Ultimate Assassin's Creed Duel Tutorial

Assassin's Creed is a very fun game and duels are lots of fun but things become a bit hard when 10 or 20 or even an entire army surrounds you along with templar leaders.

At the beginning of the game until you receive the counter skill is almost suicide to engage an entire regiment although it can be done with grab&throw and combo attacks and a little patience/luck.

After you receive at least the counter skill things get sunny. Anyway below i wrote everything you need to know to every situation and where each skill needs to be used to single handedly annihilate an entire army no matter their numbers or their skill.

1. Read their emotions.
In a fight with a group, each soldier will show his emotions. These are the main categories.
-Indifferent Soldiers: the hardest to kill because they are focused, should be attacked last after their morale has fallen or first pushed and then attacked on the ground with 1 strong attack.

- Taunting Soldiers: These are usually the leaders which taunt you and brag about how though they are and how you will die bla bla, when they taunt their gard is down attack with a strong attack followed by normal attacks or strong attack+ push+ strong attack on the ground.

- Demoralized Soldiers: As others soldiers from their group fall under your blade soldiers become scared and will be written all over their face, thats the moment to attack. Open your combo with a strong attack to inflict as much damage from 1 strike as it is common for them to regain their courage after your first attack followed by a normal combo attack.

- Aggressive Soldiers: In each group there will be 1 or more soldiers that will attack you more often then others, if let alone they will attack you when you jump on another soldier from their group. These must be put to sleep fast. Best whey is to wait in counter mode patiently and counter kill them or the second best way is to throw them to the ground as they will usually block your first 4-5 combos time in which other soldiers will attack you from behind and strong attack them.

-Leaders: Later in the game they are not a problem but at the beginning of the game they are some major pain in the ass as they grab you and throw you to the ground repeatedly and when you try to pay them with the same coin they break your grab/throw and hit you to the ground. Not to say that they can break your defense and slash you or counter slash you.

I recommend you early in the game to stealth kill them, jump kill them (run towards them and press the spike Mouse button 1 when near) and if you are engaged on a open duel then keep the pressure on them with continuous combo attacks and if your life is critical break duel mode let him chase you a little until you recover bit and re-engage.

Later in the game like i said they pose no problem. If they grab you, break their grab/throw and strong attack them (1 strong attack on the ground is not enough to kill them)followed by approximately 2 normal attacks to end the job.

If they attack you counter attack them followed by a combo to the ground if the counter is not fatal(usually on leaders isn't).

If they taunt i explained before what to do. Ultimatly if you fight with the dagger and in the fight with another soldier you put some distance between the leader (this applies with other soldiers too) and you throw 2 knives at him to kill him.

Also you can dodge and attack him but doesn't really do any wonders against leader they usually block. if they break your defense and they are loading a strong attack sometimes the counter wont work or the dodge and you'll receive a direct hit which is bad. To prevent this as soon as you see them load the strong attack instantly attack them with a normal one to disrupt their action.

Other Advices:

If you get in trouble while in duel break lock target mode and tackle your way out then sprint or if you don't have tackle just run with space and Mouse button 2 pressed towards them and make your way trough them, as soon as your out jump on a building and wait for them there. Wait for them to come 1 by 1 at the ladder and:
- end their life with the dagger or push them off the roof
- run
- as soon as one gets on the roof throw a knife(keep the throwing distance) and repeat with each that gets up the roof.

When you run from a group of soldiers and want to escape on a building climb the smallest one and then get on a larger one as they will throw stones at you and you will fall.

I will update this tutorial as soon as i remember more things that i experienced in the game. have fun.