Soul Edge (PS1) ULTIMATE DEFENSE RUN! - Sophitia - Arcade - Ultra Hard - No Losses(Blue Crystal Rod)

This video is dedicated to Katsuhiro Harada and his legacy at Namco (https://x.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/19.... Continuing on with the Special Weapon runs of Soul Edge this time around with Sophitia and her ULTIMATE Defensive weapon the Blue Crystal Rod. The run will also be completed on the Ultra Hard difficulty with No Losses. Lets take a look below at Sophitia's Blue Crystal Rod stats in numbers: Blue Crystal Rod - Power: 64.8% Defense: 145.2% (Highest) Strength: 25.0% Durability: 81.2% Weight: 5 Bars/0.99 Speed Range: 1.13 Pierce Damage: 0% Pierce Weakness: 0% Special Effects: 8% Health Recovery per second. Note: Nightmare Stab 4th hit wont come out due to a glitch. As you can see this weapon is made out with the slow and steady wins the race mindset as the Blue Crystal Rod is the most extreme defensive weapon in the game as not only it has the highest possible Defense at 145.2% but its backed up by a 8% Health Recovery which is the 2nd highest health recovery only behind Rock's Great Ax. It also has a nice amount of extra range going for it. With that amount of Defense + Strong Healing, characters with standard weapons basically cannot defeat you in battle outside of a ring out and even Ultimate Weapons will meet its match against the Blue Crystal Rod so to compensate for its extreme defenses, the weapon is balanced around its other stats: Its Power is low at a 64.8% and its Strength also at 25.0% so you will be doing less damage and wont pressure their Weapon Gauge as much. Its Speed while being a 0.99% means you barely see a difference, its the reason why Sophitia's Nightmare Stab glitches and the 4th Stab never comes out. Its Durability with the in-game stats is interesting as while the game shows that the 81.2% is at 4 Bars, you have to keep in mind that Sophitia's Durability with her base weapon is 87.5% so while lower, its still above most characters base weapons sitting at 75.0% while equaling with Cervantes Soul Edge at exactly 81.2% as well. So to use the Blue Crystal Rod effectively its best to not rely on blocking as much and more on footsies to save its durability as outside of a Ring Out, the only other way the opponent can win is by breaking the weapon to nullify the health recovery. The opponent however will still have to deal with the 145.2% Defense and while you still have that 64.8%, unarmed moves are already weak enough that the difference in damage isnt that major so in the end disarming Sophitia is just so you might have a ever so slight shot to win. In a mirror match between Blue Crystal Rods, if you are playing at 130% Health, both cannot even out damage the healing so that match will last for quite awhile as the one that will win the match is the one that gets to disarm the other first. By far the best non Ultimate weapon in the game as far as consistency goes as this weapon is your best choice to get a crazy amount of wins in Survival despite Sophitia herself being only an above average character tier wise. By the lenght of the video you will notice that matches do take awhile with this weapon but losing is extremely unlikely to happen outside of a ring out. Also you can still win quickly with the Blue Crystal Rod by fishing for Ring Outs yourself but as an added bit on this run is that i will defeat every opponent by lowering their health to 0 so no ring outs allowed. #souledge,#FGC,#namco,#soulblade,#soulcalibur,#Ps1,#Playstation If you enjoy the contents of my channel as much as how much i love making then, don't forget to like,share,subscribe,turn on the bells of notification and most importantly, have fun! ➡️Link to subscription:    / @rugalbernstein777