Ranking The Combat In Every Assassin's Creed Game... 

Hi there, so as I mentioned at the start of this video. It's all my own opinion and is completely subjective. Ranking combat in video games is the hardest thing to do out of all of the stuff to rank as it factors based on you as a player, your own preferences, your own style of fighting, and also how enjoyable it is to you. There will be people that will say ACSyndicate has the best combat, whereas I have it dead last in this video. So yeah, have a great day, stay safe!💜

By me, Odyssey and Valhalla are some solid games. The only problem is that they slapped "assassin's creed" on it.

For me its the Kenway Saga (AC3, AC black flag, Rogue, Liberation). It makes you feel like an powerhouse and Animations are pretty good too.

i think the worst part about syndicate was how the rpg elements were integrated. specifically how headshots didn’t instantly kill, and how you mentioned with damage sponges.

You didn't mention the "shock and awe" system in AC1, the best part in my opinion. When you kill an enemy brutally, another will get scared and become unable to defend themselves for a short time. When this happens you can obviously hit them but, less obvious, you can unlock and switch to the hidden blade to kill them. That will scare another so can keep doing it until you get hit or fail to get to the right guard. Could be explained better but it is a lot of fun and takes a bit more skill than the kill chains in Brotherhood to Rogue.

I really love AC1 combat it feels very brutal, every time you fight someone you get the impression that altair isnt mean to fight and that he want to end up fast with them

I never noticed a difference between the combat from AC3 and that in Black Flag/Rogue. Always felt the exact same to me

I know they're by far the easiest AC games, but the Kenway saga are so satisfying. I love how you can legitimately have an unarmed style of fighting.

interesting pick for the number 1 spot especially since you "criticised" black flag and rogue for it but AC III is doing exactly the same (one button counter 1 button kill which makes you easily op) still it was an enjoyable video overall

I’ve never had a problem with “lack of damage” in syndicate. However, Odyssey on the other hand, every enemy type was a damage sponge. It was annoying how long it took to take an enemy down

Connor may not be the most well regarded protagonist, but nobody can deny that dude is fuckin scary in a fight No over protag makes me go "dude chill" during a fight, it's awesome

Unpopular opinion: assassins creed 1 had the best combat because the skill threshold was the highest and it felt the most realistic in my opinion

I agree most of the things you said but Valhalla's combat is better than Origins, more refined + posture mechanic + weak points + more enemy types + dual wield weapon + more difference between weapons

Opinions are exactly that, opinions so I don’t want to judge your list too much. I am very confused though. I remember black flag and AC3 being basically the same combat system.

Completely agree with your first choice! I felt the same way after replaying the gamer for the second time, it's just so brutal and efficient. And as you said, there was such variety in the animations depending on your weapon.

I like how Ubisoft added Vlad Tepes' sword to Revelations since Vlad Tepes was a cruel Romanian ruler and the actions in Revelations are in the same period as Vlad Tepes's actions in Romania (🇷🇴) here he was putting spikes in the people who were rich and were mogging and laughing about the poor ones, piercing the spike through their bodies, from their butt all the way up to their head

I think ac 1 had a good combat with good animations and satisfying counter kill, although i feel like by the end of the game i had too much health so it was pretty much impossible to die and to make it worse health regenerates.

Assassins creed valhalla is not meant to be played on the normal difficulty to experience the combat, i played it on hard and it made me think because of the stamina bar, when to attack and when to not

To be fair to Valhalla the disorientating finisher camera can be turned off in the menu

Assassin's creed black flag and rouge combat was easy but extremely satisfying with beautiful animations

Just finished playing AC III. I really liked the combat but idk if it is worth the first spot, sometimes it's just too confusing on whether or not you should atack, parry or break the enemy's defense. Also, some weapons were really a let down gameplay wise, like daggers having the same animations as hatchets, not to mention that the arrows were too short ranged and everytime you'd aim at someone's head, the arrow would go really slowly into their torso, which was awfully ugly. Guns were kinda disapointing too, they didn't look powerful enough and some would sound like they had a silencer on. But overall AC III really has great combat mechanics, really deserving of top 3.

I know, its your own oppinion, but how can Black Flag be so low and AC 3 be 1st?

I'm not sure if I agree on how harsh you were on AC: Syndicate, I think it definitely held your hand but I think all games have done that up to Syndicate, what I didn't like was actually the Skill Points that allowed you to one-shot all the enemies, You're required to get it to level up to 10 but it really ruined the combat. I liked the combat in Syndicate until I got those perks. (I actually replayed this over the weekend because of your videos)

Glad to see that ac3 finally gets its due. Im so tired of people dismissing it as one of the worst in the series when in reality its actually top 3 imo

Hello! Great video so far, you are coming a long way, and one of my inspirations, keep up the great work!!!!

Brotherhoods combat was pretty broken with the hidden blade lol. Which is why its fun though!

I feel like a health bar is not too bad. Games like DMC do it really good, they give you a health bar in the shape of the hard lock on, and it just helps you know how much health an enemy have.

My favorite combat systems in this franchise are a toss up between AC: Brotherhood, AC: Revelations, and AC: Origins. All three had their unique charms and challenges. And I liked discovering them a lot. They were great. The rest I either like or just annoy me.

no way that black flag combat is better than odyssey

I agree on most spots but for me personally Sindycate combat style is fantastic, i really liked it mostly due to being able to use a punch weapon and i love punching but the cane also was incredibly cool and stylish to use and the kukri was honestly the one i liked the least but i loved that too. Anyway yeah great takes in my opinion, ac3 has the best power-fantasy combat possible in the ac games.

@thehiddenone black flag had a weapon called "pistol swords" you can unlock that sword by completing all the assassination contracts. That was the most powerful sword in the game. All it takes was a 3 hit combo system 1st strike breaks the defence, 2nd initiates a combo and 3rd is the killing blow. The counter kills with that sword is even more deadly

I liked in AC1 the critical attacks when you hit the attack button as soon as you clash weapons or hit someone it caused an insta kill. It came back for 2 and I believe the Ezio games but they didn't feel as important as it was in the first game to take out enemies. In 2-4 I would try to get counter-kills but in 1 I was incentivized to attack and try to pull off these insta-kills to get rid of everyone faster.

I know it's a hot take but to me Origins has the weakest combat of the RPG trilogy. Parrying just doesn't feel as good and you don't have ways around overleveld enemies like Odyssey and Valhalla's systems have.

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I agree with this a lot, if this were my list I would switch Unity and Brotherhood, but barring that I completely agree with where everything else was placed!

Seeing Odyssey or Valhalla in the bottom of the list always makes me happy

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I love the combat system in Black Flag and Rogue. It makes you feel, like you are better then your opponent

Tbh I've found that Syndicate's combat gets way more fun when you use just the gun and treat it like a 3rd person shooter

I know a lot of you probably aren't British but the knife and canes knuckle dusters are also weapons used back then. yes you may not be stabbing the enemy your slashing them

I miss the counter kills button 😢

So on the notes for unity, there is a way to flow consistently like in the old games. Using a smoke or flash bomb and consistently switching targets continues your usually limited chain. on top of this, if the enemies are under level compared to you, you can hold attack to immediately do a finisher instead, allowing that instakill chain to remain present. Idk if this affects your ranking, but those two things made combat let you get creative even when it wasn't the game's main focus. Hope this helps if you ever want to play it again!

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Hidden one you hide in plain sight and it kind of reminded me of the voices in my house hiding from me when i go to investigate

Syndicate is my favourite as I love the animations and the vibe it feels like there is actually a point to fight the blighters unlike the other games where sometimes you just fight random guards

Origins war elephants were one of my favourite parts of the game

Origin's combat wasnt bad but the extreme lack of finisher moves in favor of characters falling down dead makes it go at the bottom of my list.

AC 1- Revelations, almost same combat system with minor differences in Brotherhood and Revelations AC 3 - Rogue, literally same system Unity - Unique Syndicate - Unique Origins - Mirage, same with specific mechanics in each game... So is pretty dumb putting like Valhalla so low while putting Origins so high.. the combat is samething, you may like the unique features it has compared to Valhalla, like the lack of abilities.

I just replayed the original Assassin’s Creed and I gotta say the combat was refreshing as fuck. Timing your hits perfectly is way more engaging than just button mashing or leveling up high enough to just wipe people out.

I want to start all assassin's creed mainline games, from AC1 to recent ones. I prefer PC gaming but not sure how to keep all of them in 1 place. I don't have any gaming gear at the moment but I would love to play all of them soon. Any suggestions?

I just don’t get why the berserker darts in Unity are contagious, it makes them insanely overpowered 😂

Black Flag is often considered too easy because the difficulty was tweaked in order to provide a better experience on the Wii U. And considering Rogue is a copy-paste of Black Flag animations/AI, the difficulty tweak crosses over.

i want a game with 3’s combat, unitys parkour and origins stealth engine and enemy ai shit would be absolutely bonkers

I love syndicate combat mainly I played sleeping dogs before and is similar I picked it up fast and also is a really fun and test of your reaction time

So where is the Hidden one from I mean I see he has subtitles in vids but dudes English is really on point

8:00 Personally I liked the AC3/ACL/AC4/AC FC/ACRo combat system because it was so easy and the combos looked so cool. Flowing from one enemy to the other was so easy.

Disarm and hand to hand combat needs to be in every AC. III was almost perfect for me, just need that crouching sneaking vibe.

With Odysseyi thought once u fully repaired the spear it would become a hidden blade obvs it didnt but I honestly didnt care too much I really enjoyed the stealth of the game rest I fully agree with.

If only they took the combat system from ac 3 and the parkour variation from unity and made the game with that it’d be a better game honestly but I don’t think it’s too bad of a game I just think we’re gonna have to hope for a better ac game next time around

I think your ranking of odyssey is a bit clouded. The combat in odyssey and origins can be pretty much the same. Origins already had poisonous/flaming weapons. The main difference is in origins I've read there are technically no unparryable attacks, but they were difficult to pull of. I think a fair ranking would place the combat in odyssey near the combat in origins, since it is so similar but with extra features you don't have to spec into. If you play a stealth/ranged ability only, you'll barely notice the difference in their combat. Story and justifications for the combat system shouldn't be taken into account unless youre reviewing the game as a whole.

One thing about AC2 combat is how unbelievably frustrating fighting the larger spear-wielding opponents is. They frequently block your attacks, so you really can’t do damage by just attacking them. In addition, I could never get the timing of counter killing on them right. So the only consistent method of beating them was by disarming them, which was only possible when they attacked, meaning that you have to wait for them to attack, which they would sometimes take an enragingly long period of time to do during an encounter.

dude i remember when i was like in my early teens, i got my first ps3, it had ac revelations in it, i had no idea what that game is, and when i played it i got hooked, i stopped playing cuz of the janissaries, i got so frustrated i destroyed my controller from all the banging on the table and the walls i did.

In my opinion unity is the most janky and bugged combat system, almost every fight has bugged audio and it cuts out, the enemies are floaty and move in slow motion. I would put it in the 9th place or 8th

Valhalla and AC2 have my two favorite combat systems. Loved this video btw 😄

i actually really loved Syndicate's combat, i liked how you had to combo to kill. made it more interesting in my opinion. but then again Syndicate is my fave AC game so i'm biased lol. also i absolutely agree with you on that thing in the Unity part, i HATED the snipers they were so annoying. they had the eyes of Legolas i swear and were just as annoying as that one enemy that always blocked, i think it was the enemy at 28:24. legit hated that guy like: me: 'oh i'll just parry them' enemy: spams attack and doesn't let me parry me: 'ok i'll shoulder bash them to open up their defence' enemy: DODGES IT me: ):

Out of the ac games i played1,2, black flag, rogue, syndicate. I love the combat in ac1 and 2 the most, taunting is funny, the different techniques like the grab counter requiered you to time them correctly.

Thank you for saying that about Odyssey. This video was well done and raised great points. Not mad at it. Origin’s definitely was one of my favorite of the recent games. But the biggest W was putting AC3 up there! I know people at that game but AC3 had GREAT Combat if not the best for one of the original OG AC games. To say otherwise is just pure hate. Connor was one of the most brutal assassins and takes out whole red coat camps.

Fair enough. Here's my list then, worst to best. Unity - sorry I can't agree with you on this one, just like everything else in the game, the combat too was janky, unimpactful and boring AC1 - Very simple combat, relying a lot on parries, gets pretty boring after a while Syndicate - Sure it has a few weapon type, same as AC1, but the combat is more fluid. Black Flag/Rogue - Very easy combat, that's not necessarily bad, but the audio desyncing just ruins the whole feel for it. Having 4 pistols is cool tho Origins - The new combat style felt very weird at first, being used to the locked on combat for years. But after you get used to it it's pretty neat. However after a while it will become boring seeing the same finishers and moves for all game. AC2 - A lot like AC1, but adds a lot of variety with the weapons you can use. Odyssey - Pretty good combat overall, with many variety, and your abilities add a ton more variety. Hard to feel bored in this game. Especially the later added saved gear setups, you can switch around a lot. As you said it during your BF/rogue segment: if you feel the enemies are damage sponges, that's skill issue. Get better gear. AC3 - Good variety of weapons, the impact of the moves feels good, the double finishers are cool. Connor's aggressive moves feel very good. Brotherhood/Revelation - Sure it's not hard, but a combat system doesn't need to be hard to be enjoyed. Ezio is in his prime in BH, and it shows. What he has over Connor is style. His moves are just a joy to watch. I paired these two up because they are almost the same, however I'd say BH is better because it is Ezio in his prime. And I didn't like the slowmo finishers in Rev. No opinion on Valhalla at this time, since I got bored of the game after playing for like 3 hours. I guess it's at the level of Origins.

from what i remember about the swords in Ac BF the diference what that some made more atack animations before killing an anemy

if you were to slot mirage in this list where would you put it?

The naval combat is where AC Black Flag really shines and it could get really challenging and exciting, but since this isn't the part of combat that is being copared between the games, I just point that out to say the game is awesome and worth playing.

Watched your stealth ranked video and agreed but the fact that the RPG games aren’t the top three in combat is crazy. Outside of AC1 and maybe Unity combat in AC games has always been waiting for the exclamation point or and pressing B to counter and X to kill. In the old games I would face loads of enemies and just sit and spam those two buttons and it was so boring and dull. Maybe you would have defense breaking or pulling enemies in front of gunfire but it was all so basic and bland. So to say that those combat systems were better than the RPG ones is insane

man, piss off on berating syndicate, you're honestly gonna tell me with a straight face AC1 has better combat than syndicate?

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In my opinion AC: Origins combat didn't feel...good. Mechanically it was made well but I couldn't feel any weight behind Bayek's attacks, when I first played Origins it's what struck me that I felt as if Bayek was attacking smoke, not flesh and bones. I don't know if I can explain it rationally but that's how it felt. But that's the only issue I had with it's combat system.

i liked all of them except syndicate i liked odyssy even considering how tanky the enemies are and i like the ability in black flag to chain 80 kills together and ac1 cause it felt like a duel

So Origins and Origins basically has the same combat. But one is 2nd worst and one is 3rd on his list??

Hopefully we et a mix of unity and ac3 in mirage though im mire excited to see hex cuz itle hopefully be around the unity time period with the wich trials

Unpopular opinion: I think that Assassins Creed 1 has the best combat out of all the games. I just replayed it and finished it at 100% and I feel that it had a lot of depth. There were multiple choices to use during a fight. Grabbing an enemy an tossing him away. Using a throwing knife to weaken him. Dodging and attacking. Weakening a strong enemy, so then you can grab him, throw him away and execute him with the hidden blade while he is on the ground. I just feel that it was very well done. Now im playing Ac2, which for years I thought it was a vast improvement over the first one. But... it just feels like a big downgrade :( they just removed everything from the combat and only left the counter attack and the dodge.

Can anyone tell me the music used in this video?

Syndicates combat overall was so weird. You play as a trained killer, so I would expect you to be able to kill a regular enemy in 2 or three hits once you break their defense. Having these long combo streaks felt really weird. Additionally, while they did look great overall, you could hardly appreciate that, because all the animations were way too fast. However, fighting in the arena felt incredibly good as fast as far as I remember.

Can u rank all ac trios (ezio, kenway, and rpg)

Odyssey is my first AC game and I'm loving it. So I can't wait to see what else is out there.

I always stood still and just used counter attacking in AC1. Anyone else unintentionally counter attacked al Mualim with the hidden blade and killed him straight away?

32:06 the sapper man watching his friend dying

The one combat system from this franchise I despise the most was from AC: 1. I didn't like how my enemies seemed stronger than me and in order to survive the worse battles I have to run around the battlefield until my health regenerated. I was annoying and tedious. But TBH I only played that game once.

The Kenway saga had the most overpowered fight Ezio had the most balance Altaïr the most drafty RPG the most unrealistic like Unity the most victim protagonist ever And I would say surprisingly syndicate had the most cartoonish but fast if you are maxed out. But only if you are maxed out. Anyway my favorite is the Kenway saga because I love being capable of cleaning a man-o-war bear fist alone.

For me it’s between Origins, Unity, and Ezio trilogy. If I had to pick just one though, probably Unity since it feels uniquely AC, but also smooth and still challenging. Otherwise it would be Origins because I love Witcher, and I love how brutal Bayek is. Ezio is probably mostly there from nostalgia because while I liked AC1, 2 was where I became a fan.

Did not expect my top 3 to completely match yours. Although AC Valhalla's combat was so bad to me. I wouldn't have put it over oddysey or black flag.

having just finished ac 3 ill admit that combat is fun. whenever i needed a break from getting feathers or whatever grindy side thing id just go up to a group and unload til i died or they stopped coming. but i wont lie that ship combat killed it for me. like i get ships are slow and clunky modes of warfare irl but i did not have the patience for it in the game and am nervous to jump into black flag.

I think that revelations is over brotherhood only because of the janissaries, they were a challenge compared to the rest of enemies, but i agree that 3 is number 1 and unity number 2

Seeing the combat system in origins have the attention it deserve in the rpg games make me happy I like the combats of origins wonder how they change it into fantasy bs in odyssey 😭

I do agree AC 3 in the series has the most smoothes and visually appealing combat system in the AC franchise. You feel like a fast hard hittjng tank in that game

there is no way he didn’t mention the phantom blade

The only weapon that mattered to upgrade in black flag and rogue is your pistol

Darius was there during the time of odyssey the way he got the blade is because he is one of elder blood for assassin's creed lore so the blade was existent at the time i mean its known ac 2 js. From his statue . I do agree on the combat though just like how bad mirage and odyssey and syndicate seem the same

Is it a coincidence that the top 3 in this list are games that changed the series and took a huge risk bringing something new and fresh to the list and being in development quite a while?

Next you should rank all sets from AC Unity becaise there are so many.