What are the benefits of a STR build?

[Demonicrow]

I`m playing a STA build and from what I see on the STR tech tree and opponents I face, they forego defense to dish out more damage. Sounds great on paper, but then I use *Long overhand* and *Leg cannon*, two strikes that deal 20% more damage if the opponent doesn`t dodge or block, they take absurd amounts of damage and then they usually go down on the first round.

So for anyone that went the STR route, can you tell me what are the pros and what you liked most? Thanks in advance!

[radkid10]

strength is not a valid build type cuz you need agility to use more attacks but if you raise your agility with strength your stamina cost goes up really quickly and if you level all three stats you suck against opponents that don't even if they're at a lower level than you cuz you burn through your stamina faster it's impossible to level all three of them and be viable it kind of cancels you out and makes you useless my strategy is to keep strength 10 levels lower than my stamina and Agility so I don't burn through it so quickly if you want to do a strength build you have to compromise your agility which means less attacks you will do more damage with your attacks but when you get into enemies that have 10 plus initiative where they could do 10 attacks in the time it takes you to do two you're going to lose even if you do 40 to 50 damage per hit cuz they can still block and dodge it

[󠀡󠀡]

If you focus on strength + stamina, you will literally breeze through chapter 3 with the right skills. Took down Jax without any effort at all

[Yo]

there's a skill that makes you take 60% extra damage and return 60% of damage back, another one with 40% it's the same, and then another one that makes you take 25% more damage but regain 25% of energy, combine those 3 and you return almost all the damage you take back on top of having practically infinite stamina

[Yo]

Agi is still the best build though, play STR only if you want some variety or just like big damaging moves, but agi is definitely better

[jerseyp19]

The benefit of STR is Dodge and Block use stamina. The STR defensive options either make opponent lose initiative or reflect damage, but they don't use stamina so you can spend it all on attacks. Regarding mixed builds, I find the most important choices aren't your attributes, but what skills you are using. If you open up multiple fighting styles, you can select the skills that perfectly counter your opponents setup. I use Smasher against block builds, Scorpion against dodge builds, Strategist against no-defense builds, and Torturer and Berserker for mixed builds depending on the situation. Remember, you only need 6 of one skill type to unlock all the perks of a fighting style, the other skills you use can be different with no penalty.

[Yo]

Originally posted by jerseyp19:

The benefit of STR is Dodge and Block use stamina. The STR defensive options either make opponent lose initiative or reflect damage, but they don't use stamina so you can spend it all on attacks. Regarding mixed builds, I find the most important choices aren't your attributes, but what skills you are using. If you open up multiple fighting styles, you can select the skills that perfectly counter your opponents setup. I use Smasher against block builds, Scorpion against dodge builds, Strategist against no-defense builds, and Torturer and Berserker for mixed builds depending on the situation. Remember, you only need 6 of one skill type to unlock all the perks of a fighting style, the other skills you use can be different with no penalty.

Actually, each school has 4 styles

You have the basic style that you start the game with
Then you have 1 Beginner style for each school, for Agi it's Taekwondo
Then you have 2 Intermediate styles for each school, for Agi it's Tiger and Scorpion I think
And finally you have the Advanced style, for Agi it's Crystal Cobra

Each category of style has more slots than the last one and stronger bonuses, for example Crystal Cobra has +20% dodge chance and -15% energy consumption, that allows u to reach 100% dodge chance

For this reason, u should always use a higher category style if you have it unlocked
The only choice u ever have is between the two intermediate styles

[Fringehunter7719]

Scorpion against dodge builds?

I'm puzzled by that, it's a specialist anti-block stance with 2 out of 4 skills dedicated to getting past block.

[Yo]

And even then crystal cobra is still better

[Yo]

Even against blocking opponents

[Zukuu]

You get raw damage, life leech, take less damage when you not guard/dodge, reflect damage, have nigh infinite stamina and most matches only last a round or two.

[Yo]

Either way tonic is really easy to recover, i can recover 30 tonic in 1 day

[Raywhisper]

I have beaten the game with STR build, literally letting opponents kill themselves, you have hard punches nad you do not block or dodge instead you reflect dmg.

[Demonicrow]

I see, thanks for the input guys, I gathered a lot from this!

[aarmosher]

str has high base dmg and high health pool, iirc, they have moves that return damage they take for more damage they receive up to 40-60%, which is not a problem since the health pool is big. And add inbetween rounds healing in one of the styles, you have a walking fortress.
Since basically you don't really have to hit your opponent to dish damage, esp. those dodge agi type, it's kinda fun on itself..

i went str and agi route, haven't tried the stm route, but the core of the game is the same though, any tree has 2 route, that deals with opp that dodge, and one that use block, while the third is a more full aggro type.

[Set_iscariote]

For me the main benefit of STR is that the combats are really short. Many of them last only 1 round, 2 rounds for really hard opponents. That means you are gonna lose less tones and grow bigger in the long run. Also nearly all of the training for STR gives you a bit of STA and AGI, it is easy to end the game in a healthy 30, 20, 20 with STR.

Also, big numbers, big numbers rules.