Nioh - Beginner Tips in 90 Seconds

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Published on February 10, 2017 3:11:47 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5J5ej0pDfI

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Nioh (2017)

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Nioh - Beginner Tips in 90 Seconds

Why 90 seconds? Because I want to go back to playing the game!

Flux / Living Water: These will help you out immensely. Essentially, if you finish a combo in high stance and then tap R1 + Square to swap to mid stance at the right time, you'll regenerate a lot of ki. Living water means that your dodges effectively count as ki pulses. Insanely useful.

Kicking: Sometimes it behooves you more to damage the enemy's ki than their health. If you drain their ki, they will be left in a state in which you can destroy them. The katana has a kick, the spear has a slightly slower equivalent. Look for ways to damage enemy ki and take advantage of it. It might sound complicated but it's simple once you get the hang of it. Kicking is also great against block-happy enemies.

Soul-Matching: If you have a level 5 axe that you really want to keep using for some reason, you can feed a level 10 axe into the level 5 to make it level 10. Be warned, this costs HUGE amounts of gold at higher levels.

Stats: I would definitely recommend taking BODY, HEART and SPIRIT up to 10 for a beginner. BODY gives you more health (diminishing returns after 10, you can always go higher, but 10 is a good early goal) HEART gives you more Ki, but unless you find yourself running out constantly, ask yourself how much you really need. Seems to have large diminishing returns after the 14-16 mark. SPIRIT will unlock the passives of your Guardian Spirit among other things.

Guardian Spirits: Isonade has amazing passives. Enemy detection and healing when enemies are defeated? What could be better. Sure, it doesn't do as much damage as the others, but you'll be using Living Weapon a fraction of the time. The passives help you all the time.

Blocking: If an enemy hits you and you know there's another attack coming, block, don't roll. You will almost always be able to block the next hit, whereas if you attempt to roll out, you'll probably continue getting hit. If you've played Ninja Gaiden II, the blocking works similar in this. Get used to keeping the button held down as often as you can. Remember how you can block the armadillo nuke in NG2? You can block surprising things in Nioh, too. And to people coming from Souls: Your weapons block 100% in Nioh - there's no chip damage like blocking with a weapon in Souls. If you're wondering about the equivalent of "Stability" it seems to be called Toughness this time.

Yokai: If you get the drop on them, shoot them in the head to break their horn, then run up and stab them whilst they are on the ground. If they get the drop on you, just back up and throw a stone at their head to break the horn and do the same thing.

That's all for now! Got any questions or tips of you own to share? Please do, in the comments!

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