Play War Thunder for free and use my link to claim a massive bonus pack containing an exclusive vehicle decorator, premium vehicles, and more: playwt.link/solarlight ! Available for a limited time only. War Thunder is a realistic vehicle combat game where players take control of tanks, planes and ships, and blow up opponents spectacularly.
The Eyelander is often considered the best sword in the game. Why would you use anything else?
Consider supporting on Patreon if you like my stuff:
/ solarlight
Chapters:
00:00 Fragvideos are cool
01:19 Snowballs start slow
05:50 Raised Max Health
07:23 Movement Speed
11:24 Damage Buff
13:27 Misc.
16:24 Is it OP?
20:10 ominously long mystery chapter
Music: pastebin.com/5dvBxrMc
Discord server: / discord
Twitter: / tf2solarlight
Play War Thunder for free and use my link to claim a massive bonus pack containing an exclusive vehicle decorator, premium vehicles, and more: playwt.link/solarlight ! Available for a limited time only. War Thunder is a realistic vehicle combat game where players take control of tanks, planes and ships, and blow up opponents spectacularly. This video was sort of an experiment to see if I could get a longer video done more quickly, with less editing. Unfortunately, there is a typo at 4:49 and it's too late to fix it. I love reifll.
War thunder got him, its over 😭
Do you even play war thunder eh?
It's joever
ten years in the joint
the snail got his family
Zatoichi is a fictional blind samurai. The weapon is called the half zatoichi because demo is missing an eye and soldier's helmet blocks him from seeing anything but the floor
lmao
Kinda thought it was because it was shared between the two, but that also makes sense
also the reason why you shoot at the floor as soldier
@@goofyahhgooberprodOHHHH
@@goofyahhgooberprodwhat you mean
dying with 4 heads than respawing feels like you had your kneecaps removed
😂😂
as a scout said to the 4-head eyelander demoknight who died because of him "say goodbye to your kneecaps, chucklehead"
Dying with 4 heads and then respawning feels like demoman went sober.
then*
purple
9:48 YOU KNOW HANK? When I first tried that football mode to earn achievement Hank felt like final boss of all TF2, and he was there every single time as a demoknight... Since you know him my questions were answered once and forever.
Who hank
@@WhatIsTheHeat Demoknight that plays 24/7 pass time, that dude is capable to solo entire match even if his team is rolled in concrete. I remember he went afk and we were winning 4:0, but then he came and scored all five points in two minutes :/
@@lostdanver525 what a legend
what the fuck chat is this real
@@lostdanver525 green fn
Foreshadowing is a narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
Hbomberguy reference
Fr tho, why does he sound like him
my lord, a plot twist the sixth sense would be jealous of. always cool to see the ins and outs of demoknight in such detail with your videos because the prevailing narrative around which sword to use has always been "the eyelander is mega busted and nothing holds a candle to it" and that's what i always thought to be true but perhaps i gotta get katana pilled (also, the in-game demo work/animation has been getting consistently better with each video and all that attention to detail makes the viewing experience 10x better and i hope other people notice it too)
To be honest, it is the best... for hybrid knight.
Kids use the Eyelander Men use the Half Zatoichi Legends use the Persian Persuader
@@FelipeJaquezWeakest bottle o' scrumpy enjoyer: 🍾🗿
Average eye lander fan vs average katana enjoyer.
As a regular in medieval mode I got Katana and Persuader pilled a long time ago, which is ironic because the Zatoichi is weird on that map due to how many demoknights use it (making the 1 v 1 single hit kill interaction more common). It's something that I think a lot of demoknight players have realized realize or at least have an inkling if at some point the more they play. The eyelander isn't bad per se, but it's better for hybrid knight playstyles.
2:37 i LOVE how the Skullcutter (With Crits) and Skullcutter (No Crits) are two seperate weapons on the chart oh my god
And the caber
What if skullcutter got buffed to have uncapped random crit chance
@@bananar1403 unlimited power
random crits are fair and balanced yknow?
It's either trash or OP no in between, there's probably ways of making it consistant
16:26 There actually is a hidden nerf to this strategy. The devs have recently added a new rule that for any player who does this, a scorch shot pyro will go their house irl. I consider it a fair tradeoff.
I love how Solarlight extolling the virtues of the Zatoichi's health on kill is like a dark mirror image of FishStickOnAStick complaining about the Kunai.
a light mirror image
Lowkey it shows a lot of biases in Tf2 players lmao. Demoknight has a bunch of resistances and can reach higher health numbers with the Zatoichi, and it takes way less effort to do than it does to do well with the Kunai, yet Tf2 players only whine about the Kunai.
@@thetakenusername1005 the kunai punishes the entire team for having any noobs. All it takes is for one noob and a spy with the kunai outside of comp to practically have a walking personal health pack. If they’re behind oblivious players and they backstab you even if heard your most likely gonna watch a chain of teammates getting their spines broken
@@thetakenusername1005 Found the spy main.
Is there anything that FishStick dude doesn't complain about lol.
25:10 I really liked that moment with Medic: The Little Gamer That Could, it felt wholesome.
I am the medic 😎
"GO BEAST MODE"
@@attackonhollywood1808 if thats true then u did rlly well dude nice one
@@attackonhollywood1808really?
@@Linkman8912 that was the most inspirational moment i have seen in a while
The best thing about Solar vids is that he's played so much Demoknight that he has every example under the sun possible for every little niche feature or interaction.
He probably has an organized folder of kill clips
Half-Zatoichi duels have the fabled fighting game RPS: Rush down - Run into melee range and hit them Whiff punish - Bait the opponent into swinging and missing and hit them Keep out - Swing as the opponent is about to enter melee range and hit them Rush down > Whiff punish > Keep out > Rush down 3D movement and charge mechanic lets you be ambiguous about what option you're using. Part of the difficulty of applying this in an FPS is identifying the range.
BABE WAKE UP NEW DEMOKNIGHT TF2 VIDEO DROPPED
Shayy, never knew you liked TF2
Tf2 speedrun when
nerd spotted
Never knew you liked T.F.2
Sans
I remember the days of terror when Zatoichi still had random crits. A lucky crit to start a fight would let me solo the entire enemy team as the random crits would roll in, one shot people, and top me off on top of that. You felt like a raid boss.
Bruh it was stupid good at that point in time, I always ran it with demoknight and thought everyone was crazy since the eyelander was the most popular sword by far. It just felt good to use and this video perfectly describes why. I didn't like the eyelander because of how horribly passive it would make you versus the zatoichi which rewards you for being aggressive, even before I played Doom Eternal I loved health on kill mechanics in games, now I always run them when I spot them in whatever game I'm playing. Definitly understand why they nerfed it to it's current state. Feels so good to get this affirmation all these years later that I wasn't crazy for using a non meta weapon. Course i'm a contrarian and avoid meta maggots anyway but still.
It also used to heal you to full on kill, no questions asked. At the mere cost of normal melee range. Oh, and also no slow weapon switching.
This is why I love hybridknight. With weapon categories in grenade launchers, stickybomb launchers, shields, boots, and melees, and the ability to mix-and-match like a crackhead at buildabear, it makes demoman so flexible and the most versatile class that for some reason no one talks about him in that way.
Not really versatile when he have no ray tracing weapon like a shotgun or pistol, he is all projectile which demoknight is just him being the grenade pill instead, a competent pyro can airblast all he has
Demo has the most polarizing options, but he can't do Literally Everything™ besides healing, unlike Pyro
@@johnsonfromml8662 hybridknight not normal demo. you see a pyro then you charge at him
@@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis airblast is the best counter to demoknight
especially when your grenade launcher is the loose cannon
"The eyelander is genuinely one of TF2's cooler weapons." *Genuine Eyelander*
"OH PISS OF-"
14:51 LETS GOOO
indeed
Best subclass
why is this in the script
Solarlight, I don't know if you will ever see this message. But I started playing TF2 because of you. I'm not that into shooting people. I like knights and armour, yet I found the perfect combination of a FPS and a medieval sim just because of your youtube channel. And TF2 has been my favorite game ever since. Thank you sincerely. (I played games like overwatch, valorant, ultrakill etc after this message and I also tried scout out for a run. I still like demoknight's gameplay better besides maybe ultrakill. Ultrakill is such a banger.)
Consider giving mordhau a look gamer, that might be exactly what you're looking for
@@anactualseagull5980Parry this you fricking casual *Pulls out the 1411*
Chivalry II might be better than Mordhau. Mordhau is kind of a dying game and also was meant to be incredibly competitive and sweaty. The devs were sweaty Chiv I players
TF2? Medieval sim? Wut?
@@cyanideytandcuriousseadogg4160 1411? It's that a fucking flintlock?
When you're talking about the impact of the Half-Zatoichi, I think there's another subtle upside that's not really mentioned. Yes you can go for far riskier trades, and sometimes the health results in being able get more kills / escape, but *even if all you do is die, the +100 health is great*. Fundamentally, it translates to time and resources the remaining enemies have to spend in order to deal with you, and that extra second of attention can tip the balance of the larger fight. (I don't really play much TF2 these days, but I'm always really excited whenever I see a new video from you. You mention at the beginning not being super happy with some of your older frag movies, but I'm honestly just super impressed at the constant improvement in your videos. It's great work, well done!)
Yup. The eyelander is a “win more” weapon. It will help you dominate games you were already winning, but it will never help you win a game you were losing.
the bit where you talked about the half-zatoichi and the team having medics that don't know what they're doing reminded me about one time when i was playing hybrid knight and i was burning in front of my medic, and he CONTINUED TO HEAL OUR TEAM'S HEAVY
I'm surprised there's even contention. After the Half-Zat got ""nerfed"" to only healing half your max HP on a kill instead of a full heal, it was even more rampant at destroying pubs than it already was because of the overheal.
Great video Solarlight, well done. I really enjoyed it.
Me when no comments
My Australium Eyelander dictates that there shall be no other sword use due to the lack of drip, even when it is an obviously worse choice for a situation. The Drip shall always conquer the stats.
There is a case where using the Zatoichi on Soldier can be useful against a demoknight. If they charge at you, you can predict when they get to you so that your melee registers first. One time on Gold Rush, this demo with the HZ kept rushing me and I countered by simply waiting for him to charge at me.
I swear that moment when you get 4 heads, THE RUSH YOU FEEL is soo satisfying and you feel unstoppable
PAUSE💀💀
pause.
Pause.-crocket sounds-
so no head?
@@loadial M2
4:57 Reifll, Sorry for ruining the vid... you're amazing Solar.
reifll
reifll
reifll
reifll
reifll
Love the use of a Solid-State-Scouter remix for a scene about Demoknight jumping right into the enemy lines and trying to get important picks. This is such a fitting usage of that song. If Bardock had the half-zatoichi in DBZ, he might have lived!
Even bigger payoff than the bait-and-switch to the Zatoichi was the final reveal of ZAT-oh-EE-chee versus ZA-toy-CHEE, something I had been _screaming at the screen every time it was said for the last 30 minutes_ . Absolutely flawless video Solar, gold fucking star. Something else I want to note for the folks who might have missed it - this video has one of the best subtitle tracks I've seen in _any_ video, let alone a TF2 video, in years. The attention to detail with the colours and placements, including the cheeky TF2 colour schemes and seamless transitions from background highlighting to transparent is a truly next level process, incredible job.
The best Eyelander strategy is to collect 4 heads, then switch boots and shield to explosives at spawn. You get Demoman with 210 hp and 125% movement speed.
It's funny because not even half way into the video, he says exactly this...
I was at the exact part where he mentions this when I saw your comment
Amazing. It's almost as if he talks about that in the video or something. 😮
@JackRabbittm Why did you repeat what I said? He knows this also, he admitted it. Do you read comments before commenting?
28:07 legitimately my favorite loadout for demo, crazy how despite honorbound making it seem like it would be bad for hybrid, the healing is so good that it not only counteracts it, but does to a degree that it is one of the best swords for hybrid.
Wow! Its so cool to see my video at the end there! Thats awesome! Thanks so much for showing it Solar!
There is another rather effective method in dueling, or any fight in general, that I never see anyone use. Just crouch randomly in the fight or when you think they might attack. I learned demoknight playing vs saxton hale, so trying to NOT get hit was quite important. It's such a useful thing I have to wonder why I have never fought someone else who does it. Smaller hitbox = good
Every lobby is full of zatoichi demo now. Solar just made casual into medieval mode
I am Pyro. I have become real.
Then please burn my spies please, there are 6 on my team
Nah false
e
Please protect my engineer please 4 spies are laughing at him
Don't trust this girl
The professional Demopan casually running into 3 sentries, killing them all before obliterating the rest of my team:
The problem with the eyelander is that it is „lame“. It doesn’t encourage crazy trimps or clever ambushes line other swords. For the one dying to it, it’s feels unfair how quickly demo can close the distance. And for the user, every single engagement is a commitment that could cost you yours heads. Nobody wins from this (except pubstompers).
Another part about the Katana oneshot I like is that winning a duel is almost a guaranteed Banner charge for Solider. On the other hand that also means caution against banner Soliders (rare as it is to come by that kinda combo) is adviced bcause not only will you die and give him HP if you loose that duel but your team will additionally have to deal with a banner.
because katana deal like a lots of damage on another katana user so it filled any banner on soldier instantly
The eyelander is reference to the 1980's movie Highlander, which I haven't seen but I'm pretty sure there's kilts etc so there's Scottish ties. The main point of the movie is to cut off other highlanders' heads which I'm pretty sure they do with swords and gain their power (called the quickening). That's as much as a summary as I can give after skimming the first page of the wiki page (also the quote "there can only be one aye" is a reference to this film). Can't say more than that as I do want to watch it one day and I'm trying not to spoil it.
Thank you! You are the only one who've I seen say this. Highlander is one of my favorite movies and I think it's so cool that tf2 has a sword that's abilities mimic the powers of the immortals in the movie. Please watch Highlander, it's so good! But just a warning; it has terrible sequels that people consider noncannon. Wouldn't recommend watching those.
Even better, there is a competitive game mode named after the movie
Bruh. U can't reference Highlander without having watched Highlander. That's the first rule of Highlander
I think this reference is very obvious for anyone born before 2000
@@ZeChADPK my boi in the video was either very sarcastic or he doesn't know.
I once was defending a payload as full demoknight with a half zatoichi and survived for about 10 seconds while glued to the payload since i kept replenishing my health with all the enemies coming at it. It was long enough that some other people on the server started commenting on it in chat, with one guy going "ONE MAN AGAINST THE WORLD". We lost anyway but I've never felt cooler in a game of tf2
2:07 Loved the Star Wars reference, but I was really waiting for that lightsaber sound. Also, A+ for using the Bastion music later on.
In my village, there is a huge lack of wood There's a hole, in this big neighbourhood All our homes, we have to build them back up But now they're made of dirt
What
Unexpected element animations reference lol
I wanna know where my wood is
I wanna know where my wood is
Manns Guide to the Backburner, shadow dropping Manns Guide to the Huntsman Solar Guide to the Eyelander, shadow dropping Solar Guide to the Half zatoichi
That medic that ubered you during the "long mystery section" was such a chad. Perhaps I should start shouting words of encouragement into the mic when playing as medic.
Ok, the different item qualities joke was absolutely amazing. I am also happy to see your editing skills grow with each new video! Your videos are so captivating! Keep it up, king 👑
One thing that differentiates the Eyelander and Uber is that you can (albeit slowly) fill up uber in spawn. The glowing eye sword forces you to kill for it to be valuable which can be problematic if leaving spawn is a problem.
Plus medic’s role is to stay alive as long as he can and heal people. He isn’t a combat class Demo-knight on the other hand is meant to be fighting and taking risks. To mitigate risk and protect your heads, you have to actively be playing a less aggressive version of a class defined by killing things dead. Staying back and waiting for a chance to get as many kills as you can just makes you a worse version of the spy
Finally, a guide from *_THE_* Demoknight TF2
Why hello
I got my Australium Eyelander on my 5th tour. I named it The Butter Knife and have slain several snipers who didn’t know Demoman can fly.
As someone who has been exclusively using the half-zatoichi for the past month to get better at demoknight, the 2nd half of this video was very nice :)
I love how this video is marginally funnier than your previous ones; you crammed so much more jokes and word play in it
Love that medic in the sunshine clip, dude fully expected to die but played the interaction anyways, and was suprised to live, love those moments in games that people are well versed in, you fully expect to get punished for a mistake but no one does pucish and you end up both astounded and pleasantly suprised that you've been granted another chance lol
In response to the early point specifically. I think people say that the booties "cancel out" the penalty because they're looking at these items in isolation, rather than explicitly compared to other swords. The main point missing is the fact that yes, you can in fact cancel it out with the booties, but you can also just use other swords and both 'counteract' the drawback AND get more overall hp.
Solar: The Half-Zatoichi is the best demoknight sword Me, who plays a lot of Degroot Keep and is very aware of how much of a monster it is in Medieval Mode: yeah that tracks
I met SolarLight in the wild using the half-zatoichi and the amount of damage he tanked from my terrible teammates feeding him health was ridiculous. It was even worse than a good spy with the kunai + dr.
at least with a good spy, you can potentially run away. but you can't run from demoknight tf2, he's faster
@@TheGhostThatWas It wasn't a problem about running away. The problem was killing the perma-overhealed demoknight.
I can imagine a dark souls boss that 5 people can fight and it just heals half of its hp at once upon killing a single teammate, would be hell
@@thatpumpkingirl “I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella” *proceeds to leech to full after landing a few hits*
"When I say Demoknight, what do you see?" Your kill montages that got me subscribed 4 years ago.
I see flying scottish ni-
I am real heavy weapons guy and I approve of this channel
Oh my god he's real
When you see demoknight. What do you see? *”Cruise Missile.”*
Demoknight tf2 vs epic scout
I appreciate the fact that you set the subtitles background to account for the video background, improving readability.
When I think of demo knight I think of a crazed angry Scotsman flying towards you with a giant freaking sword
Something I havednt seen any1 else mention: the captions on this video are PHENOMONAL, fantastic work there going above and beyond on smth many ppl wouldnt notice
11:32 haha, the pyro ragdoll is funny
There’s one specific quote that I love that explains the eyelander. “A Jack of All Trades a master of none. But oftentimes better than a master of one.” Yes that is in fact the full quote.
23:51 Shounic made a video on it: bodies of your teammates eat the projectiles (which is good, as one guy will act as a shield ad the rest would hide behind him to shoot), but for some reason also block melee damage (an oversight)
I fucking LOVE whenever people out so much effort even on the subtitles.
As somebody who plays ULTRAKILL, the comparison between DOOM's healing and the katana also relate to ultrakill, where you NEED to play in a fast-paced, agressive way, to truly go wild and enjoy it without the worries of dying in 5 seconds.
5:40 Dear god this did not need to be so smooth 🥶🔥
the quality of your videos is just absolutely insane, I love the subtitles and all the jokes you included. keep it up!!!!
1:52 I don't think that's how the snowball metaphor works. The snowball starts out snall when you push it down the hill but as it rolls more snow sticks to it making it bigger. That's why it's specifically called snowballing, otherwise it could just be any large spherical object.
funny thing about having 4 heads on the eyelander, you can walk through a pyros airblast sometimes and be able to hit them before they can do another one
Thank you for this video big man and getting people to use this weapon more. I used to be eyelander-pilled and at I certain point I wanted to try something else and immediately I noticed how much more fun I was having with the half zatoichi
Nice seeing 0din getting mentioned again, I did once a 1v1 vs him, I did use a duel thingy and requested a duel, he accepted, I was also demoknight, he completely stomped me, I didn't know first who he was, a friend I was playing with told me who he was. Before the duel I played Medic, as soon as I heard him charge I was scared, it was like really one giant nightmare.
Eyelander, more like, your eye is in my land
man what the fuck
9:40 Missed opportunity to play the clip of the guy ice skating into dunk
Oh my god, the captions look amazing this time around! Fantastic work!
Man, i sure do love videos about the eyelander and nothing else.
24:23 as a spy main that sounds very familiar
yeah that was what i was thinking. the eyelander is the most consistent and dangerous except if you cant get to 4 heads. or would take too much time todo so. it gives you health and speed what allows you todo way more and not be predicted too but well if you cant upkeep 4 heads might as well equip something else
i love the effort put into your subtitles so much
As an explaination, Zatoichi is a fictional blind Samurai. It is the Half-Zatoichi because Demo is missing an eye. If you want to reach, you could say that half of Soldiers vision is blocked by his helmet, making the weapon name technically accurate for him as well.
1:45 and for whatever reason it can also steal bazaar bargain heads from snipers, yes.
and air strike soldier kills, since it uses the same code
and air strike kills from soldiers and vita saw organs from medics
The bazaar bargain is snipers best rifle so that's actually very useful
how i'm not gonna know this detail?
32:46 NickiCheetah? TF2 Streamer absolutely destroys furry streamsniper again and finishes the lore
I may play Demo scarcely, but watching this as a Soldier main who likes using the Zato helped give myself new ideas on how to use it more efficiently! Now it's all about execution and figuring out how the hell to use it in a loadout with the Beggar's and the Bison :)
But you know what the any the Half Zatoichi and the Persuader don't have that the Eyelander does? Winning the RPS taunt will grant you a head, but not any "On Kill" effects.
2:16 is this a star war rouge one earth Vader reference?
Nah this is fourth episode reference
conspiracy theory: rather than making this video to inform and entertain us, Solar actually made this video so he can go on a 1-shot rampage against enemy demoknights in pubs attempting to use the Zatoichi
5:40 The transition from the Skullcutter to the Claidheamh Mor was so clean omg
I stopped being glued to The Eyelander when I noticed how much less stressful it was to play with other options and it turns out the Skullcutter has a 50% chance of killing everyone in the next room you walk into, BFG style
this video truly landed my eye
this really halved my zatoichi
I appreciate the dynamic subtitles that change background color depending on what's on screen like 34:34
15:56 oh no.. I can imagine the amount of rounds ruined because of you pulling a classic uncle Dane
Half Zatoichi I agree edit: I have now seen the video...YOOOO I WAS RIGHT!
The Pain Train? I Agree.
9:58 Others: Solarlight will never be ballin Subs: OBJECTION! SOLARLIGHT FRIGGIN BALLIN!
Literally therussianbadger reference, I love it
@@Site-234 You noticed, didn’t think anyone would
@@RIPSmalls08I see the reference
The GoW music was a great touch on the Odin tf2 footage, awesome video!
0:16 💀💀💀💀💀
my single braincell when i see a sentry as demoman:
36:50 war foonder
0:42 solider casual t poses
I always forget youtube lets you customize subtitles until you make a video. I really love the extra details in them honestly.
I am Heavy Nuts, and this is my Sack