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all right ladies and gentlemen I've been
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doing a little bit of testing and if you
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have been playing the 2.1 patch you
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might be familiar with some of the music
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some of the stuff that's currently
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playing in the background we are
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fighting dark laurelai and one thing you
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get to do while you're fighting dark
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laurelai is well try out brand but I'm
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not just going to go through I'm not
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just going to clear this immediately
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right and just move on with the story
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what I wanted to do was a little bit of
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testing on how hard his kit is to use
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and I've done a couple of runs you can
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just go ahead and restart the fight by
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clicking this button after clicking
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Escape I've done that a bunch of times
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and it's safe to say that brand there
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are a couple of nuances to him so we're
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going to be testing out a couple of
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rotations we're going to be testing out
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all the different ways that he can
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generate his Forte and kind of get
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ourselves into what some of the optimal
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combinations might be looking like so
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with that I'm just going to walk us
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through what we're doing over here so I
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want to start off by just building up
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conero and then simulating an actual
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rotation we're just going to build up
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kerto on our spectral Rover over
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here and then get a swap on over to
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Brand intro skill in and then use his
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Liberation one
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two and as you can see that didn't
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really get me to 100% and now I'm
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getting hit and it's a bit of a disaster
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right
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the idea in all of Bran's rotations is
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to Simply get to this ability swap off
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so that he doesn't get interrupted and
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allow him to deliver that massive nuke
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and as you saw that did a lot of damage
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that did a lot of
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damage and it did so much damage that I
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don't think this Lura is going to
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survive another rotation so we'll go
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ahead and we'll restart and I'll see you
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all in another one all right all right
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so now after a little bit more practice
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we're going to go ahead build up more of
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that
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conero and then go through Brand's
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rotation so essentially when we're on
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brand what we want to do is we want to
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intro onto him we'll enter in at basic
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attack stage two and then we'll basic
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attack a single time then hold down the
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heavy and then we're ready to go we got
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the bonus or we got all of our Forte and
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we just did his entire combo and we just
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swap back to him and our Forte circuit
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is
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ready so that is what his entire
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rotation will look like you'll basically
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have full concerto by the time you land
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with the ability but when you do your
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first swap to maybe another character
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your conero isn't going to be filled and
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so let's go ahead let's try it again so
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as you guys all saw on that one what
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brand ended up doing was he inted in he
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used his
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Liberation you built up his Bravo with
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just a single air combo it's completely
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filled and then you're going to go ahead
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and fill all of the Bravo up use his
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enhanced residence skill and then swap
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off preferably to a character like maybe
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Chang Lee to do a little bit of her kit
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go back to brand and his entire kerto
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bar is going to be ready it is going to
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be full and so we're going to
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demonstrate that one more time and we'll
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be able to zoom in see all of that stuff
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in action just uh I'm going to see this
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cut scene in my dreams so we already did
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it once let's do it again real
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fast I sense your
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weakness moment of
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resonance Let the Flames rise enter in
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at stage two basic attack once hold it
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and then just keep holding down basic
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attack boom and we're ready to go R
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swapped onto and what you can see over
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here right is my Phoebe is on the field
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but my Brand's concerto is full my
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Brand's concerto right now is completely
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full and that is how fast his rotations
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actually are it's comparable to many
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support characters and when you switch
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back to him look at that full conero
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resolu I'm back and I'm ready on
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Rover bad timing and that's kind of the
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ins and outs right of this character's
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rotation they intro in and they're
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basically going to have everything and
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they're going to have it in literally
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seconds it's actually a little bit
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mind-blowing how fast his rotation is I
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will say though I'm not sure you can
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think about quick swapping at various
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points in his rotation but I would say
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that this is definitely the simplest one
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that you can do now let's try it maybe
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with a little bit of quick swap let's
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try it with a little bit of quick swap
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now so what I'm going to do is I'm going
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to Quick swap during maybe like either
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his spin or something or something along
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those lines we'll have to see we'll have
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to experiment which one actually makes
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the most sense to Quick swap
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with I'm going to see this cut scene in
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my
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dreams yeah I might I sense your
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weakness end has come one with the
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sounds epic shot Let the Flames
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rise Focus will
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you o we missed the swap there but that
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one was close that one was close we
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almost got the we almost got the whole
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combo off and that seemed pretty damn
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fast that seemed pretty damn fast we'll
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run it back one more time until we get
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it so the the attack chain that I'm
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using there is pretty simple I'm intro
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in then I'm using my Liberation and then
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I am basic attacking two times in the
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air and then holding for a heavy attack
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in the air and that's resulting in a
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that's not doing like the vertical spin
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that you might usually see so there must
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be like something that's going on a
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little bit different I think you might
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have to only basic attack a single time
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and then heavy attack because I think I
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read somewhere about his Liberation or
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his intro skills starting you off in a
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later stage let me let me double check
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that real fast before this run all right
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ladies and gentlemen so we've done a
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little bit more research and it turns
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out that bran intro skill when you do
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use it it starts him off at the second
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stage of his basic attack chain while in
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the air so it might just be that you
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hold your heavy
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Attack yo just hit it and it'll start
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working
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you just got to hit her to wake her up
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only for The Echoes though only for the
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echo not real people only for Echo all
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right let's do the quick swap rotation
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Now ladies and
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gentlemen bad
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timing strike the hour is upon us
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epic shot Let the Flames R use one basic
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attack then the heavy then swap off
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during it go
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back and then use his oh there we go we
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got
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itft resol we got it ladies and
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gentlemen that is kind of what it looks
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like now imagine it against the boss
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that isn't this annoying but we did get
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it right there and I got to say
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that has to be some of the most
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interesting gameplay we have in the game
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and so overall I would say there's
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definitely a lot of room to practice
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with this character you're going to have
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to learn a lot of the different move
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sets that the bosses are using and time
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it so that you just don't get hit when
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you're using this guy's air attacks
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because the difference between his Bravo
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generation when he's in the air and his
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Bravo generation when he's on the ground
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is absolutely absurd he basically does
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not generate any of his Forte circuit
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relative to air attacks while he's on
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the ground and getting those combos off
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in the air specifically that one heavy
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attack and then following up with just
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spamming Basics after the heavy attack
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that will get you to full Bravo let you
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cast that resonance skill swap during
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its insanely long animation and then
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from there you just move forward you
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have his inro skill or you have his
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outro skill ready so that you can swap
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to a character like Chang Lee and then
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keep going with her and so with that I
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would say brand is a character with a
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lot of potential it's just going to be a
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little bit difficult getting him to work
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and getting the hang of him for the
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first time but once you figure out some
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of his optimal combos he does require
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you know a little bit of a negative
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edging some decisive button presses
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you'll be ready to go so when it comes
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to Brand's kit and what we were actually
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doing to get off some of those optimal
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combos what we did was we went into
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stage two of his basic attack chain we
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made sure that stage two was completed
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basically hitting the target with the
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grapple and then we went ahead and we
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held down the normal attack button to
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attack the target continuously and then
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flip backwards and then once you do that
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flip backwards you'll just go ahead and
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keep spamming that normal attack to go
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ahead and fill up all of that Bravo and
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get that Forte circuit ready to go to
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deliver the massive damage that you're
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going to be seeing over here the one
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thing to note is that when brand uses
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his residence Liberation his Bravo
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generation in is increased by
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100% And so you're on a bit of a time
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limit after you cast this Liberation and
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that's why getting hit in the air not
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getting off your air Dodges you know
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getting knocked to the ground can cause
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some trouble in your rotations I would
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say that his Baseline residence skill
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this one anchors away you actually don't
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need to ever use this ever in his
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rotations there's pretty much no
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circumstance where you're using anchors
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away or even his plunging attack to get
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off those fastest combos so kind of
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pretend that his resident skill button
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doesn't actually exist on the character
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until he has full Bravo and return From
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the Ashes is ready and I think that is
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how just from a you know cursory preview
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of his kit that's how I think you're
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going to get the most mileage out of his
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kit and hopefully those demonstrations
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earlier were helpful in showing us some
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of the quick swap were helpful in
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showing off um all the different
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abilities and the potential for his kit
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very excited for his release so let me
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know what you all think I think he's
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pretty awesome I think he has a lot of
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potential of course he's still hard to
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build so you're going to have to work
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for that potential and peace out
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