need help with Rorscharch

[Oroles - Allkeyshop]

Can anyone help me with a strat how to beat this guy ?
i am stuck at the police mission with him / in league i skipped him because he always beats me .

[Fringehunter7719]

Normal screenshotting through the Steam client should work, assuming you're playing here.

By default that's press F12 while in game to take a screenshot, then from the Steam client select Punch Club 2, look towards the right side of the window and scroll down a bit to find "manage my screenshots" and click that to open the screenshot manager.

From there you can open the containing folder, or look at and upload images. To share them you will have to set them to public before or after uploading.

If you want to make them directly visible in the forum you need to click view online and then click the share button from there. Don't ask me why but the copy link to screenshot button from the manager itself gives a different format and so does opening the image, right-clicking and selecting copy link address.

If you have the right link it should look like this:
"https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=" followed by a number

It didn't used to be so hard, but someone at Valve liked the change I guess.

In terms of Rorscharch strategies, he is one of the dozen or so much tougher fights that crop up through the game. It very much depends on your stat distribution and skill options as to how to deal with him though, so more information may be needed.

[Oroles - Allkeyshop]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009487119

I have the Scorpion and Tiger moves

[Fringehunter7719]

Your stats are not wholly dissimilar to what mine were for that fight:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009490452

Rorscharch is a blocker, and despite being an endurance fighter is susceptible to exhaustion and knockdown. His block is moderately effective, but fails more often than many of the tough block fighters.

He cedes no ground so you want to look out for being cornered and probably won't be easily able to corner him, so I'd look for other options.

My strategy was the above setup for 2-3 rounds to drain stamina out of both of us, then swap in a double breath for my third attack. Offensively that's just my cheapest attack in all slots to force him to block a lot (like you I have more initiative so that's punishing on his stamina). Defensively that's half and half my best dodge (1000 winds with the modifier to return initiative) and my best block because I find that more effective and reliable than the high cost of pendulum. And not getting cornered is really important.

That won the day, with him becoming exhausted and stripping abilities for rounds 3-4 and suffering a couple of knockdowns for it.

Scorpion is a better stance for that strategy, so if you can buy or have the skills to make a similar loadout you should be able to win. I'd strongly consider making sure your attack is your cheapest and dropping pendulum and dance from your setup, in favour of a block in the defensive line. I'm sure other things work too.

ETA: Replayed the fight to check, I think it's actually better to do rounds 1&3 with that setup and have one double breath swapped in for rounds 2&4, where he went down for me.

[Oroles - Allkeyshop]

yeah my attacks are the cheapest , i will try dropping pendulum and dance (my setup was for doge and force him to run out of his actions)

[Fringehunter7719]

Ahh, ok. The icon in the picture looks like Mae Geri, which is not a cheap attack. My bad.

Just remember that without pendulum you have to swap out at least one dodge to stop ceding so much ground or he will corner you and you will promptly get murdered.

[Oroles - Allkeyshop]

yeah in the picture i had the round 3 ... when i am almost full , and wanted to burst the dmg.
btw can you explain the skill "backdrop" ? Do i need to have dodge in the defend to work? or just backdrop ?

[Yo]

Hold on, i've almost reached him on my new playthrough (i'm writing a fights guide now), i will post with what i beat him

[Yo]

oh wait he's in the pro league, i'm gonna need a bit more time to reach that point

[Fringehunter7719]

Originally posted by Oroles - www.allkeyshop.com:

btw can you explain the skill "backdrop" ? Do i need to have dodge in the defend to work? or just backdrop ?

IIRC it's just a dodge skill with an average base chance of success that triggers the damage reflect when you dodge successfully. Without boosts to dodge chance I don't think I found it enormously impressive.

[Oroles - Allkeyshop]

Originally posted by Fringehunter7719:

Originally posted by Oroles - www.allkeyshop.com:

btw can you explain the skill "backdrop" ? Do i need to have dodge in the defend to work? or just backdrop ?

IIRC it's just a dodge skill with an average base chance of success that triggers the damage reflect when you dodge successfully. Without boosts to dodge chance I don't think I found it enormously impressive.

So i can use it alone, without the dodge skill... like full row with backdrop , right ?

[Fringehunter7719]

I believe so, yes.

[Oroles - Allkeyshop]

guess not a chance now .... lasted until round 4 but i lost 0 vs 47 HP. guess i have to train more. here is the build i did ...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009517880

LE ... finaly i beat with this build. Ty for the help

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009519688

[Yo]

Way too much str and stamina for the amount of agility you have. On my new playthrough i'm just about to beat silver's league and i have 7 strength, 21 agi and 9 stamina. You're clearly levelling the stats in a way that's too balanced, but that's bad, you wanna focus on your main stat so that you unlock stronger abilities faster. With the amount of time you spent on training more str and stamina, you could already have like 26 agility, unlocking more powerful skills. Also you never want more than like 7-9 str as agi build, you're already at 10

[Oroles - Allkeyshop]

Originally posted by Yo:

Way too much str and stamina for the amount of agility you have. On my new playthrough i'm just about to beat silver's league and i have 7 strength, 21 agi and 9 stamina. You're clearly levelling the stats in a way that's too balanced, but that's bad, you wanna focus on your main stat so that you unlock stronger abilities faster. With the amount of time you spent on training more str and stamina, you could already have like 26 agility, unlocking more powerful skills. Also you never want more than like 7-9 str as agi build, you're already at 10

After i read some infos here on the forum and with the help of you guys, i found out that stats are not so important that the build / skills you use in fights. Now i am in Division I and won my 1st game.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/oroles2k/screenshot/2039618941499919134/

[Yo]

Originally posted by Oroles - www.allkeyshop.com:

Originally posted by Yo:

Way too much str and stamina for the amount of agility you have. On my new playthrough i'm just about to beat silver's league and i have 7 strength, 21 agi and 9 stamina. You're clearly levelling the stats in a way that's too balanced, but that's bad, you wanna focus on your main stat so that you unlock stronger abilities faster. With the amount of time you spent on training more str and stamina, you could already have like 26 agility, unlocking more powerful skills. Also you never want more than like 7-9 str as agi build, you're already at 10

After i read some infos here on the forum and with the help of you guys, i found out that stats are not so important that the build / skills you use in fights. Now i am in Division I and won my 1st game.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/oroles2k/screenshot/2039618941499919134/

They are important, they just won't carry you single-handedly like in Punch Club 1