Orochi Guardbreak Follow-Up | Forums

[DovahJ]

As a fellow warrior in the Samurai faction, I loved the Orochi since beta, and i have been using him until now. And as I progress more and learn more with the hero, i begin to wonder why does the Orochi push his enemies away when he guarbreaks to the front and will not get a guaranteed hit if the opponent went too far? that's where i need to explain why the front guarbreak is useless in any type of situations..unless...

Let me explain, the guardbreak feature is suppose to stun/stagger an opponent to land a few couple hits to gain advantage in a battle. Sadly for the Orochi's front guardbreak, it doesn't. I believe the only time the front guardbreak will be useful is to get out of combat and catch a breather. But that's it, you do not even have a guaranteed hit if u land a heavy for the opponent is too far from you because, as i said, the Orochi pushes his opponent away instead of landing hits and being offensive. So i was thinking and observing the Orochi's moveset and found an idea. The move "Storm Rush", where you dash backwards and you will be in a stance where once released, you dash toward the enemy, slice him, and turn him facing back to land more combos. So I was thinking, why not, after you guardbreak your opponent to the front, you could just hold the heavy attack to unlock the storm rush stance making it a follow-up after you push your opponent away from you. It is a very simple combo to add to the Orochi's moveset.

Just a short move to add to the Orochi's movesets. Thank you for Reading this till the end, and i hope my suggestion will make it to the next hero change update.

[DraxeI]

Not quite sure I understand what you mean.
If you manage to connect a guardbreak you will always get a free heavy attack.

You of course also have the opportunity to throw the opponent after a guardbreak and in that case classes have different properties to their throws which can confirm various attacks, especially when used to throw people into walls.

[Fancypants2400]

If the orochi was able to get a free storm rush he would also be garunteed 2 top lights against assassins or against any other character thats stance wasn't up top, giving him the best guard break damage out of all the characters giving him I belive a 55 damage combo including the top lights.

[Fancypants2400]

That is assuming the storm rush you mean is free and not just a normal blockable storm rush

[AzureSky.]

Its a very good idea, it would be free if the opponent hits a wall or if he falls to the ground and blockable if he doesnt.