Artorias Stance

The Artorias Stance is Duke Artorius's skill available at level 20 and is a act as a Storm Rush like stance attack. To execute this skill by pressing and undefined at the same time. He stands in a ready spinning slash position for a while. Press and/or hold the button to spins around with enough force to produce a whirlwind each time he attacks. Pressing the undefined button or let the Storm Rush effect is over, he chops to the ground with his great sword to create a large fissure that inflicts damage and spiral knocks the enemies away from his cancelled stance attack.

During Storm Rush stance, it can move forward via directional pad (not analog stick) during his Storm Rush ready position and he is invincible during the stance. The stance last for 6 seconds before performs a Storm Rush ending stance attack.

The Stabbing Storm Rush is quite effective for close quarters like other close range stance skill attacks.

Tips

 * Artorias Stance is for close melee combo after following up from C3 combo or Artorias Blade.
 * Also due to Storm Rush effect, this skill can be used for OTG re-launch on combo or contact and hit them rapidly in order to continue the combo even they're knocked down.
 * During Storm Rush stance and was invincible, the player can use the Consumable Items during the stance; making this skill safe and useful as the player passing through most enemy attacks like Skill Attacks and Super Attacks as well as other bosses's Storm Rush attacks without being risk of taking yourself damage (Musou Attacks from AI opponent Playable Characters are included e.g the inescapable Huge AoE Musou Attack; the player must let the opponent's Huge AoE Musou Attack to perform for short period of time before the player's Storm Rush effect is over).

Variation

 * Devastating Spiral: is the Musou Attack variant of this skill and only available for Joseph Atkinson. The Musou Attack variant is similar to Artorias Stance, but it does not combo and control manual like Artorias Stance and the damage output of Musou Attack variant is twice as powerful than this said skill.

Trivia

 * Artorias Stance is similar to Guan Ping's Great Sword Storm Rush from Dynasty Warriors 8, but the exception is being a stance like skill rather than actual Storm Rush attack and it must control the stance and combo manually unlike Dynasty Warriors 8 counterpart.