Skeith 2nd form - versus Corbenik the 2nd: no damage
16Thanks to Cl0udEu for unintentionally inspiring me to try the ol' five-hit combo against Corbenik one more time. It turns out I was dead wrong; it does work against the 2nd, and this is the result.
On that note, I'm really sorry if I wasted anyone's time with the first video; I like to post things that go against conventional wisdom in G.U. for fun and "profit" (in my case, gameplay videos I don't mind watching at all), and I mistakenly thought that attempt was truly under par. I'll leave it up though; there's no good reason to take it down.
Anyway, this ~15 second gain (33 seconds minus however long the Data Drain cutscene takes) on Corbenik's second form may or may not be practically flawless, though I still believe he could be stunned before Variant Summon is ever used (and using the Chakram on that first combo was probably a waste of time as well). Even so, I barely got him before he could use Data Drain (well, unblockable Mental Vampirism, almost the same thing), so it appears as though the pre-shield portion turned out for the best in the end. I had a leeway of one more shot I could have taken before he recovered, and maybe whatever I could get in before he attacked (if it counts for anything, which it sure doesn't appear to), so everything added up to too much for Ovan to take right at the very end.
Aside from the old five-hit combo making a comeback (slash, reset combo, full combo attack), there's not much difference between this video and the previous upload. Back and forth dodging of arcing bullet bursts, dash and shoot during Celestial Wrath, an early slashing at Mental Vampirism all appear here (you don't want to mimic the timing on blocking Mental Vampirism, though, that first slash was way too early and barely connected). The differences, of course, are the lack of a cutscene where I have to smash buttons afterward (more like calmly rotating an analog stick, I'm not busting my controller for that crap!) and only Variant Summon repeats itself when it comes to named attacks.
That's it, really. I hope you enjoyed/will enjoy the humiliation of Corbenik's vicious second form. :D
Oh, and you can check out Cl0udEu's avatar fights on his YT page for a much more normal perspective on Skeith's terrific march through R:2:
http://www.youtube.com/Cl0udEu
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