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Nioh 3 Tonfa Build: Overwhelm Enemies with Ki Damage Specialization! Thorough Explanation of Equipment, Skills, and Combos
Introducing a tonfa ki-breaking build in Nioh 3. We'll go over the equipment, clan blessings, soul cores, Onmyo magic, guardian spirits, stats, skills, martial skills, and combos in detail, and demonstrate its power through practical gameplay.
1. Tonfa Build Intro: A Ki-Breaking Ninja Build
- ✅ This time, we're introducing a tonfa build with extremely powerful ki-breaking capabilities.
- ✅ It has high levels of firepower, ease of use, and ki-breaking ability.
- ✅ We'll cover everything from basic tonfa usage to the final (goal) equipment.
00:31 - 00:58
1. Tonfa Build Intro: A Ki-Breaking Ninja Build
- ✅ This time, we're introducing a tonfa build with extremely powerful ki-breaking capabilities.
- ✅ It has high levels of firepower, ease of use, and ki-breaking ability.
- ✅ We'll cover everything from basic tonfa usage to the final (goal) equipment.
01:00 - 03:00
2. Equipment Intro: A Setup Combining Star and Inari's Grace
- ✅ Activate 7 pieces of the strong equipment set effect "Flame Creature Outer Star".
- ✅ With 5 pieces, status ailment accumulation increases by 18.1%, and with 6 pieces, enemy status ailment duration (Chaos) increases by 20%.
- ✅ 7-piece set effect: When dealing elemental damage, instead of consuming anima, damage dealt and status ailment accumulation are increased.
- ✅ Activate the set effect "Inari's Warmth" up to 5 pieces, increasing the damage of weapons imbued with elements by 10%.
- ✅ Weapon special effects: Weapon Ki Damage +5%, HP recovery on Amrita absorption, Melee Attack Ki Damage +1.5%, Elemental Application Duration +20%.
- ✅ Grant HP recovery on Amrita absorption and anima addition on Amrita acquisition to the sub-weapon and all armor pieces.
- ✅ Grant HP recovery, damage reduction, damage reduction when defeating enemies, and damage reduction when afflicted with status ailments to the armor.
- ✅ Grant increased damage on Amrita absorption to the arm equipment.
03:01 - 04:30
3. Clan Blessing: Strengthen Melee Attack Ki Damage with the Kakizaki Clan
- ✅ Select the Kakizaki clan for the clan blessing.
- ✅ Kakizaki clan effect: Melee attack ki damage is moderately increased (up to 13%).
- ✅ Melee damage against enemies with zero ki is increased by 18.5%.
- ✅ By combining the effects of weapon ki damage, melee attack ki damage, and the clan blessing, ki damage can be increased up to 23.5%.
04:31 - 05:21
4. Soul Cores and Onmyo Magic: Amrita Absorption and Status Ailment Application
- ✅ Soul Core: Use the Nurikabe Soul Core for the first one, granting HP recovery on Amrita absorption.
- ✅ Soul Core replacement candidates: Soul Cores with the "Extreme" prefix for each element are also effective.
- ✅ Second Soul Core: Use the Sunekosuri Soul Core, granting a blinding effect to enemies when Onmyo magic hits.
05:22 - 06:05
5. Onmyo Magic: Utilize Quick-change Scroll, Water Talisman, Five Elements Talisman, etc.
- ✅ Onmyo Magic: Grant yourself the Quick-change Scroll to acquire Amrita by landing attacks.
- ✅ Imbue the weapon with an element using the Water Talisman.
- ✅ Nullify a certain amount of damage received with the Five Elements Talisman.
- ✅ Inflict elemental or chaos status ailments on enemies with Extreme-type talismans (e.g., Extreme Fire Talisman).
- ✅ Illusions are also effective for inflicting elemental ailments.
- ✅ Other Onmyo magic candidates: Steel Talisman, Carnage Talisman, etc.
06:06 - 06:32
6. Guardian Spirit: Strengthen Elemental Damage with Tengen Kujaku
- ✅ Tengen Kujaku is recommended as the Guardian Spirit.
- ✅ Increases elemental application duration by 15%.
- ✅ Anima bonus is B+ when dealing elemental damage.
- ✅ Randomly imbues the weapon with an element with the Guardian Spirit's special effect.
06:33 - 07:51
7. Stat Allocation: Emphasize Durability and Ki Management
- ✅ Body: Allocate up to 80 to make it harder to die.
- ✅ Courage: Stop at 70 and prioritize other stats.
- ✅ Magic: Allocate up to 40 to equip 6 Onmyo magic spells.
- ✅ Heart: 36, Stamina: 30 to make ki management easier.
- ✅ Allocate up to 17 to Strength to make the equipment weight ratio exactly 30%.
- ✅ Skill: Affects ki damage amount, but the priority is low.
07:52 - 08:34
8. Skills: Common Skills and Ninjutsu Skills
- ✅ Common Skill: Use the Secret Art of the Void to speed up Onmyo magic actions.
- ✅ Ninjutsu Skills: Acquire Empty Retribution, Quick-change, Retribution from Rebellion, Dragon's Illusion, and Tiger's Illusion.
- ✅ The effect of imbuing the weapon with an element when activating Ninjutsu is perfectly compatible with this equipment.
- ✅ Also use Original Flow and Ninjutsu Chain.
- ✅ Replacement candidate: Increase elemental damage dealt by 10% with Death's Edge 5.
08:35 - 09:10
9. Ninjutsu: Utilize Elemental Illusions
- ✅ Use elemental Ninjutsu (Illusions).
- ✅ Use Lightning Charge, Color Change, and Blazing Fire.
- ✅ By using these Ninjutsu, the weapon is imbued with an element due to the skill effect.
- ✅ Elemental application duration is increased by 35% for weapons and Soul Cores.
09:11 - 10:34
10. Tonfa Martial Skills and Combos: Ceiling Smash and Wave of Reciprocity from Demon Dash
- ✅ Essential Martial Skill: Ceiling Smash. Activated with the square button from a strong attack. Excellent for both firepower and ki-breaking. Particularly effective against Yokai.
- ✅ For humanoids, attacks from the dance in a vertical line are effective.
- ✅ Combo: Ceiling Smash → Demon Dash → Wave of Reciprocity.
- ✅ After ki-breaking: Finish with Exchange Wave.
10:35 - 11:28
11. Basic Combo: Demon Dash Wave of Reciprocity from Ceiling Smash
- ✅ Basic Combo: Ceiling Smash → Demon Dash → Wave of Reciprocity.
- ✅ Be careful not to press the square button too quickly during Ceiling Smash, as this will cause the strong attack to come out twice.
- ✅ If the enemy is in ki-down state, repeat Demon Dash → Wave of Reciprocity.
11:29 - 12:08
12. Practical: Combination of Combos and Onmyo Magic
- ✅ Grind down ki with Ceiling Smash → Demon Dash → Wave of Reciprocity.
- ✅ Switch to a tactic of using Onmyo magic from a distance against enemies with super armor or counterattacks.
12:09 - 13:53
13. Other Combos and Weapons: Wild Spear, Body Mountain Strike, and Utilizing the Abnormality
- ✅ Combo Start: Wild Spear → Demon Dash Wave of Reciprocity, Body Mountain Strike → Demon Dash, etc.
- ✅ Wave of Reciprocity from Demon Dash can be used in conjunction with various weapons.
- ✅ Virtue: Adopt the Gorgeous. Damage dealt increases by continuously attacking with the tonfa without interruption.
- ✅ Recommended Weapon: Abnormality. Acquired by maximizing the familiarity of a Hell weapon. Unleashes high firepower with the triangle button from a quick attack.
- ✅ Recommended Weapon: War. Acquired by defeating the Master. Instantly closes the distance with the triangle button during evasion.
13:54 - 16:13
14. Practical: Overwhelming Even 2nd Playthrough Enemies
- ✅ Even against human opponents in the 2nd playthrough, you can easily defeat them by significantly reducing their ki.
- ✅ Inflict chaos and fight by reducing their ki.
- ✅ Use Onmyo magic while fighting against enemies that use projectiles.
- ✅ Deal damage to moving enemies with Onmyo magic.