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Zatoichi is a fictional blind samurai. The weapon is called the half zatoichi because demo is missing an eye and soldier's helmet blocks him from seeing anything but the floor
Yup. The eyelander is a “win more” weapon. It will help you dominate games you were already winning, but it will never help you win a game you were losing.
@@thatguythere6161 Given my personnal experience (wich is just that : personnal), I've had cases of games wich we were loosing, that my choice of eyelander demo helped us win. TL, DR : skill issue lol
@@meowth9854 There’s a subtle but meaningful difference, and it’s that snowballing just refers to getting stronger over time, but “win more” playstyles, strategies, etc, are specifically defined by the fact that you could have done the same thing with something else and been better off. Many snowball playstyles are “win more” playstyles, but not necessarily. Like exodia decks in yugioh. It’s not a snowball really, but it has the basic principle of ‘if you successfully managed to get these 5 specific cards in your hand at the same time, you could have easily just used the same strategy but with powerful monsters instead and won the normal way more easily’.
my lord, a plot twist the sixth sense would be jealous of. always cool to see the ins and outs of demoknight in such detail with your videos because the prevailing narrative around which sword to use has always been "the eyelander is mega busted and nothing holds a candle to it" and that's what i always thought to be true but perhaps i gotta get katana pilled (also, the in-game demo work/animation has been getting consistently better with each video and all that attention to detail makes the viewing experience 10x better and i hope other people notice it too)
As a regular in medieval mode I got Katana and Persuader pilled a long time ago, which is ironic because the Zatoichi is weird on that map due to how many demoknights use it (making the 1 v 1 single hit kill interaction more common). It's something that I think a lot of demoknight players have realized realize or at least have an inkling if at some point the more they play. The eyelander isn't bad per se, but it's better for hybrid knight playstyles.
The best thing about Solar vids is that he's played so much Demoknight that he has every example under the sun possible for every little niche feature or interaction.
Half-Zatoichi duels have the fabled fighting game RPS: Rush down - Run into melee range and hit them Whiff punish - Bait the opponent into swinging and missing and hit them Keep out - Swing as the opponent is about to enter melee range and hit them Rush down > Whiff punish > Keep out > Rush down 3D movement and charge mechanic lets you be ambiguous about what option you're using. Part of the difficulty of applying this in an FPS is identifying the range.
1:12 The Eyelander as both a weapon and a name is based off the late 20th century franchise known as Highlander, where immortal people can only be killed by another immortal beheading them, where then the winning immortal absorbs the beheaded's power. This power is cumulative.
9:48 YOU KNOW HANK? When I first tried that football mode to earn achievement Hank felt like final boss of all TF2, and he was there every single time as a demoknight... Since you know him my questions were answered once and forever.
@@WhatIsTheHeat Demoknight that plays 24/7 pass time, that dude is capable to solo entire match even if his team is rolled in concrete. I remember he went afk and we were winning 4:0, but then he came and scored all five points in two minutes :/
I remember the days of terror when Zatoichi still had random crits. A lucky crit to start a fight would let me solo the entire enemy team as the random crits would roll in, one shot people, and top me off on top of that. You felt like a raid boss.
Bruh it was stupid good at that point in time, I always ran it with demoknight and thought everyone was crazy since the eyelander was the most popular sword by far. It just felt good to use and this video perfectly describes why. I didn't like the eyelander because of how horribly passive it would make you versus the zatoichi which rewards you for being aggressive, even before I played Doom Eternal I loved health on kill mechanics in games, now I always run them when I spot them in whatever game I'm playing. Definitly understand why they nerfed it to it's current state. Feels so good to get this affirmation all these years later that I wasn't crazy for using a non meta weapon. Course i'm a contrarian and avoid meta maggots anyway but still.
I love how Solarlight extolling the virtues of the Zatoichi's health on kill is like a dark mirror image of FishStickOnAStick complaining about the Kunai.
Lowkey it shows a lot of biases in Tf2 players lmao. Demoknight has a bunch of resistances and can reach higher health numbers with the Zatoichi, and it takes way less effort to do than it does to do well with the Kunai, yet Tf2 players only whine about the Kunai.
@@thetakenusername1005 the kunai punishes the entire team for having any noobs. All it takes is for one noob and a spy with the kunai outside of comp to practically have a walking personal health pack. If they’re behind oblivious players and they backstab you even if heard your most likely gonna watch a chain of teammates getting their spines broken
My Australium Eyelander dictates that there shall be no other sword use due to the lack of drip, even when it is an obviously worse choice for a situation. The Drip shall always conquer the stats.
Solarlight, I don't know if you will ever see this message. But I started playing TF2 because of you. I'm not that into shooting people. I like knights and armour, yet I found the perfect combination of a FPS and a medieval sim just because of your youtube channel. And TF2 has been my favorite game ever since. Thank you sincerely. (I played games like overwatch, valorant, ultrakill etc after this message and I also tried scout out for a run. I still like demoknight's gameplay better besides maybe ultrakill. Ultrakill is such a banger.)
Chivalry II might be better than Mordhau. Mordhau is kind of a dying game and also was meant to be incredibly competitive and sweaty. The devs were sweaty Chiv I players
This is why I love hybridknight. With weapon categories in grenade launchers, stickybomb launchers, shields, boots, and melees, and the ability to mix-and-match like a crackhead at buildabear, it makes demoman so flexible and the most versatile class that for some reason no one talks about him in that way.
Not really versatile when he have no ray tracing weapon like a shotgun or pistol, he is all projectile which demoknight is just him being the grenade pill instead, a competent pyro can airblast all he has
Even bigger payoff than the bait-and-switch to the Zatoichi was the final reveal of ZAT-oh-EE-chee versus ZA-toy-CHEE, something I had been _screaming at the screen every time it was said for the last 30 minutes_ . Absolutely flawless video Solar, gold fucking star. Something else I want to note for the folks who might have missed it - this video has one of the best subtitle tracks I've seen in _any_ video, let alone a TF2 video, in years. The attention to detail with the colours and placements, including the cheeky TF2 colour schemes and seamless transitions from background highlighting to transparent is a truly next level process, incredible job.
this is what i can understand about the eyelander and it re-skins. it's a high skill weapon that snowball into something massive but at the same time it force you to play like a spy to kill selective targets and run out to prevent getting kill. i guess that's why in medieval mode i have better chances using other swords than the eyelander, they're more easy to use but i acknowledge the potencial if i get a good kill streak.
When you're talking about the impact of the Half-Zatoichi, I think there's another subtle upside that's not really mentioned. Yes you can go for far riskier trades, and sometimes the health results in being able get more kills / escape, but *even if all you do is die, the +100 health is great*. Fundamentally, it translates to time and resources the remaining enemies have to spend in order to deal with you, and that extra second of attention can tip the balance of the larger fight. (I don't really play much TF2 these days, but I'm always really excited whenever I see a new video from you. You mention at the beginning not being super happy with some of your older frag movies, but I'm honestly just super impressed at the constant improvement in your videos. It's great work, well done!)
16:26 There actually is a hidden nerf to this strategy. The devs have recently added a new rule that for any player who does this, a scorch shot pyro will go their house irl. I consider it a fair tradeoff.
I'm surprised there's even contention. After the Half-Zat got ""nerfed"" to only healing half your max HP on a kill instead of a full heal, it was even more rampant at destroying pubs than it already was because of the overheal.
the bit where you talked about the half-zatoichi and the team having medics that don't know what they're doing reminded me about one time when i was playing hybrid knight and i was burning in front of my medic, and he CONTINUED TO HEAL OUR TEAM'S HEAVY
28:07 legitimately my favorite loadout for demo, crazy how despite honorbound making it seem like it would be bad for hybrid, the healing is so good that it not only counteracts it, but does to a degree that it is one of the best swords for hybrid.
In response to the early point specifically. I think people say that the booties "cancel out" the penalty because they're looking at these items in isolation, rather than explicitly compared to other swords. The main point missing is the fact that yes, you can in fact cancel it out with the booties, but you can also just use other swords and both 'counteract' the drawback AND get more overall hp.
The eyelander is reference to the 1980's movie Highlander, which I haven't seen but I'm pretty sure there's kilts etc so there's Scottish ties. The main point of the movie is to cut off other highlanders' heads which I'm pretty sure they do with swords and gain their power (called the quickening). That's as much as a summary as I can give after skimming the first page of the wiki page (also the quote "there can only be one aye" is a reference to this film). Can't say more than that as I do want to watch it one day and I'm trying not to spoil it.
Thank you! You are the only one who've I seen say this. Highlander is one of my favorite movies and I think it's so cool that tf2 has a sword that's abilities mimic the powers of the immortals in the movie. Please watch Highlander, it's so good! But just a warning; it has terrible sequels that people consider noncannon. Wouldn't recommend watching those.
Another part about the Katana oneshot I like is that winning a duel is almost a guaranteed Banner charge for Solider. On the other hand that also means caution against banner Soliders (rare as it is to come by that kinda combo) is adviced bcause not only will you die and give him HP if you loose that duel but your team will additionally have to deal with a banner.
23:51 Shounic made a video on it: bodies of your teammates eat the projectiles (which is good, as one guy will act as a shield ad the rest would hide behind him to shoot), but for some reason also block melee damage (an oversight)
Solar: The Half-Zatoichi is the best demoknight sword Me, who plays a lot of Degroot Keep and is very aware of how much of a monster it is in Medieval Mode: yeah that tracks
One thing that differentiates the Eyelander and Uber is that you can (albeit slowly) fill up uber in spawn. The glowing eye sword forces you to kill for it to be valuable which can be problematic if leaving spawn is a problem.
Plus medic’s role is to stay alive as long as he can and heal people. He isn’t a combat class Demo-knight on the other hand is meant to be fighting and taking risks. To mitigate risk and protect your heads, you have to actively be playing a less aggressive version of a class defined by killing things dead. Staying back and waiting for a chance to get as many kills as you can just makes you a worse version of the spy
@@beywheelzhater8930 Not a worse version of the spy, a tradeoff of durability & burst movement (& consistent movement after you get the heads) vs spy's stealth & initial higher consistent speed.
Manns Guide to the Backburner, shadow dropping Manns Guide to the Huntsman Solar Guide to the Eyelander, shadow dropping Solar Guide to the Half zatoichi
As an explaination, Zatoichi is a fictional blind Samurai. It is the Half-Zatoichi because Demo is missing an eye. If you want to reach, you could say that half of Soldiers vision is blocked by his helmet, making the weapon name technically accurate for him as well.
The best Eyelander strategy is to collect 4 heads, then switch boots and shield to explosives at spawn. You get Demoman with 210 hp and 125% movement speed.
As somebody who plays ULTRAKILL, the comparison between DOOM's healing and the katana also relate to ultrakill, where you NEED to play in a fast-paced, agressive way, to truly go wild and enjoy it without the worries of dying in 5 seconds.
Love that medic in the sunshine clip, dude fully expected to die but played the interaction anyways, and was suprised to live, love those moments in games that people are well versed in, you fully expect to get punished for a mistake but no one does pucish and you end up both astounded and pleasantly suprised that you've been granted another chance lol
I once was defending a payload as full demoknight with a half zatoichi and survived for about 10 seconds while glued to the payload since i kept replenishing my health with all the enemies coming at it. It was long enough that some other people on the server started commenting on it in chat, with one guy going "ONE MAN AGAINST THE WORLD". We lost anyway but I've never felt cooler in a game of tf2
funny thing about having 4 heads on the eyelander, you can walk through a pyros airblast sometimes and be able to hit them before they can do another one
I'm shocked you didn't do a "Vergil Moment" for that misdirect, because you just judgement cut me with how you caught me off guard with that mystery chapter!
There is another rather effective method in dueling, or any fight in general, that I never see anyone use. Just crouch randomly in the fight or when you think they might attack. I learned demoknight playing vs saxton hale, so trying to NOT get hit was quite important. It's such a useful thing I have to wonder why I have never fought someone else who does it. Smaller hitbox = good
There is a case where using the Zatoichi on Soldier can be useful against a demoknight. If they charge at you, you can predict when they get to you so that your melee registers first. One time on Gold Rush, this demo with the HZ kept rushing me and I countered by simply waiting for him to charge at me.
That medic that ubered you during the "long mystery section" was such a chad. Perhaps I should start shouting words of encouragement into the mic when playing as medic.
In my village, there is a huge lack of wood There's a hole, in this big neighbourhood All our homes, we have to build them back up But now they're made of dirt
Watching this for a second time and realizing all the foreshadowing and careful wording is actually insane. There are absolutely no holes in continuity, he never outright lied, only having led you to think a certain way without saying it directly
Ok, the different item qualities joke was absolutely amazing. I am also happy to see your editing skills grow with each new video! Your videos are so captivating! Keep it up, king 👑
At first I thought it was kinda funny when you went on a little pun streak with the rarity names of weapons, but once you continued I was like “oh he’s descending into the pungeon”, honestly I think it’s STRANGE how GENUINE you were with putting work into that joke.
The problem with the eyelander is that it is „lame“. It doesn’t encourage crazy trimps or clever ambushes line other swords. For the one dying to it, it’s feels unfair how quickly demo can close the distance. And for the user, every single engagement is a commitment that could cost you yours heads. Nobody wins from this (except pubstompers).
As someone who has been exclusively using the half-zatoichi for the past month to get better at demoknight, the 2nd half of this video was very nice :)
I may play Demo scarcely, but watching this as a Soldier main who likes using the Zato helped give myself new ideas on how to use it more efficiently! Now it's all about execution and figuring out how the hell to use it in a loadout with the Beggar's and the Bison :)
There’s one specific quote that I love that explains the eyelander. “A Jack of All Trades a master of none. But oftentimes better than a master of one.” Yes that is in fact the full quote.
I met SolarLight in the wild using the half-zatoichi and the amount of damage he tanked from my terrible teammates feeding him health was ridiculous. It was even worse than a good spy with the kunai + dr.
I remember someone complaining about playing against Demoknight, and it was pretty much for the reason you mentioned. The Eyelander encourages you to stay alive as long as possible to not lose your 5 Heads boost, and gives you the HP and speed to get away with it. Combine that with Demoknight being very good at taking people by surprise with a 195 crit, and you've got a loadout that feels like the enemy demoknight will either be one-shotting you with a shield bash + melee crit, or running away at the speed of a Scout if you see them at a distance. Which you can't really blame a Demoknight for. Unless you're insanely good at Demoknight and plan on flying towards an enemy, you usually don't want to walk directly towards a Soldier at a distance who knows you're coming. But you also can't really blame the person complaining, because it does feel pretty bad to fight against someone who's either running away or killing you because you're distracted or otherwise in a vulnerable position. With the other swords, you'd be more encouraged to go in for risky plays and give the opponent the occasional "I got them," but the Eyelander's focus on survival means they might see you run away 5 times before you make a mistake and die.
i'll tell you the reason i love the eyelander. It let's free to play player have a streak counter, and player who don't have the streak counter pay item to have a streak.
This video is a good reminder that there are other options for Demoknight and are better than the Eyelander. (Though I still prefer it when playing Hybrid).
this video reminded me about years ago when swapping loadouts didnt reset your head count so you could run a demoknight loadout until you get heads, then go to spawn to swap to stickies, keeping eyelander WITH the heads. practically god mode
i literally watched the first half of the video when it first came out and it inspired me to use the eyelander for a few hours. i come back to finish it and have been undeniably duped. deceived. bamboozled even. and honestly I couldn't be happier. time to get some hours in the zatoichi. Hats off to you SolarLight 🎩
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Do you even play war thunder eh?
It's joever
ten years in the joint
the snail got his family
Zatoichi is a fictional blind samurai. The weapon is called the half zatoichi because demo is missing an eye and soldier's helmet blocks him from seeing anything but the floor
lmao
Kinda thought it was because it was shared between the two, but that also makes sense
also the reason why you shoot at the floor as soldier
@@armourvgytOHHHH
@@armourvgytwhat you mean
2:37 i LOVE how the Skullcutter (With Crits) and Skullcutter (No Crits) are two seperate weapons on the chart oh my god
And the caber
What if skullcutter got buffed to have uncapped random crit chance
@@bananar1403 unlimited power
random crits are fair and balanced yknow?
It's either trash or OP no in between, there's probably ways of making it consistant
dying with 4 heads than respawing feels like you had your kneecaps removed
😂😂
as a scout said to the 4-head eyelander demoknight who died because of him
"say goodbye to your kneecaps, chucklehead"
Dying with 4 heads and then respawning feels like demoman went sober.
then*
purple
Yup. The eyelander is a “win more” weapon. It will help you dominate games you were already winning, but it will never help you win a game you were losing.
@@thatguythere6161 Given my personnal experience (wich is just that : personnal), I've had cases of games wich we were loosing, that my choice of eyelander demo helped us win.
TL, DR : skill issue lol
People usually call that "snowballing"
@@meowth9854 There’s a subtle but meaningful difference, and it’s that snowballing just refers to getting stronger over time, but “win more” playstyles, strategies, etc, are specifically defined by the fact that you could have done the same thing with something else and been better off. Many snowball playstyles are “win more” playstyles, but not necessarily. Like exodia decks in yugioh. It’s not a snowball really, but it has the basic principle of ‘if you successfully managed to get these 5 specific cards in your hand at the same time, you could have easily just used the same strategy but with powerful monsters instead and won the normal way more easily’.
"The eyelander is genuinely one of TF2's cooler weapons."
*Genuine Eyelander*
"OH PISS OF-"
"I'm genuinely surprised that this hasn't been nerfed at some point. "
"This is especially the case in community servers like UncleTopia..."
*Community Eyelander*
"Professional players can get some real killstreaks going on with this thing"
>Proffesional Killstreak Eyelander
@@DocDog "...STO-"
my lord, a plot twist the sixth sense would be jealous of. always cool to see the ins and outs of demoknight in such detail with your videos because the prevailing narrative around which sword to use has always been "the eyelander is mega busted and nothing holds a candle to it" and that's what i always thought to be true but perhaps i gotta get katana pilled
(also, the in-game demo work/animation has been getting consistently better with each video and all that attention to detail makes the viewing experience 10x better and i hope other people notice it too)
To be honest, it is the best... for hybrid knight.
Kids use the Eyelander
Men use the Half Zatoichi
Legends use the Persian Persuader
@@FelipeJaquezWeakest bottle o' scrumpy enjoyer: 🍾🗿
Average eye lander fan vs average katana enjoyer.
As a regular in medieval mode I got Katana and Persuader pilled a long time ago, which is ironic because the Zatoichi is weird on that map due to how many demoknights use it (making the 1 v 1 single hit kill interaction more common).
It's something that I think a lot of demoknight players have realized realize or at least have an inkling if at some point the more they play. The eyelander isn't bad per se, but it's better for hybrid knight playstyles.
25:10 I really liked that moment with Medic: The Little Gamer That Could, it felt wholesome.
I am the medic 😎
"GO BEAST MODE"
@@attackonhollywood1808 if thats true then u did rlly well dude nice one
@@attackonhollywood1808really?
@@Linkman8912 that was the most inspirational moment i have seen in a while
The best thing about Solar vids is that he's played so much Demoknight that he has every example under the sun possible for every little niche feature or interaction.
He probably has an organized folder of kill clips
Half-Zatoichi duels have the fabled fighting game RPS:
Rush down - Run into melee range and hit them
Whiff punish - Bait the opponent into swinging and missing and hit them
Keep out - Swing as the opponent is about to enter melee range and hit them
Rush down > Whiff punish > Keep out > Rush down
3D movement and charge mechanic lets you be ambiguous about what option you're using.
Part of the difficulty of applying this in an FPS is identifying the range.
Ill never forget when it came out
1:12 The Eyelander as both a weapon and a name is based off the late 20th century franchise known as Highlander, where immortal people can only be killed by another immortal beheading them, where then the winning immortal absorbs the beheaded's power. This power is cumulative.
By late 20th century, do you mean the 80s?
9:48 YOU KNOW HANK?
When I first tried that football mode to earn achievement Hank felt like final boss of all TF2, and he was there every single time as a demoknight...
Since you know him my questions were answered once and forever.
Who hank
@@WhatIsTheHeat Demoknight that plays 24/7 pass time, that dude is capable to solo entire match even if his team is rolled in concrete.
I remember he went afk and we were winning 4:0, but then he came and scored all five points in two minutes :/
@@lostdanver525 what a legend
what the fuck chat is this real
@@lostdanver525 green fn
I remember the days of terror when Zatoichi still had random crits. A lucky crit to start a fight would let me solo the entire enemy team as the random crits would roll in, one shot people, and top me off on top of that. You felt like a raid boss.
Bruh it was stupid good at that point in time, I always ran it with demoknight and thought everyone was crazy since the eyelander was the most popular sword by far. It just felt good to use and this video perfectly describes why. I didn't like the eyelander because of how horribly passive it would make you versus the zatoichi which rewards you for being aggressive, even before I played Doom Eternal I loved health on kill mechanics in games, now I always run them when I spot them in whatever game I'm playing. Definitly understand why they nerfed it to it's current state. Feels so good to get this affirmation all these years later that I wasn't crazy for using a non meta weapon. Course i'm a contrarian and avoid meta maggots anyway but still.
It also used to heal you to full on kill, no questions asked. At the mere cost of normal melee range.
Oh, and also no slow weapon switching.
it still has r-
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rANdOm crits
@@Hydrant749 it doesnt that got removed awhile ago
@@branzorflakes3595 I think it's still overpowered now
I love how Solarlight extolling the virtues of the Zatoichi's health on kill is like a dark mirror image of FishStickOnAStick complaining about the Kunai.
a light mirror image
Lowkey it shows a lot of biases in Tf2 players lmao. Demoknight has a bunch of resistances and can reach higher health numbers with the Zatoichi, and it takes way less effort to do than it does to do well with the Kunai, yet Tf2 players only whine about the Kunai.
@@thetakenusername1005 the kunai punishes the entire team for having any noobs. All it takes is for one noob and a spy with the kunai outside of comp to practically have a walking personal health pack.
If they’re behind oblivious players and they backstab you even if heard your most likely gonna watch a chain of teammates getting their spines broken
@@thetakenusername1005 Found the spy main.
Is there anything that FishStick dude doesn't complain about lol.
My Australium Eyelander dictates that there shall be no other sword use due to the lack of drip, even when it is an obviously worse choice for a situation. The Drip shall always conquer the stats.
Nagamaki reskin of half zatoichi when
Style over substance
It's like me only using my strange weapons so it tracks my kills
2:07 Loved the Star Wars reference, but I was really waiting for that lightsaber sound.
Also, A+ for using the Bastion music later on.
Solarlight, I don't know if you will ever see this message. But I started playing TF2 because of you. I'm not that into shooting people. I like knights and armour, yet I found the perfect combination of a FPS and a medieval sim just because of your youtube channel. And TF2 has been my favorite game ever since. Thank you sincerely.
(I played games like overwatch, valorant, ultrakill etc after this message and I also tried scout out for a run. I still like demoknight's gameplay better besides maybe ultrakill. Ultrakill is such a banger.)
Consider giving mordhau a look gamer, that might be exactly what you're looking for
@@anactualseagull5980Parry this you fricking casual *Pulls out the 1411*
Chivalry II might be better than Mordhau. Mordhau is kind of a dying game and also was meant to be incredibly competitive and sweaty. The devs were sweaty Chiv I players
@@cyanideytcuriousseadoggo
1411? It's that a fucking flintlock?
@@anactualseagull5980 I saw Mordhau and it looks and feels so good. It also has the same goofy aspects as Tf2. Thank you for the suggestion friend.
This is why I love hybridknight. With weapon categories in grenade launchers, stickybomb launchers, shields, boots, and melees, and the ability to mix-and-match like a crackhead at buildabear, it makes demoman so flexible and the most versatile class that for some reason no one talks about him in that way.
Not really versatile when he have no ray tracing weapon like a shotgun or pistol, he is all projectile which demoknight is just him being the grenade pill instead, a competent pyro can airblast all he has
Demo has the most polarizing options, but he can't do Literally Everything™ besides healing, unlike Pyro
@@johnsonfromml8662 hybridknight not normal demo. you see a pyro then you charge at him
@@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis airblast is the best counter to demoknight
especially when your grenade launcher is the loose cannon
Foreshadowing is a narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
Hbomberguy reference
Fr tho, why does he sound like him
@@anonymoushumankind they're both from the UK, specifically Solarlight is Welsh.
Even bigger payoff than the bait-and-switch to the Zatoichi was the final reveal of ZAT-oh-EE-chee versus ZA-toy-CHEE, something I had been _screaming at the screen every time it was said for the last 30 minutes_ . Absolutely flawless video Solar, gold fucking star.
Something else I want to note for the folks who might have missed it - this video has one of the best subtitle tracks I've seen in _any_ video, let alone a TF2 video, in years. The attention to detail with the colours and placements, including the cheeky TF2 colour schemes and seamless transitions from background highlighting to transparent is a truly next level process, incredible job.
Which pronunciation do you think is correct?
@@pugical Za-tō-ee-chee, like the blind swordsman
this is what i can understand about the eyelander and it re-skins. it's a high skill weapon that snowball into something massive but at the same time it force you to play like a spy to kill selective targets and run out to prevent getting kill. i guess that's why in medieval mode i have better chances using other swords than the eyelander, they're more easy to use but i acknowledge the potencial if i get a good kill streak.
When you're talking about the impact of the Half-Zatoichi, I think there's another subtle upside that's not really mentioned. Yes you can go for far riskier trades, and sometimes the health results in being able get more kills / escape, but *even if all you do is die, the +100 health is great*. Fundamentally, it translates to time and resources the remaining enemies have to spend in order to deal with you, and that extra second of attention can tip the balance of the larger fight.
(I don't really play much TF2 these days, but I'm always really excited whenever I see a new video from you. You mention at the beginning not being super happy with some of your older frag movies, but I'm honestly just super impressed at the constant improvement in your videos. It's great work, well done!)
16:26 There actually is a hidden nerf to this strategy. The devs have recently added a new rule that for any player who does this, a scorch shot pyro will go their house irl. I consider it a fair tradeoff.
You sell your soul to win a match 😔
I'm surprised there's even contention. After the Half-Zat got ""nerfed"" to only healing half your max HP on a kill instead of a full heal, it was even more rampant at destroying pubs than it already was because of the overheal.
1:19 missed opportunity to say: "Ok I'm GENUENLY done with this joke"
Dude that medic who pocketed you in the clip around 25:40 was awesome.
the bit where you talked about the half-zatoichi and the team having medics that don't know what they're doing reminded me about one time when i was playing hybrid knight and i was burning in front of my medic, and he CONTINUED TO HEAL OUR TEAM'S HEAVY
Meet the Medicslave
Classic
28:07 legitimately my favorite loadout for demo, crazy how despite honorbound making it seem like it would be bad for hybrid, the healing is so good that it not only counteracts it, but does to a degree that it is one of the best swords for hybrid.
BABE WAKE UP NEW DEMOKNIGHT TF2 VIDEO DROPPED
Shayy, never knew you liked TF2
Tf2 speedrun when
nerd spotted
Never knew you liked T.F.2
Sans
22:10 You know shits about to go down when Bardock's theme starts playing.
In response to the early point specifically. I think people say that the booties "cancel out" the penalty because they're looking at these items in isolation, rather than explicitly compared to other swords.
The main point missing is the fact that yes, you can in fact cancel it out with the booties, but you can also just use other swords and both 'counteract' the drawback AND get more overall hp.
Great video Solarlight, well done.
I really enjoyed it.
Me when no comments
The eyelander is reference to the 1980's movie Highlander, which I haven't seen but I'm pretty sure there's kilts etc so there's Scottish ties. The main point of the movie is to cut off other highlanders' heads which I'm pretty sure they do with swords and gain their power (called the quickening). That's as much as a summary as I can give after skimming the first page of the wiki page (also the quote "there can only be one aye" is a reference to this film). Can't say more than that as I do want to watch it one day and I'm trying not to spoil it.
Thank you! You are the only one who've I seen say this. Highlander is one of my favorite movies and I think it's so cool that tf2 has a sword that's abilities mimic the powers of the immortals in the movie. Please watch Highlander, it's so good! But just a warning; it has terrible sequels that people consider noncannon. Wouldn't recommend watching those.
Even better, there is a competitive game mode named after the movie
Bruh. U can't reference Highlander without having watched Highlander. That's the first rule of Highlander
I think this reference is very obvious for anyone born before 2000
@@ZeChADPK my boi in the video was either very sarcastic or he doesn't know.
Another part about the Katana oneshot I like is that winning a duel is almost a guaranteed Banner charge for Solider.
On the other hand that also means caution against banner Soliders (rare as it is to come by that kinda combo) is adviced bcause not only will you die and give him HP if you loose that duel but your team will additionally have to deal with a banner.
because katana deal like a lots of damage on another katana user so it filled any banner on soldier instantly
32:46 congrats to ‘Opposing Force : Holiday Specia’ for getting ‘FYI I am A Medic’
Well done!
hooray
23:51
Shounic made a video on it: bodies of your teammates eat the projectiles (which is good, as one guy will act as a shield ad the rest would hide behind him to shoot), but for some reason also block melee damage (an oversight)
Every lobby is full of zatoichi demo now. Solar just made casual into medieval mode
14:51 LETS GOOO
indeed
Best subclass
why is this in the script
Ima use the Eyelander from now on
@@Kufts-c9l why tho
I swear that moment when you get 4 heads, THE RUSH YOU FEEL is soo satisfying and you feel unstoppable
PAUSE💀💀
pause.
Pause.-crocket sounds-
so no head?
@@loadial M2
0:04 uhhhh rocket jump with out the rocket
"it's called trimping!" - lazy purple
@kailiwak no pass time have jump pads in there map it was a jump pad
Solar: The Half-Zatoichi is the best demoknight sword
Me, who plays a lot of Degroot Keep and is very aware of how much of a monster it is in Medieval Mode: yeah that tracks
4:57
Reifll, Sorry for ruining the vid... you're amazing Solar.
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One thing that differentiates the Eyelander and Uber is that you can (albeit slowly) fill up uber in spawn. The glowing eye sword forces you to kill for it to be valuable which can be problematic if leaving spawn is a problem.
Plus medic’s role is to stay alive as long as he can and heal people. He isn’t a combat class
Demo-knight on the other hand is meant to be fighting and taking risks. To mitigate risk and protect your heads, you have to actively be playing a less aggressive version of a class defined by killing things dead. Staying back and waiting for a chance to get as many kills as you can just makes you a worse version of the spy
@@beywheelzhater8930 Not a worse version of the spy, a tradeoff of durability & burst movement (& consistent movement after you get the heads) vs spy's stealth & initial higher consistent speed.
Manns Guide to the Backburner, shadow dropping Manns Guide to the Huntsman
Solar Guide to the Eyelander, shadow dropping Solar Guide to the Half zatoichi
As an explaination, Zatoichi is a fictional blind Samurai. It is the Half-Zatoichi because Demo is missing an eye.
If you want to reach, you could say that half of Soldiers vision is blocked by his helmet, making the weapon name technically accurate for him as well.
2:00 the idea of the snowball metaphor is that a snowball starts small but it becomes bigger and collects more snow the more you roll it 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
The best Eyelander strategy is to collect 4 heads, then switch boots and shield to explosives at spawn. You get Demoman with 210 hp and 125% movement speed.
It's funny because not even half way into the video, he says exactly this...
I was at the exact part where he mentions this when I saw your comment
Amazing. It's almost as if he talks about that in the video or something. 😮
@JackRabbittm Why did you repeat what I said? He knows this also, he admitted it.
Do you read comments before commenting?
As somebody who plays ULTRAKILL, the comparison between DOOM's healing and the katana also relate to ultrakill, where you NEED to play in a fast-paced, agressive way, to truly go wild and enjoy it without the worries of dying in 5 seconds.
Love that medic in the sunshine clip, dude fully expected to die but played the interaction anyways, and was suprised to live, love those moments in games that people are well versed in, you fully expect to get punished for a mistake but no one does pucish and you end up both astounded and pleasantly suprised that you've been granted another chance lol
I once was defending a payload as full demoknight with a half zatoichi and survived for about 10 seconds while glued to the payload since i kept replenishing my health with all the enemies coming at it. It was long enough that some other people on the server started commenting on it in chat, with one guy going "ONE MAN AGAINST THE WORLD". We lost anyway but I've never felt cooler in a game of tf2
I got my Australium Eyelander on my 5th tour. I named it The Butter Knife and have slain several snipers who didn’t know Demoman can fly.
I love how this video is marginally funnier than your previous ones; you crammed so much more jokes and word play in it
Wow!
Its so cool to see my video at the end there!
Thats awesome!
Thanks so much for showing it Solar!
funny thing about having 4 heads on the eyelander, you can walk through a pyros airblast sometimes and be able to hit them before they can do another one
25:13 Downside aside, the medic goating Solar on to keep killing. It really puts the *Team* in Team Fortress 2
I'm shocked you didn't do a "Vergil Moment" for that misdirect, because you just judgement cut me with how you caught me off guard with that mystery chapter!
I am Pyro. I have become real.
Then please burn my spies please, there are 6 on my team
Nah false
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Please protect my engineer please 4 spies are laughing at him
Don't trust this girl
I appreciate the fact that you set the subtitles background to account for the video background, improving readability.
"When I say Demoknight, what do you see?"
Your kill montages that got me subscribed 4 years ago.
I see flying scottish ni-
There is another rather effective method in dueling, or any fight in general, that I never see anyone use. Just crouch randomly in the fight or when you think they might attack. I learned demoknight playing vs saxton hale, so trying to NOT get hit was quite important. It's such a useful thing I have to wonder why I have never fought someone else who does it. Smaller hitbox = good
Solar light:When you look at demoknight what do you see?
Me: A alcoholic given a sword and speed boost.
There is a case where using the Zatoichi on Soldier can be useful against a demoknight. If they charge at you, you can predict when they get to you so that your melee registers first. One time on Gold Rush, this demo with the HZ kept rushing me and I countered by simply waiting for him to charge at me.
also winning a duel instantly charges banners
@@artifactUQuite handy for getting those ready
That medic that ubered you during the "long mystery section" was such a chad. Perhaps I should start shouting words of encouragement into the mic when playing as medic.
In my village, there is a huge lack of wood
There's a hole, in this big neighbourhood
All our homes, we have to build them back up
But now they're made of dirt
What
Unexpected element animations reference lol
I wanna know where my wood is
I wanna know where my wood is
I think the "unusual/haunted/collector's eyelander" bit was an extremely underrated gag.
Watching this for a second time and realizing all the foreshadowing and careful wording is actually insane. There are absolutely no holes in continuity, he never outright lied, only having led you to think a certain way without saying it directly
Ok, the different item qualities joke was absolutely amazing. I am also happy to see your editing skills grow with each new video! Your videos are so captivating! Keep it up, king 👑
Finally, a guide from *_THE_* Demoknight TF2
Why hello
The professional Demopan casually running into 3 sentries, killing them all before obliterating the rest of my team:
At first I thought it was kinda funny when you went on a little pun streak with the rarity names of weapons, but once you continued I was like “oh he’s descending into the pungeon”, honestly I think it’s STRANGE how GENUINE you were with putting work into that joke.
I fucking LOVE whenever people out so much effort even on the subtitles.
When you see demoknight. What do you see?
*”Cruise Missile.”*
11:32 haha, the pyro ragdoll is funny
The problem with the eyelander is that it is „lame“. It doesn’t encourage crazy trimps or clever ambushes line other swords. For the one dying to it, it’s feels unfair how quickly demo can close the distance. And for the user, every single engagement is a commitment that could cost you yours heads.
Nobody wins from this (except pubstompers).
As someone who has been exclusively using the half-zatoichi for the past month to get better at demoknight, the 2nd half of this video was very nice :)
I may play Demo scarcely, but watching this as a Soldier main who likes using the Zato helped give myself new ideas on how to use it more efficiently!
Now it's all about execution and figuring out how the hell to use it in a loadout with the Beggar's and the Bison :)
2:16 is this a star war rouge one earth Vader reference?
Nah this is fourth episode reference
@@UNREAL4everNo, it's Rogue One. In A New Hope the stormtroopers just shoot everyone.
earth vader
2:12
OH NAH. I fully expected for you to just jumpsacre the snipers not "Here comes the sun Do-DoDo"
And i say,
9:40
Missed opportunity to play the clip of the guy ice skating into dunk
love that the one downside he could think of for the half-zatoichi is that you don't need a pocket medic
i love the effort put into your subtitles so much
There’s one specific quote that I love that explains the eyelander.
“A Jack of All Trades a master of none.
But oftentimes better than a master of one.”
Yes that is in fact the full quote.
4:52 "reifll" lol
I met SolarLight in the wild using the half-zatoichi and the amount of damage he tanked from my terrible teammates feeding him health was ridiculous. It was even worse than a good spy with the kunai + dr.
at least with a good spy, you can potentially run away. but you can't run from demoknight tf2, he's faster
@@TheGhostThatWas It wasn't a problem about running away. The problem was killing the perma-overhealed demoknight.
I can imagine a dark souls boss that 5 people can fight and it just heals half of its hp at once upon killing a single teammate, would be hell
@@the_something_something “I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella”
*proceeds to leech to full after landing a few hits*
I remember someone complaining about playing against Demoknight, and it was pretty much for the reason you mentioned. The Eyelander encourages you to stay alive as long as possible to not lose your 5 Heads boost, and gives you the HP and speed to get away with it. Combine that with Demoknight being very good at taking people by surprise with a 195 crit, and you've got a loadout that feels like the enemy demoknight will either be one-shotting you with a shield bash + melee crit, or running away at the speed of a Scout if you see them at a distance.
Which you can't really blame a Demoknight for. Unless you're insanely good at Demoknight and plan on flying towards an enemy, you usually don't want to walk directly towards a Soldier at a distance who knows you're coming. But you also can't really blame the person complaining, because it does feel pretty bad to fight against someone who's either running away or killing you because you're distracted or otherwise in a vulnerable position. With the other swords, you'd be more encouraged to go in for risky plays and give the opponent the occasional "I got them," but the Eyelander's focus on survival means they might see you run away 5 times before you make a mistake and die.
I love how you went through the effort to make the captions yourself
25:06 YOOOOO THATS ME!!! BEEEEEEAST!!!!!
Demoknight tf2 vs epic scout
5:40 Dear god this did not need to be so smooth 🥶🔥
i'll tell you the reason i love the eyelander.
It let's free to play player have a streak counter, and player who don't have the streak counter pay item to have a streak.
God no, he has released the weebs. They are no longer bound to spy
Underrated comment
Eyelander, more like, your eye is in my land
man what the fuck
29:27 He read all our minds, we're so predictable
cursed original
5:40 The transition from the Skullcutter to the Claidheamh Mor was so clean omg
This video is a good reminder that there are other options for Demoknight and are better than the Eyelander. (Though I still prefer it when playing Hybrid).
9:58
Others: Solarlight will never be ballin
Subs: OBJECTION! SOLARLIGHT FRIGGIN BALLIN!
Literally therussianbadger reference, I love it
@@the_interloper_Chsym You noticed, didn’t think anyone would
@@RIPSmalls08I see the reference
1:49
did lunar darkness forgor about the shield bah
0:42 solider casual t poses
this video reminded me about years ago when swapping loadouts didnt reset your head count
so you could run a demoknight loadout until you get heads, then go to spawn to swap to stickies, keeping eyelander WITH the heads. practically god mode
i literally watched the first half of the video when it first came out and it inspired me to use the eyelander for a few hours. i come back to finish it and have been undeniably duped. deceived. bamboozled even. and honestly I couldn't be happier. time to get some hours in the zatoichi. Hats off to you SolarLight 🎩