How to not suck on Master Ninja?

[CandyBear]

Hi. I have some experience in the series. I beat this version on Hard with no struggle and I decied to try beat the game on Master Ninja. I realised that I fricking suck in this game and I don't know how to get better in this game. Now I'm stuck in Chapter 3 where you get Ninpo with Phoenix

[xr ඞ]

Very Hard is where you learn the game, but now you've skipped to the final exam and you haven't studied!

Jokes aside, it depends on what your playstyle is. Chaining UTs is very effective but it might fit your playstyle. What weapon are you using?

[CandyBear]

Dragon Sword and Falcon's Talons

[Giganx]

Hard and Normal are more or less the same much easier version of the game. Very Hard is what would have prepared you for Master.

A basic thing to remember is once you see a limb fall off you can instant kill that enemy with a strong attack.

Another basic trick is to use shuriken tosses to reset your light combos. The last attacks in your combos can have a lot of recovery frames, but if you keep canceling your combo with a shuriken toss and restarting it your combo string lasts forever and a lot of enemies can't escape it.

Beyond that just kind of spam flying swallow, Izuna drop whenever you have to opportunity, and then once you get some dots on the screen you hold block to make sure you don't pick them up, and then either swallow into jumping Shuriken toss into landing UT, or jumping Shuriken toss into landing UT. Just repeat that pattern until everything's dead.

[OuhPii]

Do you use Wind Run + Wind Path to break enemy stances? It even works with bigger fiends.

[Giganx]

Wind Run is great; I use it to set up swallows way more than normal jumping since it has iframes and actually tracks enemies.

Wind Path is great for when you have only a few strong enemies to clean up, but you're much better off just spamming swallow if you're dealing with a cluster of enemies.

[Tawm]

You're likely stuck on the gargoyle-like fiends before dropping into the sewers. They're capable of one-shotting you for the majority of the game on PotMN, and at best you survive two hits. Your best bet is to finish them off with Obliteration Techniques (OT), which is triggered by using a heavy attack on an enemy that's missing a limb. The Lunar Staff is very effective at dealing with them. Even the aerial XXY/SST combo can dismember them. Flying Swallow with various weapons is also effective and can decapitate them fairly often. You can also use aerial bow attacks on them while dodging their fireballs. The bow occasionally dismembers them and lets you finish them with an OT.

Learn to on-land charge. It's performed by holding X/Triangle as you land after a jump. You'll absorb Essence in the area and perform either an Essence Technique (ET) or an Ultimate Technique (UT) based on how many Essences you absorb, or which color they are. One yellow results in an ET, two yellow or one red or blue in a UT. This will allow you to effectively chain these techniques from start to finish in large encounters. The original game is criticized for being too reliant on this technique, and it's not fully necessary to abuse it to the same extent in Sigma/Black, but it's just as effective as ever.

Other tools that provide i-frames are the Wind Path/Wind Run, Guillotine Throw and Izuna Drop. Certain weapons, like the Falcon's Talons and the Lunar Staff can initiate an Izuna Drop from the air and give you quick access to an Essence for on-land charge UT chaining. The Lunar Staff has a long reach and can drag moderately distant enemies up into the air for an easy Izuna Drop.

Also, the Lunar Staff's 360 ET/level 1 charge is incredibly overpowered and will kill most non-boss enemies in the game if even just a few hits connect. The game is still going to be brutal on PotMN no matter what you do.

[spellsnare]

Originally posted by Tawm:

You're likely stuck on the gargoyle-like fiends before dropping into the sewers. They're capable of one-shotting you for the majority of the game on PotMN, and at best you survive two hits. Your best bet is to finish them off with Obliteration Techniques (OT), which is triggered by using a heavy attack on an enemy that's missing a limb. The Lunar Staff is very effective at dealing with them. Even the aerial XXY/SST combo can dismember them. Flying Swallow with various weapons is also effective and can decapitate them fairly often. You can also use aerial bow attacks on them while dodging their fireballs. The bow occasionally dismembers them and lets you finish them with an OT.

Learn to on-land charge. It's performed by holding X/Triangle as you land after a jump. You'll absorb Essence in the area and perform either an Essence Technique (ET) or an Ultimate Technique (UT) based on how many Essences you absorb, or which color they are. One yellow results in an ET, two yellow or one red or blue in a UT. This will allow you to effectively chain these techniques from start to finish in large encounters. The original game is criticized for being too reliant on this technique, and it's not fully necessary to abuse it to the same extent in Sigma/Black, but it's just as effective as ever.

Other tools that provide i-frames are the Wind Path/Wind Run, Guillotine Throw and Izuna Drop. Certain weapons, like the Falcon's Talons and the Lunar Staff can initiate an Izuna Drop from the air and give you quick access to an Essence for on-land charge UT chaining. The Lunar Staff has a long reach and can drag moderately distant enemies up into the air for an easy Izuna Drop.

Also, the Lunar Staff's 360 ET/level 1 charge is incredibly overpowered and will kill most non-boss enemies in the game if even just a few hits connect. The game is still going to be brutal on PotMN no matter what you do.

yeah zenobius is really a pain in the as&? to deal with compared to the other boss that one literaly grab every time he can do it or just throwing fireball on you just for the laugh