They clearly said they would be happy with just a cosmetic weapon on the off hand. They just want to see their character holding a duplicate weapon in both hands. In this manner, there would be no need for Amazon Games to work on balance, or add anything else but new animations for dual wielding. Of course, having a dedicated dual wield tree would be perfect.
As a matter of fact, the devs could balance everything much easier if the dual wield weapon item is actually two weapons for the same slot. Many players said that hatchets would have been excellent dual wield weapons. I think the hatchet should have been dual wield. As a quick reminder, the hatchet is a one-handed weapon.
You cannot dual-wield with it or use a shield at the same time. Keep in mind that very few weapons can be dual wielded successfully. Shiki the Golden Lion from the Strong World film also uses two swords. Though his are notably not katana, more resembling double edged sabers. He also uses them as makeshift legs and can cut apart lake-sized sections of water with them.
A favorite intimidation tactic consists of him whipping up both his arms and displaying a frightening amount of blades from his giant sleeves, making it look like the swords and knives are his actual hands. And he's good at using them. These demonstrate her prodigious strength, as they are known to be unbelievably heavy and unwieldy, yet she swings them around like they were nothing.
Kodachi has been shown to use multiple clubs at one time. Ukyo uses both her large spatula and smaller spatulas at one time, though the smaller ones can double as projectile attacks. One of the myriad forms of the Ten Commandments in Rave Master is Blue Crimson, which splits the weapon into two different swords: one of fire and one of ice.
Interestingly enough, the hero finds it somewhat difficult to use because he's right-handed. Genkishi, the Phantom Knight of Reborn! Adding on to this, Yamamoto Takeshi's box weapon is in possession of three swords, carried on its back. What makes this more interesting is that the box weapon is, in fact, a dog. Revolutionary Girl Utena : Nanami faces the Ohtori duels with a scimitar and curved dagger.
And he's frighteningly good at using them. Aoshi's "mentor" Okina, wields a pair of tonfa which is of course justified, see above. Some of the weapons provided by the Gold Cloth of Libra in Saint Seiya , such as the tonfas and the nunchaku, are meant to be dual-wielded. The Andromeda Cloth also wields the Andromeda Chain — one type of chain on each arm, and Shun can whip them out simultaneously to attack, unless the enemy requires more thoughtful tactics.
Somehow, they never become entangled with one another, and Shun can wield them easily despite being the youngest, wispiest Saint ever. Akira of Samurai Deeper Kyo uses two katanas. Later, during Akira's fight with Tokito, her sword splits into two swords.
Kyuzo from Samurai 7 wields two katanas. Conservation of Ninjutsu never really comes up, but Kambei manages to defeat him or at least hold him off using his scabbard as an extra parrying weapon. Mifune from Soul Eater carries multiple swords. Usually he uses one sword but he does multi-wield we he gets serious. Kid dual wields guns , and appears unable or at least very unwilling to use only one of the two.
The finale reveals another dual wielder: Big Bad Head, who is also Takuto's father and learned his art under the same teacher his father. Unlike Takuto, however, he has to use Star Swords connected to two different marks to achieve this, and, again unlike Takuto, is is also very competent with just one sword.
Kirito from Sword Art Online is possibly the most famous example in the anime community. It's played surprisingly realistically in the VR game SAO, where most people can't use two swords, even though most games let you do that due to Rule of Cool. Kirito is the only player who manages to earn an extra skill that lets him do so. He doesn't know how he earned it, though much later it's revealed later that the skill is awarded to the player with the fastest reaction times in the game, and is intended to mark The Hero in the game's metaplot.
However, unless they have Kirito's specific skill, Dual Blades, it falls squarely into Awesome, but Impractical territory, as they aren't able to utilize the Dual Wielding Sword Skills while doing so. In later games after SAO, Kirito's experience with dual wielding carries over, despite there being no dual wielding feature implemented. Though he's managed to find loopholes to make it work effectively, such as activating individual singlehanded Sword Skills separately on each sword to imitate his dual wielding in SAO.
Though he doesn't typically make use of this unless he gets serious in a fight. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann : Viral has a mech that dual-wields katanas. In the Manga, Ranmaru gets two swords when he awakens his powers, but in the anime version he only gets one, but dual wields his and Sakura's swords in the final battle. Hatz from Tower of God dual wields Katana.
In the final episode of Transformers Armada , Optimus Prime breaks off Galvatron's horns and uses them as a pair of swords.
Apparently, Musashi is the only character to dual-wield in the manga because he's so strong that dividing his strength between the two swords isn't a problem, as he proves when he uses a one-handed sword to break a katana held in both hands. In Vinland Saga the hero Thorfinn fights with a pair of daggers. Not particularly strange, pretty reasonable. Contrast that however with his first major opponent and secret great uncle.
Thorkell the Tall, who dual-wields axes. Not just any old normal sized axes, big mo' fo' great axes almost as big as the hero.
He's murderously proficient with this style. Vividred Operation : An impromptu kendo match has Akane using twin swords against Wakaba. Comic Books. Batman : In the Batfamily, both Nightwing and Oracle fight with escrima sticks. One of Batman's rogues, Two-Face , is usually depicted wielding two guns at once, fitting his image of duality. Deadpool frequently wields dual blades of various sorts.
He generally has two katanas strapped to his back, which he can use together, but also varies it up with a katana-and-sai combination e. Usually he's got at least three to four blades on him at any time, along with the guns, grenades, and other various weaponry. The cover of Wolverine 88 shows him skewering Wolverine with both katanas. In his self-titled video game, Deadpool dual-wields katanas, sai, and even ''sledgehammers''.
The weapons point out that this has never happened before — no Emotion Knight has ever tried to wield multiple weapons at once, in the entire history of Die. Elektra , from Marvel Comics ' Daredevil , dual-wields sais, though, as mentioned above, they are traditionally dual-wielded.
How the recoil doesn't knock him over is anyone's guess. Groo the Wanderer : The titular character fights with two katanas, one in each hand. In the Shadow of Dragons : Evina wields twin royal rapiers.
In Rat Queens , Violet and Betty both dual-wield. Violet has twin wakizashis as a backup weapon, Betty uses daggers. Miho in Sin City often uses a katana in concert with a wakizashi. Sometimes he uses only one, with the other as a back-up in case the first gets stuck in a guy; other times he just uses both at once. The axes in question are small hatchets, quite realistic for either purpose. In The Supergirl from Krypton , Gillotina uses two twin blades. In Arrowverse tie-in comic Adventures of Supergirl 3, Kara Zor-El wields twin sabers during a battle in a snowy dreamscape.
The titular character of Usagi Yojimbo carries both a katana and a wakizashi, though he frequently just wields the longer sword two-handed. In V for Vendetta , V's main weapons are multiple knives. He combines these with "fancy karate gimmicks" and superhuman abilities thanks to a bunch of experiments performed on him by the government he now seeks to overthrow.
Aarik of White Sand wields two sabres. Nightcrawler from X-Men is known as a swashbuckler being able to dual-wield sabers. He can even triple wield when using his tail to hold a dagger or even a rapier. That being said, he's literally got superhuman agility and acrobatic ability. The unique shape of his feet with prehensile toes means he has, on occasion, quadruple wielded, using his superhuman agility for all it's worth. The six-armed X-Men villainess Spiral.
Predictably, she wields six swords, usually of varying lengths. The short-time X-Man Marrow also is known for her tendency to dual-wield her self-made knives or clubs. Blood and Honor : Sanguis starts out with one lightsaber, but upon defeating her first Jedi, picks up the lightsaber of her opponent. She is shown practicing dual saber techniques afterwards and fights with both weapons from then on. Children of an Elder God : Asuka wields two swords when she fights: one of them is covered with fire and the other irradiates light.
She used them during her battle against Nyarlathotep, but they were of no use. Two swords came out. One was covered with orange-red flame, the other shone with pale moonlight. They rose, dispelling the gloom that had fallen upon the balcony, then sliced down in unison. The Regent caught one with each hand, and the fire and light were snuffed. The moon sword simply snapped in his hands, then crumbled away to dust. Reaching a hand out into nothingness, Asuka grabbed onto something with each hand and began to pull out.
Twin ragged streaks appeared in the sky, blood raining from holes in reality as Unit 02 extracted its new weapons. In the right hand it held a titanic bronze battle axe dripping with blood on its adamantine blade, while in the left it bore a long, snaking whip covered in barbs. During the battle scene in the later half of Beowulf , soldiers are seen dual-wielding axes.
The Book of Life : Manolo and Joaquin both wear two swords on their backs, and the former uses his at least once.
Chakal has two BFS Queen Victoria in The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! And it works. In the movie adaption of Xerxes's elite, the "Immortals" dual-wield scimitars, as opposed to the comic in which they are armed primarily with shield and spear. In Alatriste there is whole bunch of dual-wielding fights with rapier and parrying dagger in La Verdadera Destreza style. Ash briefly wields two swords while fighting on the castle wall's stairs in Army of Darkness.
Assassin's Creed : In the fight to escape Abstergo , Callum Lynch uses Aguilar's Hidden Blades in tandem, a skill he picked up from the man himself. Cal even kills a Templar in the same way Aguilar executes Ojeda. Two blades to the throat while the enemy is injured and on their knees. In the thriller Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever , rogue agent Sever Lucy Liu dual-wields a pair of telescopic batons to great effect. Our introduction to the villainous Black Queen has her stabbing two men In the Back simultaneously, as they leer at our hapless heroine with sinister intent.
Queen: Hello, pretty-pretty In The Balanced Sword trilogy, dual-wielding a matching pair of curved swords is one of the hallmarks of Tor , a rare and mystical martial art dating back to Atlantaea which is the basis of Tobimar's fighting style.
When he meets an opponent who fights with two similar swords and in the same style, they immediately stop fighting to explore their respective training backgrounds.
Piers Anthony's post-apocalyptic collection of novellas, Battle Circle , features dual-wielding nomads with daggers and sticks. Interestingly, Piers rates each weapon including staves, swords, and morningstars on defensive and offensive utility.
The fact that he has the borderline Super Strength needed to pull this off is yet one more thing that makes him Ambiguously Human. Scythe-arms in Chronicles of the Kencyrath by PC Hodgell are blade pairs attached to the fore-arm , with the longer blade jutting forward and the other back. They are used in pairs, ie one main blade and one spur on each forearm. Training with them easily dissolves into chaos, with inexperienced users not being able to keep track of the spurs.
In Cloud of Sparrows , Shigeru's ability to fight with two swords is a sign of his unusual skill and strength. In Codex Alera , this is Kitai's preferred fighting style, usually with a shortsword and a longer sword. Roland Deschain of The Dark Tower series carries two ancient sandalwood revolvers , is described as being just about as good a shot with either hand and, most impressively, can dual wield both weapons for an extended period of rapid shooting and reloading, despite them being single-action guns.
He even manages to wipe-out an entire town of 58 residents in this manner when they're driven into a murderous frenzy against him. A lobstrosity attack at the beginning of the second book sees him lose two fingers on one hand, freeing up one of his guns for the other members of his eventual ka-tet. In the Deryni novels, Alaric Morgan habitually wields a sword in his right hand and a stiletto in his left.
In Deryni Checkmate , Duncan is depicted using both a sword and a dagger when he rescues Morgan from Warin and his men at St. Torin's shrine. Terry Pratchett's Discworld : In Thud! Her portrait, in the Assassins' Guild Yearbook , depicts a woman wearing one sword, conventionally scabbarded on the hip, and another at her back with the hilt above one shoulder, no doubt for an even quicker draw of a second weapon.
Given a pacifistic twist in Night Watch ; Vimes meets an angry mob marching on his Watch-house with a mug of cocoa in one hand and a cigar in the other, to deprive the mob of the 'he was armed' excuse for starting violence. This is a common fighting style of Dragaerans in Steven Brust's Dragaera books, with a dagger in the off-hand. Eastern-style fencing, on the other hand, involves using a single light rapier and turning your body sideways. And they're holy swords, too!
It's a total cop-out that the villain beats him with a gun , but at least he ends up Not Quite Dead. He did it in Death Masks , too. Same cop-out gun victory, too, but that time it was just a handgun and there was Kevlar plating in his armour. Skin Game : He's back and dual-wielding.
No cop-out this time. In Dune Paul is shown training with a sword and knife, but most of his actual battles are with a single crysknife. While Feyd-Rautha kills gladiator-slaves with a long and short knife, one of which is poisoned. Mewick, a fairly minor character in Fred Saberhagen 's Empire of the East , at least twice used a short sword in his right hand and a "basket-hilted hatchet" in his left.
He managed to swing the hatchet around the guard of one highly skilled enemy swordsman to strike the man in the spine. Drizzt Do'Urden , the drow ranger from the Forgotten Realms books, uses twin scimitars.
Using two long blades is more common for drow than other races, who don't necessarily consider it a plausible option at all. Several characters note that Drizzt risks getting his blades tangled up using his style, but he's just that good. Drizzt seems to have popularised the idea at least to some extent, to the point that when there was an open call for original Forgotten Realms novels by fans, the best of which could get published, the things forbidden in the rules included drow characters and anyone wielding two swords of any kind.
Drizzt's arch-nemesis, Artemis Entreri, also dual-wields, but uses a dagger in his off-hand, lacking the agility and coordination to wield two long blades. Another character in the series, the dwarf, Arthogate, dual-wields magically enhanced flails. He also wears a belt of giant strength which makes it more feasible for him to do so. When Locke duels the Grey King, he pulls out a dagger to use on his off-hand alongside his rapier.
The Grey King, a vastly superior fencer, makes a sardonic comment about finding the sword-and-dagger style very prosaic but pulls out a dagger to match Locke nonetheless.
This is the whole premise behind the hotas of the knife dancers in Karen Miller's Godspeaker Trilogy , as well as acrobatics. Rhian modifies this and uses broadswords. Heralds of Valdemar : Weaponmaster-Herald Alberich dual-wields two daggers in one of his undercover personas. Until people wised up and quit challenging that persona to fights, he routinely beat sword-wielders with his two daggers. He also dual-wields sword and dagger in the climax of Take a Thief to beat three swordsmen, though he had help from Skif in that fight.
It's also pointed out in Exile's Honor that Alberich is a combat prodigy and has been taught how to fight with nearly every weapon created and some that haven't been. When he demonstrates his skills for Alberich, he immediately finds himself part of Sendar's battle guard.
The Okar Yellow Martians from John Carter of Mars dual wield a fairly ordinary sword and a hook-sword designed to disarm an opponent as their standard technique. Journey to Chaos : Aegis dual-wields buckler shields and Raki dual-wields short swords. They regularly duel. Another mercenary, Retina Corison, also uses a pair of swords. After Nolien mana mutates into a unicorn, he realizes that he can do the magical version of dual-wielding by casting spells from his horn in addition to his staff.
The Casseline Brotherhood in Kushiel's Legacy dual-wield daggers as standard practice for defending their charges in close quarters or when they want to inflict non-lethal injuries.
Their two-handed swords are only ever single-wielded and drawn only to kill. Silchas Ruin, a dragon-blooded immortal, dual-wields two swords.
That is when he doesn't just transform into a dragon The Segulah. Their entire culture dual-wields longswords. Leoman of the Flails wields two flails. In Mother of Demons the standard weapon of a battle-mother is a mace and shield. However, Guo fights with two maces. In Murderworld , Mari Night uses two matched kodachi , traditional Japanese short swords, as her in-game avatar is small and wiry. Old Kingdom : After being released from Human Popsicle status, Touchstone acquires a pair of Charter-spelled swords that used to belong to a Royal Champion.
He gets well enough known for that fighting style that in the second book, the two swords are partly how Lirael realizes who he is at a distance. Torhcay's are a matched set of short swords. Princesses of the Pizza Parlor : The Stalker in Silence, who dual-wields "concentrated bar[s] of kinetic force", against two fighters at once Curbstomp Battling the party.
Princess Holy Aura : Radiance Blaze fights with two fiery chains. Tsunami Reflection uses twin swords. The Silerian Trilogy : Tansen wields two swords, and the difficulties with this are explicitly stated.
Those who do it need special training-he recounts seeing a Valdan noble cutting himself apart trying to once. A Song of Ice and Fire Catelyn recalls seeing Bronn fight with a sword in each hand while chopping through clansmen on the Mountains of the Moon. She's reminded of Jaime Lannister, reputedly the best swordsman in the kingdom.
Shagga fights with an axe in each hand and acquires three axes from the Lannister armory before a battle. Tyrion explains that Shagga believes that two axes are better than one, and three are better than two. Daario Naharis apparently dual-wields his arakh and dagger. They have matching hilts carved into the shape of naked women, and his hands frequently caress each of them when he's getting ready for a fight. The Stormlight Archive : It is apparently possible to dual-wield Shardblades , assuming you could acquire two Shardblades in the first place.
In the final battle of Oathbringer , Amaram does it. Vorkosigan Saga : On Barrayar, the Vor traditionally carry two swords, and dueling with two swords is mentioned as being specifically illegal.
The two swords aren't described in detail, but one is shorter than the other it's noted at one point that Miles finds the longer sword of the pair a particular trial he's very short.
In The War Gods series, Champion Kaeritha dual-wields custom-designed short-swords, a feat aided by the fact that she is fully ambidextrous. Just how good she is can be seen by the fact that when she practiced against a group of Hradani the smallest of whom was twice her size and far stronger , she trounced all but one of them.
Her style is notably different from the War Maids who use a sword-and-dagger combo. Warhammer 40, : Telemachon in Black Legion wields two chainswords, adding to his Master Swordsman reputation. Khayon muses that the man has probably decided on this style because of how cool it looks , but with his mastery over blades, he makes it work. He isn't the only one running around with multiple melee weapons, though.
The Wheel of Time has one of its major characters do this. In a more unique twist though Perrin eschews swords in favor of a battle axe and blacksmith's hammer. When one considers the weight of just one of these weapons it says a lot about how strong the character is. The choice nearly gets Perrin killed though since even he can't swing as fast as a good swordsman. Live-Action TV. For his Trial by Combat in "The Climb", Oliver Queen is told to choose his weapons and selects a couple of kris swords.
His opponent Ra's al Ghul is unarmed, saying he will just take one of Oliver's swords which he quickly does. Danger 5. In "Johnny Hitler", Adolf Hitler runs rampant in a school with two-linked chainsaws in either hand. Spouting flame. It's that kind of series. This is configurable in the Controls settings. Using this, you can quickly equip something into your off-hand slot in your inventory and switch between the items in your hotbar and off-hand.
The off-hand can use the item it holds when there are no items in the main hand, or the item held on the main hand is not usable, e. Arrows that are held on the off-hand take priority over arrows in any other slot when you shoot a bow. This allows you to fire a specific arrow by selecting it using your off-hand. Conveniently, you can do vice-versa and hold the bow on the off-hand with arrows selected on your main hand.
This also allows you to fire a specific arrow by selecting it using your main hand. The off-hand can't be used for attacking. You cannot dual wield weapons. Well, I mean, you could, but you can only attack from your main arm so it'll be pointless. Though putting two weapons into your main and offhand is pretty useless as stated, the Mending effect is still used, meaning you can grind XP and repair tools.
Players cannot use both hands at the same time, and there is always a slight delay between using the main hand and off-hand. Thus you cannot instantly perform two actions together, such as placing and breaking blocks simultaneously or shooting two bows at once. The main hand always takes priority when trying to use an item. For example, if you had stone in your main hand and dirt in your off-hand, you will always place the stone. The item in the off-hand will only be used if the item in the main hand lacks a use, or if it's holding nothing.
If the item in the main hand cannot be used due to certain circumstances, then the off-hand is used. For example, if you have a block equipped on the main hand and a snowball on the off-hand, face anywhere you cannot reach a block e. This is because the block cannot be placed anywhere, and so your off-hand is used instead.
The main hand is also the only hand that can hit or break , even if there are no items in the main hand. This means that items in the off-hand lose their left-click function, making most weapons and tools unusable in the off-hand, with the exception of ones that have a use function.
Dual wielding a pickaxe in the main hand and a torch in the off-hand. This reduces the time lighting up tunnels when mining. Dual wielding is a useful addition to the game with many applications. It is entirely optional for players whether or not they want to utilize dual wielding; players can completely ignore the off-hand slot and, with few exceptions aside, continue to play like it was before 1.
Some players who use dual wielding may experience efficiency and relief, but others may just experience more setbacks. Some may only use dual wielding to its minimal extent. Ultimately it is up to each player and their own style of playing to employ this mechanic into their gameplay.
Equipping a Golden Apple on your off-hand allows you to quickly eat your apple before going immediately into combat with your opponent, but do note that you can consume a golden apple while your hunger is still full, so this method may be reserved until you are certain that you will go into battle soon.
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