Two things I forgot to add: - Nuxia's traps do not get triggered by the Bulwark Counter, and the counter does not flip the trap. Both just whiff. - It's literal immunity while in the flip move. I should've emphasized that more.
You forgot about is pre Tiandi nerf oos pressure, where he can just light into bash into light you to death while you are oos :))))) Edit: Also the attack after the flip is automatic. So if you do the move, and go oos because of it. The attack will still come out. And the flip ledges :))))
So I see the title of the video and think to myself "It's an all block counter that beats unblockable moves and melee attacks, what's there to explain?" But then I think to myself "But this is freeze we are talking about... there's NO chance I'm not gonna learn something even if it's a game mechanic that's so basic everyone should already know everything about it (you would think anyway)." What do you know, you can counter "guaranteed" moves like deflects and nobushi kick AND you have total damage immunity, I learned something new. Just another reason on why I should watch freeze videos in the future. You see a lot of comments where people say "you deserve more subscribers" when I think to myself "no he doesn't, this is a stupid channel, he probably deserves less". Freeze is a good example of a channel that really deserves more. All the testing, frame data, all the testing, mechanic interactions, all the testing, optimizations, testing, information, oh and did I mention the amount of time this guy spends testing shit out for us and the benefit of the community? The shit this guy tests out and finds valuable information on, I wouldn't have even thought of testing.
I just love how freeze's place has become some sort of For Honor data wiki that is usually just accepted universally as THE source when it comes to gameplay numbers. It's at least the undisputable number one source for me.
@@captainnyet9855 to Black Priors credit, what makes him as strong as he is, is simply the stance. He has shield bashes, but they're far more reactable than conqs (from what I've seen and heard be said), good damage and no stupid 400 ms lights. If you removed the stance, I reckon he'd effectively be a mix of Warden and Warlod (quite literally)
Is it possible for another black prior to bulwark counter the sweep he does after the flip to make a infinite circle of flipping? Kinda like a bunch of conqs zoning
In the "mythbuster" video it just showed how ridiculous it is. They bulwark countered jump attacks and since the counter literally makes you invulnerable they survived catapults.
Valentin Tanase that’s understandable. But I believe a few things will undoubtedly get fixed. 1. Flipped opponents will get damage reduction 2. Prior will not be invincible 3. Won’t work on deflects.
A simple fix is instead of him being immune, he just has damage reduction. So he can't be feated/ganked to death while in the animation. Those who get hit with it should get a damage reduction too, so they too can't be essentially instakilled while stuck in the animation.
@@sneakly2051 Disagree. Everybody is posting videos about everything that bulwark can do but nobody seems to understand that all of this is in a controlled environment getting thrown at people expecting the attacks. I dare you to react to somebody deflecting your attack without knowing that they will until its too late. If you go into bulwark after throwing every attack just in case, guess what? They could just guardbreak for free damage instead. A lot of people are missing the fact that bulwark doesn't just delete the enemies moves. The purpose as explained by the devs is in a gank or multi-fight scenario where people will throw out attacks without focusing on every opponent. If conquerer goes into full guard too often he will get guardbroken almost every time by their opponent adapting, and BP will be no different. Good luck bulwarking everything your opponent throws if they can just feint and get guaranteed damage on you instead.
Damn, this hero is actually really cool! I might love it, with my only gripe being how quickly he can activate the counter. It seems really fast, but if he is vulnerable after the counter, like on a miss for example, then maybe it will be balanced in that way. Actually, thinking about it now, I may have a problem with the 100% damage reduction during the flip as well as the follow up punish. That seems like a bit much. Those points withstanding, this is one of the more fleshed out introductions of a new mechanic that I've seen yet. If the Nuxia's traps had been this well thought out and executing it would have been amazing.
As for the external blocking shenanigans, this also applies to Conq’s full block and any wide sweeping characters, if the attack hits your shield you get your unblockable counter regardless of whether it’s aiming for you.
I think the lack of recovery on regularly exiting is a bit much because unless the attack applies immediate pressure to flip, BP can just exit and counter any gb feint or just block.
@Alex Law Now go and try to explain that to people who say “uh itz balanced cuz u can gb him n shiet” Seriously, I’ve been doing that all day and the only thing I’ve got out of it is namecalling
@@the_viriathus5719 No one knows how to have an actual discussion. Mostly children play games anyway, so it's not even worth the time trying to explain something.
@Lue bbe Another mega turtle character like Conq but instead of 183626 option selects he has just one very safe counter to literally everything in the game? Yea seems super fun And we shouldn’t be doing reads and guesses against DEFENSIVE mechanics like this. We don’t need more super safe defense. I thought we were gonna kill the turtle meta
I'm super excited for this character even more than I was already. I've wanted a sword and shield knight for so long, and I'm glad that not only is he not another Conqueror or light spammy character, but that he has unique mechanics that can really make him stand out in team fights.
Bort's bash is stronger than Conq's and according to Mege, can be delayed the exact same way. It can't be dodge GB punished if the opponent is tagged by a light, and his OOS pressure is on par with or even better than Conq's and Warden's. It's brutal. Ironically, despite having a bigger shield, BP's not as strong defensively as Conq or Warden lacking side-dodge bash punishes and having a weaker O/S parry (and lacking Conq's other O/S options) but offensively BP seems to be on their level or greater, especially once the opponent's OOS.
Fun fact, bulwark counter works on enemies and corpses that have been launched. From executed corpses to shugoki ball. Limits so far seem to be that it must be an enemy and it needs to be something that would hit you in some manner, even if all it does is stagger.
"It's a great tool to counter basically every hero that relies on bashes" ftfy. Basically they took the second best offense in the game (Conqueror) buffed it (13 to 20dmg confirm) and combined it with the best anti-bash defense in the game as well as the best crushing counters in the game and the best dodges in the game (0ms startup on dodge-block)
Yes, for console maybe. BUT high lvl pc, there is no spam , mindless or not, u will get parry. This mechanic will destroy the hole game as its now anyways, all turtling around , becaus the punishes r just too heavy, and NOW u will have extra reason to turtle , becaus no matter what u do, light, heavy ,bash u will get punish .
Mini 83 I think different about this. If you choose to turtle against BP you probably just get bashed to death. This hero should encourage people to start thinking and planning as they play against him. High level clearly will be different, because they know what they do, whenever they fight.
@@tendericed2749 Well, me when i see conq, if i have raider, i play the fast dodge to gb and i can puniish the shield bash of conq very easy. If i ,m orochi I have NOTHING to do. So i will turtle and hope to not get a person which only shieldbash+light all time, so i can parry his light or deflect . If you think its the problem of the game mechanic. In everyfight game, u have something which u can punish with somethingelse. IF you actually think , you can stay there and shield +light bash everyone if you can block and parry and react to attacks of enemy The same with zone of glad, ok people dodge it, but stay there and do it 20 times, u will be successful at least 10 time and if you play vs a orochi , u can win just by doing 1 thing . Its the reason why conq. is first place in .DATA . People just try to not be an ASS and enjoy the game while they play a lit bit fair. BUT there r kids which only want to win and the game give them what they want. Reason why the game exist , its just the fact of having fun ( not turtling and do the same one thing to bring the HP of opponent to 0 ) If u see the game itself, its just broken . And as we go further , get broken more. At this point i have to add that i have 350 rep and about 2000h gameplay on pc. What i,m talking is just about people i play with and myself. Not console, and not players which play with brain off, pressing Light, heavy all time.Anyways i preordered and will play the shit of the new hero, but it doensmean that this mechanic will give turtles 1 more reason to turtle more.
I love bulwark stance, it doesn't seem op it just seems strong, and getting a gb more than enough compensates for the move. But that damn conq shield bash needs to go.
@Pimpster Pidgeon Like all full blocks except for Ara, people with good reaction times will react to your GB attempt and exit Bulwark on time to CGB you or simply light you out of your GB. This is possible due to the exit of Bulwark having almost no recovery If you’re facing someone with good reactions, Bulwark will be virtually unpunishable.
@@the_viriathus5719 Yup hopefully the recovery is nerfed because even the devs said that it should take a while for him to leave it, it should be a commitment.
@@Haspei7 During a gank it would be tough mostly for his dumb op feats and if you counter your exterior attacks that will also be bad. But we'll see, tbh id prefer bulwark over conq bashes any day.
Amazing video freeze, on payday im going to join your patreon :) The block stun into bullwark is awesome i think it fits well.. the invulnerability prob needs to go.
I've been looking forward to your BP videos, and these two did not disappoint. Seems like his recovery cancel into Bulwark is going to be very important. I'm really psyched to try him out! Also glad to hear that Nuxia's traps whiff (as a Nuxia main). I wonder what kind of success she will have against Bulwark Stance (I presume that her traps connect when he is in all block, yes?). She has some potential unique mindgames with him that may be interesting.
IMPORTANT. If your team mate is flipped , and you are close enough in range to be hit with bulwark counter coming at your team mate, can you flip the external bulwark counter with your black prior?
It's really funny that the Centurion was created to counter the turtle strategy of Conqurers, and a fairly similar character in design/purpose is used to counter stun hits like Cent's punches and kick.
I still thinking that they should sllow the Bulwark stance and counter for the heavy shielded ones, I mean, its a question of technique to flip your opponent with your shield (I have done that with a round viking shield) so, they should have that with a variation (a stab finisher for Warlord and a flail bash for conqueror).
Several things to note about this video: -While yes it can counter a lot of things, at the same time all of them were expected by the player to showcase it. In an actual fight, it'll function somewhat similarly to Nobushi's hidden stance I expect. Not designed for hard turtling. Also Nobushi is now even weaker plz buff best gril -It takes around 1/3 of your Stamina to flip into Slash someone, and also seems to stop stamina regen, meaning you can't *really* just turtle it, not forever. -It seems theres a 400-500ms delay before going into Bulwark if you mistime the Counter so yea watch out for that. -Vortiger is now Number 1 teamfighter Hero.
yes, I obviously expected the moves that I showcased. Point being is that while sitting in BW you have 100ms longer to react to bashes. That's simply math. It also eliminates choice reactions and turns them into single reactions for specific moves. And for a lot of those to happen you NEED to make the read. But if you did so successfully, you can actually pull this off in a real match.
I’m kinda worried about the Bulwark stance transition tbh. That simple flip will make any type of follow up (minus Guard Break of course) super risky. I really hope this dude doesn’t end up forcing all match-ups to only use single attacks and never follow up in fear of the death flip.
This character is one that needs mastering for both the one playing the character and the one fighting him. This mechanic can be punished and it is a punish but I am sure it is not op and balances the characters other moves.
Been playing BP and I think that post flip/ sweep attack there’s a lag before going back to neutral. I’ve been taking on a couple players and they’ve gotten an execution on me after the flip sweep
I Think Bulwark stance has some animation issue, when successfully counter an attack it seems to have hit you with a Blood loss animation, it would maybe react differently.
Did you test this with shaolin's teleport kick feat? I imagine it would be similar to how shinobi's deflect just flat interrupts the animation. Basically the kick would just land is what i am guessing. Also rip kensei unblockable feat
My question is, if it doesn't care about lock, and the flip's attack is a 360 attack, can you flip the slash if you aren't the one being flipped, and do like an infinite chain of flips?
What I really want to know, after spending all this time playing vortiger, is that if a vortiger can flip an opposing vortiger that's doing the cleave part of his flip. The situation never really came up in 4 months, which left me curious and unsatisfied.
You cant counter a bulwork counter with bulwork counter, bulwork counter and recovery arent attacks , and if you mean counter once your flipped probably not as you have to block the hit to do the recovery. Now the teammate one your guess is as good as mine.
@@spooky4223 that is not what i meant. I am talking about in a gank situation where ur teammate gets flipped and the follow up 360 slash hits your bulwark counter even though he's not locked onto you when ur ganking the voriger as a vortiger.
I would love to used that full guard counter on 4 vs 4 but i would hate to fight that on a 1 vs 1 scenario unless it can be countered with a bash grab of a warden.
Ok that's dumb. I see no reason why prior should get 100% immunity during a flip. That's flat broken. I dont mind him getting super armor or some reduction, but being 100% immune to everything while getting a 30 damage 360 cleave unblockable in a pretty good range.
@@EthanBigBlue yeah the straight up immunity is nuts, maybe it isn't broken but considering it's through the entire animation it probably is. I dont really see anything broken outside of potentially straight up having Conq's shield bash
New mechanic or not, I think this video laid out plenty of reasons as to why it will be OP. It either needs more recovery frames on a failed bulwark counter attempt or less of the ability to flip and punish everyone on a 360 degree angle with 100% damage reduction. But what do I know
I attempted to do the Bulwark counter and got hit twice by Cent's heavy full charge, twice. Even when I'm already in Bulwark stance, I hit light button as soon as the indicator flicked, and as Cent flying toward me, and still got hit. Is there a vulnerable window or is there something I misunderstand?
Love your shit freeze, helped me alot with my gameplay, My question is do u think shinobi needs a buff/rework? I find that at higher level, almost all players can react too the kick and the risk aint worth the reward
What if while you're flipping someone and with the sweeping punish after you hit another vortiger in full block. Will you get flipped from your punish? You said if you can get hit, you can flip them.
Two things I forgot to add:
- Nuxia's traps do not get triggered by the Bulwark Counter, and the counter does not flip the trap. Both just whiff.
- It's literal immunity while in the flip move. I should've emphasized that more.
very interesting!
Did you try using a black prior to flip a black prior's 360 unblockable after a successful flip? I never thought I would have to type such a sentence
but- Nuxia's traps, as much as I hate the bloody things, counter block attempts; BP is blocking.
You forgot about is pre Tiandi nerf oos pressure, where he can just light into bash into light you to death while you are oos :)))))
Edit: Also the attack after the flip is automatic. So if you do the move, and go oos because of it. The attack will still come out. And the flip ledges :))))
@@AlexHyena1 During the bulwark counter itself you arent blocking
Look, you can say Black Prior isn't OP all you want...
but he's got probably the best teabag of any hero so far. The mind games are strong.
O shit, u rite.
finally a character about mind games and not 400 ms lights reactions bullShhh
Kin Djow conq and warden don’t have 400ms lights and they’re two of the most hated characters lmao 😂. Vortiger is literally conq 2.0
@@duckmandrake6781 plz don't say that conquer is just annoying
This one is more hard to survive against
Making it a more interesting and intense fight
welp... do I need to mention those stupid safe bashes they can do ? especially warden. he can feint his sb at ANY point@@duckmandrake6781
Bet this guy could flip your catapults with that 100% damage reduction
LMAO GET BODIED
@@mgrm77 He can
I’ve seen a clip of him countering someone in a catapult and he’s perfectly fine afterwards
He can.
Just shows again that *TRUE DAHKNESH* is the best counter to bad stuff like a huge explosion.
So I see the title of the video and think to myself "It's an all block counter that beats unblockable moves and melee attacks, what's there to explain?" But then I think to myself "But this is freeze we are talking about... there's NO chance I'm not gonna learn something even if it's a game mechanic that's so basic everyone should already know everything about it (you would think anyway)." What do you know, you can counter "guaranteed" moves like deflects and nobushi kick AND you have total damage immunity, I learned something new. Just another reason on why I should watch freeze videos in the future.
You see a lot of comments where people say "you deserve more subscribers" when I think to myself "no he doesn't, this is a stupid channel, he probably deserves less". Freeze is a good example of a channel that really deserves more. All the testing, frame data, all the testing, mechanic interactions, all the testing, optimizations, testing, information, oh and did I mention the amount of time this guy spends testing shit out for us and the benefit of the community? The shit this guy tests out and finds valuable information on, I wouldn't have even thought of testing.
I just love how freeze's place has become some sort of For Honor data wiki that is usually just accepted universally as THE source when it comes to gameplay numbers. It's at least the undisputable number one source for me.
True
Bash-happy Conquerors and Highlanders on suicide watch
i think kick-grab from HL still beats out BP's flip if the BP inputs the flip on the kick timing.
Jonathan Yu but what if you dodge the kick then fullblock the grab?
Trafalgar Law then back to rolling it is 😂
Jonathan Yu what is BP? You talking about an oil spill? The new character’s name is Vortiger.
Who else feels like this is a conq glad hybrid with a bit of lawdaddy mixed in there?
This is an example of a pretty powerful character without 400 ms lights. Great job Ubi, you pleased the mid ranks
You mean like how Conqueror, Warden and Warlord all have no 400ms lights?
@@captainnyet9855 to Black Priors credit, what makes him as strong as he is, is simply the stance. He has shield bashes, but they're far more reactable than conqs (from what I've seen and heard be said), good damage and no stupid 400 ms lights.
If you removed the stance, I reckon he'd effectively be a mix of Warden and Warlod (quite literally)
Mr. Sister-Fister uhhhh conq does
Well on pc the heroes with just fast lights are far from the strongest. shove/bash/push into guaranteed dmg is what its all about.
Its funny how nowadays all he does is *_*SHIELD*_*
Yo Glad, I heard your zone is unpunishable...
Cries in fucsina ictis
*Laughts in bulwark stance*
**smiles in UbiNerf**
*Laughs in 20 damage haymaker toestab*
The unblock able combo weave is beautiful... This character is beautiful
@@dragosh3073 says a conq lmao
@@dragosh3073 oh and conq is perfectley balanced? piss off
@@awesomearsam1890 more balanced than vortiger
@@bucko6939 more than he is trash
@@doc8140 yeah, cuz he has twice more balance than shitiger
i was getting hit by this move in complete disbelief when we tested lol
Doom Slayer Do you know who baxtyr is?
bax is basically a casual TBH
and also toxic
meoHL Do “ YoU kNoW WhO BaXtR is? “ who cares.
ow my ego
baxtyr lmao absolutely roasted
Dat height difference between BP and PK though.
@@awesomearsam1890 plus pk is the shortest character in the game lol
@@jsjshshsj6202 Hey! There's nothing wrong with being short!
@@kskid99 it kinda sucks
@@kskid99 I never said there was lol
I mean he pretty tall but compared to lawdaddy boi he a tiny boi
Is it possible for another black prior to bulwark counter the sweep he does after the flip to make a infinite circle of flipping? Kinda like a bunch of conqs zoning
Yes
Weren’t they testing this a the end?
Blepln Gaming dunno that’s why I’m asking
Nicholas Doumenis bulwarkception
Now we are asking the real questions
Rip everyone who dedicated countless hours to mastering the deflect
In the "mythbuster" video it just showed how ridiculous it is. They bulwark countered jump attacks and since the counter literally makes you invulnerable they survived catapults.
"Flip the World" video coming soon, no doubt
It’s not really ridiculous considering rolling away from a jump attack is far better bc at the least put ur opponent to like 2 hp.
Damn he looks like Nazgul from LOTR
shit I was wondering what he reminds me of......now looking forward to some Nazgul armor or helmet
I don't really like the damage immunity during the flip-unblockable combo
Nut Protector it’s because the bulwark stance and counter are designed to be anti- gank
Valentin Tanase that’s understandable. But I believe a few things will undoubtedly get fixed. 1. Flipped opponents will get damage reduction 2. Prior will not be invincible 3. Won’t work on deflects.
But if he’s not invincible the rest of the team could just gank/feat him while he’s in the flip animation
A simple fix is instead of him being immune, he just has damage reduction. So he can't be feated/ganked to death while in the animation. Those who get hit with it should get a damage reduction too, so they too can't be essentially instakilled while stuck in the animation.
@@sneakly2051 Disagree. Everybody is posting videos about everything that bulwark can do but nobody seems to understand that all of this is in a controlled environment getting thrown at people expecting the attacks. I dare you to react to somebody deflecting your attack without knowing that they will until its too late. If you go into bulwark after throwing every attack just in case, guess what? They could just guardbreak for free damage instead.
A lot of people are missing the fact that bulwark doesn't just delete the enemies moves. The purpose as explained by the devs is in a gank or multi-fight scenario where people will throw out attacks without focusing on every opponent. If conquerer goes into full guard too often he will get guardbroken almost every time by their opponent adapting, and BP will be no different. Good luck bulwarking everything your opponent throws if they can just feint and get guaranteed damage on you instead.
Damn, this hero is actually really cool! I might love it, with my only gripe being how quickly he can activate the counter. It seems really fast, but if he is vulnerable after the counter, like on a miss for example, then maybe it will be balanced in that way. Actually, thinking about it now, I may have a problem with the 100% damage reduction during the flip as well as the follow up punish. That seems like a bit much.
Those points withstanding, this is one of the more fleshed out introductions of a new mechanic that I've seen yet. If the Nuxia's traps had been this well thought out and executing it would have been amazing.
As for the external blocking shenanigans, this also applies to Conq’s full block and any wide sweeping characters, if the attack hits your shield you get your unblockable counter regardless of whether it’s aiming for you.
wow this hero has much more utility than i thought he would. thanks freeze!
I think the lack of recovery on regularly exiting is a bit much because unless the attack applies immediate pressure to flip, BP can just exit and counter any gb feint or just block.
@Alex Law Now go and try to explain that to people who say “uh itz balanced cuz u can gb him n shiet”
Seriously, I’ve been doing that all day and the only thing I’ve got out of it is namecalling
@@the_viriathus5719 No one knows how to have an actual discussion. Mostly children play games anyway, so it's not even worth the time trying to explain something.
@Triscuit The bias for Vortiger is real lmao. Say something wrong about him, you get persecuted with pitchforks and torches
@@the_viriathus5719 I guess we'll have to make some read gbs and attacks,other than that he'll be interesting to go up against.
@Lue bbe Another mega turtle character like Conq but instead of 183626 option selects he has just one very safe counter to literally everything in the game? Yea seems super fun
And we shouldn’t be doing reads and guesses against DEFENSIVE mechanics like this. We don’t need more super safe defense. I thought we were gonna kill the turtle meta
You see this , you go FULL TUTRLE !!! GOOD JOB !!! to make the game more turtle-friendly.
I'm super excited for this character even more than I was already. I've wanted a sword and shield knight for so long, and I'm glad that not only is he not another Conqueror or light spammy character, but that he has unique mechanics that can really make him stand out in team fights.
500 ms bash that confirms 20 dmg and is delayable. Also has low recovery. It is functionally identical to Conqueror's, except it even does more dmg.
Bort's bash is stronger than Conq's and according to Mege, can be delayed the exact same way. It can't be dodge GB punished if the opponent is tagged by a light, and his OOS pressure is on par with or even better than Conq's and Warden's. It's brutal.
Ironically, despite having a bigger shield, BP's not as strong defensively as Conq or Warden lacking side-dodge bash punishes and having a weaker O/S parry (and lacking Conq's other O/S options) but offensively BP seems to be on their level or greater, especially once the opponent's OOS.
Vortiger is Conqueror, sorry to break it to ya.
Thank you Freeze also very cool
I'd also like to say that valks deflect beats out his counter like shinobis and zerks
Fun fact, bulwark counter works on enemies and corpses that have been launched. From executed corpses to shugoki ball. Limits so far seem to be that it must be an enemy and it needs to be something that would hit you in some manner, even if all it does is stagger.
What a great video thanks for your time and thorough dissection of Bulwark Stance!!!
This caracter can basically counte every hero with one simple move... i already know who im going to spam this year lmao
good stuff as usual man!!! thanks for always providing for the community !!
So it’s a great tool to punish mindless spam.
I have found a new main. Consoleplayer btw.
Oh ya
"It's a great tool to counter basically every hero that relies on bashes" ftfy.
Basically they took the second best offense in the game (Conqueror) buffed it (13 to 20dmg confirm) and combined it with the best anti-bash defense in the game as well as the best crushing counters in the game and the best dodges in the game (0ms startup on dodge-block)
Yes, for console maybe. BUT high lvl pc, there is no spam , mindless or not, u will get parry. This mechanic will destroy the hole game as its now anyways, all turtling around , becaus the punishes r just too heavy, and NOW u will have extra reason to turtle , becaus no matter what u do, light, heavy ,bash u will get punish .
Mini 83 I think different about this.
If you choose to turtle against BP you probably just get bashed to death. This hero should encourage people to start thinking and planning as they play against him.
High level clearly will be different, because they know what they do, whenever they fight.
@@tendericed2749 Well, me when i see conq, if i have raider, i play the fast dodge to gb and i can puniish the shield bash of conq very easy. If i ,m orochi I have NOTHING to do. So i will turtle and hope to not get a person which only shieldbash+light all time, so i can parry his light or deflect . If you think its the problem of the game mechanic. In everyfight game, u have something which u can punish with somethingelse. IF you actually think , you can stay there and shield +light bash everyone if you can block and parry and react to attacks of enemy The same with zone of glad, ok people dodge it, but stay there and do it 20 times, u will be successful at least 10 time and if you play vs a orochi , u can win just by doing 1 thing . Its the reason why conq. is first place in .DATA . People just try to not be an ASS and enjoy the game while they play a lit bit fair. BUT there r kids which only want to win and the game give them what they want. Reason why the game exist , its just the fact of having fun ( not turtling and do the same one thing to bring the HP of opponent to 0 ) If u see the game itself, its just broken . And as we go further , get broken more. At this point i have to add that i have 350 rep and about 2000h gameplay on pc. What i,m talking is just about people i play with and myself. Not console, and not players which play with brain off, pressing Light, heavy all time.Anyways i preordered and will play the shit of the new hero, but it doensmean that this mechanic will give turtles 1 more reason to turtle more.
I love bulwark stance, it doesn't seem op it just seems strong, and getting a gb more than enough compensates for the move. But that damn conq shield bash needs to go.
Now just try to gb him while you are ganked... enjoy the dmg the rest of his team will do to you.
@Pimpster Pidgeon Like all full blocks except for Ara, people with good reaction times will react to your GB attempt and exit Bulwark on time to CGB you or simply light you out of your GB. This is possible due to the exit of Bulwark having almost no recovery
If you’re facing someone with good reactions, Bulwark will be virtually unpunishable.
It isn’t as simple as guard breaking it because he can attack from it with a move that nocks back guard break
@@the_viriathus5719 Yup hopefully the recovery is nerfed because even the devs said that it should take a while for him to leave it, it should be a commitment.
@@Haspei7 During a gank it would be tough mostly for his dumb op feats and if you counter your exterior attacks that will also be bad. But we'll see, tbh id prefer bulwark over conq bashes any day.
I dont want to call it OP for now but it does seem very very strong. have to wait and see.
Exactly what I'm thinking.
Amazing video freeze, on payday im going to join your patreon :) The block stun into bullwark is awesome i think it fits well.. the invulnerability prob needs to go.
I've been looking forward to your BP videos, and these two did not disappoint. Seems like his recovery cancel into Bulwark is going to be very important. I'm really psyched to try him out!
Also glad to hear that Nuxia's traps whiff (as a Nuxia main). I wonder what kind of success she will have against Bulwark Stance (I presume that her traps connect when he is in all block, yes?). She has some potential unique mindgames with him that may be interesting.
IMPORTANT.
If your team mate is flipped , and you are close enough in range to be hit with bulwark counter coming at your team mate, can you flip the external bulwark counter with your black prior?
Yea you can. I saw it on Craic and Marco's video.
It's really funny that the Centurion was created to counter the turtle strategy of Conqurers, and a fairly similar character in design/purpose is used to counter stun hits like Cent's punches and kick.
Finally a worthy counter to those spamming chinese noobchamps, i love Vortiger
Stop crying
Video isnt showing up in uploads. Glad I'm still able to find it!
I randomly stumbled upon this. I obviously was going to watch, as I'm a black prior main. So this gives me other things to do as black prior.
Amazing video! Thanks, opened up my eyes mote to the potential of BP
Bulwark counters also activates on enemies thrown to BP, so that can save BP from getting team-ledged
god damn the black prior is starting to look like a very cool character
a move to counter most unblockables, the Ubi gods have truly blessed us with a powerful warrior
I still thinking that they should sllow the Bulwark stance and counter for the heavy shielded ones, I mean, its a question of technique to flip your opponent with your shield (I have done that with a round viking shield) so, they should have that with a variation (a stab finisher for Warlord and a flail bash for conqueror).
When I saw him flip the zerk zone I screamed, this character is AWESOME!
Several things to note about this video:
-While yes it can counter a lot of things, at the same time all of them were expected by the player to showcase it. In an actual fight, it'll function somewhat similarly to Nobushi's hidden stance I expect. Not designed for hard turtling. Also Nobushi is now even weaker plz buff best gril
-It takes around 1/3 of your Stamina to flip into Slash someone, and also seems to stop stamina regen, meaning you can't *really* just turtle it, not forever.
-It seems theres a 400-500ms delay before going into Bulwark if you mistime the Counter so yea watch out for that.
-Vortiger is now Number 1 teamfighter Hero.
yes, I obviously expected the moves that I showcased.
Point being is that while sitting in BW you have 100ms longer to react to bashes. That's simply math.
It also eliminates choice reactions and turns them into single reactions for specific moves.
And for a lot of those to happen you NEED to make the read. But if you did so successfully, you can actually pull this off in a real match.
Guessing the clip at the end was you trying to flip the attack after the flip?
Would be funny if it lets you do that.
it does let you do that
my problem is whenever I try to get into bulwark stance by pressing down, I just end up going into side stance 75% of the time
This is terrifying but also really cool.
_THE UNTOUCHABLE MAN_
A perfect counter to Orochi lightspam :”)
This dude seems like the ultimate no u character
4v4 black prior dominion matches HERE I COME!
I’m kinda worried about the Bulwark stance transition tbh. That simple flip will make any type of follow up (minus Guard Break of course) super risky. I really hope this dude doesn’t end up forcing all match-ups to only use single attacks and never follow up in fear of the death flip.
Seems like it'll be more useful in 4's than anything but the fact it can interrupt confirmed bashes and multi hit attacks makes it pretty daym strong
The fact he can survive a catapult while flipping somebody is scary
This character is one that needs mastering for both the one playing the character and the one fighting him. This mechanic can be punished and it is a punish but I am sure it is not op and balances the characters other moves.
Nice video as always. New Shugoki framecheck next?
Can't wait to try him out in doms man keep up the great content! :)
What needs to go is his oos stam pressure. Oh your oos and block vortigers light attack than he is guarenteed a shield bash for 20 damage.
That sword looks dope almost like a morgul blade from lotr
Been playing BP and I think that post flip/ sweep attack there’s a lag before going back to neutral. I’ve been taking on a couple players and they’ve gotten an execution on me after the flip sweep
He seems really valanced and able to stop alot of bash meta
He's like an anti combo boi, cant wait to hear ALL THE COMPLAINTS
Perfect. He looks cool, he’s something we all wanted, and he’s tailor made for every singles thing I find annoying. I’m playing him a lot.
God I miss when bulwark was like this
It still is. The only thing Ubi ever changed about it is the ability to flip feats.
@@SergeantTittyfist only thing they changed was being able to get in and exit it at 200ms, it’s 500 now I think
I Think Bulwark stance has some animation issue, when successfully counter an attack it seems to have hit you with a Blood loss animation, it would maybe react differently.
just relieved his moveset loops I was worried about his two hit chain
So this is why i kept failing getting into the stance and why i kept getting interrupted. I had to block so it was faster.
a new mechanich that is not as disappointing as nuxia's traps? well call me impressed
He is gonna be #1 turtle
Did you test this with shaolin's teleport kick feat? I imagine it would be similar to how shinobi's deflect just flat interrupts the animation. Basically the kick would just land is what i am guessing. Also rip kensei unblockable feat
Since you can dodge shaolin's teleport kick, I think you can bulwark it.
My question is, if it doesn't care about lock, and the flip's attack is a 360 attack, can you flip the slash if you aren't the one being flipped, and do like an infinite chain of flips?
we didn't try, hehe
You probably can. If not, we need another blackout.
@@tisky5261 I'm just surprised that I haven't seen anyone try that yet
In the video shmolty did about black prior there was a moment where he flipped a guy but didn't get the damage
What I really want to know, after spending all this time playing vortiger, is that if a vortiger can flip an opposing vortiger that's doing the cleave part of his flip. The situation never really came up in 4 months, which left me curious and unsatisfied.
I love you, freeze.
Damn, I can already see this guy countering Aramusha sooooo hard, whitout even backdodging.
Will you make a shugoki video, or was the early release only for Vortiger?
Did they change berserkers generell animations?
now the question is, can bulwark counter counter another person's bulwark counter? and can u bulwark counter off of a teammate who hits u externally?
You cant counter a bulwork counter with bulwork counter, bulwork counter and recovery arent attacks , and if you mean counter once your flipped probably not as you have to block the hit to do the recovery.
Now the teammate one your guess is as good as mine.
@@spooky4223 that is not what i meant. I am talking about in a gank situation where ur teammate gets flipped and the follow up 360 slash hits your bulwark counter even though he's not locked onto you when ur ganking the voriger as a vortiger.
"I always wanted to make a guy flip !"
Ironbull's wish will be fulfilled
I would love to used that full guard counter on 4 vs 4 but i would hate to fight that on a 1 vs 1 scenario unless it can be countered with a bash grab of a warden.
Right that deflect for glad better get changed.
Nah
Project ELIX Why not? Deflects should not be flipped, yeah you can do a GB straight after but that’s only going to work for a few weeks.
Ok that's dumb. I see no reason why prior should get 100% immunity during a flip. That's flat broken. I dont mind him getting super armor or some reduction, but being 100% immune to everything while getting a 30 damage 360 cleave unblockable in a pretty good range.
K Orochi main
@@ProjectJerboa raider*
Oki, Dodge, Top light/GB Raider main
@@ProjectJerboa ok I'll just give him free parries I guess
@@EthanBigBlue yeah the straight up immunity is nuts, maybe it isn't broken but considering it's through the entire animation it probably is. I dont really see anything broken outside of potentially straight up having Conq's shield bash
Friendship with Centurion has ended. New friendship with Black Prior has begun
@3:22 So if you do it out of neutral it does take 200ms entry + 200ms =400ms to activate the flip or is it just 200ms ?
Just 200
Roflmao! A new turtle god has been born
Does jorms grab bash ignore the counter?
no, that can be flipped too
excellent work.
New mechanic or not, I think this video laid out plenty of reasons as to why it will be OP. It either needs more recovery frames on a failed bulwark counter attempt or less of the ability to flip and punish everyone on a 360 degree angle with 100% damage reduction.
But what do I know
Stop bitching
I attempted to do the Bulwark counter and got hit twice by Cent's heavy full charge, twice. Even when I'm already in Bulwark stance, I hit light button as soon as the indicator flicked, and as Cent flying toward me, and still got hit. Is there a vulnerable window or is there something I misunderstand?
Love your shit freeze, helped me alot with my gameplay,
My question is do u think shinobi needs a buff/rework? I find that at higher level, almost all players can react too the kick and the risk aint worth the reward
I wonder if the upcoming LB rework is going to utilize the new bulwark mechanic, or will it stay as a unique feature for BP
I don't care at all about anything, but the fact that he can counter qi stance
i wanna sk something, how do you get to try that with the bots? because the only gameplay i saw was with in the stream
Seems fun and engaging to verse... oh wait.
So he functions a lot like the Conqurer with exceptions like superior block, full block counter attack, and mobility differences.
And he can feint
Yeah, suddenly the Conqueror seems outdated by comparison. Although in all fairness the Conq probably doesn’t need tweaks the most.
What if while you're flipping someone and with the sweeping punish after you hit another vortiger in full block. Will you get flipped from your punish? You said if you can get hit, you can flip them.
if you can flip on any attack you get hit by, can you flip someone during the sweep after they flip someone and make a flip train?
So the piece of hide on his shoulders is connected to the helmet and not the chestpiece. Did i get that right?
No problem i see lots of opening for my glad main the toe stabs are still coming regardless!
You can flip toe stabs
but can you go from a normal block to the bulwark counter while getting hit by a chain?