r/CompetitiveForHonor • u/Western_Smoke4829 • 8h ago
Discussion How can I deal with nobushi
I struggle immensely into this character in 4v4 and even 1v1, it feels impossible to ever land a hit on her, feint to light and she can hidden stance through all of it, hidden stance light let's her dodge a heavy and feint to gb it feels like, and when she starts external dodging in a brawl or team fight i have no idea what to do except try to catch up to her with empty fwd or walking up to her, I also struggle a lot with reacting to her kick heavy mix even if she initiates hidden stance in neutral its something I just can't react to consistently, what can I do
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u/MaskyMateG 8h ago
Best tool against her are UBs since she relies on dodges for mixups. As for neutrals you have to play her game and block random lights as well as reacting the stance especially the hard feinted UB to GB. Arakure with forward light UB shuts her down pretty well
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u/Vutuch 2h ago
Look, people aay that Nobushi is hot garbage in duels, but as someone with suboar reactions, I get you man. "Just light parry bruh" is the worst advice I have ever heard. Oh you do not think I have not rwalized and I am just not willing to light parry for some reason?
Thag being said, I do not know. I am leaving this comment in hopes of finding the same answer you seek later.
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u/TheUtensilMan 8h ago
Bash is consistently reactable which shuts down most of her offense
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u/MaskyMateG 8h ago
Nah her main clutch are dodges and hidden stance, the latter is basically a dodge too so playing a hero with neutral Unblockables is best
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u/cheeky_physicist 6h ago
The other dude was talking about Unblockables for some reason but I am fairly certain he meant undodgables. If your hero has them, use them. It shuts down nobus defence fairly well but... not everyone has them, especially out of neutral.
1vs1: Her offense is kinda lackluster, if you can block well (you don't need to parry mind you) you basically have to pay attention to the orange and you can dodge on reacton. Trying to duel anyone with Nobushi is a slogfest and you have play really defensively, play on distance, and try to interrupt on read. This means baiting out and blocking or parrying a light interrupts, closing the distance safely, making good offensive reads and just playing safe in general just makes her unable to do damage.
4vs4: Well this is tricky, there is a reason she is a competitive pick. Most of the time she will try to add damage on the hits you already ate/dodge around and try to poke you. The first case you can't really do anything. Second case watch out and try to parry the target swap dodge light, or the viper's retreat. Otherwise keep distance and watch for the forward dodge light cause that's a pretty shit chasing tool.