even the subtitles agree, it does NOT sound like they're saying Pawn lol

Pawn! He said pawn! That's the second time I fell for that.

Shad made a WHAT??? Oooooh... Paaawn. I totally thought he said something else.

So, Shad made a pown, and Nate likes choking his spear. Tyranth on the other hand, will grab another man's dagger without hesitation.

After this episode, Tyranth was approached by a small orange fat goblin named Ben and was never seen again.

He’s finally answering the question “what about dragons?!”

Shad: "I made a pohn." Me: "What?!"

In terms of necessary skills, trying to climb a dragon while wearing armor and fighting it is effectively like trying to rock climb with full camping gear and one hand tied behind your back in the middle of an earthquake. Maybe it's possible to develop those skills in the real world, but I think the fantasy people are better off letting ballistas and trebuchets do the heavy lifting.

Pommel bash would do nothing to a dragon. I work on a bull stud and you can swing an axe handle at them and it's just a way to make them notice you. To be clear I'm not trying to hurt them the beef bull's weigh around a thousand kilos and are designed to fight other one ton bulls. Without a blade blunt force save for a sledge hammer to the right part of the head does nothing. thousand kilos

I am pretty sure climbing something like a cyclops would be a death sentence. Humanoids are literally made for grappling and grabbing.

Revisit this with a mechanical bull

With the big blade, you could go for more glancing hits so that you carve chunks off of the monster's calves/ thighs

Archer when clinging to a monster. It was a calculated risk but man am i bad at marh

i cant wait to hire the Shadiversity P A W N and go hard with his war bowfor hours

Everytime they say "pawn" it sounds like they are replacing the "aw" with "or". It is hilarious, shocking, and traumatizing.

Yeah, I did this actually, but they didnt invent cameras yet and the painter wasnt looking.

They're hitting the tree like they're sparring with it. Wish they went more into the power generation of the hanging stance.

Was shown a Dragon’s Dogma 2 ad in the middle of watching this 😂

This is ridiculously hilarious. I like this episode. I find it ridiculous that in Dragon's Dogma that you can hold on for dear life while the Dragon was moving around and flying. 😂

Do dragons in the game not have scales? When you explained the premise, my mind immediately went to a war pick or other one-handed weapon designed to use against gaps in human style armor in order to get between or under the dragon’s scales. If getting under scales is the best option, you will be limited to underhand blows assuming you’ve mounted the dragon frontwards so to speak.

I was glad Tyranth mentioned monster hunter because that was my first thought and it’s just as appropriate for this video topic. I also have a massive bias because I love monster hunter.

For a giant lizard you would need a pointed weapon to slide between the scales and it would need to be long enough to reach something vital. Climbing in front of the shoulder, at the base of the neck, would likely be the safest spot away from tooth and claw and provides access to the neck artery or esophagus. Blunt force would be useless against a lizard.

"You gonna make pawn for that?" IM DEAD

There are reasons knights swap to their dagger when they've got another (plate armoured) knight pinned down... Although I guess a dagger wouldn't go very deep into a giant animal. You might need a great dagger for that, a kriegsmesser, if you will.

I think you would actually want a decently sized stabbing sword, like a rapier, for these climbing attacks to be meaningful. With such large beasts, unless you attack eyes or other extremely vulnerable spots, cuts are going to be really superficial, and axe swings won't have the full force necessary to do proper damage. What you really need is deep stabs that cause major internal bleeding or reach critical organs, otherwise you're just wasting energy.

I wish we could see what kind of damage is possible from these awkward positions. Seems suboptimal for most things.

1:36 The dude on the right is holding a spear, and an ax in the same hand. Boys I got an idea. What if we tied them together so you could stab, while you ax. Guy who invented the polearm:

Shad's pawn has been making the rounds through the internet. He's becoming quite the Pawn Star.

The way Shad says Pawn is impossible to not laugh at.

I'm an arborist so put a chainsaw in my hand instead of a sword and that is basically me all day long. Added Dragon's Dogma 2 to my Steam Wishlist after watching a gameplay video. It looks nice and gritty with some really awesome combat and the clinging mechanic is cool. Hope to get around to playing it someday. Looks like y'all had some fun making this video. Thank you for the laughs and the work. Only creators understand what it takes to keep putting out content.

I love when you guys start joking around with each other.You guys remind me of monty python back in the days

Of the weapons the guys are using I think a Daggers and/or Handaxes would be best! A character might be able to chop/stab into the monster as and use the weapons as climbing axes/spikes! It seems that smaller weapons are more controllable while climbing! Next video should be "Ride a Mechanical Bull" and attacking the creature too!🤔 Fun vid guys! Have a happy Easter! 🥚🐰🥚🐰🥚🐰

i wish nathan would talk even when behind the camera, i enjoy his presence.

Try it when the dragon is doing a barrel roll.

The group banter is at an all time high in this video, you guys mess with eachother like you're brothers lmao

I'm glad you guys are testing it while they are already on the monster's head. The climb alone would have you exhausted, wildly, since the monsters are swinging their bodies around. Like a Cyclops' arm or Ogre's drop kick into you or your allies oblivion.

You know, driving a van through the Shadlands would be a great analog test for mounting a moving creature. Highly dangerous, yes! But a good nearest comparison.

when climbing onto a target to attack = maybe plunge a stabby point up high and allow gravity to pull down with your weight holding onto the weapon?

What if with the two handed weapons you'd tuck the blade or axe head side under your hanging arm and use your torso to roll the weapon into your target, you can keep your arm relatively close to you and use your torso to produce force

Lesson in fighting larger creatures (Dragons giants trolls etc) 1 have group of 10 2 if grabbed by it target the eyes to blind and release you Roles and tactics Tanks/ vanguard Confrontation with target to cripple damage and kill Weapons axes great swords and spears Archers/ range Target the week points in armor limbs or soft spots in target defense Weapons Bows and crossbows armor piercing heads Mages/support allies and Distract the target to cover a retreat Weapons Staffs

XD so many innuendos. I always enjoy watching you guys. ^^ Thank you as always.

Choke up on the spear! *chokes spear* Task failed successfully

Ha! Last week in our D&D session we were in a gladiator arena fighting a blue dragon. First my ranger then a couple turns later my paladin teammate dimension doored on top of the guy lol

Seems like this situation of grappling on a target at extreme close range is where reverse grip actually has the advantage.

I love how brotherly these three seem!

I know Shad is saying "pawn and pawns", but it sounds like he is saying "porn and porns", then all the talk of waving tips in peoples faces, absolutely hilarious! 😂

You got me during the intro .... Schwack ! wtf, are they insa... nevermind, it's foam lol

In dragons dogma to get the mystic spearhand you need to find Sigurd in melve after you finish the monster culling quest or you can find him at the other town where you fight the saurians in the monster culling quest for anyone who doesn't know PS mystic spearhand is absolutely awesome

love your videos Shad! keep up the great work! by the way is your video "Shads REVIEW and FIRST THOUGHTS on Dragons Dogma 2!" supposed to be private?

I love ALL Shadiversity videos!!!! ❤

lol. In some games they do have theses as weapons. Use 2 ice axes with lanyards that’s what they are meant to do… and no in the games they are not the modern ones but still work the same.

Great video!

Them saying 'pawn' gives me the "All the neighborhood kids love playing on my deck" energy.

Fuck yeah! Last few days o was patiently waiting for dd2 vids. hope we get review once you beat it on one of the two channels!

Huzzah! This video finally showed up in my recommended list (I'm a subscriber). Google, please continue recommending to me because I really enjoy this type of content.

I’m conflicted in wanting to skip straight to the video, but the intro is so epic I can’t lmao

As much as I'd agree about wanting something more than a pommel bash or a downward slash after jumping off (heavy attack while mounting) I'd say it's the most viable attack using the weapon whilst mounted. It's damage ( not much but it's something) it won't throw you off balance as much as unsheathing and swinging the thing. It also would be deployable from more angles.

And i thought Fremen Worm Riding would be tough, this definitely takes the cake.

They use larp weapons so infrequently that its bizarre and scary to see them waving them around and throwing them at each other this episode xD

if you are still into that super bit yet usable sword project then I found something that might be pretty interesting/fun to try. it is a super leightweight alloy which is many times stronger than even springsteel, next to that it also acts like springsteel meaning you can bend it and it will flex back, and it is also quite some harder than springsteel, with it's hardnes being roughly equal to hardened/tempered 1095 steel, even though it's hardness seems to behave weird since despite being labeled as only being as hard as tempered 1095 steel it will litteraly break and damage tools meant for much harder materials, I guess that might have to do with it's elasticity/flexibility since this alloy is so flexible you can just almost completely fold a sword made of it and it will still bend back to it's original shape, despite that flexibility it also still is rather rigid, so it won't just act like a rope or such but like actual springsteel. and some other advantages like being almost completely chemically inert meaning easy to maintain. only the making and sharpening would be hard to do(but I guess sharpening could be done using special diamond grid sharpening stuf or such, and probably ruby would also be hard enough to sharpen it). I haven't seen it used in any sword yet, probably due to it being relatively new, and not being as cheap as springsteel(but still not to expensive either, cheap enough that it could even be used in budged swords of around €200 to €400) and the making proces being rather hard since most people reffer to how hard it is to work that alloy due to all those properties which just make it insanely strong and a little to strong for the tools). but I would personally like to see such a sword, actually optimally would like such a sword myself aswell due to it being so strong and chemically inert and kind of a ultra durable sword which would be usefull when going to the dark ages or such where repairing a sword isn't really as cheap or doable due to them still using older materials. someone however needs to make such a sword first and show it in use before it begins to be available on the market or through customorder sword makers. might be able to make one myself but don't have proper tools and so my method would be rather crude and not as good, while technically seen when mass produced such swords can actually be much cheaper and simpler to make than normal swords since they could actually largely cast them due to this alloys melting point while being very high still (compared to aluminium and such) is actually far more doable than steel, next to that it can be tempered and hardened in verry different ways making a sword cast from that allow actually usable unlike cast iron and such. but I thought perhaps you might be that person who makes the first sword of that, would kind of litterally be the best word in the world if done properly, or well some might perhaps still beat it in some areas like some with insane hardness(tool some steels perhaps), but it would beat all general swords and also would allow them to be super lightweight as well as since it is way more tough allow to use very different much thinner or oddly shaped structures/shapes to or example make it even lighter, as a example due to it's insane flexibility(but not compromising in rigidity) you could litterally make a sword where the edge is a very thin like like just a lint or rope like blade around a central frame meaning most of the blade is just air.

One really good thing about climbing on to a dragon’s back: it can’t reach you. No fire, teeth or claws to worry about. It can only try to shake you off 👍

"Don't involve me in this!" 😂😂😂

Shad had about a gallon of coffee and looooooots of sugar before filming this one lol

The captions made it even funnier.

Its very important that these theories are tested by professionals.

Your videos show up on my feed again

PAWN with w, of course :)

I guess you can also use it as a hook and shove the weapon in your enemy, then lacerating the body. But that would take a lot of chance and power.

I'm definitely searching up that pawn

I will say that I've been enjoying dragons dogma 2. I too run an archer pawn with tarring and explosive arrows. Thinking of also adding poison arrows to her loadout. However I do recognize that it requires an investment from whoever hires her... it is fun though to see her apply effectively napalm to larger monsters.

Interesting takes on this. Not sure how I feel about climbing on other monsters tho, like a Cyclops, Giant Lobsters, or something. ;-; Bruh Moments: 0:22 1:04 3:55 4:33 5:28 6:42 10:44 Yeah, the cut content/features was kinda an oof, they gotta bring it back via updates or DLC content. Overall; highly recommend it. ;-;

I would say the hardest part about clamoring up a giant angry monster and attacking it would be the Clamoring part. I mean stallions and bulls aren't big monsters yet it is still an accomplishment to ride one for just 8 seconds. But cowboys aren't trying to kill the beast so there is that.

Thanks!

If these 3 go after a dragon then that dragon is going to be having a 3 course meal and that is for damn sure.

Great video.

The monster climbing mechanics had always been one of DD's best features, Any of the Souls-like games felt sluggish after I played the 1st DD game, Like really? slashing at the feet of a Colossal creature will kill it? No. Climb on it then Rip and tear.

Shad I need you to test jousting on skateboards. It is something we used to do in my neighborhood as kids and I just now realized you would probably have a fielday with that video idea.

You should try a surface with a bunch of close together short ropes to simulate fur/hair/feathers for stuff like the chimera and griffin etc then a surface with crevices to simulate grabbing scales of a dragon etc.

I feel like your best bet for a long arm. when your grappling like that. Is to let go and give it a proper swing. especially with the axe, so it digs in. And you dont plummet to your death.

Shad made a pawn, Tyranth dropped the spear... this is going great so far XD

Man I miss the time I was with my buddies fighting dragons and monsters at the back when I was a kid

This is the best thumbnail they’ve made yet, I want behind the scenes on it.

Ha you guys made a Shadiversity pawn, awesome

Remember that Arisen don't have a heart... So no blood flow.. xd I just think that climbing in DD is some sort of special magic use, Naruto chakra style, gecko sticking thing. Especially on frozen, scaly enemies xd

Getting some videos recommended again let's go

I think the pommel hits with the great sword are to indicate that you are not supposed to do that as a warrior. you are supposed to stay grounded and use your big sword or hammer to topple the enemy and then you go for the head while they are down. I think its game design laguage to show the player that classes like the warrior or the archer are not supposed to do mounted attacks

this was posted 8 days ago, I'm only seeing this on my frontpage now.

I love these tested vids 😂

I am enjoying it so far but with the big sword especially on the Griffin, depending how far up you climbed it, you also stab it in the neck you can also stab it between the wings. Does a lot of damage

Dunno if this was the first video with it. But glad to see you guys obtained a 3rd mic. Channel is really coming along. Love the content. Side note, just finished Shadow of the Conqueror last week. Great read! Well done Shad. Any plans for a sequel?

Come for the swords, stay for the banter 👍🏻😂

depending on the dragon's scales upward swings with a sharp sword would be more promising, and then stab it into the resulting gap in the dragon's armour as deep as possible. and then add everything else you have in your belt. even a spoon... it hurts more.

I actually think that striking with a pummel is a decent compromise for 2h weapons. Sure, DD characters are strong, and the 2-handers there are bleeding huge, but staying on top of a critter that constantly moves trying either to shake you off or strike at your comrades doesn't make things easier. If anything, getting a proper swing sounds like an easy way to let slip of your weapon as the momentum of the blade would combine with the monster's movement and can easily disarm even a strong grip. A blunt pummel is nowhere near as effective as a proper edge, but if we look at the cyclops, a pummel to the head, with a strong grip, and all weight of a 2hander sounds like a lot of pain! And taking that pummel to the eye sounds like a safer and more efficient alternative than your fist. Fun vid though! Actually enjoyed seeing the dane axe employed! It looked surprisingly effective.

Well, to be honest. As someone that doesnt know anything about Dragon's Dogma, and semi tired when watching this. Shad saying "pawn", especially "I made a pawn", wasnt what my mind first went to. I was hella confused about the misheard word and imagining something..... Else. But I was glad when the text with the code came up XD It cleared anything for me lol

As an American from the south of America that did not even when you clarified sound like “pawn” 😂

I will always watch when its dragons dogma

Daggers in dd2 are plunged into the enemy blade first, so are 1h swords

I reckon if you get some momentum you could give a nice up swing with the back edge.

Thanks

Good stuff