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Meteoric , the most honorable . As a knight I’ll use it since it’s from space

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Now, I know there are many cool and skilled katana users. I know this comment will get me dislike bomber. But these weapons are go-tos for weebs.

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Hot takes:

Moonveil: Most Overrated - Weapon skill absurdly powerful to the point it's just a one-trick pony and a crutch for bad players, feels lame to use and predictable to fight against
Rivers of Blood: Overrated - Despite the nerf there somehow still remain dedicated tryhards who do nothing but spam the weapon skill instead of actually playing the game
Nagakiba: Overrated - Ultra-viable with no drawbacks or special limitations/requirements, grossly over-used and a victim of inadequate balancing.
Hand of Malenia: Slightly Overrated - basically a shorter un-infusible Nagakiba w/ way higher requirements and a flashy weapon skill. Viable? Sure. Best option? Probably not
Serpentbone Blade: Well Rated - fun moveset but poison just isn't that threatening in this game, especially in PvP. Better are options out there unless you just really want to use it
Meteoric Ore Blade: Slightly Underrated - short reach is a bummer but now that Gravitas got a buff this can at least keep pace with some other setups, R2's remain formidable
Uchigatana: Slightly Underrated - not as viable as the Nagakiba but lower weight/wielding requirements mean you can reallocate those extra levels granting a bit more flexibility
Dragonscale Blade: Underrated - despite the short reach and lack of bleed this weapon remains perfectly viable and the weapon skill/buff is actually REALLY good

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With From Software announcing a new "Great Katana" class, I can't wait for Great Nagakiba that allows you to hit Elden Beast while standing in Limgrave

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katanas are cool, whatever im just waiting for my Nagamaki in the dlc

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Im not surprised this comment section is the most cringe in the whole website

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we need a realistic size katana in the dlc

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If there are any asymmetric weapon pairings enjoyers here, I'd recommend to try katana in the mainhand with a colossal in the offhand. It is nice and goofy, it gives you access to katana moveset and it gives you hyperarmor on offhand swings. I personally enjoy it quite a lot.

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The samurais weapon of choice

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me encantaria un bokken de madera aurea para el dlc, con escalado en fuerza y fe

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DLC katana idea:

"Ruined Blade"

"An old katana with an unusually thick and broad blade weathered by the passage of time, it has been long abandoned by its former master. Bearing a resemblance closer to that of a cleaver than to others from the Land of Reeds, this sword's heft more than makes up for its chipped and blunted blade in its powerful sweeping strong attacks"

It would be a katana that doesn't inflict bleed but has high base damage and default scaling in strength, and has a reach in between that of the Uchigatana and Nagakiba. Its R2's would be slightly angled sweeping attacks with hyperarmor frames for crowd clearing utility. Give the katana class one more infusible option and good strength option besides the Meteoric Ore Blade.

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Recommended adjustments:

Rivers of Blood: give its charged R2's extended reach like its weapon skill, and make each attack of Corpse Piler inflict very slight self-damage like Bloody Slash and Blood Blade
Moonveil: give it Frostbite instead of Bleed to access the damage negation debuff for better synergy with the high damage weapon skill
Meteoric Ore Blade: give its weapon skill both an attract and repel input option, and give its attract a follow-up attack that can better set up its unique R2's
Serpentbone Blade: give it Arcane scaling for faster poison build-up at higher levels and the ability to "double-proc" poison for extra burst damage similar to Poison Moth Flight
Dragonscale Blade: give it both innate Frostbite and Lightning damage (the weapon skill would simply buff both some) and add Faith scaling
Hand of Malenia: give its weapon skill a second input option that stays at ground level and comes out faster but deals less damage, and remove bleed as she doesn't even have it

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The only katana in the series that has been the correct length to real life ones is the black blade, kind strange.

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when somone starts the psgs cope train pull out 2 of these. psgs actually requires a high level of skill. these well...

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the amount of people i see powerstancing moonveil and rivers of blood together is a testament to how uncreative elden ring players are

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I hate it how they made katanas so op and straight swords so weak in this game

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praying that we get something more like chaos blade in dlc than RoB, maybe to make it unique for er it could be based on flame of frenzy, inflicting madness on you and your enemies, and without being an aow spam weapon

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wait until the DLC where we get a blood katana that deals like 200 bleed had has the speed and weapon art of the moonveil, and also the size of the nagakiba, also it will have a S scaling on Int,Dex, and ARC, and has the highest base damage in the game.

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It upsets me that heavy infusion can work on these at all. "Technique is everything. A blade wielded with strength will only bend. It is not until old age, when strength is taken from us, that we come to appreciate this truth." -grandson of a samurai and current master of a dojo in Nagoya.

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Nagakibas base ash of war is actually unsheathe not piercing fang however you obtain the weapon with the ash of war infused onto it initially

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No Nagamaki? My disappointment is unfathomable

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really hope we get another infusable katana with the DLC, I want to use my stupid sexy unsheathe. Nagakiba is cool for sephiroth cosplay but beyond that just gets abused in pvp. Uchi is cool but a bit basic looking, not necessarily bad but I’d really love getting a katana with a more sheath more unique than the basic black stick both of these get. Think like RoB’s, just without the PTSD that comes with it.

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No self hurting katana? No Chaos Blade/Hiltless? Shame

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ok so idk what to do because like i am doing blood build and i am trying the fire giant but idk what to do for my frost weapon for
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Nagakiba goes nice withe either hand of malenia or uchigatana

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There needs to be a katana that scales of a faith, holy or fire.

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Should've given at least 1 more katana the meteoric blade heavies

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I love the new moonveil name!!

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Kinda weird that there's only two that can be customized, and only one total that isn't a gimmick weapon.

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From Soft are in love with Katanas since Demon's Souls

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Why so few?

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Until they introduce Colossal Katanas I'm not interested.

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We have daggers/straight swords/greatswords/ultra greatswords, thrusting swords/heavy thrusting swords, curved swords/curved greatswords, axes/greataxes, hammers/greathammers/colossal weapons, spears/great spears, shortbows/longbows/greatbows, crossbows/ballistae, small/medium/greatshields........why can't we have katanas/"great katanas"?

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Would be nice to have a katana that scales with faith, maybe in DLC?

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Rating katanas by Top Gear's cool wall rules:

8. Nagakiba - used by all tryhards spaming crouch attack and spinning slash. Dumbest looking oversized katana used purely because its op. [seriously uncool]
7. Moonveil - you see this, you're 99% sure the guy will spam swift shards, moonveil's skill and run away for the whole fight. [seriously uncool]
6. Hand of Malenia - you're 2375th Malenia cosplayer, you're not cool. And you're spaming the skill. Although good looking weapon. [uncool]
5. Unchigatana - not interesting, using mostly with frost infusion (thats the most casul infusion) by people too weak to weild Nagakiba, sometimes by people that dont like nagakiba clipping through ground. [uncool]
4. Rivers of Blood - used to be op - it isnt anymore. Looks cool, has cool skill, people are either newbies out of "how to be op" youtube guides, or guys playing for fun [cool]
3. Serpentbone Blade - balanced status effect weapon with sick design and unique R2. People using this are always creative trying different offhand for poison addition. The skill is standard and unnecessary tho [very cool]
2. Dragonscale Blade - looks cool, cold lightning is the coolest buff in the game, it doesnt have bleed - cool, people using this put fun and fashion in front of performance and that's cool. The moveset is uninteresting and you won't land a skill on anyone [very cool]
1. Meteoric Ore Blade - looks great, it has one of the best looking scabbards in the game, it has the super fun unique R2. The skill isnt unique but fits the weapon perfectly, it performs the best on muscle mage build and that is a coold build. [very cool]

Pretty much top 3 are all worthy of a 1st place, while nagakiba can compete for the most uncool weapon in the game title judged by nagakiba users.

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ebav mamash

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I'm quite sad ER doesn't have a chaos blade or hilt-less equivalent. These were my favorite katanas from previous games due to the high risk high reward playstyle

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katanas are aight, i like nagakiba and dragonscale one but aside from that they just ok and i think id only use them for the benefits not because fun

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Really missing a Faith-scaling katana. Kinda hoping the DLC will add one.

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Hate on the rest of the katana line as much as you want, but you can't deny that the dragonscale blade is an awesome weapon

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Moonveil = Soul Calibur/Yamato
Rivers of Blood = Soul Edge/Murasama

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Pinzolo King of L

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Sneed

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Do any of these have the advancing heavy slashes of the Iaito? Getting back into ER soon and haven't tried katanas, Iaito and Black Blade were my favorites in DS1/3

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Genuine question, were wielders of katanas known for using thrusting attacks? Particularly the running spear-stab Fromsoft has been insistent on every katana having in every game. This isn't a gripe, I'm actually curious if they were historically used that way. They just strike me as like purely slashing weapons.

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why the fuсk does the Uchigatana have better Strength scaling than Nagakiba, makes no sense whatsoever

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They are not "too op" or even "broken". The game itself is just made in a way that encourages katanas.
Remember how ds2 strike damage was so powerful since veryone was weak to it?
Remember bloodborne's serrated damage combined with fire was effective against most of the game since yharnam was full of beasts who were weak to serrated and fire?
This game has the same rule with katanas,they just destroy everything because the game is "built around them".
Think mark,think!

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Equipping these should increase your high cholesterol status

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So like, aside from Moonveil Katanas aren't THAT bad to deal with, so why are people so passionate about hating them? Is it just because "muh weebs?" Or because some pothead dead meme got popular and he used them?

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You all spent 60 bucks on this game play however the hell you like o7

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Greatsword range with pretty much no poise damage, might as well increase the balance of the enemies'

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Best weapons for girls

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Katana or no katana use whatever the hell you like

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Dung pot

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Good range, good damage, good tracking, fast attack speed, innate bleed and the most stylish/best Ashes of War in the game. But it's okay because the damage type is Slash.

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Nagakiba and hand of malenia should have gotten unique movesets. They are just too fast for the range they give. dual wielded nagakiba is also the only reason why katanas is the new PvP cancer.

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I would love if this game had an homage to Kusabimaru, in the form of a katana with exceptional blocking ability and the ability to parry. It could be entirely unremarkable besides, I would play the crap out of it.

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Best paired with a fedora

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I like katanas!

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There is a mistake for moonveils fp cost for the skill. It says 6.5, but that is the weight of the weapon

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Chad katana user

- can't stun anyone wearing more than a piece of cloth
- horrible dps compared to straight swords
- horrible stance damage compared to greatswords
- actually isn't meta at all
- still hated for being meta
- actively ruins the game's setting
- worships some redditor pothead
- probably not old enough to play this game
- will summon you and idly watch you fight the boss

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This is just like in my Japanese animes...

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Out of all the weapons and weapon arts in this game, you chose a katana. Really?

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well yes i am a redditor how did you know

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from softwere: we have no bias towords katanas *bleed* *running poke* *long ass sword that should be a curved greatsword* *corpse piler* *moonveil spam existing*

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katanas my beloved <3

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9999

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Ratio

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I hope we get a strength katana in the dlc

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running r2 go brrrrr

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There's one small inaccuracy on the page. Nagakiba default skill is Unsheathe, not Piercing Fang, which is just an ash of war set on the weapon, when you aquire it.

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Katana gomi desu

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2 int katanas, 2 int flails. KATANA has 6 letters, FLAIL has 5 letters. 8 katanas divided by 2 is 4. DLC confirmed for 6/5/24 mark your calendars

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How is the R2 so slow?

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Hi

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I didn't really know that katanas were OP on launch or anything, I just thought it would be funny so I am currently powerstancing through the game because that's just fun, I use Serpent bone +14 and rivers of blood +6, it's just fun for me shitpost my way through that game

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I need help, can only samurais use katanas?

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Why is the moveset so bad? Also why are 2/3 of these useless? Wtf?

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*Bloodhound steps behind you*
Nothing personnel, kid.

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Katanas were broken at release. Way too fast, too much dmg + bleed. Unsheathe broken. But now that they've received absolutely no changes to their base moveset they're awful.

They're fine you goddamn schizos.

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A pretty unremarkable weapon class. I don't really understand how they became so popular.

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PKCS BETTER

thanks :)

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PvEwise, Bad 1HR1 chain, the first two R1s are almost vertical swings.



The 2HR1 chain is straight up mostly vertical, which makes fighting groups inadequate.



The powerstanced moveset is horrendous. I'm not really sure why anyone would powerstance these. The L1 chain is very slow. After checking the frame data, they are almost as slow as greataxes when it comes to L1. Except that greataxes actually do the damage and poise damage to compensate.



If you need bleed. Use greases early game on a straight sword and then infuse with blood once you can.

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I'm gonna go on a bit of rant that will probably get some hate but that's ok. I've been using katanas in souls game since dark souls 1. In OG I used the washing pole, its two handed R2 was broken (in a good way) letting you stay far away from your enemy.....deceptively far away. I power stanced man slayers in ds2. (when poison was at its best, except in the sunken king dlc) I made a savage skill/blood tinge Chikage build in bloodborne. That was probably my favorite. The lost variant hit for a ridiculous amount of damage if you stacked bloodtinge gems. In dark souls 3, I found onikiri and ubadachi and never looked back. Event though its weapon art was a bit wonky, it had its time and place. Especially in pvp. And this brings me to Elden Ring. I have been trying to find my perfect katana build for almost 500 hours. I think I finally did it. I currently main hand the hand of Melania and off hand Rivers of blood. I've never cared too much for river's weapon art so it just augments the blood build up lost by maining HoM. Plus, it has the sexy-ass sheathe. Hand of Melania with the shard of Alexander, rotten curved sword talisman and millicents prosthesis makes me feel like a whirlwind of death. Literally getting stronger with every subsequent hit. Katanas seem controversial now.....which is strange....just use what YOU like and forget everyone else....but they have become somewhat ubiquitous so there will inherently be some hate attached with that fact. But overall I think they will always be a staple in these games and there have been many, many cool variations of them throughout From Software's history. Special shout out to the Frayed Blade. God....that weapon art was sick.

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just parry the rob lmao

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I know it's not fair to the people using them, but I've started to cringe everytime I see a phantom pass by with one of these or Bloodhound's Fang. They're just so overused.

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Maybe they could add a Destend Death Katana for the DLC something like the Mortal Blade from Sekiro

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Say what you will about their reputation in PvP, but katanas are generally excellent weapons that absolutely deserve to see as much usage as they do. They look cool, feel great to use, and have a very good balance of attributes that make for an extremely versatile class of weapon. I like them a lot, and it's fine if you don't.

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no unique light attacks, sadge

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How do we have a str/int katana but not a faith one ?

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My weapon idea: Somber katana with 100% physical damage that scales with DEX and ARC, unique weapon art in the style of unsheathe that does a bloodflame slash with ashina cross animation (like morgott) with light attack and on strong attack a fast seppuku (without the buff) that makes a short ranged "nihil" that heavily damages you if you miss. And without the extended range like rivers of blood so it's not hated.

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Katanas users be like: everybody uses it, so i want too

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Is this just me or Hand of Malenia feels odd for not having Scarlet rot build up neither on its attacks nor during its skill?

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the chart of "max poison" is missing the stats of poison buildup. It only shows blood loss buildup

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One handed heavy attack is so ****ing slow

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Faith katana for the DLC please

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If there's a parry katana in dlc im gonna **** myself

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Power stance move set and speed are terrible. The best option for PS is jump attack spam.

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what people dont know is that the serpentbone blade is actually super good, basically rivers of blood but with poison instead of bleed (literally the same weapon art)

it also has a two handed charge heavy attack that i Believe might be unique to that katana only. it also has a super high damage at max level that might or might almost outstrip the other katanas

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Horrific moveset

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