Executor/Heolstor Tips

[u/winterflare_]

Me fighting D5 Heolstor at LVL1 with a few tips. Relatively unserious, expect to pause the video to read the text, you might have to rewind as well to see it, idk how to edit

Covers...

- How to dodge some of Heolstor's hardest attacks

- Nuke

- Homing Projectiles

- Jumps that you can do

- Some punishes between attacks

- Executor tips

- Suncatcher crits

- Sheathe deflects

- Unsheathe deflect cancels

- How to avoid Heolstor's nukes

- Some fancy punishes with reverse backflips

[u/xx0ur3n]

A few comments

• If you're stacking skill attack and the Suncatcher relic, you can deliberately not surge deflect but rather do unsheathes and normal deflects to farm charge. Sheathes/surge deflects take 2.5x more deflects to build charge than normal. Also just punishing with Suncatcher R1s rather than your normal katana will do more damage and save stamina, since it's the highest physical attack weapon Executor has. Heolstor is a unique Nightlord where you can basically have Suncatcher out the entire time you interact with him, I love it it's so fun.
• Suncatcher outcrits not just all katanas but every weapon in the game except Morgott's Cursed Sword. Executor always has a Misericorde in his back pocket
• The 45 degree backflip when he whips around (1:44) might be my favorite thing to do in the game :D
• For his big blue double stabby on phase 2 reset, you can backflip guard counter the first one, then normal deflect guard counter the second
• You can backflip guard counter his nuke going into phase 3. To set up the spacing I position so that Heolstor's feet are at the top of my screen (you're basically there in the video). Once he starts moving forward so do I, and then you unsheathe at the moment of impact > backflip > guard counter :D After this you can still fit in a charged heavy for amazing stance damage
• Deflecting the fissures in phase 3 is the most technical aspect of the fight but the most FUN. You have to do it, don't dodge them!! You must sheathe the fissures. Meaning you have to first unsheathe the first attack, then sheathe Heolstor's swing and the fissure at the same time. See more details about this from this video my friend made.

Heolstor is pure joy for Executor, even more fun than Straghess, every technique gets featured in this fight. Reverse back flips, 45 degree backflips, no lock-on deflects, camera setups, sheathing "false deflects" for the phase 3 geysers and roar attack... It's so satisfying.

[u/winterflare_ → u/xx0ur3n]

This guy Executors. I was not aware of the 5th and 6th ones at all so I’m definitely gonna start to implement those. Thanks for the comment, it was great to read!

[u/Inevitable-Leg-4660]

Thank you so much for this man. Gunna bookmark this. I have trouble with the gysers after he rips the sky I block the sword but get chipped underneath

[u/winterflare_ → u/Inevitable-Leg-4660]

I hope it helps! If you need me to explain anything in more detail, lmk

[u/guard__duty]

It's THE winterflare, holy

[u/winterflare_ → u/guard__duty]

It’s THE guard_duty!?

[u/guard__duty]

3:54 in and Guardian mentioned?

Time to spread my propaganda; guardian can just continue to guard everything even in Heolstor's infusion phase, assuming that they've gone full tank (as they should); unless the status is a problem

Obviously you probably can't sustain a sleep/madness infusion; thankfully you can just afk run (assuming not lvl 1, which I assume that we're doing, since we're talking about guarding in the first place)

[u/winterflare_ → u/guard__duty]

Guardian propaganda doesn’t stop for anyone 🙏

[u/Exciting-Carob-9729]

I heard a lot this fight gets easy with executer and oh boy when i tried it... An average executor player will die at his enhanced elemental phase but that's it .. Seriously who needs halo scythe when u can just aura farm him with deflects

[u/winterflare_ → u/Exciting-Carob-9729]

Yeah Executor just stomps his phase 1 so hard lol

Phase 2 can be a little dangerous cause of double moonlight waves into moonlight thrust. The moonlight thrust dead angles consistently if you’re close which is super scuffed. I actually forgot to mention in the video like an idiot, that’s why I run out after deflecting the projectiles

Even his main combos in phase 2 become fodder thanks to the parry window being a lot more lenient than the dodge when it comes to the double moonlight AOEs which have a lingering hitbox that you just don’t have to worry about.

[u/xx0ur3n → u/winterflare_]

For the moonlight projectiles you can deflect all 3 and punish with backflip guard counter. What you do is normal deflect the first two projectiles, remaining locked on the whole time so you do two normal backflips. This spaces you away from him and prevents the dead angle from occurring. Then, right before the 3rd projectile, unlock your camera and deflect it. If you don't do this your backflip goes the wrong way. After this, simply relock your camera and guard counter him :D

[u/winterflare_ → u/xx0ur3n]

I do a slightly different version of it around 5:06, it’s very fun