Heimdall is arrogant and prideful, he was never defeated in a fight because no one was able to hit him, so when it finally happened his egotistic ass couldn't accept being defeated, hence why he refuses to be spared and goes on to get smashed out of his soul.
@@LegendaryDarkKnight602 Would he? Hermes might just be so fast even Heimdall's mindreading would be too slow. (Just because you know a grenade is gonna blow you up, doesn't stop it from doing so if you're in a locked small room with it if you can't get away from it, right?)
Like you said he was extremely arrogant throughout the fight it kept claiming to kratos do you know who I am but in reality he he didn't realize who kratos was and the quote old wise turtle hermit arrogance is for fools not warriors
One of the things i love about this fight is you get to watch Kratos get closer and closer with each attempt. Heimdall doesnt adapt or learn, he depends on being able to read his opponent's mind, but always reacts the same way. So at the end, Kratos goes in for that left hook for the jaw, but its actually a trap to bring up the guard for the wrist grab.
@Taganoym They both are not trained, both are good fighters because of their experience with heimdall having participated in over 1000 battles against the jotun while thor having slayed many titans. Both are formidable fighters. Heimdall can be cocky at times, but to be fair, he would have beaten kratos if it wasn't for the spear. (It was confirmed) Heimdall is considered one of the smartest gods in the north patheon and also has an underrated battle iq being able to adapt in the fight when kratos actually lands a punch by not letting it overwhelm him and continue dodging aswell as when he kicked sand in kratos eye, of course these feats are overshadowed by kratos easily but people saying he is dumb is a stretch.
@@yogurtgod5605that's so stupid to me cause all he had was his foresight that's literally the only reason he could win the fight with kratos and the only way he would have won is if he tired kratos out to the point where kratos couldn't counter, because he's clearly not faster stronger or a better fighter, it's so annoying to me that people say it's just the spear that's the only reason like no he was a better fighter faster and stronger
@douglaswhite2038 Heimdall is faster than kratos. he was zigzagging around like a speedster, and strength does not decide a fight. Kratos would not be able to touch heimdall and heimdall would only have to counter attack after every attack to win, and if kratos does land a hit which he won't, heimdall was actually fairly tanky being able to block and just eat up kratos punches, plus he can make a bitfrost shield which he won't need and can regenerate lost limbs to make them stronger which he will most definitely not need, oh and he can realm shift.
@@yogurtgod5605 ok maybe his traversal speed is faster but in terms* of combat speed he ain't pulling off anything like baldye did in the first game, so definitely not out pacing him in combat, and also just because he's fought that many times doesn't mean he's a better fighter, clearly, and heimdalls foresight is what a fighter would call a crutch, just like the spear if heimdalls didn't have firesight he ain't got shit on kratos l, and yeh you can say that heimdalls was born with it so it's not a good comparison, but a crutch is a crutch and kratos hard countered it with a weapon he earned
@Sparlis he actually doesn't need Gaia's help,he used her cuz they were in the fucking mountain and he was fighting poseidon in the fucking air,Gaia just hold him for seconds,even though poseidon notice that and hold Gaia kratos was the one who free her,so basically it's all kratos doing,if they fight on the ground one vs one kratos easily killing poseidon ,and don't forget that even posiedon take the body of titan to fight kratos so u can say it's was god&titan VS god&titan and kratos defeated all of the 2 titans and god
@@Sparlis we could say the same thing about Poseidon, as soon as he can't reach water, he's just a man who is stronger than mortals (in you logic, that's not true)
At that point, why don't we do Kratos vs Hephaestus and Aphrodite, where Kratos literally forces him to do some smithing, cucks him, makes her orgasm, and then kills him? Lmao
I feel like not enough credit is given to Kratos in the first 3 R3 encounters with Heimdall. Throughout this entire arc of the game, he's heard how Heimdall has never been touched, how he can see the future and dodge every attack that's made before it's been made. So Kratos, using that base, uses his first attack to judge him. Slow, wide attacks to judge how Heimdall reacts to them. Then he speeds up to test Heimdall's reaction time, and actually forces Heimdall to block in order to avoid getting hit... he made a man famous for dodging attacks block. And then in the third encounter, he used the same pattern even faster, but switched up his last attack to be a grab rather than a blow, and landed a hit on heimdall. In a matter of seconds, Kratos tests this man, devises a plan, tests the plan, and then executes it effectively. And that's even without the spear, he did those three R3s with his fists only. As for why Heimdall didn't take advantage of a lot of the openings that Kratos made for him, it's for two reasons: one, you're right Heimdall is actually a terrible fighter. He's got a strong punch with that bifrost energy arm, and he's supernaturally strong even without it (godhood stuff) but he's never actually had to *fight* someone before. He's a rich spoiled daddy's boy who can see the future. So all of the few fights he's been in were never real fights that he had to try in. And reason two, he's overconfident and cocky as fuck because of reason one. He thinks he can't be hit, so to him this is all a game. He's playing with Kratos and doesn't realize that Kratos is measuring him up and learning his patterns until it's far, *far* too late.
@@deadman3824 The fact it went like that tells me the spear was for convenience, otherwise why wouldn't his R3 involve the spear somehow? I'm willing to bet Kratos could have started throwing punches so fast that Heimdall's foresight would not have been able to keep up with him.
Also something to note, in that initial phase where you have to get those R3 moves off on him, kratos can't do shit to him. He dodges every hit you throw, and only is affected by the spear detonation. And after Kratos lands that first punch, his stagger meter under the health bar is permanently full and red, he's vulnerable and he knows his mind reading can't keep up against Kratos after taking a blow like that which hurts both his pride and throws him way off his game.
Heimdall was dimly aware that he was a shit fighter when he knew Thor could overcome his foresight with sheer force, but because Kratos holds back quite a lot and his discipline is at odds with the Aesir approaches to combat Heimdall failed to recognize that Kratos had enough experience to overcome the foresight without bringing his full strength to bare. Heimdall was ultimately weaker than the demigods Kratos fought on his way to the Sisters of Fate
Pretty sure the reason Heimdall is bad at fighting without his power to see the future is because he doesn’t seem to go outside of Asgard, except the boss fight so he doesn’t have proper battle experience unlike Thor who has gone out of Asgard and has fought foes and Heimdall doesn’t seem to train his body or power at all, beside that great video
It's actually kind of ironic, as amongst sword users in Asgard, Heimdall is arguably the best among them. Obviously, this could've been because of his power. All the same, one can't account for his actual mastery of the bifrost to be because of his foresight. Even which Kratos mentions is particularly impressive about him. Most of his skill can't get much better, being capped by the fact that he can already see the moves of his opponents. In and out of training. Even still, without it, he's fairly good at fighting and is remarkably deadly against most enemies. Just not Kratos, for obvious reasons.
Heimdall's shattered sense of ego wouldnt allow him to go back to Asgard defeated. He would no longer be regarded as untouchable, the people would scorn him, and he knew it. It was his shamed pride that killed him.
He was never "untouchable" just undefeated because he knew who not to mess with. Kratos kept the same beast Thor showed him earlier in the story down and is trying to abandon it altogether. Had he seen the same Kratos that came out when Thor brought up Odins plans I imagine he'd have been much more hesitant to engage. I'm pretty sure that's the same Kratos that free hand tore off Helios's head, beat Heracles face in and chopped off Hermes legs just to rob his Gold Airforce 11s! Someone blinded by rage and operating off pure instinct after an extended fight is someone Heimdall just can't properly handle since he doesn't scrap often enough. And this makes sense considering how many people I've seen online get folded by the dual wielding duergar berserkers in this game.
@@FierceDeity35Honestly, I can see that. Like Kratos, Tyr is disciplined, determined, highly skilled, and heavily armed. I'm sure he could overwhelm Heimdall just with so many abilities in his arsenal. I also believe that the only reason Thor doesn't wreck him is because of Odin's command. Striking Heimdall, for him, would basically mean nuking a large area in Asgard, which Odin can't have.
Also the only way to reach vahalla is through death in battle. So Kratos sparing him was the ultimate slap in the slap cause he’s calling him worthless and denying him a worthy afterlife
It’s small but at 1:27 he doesn’t hit kratos at all he stops his swing to laugh at him you can see as kratos’s arm doesn’t react and he doesn’t lose any health
@@CrueltyFreeDyeah it’s actually part of the gameplay. Once he attacks you, he’ll follow up and if you try to block that attack he will notice and stop to do that disrespectful kick. If you don’t try to block during gameplay he actually follows through with the attack
The fight overall gives me the feeling that Kratos is dialing in his attacks to Heimdall. He probably didn't expect the easy dodging in the first go. That second one where he was blocked feels like Kratos just looking to see how well Heimdall actually reacts. And then the third he connects. Knowing that someone is going to punch you is one thing, being fast enough to get out of the way is another.
He's using the same 1-2 combo every time, so he's 'training' Heimdall to react with the same defensive sequence every time. To Heimdall, it looks like Kratos is just an idiot using the same attack pattern every time, but when comes the wrist grab...
Kratos' sequences where he kept whiffing on heimdall was only a way for kratos to test his defence skill, which is why Kratos would punch faster and faster every time he concussed heimdal
Not at all. Kratos was simply getting angrier and angrier the more he missed and the less strategical he became as it is made obvious by his blind rage to going back to his ps3 ways. Than plot armor and plot damage kicked in for Kratos so that's all she wrote. What a clown take on someone who's never seen a boxer haha. Heimdall was based around elite boxers in the world on his motion movement in the behind the scenes, but you keep talking my little attack on titan weirdo weebo soy boy beta lmao.
That just tells me Kratos would have eventually landed a bit regardless, whether it was because the clear head would have made it harder for Heimdall to see what's coming and react, or Kratos just started punching so fast that even the mind reading couldn't keep up with him.
@@Mr_Triscuit I mean Kratos is way stronger than Heimdall, and even faster than him, especially due to the fact that it's the same Kratos who had toyed with Hermes lmao.
The fact that Heimdall can literally see the future which is basically the ONLY reason he could dodge, and Kratos basically just OVERPOWERS that Future Sight, really just shows how impressive Kratos is. That's literally like in Dragon Ball Super when Goku just negates Hit's Time SKIP with sheer power and technique lmao.
@@kimicrewe4443iT WORKZ MORE LiKE AN ADVANCED SPiDER SENSE, iT KAN TELL HiM ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT'Z GOiNG TO HAPPEN AS LONG AS iT'Z TURNED ON, BUT iT'Z STiLL UP TO HiM TO ACTUALLY ACT ON THE iNFORMATiON iF HEiMDALL WANTED TO STAY STiLL & EAT A PUNCH HE COULD, BUT DRAUPNiR'Z MULTiPLE EXPLOSiONZ & KRATOS'Z BODY CATCHiNGZ WERE FUCKiNG HiM UP TOO MUCH & OR LOCKiNG HiM iN PLACE LONG ENOUGH 4 KRATOS TO LAND A HiT ON HiM
@@kimicrewe4443 iT WORKZ MORE LiKE AN ADVANCED SPiDER SENSE, iT KAN TELL HiM ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT'Z GOiNG TO HAPPEN AS LONG AS iT'Z TURNED ON, BUT iT'Z STiLL UP TO HiM TO ACTUALLY ACT ON THE iNFORMATiON
@@kimicrewe4443iF HEiMDALL WANTED TO STAY STiLL & EAT A PUNCH HE COULD, BUT DRAUPNiR'Z MULTiPLE EXPLOSiONZ & KRATOS'Z BODY CATCHiNGZ WERE FUCKiNG HiM UP TOO MUCH & OR LOCKiNG HiM iN PLACE LONG ENOUGH 4 KRATOS TO LAND A HiT ON HiM
Great video! Yea there are lots of cool parts in this fight. My favorite is when kratos is going through his punching combos in round 1. He's speeding up his punches each time and adjusting based on how heimdall was maneuvering. At the end of the third combo, kratos grabbed Heimdall's wrist because that's how heimdall blocked him in the previous combo. That first round was just Kratos figuring out heimdall's fighting style/weaknesses Overall a great fight to show off kratos' fighting IQ!
My favorite is the insult that it is. It’s the same combo each time, and in most fights your opponent will punish you hard for that; but Heimdall can’t actually fight. So, ironically, he’s defeated by something most decent (and beyond) fighters would have been able to predict and punish.
Heimdall can read minds. And he was one of the servants to Odin. Pretty sure he never fought someone like Kratos before and if he did he had backup. Basically: No one ever managed to hit him and he had no reason to actually learn things like counter attacking
@@fumofumo7815basically if Gojo just abused his invincibility and so never learned how to fight beyond just punching people, and always played with his food first without any urgency.
@@BLANK-pr5qs I mean he's a god so he's a lot stronger than Gojo could wish to be. Normal humans couldn't do very much. But if Heimdall and Gojo were scaled equally I'd argue Gojo wins cause he can heal and has ranged attacks
@@fumofumo7815 I mean more accurately: Heimdall just can’t land a hit. Heimdall is amazing at dodging, Gojo doesn’t have to dodge, you just can’t get close even if he’s standing totally still. Heimdall just has no way around it.
@@fumofumo7815gojo cant win either since he wont be able to touch heimdall Also, since this dude is a god, he can likely pull off shit that overcomes infinity. He is from a verse where thor can force time travel someone just coz he struck them really hard. Infinity doesnt sound that impressive in comparison
Something a lot of people miss is that in the first 2 attempts, Kratos is throwing Large Haymakers which honestly Heimdall could probably dodge even without his powers, but it perfectly sets Kratos up for when he finally tightens his stance and throws out fast consecutive hits on the third attempt. A nice way of how even though Heimdall can see the future, Kratos is using the present to inflate his Ego to increase the possibility of catching him lacking
It was pretty clear the point of the haymakers wasn't to hit Heimdall. Kratos is far too seasoned of a fighter to do something so amateur-like without the purpose that a former general would have. After he got a feel for how fast Heimdall could dodge on his own, he cranked up the speed to test the limits of Heimdall's foresight along with pushing the limits of his defensive capabilities. It was only after the first two that Kratos was now really looking to get that hit in. Sooner or later Kratos would have landed the hit. The spear was for convenience.
@Mr_Triscuit Given the story buildup in the game and what the writers have said, I'd say less "convenience" and more "guarantee." Heimdal initially didnt view the spear as a threat, and probably could not adequately predict when a spear was going to detonate. This let Kratos get in close to actually perform these combos; otherwise he might have spent too much energy trying to wrangle Heimdal into a corner to keep him from darting away when the pressure was cranked up. The spear was used as the equivalent of nailing his shoe to the floor.
Heimdall's performance in the late-game was largely due to the fact that he simply wasn't taking the fight seriously enough considering his opponent's nature. He tried to go for the strategy of letting his opponent tire themselves out by remaining passive but keeping close enough to the action that he'd able to capitalize once he started to see Kratos slowing down from fatigue. This however fell apart quickly as Kratos was fast to figure this out and catch him when Heimdall's defensive game turned to blocking over dodging. By the time Kratos had caught on to Heimdall's game plan, the Norse God had already been concussed several times and the shock of being struck in the face compounded the damage on his mental state. What followed was simply a matter of Heimdall getting sloppy and in his anger reverting to bully tactics he always falls back on, hence the pushing and sand-kicking. Kratos even at his angriest maintains precision due to his ironclad Spartan discipline and had no such weakness as he maintained laser-focus even in the end when he was seeing red and killed Heimdall before he even knew what he was doing. Had Heimdall kept calm and brought his late-game offense to the table for the entire battle's length, he might still not have won, but the battle would have been a great deal closer, perhaps even landing blows on Kratos that would have forced the Spartan to take a break from the battlefield. Unfortunately, this was not meant to be and the Spartan wrapped things up cleanly enough that he was still in fighting shape to then deliver his friends from the jaws of death in top form.
What I love about the norse games fights is that they show the importance of discipline in battle. Baldur, Heimdall and Thor all had their advantages but where let down by their insanity, temper and rage respectively. Kratos on the other end spent years, if not centuries honing and controlling his rage and used that to stay focused in every fight he is in.
@@reallynotsogoldenisopod Especially in part as self-reconciliation for his past crimes against his own people, both God and innocent mortal alike. In a way, Baldur, Heimdall, and Thor each represented the worse aspects of Greek Kratos, which is in part or in full why Kratos tried to first reason with his Norse foes with only Thor listening at the very end. Odin perhaps reminded Kratos of his own father, King of the gods more powerful than all except their own paranoia and only made an enemy of him through his persistent interest in his son, Atreus.
Another detail I’ve always enjoyed about this fight. At 3:00 Kratos grab is able to grab Heimdall’s left arm there because during his previous attempt, that was the same arm Heimdall blocked with him with.
I feel like everyone is forgetting the difference between God of War 3 Kratos and GoW Ragnorak Kratos is he is calmer now and more composed which is bad for anyone picking a fight with him. prior to God of War 2018, he relied on his anger and hatred to keep him going. after meeting Faye, his wife, he started to train that anger to become better and avoid getting angry. a calm Kratos is one that can plan, adapt, and grow in a fight which is why Heimdall didn't have a chance. we see his first few punches are big and have a wide swing. the 2nd set shows him adapting to move quicker. the 3rd set shows him moving faster and being closer to him rather than before where he was throwing wider punches
Two things. The first is, Kratos has always been good at adapting mid-fight, him being calm just makes him even better at it. And the second, he was trying to become a calmer person before meeting Faye, hence why she even entertained his presence, he just got a lot better at it after having met her.
its because heimdall is so arrogant and cocky, he thinks he knows everything, he thinks theres nobody better than him. he thinks he can toy with kratos. Thats why he always dodges. In his mind kratos aint shit so he thought he can play with kratos a bit. Little did he know what about to come.
@@zacgonzales5883 that’s because Thor can do something that Kratos can’t and that Heimdall can’t dodge, large AOE attacks, Heimdall is fast but he’s not dodge lightning fast
There’s a variety of reasons why Heimdall lost this, the first is that his ability to see his opponents' moves is less foresight more reading their intentions, and against a god much older than he is with so much more combat experience, literal centuries of combat experience at this point, and that’s at the minimum, his foresight would fail him quickly as it can’t read someone who fights on instinct. A bigger one is that Kratos is legitimately faster than Heimdall, which can be seen each time he moves in for a combo on Heimdall. The first one was slow, deliberate, he wanted to see what Heimdall's power could do, the second was faster, he wanted to see how good Heimdall was, and in the third where he realized that Heimdall was not an experienced fighter and relied too heavily on his foresight in battle, he speeds up quick because he knows that Heimdall won’t be able to react in time. (No, he didn’t need the spear, he never needed the spear, he himself says he doesn’t need the spear, but he knows the importance of being prepared and so gets the spear, because one can never have too many preparations.) Kratos is also physically stronger than every god in the Norse pantheon, even including Thor, however canonically he’s holding back, and the only times he starts getting serious is when we are prompted to use Spartan Rage, as those are the only times Kratos decides to let loose, even if only a little. So Heimdall is incapable of overpowering Kratos in a test of strength. Kratos is also considerably more durable, as well as possessing a healing factor, shown in his first battle against Baldur, which none of the Norse gods possess, even Baldur only had a similar healing factor because of the blessing, and once that was broken, no more healing factor. So Kratos had the advantage in speed, strength, durability, combat, experience, stamina, even tricks as well since he had quite a few while Heimdall had woefully few. All in all, Heimdall was fucked from the beginning.
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Heimdall's probably never needed to fight fr. He just weaves until the other person gets tired so when he had Kratos turned around he just pushed him. He can't box fr😂
He can box wdym. The first half he was messing with kratos but draupnir was messing up his future sight. So when he got hit he got all angry and got destroyed
@@Fusion237he can’t box fr he relies on that foresight way too mucus kratos is way more skilled and experienced than him u see how he adapted to heimdalls fighting styles each sequence kratos started going faster
Not at all. Kratos was simply getting angrier and angrier the more he missed and the less strategical he became as it is made obvious by his blind rage to going back to his ps3 ways. Than plot armor and plot damage kicked in for Kratos so that's all she wrote. What a clown take on someone who's never seen a boxer haha. Heimdall was based around elite boxers in the world on his motion movement in the behind the scenes, but you keep talking my little attack on titan weirdo weebo soy boy beta lmao.
@@pressuhh-yt Not at all. Kratos was simply getting angrier and angrier the more he missed and the less strategical he became as it is made obvious by his blind rage to going back to his ps3 ways. Than plot armor and plot damage kicked in for Kratos so that's all she wrote. What a clown take on someone who's never seen a boxer haha. Heimdall was based around elite boxers in the world on his motion movement in the behind the scenes, but you keep talking my little attack on titan weirdo weebo soy boy beta lmao.
the first round is just Kratos figuring out Heimdall's fighting style, at first attempt he threw multiple heavy punches which Heimdall outright dodges, then the second attempt he threw a barrage of fast punches making Heimdall to struggle to keep up the dodges resulting to just block the last punch, then the last one Kratos did the exact barrage of fast punches but it's was a set up for a fake out to grab Heimdall's hand and land a punch of Heimdall's unguarded face, even more cool is that after the first and second attempt Kratos relaxes his shoulders like "alright, I see what's going on"
Not at all. Kratos was simply getting angrier and angrier the more he missed and the less strategical he became as it is made obvious by his blind rage to going back to his ps3 ways. Than plot armor and plot damage kicked in for Kratos so that's all she wrote.
late comment, also no idea if someone has commented this before, but when Kratos was throwing hands in round 1 with Heimdall, each time he let out a flurry of punches he sped up exponentially to match and eventually exceed Heimdall’s. He essentially moved faster than Heimdall could react by the third flurry even though Heimdall KNEW what he was going to do, and I think that’s worth mentioning. I personally think he was taking the time that Heimdall wasn’t attacking him back to measure him up and see how fast he was, but that’s just my opinion.
It's a ego you get when things that allows you to negate damage. Without feeling pain baldur had little need to dodge or block. Heimdall could see the future he just forgot the fact that being able to see stuff coming does not mean you can stop it from hitting him
@@jamesbrown6994 Not at all. Kratos was simply getting angrier and angrier the more he missed and the less strategical he became as it is made obvious by his blind rage to going back to his ps3 ways. Than plot armor and plot damage kicked in for Kratos so that's all she wrote. What a clown take on someone who's never seen a boxer haha. Heimdall was based around elite boxers in the world on his motion movement in the behind the scenes, but you keep talking my little attack on titan weirdo weebo soy boy beta lmao.
Baldur didn't play though, He genuinely wanted to die he grew tired of being immortal because of his mother. yo where are all you weebos with your 100% wrong clown takes coming from lmaooo. It is wild man.
About the rant at the end, there are people in this world that just don't know how to take an L for whatever reason. For some people it may be linked to some childhood trauma like your value as a person being tied to your success or doing so well in your younger years that you just won't accept losing because to you it shouldn't even be a possibility. Heimdall probably thought of kratos as some bald caveman who has the audacity to pity the greatest god to ever exist and no way he was gonna let it go.
I just got done watching all these fight analysis videos and there are so good! You definitely gotta make more of these! You should try these types of videos in other games too. Definitely earned a sub
"Submission" implies Heimdall tapped or otherwise surrendered. The finish here is a full someone-for-the-love-of-God-get-the-ref knockout. Another day, another request for Kakashi VS Obito
Heimdall was just way too arrogant at the end of the day. He probably never trained a day in his life and completely relied on his abilities which he thought made him invincible. He never even tries to properly attack Kratos with his sword, only toying with him with the scabbard. Heimdall had crazy potential but he didn’t rise to meet it
The Spear was so badass tho. Perfect for a Spartan. The wind power also compliments the Frost of the Axe and the Fire of his blades. The triple element power.
I feel like the bad at throwing hands, heimdall felt like a lapdog, someone to get ahead in a battle that Odin could take advantage of. Just look at the times Heimdall and Odin would talk one on one and would seemingly be so confident as to allow Loki to have such precious and rather important items to give to someone he barely knows IF he didn’t have someone tell him the conflicted thoughts. Remember in one glance, one conversation Heimdall sees everything and knows the person inside and out. But it’s only good for reading a person not really good for fighting as showcased when kratos started to trick the mind reading and let himself be read and counteract the foresight.
Something to point out, Kratos' swing combos on Heimdall is Kratos trying to figure out how fast he is. His swings start real wide, and gets tighter and tighter before he manages that first hit to his face.
Heimdall would have won if kratos did not have the spear. Kratos was only able to beat him because of the spear since we all know it was built to counter his foresight and we know this because after the third major stun there is a nice detail where Heimdalls stun meter remains full for the rest of the fight. He started struggling to dodge kratos punches nit because kratos was being faster but because his foresight was becoming more and more useless by each stun to the point he couldn't use it to his advantage for the rest of the fight.
A nice detail is that when Kratos hits Heimdall for the first time, the cut on his face is caused by the Draupnir ring, so in a way the spear really was the first thing that actually hurt him.
I love the three cutscene segments leading to Kratos’ first connection. First one Kratos is intentionally slow and telegraphed (saved for a right/left combo that’s closer together), testing the limits of both Heimdall’s foresight and his ability to dodge attacks. The second barrage is slightly faster, with slightly less telegraphed attacks, and then you can actually see Kratos figures out the reaches of Heimdall’s ability to dodge by forcing him to block an attack as opposed to ducking it; we also get an idea of his combat experience: “These are new bracers.” Then the third one, a much faster flurry to keep Heimdall on his back foot, then Heimdall is forced to block, gets grabbed, right hook to the face. My favorite part of all of this is in all three encounters, it’s the same combo. So ironically, the god with foresight is defeated by something majority of other fighters would have been able to see coming and react accordingly. Also: the Bifrost is an offensive tool for Heimdall as well; whenever he gets staggered, instead of trying to take advantage of his opponents getting in close, he’s so arrogant he believes it won’t matter, Heimdall can wear them down other ways, so he doesn’t tire himself out by fighting back in the pocket. This also serves to embarrass his opponents, showing them struggling to do anything whilst he effortlessly dodges literally everything
The concussive blow openings with the spear are mostly for gameplay reasons. The reason why kratos was able to land blows at some point, was because he figured out how heimdalls ability worked and started to clear his mind and just start punching on pure instinct. Thats why Heimdall asks Kratos in the middle of the fight "whats going on in that empty head of yours"
I loved the video! Honestly I think Heimdall doesn't know how to fight very well because he never has to REALLY fight, he dodges and does smalltime punishes. Excellent analysis!
Honestly, the wildest thing about how he beat the beast is, he didn't just throw it into the wall. If you watch it slowly, you can see he stops the charge, shifts a little, then pulls the beast along when it tries to charge again, essentially causing it to run into the wall. Meaning it wasn't just a strength throw, it was a technique throw. One that he clearly sets up almost immediately, too. You can even see something similar, when he first engages with Heimdall, as well. Where each of his rushes pull tighter and faster, forcing Heimdall to start relying on pattern, more than reflex and forethought. Leading to Kratos being able to get him with a near identical rush, leading into a grapple from the predictable block.
Heimdall's hubris is his downfall. By growing over-reliant on his foresight, he was able to see Kratos's fists coming before they landed, but he didn't train his body to dodge quick enough. His hubris is also why he doesn't let Kratos "decide (his) fate"
The reason Heimdall didn’t go for any attacks when he could’ve easily hit him, is because he relies on his mind reading to dodge too much, he never had to actually throw hands before cause he can read peoples minds and just dodge, he was cocky. But eventually Kratos realized this and started using muscle memory to fight which is why when he actually was able to get hits in heimdall was confused, he’s never been hit cause he dodges and reads minds, but Kratos turned off his mind and just went for it
Heimdall seems like a squishy god. Like, Kratos really didn’t do all that much to kill him. A few good punches and a strangle that he couldn’t escape from killed him, and the spear was able to take his arm. Compare that to Baldur and Thor, who both take multiple hits from Kratos’s weapons, shrug off his punches, and send him flying into the atmosphere. Thor straight up survives two exploding spears to center-mass, while Heimdall gets his arm blown off by one. With that said, I don’t think that Heimdall’s regular punches could even really hurt Kratos enough to warrant throwing them. He would have needed bifrost or his weapon, which is why he pushed Kratos. He was trying to give himself space to pull one of those out, which he did, but it was too slow.
The conversation Kratos has with Mimir and Freya prior to the fight seems to also imply that Kratos doesn’t consider Heimdall to be that serious of a threat when he says “I have killed gods greater than he”. Heimdall is kind of just of bully that prefers to punch down (Atreus, Thrud). He wanted no part of Thor and found out with Kratos very quickly that he can’t box with the big boys.
One of the things that make this fight brilliant is despite Hemdall’s predictive foresight this doesn’t mean his reactions are unpredictable. Kratos noticed that he would dodge and even block his punches in the same way every time. Once Kratos discovered this with the left hook turning into a grab to let Kratos land a clean shot it was down hill from there. That one hit shattered Hemdall’s ego and let his frustration take over and certainly Kratos knows a thing or two about dealing with a foe who’s anger has taken over. This is why much of the narrative surrounding the fight was Kratos giving Hemdall a chance to walk away, even pity him. Only that adds more insult to injury for Hemdall. Literally! It’s a hard lesson in leaning too much in to a unique ability while neglecting the basics in combat can and will lead to ruin when your time comes.
It's kind of a Norse thing. You get to Valhalla by dying honorably in combat, so to be spared is to be seen as not worth killing, which is the ultimate insult since you're basically denying them their Heaven. So apply that same sentiment to one of the Aesir, and you can see why Heimdall would refuse to surrender, even in the face of death.
I like that as the fight goes on and Kratos keeps his mind clear, his spartan instinct starts to take over and is the only thing he can think of. This is why he killed Heimdall. Having cleared his mind and only having rage in his mind caused him to lose all thought and kill Heimdall.
Wow amazing analysis. He got one chance to take out Kratos when he had the edge. Kratos figured him out but by the time Heimdall tried to get serious it was already too late.
Awesome fight breakdown man 👍🏽. You can really branch out and do a lot of fight scenes with this format. There’s tons of live action movies/shows and animated movies/shows that have great fight scenes. A couple fight scenes I always go back to are from an animated movie called Superman/Batman: Apocalypse. The fight scenes in particular are Wonder Woman & Big Barda vs The Furies and Supergirl vs Darkseid; the hand to hand is on point. I wish DC would do more of these types of Superhero fights and improve upon them even more.
1st Round. I think Kratos is sizing him up by throwing Haymakers to see if he can at least throw him off guard in the 1st attempt. 2nd attempt, Kratos now relies on hooks which makes his swings much more precise than the previous. The last attempt is, Kratos now moves in to a much more compact stance, lessening the recoil of his punches but increasing his punching speed which caught Heimdall off guard.
Something that i noticed you didnt comment about was how Kratos was basically leading Heimdall into that first strike. With the first volley of punches, Kratos is throwing his punches fairly slowly, most likely gauging how Heimdall woukd react. With the second volley, you can see how his punches are moving faster, eventually leading into an extra few punches that made Heimdall block one, a block thst Kratos would keep note of. With the third volley, you can see how the punches are much faster, eventually making Heimdall block, which Kratos takes advantage of to grab and strike. Kratos, being the god of war and a seasoned general, had decades, if not centuries, of combat experience
3:17 I always said this, but this fight is like how in fighters you gotta learn your 50/50 mixups as a grappler. Heimdall was expecting another hit to block but Kratos at the last moment grabbed him and that's all she wrote lol. Heimdall didn't know what to do
It comes down to what Heimdall says in the fight itself "You do NOT get to decide my fate!" And ultimately, Heimdall is correct. Kratos does not decide Heimdall's fate, Heimdall does. Heimdall refused to take the out Kratos gave him and decided to throw himself into a woodchipper in the shape of a man.
I think it's obvious that Heimdall pretty much has very little actual fighting experience. Ultimately I think that's why he lost, he got to complacent with his god tier defense and just never bothered to get good at his offense. If Heimdall wasn't such a cocky bastard, and took Kratos seriously. I genuinely believe he had a real fucking shot of taking the W. He had the ability to constantly keep the pressure on Kratos. He could have given Kratos hardly any chance to get distance and be up in Kratos's face, letting Kratos wiff and then counter. I even think with draupnir he could have taken this, I mean look how many times Kratos misses even after stunning Heimdall!
if we ignore lore entry written by kratos that state: heimdal is formidable foe with unexpected mastery over bifrost. then sure, heimdal don't have fighting experience
The reason heimdall didn’t take advantage of those openings and the opportunities he had to get strikes in on Kratos and to potentially attempt a submission is because he is extremely arrogant. Heimdall never lost a fight before this one, and never even used his sword, because his magical eyes gave him the power of future sight, so he could see everyone’s attacks coming. He basically won all of his previous fights by letting his opponent tire themselves out trying to hit him, and then going in for a single decisive blow once they were tired out. He likes to toy with his opponents, and that’s exactly the route he went in this fight, where he was trying to respond to the energy blasts from the exploding spears by dodging the flurry of incoming punches. He didn’t account for Kratos’ incredible stamina, speed, and draupnir spear ability, which is why he didn’t take advantage of those opportunities: he didn’t think he would need to. It reflects the overall arrogance of Heimdall’s character. Of course, as you said, he was given two opportunities to disengage from the fight, and he never did. Instead, he could not let go of his pride, his ego severely wounded after taking a loss and having his arm blown off. He only started to fight seriously in the back half of the fight, and to his credit, he uses his Bifröst arm to great effect against kratos, but it’s only a momentary slowdown in the fight until kratos simply beats him on both speed and strength.
ah let me tell you Jim it's a great day for boxing fans the Weight Class is a bit of a mismatch but our boy in the White n Gold has heart let's see how fairs agains the Heavy weight champ of Olympus
Heimdall is used to fighting people who think about what move they will use next. Spartans train to not think about the next move, just attack. That is why in the fight, Heimdall remarks "whats going on in that empty head of yours?" That because Kratos knows he's going to win and is waiting. Heimdall never needed to truly learn how to fight
I just wanted to say I really enjoy these fight analysis videos. If you want, you could do round 2 of Kratos vs Baldur and combine their fight on the dragon along with the final battle
Heimdall is arrogant and prideful, he was never defeated in a fight because no one was able to hit him, so when it finally happened his egotistic ass couldn't accept being defeated, hence why he refuses to be spared and goes on to get smashed out of his soul.
Though I know that Heimdall would win, I'd like to see him vs Hermes.
He might not necessarily win. Hermes is really fast. @@LegendaryDarkKnight602
@@LegendaryDarkKnight602 Would he? Hermes might just be so fast even Heimdall's mindreading would be too slow. (Just because you know a grenade is gonna blow you up, doesn't stop it from doing so if you're in a locked small room with it if you can't get away from it, right?)
Like you said he was extremely arrogant throughout the fight it kept claiming to kratos do you know who I am but in reality he he didn't realize who kratos was and the quote old wise turtle hermit arrogance is for fools not warriors
So Heimdall is a cocky version of homelander
One of the things i love about this fight is you get to watch Kratos get closer and closer with each attempt. Heimdall doesnt adapt or learn, he depends on being able to read his opponent's mind, but always reacts the same way. So at the end, Kratos goes in for that left hook for the jaw, but its actually a trap to bring up the guard for the wrist grab.
Heimdall is not at all trained like Thor is, one of the contributing factors on why Thor is the better fighter.
@Taganoym They both are not trained, both are good fighters because of their experience with heimdall having participated in over 1000 battles against the jotun while thor having slayed many titans. Both are formidable fighters. Heimdall can be cocky at times, but to be fair, he would have beaten kratos if it wasn't for the spear. (It was confirmed) Heimdall is considered one of the smartest gods in the north patheon and also has an underrated battle iq being able to adapt in the fight when kratos actually lands a punch by not letting it overwhelm him and continue dodging aswell as when he kicked sand in kratos eye, of course these feats are overshadowed by kratos easily but people saying he is dumb is a stretch.
@@yogurtgod5605that's so stupid to me cause all he had was his foresight that's literally the only reason he could win the fight with kratos and the only way he would have won is if he tired kratos out to the point where kratos couldn't counter, because he's clearly not faster stronger or a better fighter, it's so annoying to me that people say it's just the spear that's the only reason like no he was a better fighter faster and stronger
@douglaswhite2038 Heimdall is faster than kratos. he was zigzagging around like a speedster, and strength does not decide a fight. Kratos would not be able to touch heimdall and heimdall would only have to counter attack after every attack to win, and if kratos does land a hit which he won't, heimdall was actually fairly tanky being able to block and just eat up kratos punches, plus he can make a bitfrost shield which he won't need and can regenerate lost limbs to make them stronger which he will most definitely not need, oh and he can realm shift.
@@yogurtgod5605 ok maybe his traversal speed is faster but in terms* of combat speed he ain't pulling off anything like baldye did in the first game, so definitely not out pacing him in combat, and also just because he's fought that many times doesn't mean he's a better fighter, clearly, and heimdalls foresight is what a fighter would call a crutch, just like the spear if heimdalls didn't have firesight he ain't got shit on kratos l, and yeh you can say that heimdalls was born with it so it's not a good comparison, but a crutch is a crutch and kratos hard countered it with a weapon he earned
Why Kratos Vs Poseidon wasn’t even close…
Actually I’d say that one was probably close because Kratos needed Gaia to defeat Poseidon.
@Sparlis he actually doesn't need Gaia's help,he used her cuz they were in the fucking mountain and he was fighting poseidon in the fucking air,Gaia just hold him for seconds,even though poseidon notice that and hold Gaia kratos was the one who free her,so basically it's all kratos doing,if they fight on the ground one vs one kratos easily killing poseidon ,and don't forget that even posiedon take the body of titan to fight kratos so u can say it's was god&titan VS god&titan and kratos defeated all of the 2 titans and god
Man Poseidon got disrespected. Would love to see that video
@@Sparlis we could say the same thing about Poseidon, as soon as he can't reach water, he's just a man who is stronger than mortals (in you logic, that's not true)
At that point, why don't we do Kratos vs Hephaestus and Aphrodite, where Kratos literally forces him to do some smithing, cucks him, makes her orgasm, and then kills him? Lmao
"Kratos wins by submission" as we see him choking heimdall to death lmao
To be fair, I would consider Heimdall submissed at the very least
Death is the ultimate submission
He submitted his life 🤷🏾♂️
@@codybrown3712No he fought until the end smh
@@phantom_mserafi you didn't get the joke. I'm deeply disappointed in you
I feel like not enough credit is given to Kratos in the first 3 R3 encounters with Heimdall. Throughout this entire arc of the game, he's heard how Heimdall has never been touched, how he can see the future and dodge every attack that's made before it's been made. So Kratos, using that base, uses his first attack to judge him. Slow, wide attacks to judge how Heimdall reacts to them. Then he speeds up to test Heimdall's reaction time, and actually forces Heimdall to block in order to avoid getting hit... he made a man famous for dodging attacks block. And then in the third encounter, he used the same pattern even faster, but switched up his last attack to be a grab rather than a blow, and landed a hit on heimdall. In a matter of seconds, Kratos tests this man, devises a plan, tests the plan, and then executes it effectively. And that's even without the spear, he did those three R3s with his fists only.
As for why Heimdall didn't take advantage of a lot of the openings that Kratos made for him, it's for two reasons: one, you're right Heimdall is actually a terrible fighter. He's got a strong punch with that bifrost energy arm, and he's supernaturally strong even without it (godhood stuff) but he's never actually had to *fight* someone before. He's a rich spoiled daddy's boy who can see the future. So all of the few fights he's been in were never real fights that he had to try in. And reason two, he's overconfident and cocky as fuck because of reason one. He thinks he can't be hit, so to him this is all a game. He's playing with Kratos and doesn't realize that Kratos is measuring him up and learning his patterns until it's far, *far* too late.
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The fact it went like that tells me the spear was for convenience, otherwise why wouldn't his R3 involve the spear somehow? I'm willing to bet Kratos could have started throwing punches so fast that Heimdall's foresight would not have been able to keep up with him.
I've been looking for someone to explain the fight ever since the game came out, FINALLY, somebody said Heimdall was a terrible fighter!
Your theory suggests to me Heimdall could not grow his attacks. Good theory.
Also something to note, in that initial phase where you have to get those R3 moves off on him, kratos can't do shit to him. He dodges every hit you throw, and only is affected by the spear detonation. And after Kratos lands that first punch, his stagger meter under the health bar is permanently full and red, he's vulnerable and he knows his mind reading can't keep up against Kratos after taking a blow like that which hurts both his pride and throws him way off his game.
Heimdall was dimly aware that he was a shit fighter when he knew Thor could overcome his foresight with sheer force, but because Kratos holds back quite a lot and his discipline is at odds with the Aesir approaches to combat Heimdall failed to recognize that Kratos had enough experience to overcome the foresight without bringing his full strength to bare. Heimdall was ultimately weaker than the demigods Kratos fought on his way to the Sisters of Fate
Pretty sure the reason Heimdall is bad at fighting without his power to see the future is because he doesn’t seem to go outside of Asgard, except the boss fight so he doesn’t have proper battle experience unlike Thor who has gone out of Asgard and has fought foes and Heimdall doesn’t seem to train his body or power at all, beside that great video
He's just bad at fighting because even in fights he must've just dodged and attacked
Unlike thor who can take hits and fight without counter attacking
It's actually kind of ironic, as amongst sword users in Asgard, Heimdall is arguably the best among them. Obviously, this could've been because of his power.
All the same, one can't account for his actual mastery of the bifrost to be because of his foresight. Even which Kratos mentions is particularly impressive about him. Most of his skill can't get much better, being capped by the fact that he can already see the moves of his opponents. In and out of training. Even still, without it, he's fairly good at fighting and is remarkably deadly against most enemies. Just not Kratos, for obvious reasons.
Didn't Heimdall put down the dwarf rebelion?
When your only battle experience comes from countering your opponent then you have none when you fight someone you can't properly counter.
Heimdall's shattered sense of ego wouldnt allow him to go back to Asgard defeated. He would no longer be regarded as untouchable, the people would scorn him, and he knew it. It was his shamed pride that killed him.
He was never "untouchable" just undefeated because he knew who not to mess with. Kratos kept the same beast Thor showed him earlier in the story down and is trying to abandon it altogether. Had he seen the same Kratos that came out when Thor brought up Odins plans I imagine he'd have been much more hesitant to engage. I'm pretty sure that's the same Kratos that free hand tore off Helios's head, beat Heracles face in and chopped off Hermes legs just to rob his Gold Airforce 11s!
Someone blinded by rage and operating off pure instinct after an extended fight is someone Heimdall just can't properly handle since he doesn't scrap often enough. And this makes sense considering how many people I've seen online get folded by the dual wielding duergar berserkers in this game.
@@w47765I hold the theory that the last time "anyone hit me" was Tyr.
@@FierceDeity35Honestly, I can see that. Like Kratos, Tyr is disciplined, determined, highly skilled, and heavily armed. I'm sure he could overwhelm Heimdall just with so many abilities in his arsenal. I also believe that the only reason Thor doesn't wreck him is because of Odin's command. Striking Heimdall, for him, would basically mean nuking a large area in Asgard, which Odin can't have.
@@hunterg.1300hater smh
Also the only way to reach vahalla is through death in battle. So Kratos sparing him was the ultimate slap in the slap cause he’s calling him worthless and denying him a worthy afterlife
It’s small but at 1:27 he doesn’t hit kratos at all he stops his swing to laugh at him you can see as kratos’s arm doesn’t react and he doesn’t lose any health
Great catch! Thanks!
@@CrueltyFreeDyeah it’s actually part of the gameplay. Once he attacks you, he’ll follow up and if you try to block that attack he will notice and stop to do that disrespectful kick. If you don’t try to block during gameplay he actually follows through with the attack
“Wish by submission” yeah the submission of death.
You are too right lol
@@CrueltyFreeD sorry, I had to had a bit of a laugh at that too. but it's all good
@@JohnMasterCheif lol who you telling
The fight overall gives me the feeling that Kratos is dialing in his attacks to Heimdall. He probably didn't expect the easy dodging in the first go. That second one where he was blocked feels like Kratos just looking to see how well Heimdall actually reacts. And then the third he connects. Knowing that someone is going to punch you is one thing, being fast enough to get out of the way is another.
He's using the same 1-2 combo every time, so he's 'training' Heimdall to react with the same defensive sequence every time. To Heimdall, it looks like Kratos is just an idiot using the same attack pattern every time, but when comes the wrist grab...
Kratos' sequences where he kept whiffing on heimdall was only a way for kratos to test his defence skill, which is why Kratos would punch faster and faster every time he concussed heimdal
And it was Draupnir that landed that blow too.
Not at all. Kratos was simply getting angrier and angrier the more he missed and the less strategical he became as it is made obvious by his blind rage to going back to his ps3 ways.
Than plot armor and plot damage kicked in for Kratos so that's all she wrote.
What a clown take on someone who's never seen a boxer haha. Heimdall was based around elite boxers in the world on his motion movement in the behind the scenes, but you keep talking my little attack on titan weirdo weebo soy boy beta lmao.
That just tells me Kratos would have eventually landed a bit regardless, whether it was because the clear head would have made it harder for Heimdall to see what's coming and react, or Kratos just started punching so fast that even the mind reading couldn't keep up with him.
The fact that those punches were far far faster than we humans were seeing lmao 💀
@@Mr_Triscuit I mean Kratos is way stronger than Heimdall, and even faster than him, especially due to the fact that it's the same Kratos who had toyed with Hermes lmao.
The fact that Heimdall can literally see the future which is basically the ONLY reason he could dodge, and Kratos basically just OVERPOWERS that Future Sight, really just shows how impressive Kratos is. That's literally like in Dragon Ball Super when Goku just negates Hit's Time SKIP with sheer power and technique lmao.
HE DOEZN'T OVERPOWER iT, HE JUZT STUNZ WiTH DRAUPNiR & TRiEZ TO LEARN HEiMDALL'Z TECHNiQUE
[NOT YELLiNG, JUZT LiKE TYPiNG iN CAPZ]
@@TYKZY.BRANX._TEEK.SEE.BRANCH.he literally overpowers it do you not see Kratos hitting him?
@@kimicrewe4443iT WORKZ MORE LiKE AN ADVANCED SPiDER SENSE, iT KAN TELL HiM ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT'Z GOiNG TO HAPPEN AS LONG AS iT'Z TURNED ON, BUT iT'Z STiLL UP TO HiM TO ACTUALLY ACT ON THE iNFORMATiON
iF HEiMDALL WANTED TO STAY STiLL & EAT A PUNCH HE COULD, BUT DRAUPNiR'Z MULTiPLE EXPLOSiONZ & KRATOS'Z BODY CATCHiNGZ WERE FUCKiNG HiM UP TOO MUCH & OR LOCKiNG HiM iN PLACE LONG ENOUGH 4 KRATOS TO LAND A HiT ON HiM
@@kimicrewe4443 iT WORKZ MORE LiKE AN ADVANCED SPiDER SENSE, iT KAN TELL HiM ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT'Z GOiNG TO HAPPEN AS LONG AS iT'Z TURNED ON, BUT iT'Z STiLL UP TO HiM TO ACTUALLY ACT ON THE iNFORMATiON
@@kimicrewe4443iF HEiMDALL WANTED TO STAY STiLL & EAT A PUNCH HE COULD, BUT DRAUPNiR'Z MULTiPLE EXPLOSiONZ & KRATOS'Z BODY CATCHiNGZ WERE FUCKiNG HiM UP TOO MUCH & OR LOCKiNG HiM iN PLACE LONG ENOUGH 4 KRATOS TO LAND A HiT ON HiM
Great video! Yea there are lots of cool parts in this fight. My favorite is when kratos is going through his punching combos in round 1. He's speeding up his punches each time and adjusting based on how heimdall was maneuvering.
At the end of the third combo, kratos grabbed Heimdall's wrist because that's how heimdall blocked him in the previous combo. That first round was just Kratos figuring out heimdall's fighting style/weaknesses
Overall a great fight to show off kratos' fighting IQ!
That's my favorite part too. Watching Kratos download Heimdall style was next level
He's a Fighting Genius truly and such a Veteran. A Legendary Champ displaying his Skills.
@@CrueltyFreeD Truly. It's like watching Muhammad Ali or Floyd "Money" Mayweather Jr.
I mean, he didn't get to be a Spartan General from raw strength alone
My favorite is the insult that it is. It’s the same combo each time, and in most fights your opponent will punish you hard for that; but Heimdall can’t actually fight. So, ironically, he’s defeated by something most decent (and beyond) fighters would have been able to predict and punish.
Heimdall can read minds. And he was one of the servants to Odin. Pretty sure he never fought someone like Kratos before and if he did he had backup.
Basically: No one ever managed to hit him and he had no reason to actually learn things like counter attacking
So like a more incompetent Gojo in the sense they're both functionally impossible to hit, only that Gojo knows how to heal and deal with damage.
@@fumofumo7815basically if Gojo just abused his invincibility and so never learned how to fight beyond just punching people, and always played with his food first without any urgency.
@@BLANK-pr5qs I mean he's a god so he's a lot stronger than Gojo could wish to be. Normal humans couldn't do very much. But if Heimdall and Gojo were scaled equally I'd argue Gojo wins cause he can heal and has ranged attacks
@@fumofumo7815 I mean more accurately: Heimdall just can’t land a hit. Heimdall is amazing at dodging, Gojo doesn’t have to dodge, you just can’t get close even if he’s standing totally still. Heimdall just has no way around it.
@@fumofumo7815gojo cant win either since he wont be able to touch heimdall
Also, since this dude is a god, he can likely pull off shit that overcomes infinity. He is from a verse where thor can force time travel someone just coz he struck them really hard.
Infinity doesnt sound that impressive in comparison
7:22 wins by submission.. Bro's dead 😂
Heimdall: Pushes Kratos to his oldself
Kratos: "Stand proud, you are strong"
🔥🔥
Something a lot of people miss is that in the first 2 attempts, Kratos is throwing Large Haymakers which honestly Heimdall could probably dodge even without his powers, but it perfectly sets Kratos up for when he finally tightens his stance and throws out fast consecutive hits on the third attempt. A nice way of how even though Heimdall can see the future, Kratos is using the present to inflate his Ego to increase the possibility of catching him lacking
It was pretty clear the point of the haymakers wasn't to hit Heimdall. Kratos is far too seasoned of a fighter to do something so amateur-like without the purpose that a former general would have. After he got a feel for how fast Heimdall could dodge on his own, he cranked up the speed to test the limits of Heimdall's foresight along with pushing the limits of his defensive capabilities. It was only after the first two that Kratos was now really looking to get that hit in. Sooner or later Kratos would have landed the hit. The spear was for convenience.
@Mr_Triscuit
Given the story buildup in the game and what the writers have said, I'd say less "convenience" and more "guarantee."
Heimdal initially didnt view the spear as a threat, and probably could not adequately predict when a spear was going to detonate.
This let Kratos get in close to actually perform these combos; otherwise he might have spent too much energy trying to wrangle Heimdal into a corner to keep him from darting away when the pressure was cranked up.
The spear was used as the equivalent of nailing his shoe to the floor.
Heimdall's performance in the late-game was largely due to the fact that he simply wasn't taking the fight seriously enough considering his opponent's nature.
He tried to go for the strategy of letting his opponent tire themselves out by remaining passive but keeping close enough to the action that he'd able to capitalize once he started to see Kratos slowing down from fatigue. This however fell apart quickly as Kratos was fast to figure this out and catch him when Heimdall's defensive game turned to blocking over dodging. By the time Kratos had caught on to Heimdall's game plan, the Norse God had already been concussed several times and the shock of being struck in the face compounded the damage on his mental state.
What followed was simply a matter of Heimdall getting sloppy and in his anger reverting to bully tactics he always falls back on, hence the pushing and sand-kicking. Kratos even at his angriest maintains precision due to his ironclad Spartan discipline and had no such weakness as he maintained laser-focus even in the end when he was seeing red and killed Heimdall before he even knew what he was doing.
Had Heimdall kept calm and brought his late-game offense to the table for the entire battle's length, he might still not have won, but the battle would have been a great deal closer, perhaps even landing blows on Kratos that would have forced the Spartan to take a break from the battlefield. Unfortunately, this was not meant to be and the Spartan wrapped things up cleanly enough that he was still in fighting shape to then deliver his friends from the jaws of death in top form.
What I love about the norse games fights is that they show the importance of discipline in battle. Baldur, Heimdall and Thor all had their advantages but where let down by their insanity, temper and rage respectively. Kratos on the other end spent years, if not centuries honing and controlling his rage and used that to stay focused in every fight he is in.
@@reallynotsogoldenisopod Especially in part as self-reconciliation for his past crimes against his own people, both God and innocent mortal alike. In a way, Baldur, Heimdall, and Thor each represented the worse aspects of Greek Kratos, which is in part or in full why Kratos tried to first reason with his Norse foes with only Thor listening at the very end. Odin perhaps reminded Kratos of his own father, King of the gods more powerful than all except their own paranoia and only made an enemy of him through his persistent interest in his son, Atreus.
These videos are great and made with such great quality
Thank you! Much appreciated
@@CrueltyFreeDlove the content my friend.
Another detail I’ve always enjoyed about this fight. At 3:00 Kratos grab is able to grab Heimdall’s left arm there because during his previous attempt, that was the same arm Heimdall blocked with him with.
Great catch! Heimdall was lacking from that side
I feel like everyone is forgetting the difference between God of War 3 Kratos and GoW Ragnorak Kratos is he is calmer now and more composed which is bad for anyone picking a fight with him. prior to God of War 2018, he relied on his anger and hatred to keep him going. after meeting Faye, his wife, he started to train that anger to become better and avoid getting angry. a calm Kratos is one that can plan, adapt, and grow in a fight which is why Heimdall didn't have a chance. we see his first few punches are big and have a wide swing. the 2nd set shows him adapting to move quicker. the 3rd set shows him moving faster and being closer to him rather than before where he was throwing wider punches
Two things. The first is, Kratos has always been good at adapting mid-fight, him being calm just makes him even better at it. And the second, he was trying to become a calmer person before meeting Faye, hence why she even entertained his presence, he just got a lot better at it after having met her.
its because heimdall is so arrogant and cocky, he thinks he knows everything, he thinks theres nobody better than him. he thinks he can toy with kratos. Thats why he always dodges. In his mind kratos aint shit so he thought he can play with kratos a bit. Little did he know what about to come.
And yet Thor was able to shut him up with a simple threat.
@@zacgonzales5883 that’s because Thor can do something that Kratos can’t and that Heimdall can’t dodge, large AOE attacks, Heimdall is fast but he’s not dodge lightning fast
There’s a variety of reasons why Heimdall lost this, the first is that his ability to see his opponents' moves is less foresight more reading their intentions, and against a god much older than he is with so much more combat experience, literal centuries of combat experience at this point, and that’s at the minimum, his foresight would fail him quickly as it can’t read someone who fights on instinct.
A bigger one is that Kratos is legitimately faster than Heimdall, which can be seen each time he moves in for a combo on Heimdall. The first one was slow, deliberate, he wanted to see what Heimdall's power could do, the second was faster, he wanted to see how good Heimdall was, and in the third where he realized that Heimdall was not an experienced fighter and relied too heavily on his foresight in battle, he speeds up quick because he knows that Heimdall won’t be able to react in time. (No, he didn’t need the spear, he never needed the spear, he himself says he doesn’t need the spear, but he knows the importance of being prepared and so gets the spear, because one can never have too many preparations.)
Kratos is also physically stronger than every god in the Norse pantheon, even including Thor, however canonically he’s holding back, and the only times he starts getting serious is when we are prompted to use Spartan Rage, as those are the only times Kratos decides to let loose, even if only a little. So Heimdall is incapable of overpowering Kratos in a test of strength.
Kratos is also considerably more durable, as well as possessing a healing factor, shown in his first battle against Baldur, which none of the Norse gods possess, even Baldur only had a similar healing factor because of the blessing, and once that was broken, no more healing factor.
So Kratos had the advantage in speed, strength, durability, combat, experience, stamina, even tricks as well since he had quite a few while Heimdall had woefully few. All in all, Heimdall was fucked from the beginning.
3:25 Ah yes... *staff* my favorite pointy weapon
Love how the cut on his face came from the ring on Kratos fist. Love little details like that!
I saw alot of comments talking about this fight before this video but a full breakdown of fight like this video makes alot of sense
This is one of my favorite new series. Commenting for the post engagement, subscribing for the content. It's nice to watch how the views go from a couple hundred to many thousands. I can't wait for more.
Heimdall's probably never needed to fight fr. He just weaves until the other person gets tired so when he had Kratos turned around he just pushed him. He can't box fr😂
He can box wdym. The first half he was messing with kratos but draupnir was messing up his future sight. So when he got hit he got all angry and got destroyed
@@Fusion237he can’t box fr he relies on that foresight way too mucus kratos is way more skilled and experienced than him u see how he adapted to heimdalls fighting styles each sequence kratos started going faster
Not at all. Kratos was simply getting angrier and angrier the more he missed and the less strategical he became as it is made obvious by his blind rage to going back to his ps3 ways.
Than plot armor and plot damage kicked in for Kratos so that's all she wrote.
What a clown take on someone who's never seen a boxer haha. Heimdall was based around elite boxers in the world on his motion movement in the behind the scenes, but you keep talking my little attack on titan weirdo weebo soy boy beta lmao.
@@pressuhh-yt Not at all. Kratos was simply getting angrier and angrier the more he missed and the less strategical he became as it is made obvious by his blind rage to going back to his ps3 ways.
Than plot armor and plot damage kicked in for Kratos so that's all she wrote.
What a clown take on someone who's never seen a boxer haha. Heimdall was based around elite boxers in the world on his motion movement in the behind the scenes, but you keep talking my little attack on titan weirdo weebo soy boy beta lmao.
@@Fusion237He probably knows the basics of fighting, nothing complicated but he mainly relies on his mind reading/foresight ability
Great vid! Thanks for covering more fights
Thank you for releasing more of these theyre so fun to watch
the first round is just Kratos figuring out Heimdall's fighting style, at first attempt he threw multiple heavy punches which Heimdall outright dodges, then the second attempt he threw a barrage of fast punches making Heimdall to struggle to keep up the dodges resulting to just block the last punch, then the last one Kratos did the exact barrage of fast punches but it's was a set up for a fake out to grab Heimdall's hand and land a punch of Heimdall's unguarded face, even more cool is that after the first and second attempt Kratos relaxes his shoulders like "alright, I see what's going on"
Not at all. Kratos was simply getting angrier and angrier the more he missed and the less strategical he became as it is made obvious by his blind rage to going back to his ps3 ways.
Than plot armor and plot damage kicked in for Kratos so that's all she wrote.
late comment, also no idea if someone has commented this before, but when Kratos was throwing hands in round 1 with Heimdall, each time he let out a flurry of punches he sped up exponentially to match and eventually exceed Heimdall’s. He essentially moved faster than Heimdall could react by the third flurry even though Heimdall KNEW what he was going to do, and I think that’s worth mentioning. I personally think he was taking the time that Heimdall wasn’t attacking him back to measure him up and see how fast he was, but that’s just my opinion.
Heimdall's problem is: He plays too damn much. Can't take shit seriously until it's too late. It's the same problem with Baldur.
Hey, at least baldur had legitimate hands
It's a ego you get when things that allows you to negate damage. Without feeling pain baldur had little need to dodge or block. Heimdall could see the future he just forgot the fact that being able to see stuff coming does not mean you can stop it from hitting him
It makes complete sense too, if you've never been hit, or you can't feel pain or be permanently damaged, you'd get incredibly cocky.
@@jamesbrown6994 Not at all. Kratos was simply getting angrier and angrier the more he missed and the less strategical he became as it is made obvious by his blind rage to going back to his ps3 ways.
Than plot armor and plot damage kicked in for Kratos so that's all she wrote.
What a clown take on someone who's never seen a boxer haha. Heimdall was based around elite boxers in the world on his motion movement in the behind the scenes, but you keep talking my little attack on titan weirdo weebo soy boy beta lmao.
Baldur didn't play though, He genuinely wanted to die he grew tired of being immortal because of his mother.
yo where are all you weebos with your 100% wrong clown takes coming from lmaooo. It is wild man.
You should do this more on other games and also shows like cartoon and anime becouse this looks enjoyable and cool keep it up bro👍
About the rant at the end, there are people in this world that just don't know how to take an L for whatever reason. For some people it may be linked to some childhood trauma like your value as a person being tied to your success or doing so well in your younger years that you just won't accept losing because to you it shouldn't even be a possibility. Heimdall probably thought of kratos as some bald caveman who has the audacity to pity the greatest god to ever exist and no way he was gonna let it go.
This is an awesome way to break down these fight scenes. I love this concept dude great work
Like Odin said to Atreus, Heimdall forgets to think. The moment Kratos lands a hit on him should have been a red flag.
I just got done watching all these fight analysis videos and there are so good! You definitely gotta make more of these! You should try these types of videos in other games too. Definitely earned a sub
"Submission" implies Heimdall tapped or otherwise surrendered. The finish here is a full someone-for-the-love-of-God-get-the-ref knockout.
Another day, another request for Kakashi VS Obito
These videos are really creative and entertaining I can’t wait to see in the future if u post more
Honestly, seeing these make me want to see this done for the older games as well
Bro your content is so good and truly endless.
Big sub, you 200% earned it.
8:03 i feel like its because he was feeding his ego and taunting kratos
Bro I appreciate these so much man…keep em coming.
Nice video, love your content!
This is incredible and I'm going to watch everything you've ever made
Much appreciated!
He brought a cat, to destroy a man who has a left his own realm for destroying GODS what else did he expect 1:17
Heimdall was just way too arrogant at the end of the day. He probably never trained a day in his life and completely relied on his abilities which he thought made him invincible. He never even tries to properly attack Kratos with his sword, only toying with him with the scabbard. Heimdall had crazy potential but he didn’t rise to meet it
I didn’t know I needed more of these vids. Love it
That first punch and cut was thanks to Draupnir on Kratos's right ring finger.
Yup got to love that Draupnir staff
The Spear was so badass tho. Perfect for a Spartan. The wind power also compliments the Frost of the Axe and the Fire of his blades. The triple element power.
I feel like the bad at throwing hands, heimdall felt like a lapdog, someone to get ahead in a battle that Odin could take advantage of. Just look at the times Heimdall and Odin would talk one on one and would seemingly be so confident as to allow Loki to have such precious and rather important items to give to someone he barely knows IF he didn’t have someone tell him the conflicted thoughts.
Remember in one glance, one conversation Heimdall sees everything and knows the person inside and out.
But it’s only good for reading a person not really good for fighting as showcased when kratos started to trick the mind reading and let himself be read and counteract the foresight.
Something to point out, Kratos' swing combos on Heimdall is Kratos trying to figure out how fast he is. His swings start real wide, and gets tighter and tighter before he manages that first hit to his face.
This videos are my new favorite thing to watch.
Heimdall would have won if kratos did not have the spear. Kratos was only able to beat him because of the spear since we all know it was built to counter his foresight and we know this because after the third major stun there is a nice detail where Heimdalls stun meter remains full for the rest of the fight. He started struggling to dodge kratos punches nit because kratos was being faster but because his foresight was becoming more and more useless by each stun to the point he couldn't use it to his advantage for the rest of the fight.
A nice detail is that when Kratos hits Heimdall for the first time, the cut on his face is caused by the Draupnir ring, so in a way the spear really was the first thing that actually hurt him.
This type of content is very good, keep it up bro.
Will do. Much appreciated!
Heimdall's downfall was he thought he was HIM when he clearly wasn't, lol. Love your videos! Keep them coming! :)
Yo this video is very interesting and entertaining, keep it up💯💯
I love how he calls a Spear a Staff when the two are different type of weapons
I love the three cutscene segments leading to Kratos’ first connection.
First one Kratos is intentionally slow and telegraphed (saved for a right/left combo that’s closer together), testing the limits of both Heimdall’s foresight and his ability to dodge attacks.
The second barrage is slightly faster, with slightly less telegraphed attacks, and then you can actually see Kratos figures out the reaches of Heimdall’s ability to dodge by forcing him to block an attack as opposed to ducking it; we also get an idea of his combat experience: “These are new bracers.”
Then the third one, a much faster flurry to keep Heimdall on his back foot, then Heimdall is forced to block, gets grabbed, right hook to the face.
My favorite part of all of this is in all three encounters, it’s the same combo. So ironically, the god with foresight is defeated by something majority of other fighters would have been able to see coming and react accordingly.
Also: the Bifrost is an offensive tool for Heimdall as well; whenever he gets staggered, instead of trying to take advantage of his opponents getting in close, he’s so arrogant he believes it won’t matter, Heimdall can wear them down other ways, so he doesn’t tire himself out by fighting back in the pocket. This also serves to embarrass his opponents, showing them struggling to do anything whilst he effortlessly dodges literally everything
The concussive blow openings with the spear are mostly for gameplay reasons. The reason why kratos was able to land blows at some point, was because he figured out how heimdalls ability worked and started to clear his mind and just start punching on pure instinct. Thats why Heimdall asks Kratos in the middle of the fight "whats going on in that empty head of yours"
I loved the video!
Honestly I think Heimdall doesn't know how to fight very well because he never has to REALLY fight, he dodges and does smalltime punishes.
Excellent analysis!
Honestly, the wildest thing about how he beat the beast is, he didn't just throw it into the wall. If you watch it slowly, you can see he stops the charge, shifts a little, then pulls the beast along when it tries to charge again, essentially causing it to run into the wall. Meaning it wasn't just a strength throw, it was a technique throw. One that he clearly sets up almost immediately, too. You can even see something similar, when he first engages with Heimdall, as well. Where each of his rushes pull tighter and faster, forcing Heimdall to start relying on pattern, more than reflex and forethought. Leading to Kratos being able to get him with a near identical rush, leading into a grapple from the predictable block.
Heimdall's hubris is his downfall. By growing over-reliant on his foresight, he was able to see Kratos's fists coming before they landed, but he didn't train his body to dodge quick enough. His hubris is also why he doesn't let Kratos "decide (his) fate"
The reason Heimdall didn’t go for any attacks when he could’ve easily hit him, is because he relies on his mind reading to dodge too much, he never had to actually throw hands before cause he can read peoples minds and just dodge, he was cocky. But eventually Kratos realized this and started using muscle memory to fight which is why when he actually was able to get hits in heimdall was confused, he’s never been hit cause he dodges and reads minds, but Kratos turned off his mind and just went for it
Heimdall seems like a squishy god. Like, Kratos really didn’t do all that much to kill him. A few good punches and a strangle that he couldn’t escape from killed him, and the spear was able to take his arm. Compare that to Baldur and Thor, who both take multiple hits from Kratos’s weapons, shrug off his punches, and send him flying into the atmosphere. Thor straight up survives two exploding spears to center-mass, while Heimdall gets his arm blown off by one.
With that said, I don’t think that Heimdall’s regular punches could even really hurt Kratos enough to warrant throwing them. He would have needed bifrost or his weapon, which is why he pushed Kratos. He was trying to give himself space to pull one of those out, which he did, but it was too slow.
The conversation Kratos has with Mimir and Freya prior to the fight seems to also imply that Kratos doesn’t consider Heimdall to be that serious of a threat when he says “I have killed gods greater than he”.
Heimdall is kind of just of bully that prefers to punch down (Atreus, Thrud). He wanted no part of Thor and found out with Kratos very quickly that he can’t box with the big boys.
One of the things that make this fight brilliant is despite Hemdall’s predictive foresight this doesn’t mean his reactions are unpredictable.
Kratos noticed that he would dodge and even block his punches in the same way every time. Once Kratos discovered this with the left hook turning into a grab to let Kratos land a clean shot it was down hill from there. That one hit shattered Hemdall’s ego and let his frustration take over and certainly Kratos knows a thing or two about dealing with a foe who’s anger has taken over. This is why much of the narrative surrounding the fight was Kratos giving Hemdall a chance to walk away, even pity him. Only that adds more insult to injury for Hemdall. Literally!
It’s a hard lesson in leaning too much in to a unique ability while neglecting the basics in combat can and will lead to ruin when your time comes.
In the lore details in the menu Kratos talk about how he sense his weakness of him sparing his life and apparently it’s pissed him off
It's kind of a Norse thing. You get to Valhalla by dying honorably in combat, so to be spared is to be seen as not worth killing, which is the ultimate insult since you're basically denying them their Heaven. So apply that same sentiment to one of the Aesir, and you can see why Heimdall would refuse to surrender, even in the face of death.
I love this, you killed it, subbed
this is a beautiful and incredible video
The Final Fantasy 7 fight music is a nice touch lol
I like that as the fight goes on and Kratos keeps his mind clear, his spartan instinct starts to take over and is the only thing he can think of. This is why he killed Heimdall. Having cleared his mind and only having rage in his mind caused him to lose all thought and kill Heimdall.
Wow amazing analysis. He got one chance to take out Kratos when he had the edge. Kratos figured him out but by the time Heimdall tried to get serious it was already too late.
This fight never really clicked with me. I mean Heimdall's foresight should've been harder to beat imo
Awesome fight breakdown man 👍🏽. You can really branch out and do a lot of fight scenes with this format. There’s tons of live action movies/shows and animated movies/shows that have great fight scenes.
A couple fight scenes I always go back to are from an animated movie called Superman/Batman: Apocalypse. The fight scenes in particular are Wonder Woman & Big Barda vs The Furies and Supergirl vs Darkseid; the hand to hand is on point. I wish DC would do more of these types of Superhero fights and improve upon them even more.
Imagine if Heimdall was as powerful as Thor or Odin, and actually knew how to fight. Kratos would've been cooked.
Who you telling! 100% agree
If Heimdall was more humble, actually trained and used his bifrost in other creative ways, Kratos would definitely need more than a spear
Young kratos would beat him even he has thor Strength
1st Round. I think Kratos is sizing him up by throwing Haymakers to see if he can at least throw him off guard in the 1st attempt. 2nd attempt, Kratos now relies on hooks which makes his swings much more precise than the previous. The last attempt is, Kratos now moves in to a much more compact stance, lessening the recoil of his punches but increasing his punching speed which caught Heimdall off guard.
i didn’t even realize kratos grabbed his forearm when he finally landed that right hook
Love these videos. Keep up the good work!
Something that i noticed you didnt comment about was how Kratos was basically leading Heimdall into that first strike. With the first volley of punches, Kratos is throwing his punches fairly slowly, most likely gauging how Heimdall woukd react. With the second volley, you can see how his punches are moving faster, eventually leading into an extra few punches that made Heimdall block one, a block thst Kratos would keep note of. With the third volley, you can see how the punches are much faster, eventually making Heimdall block, which Kratos takes advantage of to grab and strike. Kratos, being the god of war and a seasoned general, had decades, if not centuries, of combat experience
3:17 I always said this, but this fight is like how in fighters you gotta learn your 50/50 mixups as a grappler. Heimdall was expecting another hit to block but Kratos at the last moment grabbed him and that's all she wrote lol. Heimdall didn't know what to do
Ah yes Heimdall, if "weave" was a person.
It comes down to what Heimdall says in the fight itself "You do NOT get to decide my fate!" And ultimately, Heimdall is correct. Kratos does not decide Heimdall's fate, Heimdall does. Heimdall refused to take the out Kratos gave him and decided to throw himself into a woodchipper in the shape of a man.
6:52 Heimdall did NOT pray today
Bro forgot to pray to the All father
@@Flamingo48923 bro forgot to pray to the God of Hope
3:34 This mf really fucking tried to make a strength fight against Kratos 💀
Ngl, when I first saw Heimdall running the weave on Kratos, I thought, “this ain’t gonna be easy”
I think it's obvious that Heimdall pretty much has very little actual fighting experience. Ultimately I think that's why he lost, he got to complacent with his god tier defense and just never bothered to get good at his offense. If Heimdall wasn't such a cocky bastard, and took Kratos seriously. I genuinely believe he had a real fucking shot of taking the W. He had the ability to constantly keep the pressure on Kratos. He could have given Kratos hardly any chance to get distance and be up in Kratos's face, letting Kratos wiff and then counter. I even think with draupnir he could have taken this, I mean look how many times Kratos misses even after stunning Heimdall!
I was thinking the exact same thing. A couple of sparing sessions would have made him 10x better
if we ignore lore entry written by kratos that state: heimdal is formidable foe with unexpected mastery over bifrost.
then sure, heimdal don't have fighting experience
This gets a sub 😂 I've never seen anyone commentate fictional fights like this
The reason heimdall didn’t take advantage of those openings and the opportunities he had to get strikes in on Kratos and to potentially attempt a submission is because he is extremely arrogant.
Heimdall never lost a fight before this one, and never even used his sword, because his magical eyes gave him the power of future sight, so he could see everyone’s attacks coming. He basically won all of his previous fights by letting his opponent tire themselves out trying to hit him, and then going in for a single decisive blow once they were tired out. He likes to toy with his opponents, and that’s exactly the route he went in this fight, where he was trying to respond to the energy blasts from the exploding spears by dodging the flurry of incoming punches.
He didn’t account for Kratos’ incredible stamina, speed, and draupnir spear ability, which is why he didn’t take advantage of those opportunities: he didn’t think he would need to. It reflects the overall arrogance of Heimdall’s character.
Of course, as you said, he was given two opportunities to disengage from the fight, and he never did. Instead, he could not let go of his pride, his ego severely wounded after taking a loss and having his arm blown off.
He only started to fight seriously in the back half of the fight, and to his credit, he uses his Bifröst arm to great effect against kratos, but it’s only a momentary slowdown in the fight until kratos simply beats him on both speed and strength.
ah let me tell you Jim it's a great day for boxing fans the Weight Class is a bit of a mismatch but our boy in the White n Gold has heart let's see how fairs agains the Heavy weight champ of Olympus
It’s always funny to see him catch the first spear only to get blown the heck up
Heimdall is used to fighting people who think about what move they will use next. Spartans train to not think about the next move, just attack. That is why in the fight, Heimdall remarks "whats going on in that empty head of yours?" That because Kratos knows he's going to win and is waiting. Heimdall never needed to truly learn how to fight
In all the cutscenes, Kratos appears to be rather calm and in control while Heimdall progressively loses control.
I like how the older kratos uses his battle IQ rather than his anger
What about a 2v2 “tag team”
Kratos and Atreus vs Hist and Mist it probably doesn’t have a lot but there’s a a decent amount cutscene
Even Kratos and Atreus vs Magni and Modi
I just wanted to say I really enjoy these fight analysis videos. If you want, you could do round 2 of Kratos vs Baldur and combine their fight on the dragon along with the final battle
You can see how heavy Heimdall got carried by his foresight in those first three exchanges
You have to remember that heindall is a cocky opponent. He didn't take advantage because he thought no matter what he would regain the advantage.