Pulse blade is such a comfortable and consistent weapon.

I love how the start you out with the best sword in the whole game and you don’t realize you had the best sword until you finished it. P.S. just throwing a idea out there. You could rate the pvp viability of all the NPC builds.

I like how this game gives you a pea shooter, another pea shooter and the best blade in the game at the beginning.

honestly, Id love to just watch your commentary/explanations of your various PvP matches. hearing a self analysis ofhigh level play was pretty entertaining

im really trying to make my "grasshoper knight" build work like this and all this time was unaware of the marvels of charged laser blade, thanks for revealing me such wisdom mate.

So i wasnt crazy that people were recovering super quickly. Good to know. I dont like doing a perfect setup to pile bunk only to wiff at the last millisecond.

I wished I discovered all this earlier! I've always loved using Pulse Blade as my main melee, and this just opens up so much avenues for me.

im glad you include ur Ls and point out your mistakes as well. thats much more educational then just dumpstering someone.

Not only was this very informative, but those metal pipe sound effects for the pile bunker will never not be funny.

I like what you do my dude. You basically are the one who gave me the will to keep training with the pile. Despite being a former ACVD rank#1 and a Piler main I almost left the game a few weeks ago. Not being able to turn boosters off mid air and the pile working in a totally different way being the major reasons for why I almost quit. But you showed me it’s possible so I kept on and now I can say I’m enjoying the game. It’s not perfect but I manage to find some sensations back. So thank you, keep up the good work 😊👍 I hope we can play together soon. Bye stay strong bro.

The pipes falling into a pile on the floor is a nice touch

The best AC vod reviews I've ever seen. Detail, actually pausing, occasional funny, 10/10

Love the breakdown & especially the PVP commentary! Very helpful for someone learning

You have the best AC6 melee tutorials on YT, for sure. Great stuff, keep it up.

I'd honestly be fine watching more melee commentary like this, but I could also get my fix by going to your twitch vods. Thanks for the link and the great content!

Oh the acs bug with zimmerman is actually something that has to do with the multiple projectiles fired it can count as someone taking a hit during acs stun due to all the projectiles some may hit a real small bit later. It shows up with the sweet sixteen too

And with this video you won a subscriber!! Such skill! Thank you for teaching me the value of the charged pulse!! I´m keep using it on pve as it is a great tool for both short or long missions, but now it will be deadlier for me. As soon as I finish my 1st game run I´ll start pvp

Thank you, Sensei Mood. I shall apply what I learned from you and hone my blade.

Love how they just give us one of the best blades from the start

An idea for a video that I would love to see you cover would be the explosive thrower. It's not technically a melee weapon, but it has a lot of the properties of one such as the insane tracking past the screen that you mentioned in this video. I'm striving to really make the thrower work well for me and designed an AC around using it.

I was surprised to see the stun baton ranked so high for you, so i’d love a showcase! Great video

i don't know if this tech has been found yet but you can melee cancel a pile bunker towards the enemy instead of just dashing to get to smooching distance really fast especially using the kikaku booster. This is also really useful in 3v3, I don't see anyone using it so I might share what I have discovered

Man that was amazingly done! I can never master a single weapon. Would love to see more melee specific videos soon! Also congratulations on being partnered!

I like it, good guide.

Love my Pulse Blade.

If you are still taking requests I’d like to see a guide on how to build around the Ling-Tai generator, since it’s very niche but incredibly powerful if you can pull it off which most people don’t really know how.

NIcely put together Pulse Blade is by far my go to melee piece, wasn't aware of the the charge this whole time

This is really nice. Is it going to be a series covering every melee weapon?

bro, love your content! i'd love for you to bring your melee knowledge onto other melee weapons. they are severely underused for the most part but I'm sure someone like you could find some good strats to really make them stand out more! the plasma thrower and laser slicer specifically, just because those 2 are in my build :p

Great video as usual if you want idea's for content here are a few i can think of 1 make more melee builds with different weapons or strategies and talk about them 2 take viewer submitted builds and rate/review them and give ideas to make them better 3 more in depth guides on other melee weapons 4 just do more match analysis videos cause personally id still watch just for that and i dont see many people doing that That being said i understand why you'd wanna switch it up, feel free to take any of these ideas if they tickle your fancy keep up the good work 👍

I clocked onto the power of melee and the pulse blade's versatility very quickly, but just slapping together whatever parts felt fun only worked for so long. The stealth mechs at the BAWS arsenal taught me that I can't always rely on missiles for long-range firepower, and that biped legs with thrusters optimised for quick boosting have difficulty closing into shotgun and blade range against enemies with a height advantage. Balteus was what actually forced me back to the drawing board and now my first serious build is perhaps an overcorrection in addressing the problems I had: It's a lightweight reverse-joint build with less missile dependence and two guns, keeping the thrusters. I would definitely like to try the pulse blade again at some point, but I have a bit of an overchoice problem in trying to figure out if I want to use the weapon bay to swap between close and long range guns, or pick some kind of all-rounder weapon with some missiles. I also can't decide if I want to stick with reverse-joints and evasive thrusters, or use regular biped legs with some more vertically efficient thrusters.

The pulse blade is amazing for multiple reasons. For one: you start with it. You get it for free and it becomes familiar to use from the start Second: it's good in terms of damage/impact. It stacks up really well even against other weapons. Third: it comes with good movement tech for those who like advanced moves. Lastly: it's reliable.

pretty similar to one of my lights, although i have pulse blade and dual haldemans. i really don't like zims, i prefer the slightly faster reload to constant one-two the pressure on

I made this build with some slight changes (different FCS and headpiece) and it works nicely thus far I do need to get better with it though. Ive beaten the Arena boss Tsubasa with this build.

I'm pretty sure Zimmerman bug is not a bug, but a feature. From what i see game probably treats Zim shot up to a certain distance as a single big shot, and after as a collection of small shots. If you hit a big shot and you get ACS breakdown it will be long duration because initial stagger is the longest. But if you hit with small shots and get ACS breakdown, then you first get initial stagger from enough small shots hitting and then rest of your shots hit staggered enemy, cause regular (short) stagger and do increased damage.

didnt know the pulse blade did that much stagger, gave me a new idea for a lightweight build thats not lance or bunker

Ah yes, I fought you earlier today. GGs.

Excellent vid! Highlighted your own mistakes too like a champ! You mentioned that Zimm is bugged to not make stagger last as long. Would Haldeman have the same problem and if not, be worth using instead on your build?

godly

So the pulse blade we all start with is actually one of the best weapons in the game...

Gz on making partner. 🎉

Thank you silly cat man

I'll say it again,lightweight messiah

What a great guide. The Laser Dagger's charged attack doesn't stagger right?

nice :)

I'd love to see a video on ac6's deadliest yoyo. Plasma thrower if far greater than most people give it cedit for

nice

actually in love with the colors you used for your ac! what are their color values?

I didn't know about the zimmerman bug, I hope they don't fix it, cause now I feel like the weapon is much more fair.

Have you thought about making some videos about using melee on heavier bipeds and reverse joints? Or maybe making less popular melee weapons (looking at you stun baton) more viable?

Curious about the inconsistent shot since you commented on patience after the boost. It might be the relationship of quick boost 'movement speed change' and fcs/arm 'target tracking' that determine weapon accuracy. As for the plastic zimmerman just some observations; Red pip jumped and reset to target twice just before the first shot, second shot is just over 100m and the miss may be due to the jump, and the third shot is at 125m when it connects and might be considered a ricochet. Again no idea really, just some things I noticed.

Does delayed rotation work on M&K or just controller? The main thing I run into with M&K is moving the mouse removes the hard lock so I was curious if the pulse blade would still track.

Hey man, how bout' a good guide on how to successfully land the pile bunking? Some angles makes it miss and I still struggle on that. I love this speedy melee playstyle and been grinding on that to get the perfect 'bunking'

Melee noob here, does the Pile Bunker boost you upwards to reach an airborne target when you charge it? Or would you need to jump to prevent whiffing? Also, which melee weapons do similar or more damage compared to the PB?

You know, I'd love to see a more comprehensive melee breakdown for each of the weapons. :0 The laser dagger and naginata especially keep tripping me up in combat, and it feels strange to use them.

can you make an in-depth guide on the pile bunker? It's my favorite weapon in the entire game but I just struggle so much connecting my hits :/

I never unlocked all the cool swords and I hated the 1st buyable one, so I just stuck with this sword from start to finish, used it against balteus / C spider / Cel / Balteus 2 / and Walter, it has never let me down and really I don't feel like switching to a different one.

Do you overboost kick at all? Also how do you deal with enemies that like to stay airborne?

I have one question do you have tips about the piledriver heavy attack ? sometimes I stay locked in place meanwhile you seems to have a little dash/tracking toward your enemy how do you do it ?

I'm not following how to do momentum retention. What do you mean by "follow up movement?" QB? Just holding forward? Another melee attack?

my fav thing to do is play chicken with a pile bunker where I assault boost and use the momentum to charge attack it as my opponent assault boosts back to kick me

Can I ask are you exclusively blade and bunker? As maybe I would like to see maybe other builds and playing a few games with those builds, am not fan of the bunker as am probably not too good with it lol

Are you using this melee build in soft lock? And still getting insane tracking like that? I did not know that was possible.

You could make a video like “1v1ing my viewers” where you can then also give them tips and tricks (if they’re using a similar melee build)

Have you tried pulse shield launcher? It doesn't interrupt melee amd it gives you a shield despite having both left slots occupied. Lets you regenerate EN and ACS strain too.

I’m already insane with melee and dashing, but there’s more tech then just dash cancel? Booyah

Im a complete pvp noob but it so good in pvp because your no using it for the melee dash so you can dagger in hand dash cancel, charge, its so fun

Honest question: why not use reverse-joint Kasuar legs for even bigger lunges?

perhaps there are some interaction between the pulse blade and the reverse joint legs ? since those have a different boost nuance

Which arms are the best for mix meele and range? Some people say Firmeza others 46D

Do the lb laser blade next

soooooo, how exactly do you input a momentum retention?

Do you play on asia server and is on PC? Would like to pvp with you. I tend to use laser blade above all else

Idk why but when I melee cancel I still get stuck with an overheat. also no matter what boost I use 99% of the time my melee still acts like its hitting the brakes during execution execution and its like I'm either crawling toward the target or the lock on slash only moves you 5 feet, then randomly you'll get an attack that homes in at high-speed and travels a good long distance

bro is a master at one shotting lol

Silly question, I know this video is meant for pvp but can this be applied to pve as well? I'm not really the pvp type of person but I really enjoy going through the story over and over again. Plus pvp in Oceania is pretty dead.

I see how good the pulse blade is... but I'm still sticking with the coral oscillator because it's red, my AC is black/red, and I'm playing Fashion Core 6.

I am fan of your channel, as i myself use the same gameplay plan as you do, and open with Pulse Blade (i quickly realized it's the best). One thing i don't see you win over, on your channel is Quads with yo yo melee and a shield.. This thing is next to impossible to defeat. Kick cannot miss (so broken), and yoyo insta stuns you and its game over.. cant dodge it, cant go close.. Or maybe i ran into some lager, i dunno.. there was literally no chance.

In my opinion it's better to use the laser dagger instead of the pilebunker because it gives you way more options. People will always use assault armor when you close in with your melee weapon after staggers. With the laser dagger you WANT them to do that because in that moment you will counter assault armor and immediately use the laser dagger again since the assault armor animation is long enough to reset the dagger's cooldown. But you need the basho arms for this if you want to get a guaranteed kill. Also instead of Zimmermans you can use the ducket pistol as well after the charged pulse blade attack. Furthermore even if you want to be a fast as fuck boy you REALLY gimp yourself by leaving a weapon slot open. Any fire and forget weapon for extra pressure is fine. Drones, soup missiles, vertical plasma missiles and JVLN-Beta. Or you can just ditch your right hand weapon completely and simply use your fist after you mini-stun them with the charged pulse blade.

I only used the double slash when I was fighting bosses that liked to teleport behind me lmaoooo

The content is 🔥 No idea if you will see this but if you are looking for video ideas you could try; Stream highlights or montages like the one you made a few days ago. Challenges like "How many games in a row can I win with only melee," "Can you win pvp with only fists," or "Do melee builds work with tank treads." Build guides (like Myndrrr but melee oriented) as an example you could try something more aerial with reverse-jointed legs or something. May be a bit too much but you could try holding a pvp tournament between top players and other ac6 youtubers/streamers. You could do some stuff with pve like speedruns and challenge runs. The ac6 modded scene is pretty underdeveloped right now but once it gets bigger you could make mod showcases or do modded challenge runs. Drinking game? Lastly and most importantly don't feel like you are stuck having to make ac6 melee videos, your commentary is good so you could branch out to other games or styles of content and you would still likely do well in that space. Also make a cooking video (It is a youtube mandated requirement for gaming channels.)

Doesnt soft lock kinda seem like a self inflicted nerf? Your using melee and a shotty arent those accurate enough generally?

How does one pile bunker slide?

How about the other pulse blade? It Normal is super fast and the charge is a double swipe with big aoe and damage. I think they have the same charge distance too

samurai

So we'll have a mastery video for each blade?! 😳😁

I wish i could customize pulse blade color, i love everything about it except for color

You've got way more skill than I do with lightweights, what have you found to work vs Tetra Legs? I feel like Tetra ACs would just eat all the stagger you're creating.

You make landing the pilebunker look easy...

Hey, you uh... you wanna do a video on getting the logs in Eliminate the Enforcers? I am just banging my head against the wall trying to find a build to do the whole thing

Like 90% of the fights I'm seeing here the pulse blade doesn't seem to connect with your opponent's body at all but it still does damage and staggers them. Not sure if it's the pvp connection or what, but the hitbox seems completely broken on the charged attack. The one at 5:56 especially was ridiculous.

Unlike other Fromsoft games, where holding up always dashes toward the target, in AC6 you fly right by the target and usually overshoot. How can I ensure I can close the distance accurately and punish with other melee weapons without this boost tracking?

5:03 I don't think this is a bug, I think this is just part of the stupid overly-complex ACS Load system in AC6. I don't know what governs your ACS Load recovery rate, presumably its' the Attitude Recovery stat or whatever it's called, but you can barely manipulate that stat. There's no way that people are "building for ACS Load recovery", yet some people seem to have half the recovery time of other builds. I recently got stuck on the IB-Series AC fight (the one near the Rebellion/B-ending that uses all Coral weapons) because the AC had a 1-second ACS Load stun, if that. I was whiffing every melee attack no matter what I tried because the AI can auto-avoid you no problem in that fight, the AC recovers too quickly from an overload-stun. I mention this because I've had different mixes of weapons do this to different ACs, currently the biggest and most frustrating "unknown" in AC6 has to be "how large is the window that I have to do bonus ACS overload damage?" specifically because it's inconsistent. 7:30 the pellets are doing what pellets do at range and your FCS isn't keeping up, this isn't a failing of the weapon but the FCS' ability to use it properly under these circumstances. The last shot before you died looks like it had a lot of pellets barely miss or show as hitting on your screen when they probably missed in reality. This was a laggy fight, after all. I don't like shotguns because they're so lag-sensitive tbh As for video suggestions, in-depth breakdowns of anything AC6 will probably do well with the algorithm while being entertaining/informative for us as the viewer. S-Rank tutorials, FCS info, advanced tips and tricks, weird quirks/techs of the game, etc. (someone needs to break down how tracking works to an agonizing degree, same with ACS Load, these are annoying and important mechanics to master) You and the other emerging AC6 small-size youtubers should probably collaborate over Discord and build a little working-community together. A lot of people are learning a lot of things about this game, but no one has consolidated all the info cleanly and on 1 channel yet. This is probably the Golden Goose opportunity that AC6s Tubers want to work towards if they're technical content creators, like you. It could lead to good viewer retention if someone makes a good guide series that's well-structured and in one place simply-put. Oh, a big one that would be nice is "The ULTIMATE GUIDE to Coral Weapons in Armored Core VI", the coral rifle feels like it has a ton of potential but I've yet to crack the code beyond pairing it with a Scudder or Curtis for PvE. The Coral Missiles are tricky but effective, there's a lot of potential timing tech to be explored with them. The coral blades and coral plasma rifle both have found their PvP niches, so those are pretty bespoke, but there's a lot of potential tech with the coral blade too imo. That thing will hit when it shouldn't just like the pulse blade!

Oho? You dare approach me with that puny blade?

Prime example of why people shouldn't be putting the Oscillator above Pluse Blade in teir lists. It's charged beam is still a nice tool, but you lose out on the frankly incredible charge attack on the Pulse Blade.

My brain has a lot of trouble with running dual primaries, I can never pull it off even in PVE

Is kikaku not worth it on this build?

Hey Mood, Since you almost exclusively use the charged attack on the Pulse Blade, how do you feel about using the knife with a similar setup? I feel like the charge attacks are comparable (slightly more damage, slightly less range, direct hit and impact) but the knife has WAY faster cooldown and the sweep seems to have a better hitbox as long as you're not above or below the target. I'm always torn between these two weapons.

Does this build do ok with tankier builds?

does this playstyle work with hardlock enabled?