Shield bash any good for breaking parts?

[Guizin]

How good is the SnS's shield bash for breaking parts? How more efficient is it compared to the cutting type damage I can deal with this weapon?

[the commando]

depends on the body part the tail for example can only be broken with cutting damage some monsters have parts that can only be broken by blunt like barroths head but generally it doesn't really matter.

[River Victor]

It's impact damage and deals KO values. The damage itself is quite high when you use the whole combo starting with this one. The move itself can break parts but cannot cut. If you want to cut tail, this move won't do it but the rest of the combo do. If you want to bash head, definitely.

[Valentine (Lunaticus)]

Well I guess if there's a location that takes more from blunt damage then it's better. Or not really. Nothing else you can do with SnS will ever come even close to the nuke that is Perfect Rush, one hit of it is Blunt though.

If you're wondering whether there's some kind of part break multiplier on the blunt hits, I can tell you that there is not. It's just different damage type and the differences between locations in blunt and sever damage don't tend to be that big on general. In most cases blunt does a bit more damage to the head and sever does a bit more damage to the tail.

[Guizin]

Originally posted by Valentine (Lunaticus):

Well I guess if there's a location that takes more from blunt damage then it's better. Or not really. Nothing else you can do with SnS will ever come even close to the nuke that is Perfect Rush, one hit of it is Blunt though.

If you're wondering whether there's some kind of part break multiplier on the blunt hits, I can tell you that there is not. It's just different damage type and the differences between locations in blunt and sever damage don't tend to be that big on general. In most cases blunt does a bit more damage to the head and sever does a bit more damage to the tail.

alright, thx man. the perfect rush is indeed absolutely incredible. i find it a bit hard to pull of though

[Valentine (Lunaticus)]

Originally posted by Guizin:

Originally posted by Valentine (Lunaticus):

Well I guess if there's a location that takes more from blunt damage then it's better. Or not really. Nothing else you can do with SnS will ever come even close to the nuke that is Perfect Rush, one hit of it is Blunt though.

If you're wondering whether there's some kind of part break multiplier on the blunt hits, I can tell you that there is not. It's just different damage type and the differences between locations in blunt and sever damage don't tend to be that big on general. In most cases blunt does a bit more damage to the head and sever does a bit more damage to the tail.

alright, thx man. the perfect rush is indeed absolutely incredible. i find it a bit hard to pull of though

It's not that bad once you get the timing down, just keep at it until you get used to it.

Edit: I find that the second blunt part of it is the least useful and sometimes just isn't in range so I'd give that one the lowest priority.

[Guizin]

Originally posted by Valentine (Lunaticus):

Originally posted by Guizin:

alright, thx man. the perfect rush is indeed absolutely incredible. i find it a bit hard to pull of though

It's not that bad once you get the timing down, just keep at it until you get used to it.

Edit: I find that the second blunt part of it is the least useful and sometimes just isn't in range so I'd give that one the lowest priority.

is that so? i usually only do the first 2 attacks of the perfect rush combo, i thought the last attack was weaker

[Valentine (Lunaticus)]

Originally posted by Guizin:

Originally posted by Valentine (Lunaticus):

It's not that bad once you get the timing down, just keep at it until you get used to it.

Edit: I find that the second blunt part of it is the least useful and sometimes just isn't in range so I'd give that one the lowest priority.

is that so? i usually only do the first 2 attacks of the perfect rush combo, i thought the last attack was weaker

woooot, that thing is super strong. It has to properly hit though, in which case you grab on to the monster for even stronger attack than the stab and conveniently tends to latch on to places like head.

[Curzyfish]

Originally posted by Valentine (Lunaticus):

Originally posted by Guizin:

is that so? i usually only do the first 2 attacks of the perfect rush combo, i thought the last attack was weaker

woooot, that thing is super strong. It has to properly hit though, in which case you grab on to the monster for even stronger attack than the stab and conveniently tends to latch on to places like head.

The hit itself is not weak. It just has a long recovery time and flings you away, so at times you may want to skip doing it so you can go right into another perfect rush without having to get back in range again for more damage uptime.

[Valentine (Lunaticus)]

Originally posted by Curzyfish:

Originally posted by Valentine (Lunaticus):

woooot, that thing is super strong. It has to properly hit though, in which case you grab on to the monster for even stronger attack than the stab and conveniently tends to latch on to places like head.

The hit itself is not weak. It just has a long recovery time and flings you away, so at times you may want to skip doing it so you can go right into another perfect rush without having to get back in range again for more damage uptime.

I could see this being a case when monster is down or something, but I'd expect it to be better to just do the whole combo when given the chance. But I dunno, I haven't played that much SnS in a while anyway.

[Popcorn]

Originally posted by Guizin:

Originally posted by Valentine (Lunaticus):

It's not that bad once you get the timing down, just keep at it until you get used to it.

Edit: I find that the second blunt part of it is the least useful and sometimes just isn't in range so I'd give that one the lowest priority.

is that so? i usually only do the first 2 attacks of the perfect rush combo, i thought the last attack was weaker

Theres a good guide on YT to do the perfected perfect rush.
Its one of those that I've actually had to slow down to learn

[Valentine (Lunaticus)]

Originally posted by Valentine (Lunaticus):

Originally posted by Curzyfish:

The hit itself is not weak. It just has a long recovery time and flings you away, so at times you may want to skip doing it so you can go right into another perfect rush without having to get back in range again for more damage uptime.

I could see this being a case when monster is down or something, but I'd expect it to be better to just do the whole combo when given the chance. But I dunno, I haven't played that much SnS in a while anyway.

Was gonna do some tests myself, but apparently you can't latch onto the cart in training area so I guess that's not happening.