Complete Nobushi Guide: Moveset, Punishes, Perks, Feats, Tactics, and More (2023) | For Honor 

Can your opponents parry or dodge GB heavy ?

@janicepayne7489 No, your opponents can't parry or dodge a Nobu GB heavy. Nobu gets a heavy from any direction on GB.

nice one bro

Thanks for watching and even better to hear you could get something out of it. 👍🏽 One thing I didn't include was that you can throw an uninterruptable heavy after the first part of the zone, but I got everything else. Thanks again!

Ayyye! A Nobu Main! Love it! Appreciate the feedback and YES you're absolutely right. I did realize I left out that zone soft cancel into heavy and was like dang it! Was going to add it to my Nobu tip not in video comment and was like well its in video buuut 😂 I got problems. Thanks for officially adding it here in the comments and thanks for watching! 👍🏽

Welcome back! There's no game out there like For Honor. I love the game and I'm happy you could use this in your return. It can be frustrating because while the mechanics are straight forward its just a learning curve to figure out countering other heroes. But it's fun! Hope you keep playing! Thanks for watching and maybe I'll see you on the battlefield. Take care! 🫡

Thanks for taking the time to comment and stopping by the channel! I really appreciate that. 🫡 Nobu's a lot of fun, but it can be tough to use her against better players. The more you know and can recognize, the better! Keep enjoying Nobu! ✌🏽

@MOCHI_MOCHIII_ So glad you found it helpful! I only did a couple of hero guides (Nobushi and Kensei) because they are the heroes I enjoy the most. If you go to the tutorials and tips playlist on this channel you may find some other tips. For Honor News and info Playlist has videos about an event, hero, or something fun to talk about like hero skins etc. For Honor can be fun. Hero fashion and unique fighting game gameplay keeps me coming back. Hope you will too! Thanks for watching! 🫡

@@MisterArdor for sure, thank you!

Good luck and have fun! The more you learn about other heroes and how they attack you, the better you'll get using Nobushi. Just have fun because she doesn't have an opener and if someone waits you out, it gets tougher in duels. Thanks for watching! 🫡

Awesome to hear! Hope you keep coming back to her even after trying other heroes and new heroes. She's vulnerable but dangerous especially in team fights due to her bleed. Thanks for watching! It is appreciated. 🫡

Awesome! She's not hard to defend against as you'll see the better players you go against, but she's solid in team fights as a nuisance. Just have fun with her! 👊🏼👍🏼

Appreciate you taking the time to comment! 👊🏽 I truly wanted anyone thinking of playing Nobu to understand her even if it's only a little. Thanks for watching 🫡

Thank you for the words and thanks for watching 🫡 Yes, her hidden stance (HS) is a must to incorporate both offensively and defensively. Once you get the hang of when to use it and how it can be used to dodge external attacks as well as switching targets while in it will get you out of a few jams. Unfortunately, she still needs an opener. It's tough to get her offense off unless someone attacks you which makes her not the best in duels. Have fun with Nobu! That PK hero skin (Ezio Auditore) is going to have me playing more PK! What about you?

@@MisterArdor probably will be using some PK with the new skin too!

I know the feeling! Glad it helped and have fun with Nobu! Thanks for watching! 🫡

Happy you found it useful. If you give Kensei a try, I have a guide on him as well. Enjoy For Honor! Team modes will frustrate you at times but if you keep it positive, it's not bad. Thanks for watching 🫡

Thank you for watching and as a Nobu main I welcome you with open arms. 😁 Have fun with her!

Thanks for watching 🫡

Love to read things like this! There are Nobus out there that you can tell they dont understand her yet regardless of rep. She's really fun, 100%. Even more when used the right way. Thanks for taking the time to comment and watch! Keep working on your best version of Nobu. Good luck! 🫡

Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to comment. There are some really good guides out there, but I'm happy you found and enjoyed this one. Thanks for watching and go slay with Nobu 🫡

Awesome! Makes it worth doing the video already. Thanks for watching and good luck with Nobu! Any questions, lmk

Hidden stance can be a beauty and a curse lol. Hyper armor can be tricky to deal with when using Nobu requiring you to be more defensive than you want. She's still my main until this game ends. New hero reveal in 2 days!

The trailer was really good, he really seems to have character !

I'm glad you found it useful and hope you stick with Nobu. You're right about range, it's tough because you want to be in the mix but you still can be with her but she's better as a support nuisance

Awesome! There will be struggles, thats just the nature of the game. Just have fun with her! She's low tier in 1v1 but is a solid support hero in team modes. Thanks for watching! 🫡 Any questions lmk

Thanks for watching! GL with Nobu!

Nice! Absolutely love seeing more Nobu's out there. Thanks for watching and good luck with her! 🫡

Thanks for watching! 🫡 And yes sidewinder should be rarely used. You have to time it just right or players like Afeera can just dodge it right after they miss a bash. It's a crazy. Timing is tight in those situations. Hope you keep enjoying Nobu! 👍🏼

@@MisterArdor Alright, thanks!

Appreciate you, my friend. Thanks for taking the time to watch! 🫡

Thank you and thanks for watching! 🫡

Didn't get a notification for your comment but as soon as the first zone attack finishes that is when you do your dodge or heavy attack input. Don't wait for the second attack or you will have recovery frames to deal with. Good luck!

And that's awesome! It just means you want to get as good as possible with her. Trying to manipulate your opponent with her heavy undodgeable finisher is important. Kick after zone throws some players off too. Hope you take her to 70! Have fun! 👊🏼 Thanks for watching! 🫡

Thanks for watching! 🫡 Enjoy the style and grace of Nobu! 😁

Which heroes chains give you the most trouble? I can give you some tips.

🤣🤣 Thanks for watching! 🫡

Awesome! Thanks for watching and have fun with Nobu!

Thanks for watching! 🙏🏽

👍🏼yep, it's a great move! I did it in the video but didn't specifically point it out. Thought about putting it in comments but didn't obviously. Someone else pointed that out as well. Love you Nobus coming in here spreading knowledge! Thanks for watching! 🫡

And I will welcome you amongst us when you become one. 😁 jk Enjoy the journey. Only the special ones choose her as a main. I'm glad you did. GL and thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching 🫡 Yes a counter GB is when the opponent tried to gb you so you press the GB button you have set on your controller. I'll offer you a suggestion, I remapped my GB button on Xbox to left bumper. It worked better for me. Give it a shot and see if it works better for you. Have fun with Nobu! You have to work for damage against better players but I like her playstyle. Lmk, if you have any other questions.

@@MisterArdor thank you I appreciate it. Will try that. Yes when it says 'hard' on the game, I thought how hard can I be? But yes I agree it isn't like other characters when you can rush in and be super aggressive. So its definitely a different play style for me but her looks and gameplay I'm really enjoying at the moment.

Appreciate you! 👊🏽 even more that you're a Nobu head 💪🏽Thanks for watching! 🫡

Don't know who Eskimo Pie is but thanks for watching! Maybe I'll check it out, just to support.

Just watched a couple of his vids, any Nobu main is a friend of mine 😁 I found it better off to pick up things on your own. It's hero/player style dependent how you use her. You can get saucy or play it straight. That's what's great about her!

Whoa! You went straight unblockable out of kick with Nobu! Lol. I don't think she needs that but like you mentioned it would be nice for her to have an alternative after kick other than hs because people do wait it out. If she could go hs she's back to an offensive posture. I like that 👌🏽 I really think she only needs a couple things and I mentioned them in my "What If" video I did about a year ago. Still think it applies but would like to add your suggestion now. Feel free to check it out sometime and let me know your thoughts. Here's the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--SCpuYt30Nw.html Thanks for watching and commenting! I do see a few Nobu tweaks in her future, and then she'll be primo! Other heroes getting work first rightly so. Like Nuxia

Thanks for the reply, I will check it out.

Skill based matchmaking is a myth! 😂 You will have games where you feel like a God and then games where you question why even try because the odds are stacked against you. Go with the flow, her your fashion, have fun with it and you'll be fine. Don't leave matches whatever you do. You're giving up XP by doing that amd it just delays you leveling uo to the next rep. Tough it out get your XP amd then ✌🏽.

Did a video on what Nobu needs here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--SCpuYt30Nw.html I don't like hyper armor for Nobu cuz that doesn't go with her identity. She's an evasive, versatile retreats aka distance hero. She shouldn't be tanking damage to give it. Also remember she can kick without going into HS. She just has to do it after an attack. She can't from neutral. Thanks for watching! 🫡

@@MisterArdor ah I play mostly dominion that’s why I say that because these new characters just either hA through my hit or I lost because Nobu don’t have the equipment to hit someone if someone else just stands still hurtling spamming lights

@Galaxy-rj1kj I mostly play dom as well and I'm with you that when there's multiple heroes with ha and unblockables it can be a problem for Nobu. She needs an opener for sure, just like they gave Shaolin his opener in his rework and kept his kick from Qi stance that's one thing Nobu needs. I mentioned one more thing in video as an option. Would love to hear your thoughts.

That does sound like a pre-changes move. But not just changes to Nobu, changes they made to stamina/recovery in general. I think the Viper's Retreat move (backstance light poison) wouldn't be guaranteed now. You can still get triple light, but with Cobra Strike, light, kick, light and that works well for her also if wall is nearby because you can get that heavy. Mix it up, see what you come up with! I'm not perfect and could be wrong. I'll probably try the old way again myself just to see. 😂 Game is constantly evolving.

@@MisterArdor sorry i didn't notice you replied and i edited my comment ! thanks for the attention tho ❤

@Nasheeyy I see the edit now, and yeah, you definitely can't beat nobody down with that anymore, good lord! 🤣 Thanks for watching and get some rest, but appreciate you stopping by before you crash. ✌🏽

Sounds about right 😂 New Nobus are forced to adapt quickly now the way matchmaking has been recently. Performance updates coming to consoles on 27 July. Some Nobus may be in for a shock once XSX and PS5 players go from 60 to 120FPS. Nobu main forever here. Thanks for watching!

@@MisterArdor wait we’re going to 120 fps?! Oh Damn I’ve been loving the 60 fps as I got my ps5 a little less than two months ago. Man I’m so excited for this now lol

@futuristicbus61 Yep, well prepare to be more excited lol. Sounded like there will be a graphics hit if you go with the performance boost option. And I agree the 60fps was a big difference for me on my XSX. 120fps is how this game was meant to be played imo. That's how my settings are on PC. You'll be happy for sure!

That's the Death Gasp Chest and can only be unlocked during the Death by Metal Event that ubi already had a few months ago and few years ago before that. Hopefully it comes back next year at some point. It's the only FH event where you can get event specific Helm, Chest, and Arms. Keep an eye out for it!

@@MisterArdor oh thats a shame, thanks for letting me know

@@sumdoodie No problem 🫡

I've changed it a few times since this video, but I think I used Tormented Fields, which you unlock playing Ranked Duels. You could try to use the Knight color palette that you got from the Metal Trials event. That may work also, but not sure. Hope that helps and thanks for watching! 🫡

That's awesome! Glad you found a hero you love and especially Nobu! Her playstyle is fun! As far as Orochi, try and light them out of the storm rush and with Nobu reading your opponent is so important!! That means you need to become familiar with what other heroes can do. It does take time, but the more you use her against other heroes, the better you'll get with how to counter what they do. She is a hybrid hard for a reason. Make sure to use her distance with Vipers retreat and keep them at bay. That works against Orochi well too since she slightly goes backwards on that move. Keep it up, thanks for watching and commenting! 🫡

I'm getting alot better however kyoshin is giving me a hard time idk how to counter him

@jakestewart273 Something that helps is to dodge the first attack (don't sidewinder or side Cobra Strike) and then HS the follow up from the Kyoshin and then kick the Kyoshin. Gets them thinking they have to counter differently. Anybody that can just sit in full guard with no consequence can be trouble for Nobushi. If in 1v1s. It's just tough in general in 1s against those type of heroes. It can be hard work being a Nobu without an opener. Good luck and keep improving!

@@MisterArdor thank u for the advice 🙏

​@@MisterArdorsorry to bother u again have u got any tips against shaolin I've fought quite a few as it's his hero fest at the moment his attacks put to much pressure on me and I get no time to react

A zone is when you press your heavy attack + light attack buttons at the same time. Different heroes have different characteristics to the phases of their zone attacks. Nobushi for instance, you have the initial attack where she performs a wide sweep of her staff. That's the first phase. The second phase gives you options because now you can cancel it by pressing B button (Xbox) or you can dodge (A button), or you can throw a heavy attack (R trigger) or just let the normal second hit of the zone attack continue which is a focused attack on the target and not a sweeping animation. The zone is primarily used when you are in mid to clear minions in Dom game mode or if you're being ganged and want an area attack to keep surrounding players off of you and alert. Hope that helps describe it better. Good luck amd lmk if you have any other questions. Feel free to join the Discord too. It's quiet, not that many people, but they are chill and would help you as well. Take care.

Using Nobu in duels can be challenging as the competition rises since she has no opener. But first let's talk your controller. I struggled with HS at first. You need to keep adjusting your HS angle and dead zone until you reach a level where you don't jerk or go in that direction too much. You'll get there because I did. If I can, anyone can. Just takes time to find the right settings for you. Back to the duels question, I just put out a ranked duels vid where you can see how I approached duels. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9Nx77pWFmW0.html It's tough for sure! You have to keep your distance and it's really about the reads. For instance, a lot of people will try to GB you after you try and GB them. Once someone counter GBs you throw out a Viper's Retreat in any direction. It will give you distance and get you damage when they do this. It will cause them to think about it more. That's what you want with Nobu. Get them thinking. Also throw attacks at different timings. So many people fight in a rhythm, mix it up. To test if someone is going to parry you throw heavy and soft feint into HS to help you get a tendency and also can keep your opponent thinking. Her lights are easy to parry and her animations are distinct so people can differentiate, that's why throwing out a combination of neutral heavies instead of lights, hard feinting heavies, and heavies into HS are important. Bottom Line is, it's all a feel. It's not easy out here for us Nobus in duels😂. Awesome that you got her to rep 9, she's better in Dominion but you can still have success in dogs for sure.

@@MisterArdor Thank you for the tips and i will apply it to my game and try to find the right controller settings so i can go into HS fluently and not look stiff. I do have to admit that as of now my fighting rhythm is predictable but im trying to change it so I can stop getting all my attacks parried. Im on the gring to Rep 70 Nobu so i will enjoy the journey and get better

@johnquizera8757 Love to hear it! 💪🏽 Good luck! Keep trying other characters too, helps with understanding how to beat them with Nobu and breaks up the grind. You got this! 🫡✌🏽

ive improved tremendously, rep 11 and still on the grind to rep 70. Thank you for the tips

@johnquizera8757 🙌🏽 I can just feel the confidence in your post! Happy to hear it brother. Embrace the grind and get the fashion you can only get by playing ice brawlers!! You have 18 more days. 5 different color patterns including an all white one. Takes time to get them all since it's random. ✌🏽 and congrats on your journey to become a Nobu master 👏🏽

Yeah, I think Rapid Revivie takes 3 secs compared to the normal 5 secs. Don't think it's broken, but 2 secs would be good because you could go matches without using it! Also think there should be a health benefit other than having to double up the feat with one of your perks, but I don't see it changing that's why I only would use it for Breach coupled with the feat for 75% health. Thanks for watching! 🫡

OMGoodness, they've tinkered with her so much it's crazy. She use to be able to counter GB out of hidden stance and they took that away. There was a player named Alernakin that was apparently using some unlock tech to help him win a tourney with her and changes were made because of that. I don't remember her ever having undodgeables until they made her most recent changes a few years ago. I do believe there was a point when you could GB her on missed kick attempt before they gave her the ability to Cobra Strike put of it. I'm blurr3d by the changes so I could be mixing and matching but I like her current state, I just want her to have an opener. Like shaolin. Doesn't matter as much in Dom because teammates force people to open up but 1v1 can turn into a staring match and I hate those after a while. Thanks for watching btw!! Take care

Love to hear it!! Multiple Ocelotl's is tough for Nobu to deal with. Bash and hyper armor zones are a terror. Erased in no time

@Son_of_thunder_52 That's situational for me based on distance. If they're close and then roll, I fwd Cobra strike and throw out an undodgeable after to maintain pressure since usually a roll comes on revenge. If it's distance and you really want to chase them, you can unlock run but nothing will be guaranteed, if you time it right and you're in HS and their close you can try an undodgeable but I have come up short with that. So I've always viewed rollers as situational. If someone else has had a different experience, hopefully they engage and give them their advice. Good luck! 👍🏼

Sorry. I don't know what you are asking? Are you asking what rep for certain armor and weapons or something else?

@@MisterArdor i mean the different armor and weapon part. Some have for example healing options or other stuff. Thank you sir

@starwatcher73 The armor or weapon doesn't have any particular property of healing, etc. I believe you're referring to the perk you see on the weapon or armor. That is random. Every time you get a weapon or armor you will see a random perk or 2 perks assigned to it. It's up to you to put the right combination of perks together so you can get the benefits. So it is important to not stress the fashion aspect of the hero initially because perks help in team modes. Once you decide which ones you want, then see what you have in your inventory so you can get it. You can get up to 3 at a time. If you choose the two last perks, you will only be able to get those 2. That's how ubi has it set up for power balance. Hope that helps a little. I suggest you look up Perks. Heres an article that will help as well. www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/for-honor/gameplay/article/perk-system-in-for-honor/000062276#:~:text=You%20can%20enhance%20your%20equipment,one%20or%20two%20specific%20Perks

@@MisterArdor alright thank you. Any perks you recommend to built up for this character ?

@@starwatcher73 Absolutely! Just look at the 20:57 mark of this video. I give you a couple of perk builds for Nobushi. I try to do it for any of my hero guides. Not tip videos but guide videos I do.

If they had cross progression that would be fun to do but since I had to start over on PC, I don't have the fashion nor the money for the fashion to put toward 34 heroes. There's only a select group I'm putting that kind of time in anyway. Thanks for watching!

@@MisterArdor yeh it’s sweet used to watch u awhile back

@@joltix3494 🫡

No offense taken, this is my PC account. I'm rep 70 Nobu on my Xbox. I just started playing on PC last year. Thanks for watching my friend.

YES Murkus!!! Me and you both! They gave Shaolin one but have ignored our lovely Nobu 😁. There's only two things I want her to have then leave her alone. One is an opener and 2 is an anti gank tool. That's it! The zone is cool but with all this hyper armor going on around her it can be tough.

@@MisterArdor I remember when Orochi got his kick, I got excited, thinking it was time for these characters without an opener to finally receive one, but I guess not. Gonna go this entire games life without Nobu having good pressure. Wish they would bring back the light canceling into HS at the very least.

@NakedTrashPanda We can dream lol

😂 I'm glad you are enjoying Nobu. I would like for her to have an opener as you know but she doesn't need anything major. Fun to play too! Thanks for watching 🫡

Likes/Dislikes aren't disabled. I stated my reasoning for disabling 'Likes' being visible on a post a few months ago, since someone similar to you didn't understand how it works. You can't disable/enable likes and dislikes. You can only enable likes to be visible. Why does seeing the number of likes matter to you? I still see them on the backend. I do appreciate the comments, every viewer, sub, and like I get! Very grateful and always will be.

I do talk about that in this. Light spam doesn't work consistently when you go against better players. Also helps when you're not on old Gen consoles. That can be frustrating, but the more you understand, the better you get. Hope you're enjoying Nobu. No matter who I use, I always go back to her. Always my fav. New Viking hero coming Q4 this year. Should be interesting! Thanks for watching! 🫡

@@MisterArdor lightspamming is hard to deal with, idk maybe it's my frame rate

@imdrewfimurr3911 That's possible! I play at 120 fps. It's like that for my Series X and PC. If you're at 30 like XOne or PS4 or 60 fps like Xbox One X there is a difference. Light spam is frustrating though regardless.

@@MisterArdor that's all I'm saying

@MisterArdor light spamming is still hard for me to deal with, idk if it's predictions or reaction time or my frames but either way you shouldn't do it

Thanks for watching! Didn't expect everyone to like it , appreciate the feedback. It was my first For Honor one for my fav hero, there are some things to tighten up if I did another one but other than that, I think it came out alright. Take care

@@MisterArdor yea its defo not bad the audio is good i didnt meant to offend u or anything i just watched like 6h of for honor guides and this one was just too long

@0jiro I'm not feeling bad, I'm not one of those types of people to get upset about feedback. It's the "you suck" stuff that's not constructive that I don't care for. I don't disagree with you that it's long. If I do another one, I will try and tighten things up a little but I will go by feel after editing. Enjoy double XP this week brother. 👍🏽

@@MisterArdordude that guys a moron lmfao. this was a great in depth tutorial. showing all of a character is not going to be short. good tut man

Do you not look at the times beforehand? If you knew it was long why click it?