The WORST Master Assassin in Assassin's Creed... 

Duncan Walpole has to be one of the most forgettable master assassins I didn't even know he was a master assassin

How the hell did he reach the rank of Master while still being philosophically and morally weak enough to defect to the Templars so easily?

Being a master assassin, fleeing like a coward, missing an open shot, failing to escape a pirate and being counter killed in a 1 on 1 has to be the most embarrassing death ever.

Duncan reminds me of Altair with how both rose to the rank of Master but were arrogant. Thing is Altair learned from his mistakes and contributed much to the brotherhood and was remembered well by them while Duncan cared only about himself and died with no one caring about him.

He’s the worst master assassin in the series because he betrayed the assassins for money

Imagine walpole against connor Connor would breathe and that man will be demolished from all existance

Not me killing him in 3 second by counter killing him

Duncan is a mirror of Edward. Had Edward not had a change of heart, he would’ve been exactly like Duncan. In fact, Edward’s original personality was gonna be like Duncan’s. Quiet, mysterious, even more ruthless, sociopathic.

George from AC syndicate was also a bad master assassin or mentor. He ignored his fellow assassins in London which lead Henry to be the only one there and even after Henry requested for help he refused to do anything

AC Rogue Assassin Chevalier may have been a complete jerk but at least he fought and died for his cause while Duncan was in it for wealth. I will say his first appearance on the Templar ship as the storm is flashing is epic.

3:00 Duncan and Shay aren’t the only two Assassin defectors. Haras from Revelations and Baptiste from Libration also fall under this category. However, other members like Haytham and Al Mualim haven’t officially turned sides, but show sides of both ideologies

I think that he reloaded the powder of the second pistol, as it would've been wet from swimming. At least that's what I've always thought

5:45 I AM NOT DEFENDING DUNCAN! I am only trying to educate you on the subject of flintlocks. The other flintlock on Duncan wouldn't had worked either as the problem was that the gunpowder in both of them was wet, and therefor couldn't ignite properly (the first flintlock wasn't broken at all). He was later able to shoot him because the gunpowder would've been able to dry itself just enough to catch a spark and ignite, and Duncan tried his luck. Also, because you said that Duncan missed, I remind you that flintlocks, because of their tehnology, or rather the lack of it (messy "cartridges" and smooth bore barrels) are VERY inaccurate (in the game, we're so good at shooting with them just because game mechanics and all that to make it more enjoyable and epic). Hope I helped you a bit! Love ur vids, keep making them just the same!

A video on Makandal would be pretty good

Master assassin is our true hero, a guy who loves assassin’s creed who actually knows what he’s talking about

Don't forget Vali from Revelations was once an Assassin who Defected and joined the Templars

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I remember when I first played AC IV, When Edward finally came face to face with Duncan after chasing him for a while, I was like “Damn we getting a Boss fight right at the start” and braced myself, and then Walpole died after just one Counter I was left stunned and laughing like crazy 😆

Playing The Parting Glass at the end with that scene made me so happy 😂

Do more of these Esspcially for the modern day there is so much lore there and your storytelling in very fun and compelling

My head canon used to be that he was so good at stealth that he had little to no experience with sword fighting. A little contradictory because how could you not kill Edwards in the woods where there’s all those trees and bushes, but maybe he wasn’t thinking straight.

What about a video where you rank all master assassins? (including yourself in s+ tier of course) Anyways, great video like always!

Duncan Walpole kind of reminded ME of Mizuki from the Naruto series. A little Weasel Shinobi who wanted to sell his own for selfish reasons. 😜

Oh my goodness, please do Shun Jao, the inventor of the rope dart, the hidden foot blade, and sword assassinations, and who Naoe borrows many details

I would love Ubisoft to do something similar to Arno’s story, where an Assassin is questioning whether either side is truly right or wrong and maybe spinning off into another group completely different from the main two. It would kinda break continuity because they would never have been mentioned in the modern day, but for a one off game I think it would be cool

Duncan Walpool got destroyed by Edward Kenway

I can’t wait for AC shadows and the AC remakes

I agree with your assessment of this character, always thought it was so lame that he could get killed so easily by somebody who wasn’t a Trained assassin

That ending had me rolling

I remember defeating him for the first time, when I was 7 and it was incredibly easy Also you should make more of these

I think Captain Chevalier de la Vérendrye from Rogue is up there as well. He got stomped by Shay, who’d only been in the assassins for a little while, if I remember right. Yet the Captain was a veteran of the seven years war and had decades more experience than Shay. He left his ship, (a man o war,) where it could be easily taken out and it couldn’t save itself, whereas a much smaller and barely outfitted ship did. Plus he was arrogant as all hell and remained as such to Shay, even after having his ass handed to him. And like the other assassins, refused to consider that their mentor’s repeatedly sending them off to retrieve the precursor artefacts was leading to potentially millions of innocents dying. Plus he shot Shay in the back like a coward, when none of the other blind to the truth assassins did so.

is it weird that i can kinda see a full on game happening that focuses on Duncan? i mean yeah he's a scumbag and a disgrace to the brotherhood - but it'd be interesting to see just how stupidely easy it took for him to not only defect to the templars, but to almost single handedly destroy the brotherhood as we know at the time

I think you should do a video like this with Roshan from Mirage. I know she has a lot more screen time than Duncan but a lot of her backstory is left out of the games and it’s actually pretty interesting.

Honestly Duncan Walpole is just another reason, why the Assassins can be just as equally incompetent as some of the Templars. It's honestly a good thing, showing neither side is perfect, even if the Assassins are supposedly the "Good Guys".

Please make a video about each assassin's Character. And their Descendants.

Can you do video about Yusuf tazim or about Abaz .

What the Assassin's Creed movie got wrong was that Duncan and Baptiste gotten descendants from modern-day that are loyal to the assassin doctrines. This makes no sense to me because their ancestors betrayed the creed for selfish reasons. Duncan betrayed the brotherhood for fortune and recognition. And Baptiste joined the Templars because his hatred for Jeanne Aveline's mother. Even he was angry at Agate his brother- in- arms for abandoning him to find her in Louisiana. This caused him to help the Templars reveal Agate's location and being their hidden spy.

Even edward was assassinated by a templar, assassin was assassinated, the irony.

Nothing says *Fame and fortune* like joining a secret organization where you must keep your identity hidden fight for the freedom of common people without a reward, absolute genius that guy

I didn't even know there was this much lore about Duncan Walpole of all people. I have even read all of the AC games novelizations. In which novel is he featured in though?

Walpole might be a trash assassin but there's no denying that his brief cutscene introduction in that thunderstorm ship battle and assassin drip (before edward modified it later on😢) was PEAK

another vid. another masterpiece.

I never even knew he had a character. He was literally created just to die and give Edward an excuse to wear the hood.

i thought bro was about to say Edward i was about to have a heart attack

eh Shay's turn was more because of stupidity and hot headedness. he only tried once to tell the Assassin's about the danger of the manuscript, and he did so while screaming like a madman and elaborating on nothing. did he calm down and come back later? no. as far as i'm concerned Shay might be a bit more righteous in his turn, but he's dumb as a brick. he had options. chalk it up to bad writing.

Duncan sounds like Altair at the beginning of AC1, I wonder if Altair could have been manipulated to join the Templars had things played out differently 🤔

I forgot that in my very first playthrough a decade ago, I managed to accidentally counter kill him and didn’t even know it

7:26 I always thought this guy is descendant of some French assassin (first time I thought about Arno Dorian, but actually Lynch is Arno's descendant) because he has a phantom blade during the fight with Abstergo.

on topic of the remake, i wonder if they're gonna do a flash back kind of thing where you play as duncan in the prologue and then the prologue we have right now is the first mission, its getting you attached to the character because you play as him before his untimely demise, it would also let ubisoft explore his backstory beyond what you described

I’d argue Duncan gets unnecessary hate. Yes he gets absolutely bodied, but if you take Edward out of the equation you potentially have one of the most influential assassins in all of the series. Imagine if Duncan had successfully defected, and given the Templars both the observatory and the sage. Leading the templars to completely destroy the assassins in the West Indies, and potentially even farther afield. And the only reason that he doesn’t succeed in this is because he meets Edward fucking Kenway. Who is ACTUALLY one of the most influential assassins in all of history. Almost single-handedly wiping out the Templars in the West Indies and the Americas. You can almost argue that Kenway killing Duncan was the most historically significant assassination in the entire series. I don’t fault Micheal Jordan for getting swept by Larry Bird, and I don’t fault Duncan for falling to the man who would become one of the most powerful and influential assassins ever. It honestly has nothing to do with training. (It’s also kinda obvious to me that you’re going to body him when he’s the first enemy you fight in the whole game). He also only fights you because he’s cornered, and AFTER trying very hard to run away. (Compare him running to Charles Vaine later in the game and I think the difference between an assassin and a non-assassin is obvious) Duncan’s death has always more highlights Edward’s prowess than Duncan’s “lack of” for me. Edit: If that’s not enough, consider the fact that if Dencan had killed Edward, then NONE of the Kenways would have been born. The second most influential family in the entire Assassin Templar conflict, gone. No Haytham, No Connor. Just imagine what that would have done to the world… And his [Duncan’s] second pistol likely only worked because he had given it time to dry out before shooting it. I think it speaks to his intelligence that after attempting to shoot Edward, after he realized he was a threat, and the pistol was non-functioning he tried to escape. I think that’s the smartest next move. And considering that they both barely survived that shipwreck, I think he was rather calm and decisive where most might not be. That also speaks to his assassin training.

Another day of requesting @MasterAssassin to upload a video of any titles of Ezio's Trilogy.

Love your video and keep up the great work. You are awesome, and I think it is cool if we can play as both and we need to choose which side we want to be

Duncan Walpole reaching Master Assassin is like a kid getting a black belt in 2 months from a McDojo.

Seing how the animus recreate memories it would be hilarious after playing Edward eliminating Duncan like a low level guard to play as Ducan with the animus recreating him like a "Let me solo her" kind of oponent with overly stupi speed power and automatic counter to each attack with the olny objectif being "Survive" x'D

I view Duncan as weak and thick headed not knowing he got clipped in the back

Imagine having a DLC living as Duncan BUT managed to kill Edward and proceed on betraying the Assassins and helped the Templars just like on Rogue

There was that Assassin from, Revelations, that also turned Templar as well.

You should talk about this Ezio guy, I don't think many of us know him well enough

After returning to england edward got a pardoned from robert walpole who also thanking edward for dealing with his cousin duncan walpole. Robert said that duncan brought dishonour to the family for betraying the assassin, even tho robert himself are neutral regarding the war between the assassin and templar

To clear up a little mistake you made the reasoning behind he didn't use his second pistol was because the gun powder in it would of been wet which is why the 1st one didn't work and why it his 2nd one is able to used later on as probably enough time would of passed for the gun powder to dry back up and the reason he was probably unable to kill edward with it too as probably wasn't able to fast enough from the gun powder being wet

Altair and Ezio be like : Why are we still here , just to suffer 😂

Blud got counterattack by a pirate.😂

In defense of Walpole, even though its entirely hypothetical, he could've been the type to stay stealthy rather than all out combat like how Basim is pushed to do in Mirage. Also, though maybe guns didn't work like this, he could've went to clean or dry the other gun he jad before using it.

I like these videos on obscure Assassins. Maybe you can do some for the Templars at some point

Black flag was my first game, i knew nothing about the lore beforehand - all i knew was Assassin’s were almost unkillable and deadly killers. I was so surprised when Edward, a lowly privateer killed him so easily.

Okay, I do not believe Lucy was a Templar. I think that was a lie told by Abstergo, the gods, Ubisoft or all three. Grand Templar Gru's Master Plan. Step 1, Capture Desmond, the KEY to everything you wish to do. Step 2, Tell the Assassins who previously had no idea he was even in danger where he is being held. Step 3, Stage a rescue and hand the KEY TO EVEYTHING back to the Assassins but keep tabs on him with your double agent. Step 4, -Teach Desmond how to use Eagle Vision so he can tell friends from foes at a glance and risk discovering the double agent.- Step 4, Teach Desmond how to kill people with expert proficiency. Step 5, Stage an attack on the Assassin hideout when they're close to finding the thing you're looking for, for some reason. Step 6, Give Desmon a deadly weapon and kill your minimum wage employees and hope to God he doesn't kill your middle management man. Step 7, Lucy dies.

From the conversation between Edward and Rogers, it also seems Duncan was the type of man to flirt with not just a married woman, but also the wife of a man he intended to work with

I think what the creators were going for with Edward so easily killing Walpole is the insane amount of talent Edward has gives him an edge in every fight. It is mentioned throughout the whole game how talented Edward is, not only his physical skills, but also his 6th sense (the ISU sense/Eagle Vision) is insanely strong since he ''had it since he was a lad''. Additionally Edwardd seems to be really intelligent. Furthermore, the whole Kenway lineage seems to be insanely talented. Edward, Haytham and Connor all seem to have insane talent in combat and other physical traits, problem solving and ambition.

I never gave Duncan Walpole much thought/consideration until this video. I just seen him as a plot device to move the game forward. Maybe it would have been a better idea if he was written in a way where he wasn't a master assassin, and this was some kind of proving mission for him to be promoted or ranked up or something if he could complete this assignment.

Just goes to show that theres a chance the assassins back in those days were more about quantity and not quality. I mean just look at that mission later in the game where edward had to sneak around that whole island to find Kidd. Those were supposed trained assassons, yet a pirate with no quantifiable skill as an assassin sneaks by them and easily. Duncan was just one of the many in the order from an outside perspective point of view that was completely incompetent

Imagine training hard your whole life to become a master assassin, then risk it all to betray the creed, only to be no diffed by a pirate.

Tbf Duncan missing the “kill shot” is understandable guns back then were NOWHERE near as accurate as the game makes them out to be basically it’s like shooting a marble down a smooth steel tube no rifling in the barrel whatsoever

You forgot the Russian guy from Chronicles He betrayed the Assassins but didn't join the Templars

The slap on the back of the head after stabbing is the cherry on the top for disrespectfulness

Why would holding a position in the East India Company be an issue? Sounds like an asset. Giovanni didn't need to give up being a banker. In fact, all the assassins in AC2 moonlit as other things.

He may be bad in many different meanings of the word, but his robes are fantastic! Most underrated in the series in my opinion.

Also he dosent even get a proper burial Edward just leaves his dead body naked in some bushes

You should of added him to The who's the dumbest assassin's video because he could of won

Edward didn't have to slap the back of his head like that but it sure is funny that he did.

Duncan and Shay weren't the only Assassin's to join the Templars Aveline from Liberation also joined them.

I headcanoned Walpole as not actually a master, he just claimed to be one to the templars.

I think that this kind of characters are also needed in the franchise. They show that not every member of the Brotherhood has to be crystal clear goody two shoes but can be selfish and arrogant. That they are just normal people with some flaws.

6:08 He was considered the first “prime minister”, but the term prime minister didn’t really exist back then

The fact that he betrayed the assassins for money is just tragic

I remember I was playing the AC most praised games for the first time, and Black Flag was essentially my 4th after Ezio trilogy, and after 3 games of being the scary, intimidating ghost tale, you kind of forget how scary assassins are supposed to be to others? At least I forgot. And then opening to Black Flag. There is this assassin staring at me, with his hood on, unbothered by the storm. And I'm thinking, "I have plot armor, no way will I die in first mission, BUT WHY ARE THEY SICKING AN ASSASSIN ON ME???", all for the guy to die in 10mins. Like yeah, it's the beginning, but that's just embarassing my guy.

I wasn’t even aware he was a master assassin. They must have been running low on candidates to reach the rank of master cause I’m not sure a top tier master assassin could be so easily defeated and killed by an untrained pirate.

Definitely agree with this. But also think Duncan Walpole is an honorable mention. The one and only time his character ever makes an appearance, he gets killed by a pirate who steals his identity. Not very assassin like

I think the assassins promotion office had been working overtime when they made Duncan a master assassin

to be fair to duncan edward isnt just some pirate hes one of the most skilled privateers in the west indies, who spent seven years just killing people

After seeing the title I thought of a who’s the most video idea, Who’s the worst assassin.

the dlc in my opinion would look like (its a plot twist) duncan actually kills edward and edward never becomes an assassin , its like a parrarel universe of something

The biggest crime Walpole did is not permanently getting his robes. Edward makes it look good.

To be fair, the Colonial assassins probably struggled to get anyone of use, so for whomever they could, trained whomever could handle it, and ranked whomever was at least somewhat competent. The rank of “master” for that brotherhood is probably akin to being a top ranked cop vs a top ranked marine.

So there have been numerous Assassins who defect to the Templars, but have there been any Templars defect to the Assassins?

I like the Assassin’s Creed: Rogue that we got, but I think people were expecting a story closer to Duncan’s for that kind of game.

OH!!!! That's how the mfs at the East India Company know about the Brotherhoon and why Madam Lee was able to know about Edward when they first met. Or maybe it's was a whole different story

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood had you training Assassins to master rank. I can see how Duncan Walpole got to master rank and why he was so weak. Not everyone can be an Ezio even at the same rank that's for sure.

They definitely wrote Duncan to be the least sympathetic assassin to kill so then you won’t feel bad when you have to kill him.

Well somewhat playing devils advocate here. A lot of the deaths of the legendary assassins never make much sense in the long run. Especially considering the games. Yet we also have to take in the account of the Animus at work here. We are seeing history through the Animus controlled by the current day character with the skills and memories of those long dead. Which comes into question if every action we see his actually historically factual to the characters themselves. A lot of these feats are most likely embellished due to the Animus. Now that doesn't necessarily take away their legendary status. These are still very skilled men but it would put some reality into how Edward could take out a ship full of men on his own but then 20 years later be killed in an ambush in his own home defending against untrained 3-5 attackers.

Evie was the worst, but still. She basically handed the templar grand master the shroud, failed to even get in a position where she may have assassinated any templars at all, with the exception of Lucy, who she failed to take down multiple times. She blamed Henry and her brother Jacob for all her own mistakes, and she over exaggerated the impact of their mistakes, despite Jacob being the only one with a plan, and the only one actually stopping the templars at all, and Henry being the only one besides Jacob who was actually bringing useful information about the templars. In addition Henry is the only reason evie managed to do any good at all, yet she still blames him for any failings the pair were present for. Evie and Henry then abandoned Jacob to leave Jacob as the mentor of a young and new assassin's brotherhood in a time of change and instability. Even after all the lectures evie made Jacob suffer, she left him alone with all the responsibility. No matter what anyone says about the frye twins, evie is absolutely the worst assassin who ever lived and she doesn't represent the values of the assassins at all. Jacob was a true assassin, who made mistakes and was indeed reckless, but he learned and became better. Very similar to altier or Edward in that regard. Evie never learns as she never even properly addressed when she was wrong.