

So when a fight starts, look at the distance between you and your enemy.

Lots of damage is nice, but it doesn’t mean much if you can’t hit the opponent. When you’re picking an art, you want those options. Wudang is a bit weird because both YYS and breeze have good CC, but YYS has health sustain to make our OP neigong more OP. The best styles for duels are the ones with some kind of ranged attack option or the ones with hard controls. For instance, if you’re a scholar and you want to duel well, you should probably use leisure kick. There are some styles that are good at dueling and some that are bad at dueling. Don’t level anything but neigong until at least level 15, and play around with each style to find the one that feels best. The first element of dueling is understanding your style and becoming really comfortable with your buttons. Most people just smash their face into the 1-7 buttons and hope for the best. I know very, very few people (mostly people from Wudang since I end up dueling them more) who are actually -good- at dueling. What I’m trying to say is that I know what I’m talking about, and that you’re probably bad at dueling. I’ve sent quite a few criminals to jail, beaten virtually every top tier school style in duels and learned most of the ins and outs of each. I’ve fought in probably a hundred combats and won a lot more than I’ve lost, and virtually all of my 1v1 fights after I hit about level 18. I’m a constable, an avid dueler, and an expert (maybe not a master) in Yin Yang Sword. You may know me as Ueshiba in the current closed beta.
