Overview
Mordhau players are more ruthless than any community’s players. They’ll think of insults beyond the knowledge of Jesus and God combined. Not just their language is demoralizing– so is their strategies. I will teach you how to counter the feints of level 20s and up.
Introduction/Table of Contents
People will have skills beyond the galaxy’s reach. Most that this guide will cover will be strategies that level 20~ and up will be using. Here are what ones:
Strategies/Table of Contents:
1. Feint spam
a. Zweihander Feints
2. Ranged
a. Javlins
b. Rocks
c. Fire & smoke bomb
d. Weapons that are throw-able
3. Dodge
4. 7ft threat
5. 3ft threat
6. Mike Tyson
7. Energy sucker
8. Kill theif
9. Training Sword Trainer
10. Maulscums
11. Horse Mains
12. Engineers
13. Tryhard Knights
Feint Spam
Degeneracy level: 4/10 (Not much)
Avg. Level that uses it: 30~100
Weapons: All melee
Energy Usage: A lot
How to use it:
The tutorial at the beginning of the game is one of the many tutorials that no one gives a flying ♥♥♥♥ about. The only reason you did it is to probably get that fat stack of 2500 coins. The man at the beginning of the game informs you about something called Feinting, or just faking. You press the Q key and it will stop your attack, making your opponent block your “Attack” and allows you to get a free hit on them. What if I told you that opponents never learn? Remember, this is Mordhau– the max brain cells a Mordhau player can have is 3. Most is taken up by ways to say the N-Word. You can repeatedly use this strat and still confuse level 50 and up. Crazy. This will really help if you have a slow weapon and can’t land hits in time.
How to counter it:
Say someone is bamboozling you with feints. No biggie. Just don’t block until they grunt. The grunt signifies a full swing and is a perfect window to parry and repost. You can also use chambers, which detrimentally ♥♥♥♥ them.
Zweihander:
If you see someone running around with a Zweihander feinting, run. It’s a level 200 sweat about to pull a blanket over your head and skull-♥♥♥♥ you. If you win the battle, he’ll start calling you terrible slurs in chat. Just avoid them.
!DO NOT!
Spam feints until your energy is under 30% and your opponent can hear you pant.
Use Falx for spamming, it’s obvious when the movement of the sword changes.
Feint on low energy.
Ranged
Degeneracy Level: 8/10 (High, Especially in Deathmatches and Duels.)
Avg. Level that uses it: 1~50
Weapons: Long bow, Re-curved Bow, Crossbow, Rocks, Javelins, Short melee weapons, Grenade-type weapons.
Energy usage: Barely none at all.
How to use:
Pull the string back. Aim. Fire. * w o w *
For crossbow, it takes twice as long to load it but does double the damage.
For the bombs… use them like grenades. (Smoke & Fire)
For short weapons, for example, Short Sword, can be thrown. It will catch your opponent of guard and get you a midge of damage or even a fatal blow.
Javelins are like the spears in the game but are meant to be thrown with a large portion of damage.
Have a Melee backup just encase of close proximity.
How to counter
Blocking arrows isn’t that hard, just have a eye on the archer and you won’t get hit. You can also rush them, they’ll get stressed. Or, do what this man does:
Bombs are quite easy to avoid… just avoid them.
Blocking short weapons and Javelins/Spears are easy to parry.
1911: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ RUN
!DO NOT!
Use this strat on Deathmatch or you’re a meani
Dodge Perk
Degeneracy: 10/10 (Literally the H*tler of Mordhau)
Avg. Level that uses it: 15~60
Weapons: All
Energy usage: Too much
How to use:
The dodge perk will take some getting used to but when used too much it can interfere with your normal skills and footwork (What this guide is trying to improve) so I recommend you don’t use this strategy much like the Ranged strategy or at least use it sparingly to catch your opponent off-guard.
The dodge perk is worth 12/48 mercenary points making it the 3rd most expensive perk in Mordhau, under Peasant (24) and Bloodlust (15). So already, that’s 25% of your points gone– not including the cost of weapons, armor, and other perks. If you are going to use this perk, you might as well use acrobat with it thanks to how much energy you’ll be using. The perk allows you to dodge side to side and back– not forward. You would like this perk if you were ♥♥♥♥ at the most basic thing in the game… Parrying. This is much like the feint spam strategy but more annoying. You let your opponent swing and then jump forward and attack them in the middle of the swing. This works exceptionally good when going against people with slow weapons.
How to counter:
Get a longer weapon (like Zweihander, Large spear, Halberd/Polearm/Poleaxe) and cut that ♥♥♥♥ like no tomorrow. If you don’t like big weapons like that, you can just let them waste their energy and disarm them, or even use Ranged! (the one time i’ll encourage it)
!DO NOT!
Get backed up against a wall
Waste all your energy at the beginning of the fight
Use this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ perk
7ft/3ft Threat
Degeneracy: 2/10 (High Reddit Karma)
Avg. Level of players that use it: * Any *
Weapons: Any
Energy usage: Normal
How to use:
The Dwarf and Giant perk are usually used for different uses. Dwarf is used for funny instances like being a bard or surfing on a Pavise Shield and calling people names. Though you will find the occasional level 70 dwarf user that is pretty good. Giant is used for combat, mainly to counter Maul users thanks to the damage you can endure with it. I would not recommend swinging like crazy because both are quite sluggish, one is hard to hit but easy to kill– one is easy to hit but hard to kill.
How to counter:
You can’t really counter these– it’s just a matter of knowing how to play the game.
!DO NOT!
Waste energy as Giant, you will not be able to recover easy.
Do not stand still as Dwarf, move so your easy to hit.
Mike Tyson (Fists)
Degeneracy: 3/10 (Seggsy)
Avg. Level of players that use it: * Any *
Weapons: Your fist you dumbass
Energy usage: A bit much
How to use:
Ever wanted to role-play as Mike Tyson? Remember the Brawl mode? (Oh wait… this is for new players–) Sadly, most players hate people who don’t use weapons, and that’s why Training Sword Trainers exist. They make you use a weak weapon adjacent to theirs. Even more saddening, is that people will just kill you with your weapon and no thought. So you must pick people over level 15 to do this or your head will be Za Hando’d off your head. You also don’t want armor, it’ll threaten your opponent into using a weapon. You want to focus all your points into skills.
Side note: Some will start punching you and somehow kill you no matter how much armor
How to counter:
…Cut off their head with no thought?
!DO NOT!
Waste all your energy or your ass will hit the floor.
Have a backup weapon in inventory, it will be noticed at some point and get you killed.
Energy Sucker
Degeneracy: 2/10 (Drinks Apple Juice with Cereal)
Avg. Level of players that use it: 25~∞
Weapons: Longer Melee
Energy Usage: Barely any (Ironic right?)
How to Use
Ever wanna be Dio? This is the Strategy me and thousands of others use. It’s really good if you use a longer weapon like the one I prefer, the Halberd. You keep preforming reposts and wait until your opponent is low on energy. When this happens, you start berating them until they stop trying or get disarmed. Here is what my Energy Depleting Merc looks like:
How to Counter:
Use the same strategy and wait until they are low on energy.
!DO NOT!
Do jump attacks with the intentions of this strategy.
Continue to do the same strategy while at low energy. This depends on it.
Kill Theif
Degeneracy: 7/10 (Low Reddit Karma)
Avg. Level of players that use it: * Any *
Weapons: Any
Energy Usage: Depends
How to Use:
You and I have to admit we’ve all done this and still do. You’d be in a Invasion/Frontline match and sometimes even accidentally kill someone else’s prey. It is also a easy way to get coins and XP but at the price of being called a N-Word.
How to Counter:
You can’t get rid of it. Like a weed in your garden, no matter what you do, every spring new weeds will sprout.
Garden Weeds : New Players
!DO NOT!
Uh…. Drink spoiled milk after expiration date or you’ll get salmonella?
TsT (Training Sword Trainer)
Degeneracy: 3/10 (Still plays Fallout 3 (Pog))
Avg. Level of Players that use it: 50~70
Weapons: Training Sword
Energy Usage: Depends
How to Use:
People who do this sometimes come across as annoying, but never mean any harm. Most people who do this are tired of the Maul and/or Zweihander so they want to be on equal playing grounds. These people usually have two Training swords and use one to give to another. They usually target low-leveled players so they can teach you how to play (duh) or scat on you.
How to Counter:
Don’t pick up the sword they give you. That simple.
!DO NOT!
Drop out of secondary school?
Naked Maulscums (Courtesy of Storky)
Degeneracy: 6/10 (Eh)
Avg. Level: 50~200
Weapons: Maul
Energy Use: Depends
How to use:
First, you must be a tryhard. That mindset is very easy to achieve if you think you’re good. Like, really good. You need to have nothing but an ugly haircut and the Maul skin Mjolnir, if you can’t afford that then use the Bone Crusher head and the fully metal shaft. You might wanna also equip the Spectacles because they also look ugly and piss people off. You can be a dwarf or normal sized either doesn’t matter. Make sure to always aim for the head and never focus on the objective. Only kills and points are your objective.
How to counter:
Most are always naked so get a VERY high damage weapon and you may be able to one tap them.
!DO NOT!
Get anything BUT points and skills
Have armor on (unless normal human with maul)
Horse Mains (Courtesy of SoakieCat)
Degeneracy: 6/10 (Not good, not bad.)
Avg. Level that uses it: 10~70
Weapons: Horse and accompanied weapon, most likely longer weapon.
Energy use: About none if they use it right
How to use:
Like ranged, most people despise horse men. I personally don’t care, but a lot of people who do not know how to counter them do. First, you must do the hardest step, finding a horse. Note: Horses don’t spawn (obviously) in Brawl Modes and Horde. Horse spawn rates are VERY high at the beginning and end of matches, AND spawn a lot on the Camp, Mountain Peak, Grad, and (especially) Crossroads. There are either none or a very low rate of spawn in Taiga, Feitoria, and Castello. Once you get a hold of one, with presumably a longer weapon (Zweihander I found out to be the best), you can trample enemies and fold them like you’re playing Bladerunner.
How to counter:
If you are not on the offensive side and horsemen are getting rid of your limbs faster than Postal Dude, make sure to have a shield or a weapon with a large hit-box. You can also get a larger weapon like Bardiche, Zweihander, Halberd, etc. to pull them off or just kill them all together. You can also back the horse man into a wall and stab at his horse and/or shoot a ranged weapon at the horse.
!DO NOT!
Get backed into a wall
Use a severely damaged horse, will most likely end in death.
Use a short weapon
Engineer mains (Courtesy of ^Simalf^)
Degeneracy: 4.5/10
Avg. Level of players while using this strategy: 1~15
Weapons: Toolbox (Mounted Crossbow), Warhammer/Wooden Hammer
Energy Usage: None unless repairing or in physical fight
How to use:
Most people using this are most likely undeveloped and can’t afford their own armor, but some who are well over their glory point (level 25~45) still use this strategy. You will of course need the toolbox and a hammer of some sort (NOT MAUL.) Find a good area to shoot arrows from without much interruption. Set up a few archer walls and spikes to keep enemies occupied for a while to let your teammates save your ass. Then, set up your main weapon. Build the Mounted Crossbow. If you still have materials set down the Arrow Pit (6 Material points.)
How to counter:
Rush them. Simple. Much like normal archers, you can easily overwhelm them. Hitting or alerting them will signal to them they haft to use the (presumably) only weapon they have: the warhammer or wooden hammer. They won’t last long in psychical contact.
!DO NOT!
Have excess armor, your a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ archer without a bow for god’s sake.
Use skills. Focus on backup weapons and your tools.
Level 200 Knights (Courtesy of Rollz)
Degeneracy: 3/10
Avg. Level of players: 100~300 (or a new player using the knight preset)
Weapons: Greatsword
Energy usage: Average bladed weapon
How to Use:
Once again, you must have the try hard mindset and a requirement of level 80~300. Pick the knight preset and go into the wild. Steal your team’s kills, never focus on objectives, and team kill if your friend looks at you weird. Make sure to do the most toxic ass things when your opponent has fallen too!
How to counter:
Either use a ranged strategy or have a friend distract him as you double team on him.
(Or as Rollz suggests, 2000 hours)
!DO NOT!
Get out numbered, a quick loss there. (Although you are at a tryhard mindset, so you might be able to kill them all)