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Geralt vs. Dust

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I don't think it can still instantly kill Geralt before he Quens himself later from that, of course he will land few hits but later the battle will just begin
 
Unless he has a resistance to paralysis that really wont help

Since always? One of the main mechanics in Dust is getting massive hit combos to gain extra experience, with several dozen to several hundred hits being landed on opponents in any given battle and a hit chain of over 1000 being challenged to Dust as a quest that he canonically completed
 
Dozens to hundreds to potentially thousands of high 8-C attacks wont kill Geralt?

Can he Quen while paralyzed?
 
I don't think it's necessarily thousands attacks, it's around hundreds, but Geralt is 3x stronger and he still can amp himself by 35% by Thunderbolt potion and he still has his armor which can take attacks of those comparable to him, so I don't think it's going to kill him.
 
SpookyShadow said:
I don't think it's necessarily thousands attacks, it's around hundreds, but Geralt is 3x stronger and he still can amp himself by 35% by Thunderbolt potion and he still has his armor which can take attacks of those comparable to him, so I don't think it's going to kill him.
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Its hundreds to potentially thousands, there's literally a quest Dust canonically completes where he deals a 1000+ hit combo on an opponent using Dust Storm
 
SpookyShadow said:
Well yeah, Dust is going to try a little harder than that to kill Geralt. He has enough durability to survive that.
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Actually spooky

if he tries to hit geralt while quen is activated it reflects 50% of the damage which would one shot dust because he doesn't have the durability to survive it
 
Well okay, but I still don't think it might be enough for a 3x stronger character to kill instantly. Geralt with his durability and stamina might just use Swallow afterwards and go ahead like almost nothing happened.
 
3x durability isnt really going to make that much of a difference against that many attacks repeatedly hitting him all at the same time

It wont kill instantly but it will kill him very, very quickly
 
It still REALLY depends if Dust is going for that attack, and even more importantly, while Geralt usually opens with his swordsmanship, he could use Aard to freeze him, as it's his favorite sign to use and he clearly sees Dust is not his ordinary mob dude.
 
Geralt won't open with Quen against swordsmanship, though Dust's parry really seems like just attack from above, like what Olgierd von Everec uses, a cocky style of swordsmanship.
 
WeeklyBattles said:
3x durability isnt really going to make that much of a difference against that many attacks repeatedly hitting him all at the same time
It wont kill instantly but it will kill him very, very quickly
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Alright jokes aside that's not how it works

if dust can apperantly easily kill geralt because he repat his attacks it doesn't mean geralt cannot do the same to him not to meantion that geralt has literal spinning attack mode
 
@Marine That...is how it works though? Dust Storm creates a danmaku dozens to hundreds of homing projectiles that repeatedly strike the opponent.

Dust isnt repeating any attacks, he's using one single attack. Geralt trying to use a spinning attack mode gets him parried and paralyzed
 
@Spooky Dust actually has a few ways to get out of Yrden as well as stuff to counteract the poison and electricity
 
Actually he always used Aard extremely often. For most situations like when his opponent attacks, he did it against Dettlaff, Imlerith, the Striga in The Last Wish (I think that was even three times), a Djinn also in TLW and against Tonton in Season of Storms, against humans some times (like Renfri's band in Lesser Evil), also some humans in TW3 trailer, against Letho in TW2, when he was protecting Henselt, it was always his favorite Witcher sign to use so he might open up with it, especially when his opponent looks like Dust looks, might even somewhat remind him of a Genie.
 
Is that the one that freezes whats in front of him? Because when Dust isnt filling the battlefield with Dust Storm his swordplay is heavily uses acrobatics, mobility, feints, and aerial combat. He can also use Dust Storm as a combination of flight and spamming danmaku at the same time.
 
Not only in front of him. It's omnidirectional

And its main function is not to freeze but to knock back, but yeah it also freezes and it's extremely fast, maybe too fast to dodge. The freezing doesn't kill instantly (unless Dust is going to fall on his back, then it will kill him) but it immobilizes target and leaves it free for attacks, just like what Dust does with his parrying.
 
Oh my bad i mistook Aard for Piercing Cold

Though Dust is no stranger to fighting people who can immobilize him and knock him around telekinetically, one of the bosses late in the game actually does something similar. Also read through what else Aard does and disarming him would be kinda hard too as his sword is able to return to him of its own will.

Just out of curiosity can Piercing Cold be countered with fire?
 
Don't worry, Piercing Cold is Aard upgrade

Nope, Piercing Cold can't be countered with fire. Geralt himself was frozen by the very same thing as Piercing Cold and couldn't move, let alone use Igni to free himself from that, so fire fails
 
Yes, but if Aard makes contact with someone it freezes it, it's not like an ice wave, it just freezes what's in its way, magic stuff, and it's very very fast, near instant.
 
It still has even better AP than Geralt physically, so it might KO him if it takes it on himself

And yeah it has a 25% chance but it can be spammed to hearts content
 
Dust Storm can be spammed as well but it doesnt fail 3/4ths of the time. That also means that 3/4ths of the time Dust can avoid the damage of Aard itself in close combat
 
Not really, just because it has a 25% chance doesn't mean it won't immediately freeze him, there is just a chance

Also the parry that he has really doesn't seem extremely dangerous, Geralt had dealt and defeated a man who used this type of attack the entire fight (Olgierd von Everec) and he has very unique, almost like dancing style of swordsmanship, it's hard to parry his attacks, and Eredin did parry only one of his attacks and Geralt immediately did a spin to stab him in the eye afterwards. He can be stunned by his enemies in gameplay but before the attack even lands after that he instantly can dodge
 
Yes, it has a 25% chance of working, meaning 3 out of 4 times Geralt uses it it wont freeze Dust.

Dust's parry paralyzes the person he parried, Geralt wont be able to make a counterattack and Dust has experience fighting people who can parry him back, including simultaneously fighting a trio of opponents who were all able to do so. And its not an attack, Dust's parry functions by preemptively countering the opponent's attack with his own.
 
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