"Probably invest in all of them, because every anime character has 20 in every stat with 40 extra points to spend wherever they want." Dear god, why is that true? x'D
Hey, to start out Tanjirou’s stats were fairly average; his only real advantage was his sense of smell. All the rest of that stuff came from his 2 years of training! But yeah... he does get pretty OP as he approaches lvl 20 isn’t he manga. 🤣
Lazy writing and wish fulfillment. Don't get me wrong, love shounen and sometimes it's justified, but still. Note: Thanks for the spoiler warnings/restraint, I'm not caught up. I agree that Demon Slayer is really good with its scaling relative to the verse. The above is more about how shounen in general can be.
Jordan Barkley I actually find Tanjirou and the others’ power scaling to be pretty good; they never feel ‘overpowered’ compared to the current threat, and they get LOTS of on-screen training as justification. You don’t actually realize how insanely powerful they’ve gotten until the start of the Infinity Fortress Arc (the latest and most likely last arc!), for reasons that I’m not going to spoil. It’s certainly better than the power progression I’ve seen in basically every other series. I’m not saying it isn’t wish fulfillment, cause it certainly is, but at least in Demon Slayer the writing is never lazy.
Spoilers below. Jordan Barkley considering the geniuses reach pillar level in a couple of months (Either gyomei or the mist pillar), a fee years of intense training, and constant life or death battles does make sense tanjirou can reach pillar level. Combining that with incomplete breath of the sun against a weakened Muzan, working with other pillars, his power isnt unreasonable.
"The boar is definitely the next character I'll make from Demon Slayer. Oh wait, what about Nezuko? One of those two." This is Zenitsu erasure and I won't stand for it lmao.
@@Cherryflavoredgrape He's straight up the only character to stand up to an upper rank demon on his own without any backup. Sleepy boy is also strongest boy once he stops panicking
@@MattManDX1 Although that upper moon was pretty much just there to fill in the ranks. Most of the upper moons have been around for hundreds of years and it was impossible to get someone as strong in such a short period of time
CapitalistStereotype what's with calligraphy? Why is it so good? It's probably because im new to dnd, but I don't understand what the fuss is all about.
I honestly built a "demon slayer" inspired character using 12 levels of (kensei) monk, and 8 levels of (monster slayer) Ranger, choosing monstrosities and fiends as favourite enemies. Pretty cool, nonetheless!
Really? I always thought tanjiro would be a full paladin oath of vengeance. Sword styles are just smites, and having divine sense, which lets you literally smell demons (as well as fey, fiends, etc) is too good of a parallel to pass up. The water breathing styles are just different smites, and hunters mark is the “opening thread.”
Just at the end of the build i saw how tanjiro is *extremely* strong, like, he has *26 AC* low level enemies need at least a crit to even scratch him. He does a lotta damage, *magical damage* he's fast as f*ck, he's the best boy. This little cutie can kill an tarrasque easily
The high AC even fits with the show. Mr.Urokodaki even says that minor demons fangs and claws can't penetrate the Corps uniform that Tanjiro wears under his hayori.
@@phelps6205 How tf is a character build a mary sue? You can build hella strong characters, but a mary sue is defined by how they affect the story. (I'd also seriously argue he is't a mary sue in the show; extraordinary stories are allowed to have extraordinary circumstances and people, and someone eventually had to fill the requisite role well enough. Many others died trying to do roughly what he is doing, after all.)
Going to recommend Kensei Monk 17/Ranger 2/Arcane Cleric 1, with all of the differences between Tulok's build and mine: * -1 CHA and -1 one other ability score because we lost an ASI. If you sacrifice another +1 ASI, you can take Athlete, you get some neat acrobatic benefits, plus you don't end up with any evil odd numbers from Observant. * You lose Favored by the Gods, your Sorcery points, any lvl 1 arcane spells like Shield, and all 2nd lvl spells. * Arcane Clerics can take two wizard cantrips and use them as Cleric spells (that is, with your Wisdom modifier). One of these can be Green-Flame Blade, which deals an extra 3d8 fire damage (and 3d8+3/4 to a second target of your choice) that you stack onto a weapon attack, which is just kind of better than Flame Blade's 3d6 that you don't get to use your regular weapon for. The drawback is that you can't use it with Extra Attack. * Arcane Clerics also get three cleric cantrips. Combined with the two wizard cantrips, that's the same number of cantrips, just with slightly more restriction. * You only get 6 spells per day and all of them are at lvl 1, but two of them are cast as 2nd lvl spells. Your Cleric level lets your prepare two from the Cleric list, plus you can cast Detect Magic and Magic Missile. Ranger 2 lets you learn two from the Ranger list. Hunter's Mark is great, take it. * Unlike the Revised Ranger, the PHB Ranger can choose Fiends as their favored enemies immediately. Get advantage to finding and learning about them (along with proficiency in Arcana from Arcane Cleric), and Tanjiro's experience living in forests gets some attention. You also get +2 to damage rolls with the Dueling fighting style. * 17th lvl Kensei Monks can reroll one attack roll if it misses. Per turn. Plus you get a higher martial arts die and one more ki point to play with if you're into that kind of thing.
So as someone who knows most of the ins and outs of D&D, I can still say that I deeply appreciate that you take the time to mention bumping con raises your health, and other minor things that people often just don't realize. Keep on keeping on, love your content!
I discovered your channel around the time that I discovered demon slayer so I’ve been hoping for this build for a while. Thanks for surprising me again.
I like the extra respect you gave to alternate races and classes for the build or similar builds. This is probably your best yet for extra work. Love it and appreciate it immensely.
Instead of the four levels of Sorcerer, why not just take one level of Arcana Cleric to grab Green-Flame Blade as a "cleric" cantrip? It makes more sense anyway since the Flame Sword spell creates a new sword while Green-Flame Blade is an enhancement to a melee weapon attack that doesn't even require Tanjiro's bonus action to cast, plus it scales based on character level instead of caster level. Also, mechanically there's no reason to keep a 'shortsword' over a 'rapier' once you can choose a kensei weapon. Shortswords can be used when dual-wielded, rapiers have a larger damage dice. Both do piercing damage. Tanjiro got a better sword, he gets a better hit pool. Alternatively, get a scimitar if you want a slashing weapon. It has the same stats as a shortsword otherwise.
It's harder to pull off because it's insanely MAD. Getting GFB with Cleric lets you put the racial +1 Charisma elsewhere, plus you get a higher casting modifier for all of your spells.
These are all some pretty good points from a mechanical standpoint. This one feels like it works a lot better for damage output. This is why I like this community. So many different creative ideas on how to accomplish the same general goal, in addition to ideas on possible builds for the future.
Gave me the idea for Kensei Monk/Circle of Stars Druid, so I’m pretty hyped for that character, so thanks For that. Also, idk if anyone else has requested this or would be interesting in this, but I would maybe consider putting some kind of level-tracker in the overlay of the video? Something to keep track of the character’s overall level, as that’s something I find myself forgetting quite a bit while watching these. In any case, another great one, looking forward to Thursday!
As much as I dig the sorcerer levels, especially the divine soul, the KNY lore for sword techniques is not especially magical. They sort of emphasize that when Nezuko does her whole demon thing, so there is a valid argument that Tanjiro just goes full kensei, and the elemental aftereffects are just cosmetic results of sharpening the blade with ki.
Agree, but i think the idea of a 2 level dip in ranger would fit really well too. Tanjiro trained in a mountain for quite a while in order to kill one type of enemy, and "hunter's mark" being the fire on his sword works out nicely.
I agree with your statement, and if someone were to build that they should consult with there DM about the flames. Maybe their DM could give them a magic sword, that simulates the damage from the use of the sun god form or the Water form.
Take my all rage! Fuel this blessed channel with my NEERRRRRRDDDDDD RRRAAAAGGGGGEEEEEEE!!!!!!! But seriously, love the channel and the Lets Play channel as well. You do good work. Thanks for doing what you do.
"I'm not going to make any dumb jokes in the intro". Hypocritical humor. That's fun. "Your sister in a box is not armor." Now that's a rare sentence. Caligraphy joke. I think this is my favorite one. Yes, druid Tanjiro would be weird but his mentor likes giving out animal-themed masks, so there's that.
I love these videos so much. I don’t even really ever play 5e much, but I just really enjoy looking at how these builds work and think of how neat it is that you make things work with playing as one of your favorite characters from either video games or cartoons/anime. Very awesome indeed. Though, I’ve always wondered how I could play Krieg from Borderlands 2 in DnD. It seems simple at first, because of course Barbarian and Frenzied Berserker, but in order to really implement the feel of the character I find the need to introduce a decent few of homebrew feats or special abilities that would actually allow me to feel like I’m playing as Krieg the Psycho. If you ever did a video on him, I think that would be absolutely incredible because your knowledge is 100 times more than my own of how to do these things. Nevertheless, great video, incredible work.
1 level in barbarian and constituition higher than wisdon would be enought for most of his character. I wonder how we'd explain the uncanny sense of touch and the fucked up joints...
With the new ruling from Tasha's, you can make Tanjiro a wood elf which is a win all around with foreign tree bumpkin, bonus movement, perception proficiency and longsword proficiency. You can use the longsword as a monk weapon. This way, you don't need to dedicate your subclass to getting a sword. Maybe go for four elements for water or long death for anime determination to survive. Also with Tasha's, you can use your Wild Shape as a druid to cast find familiar. Maybe dip into druid instead (circle of stars was my choice) for a Kasugai Crow?
"In touch with your animal side..." We've already done Maui and Beast Boy (you've also done San, but that got blocked, so I don't know if you're going to redo it or not), so it can't be them. Maybe seeing some Beast or Wolverine from the X-Men, or maybe Shantae (of you took a look into those games). But I'll just have to wait until Thursday.
Spoilers! Edit: I added another paragraph space b/c I didn't initially add enough & grammar Personally, I choose to take the "flame sword" less literally, so I replaced Divine Sorcerer with Battlemaster Fighter, I took the Fighting Initiate feat instead of Defensive Duelist, and I took the Superior Technique fighting style. I then took 14 levels of Monk and 6 levels of Fighter. This way, you don't have to be a MAD lad, _and_ you can combine Deft Strike with a Battlemaster Technique _and_ Flurry of Blows _and_ Action Surge to get some _really good_ single-target damage in, especially since you _can't_ waste the resources. (Deft Strike and Techs. are activated UPON HIT, instead of when DECLARING an attack.) Additional bonus: you also get all of your ABIs before lvl. 19.
Something I've noticed is that a few of your videos since the Class Features UA have ignored the UA outside of the Unarmed Fighting style and spells, particularly when a build would benefit from the additional/alternate features in terms of theme and imagery. Like the monks bonus action unarmed strike after spending ki for All Might, which counts as a buff to that Elemental Ki sink. I feel like it'd be good for the builds to mention the UA, but set it apart from the vanilla class features by having the wording in black or dark grey as a shorthand for 'this is UA' Links to the UA used in the description might also benefit those having trouble finding it.
what's fun is that all the talk of multiclassing into druid somehow inspired my to work on a super old character. and now my arabian monk inspired by aladdin can fire bend thanks tulok!
Seems like Sekiro would be a relatively simple build. Way of Shadows monk, possibly combined with the UA Revived Rogue for that "death resistant element" and sneak attack. Well, it's a start, at least.
Ok Tulok this is my first comment i subbed a while back been waiting fo this to come up and my judgement as DM and PC is thank you well done I like your take on this very nicely done funny Jokes too that is all...
I was actually looking around yesterday to see if anyone had done this build, and I thought why hasnt Tulok done this yet? But my question is...and before anyone crucified me...why not go ranger? Favored enemy could be demons, could help with using sense to hunt, stats align a little better too. Just curious, still love the videos.
Definitely agree that two levels of ranger could have helped Tanjiro a lot, though whether or not losing the ASI would be worth it is up for debate. Combine it with my idea of Arcana Cleric 1 instead of Divine Soul Sorceror 4, and you could still get one free reroll on a weapon attack per turn from Monk 17.
@@thesunwillneverset ASI is based on class level, not total level. If you put 2 levels in ranger, even if your monk level is 18, you don't get a level 19 ASI.
Considering that his flame blade doesn't deal fire damage (just cuts better) and that his habilities are related to his mark, reflavoring dance of the fire god as atacks made with hunter's mark works nicely for me.
And I believe I've read that the elemental visuals are simply just effects, there is no actual fire, water or lightning, just there to show the style they are using, and eye candy, it's still an interesting build. If I ever get to do a build like this I may focus more on the demon hunting aspect maybe take a 2 level dip in fighter for action surge,
I really thought you were going to take levels in Paladin for "Divine Sense" to use it as a sense of smell to detect demons. I'd personally trade that out for the Sorcerer levels. The "flame blade" bit wasn't any more literal than the water blade thing. The calligraphy element effects aren't literal, just to give a visible metaphor to fighting style. So, not as necessary as you made it out to be lol
If you want you can skip the sorcerer dip and instead go straight monk, if you take the gift of the chromatic dragon, you can infuse your weapon with an element, including fire, when you do so, you deal an extra d4 of the damage type, you can also use a reaction to gain resistance to the type of damage, best part is that is works with your monk festures including extra attack, you can even then invest the four levels in monk or even another class like ranger for more dps and a use of concentration on hunters mark or favoured foe, you could take gloom stalker for the initiative boost and the dps increase, plus dark vision is pretty handy
Since this is something a lot of people get wrong constantly (including myself,) shortswords do piercing damage, not slashing. If you wanna be a stickler for character accuracy a scimitar would make a better katana analogue, but mechanically it won’t make much of a difference outside of damage type.
Off the top of my head i'd think that would be mostly fighter, with maybe a few levels in tempest cleric to get some of those lightning spears he likes to chuck at bosses when you summon him. Maybe an Oath of Heroism Paladin instead of fighter to maximize his power of Jolly Cooperation
I actually built Zenitsu a while back, using at least 17 levels in Scout rogue, with a few options bouncing around to gain Advantage without an ally. running away in combat is very in-character for a conscious Zenitsu, and Sneak attack dice make a whole lot of sense for that Single Big Hit that is "thunderclap & flash". Really just take your pick of an advantage-gaining option though, he never does that with anyone around to see.
11:19 For Zenitsu maybe you could try focusing on the sword play and lightning powers with most of the build and just substitute the sleep powers with a reflavored Barbarian Rage
Really like the way this went, though I'd end up taking 5 levels of Forge Cleric instead since it gives Elemental Weapon as a 3rd. Lose out on an ABI but lets you use your WIS casting stat and better spell selection.
Hello there my fellow Dub connoisseur. Great video, as always. I'm really curious, do you have any character you want to do that would work with the recent UA Part 3 subclasses?
Tanjiro is the most Paladin anime I’ve ever seen. His sense of smell is a huge divine sense, his plot armor is the Paladin auras, and he doesn’t have a flaming sword, he has a searing smite. I love Tulok’s builds, but this one might be a candidate for a rework...
You might be able to get a more usable flame-blade or water blade by grabbing Green-Flame blade and Booming Blade from the sorcerer spell list and then using Transmuted Spell meta-magic to convert it to whichever you want. You still need 3 levels of sorcerer to pull that off, but works better than the flame blade spell, and might actually be closer to the show, I have not seen all of season 2 yet. You can also grab Quicken Spell to pull one of them off as a bonus action.
No one gonna mention that Tanjiro's fire is no different from the "water" we see in the rest of the series: just a visual effect depicting what breathing style he's using?
As far as Druid Tanjiro goes, you can get an animal companion instead of wildshape with that same UA that adds flame Blade to sorc. You could definitely travel with a wild boar.
You can choose the longsword for the kensei weapon. It'll become a monk weapon for you, allowing you to use your dexterity for It. It also fits better than a shortsword, since the demon slayer's weapons look like average length Katanas
Tanjiro is small Jonathan. Think about it they both have a familiar that has a curse and don't let them touch the sun and need to ate humans, they both use techniques that requiere having really good lungs, they both hunt the same species of their familiars. But mostly they both are good bois.
I think the Class Variants UA had an alternative to Wild Shape where you can instead summon a familiar. Seems perfect for a little crow buddy to follow you around and give you new orders.
@tulok the barbarian; , i think forge cleric would have worked a lot better than sorcerer because forge clerics get searing smite which empowers his blade with fire damage on his monk weapons which goes with his wis mod, light cleric would have also been a good choice, cause obivious, also the new cleric spell list gets wrathful smite, just saying to take into consideration for making inosuke. thank you for reading this.
Heads up, the new Druid Circle of the Stars archetype is perfect for this class. It's not official yet, of course, so I get why you wouldn't use it. But if it does make it to canon, it's great. First, the Star Map feat gives you free augury and guiding bolt spells per day, and if you make your Star Map be your sister box, you could say it represents a helping hand from Nezuko. Augury is an especially great addition, as it can be role played as her tugging on you, intuition, demon sense, or a good long sniff. Second - and this is where it shines - Starry Form lets you use up your nonsensical animal wild shapes on this ability instead, which is exceptional, and can easily be interpreted as Tanjiro's water breathing. This is especially for the Dragon form, which basically gives you the 11th level Rogue feat "Reliable Talent" for all your Int, Wis and concentration checks. Not only is that thematically perfect for Demon Slayer's breathing styles, but it also makes your Good Boi sniffer even better (for 10 minutes), and additionally nullifies the primary drawback of the Flame Blade spell you can pick up: it's reliability on concentration in melee combat. The other Constellations are okay too but not as thematic. The flair could be spun in a Demon Slayer way, but I don't think you're going to spend your two wild shapes on anything other than the Dragon Starry Form.
I love this video and the build. The only thing I don’t understand, and I read every other comment with no one else mentioning it, why you think the nichirin blade is a shortsword? I’ve been wracking my brain over this build and wondering if a katana would be better or not...katana being the longsword. My brain!
"Probably invest in all of them, because every anime character has 20 in every stat with 40 extra points to spend wherever they want." Dear god, why is that true? x'D
Hey, to start out Tanjirou’s stats were fairly average; his only real advantage was his sense of smell. All the rest of that stuff came from his 2 years of training! But yeah... he does get pretty OP as he approaches lvl 20 isn’t he manga. 🤣
Lazy writing and wish fulfillment. Don't get me wrong, love shounen and sometimes it's justified, but still.
Note: Thanks for the spoiler warnings/restraint, I'm not caught up. I agree that Demon Slayer is really good with its scaling relative to the verse. The above is more about how shounen in general can be.
Jordan Barkley I actually find Tanjirou and the others’ power scaling to be pretty good; they never feel ‘overpowered’ compared to the current threat, and they get LOTS of on-screen training as justification. You don’t actually realize how insanely powerful they’ve gotten until the start of the Infinity Fortress Arc (the latest and most likely last arc!), for reasons that I’m not going to spoil. It’s certainly better than the power progression I’ve seen in basically every other series. I’m not saying it isn’t wish fulfillment, cause it certainly is, but at least in Demon Slayer the writing is never lazy.
Spoilers below. Jordan Barkley considering the geniuses reach pillar level in a couple of months (Either gyomei or the mist pillar), a fee years of intense training, and constant life or death battles does make sense tanjirou can reach pillar level. Combining that with incomplete breath of the sun against a weakened Muzan, working with other pillars, his power isnt unreasonable.
That’s why you roll for stats and hope you get 4/6 18’s. Strength and intelligence are the easiest skills to dump in 5e after all
This is a nice Gonpachiro build.
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INOSUKEEEEE!!!!
FIGHT ME
I bet you couldn’t say my name right if you tried!
I'm not sure, but I think you're refering to Tontaro, I see a lot of people getting confused with that.
“Wait, what is he doing?”
**OHHHH MYYYY GOOOOOOD**
He's speaking the language of the gods
IT HAPPENED! IT FINALLY HAPPENED!
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 so foreshadowing that Divine Soul dip a little early huh...
*writing the language of the gods
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 Still waiting for Wraith king/Skeleton king from dota 2.
"The boar is definitely the next character I'll make from Demon Slayer. Oh wait, what about Nezuko? One of those two."
This is Zenitsu erasure and I won't stand for it lmao.
I will stand for the annoying runt getting erased. At least he got mentioned in vid as tricky potential build.
@@ArcCaravan He may be annoying early on, but he's got some of the most badass attacks. Especially later in the manga.
@@Cherryflavoredgrape He's straight up the only character to stand up to an upper rank demon on his own without any backup. Sleepy boy is also strongest boy once he stops panicking
@@MattManDX1 For real. He's my favorite for a reason lol.
@@MattManDX1 Although that upper moon was pretty much just there to fill in the ranks. Most of the upper moons have been around for hundreds of years and it was impossible to get someone as strong in such a short period of time
But is there an ability that lets you cry when a demon tells you his tragic backstory?
Roleplay
Chaotic Good.
Empathy and a DM who understands that monsters, while evil, are not necessarily undeserving of sympathy.
But you know, no homebrew.
Shan Daniel the actor feat....
Crying is usually considered a free action.
I am surprised you didn’t include “Calligraphy Proficiency” to the Pros list this time around
CapitalistStereotype what's with calligraphy? Why is it so good? It's probably because im new to dnd, but I don't understand what the fuss is all about.
Giuseppe D' Angelo It's a running joke because calligraphy is almost useless
@@PepPunz caligraphy scores coolness points
Its in the Directors Cut
I honestly built a "demon slayer" inspired character using 12 levels of (kensei) monk, and 8 levels of (monster slayer) Ranger, choosing monstrosities and fiends as favourite enemies. Pretty cool, nonetheless!
I like your build better cause it fits more true to Demon Slayer in that the characters aren't actually swinging around elements lol
Really? I always thought tanjiro would be a full paladin oath of vengeance. Sword styles are just smites, and having divine sense, which lets you literally smell demons (as well as fey, fiends, etc) is too good of a parallel to pass up. The water breathing styles are just different smites, and hunters mark is the “opening thread.”
@@maddie4834 I imagine oath of the ocean from Matt Mercer for Paladin and a few levels in battle master fighter, possibly monk
Just at the end of the build i saw how tanjiro is *extremely* strong, like, he has *26 AC* low level enemies need at least a crit to even scratch him. He does a lotta damage, *magical damage* he's fast as f*ck, he's the best boy.
This little cutie can kill an tarrasque easily
The high AC even fits with the show. Mr.Urokodaki even says that minor demons fangs and claws can't penetrate the Corps uniform that Tanjiro wears under his hayori.
So he is a Mary Sue just like in the show?
@@phelps6205 I wouldnt say mary sue :) two year training montage on top of some spoiler manga stuff i wont say lol
@@phelps6205 Tanjirou? A Mary Sue?
do you even know what a Mary Sue is? or you just throw that term to any main character you don't like?
@@phelps6205 How tf is a character build a mary sue? You can build hella strong characters, but a mary sue is defined by how they affect the story. (I'd also seriously argue he is't a mary sue in the show; extraordinary stories are allowed to have extraordinary circumstances and people, and someone eventually had to fill the requisite role well enough. Many others died trying to do roughly what he is doing, after all.)
5:15 you must be the happiest man in the world, knowing that finally calligraphy is now In character for one of your builds
Tanjiro is such a good boy and I love him. Thank you for making this.
He is. He deserves happiness
Never in my life have I needed something so much and never known it till I received it
You're welcome!
A wonderful feeling, KING Vegeta
Going to recommend Kensei Monk 17/Ranger 2/Arcane Cleric 1, with all of the differences between Tulok's build and mine:
* -1 CHA and -1 one other ability score because we lost an ASI. If you sacrifice another +1 ASI, you can take Athlete, you get some neat acrobatic benefits, plus you don't end up with any evil odd numbers from Observant.
* You lose Favored by the Gods, your Sorcery points, any lvl 1 arcane spells like Shield, and all 2nd lvl spells.
* Arcane Clerics can take two wizard cantrips and use them as Cleric spells (that is, with your Wisdom modifier). One of these can be Green-Flame Blade, which deals an extra 3d8 fire damage (and 3d8+3/4 to a second target of your choice) that you stack onto a weapon attack, which is just kind of better than Flame Blade's 3d6 that you don't get to use your regular weapon for. The drawback is that you can't use it with Extra Attack.
* Arcane Clerics also get three cleric cantrips. Combined with the two wizard cantrips, that's the same number of cantrips, just with slightly more restriction.
* You only get 6 spells per day and all of them are at lvl 1, but two of them are cast as 2nd lvl spells. Your Cleric level lets your prepare two from the Cleric list, plus you can cast Detect Magic and Magic Missile. Ranger 2 lets you learn two from the Ranger list. Hunter's Mark is great, take it.
* Unlike the Revised Ranger, the PHB Ranger can choose Fiends as their favored enemies immediately. Get advantage to finding and learning about them (along with proficiency in Arcana from Arcane Cleric), and Tanjiro's experience living in forests gets some attention. You also get +2 to damage rolls with the Dueling fighting style.
* 17th lvl Kensei Monks can reroll one attack roll if it misses. Per turn. Plus you get a higher martial arts die and one more ki point to play with if you're into that kind of thing.
So as someone who knows most of the ins and outs of D&D, I can still say that I deeply appreciate that you take the time to mention bumping con raises your health, and other minor things that people often just don't realize.
Keep on keeping on, love your content!
Zenetsu is a barbarian when he rages he is asleep
See, his whole thing is doing one really big, instant kill attack, so I'm thinking paladin.
@@Dramatic_Gaming barbarian paladin...
@@Dramatic_Gaming but I like where ur head is at
Maybe adding drunken fist monk as well
@@Dramatic_Gaming he spent some extra time asleep when fighting the spider, so...
I discovered your channel around the time that I discovered demon slayer so I’ve been hoping for this build for a while. Thanks for surprising me again.
It's what I do!
Need a strong sense of smell and high wisdom stat. I’m calling Loxodon for the race.
Obviously
It'd be an interesting alternative. Might have to try that and see what happens.
I like the extra respect you gave to alternate races and classes for the build or similar builds. This is probably your best yet for extra work. Love it and appreciate it immensely.
Instead of the four levels of Sorcerer, why not just take one level of Arcana Cleric to grab Green-Flame Blade as a "cleric" cantrip? It makes more sense anyway since the Flame Sword spell creates a new sword while Green-Flame Blade is an enhancement to a melee weapon attack that doesn't even require Tanjiro's bonus action to cast, plus it scales based on character level instead of caster level.
Also, mechanically there's no reason to keep a 'shortsword' over a 'rapier' once you can choose a kensei weapon. Shortswords can be used when dual-wielded, rapiers have a larger damage dice. Both do piercing damage. Tanjiro got a better sword, he gets a better hit pool. Alternatively, get a scimitar if you want a slashing weapon. It has the same stats as a shortsword otherwise.
I really like that green flame blade idea. You can also pick detect evil and good so that also fits.
Still perfer Sorc for that for BA GFB. Monk+Sorc is a cooler/harder to pull off than Monk+Cleric
It's harder to pull off because it's insanely MAD. Getting GFB with Cleric lets you put the racial +1 Charisma elsewhere, plus you get a higher casting modifier for all of your spells.
A lot of people seem to forget that shortswords are Piercing damage and not Slashing.
These are all some pretty good points from a mechanical standpoint. This one feels like it works a lot better for damage output.
This is why I like this community. So many different creative ideas on how to accomplish the same general goal, in addition to ideas on possible builds for the future.
Gave me the idea for Kensei Monk/Circle of Stars Druid, so I’m pretty hyped for that character, so thanks For that. Also, idk if anyone else has requested this or would be interesting in this, but I would maybe consider putting some kind of level-tracker in the overlay of the video? Something to keep track of the character’s overall level, as that’s something I find myself forgetting quite a bit while watching these. In any case, another great one, looking forward to Thursday!
That sounds like a solution to "Flame Blade MAD without furry" problem.
Hey Tulok! I've been using your John Constantine Build, and I have to say I love it! Your builds have really helped me develop better DnD characters
One of my favorite characters and builds, glad you're having fun!
"you're rage fuels my youtube algaryrhmm" that got me i love this channel.
Its surprising how effective it is. I mean, look at Nuxtaku.
As much as I dig the sorcerer levels, especially the divine soul, the KNY lore for sword techniques is not especially magical. They sort of emphasize that when Nezuko does her whole demon thing, so there is a valid argument that Tanjiro just goes full kensei, and the elemental aftereffects are just cosmetic results of sharpening the blade with ki.
Agree, but i think the idea of a 2 level dip in ranger would fit really well too. Tanjiro trained in a mountain for quite a while in order to kill one type of enemy, and "hunter's mark" being the fire on his sword works out nicely.
I agree with your statement, and if someone were to build that they should consult with there DM about the flames. Maybe their DM could give them a magic sword, that simulates the damage from the use of the sun god form or the Water form.
Your subtle references about the show events are absolute genius (eg. "Try not to break it" at 6:26)
Tulok: "If you want to bust out a ranged weapon (it's not super in-character)..."
Me after reading the latest chapter: "YEET"
Take my all rage! Fuel this blessed channel with my NEERRRRRRDDDDDD RRRAAAAGGGGGEEEEEEE!!!!!!! But seriously, love the channel and the Lets Play channel as well. You do good work. Thanks for doing what you do.
5:15- it has finally happened!!!
Oh god...
Bless your soul when that Shirou video finally comes out...
Archer from /Zero is Gilgamesh, though. Emiya is the Archer from /Stay Night
"I'm not going to make any dumb jokes in the intro". Hypocritical humor. That's fun.
"Your sister in a box is not armor." Now that's a rare sentence.
Caligraphy joke. I think this is my favorite one.
Yes, druid Tanjiro would be weird but his mentor likes giving out animal-themed masks, so there's that.
I admire your dedication to character accuracy in your builds over combat effectiveness.
I love these videos so much. I don’t even really ever play 5e much, but I just really enjoy looking at how these builds work and think of how neat it is that you make things work with playing as one of your favorite characters from either video games or cartoons/anime. Very awesome indeed. Though, I’ve always wondered how I could play Krieg from Borderlands 2 in DnD. It seems simple at first, because of course Barbarian and Frenzied Berserker, but in order to really implement the feel of the character I find the need to introduce a decent few of homebrew feats or special abilities that would actually allow me to feel like I’m playing as Krieg the Psycho. If you ever did a video on him, I think that would be absolutely incredible because your knowledge is 100 times more than my own of how to do these things. Nevertheless, great video, incredible work.
Happy Mardi Gras, and thank for thowing us this build, mistah!
Top candidate: Archer from the fate series.
Me it would have been Lancer.................. And he's already dead.
Which Lancer? Blue Boy?
@@Kuronosa yes Cu Chulain.
Edelgard all the way
For a second I thought you were going to say Archer from Archer
technically they are all dead lol. even Shirou is dead when he comes back as a Heroic Spirit.
I shall fuel you with my rage in the youtube algorithm
. . .I like dubbed and subb
Bet you didn't see that coming
Would've gone with Cleric, they use Wisdom and Breath of Fire came from a dance to the sun god.
Valid point
He could have also done a fifth level dip into forge domain for elemental weapon
ok, i just started this vid and i have watched and read ALL there is to the series and this is beautiful
I was so happy that you replied when i suggested this a while back, im glad you liked the show! Thanks for your hard work!
I am really looking forward to Inosuke. Would he be a Barb Monk? Great work on Tanjiro though, he's one I had been wondering about.
1 level in barbarian and constituition higher than wisdon would be enought for most of his character. I wonder how we'd explain the uncanny sense of touch and the fucked up joints...
With the new ruling from Tasha's, you can make Tanjiro a wood elf which is a win all around with foreign tree bumpkin, bonus movement, perception proficiency and longsword proficiency. You can use the longsword as a monk weapon. This way, you don't need to dedicate your subclass to getting a sword. Maybe go for four elements for water or long death for anime determination to survive. Also with Tasha's, you can use your Wild Shape as a druid to cast find familiar. Maybe dip into druid instead (circle of stars was my choice) for a Kasugai Crow?
I've never even seen this show and this was one of my favorite episodes. The intro killed me.
I must say, you made a lot of decisions I didn't expect. Very intriguing build I'd love to try one day
I keep watching this video for inspiration on a demon slayer esk demon slayer guild I want in my homebrew world, tulok you are a god
*Tulok: Finally makes a character with Way of the Brush who does calligraphy*
*Me:* WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? I WANNA DO THAT TOO!
"In touch with your animal side..." We've already done Maui and Beast Boy (you've also done San, but that got blocked, so I don't know if you're going to redo it or not), so it can't be them. Maybe seeing some Beast or Wolverine from the X-Men, or maybe Shantae (of you took a look into those games). But I'll just have to wait until Thursday.
He already did Wolverine. I’d be made up if he did Shantae, though.
@@OrangeyChocolate Oh yeah, whoops.
Spoilers!
Edit: I added another paragraph space b/c I didn't initially add enough & grammar
Personally, I choose to take the "flame sword" less literally, so I replaced Divine Sorcerer with Battlemaster Fighter, I took the Fighting Initiate feat instead of Defensive Duelist, and I took the Superior Technique fighting style. I then took 14 levels of Monk and 6 levels of Fighter. This way, you don't have to be a MAD lad, _and_ you can combine Deft Strike with a Battlemaster Technique _and_ Flurry of Blows _and_ Action Surge to get some _really good_ single-target damage in, especially since you _can't_ waste the resources. (Deft Strike and Techs. are activated UPON HIT, instead of when DECLARING an attack.)
Additional bonus: you also get all of your ABIs before lvl. 19.
I come back to this video every now and then simply for the calligraphy
Something I've noticed is that a few of your videos since the Class Features UA have ignored the UA outside of the Unarmed Fighting style and spells, particularly when a build would benefit from the additional/alternate features in terms of theme and imagery. Like the monks bonus action unarmed strike after spending ki for All Might, which counts as a buff to that Elemental Ki sink.
I feel like it'd be good for the builds to mention the UA, but set it apart from the vanilla class features by having the wording in black or dark grey as a shorthand for 'this is UA'
Links to the UA used in the description might also benefit those having trouble finding it.
Nani? Cool.
Also I'm not asking we get Demon Micheal Jackson anytime but.... who knows (cough)
Ah TANJIRO I was planning to ask for this character on the next video, I didn't know he was an your list already that is AWESOME
He won the redemption poll!
what's fun is that all the talk of multiclassing into druid somehow inspired my to work on a super old character.
and now my arabian monk inspired by aladdin can fire bend
thanks tulok!
Tulok has finally achieved his goal of making a character who actually uses calligraphy he must be so proud
Damn, Demon Slayer looks kickass. I’ll have to give it a watch.
Love you Tulok thanks for another badass video
And I love you random citizen
This is a great build, i love the anime/manga.
Also would love to see a ken kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul) build in the future
Great build as always, I'm still holding out hope for a Sekiro build. It's a similar setting so I was reminded of that.
Seems like Sekiro would be a relatively simple build. Way of Shadows monk, possibly combined with the UA Revived Rogue for that "death resistant element" and sneak attack. Well, it's a start, at least.
Roy Mustang build please!
oh PLEEAAASE TULOK
FIREBALLLLLLL
First level monk 19th level evocation wizard who decided to make his spellbook a glove, and now has only two spells there.
@@marcospatricio8283 That would fit Mustang!
Ok Tulok this is my first comment i subbed a while back been waiting fo this to come up and my judgement as DM and PC is thank you well done I like your take on this very nicely done funny Jokes too that is all...
I was actually looking around yesterday to see if anyone had done this build, and I thought why hasnt Tulok done this yet? But my question is...and before anyone crucified me...why not go ranger? Favored enemy could be demons, could help with using sense to hunt, stats align a little better too. Just curious, still love the videos.
Definitely agree that two levels of ranger could have helped Tanjiro a lot, though whether or not losing the ASI would be worth it is up for debate. Combine it with my idea of Arcana Cleric 1 instead of Divine Soul Sorceror 4, and you could still get one free reroll on a weapon attack per turn from Monk 17.
You would still get the ASI from total level 19,I think. Otherwise, all good!
@@thesunwillneverset ASI is based on class level, not total level. If you put 2 levels in ranger, even if your monk level is 18, you don't get a level 19 ASI.
Considering that his flame blade doesn't deal fire damage (just cuts better) and that his habilities are related to his mark, reflavoring dance of the fire god as atacks made with hunter's mark works nicely for me.
And I believe I've read that the elemental visuals are simply just effects, there is no actual fire, water or lightning, just there to show the style they are using, and eye candy, it's still an interesting build. If I ever get to do a build like this I may focus more on the demon hunting aspect maybe take a 2 level dip in fighter for action surge,
HOW IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THAT MAGNIFICENT ALWAYS SUNNY JOKE?! He NOSE crime
Every single goddamn video until Tulok builds Turok in a video
I really thought you were going to take levels in Paladin for "Divine Sense" to use it as a sense of smell to detect demons.
I'd personally trade that out for the Sorcerer levels.
The "flame blade" bit wasn't any more literal than the water blade thing. The calligraphy element effects aren't literal, just to give a visible metaphor to fighting style. So, not as necessary as you made it out to be lol
Genuinely thought you were planning some sweet sweet blood hunter with how you were talking about turning into animals and flaming blades
Order of the Lycan might be an interesting way to make a character like Inosuke.
Glad to see this, hope to see your version of Nezuko soon!
(My Adventurers League Nezuko-esque character is a Tiefling (Zariel) Monk/Barbarian)
Woah woah, you mean to tell me, to tell all of us,
That you really let a character have Calligraphy? Tulok, that's outrageous! It's unfair!
Take a seat Tibbo Ocelot
Automatically liking the best boy
Bless you
If you want you can skip the sorcerer dip and instead go straight monk, if you take the gift of the chromatic dragon, you can infuse your weapon with an element, including fire, when you do so, you deal an extra d4 of the damage type, you can also use a reaction to gain resistance to the type of damage, best part is that is works with your monk festures including extra attack, you can even then invest the four levels in monk or even another class like ranger for more dps and a use of concentration on hunters mark or favoured foe, you could take gloom stalker for the initiative boost and the dps increase, plus dark vision is pretty handy
Fantastic anime build as always. You always surprise me.
Guess you're adding Demon Cinnamon-Roll AND Beast Mode to the docket. Fun-fun... Nezuko is adorable, and I love Inosuke. He's so "bro!"
Since this is something a lot of people get wrong constantly (including myself,) shortswords do piercing damage, not slashing. If you wanna be a stickler for character accuracy a scimitar would make a better katana analogue, but mechanically it won’t make much of a difference outside of damage type.
I asked on Patreon, but could you do a build for Solaire from Dark Souls?
Maybe eventually!
Off the top of my head i'd think that would be mostly fighter, with maybe a few levels in tempest cleric to get some of those lightning spears he likes to chuck at bosses when you summon him. Maybe an Oath of Heroism Paladin instead of fighter to maximize his power of Jolly Cooperation
I know you are probably already gonna do it before long, but I just wanna say... The Doctor from Doctor Who!
Love ya
After you finish with the boar give our favorite lighting boy some love please
5:00 Kensei shot by throwing an axe?
So now that wild companion is a thing and tanjiro has a guiding crow druid tanjiro is more and more appealing
I actually built Zenitsu a while back, using at least 17 levels in Scout rogue, with a few options bouncing around to gain Advantage without an ally. running away in combat is very in-character for a conscious Zenitsu, and Sneak attack dice make a whole lot of sense for that Single Big Hit that is "thunderclap & flash". Really just take your pick of an advantage-gaining option though, he never does that with anyone around to see.
11:19 For Zenitsu maybe you could try focusing on the sword play and lightning powers with most of the build and just substitute the sleep powers with a reflavored Barbarian Rage
Really like the way this went, though I'd end up taking 5 levels of Forge Cleric instead since it gives Elemental Weapon as a 3rd. Lose out on an ABI but lets you use your WIS casting stat and better spell selection.
Calligraphy alert is the funniest thing I've heard all day
I was proud of that, thank you
I'd love to see your build for Jin from the Xenoblade series.
@Andrew Cross Morag would also be great! Not a fan of Rex so gotta try to get people to "vote" for Jin :D
I'd rather see a Shulk build. Or Riki. Maybe Tora/Poppi.
@@ArcCaravan I'm really feeling it!
Nice to finally see a RUclipsr who doesn't flex on dun lovers :'3
"You're not going to get there if you're pig headed" is that a crack on Inosuke?
Hello there my fellow Dub connoisseur. Great video, as always. I'm really curious, do you have any character you want to do that would work with the recent UA Part 3 subclasses?
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 We will rise! Eventually. I hope
Tanjiro is the most Paladin anime I’ve ever seen. His sense of smell is a huge divine sense, his plot armor is the Paladin auras, and he doesn’t have a flaming sword, he has a searing smite. I love Tulok’s builds, but this one might be a candidate for a rework...
You might be able to get a more usable flame-blade or water blade by grabbing Green-Flame blade and Booming Blade from the sorcerer spell list and then using Transmuted Spell meta-magic to convert it to whichever you want. You still need 3 levels of sorcerer to pull that off, but works better than the flame blade spell, and might actually be closer to the show, I have not seen all of season 2 yet. You can also grab Quicken Spell to pull one of them off as a bonus action.
No one gonna mention that Tanjiro's fire is no different from the "water" we see in the rest of the series: just a visual effect depicting what breathing style he's using?
"Your rage fuels me". That made me laugh so hard.
I love this so much. I can't wait to get this character built
I’m unfortunately not on Patreon but my god I’ve wanted to see Tulok do a Fate character (specifically Archer too) for so long! Please let him win out
Finally I catched up with the show, so I can watch the build
As far as Druid Tanjiro goes, you can get an animal companion instead of wildshape with that same UA that adds flame Blade to sorc. You could definitely travel with a wild boar.
"Strength 10 since you're a kid and you're not that strong" tanjiro sliced a bolder in half near the beginning of the show
You can choose the longsword for the kensei weapon. It'll become a monk weapon for you, allowing you to use your dexterity for It.
It also fits better than a shortsword, since the demon slayer's weapons look like average length Katanas
"You get Kensei shot which you can use for ranged weapons though that's out of character"
*starts laughing madly in Train of Infinite Dreams arc*
Tanjiro is small Jonathan.
Think about it they both have a familiar that has a curse and don't let them touch the sun and need to ate humans, they both use techniques that requiere having really good lungs, they both hunt the same species of their familiars. But mostly they both are good bois.
@@ShankMugen everything is a jojo reference
I think the Class Variants UA had an alternative to Wild Shape where you can instead summon a familiar. Seems perfect for a little crow buddy to follow you around and give you new orders.
Thank you for just nailing the intro song
You are just taunting the Anderson Cooper requester at this point. Hilarious, more!
@tulok the barbarian; , i think forge cleric would have worked a lot better than sorcerer because forge clerics get searing smite which empowers his blade with fire damage on his monk weapons which goes with his wis mod, light cleric would have also been a good choice, cause obivious, also the new cleric spell list gets wrathful smite, just saying to take into consideration for making inosuke. thank you for reading this.
I haven't watched much of this anime but I love this build
Oooh, its one of my favorites.
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 My friend loves it but I've been distracted on catching up with clone wars. I'll add it to the list of anime.
Heads up, the new Druid Circle of the Stars archetype is perfect for this class. It's not official yet, of course, so I get why you wouldn't use it. But if it does make it to canon, it's great. First, the Star Map feat gives you free augury and guiding bolt spells per day, and if you make your Star Map be your sister box, you could say it represents a helping hand from Nezuko. Augury is an especially great addition, as it can be role played as her tugging on you, intuition, demon sense, or a good long sniff. Second - and this is where it shines - Starry Form lets you use up your nonsensical animal wild shapes on this ability instead, which is exceptional, and can easily be interpreted as Tanjiro's water breathing. This is especially for the Dragon form, which basically gives you the 11th level Rogue feat "Reliable Talent" for all your Int, Wis and concentration checks. Not only is that thematically perfect for Demon Slayer's breathing styles, but it also makes your Good Boi sniffer even better (for 10 minutes), and additionally nullifies the primary drawback of the Flame Blade spell you can pick up: it's reliability on concentration in melee combat. The other Constellations are okay too but not as thematic. The flair could be spun in a Demon Slayer way, but I don't think you're going to spend your two wild shapes on anything other than the Dragon Starry Form.
I love this video and the build. The only thing I don’t understand, and I read every other comment with no one else mentioning it, why you think the nichirin blade is a shortsword? I’ve been wracking my brain over this build and wondering if a katana would be better or not...katana being the longsword. My brain!