it back

KZfaq autoplay jumpscare

I would also recommend Messmer’s Orb, it is pretty fast and does nice damage, can also be used as a mix up in combos

Biggest weakness to fire serpent I felt is it consumes just a tad bit too much stamina to play really agressive with it trying to setup melee combos, otherwise it's definitely one of the best pvp incants we got. The new disc spell, multilayered rings of light is also very good for punishing ranged spam/slow animations. My favorite is comboing in miquella's light after collapsing stars pull though. It's not safe at all but when you pull it off when the opponent doesn't expect it they get really disoriented and usually get hit and it just feels epic. Just sad you need gigalordian int and faith to do it with metyr's seal as well. Worst part of miquella's light though is the way it functions. It shoots an invisible projectile that your opponent can roll and that makes it go behind them hitting a wall and exploding there... They need to fix it so it just targets who you are locked on to, it's already dangerous enough to use...

These duel videos are pretty fun for me since I don't think I'll ever try pvp myself.

Lets GO!!! I've always loved these duels.

yaaaay return of narrated thought duels!

ALWAYS heal against swift slash and blind spot if u get a chance.. u can keep sword of damnation then endure in to the crux grab is about the only swift slash counter. Iron jar first also helps, better than endure. U can iron jar in to perfume cheese 1 shot for swift slash if lucky too. Nothing is more satisfying than landing the crux on a swift slash user. It works! Sometimes i just use thiolliors concoction though.

Helpful as always, thanks Scoot. Any chance you’ll grace us with another sniper frog invasion video, that was fkn class.

So I have using dry leaf’s palm blasts and Dragonmaw’s hyper armor to counter blind spot and swift strike. Dragonmaw is less likely to work but sometimes if you predict when and where they are gonna do it.

Scott Hybrid's are eating *good* this patch my good lord

A decent counter I found for blind spot is wraith of gold. It isn’t perfect but the big aoe really shuts down people who mindlessly spam it. You have to kinda predict when they’ll do it but most people running blind spot are pretty twitchy and will use it whenever they see you start an animation.

Those goofy frog eyes see all, especially that Couch Flame is OP. Is there a sorcery equivalent to this planned?

Yay, the boi is back

i know you were talking about incantations only but whats your opinion of vortex of putresecence? feels like a S tier invasion sorcery offensively and defensively. maybe its because people dont know the dodge timing yet but it comes out very fast and can be comboed into incredibly fast. Also amazing video! ill be sure to watch the next ones this was my first time here

I've never even played Elden Ring, but I find these very enjoyable.

Other decent new incants: Giant Golden Arc comes out super fast, has good damage and a weird hitbox. The tornado spell is easily punished but if you can get one off at range its big AOE is pretty good at catching people. I usually use Giant Golden Arc to make them run away in a straight line and follow up with the tornado spell.

I keep forgetting how good of a damage spell flame of frenzy is

missed these :)

the best riposte tool for every build is a misericord infused with what you have most invested in ie Magic infusion, holy infusion(for pvp as its lower def than fire/flame art)

Nothing else matters other than BHBs right now. PvP centers around them and countering them.

8 seconds after upload and KZfaq sent this my way, solid lol

I missed Scott. Its refreshing to listen to an insightful pvper that doesnt have a massive ego/inferiority complex

That first guy must be fun at parties

Given how you get really in depth in the PVP side of Souls games and have a good fundamental understanding of the mechanics, recovery, etc. I wonder if you ever tried your hand at fighting games Scott?

11:24 "Couch Flame" coined.

You have essentially made a Phantom's Dust build. If youve never played that game youd probably like it, it is fightincowboy's favorite.

Scott you should try using the impenetrable thorns on invasions. It’s been so fun using it.

I've used gravitational missile to lock off a direction when people try to run strafe

Vile Redman has been released from the killer main dimension

MORE NARRATED THOUGHT DUELS HELL YEAH

Maybe endure and then use catch flame to trade during blindspot's recovery? Or just a spell that hits 360 with endure

Third thing (praise the algorithm gods)... Fire Serpent can be parried by Erdtree Greatshield however, the Fire Coils consumable which is fairly similar cannot, so you can bait folks into eating them for free

Miss you scott.

you might want to try the Great Katanas yourself, they have an r1 True Combo. overhead attacks, depending on spacing, can register as a Headshot, stunning you into the next hit.

love ur elden ring content

Yay, narrated thought duels :D

Hey Scott as for counters to blind spot/swift strike the only thing I’ve seen that evens the playing field is shieldpoking with a good greatshield of using dueling shield. These aren’t 100% hard counters but they’re the best options I’ve seen

The can choose which direction blind spot hits you on, they were just too bad to try.

Great video 😀

11:04 Good shit, sir. Very satisfying.

god, I missed these

What sl would ya do for this?

Not sure if this has been cleared up yet, but the quick combo cast from Catch Flame and other spells is intentional. There are a few NPC invaders that use the tactic and it hasn't been patched out so it is hard to imagine it's a glitch or exploit.

You should make a video all about oneshotting people with charged O, Flame! free aim predictions, it’s pretty fun. I do it while wearing the Fire Prelate armor (I think I might’ve gotten that idea from you)

How is that a "good reflection map" in the eye of that mask when the eye wasn't even facing that direction? So it's more of a see-through? Or reflection of where the camera was facing and not the eye?

"swift strike" are we just all subconsciously make this Genji reference without acknowledging it? AoW is called swift slash lmao

Fuck that intro scare me

Scott I’m just starting pvp but can only do duels. How do I access the other options like 2v2 etc? Sorry for the noob question. I literally can’t change any of the options

NARRATED THOUGHT DUELS LESSS GOOOO

Have you tried the new madness spell out? I thought it was pretty good for killing players who were low but it really does just feel worse then the OG flame frenzy one.

oh algorithma oh algorithma, have mercy on the poor bastard('s engagement metrics). grant us views, grant us views.

fun fact the great katana move set is just taken out of monster hunter

should try mesmers orb, hit so many people can vary the aoe by charging it by a lot.

I like these vids scott. I think alot of ppl do.

Who else been here since duels on the iron keep bridge?

Whats Scotts level and stats in this vid?

"Also I'm super rusty" Not me doing my first invasion day 1 of the dlc and forgetting that the game gives you like 10 seconds of invincibility when you enter :)

How does he cycle back to catch flame so quick? dont you normally need to go through your whole spell list?

Would you be willing to check out the Staff of the Great Beyond and some of the combo potential that exists for it? The damage isn't the best, but in my experience it does not have to be.

Had some luck with storm stomp against blind spot but never fought a good player with it

Best counter to backhand blades is also carrying a set of backhand blades

Been trying real hard to make ansbach work with bloodflame claws it hasn’t been doing much.

Is blindspot parryable for the average build. Also i tried the jew scarlot rot butterfly spell and its sad how bad that incantation is

It requires a magic build, but zamor ice storm counters backhand blade AoW

the return of the html or lack of

horn calling aow and stormcaller are good against blind spot spammers