From the artistic and lore perspective, Nightmare is easily the most awesome character in the game. However, I constantly lose to opponents at close range who have superior frame data. You literally get stabbed to death by a thousand needles. It's infuriating.
Thank you very much for this guide Hayate it's a pleasure to see that Keev one of the best Nightmare assists you for this guide ! I can't wait for the french version !
Really like these Breakdown Videos! Information on the characters in form of general overviews with playstyle, strength and weaknesses is so useful for finding your own favorites but so hard to come by on the net. So I hope you will do one for each char in the game eventually :)
I can imagine.i can Barely have time to play. Time is a very short to the gamer with family jajajaa. I respect your work. Greetings from the Chilean community of players. Soul Calibur Chile.
I have a question, why 6A (hold) makes me to go to the night side stance and sometimes I meet online people that goes to the night behind stance with the same move? Do I have to press some other command during this move?
So since terror charge gives him the advantages of being soul charged does it also have the disadvantages? For instance moves that lethal hit on soul charged opponents?
Wow! They really nerfed poor ol' Nightmare. Now he depends, on jrpg type armour moves to keep an advantage. And needs soul charge to perform certain normal attacks, that he could easily do in Dreamcast Soul Calibur 1. :p But overall, thanks for the breakdown vid dude. ^_^ Looking forward to the next one. ^_^
@@nextlvl810 I've been playing Yoshi since SC2 (He and Link were my go to's). I think my favorite moveset for him was (that games problems aside) SC5 as it was very mixup heavy. I'm going to have to take him to the lab in 6 to see whats up, but playing the beta (on Xbox) I've been doing pretty well. I had a particularly close 2/3 set with a Nightmare player last night that came down to the wire and got me hyped.
For anyone who finds this video useful, more power to you. I had to stop watching at the 1:20 mark. I can't take someone seriously when they say NM is "slow". He is by no means slow at all. While he is not fast either, he has very quick moves, and his agility is absurdly high for the weapon he uses. I am by no means flaming. I'm sure this video has very useful information. I'd simply rather find that information elsewhere. The subject of how NM's speed is a controversial one. People say he is slow, but do you know how much hate mail I receive as a NM main, because they claim he is too fast when I use him, so I have to be cheating? Regardless. I hope people find this useful, as NM mains is something this series lacks, and I love NM mirror matches.
At least, in close range, they removed him his standing which was his fastest attack being i12. So he is even slower at close range. But yeah his overall speed compare to his weapon and his mobility is still vert good. But be carefull 33B has been nerf for the mobility, while 6AA is very strong.
Salut je te félicite pour ta vidéo j'attends la version française avec impatience mais c'est vraiment agréable de voir une perso qui explique très bien. et tu pense faire quoi comme prochain perso ?
I can't tell if ex meter moves are back. I haven't seen anyone mention that if it's another use for meter or not but I saw a yoshi using ex moves in a tournament earlier today
I ended up finding plnety of matches in the second and third days. It was all good. I hope your activities with Kayane went well. Thanks again for the tutos.
How does a pressure character punish/avoid 6A+B??? Especially when nightmare has meter? The move seems unstoppable. Parrys mid, lows and throws. Safe and can combo into a 40% super. Lol. Really????
A:ga nerf was completely uneccesary, He already has few get off me options and now its unsafe, plus high crush able, and its not an easy command to do consistently on pad.
Hopefully he won’t get poked out by good close range characters. I remember natsu in scv was like a bane for nightmare. Good thing there’s reversal edge and infinite guard impacts. Mmwhhahha
Hey sorry, those videos are not easy, I'am doing more for beginners now. Maybe it is because the notation? Also, try asking live in my stream I can help you.
@@HayateEIN yea it's kinda wierd I've always played fighting games since I was little and I would spend hours in training mode because I didnt get the kb and b1
I don't know I know I'm bad at this game but I'm really not liking him right now. I feel like no one has to respect or fear anything he does and it's never my turn to attack even when I land the hit.
I'm new to the game but I feel the comple opposite. Using Nightmare, I feel like it's almost always my turn. He can just burst out of most things and then his combos may not be long but 2-3 hits and your out a good chunk. Plus his super acts as a parry almost so you can use it to whiff punish too.
I mean this in a constructive way, but if this is how you feel, you simply are not using him right. If you use NM correctly, the opponent should feel like they CAN'T have a turn to attack. As an NM main, I find that pressure, and walls are devastating. Of course, keep your defenses up at the right moments. NM is simply capable of attacking a LOT while destroying your opponent's guard. Feints using his stances and attack cancels are a godsend.
@@somethingsomething9006 Not in every cases, because he will always tend to use attacks that go into a close-up. Example: 66a, 66b (from a former crouch), and 88ab (IV)/88aa[grim stride, a] 44kk[k] into a nearby wall can punish even if the second hit is blocked. 1k is also an very useful poke for rushing situations, "if you or your opponent is rushing." In summary, he is more "random" upclose and hard to read, even 3aa is random to encounter. And of course, NSS, a[a] & k.
@@sixtenalin5300 A lot of the attacks you mentioned have pretty decent recovery. I never said he sucks at getting in close, because he doesn't, it's just that when he's actually up close, his best attacks/options are more limited compared to when he's mid range. If anything Nightmare is amazing close range against morons who try to spam/mash their way out. If you play patiently and defend yourself, the holes in his offense become clear. This is why Nightmare dominates low level play, but struggles more at high levels.
@@somethingsomething9006 And that's why you want to "cancel" if that's a way to say it. One of the best moves he has in close range, that also deals alot of damage is NSS bA slide, which is best used when you anticipate the opponents vertical. Nightmare is a character that you, the player need to build up around these general situations, example, when you do that I ... and ... (he is not complex in about his moves, only when you will use them. Onpar, he doesn't have any exeptional moves, that way you must use the many tools in about playing him. And that any other character is actually a bad matchup againts him, in summary he's a "freestyle" character, way more than any other character in all of Soul Calibur. Being "random" is one of the best ways of playing him, be passive-aggresive i'd say. Because you can't read all the moves coming out, and that goes with many fighting games. Use moves that no one would expect, not even yourself, only trust your instincts. Nightmare is very vary that is what makes him playable, and that he need to get the best results in any way. This gives you alot of pressure to come by, but it also makes you an good player. In IV I trusted myself unto this and just impacts come easy on any character I play against, in that way your still ahead of your opponent and can outplay them easily.
Loving how his soul charge is a nod to Night Terror in a way.
not just that but its also a cool ref to his soul charge from sc2
BEST TUTORIAL OF SC IN ALL OF RUclips HANDS DOWN 10/10
Fantastic Guide friend! Thanks for the input. :)
From the artistic and lore perspective, Nightmare is easily the most awesome character in the game. However, I constantly lose to opponents at close range who have superior frame data. You literally get stabbed to death by a thousand needles. It's infuriating.
Alan Darkworld groh, maxi
Basically, learn to back step in unsafe strings and learn to consistently just frame aga/aba
(d2 nightmare, Xbox controller player)
Also then there’s 2B who just obliterates him because of her frames and range
Thank you very much for this guide Hayate it's a pleasure to see that Keev one of the best Nightmare assists you for this guide ! I can't wait for the french version !
Merci ça arrive avec la voix de Keev!
Thank you for closed captions. I am NOT good with understand strong dialects.
Really like these Breakdown Videos! Information on the characters in form of general overviews with playstyle, strength and weaknesses is so useful for finding your own favorites but so hard to come by on the net. So I hope you will do one for each char in the game eventually :)
Very intersting starting idea on how to train the character, thanks!!!
Really enjoying this character guide. More of this please :D
Thank you! Super useful!
Thanks you for your feedback!
Great video,thanks a lot. Waiting for more to come
Already working on it, it takes so much time that I can't rest ( ")
I can imagine.i can Barely have time to play. Time is a very short to the gamer with family jajajaa.
I respect your work.
Greetings from the Chilean community of players.
Soul Calibur Chile.
Great content as always, Hayate!
Thanks you all! Your messages are really important for me, it keep me very motivated to do more! I really appreciate
@@HayateEIN I'm super glad to hear that. :)
Awesome work again man!
NightMare ...😎 , thank you Hayate always great vidéo 👊👍
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate!
My fav feature in this game is the fact that Soul Edge blinks
Cool Hayate. Merci d'avance pour la VF que tu annonce déjà.
C'est en cours! Merci encore d'être assidus sur mes contenus ça fait plaisir !
This is a good guide. Thank you.
Awesome work dude! :D
Thanks, that was a complex one. I will try to do better in the next one!
Yeah Nightmare has a lot going on this time around. I am super pumped for when the game finally releases!
I have a question, why 6A (hold) makes me to go to the night side stance and sometimes I meet online people that goes to the night behind stance with the same move? Do I have to press some other command during this move?
6AAG I guess
Oooo the new nightmare looks great, maybe I should get sc6 when I get the chance
Thank you hayate!!
I appreciate the feedback. It's motivating. Thanks you!
The actual guide starts at 06:09 for anyone who hasn’t played since Dreamcast.
Hayate is a legend
Now I'am the old teacher haha
might be worth noting that RE K will also give Terror Charge if it connects
Great video, very informative. Please continue to make them! I suggest Ivy... especially since LinkRCK won Evo2018..!
So since terror charge gives him the advantages of being soul charged does it also have the disadvantages? For instance moves that lethal hit on soul charged opponents?
Great vid man
Thanks ! It's hard work, so I really appreciate your comments !
thank you so much
Thanks for the feedback, I'am working on my next video !
Wow! They really nerfed poor ol' Nightmare.
Now he depends, on jrpg type armour moves to keep an advantage.
And needs soul charge to perform certain normal attacks, that he could
easily do in Dreamcast Soul Calibur 1. :p
But overall, thanks for the breakdown vid dude. ^_^
Looking forward to the next one. ^_^
Has Keev ever played against Linkorz Siegfried? If not I think it be a good match
I'am sure it wilk happen quickly and it would be nice to watch!
This Nightmare explosion has been a bitch to play against online
To deal versus it, you have to use more lows, throws and break attacks, that's the only way to counter it.
Yoshimitsu breakdown next please :)
That's also can be one of my next. I have Sophie, Ivy, Yoshi in my plans. But I'am also looking to other char now.
YOOOOO
I second this. Playing the beta, they changed him significantly and I'm still not used to it lol
@@Dread24 yes i igree but im really fine with it. Im loving yoshimitsu last time i won 10 times in a row :) Namu!
@@nextlvl810
I've been playing Yoshi since SC2 (He and Link were my go to's). I think my favorite moveset for him was (that games problems aside) SC5 as it was very mixup heavy. I'm going to have to take him to the lab in 6 to see whats up, but playing the beta (on Xbox) I've been doing pretty well. I had a particularly close 2/3 set with a Nightmare player last night that came down to the wire and got me hyped.
Nightmares 6bb is devastating in his soul charge lolol
Yeah that's scary. I'am wondering if they will let the move like this in the final version.
Hayate = Ein...From Dead or Alive 3. (Xbox) Ein, from Germany lost memory...
For anyone who finds this video useful, more power to you. I had to stop watching at the 1:20 mark. I can't take someone seriously when they say NM is "slow". He is by no means slow at all. While he is not fast either, he has very quick moves, and his agility is absurdly high for the weapon he uses.
I am by no means flaming. I'm sure this video has very useful information. I'd simply rather find that information elsewhere. The subject of how NM's speed is a controversial one. People say he is slow, but do you know how much hate mail I receive as a NM main, because they claim he is too fast when I use him, so I have to be cheating?
Regardless. I hope people find this useful, as NM mains is something this series lacks, and I love NM mirror matches.
At least, in close range, they removed him his standing which was his fastest attack being i12. So he is even slower at close range. But yeah his overall speed compare to his weapon and his mobility is still vert good. But be carefull 33B has been nerf for the mobility, while 6AA is very strong.
I don't know how I feel about the agA nerf.
for some reason i got a soul calibu ad immediately followed by a reeses ad. Has anybody been gettung two ads in a row before videos play?
That's pretty strange, wtf
Salut je te félicite pour ta vidéo j'attends la version française avec impatience mais c'est vraiment agréable de voir une perso qui explique très bien. et tu pense faire quoi comme prochain perso ?
Je suis en train de la poster maintenant la version FR ! Sinon je suis en train de décider, je sais pas encore !
Ok merci beaucoup :)
I can't tell if ex meter moves are back. I haven't seen anyone mention that if it's another use for meter or not but I saw a yoshi using ex moves in a tournament earlier today
It's back but only on some characters. As we know, only for Geralt and Yoshimitsu for now.
@@HayateEIN that's too bad I really liked both nightmare's tira's ex moves in V they were fun to combo into
Thank you french people
grimm step KK? That looks similar to his "attack-grab" A+K move from SCIV.
Quick question: Unlike Soul Charge, no chip damage in Terror Charge, right?
Hey yo! Thanks for your feedback! Keev confirms me that there is no chip damage in NTC, only on Soul Charge.
Thanks!
A Ivy Breakdown would be useful
Will you stream the beta? I can't find a match for the life of me, even with a fully open search.
I was streaming inf the beta, but I was a lot busy helping Kayane for her tournament :(
I ended up finding plnety of matches in the second and third days. It was all good. I hope your activities with Kayane went well. Thanks again for the tutos.
awsome! now voldo :D
How does a pressure character punish/avoid 6A+B???
Especially when nightmare has meter?
The move seems unstoppable. Parrys mid, lows and throws. Safe and can combo into a 40% super. Lol. Really????
Calibur1980
The armor only has specific frames.
Makhi Laveau what specific frames? What animation? Before the animation? During the animation? How many frames is the window? -12? -7? -20?
Calibur1980 it also definitely does not parry low attacks, even thought it says so in game.
I’d say from about 2-3 frames after startup armor starts.
A:ga nerf was completely uneccesary, He already has few get off me options and now its unsafe, plus high crush able, and its not an easy command to do consistently on pad.
Now it's back to be positive on block!
I wonder if Night-Terror will be in?
does this video still apply? or did nightmare get nerfed since the beta?
Not it's all working !
Nightmare is a intermediate power character
Mitsurugi next!
I got some new informations on him, why not!
Hopefully he won’t get poked out by good close range characters. I remember natsu in scv was like a bane for nightmare.
Good thing there’s reversal edge and infinite guard impacts. Mmwhhahha
Good thing he still has his grim stride attack/impact. Though the timing seems to be a lot more strict :l
Can NM go into NLS with 3[B], too?
he has to switch from NSS into NLS, forgot to mention that in the video
Your English was a struggle, spoken and written, had to look up perptually only to realize you meant perpetually lol but good guide man thanks.
Sorry :(
I dont get any of this stuff
Hey sorry, those videos are not easy, I'am doing more for beginners now. Maybe it is because the notation? Also, try asking live in my stream I can help you.
@@HayateEIN yea it's kinda wierd I've always played fighting games since I was little and I would spend hours in training mode because I didnt get the kb and b1
I don't know I know I'm bad at this game but I'm really not liking him right now. I feel like no one has to respect or fear anything he does and it's never my turn to attack even when I land the hit.
I'm new to the game but I feel the comple opposite. Using Nightmare, I feel like it's almost always my turn. He can just burst out of most things and then his combos may not be long but 2-3 hits and your out a good chunk. Plus his super acts as a parry almost so you can use it to whiff punish too.
I mean this in a constructive way, but if this is how you feel, you simply are not using him right. If you use NM correctly, the opponent should feel like they CAN'T have a turn to attack. As an NM main, I find that pressure, and walls are devastating. Of course, keep your defenses up at the right moments. NM is simply capable of attacking a LOT while destroying your opponent's guard. Feints using his stances and attack cancels are a godsend.
Night lower isnt new lol
No hwang no buy
I want to say the same... haha but Libra of Souls convinced me to buy and finish it!
Slow hard hitting character? Nightmare is far from slow. The amount of speed he has is insane. Needs to be reduced a little
I think he wanted to say "meant to be slow".
He's slow *up close.*
He's fast at range, that's why his whiff punish game is good, but he's quite slow and suffers in close range.
@@somethingsomething9006 Not in every cases, because he will always tend to use attacks that go into a close-up. Example: 66a, 66b
(from a former crouch), and 88ab (IV)/88aa[grim stride, a] 44kk[k] into a nearby wall can punish even if the second hit is blocked. 1k is also an very useful poke for rushing situations, "if you or your opponent is rushing." In summary, he is more "random" upclose and hard to read, even 3aa is random to encounter. And of course, NSS, a[a] & k.
@@sixtenalin5300
A lot of the attacks you mentioned have pretty decent recovery. I never said he sucks at getting in close, because he doesn't, it's just that when he's actually up close, his best attacks/options are more limited compared to when he's mid range.
If anything Nightmare is amazing close range against morons who try to spam/mash their way out. If you play patiently and defend yourself, the holes in his offense become clear.
This is why Nightmare dominates low level play, but struggles more at high levels.
@@somethingsomething9006 And that's why you want to "cancel" if that's a way to say it. One of the best moves he has in close range, that also deals alot of damage is NSS bA slide, which is best used when you anticipate the opponents vertical. Nightmare is a character that you, the player need to build up around these general situations, example, when you do that I ... and ... (he is not complex in about his moves, only when you will use them. Onpar, he doesn't have any exeptional moves, that way you must use the many tools in about playing him. And that any other character is actually a bad matchup againts him, in summary he's a "freestyle" character, way more than any other character in all of Soul Calibur. Being "random" is one of the best ways of playing him, be passive-aggresive i'd say. Because you can't read all the moves coming out, and that goes with many fighting games. Use moves that no one would expect, not even yourself, only trust your instincts. Nightmare is very vary that is what makes him playable, and that he need to get the best results in any way. This gives you alot of pressure to come by, but it also makes you an good player. In IV I trusted myself unto this and just impacts come easy on any character I play against, in that way your still ahead of your opponent and can outplay them easily.
Thanks for the video! Just wish I could do the soul charge combo at 0:46. Is it a lethal hit combo?
Nvm got it 👌🏾
Nice exposure, master Hayate!! Thanks #SoulCaliburVI
Thanks you for loving ly content!, I'am the old teacher now here haha
noooo agA, how could they ruin my baby :'(
Still super hype to play him again >:)