The Ultimate Valkyrie Guide - From Beginner Tips to Advanced Strategy [For Honor Academy] 

Very true

Valkyrie is also one of the hardest characters to pick up at a top level because she has so much she can do that isn’t explicitly said in her kit

Yes I started the game this year and 0layer warmonger. But I didn't quit grasp hownto be adaptable and switched to this cause I found it fun to use when doing the parry tutorial she really helped me learn thegame better

Instead of ganking running away to heal and take all the kills for the entirety of 3 games in a row

@@Kharis- The bleed stacks. I tried it in training. The deflect into gb is only better if you want to ledge since it consumes more stamina than a regular shoulder pin.

@@Kharis-So you're saying that the bleed resets instead of stacking? Then yes, the gb plus heavy would be better.

Also her gb is confirmed even when you’re out of stam, same as kensei

@@Kharis- you can indeed get a wallsplat and heavy but the distance and spacing isn’t very forgiving for it, you can’t be right next to the wall you gotta have a bit of space to confirm the heavy otherwise it can be blocked and sometimes even parried if you’re like right next to the wall

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Me a character with a toe fetish main: 😈

@@Emery_Forde Aaaangry spaatula!

Yeah she’s much more of a counter attacker now

NOOO OMG 😩they nerfed her hard

I agree on pre-Valk rework. She was better before the rework. Her full guard charge up was really useful for knocking down opponents. I'd give up the guaranteed heavy after the sweep to get the full charge guard KD back.

It's to the side as well.

What wow

You’re very welcome :)

@@LokiOakenshield 😁🙌🏽

Thanks! And yeah I’ll look into making such a guide

I am planning to do one for him soon, so stay tuned for that :)

Good to know, Thanks!

I’m glad you found it helpful :)

Just gotta update it since Valk just got a rework lol

I gotchu. Redid the video like 10 times, but it’s been long overdue for you guys :)

Good to know :)

You mind if I shout you out on my video? Gonna publish it on Tuesday probably, just a short video with some extra tips about Valks deflects

@@LokiOakenshield Sure thing.

Yeah I mention it at some point in there. Only works on heavies as far as I know, and potentially some zone attacks but I haven’t tested that yet

@@LokiOakenshield it does cost alot of stamania but it is worth it sometimes since they never excpect it :) nice video btw

Thanks

Indeed. I mention that somewhere in the guide :)

My bad then mate🙌

Haha no worries, it might be too obscure in the video, and it’s a not very well known tech in the game so a lot of people don’t know about it

@@LokiOakenshield you speak well mate I think it’s me, I’m a main with Valkyrie and I think she is the most underrated character

I still dont get how to do it, so you have to cancel the bash after blocking the Heavy with All guard? Or do you have to hit the bash? I tried So many times, as fast as possible, but the ki in Training Mode always Breaks the GB

They’re called “demonic horns”, you get them from winning ranked matches

Undodgeable heavy finisher, enhanced lights maybe. Lower the stamina cost of her soft feint into bash since it takes a lot and is her main/only mixup/opener

To do the bleed you have to press the heavy attack Input after getting the deflect

@@LokiOakenshield ok thank you

Only works for heavy attacks and zone with Valkyrie

@@LokiOakenshield thx man

It’s the “bash” is done by pressing guard break on the start up to a heavy attack. “Start up”refers to the opening animation of any move, and in terms of a heavy attack it’s the window in which you can cancel a heavy attack and/or soft feint it. So as soon as you press heavy attack if you press the gb button she’ll do a shield bash

Deflect does more damage, But I do crushing counters more often since it also counters feints into guard break where as a gb would catch a deflect. But people can also read a crushing counter and feint into neutral and parry, so it’s all just an elaborate mind game tbh

They got rid of her heavy feint into bash, it’s now a heavy feint into all block which can go into a bash. The bash from all block is now 100ms faster and the follow up does like 20 damage. Her sweep is faster now as well, and that’s about it. She has had some other minor adjustments like better trajectories on heavies, better guardbreak range, etc. Her zone is really fast now as well, and is cancelable into all block and barely uses any stamina so make use of that in team fights and duels. Other than that she is still similar play style

BP does take skill, when fighting opponents aware of his counter they’ll try to bait him into it a lot more meaning the BP has to make careful reads

@@tristanlambert658 yeah okay. I've seen pro and noob plays and been only on the receiving ends since I don't play Knights. But nothing about BP full block stance is considered skill. And in this video it shows it. You literally have to do a bunch of other stuff to even make vak FBS to be viable in a fight. It's not just one click and get a free heavy hit or that it's quick enough to always get out of a tough situation. Plus that's not skill, that's predicting the opponent, something you have to do

The Bostanator if you don’t play BP then don’t talk like you know him, going for a downblock counter is very risky and it’s a small window, if you go early or overshoot it you will be guardbroken. For characters that can feint their unblockables BP has to make a read or not even bother at all. Now obviously someone well experienced with the character will be better with the mechanic, but it’s not as safe and easy as you think. And if you wanna say that’s not skill and that it’s predicting the opponent then I say what’s the difference? The point of the CCU was to remove skill based gameplay and promote guessing games. Making a successful read is now what skill is in FH

@@tristanlambert658 I see you trying to defend BP but not conq. I can only assume you main the shit out of BP to be defending him so hard. Like I said, I've seen pro and noob plays over BP so I know how to counter him. So just because I don't play the noob heavy hero, doesn't mean I don't understand how he works. Compared to everyone else with FBS, conq and BP are (to me) top 3 easy heroes with FBS. And you aren't going to change my mind BP mainer. Nothing says easy than a predicting BP that counters every hit and counters multiple people. I'd like to see a vak easy best 2 to 4 players that easily. Or to make players think on how to gank her properly. He literally has multiple actions in his FBS, he can mix up. Vak can only charge or just cance. Basic shit that everyone can counter against. This video actually shows a skill to implement in her game play. 1v1 I'm sure he has difficulty. Cause like raider top light, I bet everyone is just waiting for that BP to mess up his easy counter attack.

The Bostanator you assume wrong, I grinded BP on his release week to rep 8 and since then I’ve only gotten him to rep 10 overall. That said, that is enough experience with the character to know that the bulwark counter isn’t as easy as you perceive it. When you see videos of pros or noobs doing it you’re only seeing that footage because it was intentionally captured due to the success within it. Again I’m not saying you have to be a god to use BP, just that considering it’s a mechanic based on timing and reads, it requires more skill than Conq who you also mentioned. Conq literally just sees red and downblocks, BP has to actually know what move in particular is coming at him to react accordingly. You seem to think I’m comparing BP to Valk but I never suggested that, I know BP is a better character than her, I was just saying I think you have BP as easier to play than he is in your head.

She does not anymore, only forward dodge into all block. And he heavies no longer feint straight into a bash, they feint into the all block

Tbh I don’t remember the one for this video, my fashion changes almost weekly these days

They do the same damage as side heavies

Oh ok thanks

Whatever floats your boat, have at least one long one and one short one so you can either get more health back or get back in the right quickly

Sometimes it does, with some heroes they can continue their chains if you go for a gb, I’m not sure which attacks exactly can continue. Might have to test that out

@@LokiOakenshield no-one's attacks can chain from her deflect. Valk has superior guard on dodge and so will interrupt any chain

Let go of it then immediately press B, or whatever your cancel button is

@@LokiOakenshield nice thanks

Her leg sweep is pretty much unpunisheable unless you have a doge attack, try dodging then doing a light attack, or a bash if you have one

If you’re talking about her deflect, you have to dodge into an attack just as it’s about to hit you, so you have to wait until the last possible second, it will make a loud clank sound letting you know it landed then immediately press heavy attack to do the shoulder pin

Dodge backward then press and hold the gb button, release it to do the bash

Just means pressing the guard break button early in the heavy animation, so basically you press heavy attack then immediately press the gb button

@@LokiOakenshield thank you for replying ♥️

I gotchu :)

It’s all there in the video :). Gb punish is any heavy attack. OOS parry punish us forward dodge light into side light into leg sweep

New vids 3x a week :), and the next 6 weeks will be purely Valkyrie content

Also another question. So does I have been noticing that everyone just dodges whenever I start my string. I try to heavy but it seems like people jus kinda block it mid dash. Is there a way to deal with that?

Feint into gb more often, and if they dodge attack feint into neutral to parry. If you really want to up your game then you have to watch their guard as you’re in your chain to see where their guard is when they dodge to know which direction to throw the heavy from. You also need to know if the character has a superior dodge where their guard automatically switches to the direction they dodge in.

Also I was incorrect, you don’t have to hold down on the stick anymore, that was the original input back in the day but it’s changed since then, just pressing guaedbreak does the trick

It’s a stream countdown song created by Alexander Nakarada, I thinks it’s literally titled “stream countdown”

I would say she’s respectable, she actually takes skill to do well with

like he said takes skill to use well but if u can figure out how to use her and when to use your full guard she can be crazy, yes he does say it takes a little more to do the same amount of damage but really gets a lot of players stuck in a loop when they can't stop the light, light and stun side attack it gets super hard to really tell which way your going

Guard break button immediately after starting a heavy attack

@@LokiOakenshield it did't work ;w; sorry just started this game today

more correct it feel like sometime work sometime not im confuse how it work

Just gotta get used to the timing, it takes practice

The inputs for what exactly?

@@LokiOakenshield nvm I meant like I need to see like recommended combos and the inputs for those recommended combos

@@LokiOakenshield I jus don’t know what to do with her in game besides counter

@@dissailo361 learn her moveset on training mode, once u get it, watch this vid again

@@LokiOakenshield yuh I realised where to find combos and I know how to mix stuff up now and HOLLY SH*T VALK IS GOD TEIR I’m also being told to play zerk would you recommend him?

Been playing since the beta, you pick up a thing or two after playing for that long lol