Time to Duel - Onmyo & Magic vs. Yuki-onna

Onmyoji vs. Yuki-onna

Mission: Falling Snow
Region: Kinki
Opponents: Yuki-onna
Difficulty: Way of the Nioh

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0:23 : Sword
1:26 : Dual Swords
2:34 : Spear
3:28 : Axe/Hammer
4:12 : Kusarigama
5:04 : Odachi
6:07 : Tonfa
7:05 : 「 Fuku 」

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A special showing where we aim to duel a special boss utilizing various onmyo magic and all of the melee arsenal. It takes a while, but we finally face an actually challenging and interesting yokai boss when we face off against Yuki-onna.

This is the first yokai boss where simply going ham and applying confusion isn't going to allow an onmyoji to steamroll the fight. While this might seem like a detriment, challenge is the name of the game when it comes to Nioh, so its a welcome change to have a yokai with tech and attacks which makes for a more interesting fight, both to play and spectate. Yuki-onna is decently aggressive, but the real threat is her flexibility to cause damage at close and long ranges, thus we must press an advantage when openings present themselves. Reducing her ki to 0 provides a good opportunity to apply elemental ailments via magic shots and major spell talismans, which we do utilize to deliver the coup de grace and end many of the fights. All in all, a good boss deserving of a duel montage.

Earlier difficulties of Nioh don't usually provide much flexibility in terms of builds for William, so I'll be venturing into the later difficulties of Nioh in order to exemplify some of the potential viability for playing through the game with a focus on onmyo magic and investing in the Magic stat.

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