Great Katanas | Elden Ring Wiki

These were executed significantly better in Monster Hunter 2 on the PS2 in 2006 lol

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Have fun missing half of your R1 neutral pokes in pve because enemy is down or just small (dog, imp, militia men)

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So far have seen nothing about how this weapon has a weird feint. Charge up a heavy and mid-animation press dodge (just like thrusting sword feint) and you'll step back during the swing.

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its a real shame they didn't use this opportunity to make the washing pole a proper odachi and give it a real tsubame gaeshi skill

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The elegant stabbing crit animation of the regular katanas would have fit these much better than the brute force chop, imo.

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I love the style and idea of it and the L2s are unique and steamroll ganks in pvp. Unfortunately, they did make the hit boxes wayyy to wide on all the stabs. And the crouch attack animation seems to skip important steps that convey an attack is coming. Both hurt skill ceiling and make the weapon spammy. The damage seems overturned as well, winning trades against great hammers. I like the forward momentum a lot though, that’s good for the meta, they just gotta fine tune some things.

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The sheath clipping through the ground is kind of annoying

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Anyone else think they're a bit clumsy to swing? Is this an ash of war-centric weapon?

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WTF were they smoking when "balancing" great katanas? None of them have hypearmor except Rakshasha's (which increases your damage taken during attacks). This was clearly a conscious decision to gimp the weapon class, even though they're "great" weapons and all of their attacks are slower than greatswords, greataxes, greathammers, and halberds.
It makes them really mediocre in pvp, requires you to stack poise, and in pvp? Literally useless except as a running / crouching poking stick for tryhards. What a disappointment.

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Its cool, but super slow

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the great katana looks like Owl Father sword

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Was testing these out and they all have a feint similar to Rapiers, Curved Swords, etc, where you step back and slash. Pretty cool to see a larger weapon type getting something similar.

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They can Feignt

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3 great katanas and zero of them are optimal on strength builds. thanks miyazaki! shove it where the sun dont shine.

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Man, nioh figured out how to make the longass sheaths look good 7 years ago, these ones clipping into the floor is just kinda lazy

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there are lots of arguments about the proper term for the great katana. the reason to this is that there is a massive ambiguity when it comes to categorizing japanese swords, as well as it heavily depends on context in the japanese language. 'nodachi' i think simply translates to 'wild sword' or 'field sword'. but the most i've seen it used, which i believe is the proper way, is to refer to a sword that bears unique and abnormal proportions, but not to the extent to call it an 'odachi' (large sword). an example of a 'nodachi' is an abnormally long uchigatana that keeps the slim proportions of the uchigatana. an 'odachi' tends to have a thicker and larger blade, it also tends to curve much more, like the 'tachi' which is essentially a mounting sword for horse-back combat.

AGAIN, i must state that there is a massive ambiguity between terms, and should be used with a grain of salt

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Ah yes.....Odachi, my guiding one shot building.......

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What you mean "Great Katanas" game, they were already great so what is so different eh?

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Why are they not just simply called Nodachi's, or is it simply bad translation?

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I don't know if it's intentional, but the large katanas activate the crimson and cerulean daggers twice on small enemies caught from behind or broken positions, like the colossal weapons. It is a show! I hope they keep it and don't fix it, but I think it's intentional. I invite whoever manages the pages to add it, thanks.

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I don't know if it's intentional, but it activates the Crimson and Cerulean daggers twice on small enemies caught from behind or broken positions, such as colossal weapons. It is a show! I hope they keep it and don't fix it, but I think it's intentional. I invite whoever manages the pages to add it, thanks.

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How is this any different from curved greatswords ?

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Giving 2 of these a scabbard was a mistake, considering they clip into the ground even when standing on flat ground. Why not just a small strap or something instead?

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People who complain about them not being called nodachi have no idea how nodachi looks. These are just fat oversized katanas (except Dragon-Hunter's one, which is just a big curved sword), so the name is quite fitting

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Still miffed that they’re not called by their proper names: nodachis. Then again, I half expect FromSoft to think that people wouldn’t know what one even is.

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Monster Hunter Longsword weapons.
Fromsoft loves their katanas so much they even made the Katana Build: The Game at some point.

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These have a major problem for some of us: they clip through really big helmets since they use the over the shoulder carry animation.

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there's no way there's only 3 of these. lmao

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Can you power stance two great katanas?

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Quite good, maybe needs very slight attack speed buff to be an absolute menance, or ot least on strong attacks. Not running attacks thoug, rather neutral r1 and r2 .

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No Nagamaki : ^(

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if you dodge while charging an attack you make a different attack

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For anyone else thats taking issue with the sheath clipping straight into the floor, equipping the weapon in your off-hand angles the sheath a little, which makes it clip a little bit less.
Works best for DHGK due to how curved it is.

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Weeb Edge Lord weapons. lol

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Kinda funny the name of this weapon type is weeabo friendly. They're actually odachi and nodachi XD

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Am i the only one thats reminded of monster hunter longswords?

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cringe

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what is a "great katana" i only know odachi #nioh2

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what is a "great katana" i only know odachi #nioh2

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Law>>>>Zoro

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Owl cosplay would go hard

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Great Katanas? Nagakiba isn't long enough?

69 gil says one of these will be named Muramasa

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Weapon: Oceans of blood

Ash of War: Mountain of Corpses

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You think it's disgusting to see nagakiba spinning slash weeb cosplays everywhere? Me too... But just wait for this weapon class to add a great nagakiba with double the damage, hyper armor and the length of a pike.

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sir alonne, im coming for you. =D =D =D =D =D =D =D

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cant wait for Shimazu Toyohisa ru

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If this weapon category doesn't have the mortal blade then I'm gonna sue

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It would be really funny if there was a Nagakiba version of these weapons that is like 20ft long and you have this stupidly long sheathe dangling from your character

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I hope they give use the great evil crushing blade lol

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Unga bunga strength katanas… maybe weeaboos aren’t THAT bad.

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Bro if the Nagakiba isn't a great katana then what is? :skull: we're doomed but I'm excited

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Madness katana my beloved

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Remember folks, not only are we getting new weapons and spells, but also new starting classes from the DLC!

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I'm sure we'll see some heavier samurai armor with more poise to go along with these weapons

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I hope one of these is going to be a nagamaki. We've only had one of those in Souls so far.

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the ultimate weeb and UNGABUNGA weapon

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So we going have more NAGAKIBAs :)

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rivers of blood when the ocean of blood walks in

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Oh Hi Nagakiba.

How did you come to be here?

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You can easily kill Mikaela with this

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Here's hoping for a large crude great katana in the shape of yhorms greataxe that has cleaver like R2s

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Is Great Katana Odachi or Nodachi? Is it like Mortal Blade from Sekiro (Greatsword size) or Nodachi from For Honour (Ultra Greatsword size)?

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Large Moonveil incoming. A Mooncurtain if you will.

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footage where :( come on namco

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Double slash + blood flame blade to get a superior rivers of blood :^)

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I'm most excited for the Arm of Malenia and Uchigathanos

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Looking forward to this one. For me the katana class always had the same problem as the straight swords, which is to say that greatswords and curved greatswords exist and I will always choose more damage per hit over quicker attacks as long as the weapon doesn't feel clumsy. (Looking at you, colossal swords.)

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Oceans of blood

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Father Owl cosplay InshAllah

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Just give them Sekiro combat arts as moves and we're golden.

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NAGAMAKI COME HOME!!! oh sweet blade of Sir Alonne, how i dream of you!!

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Was this confirmed anywhere that these will be odachis and not some CGS alternative, or is everyone just assuming things?

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John Romero's about to make you his *****

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Mmm, I'm liking the idea of wielding a big, chonky Odachi.

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Can't wait for 15 ft long odachis

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Bleed infused spinning slash and that's that, wrap it up ladies and gentlemen.

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I hope this has as much or less str investment than nagakiba. My guess is this is a katana for str/quality builds tho...

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Hopefully we can get some Sephiroth inspired swords lol

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Am I a joke to you?
~Nagakiba

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cant wait to be hit from the other side of the arena, not like the nagakiba was already outranging greatswords, pvp is not their concern anymore

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Isn’t greatkatanas just curved greatswords

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Damn, Miyazaki, was it so hard to call them Odachi?

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katana but bigger

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Sir Alonne is back, baby...

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we goin' inuyasha this time.

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I cant wait for Nagakiba 2; "twice the length, twice the trouble" !!! NO, im even MORE excited for Streams of Haemoglobin, with its iconic ash of war: Body Stacker!!! HOW COULD I FORGET, the CrescentCloak!!! SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE HERE IIII COOOME!!!!!

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ayo

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First

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OMG
so hyped

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