How-to-kill-a Yian Kut ku

A little bored. . . I reckon a little hunting would do me good, to sharpen my skills and test out my new love, the tachi/katana. Hmmm I how about to spice things up a little...yes! Lets hunt for a kutku. . . naked! Muahahhahaaha great!! that will be a challenge indeed.



Right, So there. I removed all my armours, and selected my all time favourite Blade.The Devil Slicer!! yes, my trusty companion that slew many gold ians & silver los. Now it has evolve into a katana class. Sweeeeet~! Though I should use ICE element against the hot-breathed kutkus...

oooh looky here only 17 def. :D

now lets pick a quest... ahhhh how about this one. This should be interesting, kill or capture not one but 2 kutkus. Set! nothing like the odds stacked against you. Kay lets go~!!



The fight is in the misty swamp, couldn't tell whether its night or day as the sun hardly shines in this parts, and its dark & gloomy all year round. I didn't have to travel far, when I saw a shadow descending down at a distance. Ahhh a blue kutku spiecies. . . I draw out DevilSlicer & it was time to dance baby. :D


As always Kutkus will always do the scratching thing, and raise those big fan like ears before trying to peck you to death. This ALSO means that you can land 2-3 free hits on it before it moves.

As usual I go for the vital areas and strike hard... That includes the HEAD, Wings and Tail. By hitting repetitively at these area, one can make him flinch indefinitely.

Not long after a series of brutal slicing & dicing, it fell. . .
Phew, and just in the nick of time too. Just moments later, the red kutku touched down, and it doesn't seem too pleased with me killing off his cousin. XD



Round 2

Right now that we are even, I'm gonna use my wild card, Demondrug!! hehehe that should help even up the odds. I quickly down that bottle while its still doing the scratching ritual.

Well general rule of thumb, always stick to the left (your right) side of Kutku to avoid getting flung around by its tail. Then proceed to whack away at the wings . Once every now and then go for the head if possible, it will be tricky as kutkus are notorious for charging at will without any notice. So don't be greedy, do a 1~2 hit and roll away.
Kutku will rip any hunter apart if you let it, I can't even begin to emphasize don't even stand near the wall, else once u get cornered, be prepare to meet your maker, as it will continuously charge/tail swing at you till you drop dead.


After awhile those big fan-like ears will wither down, this means its about to become worm food, it also means that its ready to become your pet, just bring out the stun trap and tranq bombs!

But alas, I TAKE NO PRISONERS.

myahaha to me "A good Kutku is a DEAD Kutku..."

This Kutku is exhausted so I shall do it a favour and put it into eternal sleep...with a tab on the R button i unleash the charged attack...

BLAM~~!!!! It squeal and shriek in pain as I swing my blade across it, slicing through its webbing like butter on a smoldering hot knife. Blood came gushing out from the open wound like a geyser and with that the huge armoured chicken fell to the earth. Victory was mine.

Wow that was fun... and I hardly break a sweat. . . so whats the moral of the story??!
Well the best weapon in this entire game is not the ZOMG200000per-hi-L33T dmg Sword.

Its knowledge. Use it well.

Art of War

For over a month I've been practicing the fine ways of handling a Tachi/Katana Class ( while slaughtering couple of dozens of kutkus.) and I must say, since then I've have fallen in love with it.

Tachi moves disection.

Basically tachi moves comprises of a overhead slash, midsection jab/thrust, upperslash, Horizontal swipe and a backstep slash.






These are the main moves that can chain devastating combos at a moments notice. . .

combos start by either:

OverheadSlash> Mid thrust > upperslash > horizontalswipe > backstep slash
/\ > O > O > R > /\+O


This can be altered to:

Overhead slash > overhead slash > thrust > upperslash > overhead slash > backstep slash

or

Starts with Thurst > Upperslash > Overhead Slash > thurst > Upperslash > Backstep Slash

Well basically you'll get the picture, mix and match.
Note: a backstep slash is actually an evasive and offensive move in one. It can be used as a combo finisher or a retreating move. Since it swings 180* from left to right in a horizontal motion, its great for that last hit before stepping away from the battle.

while having said that, use this sparingly as timing is crucial, as a wrongly timed backstep often result in painful smack on the face or getting runned over.

Another fun side of the tachi is that hidden move, a very powerful one I might add, each time you successfully hit something, (be it a mosswaine,velocidprey, or a bullfango) the bar on the topleft will fill up.(as shown below) And when that bar is full you'll get a temporary attack up status. . . or aka demonmode.

Once the bar has been filled, one can unleash a evenmore punishing attack.. I named it the RAGED Combo. Basically it is similar to the demonmode of the dualswords but in a more controlled manner.