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Nioh 3: Best Katana Build Guide - Pure Damage
This guide presents the best Katana build in Nioh 3, covering key moves, advanced combos, recommended equipment, skills, and soul cores to maximize damage.
1. 🗡️ Introduction to the Katana build in Nioh 3
- ✅ The guide is suitable for both beginners and New Game Plus players.
- ✅ It focuses on the best Katana moves and the animation time of each attack.
- ✅ The goal is to maximize damage against bosses in various situations.
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1. 🗡️ Introduction to the Katana build in Nioh 3
- ✅ The guide is suitable for both beginners and New Game Plus players.
- ✅ It focuses on the best Katana moves and the animation time of each attack.
- ✅ The goal is to maximize damage against bosses in various situations.
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2. 🌧️ Night Rain: A quick and effective move
- ✅ Night Rain is only available in the low stance.
- ✅ It is one of the fastest moves and deals great damage.
- ✅ Useful for exploration and for taking advantage of small windows of opportunity to deal damage.
- ✅ It is executed by holding the strong attack.
00:45 - 01:23
3. 🌪️ Reaping Whirlwind: Crucible attack for multiple enemies
- ✅ Reaping Whirlwind is very effective against multiple enemies thanks to its large area of effect.
- ✅ It is also useful against Revenants, being the safest and easiest option to farm them.
- ✅ If timed correctly, it can deflect enemy attacks.
01:24 - 01:41
4. ⚔️ Crucible Attacks: How to learn them
- ✅ Crucible attacks are learned through crucible weapons.
- ✅ Equip a weapon with the crucible icon until you reach maximum familiarity.
- ✅ Once this is done, the weapon's crucible attack will be available to use with any weapon.
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5. ⚡ Celestial Flash: A quick attack to damage bosses
- ✅ Celestial Flash is one of the fastest moves.
- ✅ Allows a dash towards the enemy followed by a jump attack.
- ✅ It is used to deal damage in small windows of opportunity after the bosses' combos.
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6. 💥 Sword of Meditation: The most powerful attack
- ✅ The Sword of Meditation is the strongest attack in the game.
- ✅ It is also a crucible attack that is learned through a crucible weapon.
- ✅ It is executed by holding the strong attack.
- ✅ The longer the strong attack is held, the greater the damage.
- ✅ It can be combined with the Fluid Haze skill to stun human enemies.
- ✅ Against Yokai bosses, talismans are used to enhance damage and slow down the enemy.
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7. 🎭 Kurama Sword Dance and Sword Ki: Slow but useful movements
- ✅ The Kurama Sword Dance (L1 + light attack) is slow and only used when there is time to execute it without taking damage.
- ✅ The Sword Ki (hold strong attack) has two steps: the first breaks the enemy's defense and the second deals quick damage.
- ✅ Both movements are used in combos when the enemy runs out of Ki.
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8. 🌙 Morning Moon and Water God's Wing: Fast and versatile attacks
- ✅ Morning Moon (strong attack after a light attack) is one of the fastest moves.
- ✅ Water God's Wing is a better option for this combination, as it deals the same damage and applies the water element.
- ✅ A link is provided in the description to unlock Water God's Wing.
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9. 🗡️ Shadow Sword: Combo to deal Ki damage
- ✅ Shadow Sword (strong attack, light attack, strong attack) does not deal much damage, but causes great Ki damage.
- ✅ It is used to start a stun combo when the enemy's Ki bar is almost empty.
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10. 💨 Heavy Swift Step: Teleportation behind the enemy
- ✅ Heavy Swift Step (L1 + light attack after a light attack in low stance) teleports the player behind the enemy.
- ✅ It is used for advanced combos and to get a better position.
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11. ⏱️ Animation Times: Analysis of the speed of each skill
- ✅ The animation times of each skill are analyzed to determine which are the fastest and most efficient.
- ✅ Celestial Flash, Morning Moon and Night Rain have a cast time of 1.7 seconds.
- ✅ Heavy Swift Step has a cast time of 1.9 seconds, but is not very strong in terms of damage.
- ✅ Sword Ki has a cast time of 2.1 seconds.
- ✅ Reaping Whirlwind has a cast time of 2.3 seconds.
- ✅ Shadow Sword has a cast time of 2.4 seconds.
- ✅ Kurama Sword Dance has a cast time of 2.5 seconds.
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12. 💥 Advanced Combo: Combination of Katana skills
- ✅ An advanced combo that combines several Katana skills is shown.
- ✅ The combo starts with Celestial Flash or Shadow Sword to deplete the enemy's Ki.
- ✅ Then Sword Ki is used with a light attack, followed by Kurama Sword Dance.
- ✅ Finally, Celestial Flash and Reaping Whirlwind are used.
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13. 🔥 One-Shot Combo: Variation with Sword of Meditation
- ✅ A variation of the combo that includes the Sword of Meditation to deal even more damage is presented.
- ✅ The combo starts with Shadow Sword to deplete the enemy's Ki.
- ✅ Then Sword Ki is used with a light attack, followed by Kurama Sword Dance.
- ✅ Finally, Sword of Meditation is used in high stance.
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14. 🛡️ The Best Equipment: Minamoto Set and stats
- ✅ The Minamoto set is recommended for this build, as it provides buffs when deflecting attacks and deals Ki damage to the enemy.
- ✅ The complete set provides a damage increase based on strength.
- ✅ It is recommended to level up Strength and Intelligence to equip and benefit from the equipment.
- ✅ It is also recommended to raise points in Stamina if you do not have Green Agility.
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15. ⚔️ Skills: The best skills for the Katana
- ✅ The key skills for the Katana are mentioned, including Attack Mastery one and two, Rejection Expert, Awakening and Amplification.
- ✅ Samurai skills such as Single Cut Katana, Flowing Water, Advantageous Deflection, Blade Breaker Deflection, Tempest Deflection, Resilient Arts and Oppressive Strength are also recommended.
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16. 👻 Soul Cores: The best Soul Cores for the build
- ✅ Soul Cores such as the Red Kappa (paralyzes enemies), Carnage Talisman (reduces defense but increases damage), Last Resort (reduces maximum health but increases damage), Lightning Familiar (applies lightning debuff), Sloth Talisman (slows down the enemy), Fire Talisman (adds fire damage) and Preservation Talisman (saves from fatal blows) are recommended.
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17. 👋 Farewell and call to action
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