Nioh All Main Missions with DLCs (1 dojo route)

Nioh All Main Missions with DLCs Speedrun Notes
*1 dojo route*
Before starting, there are some things i wanna explain:
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"[" = start next main mission.
"]" = finish current main mission.
"-text" = boss preparation before the door/trigger.
"TEXT" = boss.
"- text,text,text" = steps to follow.
"a)" or "b)" = Different strats.
The Clan you want to be on is the "Shima" Clan.
You want to watch out for the weapon drops, you want dual swords to be dropped regularly, if you haven't gotten a dual sword in a few missions, you might want to go buy one so you are not behind in damage. Every time you finish a mission, you should equip sword as your main weapon for maximum dashing speeds.
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Now, let's start.
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Start Timer on X after loading screen.
Break wall, get sword, equip sword, kill guard, get key, run till 2 armor guards, get axe on the Left, run to the door, equip axe.
DERRICK
-3 Strong attacks on his back. Run to him and do 3 strong attacks, moving away from him while doing the last one, then dash away and bait a charge, 2 strong attacks into living weapon activation.
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Choose weapons. Sword/kusa
Spirit: Kato
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get sword, equip it, dash with low stance until low on ki, remove armor fast, proceed until the spot with the kusarigama, do a dash attack on the guy and get the weapon, proceed to the house with the key, when low on ki equip the kusarigama, get the key by the yoki spawn (you can highstance light attack its head and the yoki will fall), then dash to the door, open it, prepare the learn skills menu, dash to the bow and arrows, get them and go to the shrine at the end of the path.
lvl up (7 magic)
Get water talisman, weakness, more magic slots.
Equip Water talisman, Weakness.
dash through the fire (requires setup to not die)
-Water talisman next to the boxes before the boss.
ONRYOKI
-   Weakness, high stance kusa light attack the head, go to the back, then more of the same attack, if everything goes well, he's going down, might want to finish him with lowstance heavy attack.
open menu and learn grapple and reaper before it goes black (you can still menu when screen is black, listen to the game audio)
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lvl up at map shrine (7 Body, 6 Spirit)
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Pick up hiotoko mask at chest after second shrine, menu to get summer twilight skill while opening the chest.
Dash to the boss, get travel amulet next to ghoul enemy.
- Kusa Buff, Water talisman, equip bow.

HINOEMNA
do cave skip, you can get an axe to use vs tachibana later on the landing spot of the skip.
-    Quickly shoot an arrow, Weakness, run to her, reaper till she's about to run out of ki, reaper again to stagger her and make her fall, go to her back again, wait till you get around 80-90% ki and reaper her till death, might require 1 extra attack if the kusarigama is lvl 1.
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Get moment talismans by the yoki. Equip it on the way to nue
- Kusa Buff, Water weapon (gonna be referring to water talisman as water weapon from now on).
NUE
-     Weakness, move evading the lightning, Moment talisman x2 behind him, kusa high stance light attacks, applying confusion, keep doing those attacks till it’s over, finishing with low stance heavy attacks is good.

While waiting for the imp to go away, equip cannon.
In the way to the boss, you'll have multiple occasions to equip hiotoko mask, travel amulet, and fire amulet.
You also have some time to learn lightning and earth talismans.

- Kusa Buff, equip either axe or odachi, both work well
FAKE TACHIBANA
-    Shoot with cannon, weakness, wait for him to start standing up, shoot him again, final blow, high stance light or heavy (1 hit) into LW inmediately.
+if Odachi -> light attack spam him.
+if Axe -> strong attack into light attack combo.
change the cannon to a matchlock.
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Weapon dojo mission.

Use the locks and equip the sword Raikiri

Level up at map shrine 10 spirit, 9 magic

Go to the next region.
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get travel amulet after first poison section to the left, then kill skelly by the key with some low stance attacks (or shoot it)
don't die to the poison
Get Hiotoko mask (run on the highest level of the wooden platforms, to the right, grab item next to the skinny yokai, drop down to the low level, open chest, get sacred brush and other stuff), go to the boss.
Get water sword skill when climbing the ladder

- Summer Twilight, equip dual swords, Water Weapon.
CENTIPEDE
-    Heal, Weakness, block first attack, wait a bit, dodge, water sword  between the main body and the other pieces till water debuff, then switch to kusarigama lw to finish the job with a special into reaper.
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Talk to Fuku to get the flint.
You can kill the archer with 3 midstance light attacks from the Raikiri/Nami-Oyogi Kanemitsu.
Light the first torch. Use 2 spirit stones.
You can get another Hiotoko mask before Umi-Bozu to get a total of 3 masks.
UMI-BOZU
-    Phase 1: moment talisman the blobs, buff with kusarigama, equip dual swords, use fire amulet, weakness him when he appears. Water sword when possible if huge beam attack (when he’s weakest). Try using a hitoko mask if he does the arm attack. if you manage to get him low on hp and he's gonna go to second phase, optimally the hp bar should be by the "z" or lower. Activate lw. While using the hiotoko mask on the first phase you can learn flux 2 and morning moon, and then guardian spirit talisman (if you don't do it, do it later at the map)
-    Phase 2 (umi-bozu is in the center of the arena now) : You want to use the hiotoko mask right where he stands, that should kill him if he's low on hp. Best position is between the door and the boss, or to the right of that line if you are looking away from the door. If he doesn't die, use special attack.
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Go to the next region.
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Go up the ramp, buff with water weapon, Morning Moon the first spider, drop down, bait the big spider, then Morning Moon its ass, repeat.
Learn sign of the cross while opening door
Get second shrine (after first spider door)
Level up to 10 body, 16 magic.
Ready Lightning, earth and guardian spirit talismans.
Get key (after second spider door, same strats for the big spider, learn IaI quickdraw) then get out of there with a travel amulet.
Dash to the boss, use small soulstone at door if you don't have enough for LW.
-Summer twilight, equip dual swords, water weapon
JORO-GUMO
-   dodge first attack, hit her butt with 1 low stance light attack, flux into high stance and water sword her body, activate LW when you debuff Joro-gumo with water, special attack into light attacks, into heavy attacks till she dies.
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Shoot the Buterflies, Morning Moon or iai the Crystals.
Use 2 large spirit stones
-Summer twilight, equip dual swords, lightning weapon.
YUKI-ONNA
-    Weakness, when she throws the staff, i-frame it with a dash and water sword her till debuff, wait for an attack to come and activate LW, special attack, light or heavy attacks till she dies.
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Weakness the crystal or summer twilight and use 4 small spirit stones before breaking the first crystal, dash to the boss, bait firebomb from skelly at the ladde before climbing it.
-Summer twilight, equip spear, water weapon.
BYAKKO
-   run to the boss and do a full low stance light attack combo, then if:
a)The boss jumps backwards, follow him, cast weakness and activate LW, special and light attack him to death, make sure to stay on him.
b)The boss jumps to the side, dash forward, activate LW, special and light attack him to death, stay on him
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Lvl up at map shrine (all in skill, should be around 15 or 16)
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Dash to the first hidden door, block the second hit and climb the ladder fast, drop on trap after green yoki, equip omnyo headgear, as soon as u open the door after the trap, use guardian spirit talisman and open the next door. Summer twilight, use 3 spirit stones, break crystal, dash to the next section. On the bridge use guardian spirit talisman on the ninja, then either continue or get the shrine for safety. Get travel amulet, shoot ninja on head, run to the next ninja spawn and past it, activate LW. Open the door, use guardian spirit talisman or special attack on the following door, go back, drop down, block arrow, bait an attack and dash past it to open the door, you can get the shortcut or keep going normally. Remember to get the following skills while opening the doors:
Ki pulse on low stance dash, mind's eye (dual swords), flying monkey I and II (spear), full moon kata (kusarigama)
-Summer twilight after the second door you open past the shortcut, dash to the next crystal and break it, buff your sword with lightning.
GIANT TOAD
-    Weakness, dodge, morning moon strats till it dies.
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Run  til the Ogress Key Skip (thanks to giantcookiejar for the skip), which is right after you open the door that leads to the boss door (locked).
There's a structure right next to the door that leads to the boss, dash from the right to the front to mid-clip, then to the left to clip through, dash backwards, square then X while going forward (equip spear before doing this). If done correctly, you'll be standing on the wall, hug the left, switch to sword, clip with an iai forwards so you stand on a invisible platform.
-Summer twilight, drop down, buff your kusarigama with water right next to the skelly to bait him, start the boss
OGRESS
-    Weakness, low stance heavy attacks till debuff, buff with earth, low stance heavy till confusion, repeat till death.
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[Just skip every cutscene]
From here on out i'll just explain the fights a bit, i'll skip the explanation for iai loop strats.
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Get Shrine before Honda if you wanna be peachy

-summer twilight, buff sword with water if going for iai loop strats.
HONDA
-    shoot with matchlock or bow for iai loop strats, use morning moon, reaper or low stance heavy kusarigama attacks on crystals if you are going to break them.

you can get another peachy shrine.
-summer twilight, equip dual swords, water buff
OKATSU
-   Shoot with bow, aim slightly to the left, iai loop strats.
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Peachy shrine before the castle.
Break water bucket and run to the boss.
-summer twilight, equip dual swords, buff with water.
SAIKA MAGOICHI
-   dash to him, switch to high, do a light attack before he falls, switch to low and dash past him, cast weakness, iai loop strats.

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Get kusarigama near boss.
-Summer twilight, use 3 large spirit stones or regular spirit stones, switch to new kusarigama, dash to the boss.
OTANI YOSHITSUGU
-    Weakness, go to the left corner near you, bait his attack, dodge it and activate LW, use reaper as soon as possible, he should stagger till death.
Get Last Shrine if you wanna go full peach.
-Summer twilight, equip dual swords, water buff.
SHIMA SAKON
-    Aim slightly up, shoot with bow, iai loop strats. (if you  miss the shot, keep aiming and wait for him to roll, shoot on the recovery of the roll forward)
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Go to the map shrine.
Change guardian spirit to Kara-jishi.
Level up everything on spirit.
(if you are doing AMM with DLCs, doing the way of the warrior: adept dojo mission might be a good idea, for better dps, specially good for the DLCs)
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 Drop down by where the cannon skelly is
GASHA-DOKURO
-    Summer twilight, use 4 spirit stones, buff the kusa with water, reaper the foot, go up (if there's a skelleton shooting arrows, shoot one back on its head and continue) use weakness on top of the platform, LW when he starts falling, reaper it to death.
Make sure to lock your best dual swords, and an odachi if you got one now.
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*if instead of All Main Missions Vanilla you are doing All Main Missions with DLCs, It's recommended to do the second way of the warrior dojo by now, to get the Water Sword and Sign of the Cross upgrade. The strat for the dojo boss requires parrying (with Heavenly Flow) since we don't have access to ranged weapons for a headshot, apart from that, the usual Sign of the Cross IAI loop. On a side note, keep in mind that SotC II is faster than regular SotC, therefore  you want to wait a bit more before starting the IAI loop after weakness*

change regions

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You can get a peachy shrine before Ishida
-Summer Twilight, Equip dual swords, go in front of the door, buff with water so the guy gets baited, avoid the attack and open the door, dash to the boss.
ISHIDA MITSUNARI
-    Weakness, dash once or twice, Guardian Spirit Talisman, go for his back, water sword till he's rip. Finish with sign of the cross if necessary.
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you can dash through the walls with a door (right to the right of the door), 1st one is really easy, 2nd one can be tricky, but if done successfully you'll gain time and avoid a random death by the amrita fiend.
Alternatively you can change to kato (do it before starting mission to save more time) and use guardian spirit talisman on the wall to the right of the second door clip.
equip the best accessories you can while opening doors.
-Summer twilight, equip dual swords, buff with water
BLACK SAMURAI
-    Weakness, midstance light attack combo into iai, then water sword his back.

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Open the map shrine, change spirit to Suzaku
If you are feeling peachy you can make offerings of everything (equip the best accessories before that if you didn't already do it) and then
Lvl up (all in skill or spirit)

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Use Large Soulstone to get the living weapon available.
Get past all the foxes and before dropping past the matchlock skelly, let him shoot you twice on the back for critical hp setup.
go straight to the skelleton next to the blocked door and Morning Moon him.
-Summer twilight, equip odachi if you have it, if not, go with the kusarigama
Door enemies
-    squeeze between the raven tengu and the onyuudo and activate LW, use guardian spirit talismans and weakness to survive and win the door fight, Okatsu and Hanzo will help you a bit.
Get the shrine, change spirit to Kara-jishi
get sacred brushes from small box in the room next to the yokai that leads to hinoemna.
4 bosses
- go to the door that leads to Joro-gumo, bait an attack of the skelly, open the door, go to the boss.
Jorogumo -> Hinoemna -> Nue -> Onryoki
-Summer twilight, change to dual swords, buff with water
JOROGUMO V2
- run till the set of horizontal stone tiles and use Guardian Spirit Talisman, Weakness, hit her back and do water sword till she dies. sign of the cross if necessary
-Summer twilight
HINOEMNA V2
- Weakness, reaper her a bit, activate lw, reaper till death, travel amulet out.
-Summer twilight, equip dual swords
NUE V2
- Weakness, buff with water, Water sword his right side, 2 iais after he runs out of ki, avoid if he didn't die, finish him.
-Summer twilight, equip dual swords, buff with water.
ONRYOKI V2
- Guardian Spirit talisman, weakness, water sword, finish him, use Travel amulet.

Go to the elevator, make sure to ready the sacred brushes and sacred ash.
- while on the elevator, summer twilight, water buff
NOBUNAGA ODA
-   Shoot him in the head, iai loop strats (if you wait you can shoot when he dashes and you'll get the headshot)
Get peach shrine, lvl up if you want.
- Summer twilight, equip dual swords
KELLY
-    Iai him after an opening or when he blocks.

YAMATA NO OROCHI
-   You can use morning moon, water sword, sign of the cross, or reaper strats, melee attacks and breath attacks are openings, use weakness when possible, replenish with sacred brushes, watch out for the projectiles. If you are doing AMM with DLCs, you should save your sacred brushes, at least a couple.
Grab divine equipment
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Use Large Soulstone on the first door, activate it right next to the guard by the door and open it quickly, living weapon will tank the hits.
-for peach strats, summer twilight equip dual swords and buff with lightning or water, water sword the yoki before the kellies.
3 kellies
-    Headshot special ammo cannon strats for kellies (iai strats as a backup)
- Summer twilight, buff dual swords with water.
HUNDRED EYES
-    Weakness, watch out if he does the 4 crystals, avoid if he does, water sword till debuff, LW attack him till he dies.
Time for AMM vanilla when screen goes black.
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Let's start the dlcs, just change back to way of the samurai and select the next region
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get odachi next to the starting point.
get shrine after the bridge,lock the divine gear, offer things, level up 20 magic, rest on either body, skill or spirit from now on, get suzaku as secondary spirit, ready wind talisman.
while outside the shrine, set suzaku as main, use guardian spirit talisman on the tall yokai with a cleaver before taking the ladder that leads to a guy with a cannon.
Open shortcut just in case
-Summer twilight, change to dual swords, buff with wind
DATE SHIGEZANE
-   Weakness him, dodge first attack/s, guardian spirit talisman, change to kara-jishi as main, water sword him till it dies, might need to finish with other attacks.
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make sure you got plenty of arrows and gun ammo, so a visit to the blacksmith might be recommended (if you do, buy to the storage too)
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just dash all the way to the shrine between the Katakura Shigenaga and Date Masamune
-enter the boss arena
KATAKURA SHIGENAGA
-  Summer twilight, change to dual swords, buff with water. run behind him, iai loop him till he screams "UTEEEE" (FIRE), then do 1 more, run to a corner, shoot him in the head, finish him with more iai stuff.
dash to Date
-Summer twilight, change to dual swords, buff with lightning.
DATE MASAMUNE
-  Aim with the bow and wait for him to come at you, shoot him as soon as he starts attacking. Alternatively, you can use the parry of the dual swords to set up the loop. Fast cancels like Saika, he dodges if you are not fast enough.
Don't change to Sword this time.
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-Summer twilight, equip dual swords.
MARIA
-  Shoot right at the start just like with Hino-emna, dash behind her and cast weakness quickly, same as the previous fight, fast cancels with the iai loop.
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Next region
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dash past everything, use LW to bypass the last area of arrows before the last shrine
get shrine, level up
-Summer twilight before triggering any enemy of the area, dash to the boss door, equip dual swords, buff with water
SARUTOBI SASUKE
-  Shot him right at the start, then iai loop him to death.
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dash past everything, watch with some enemies like the spear guy before the second shrine, or the dual swords guy next to a door, might wanna shoot this last one in the head.
get last shrine
-Summer twilight, change to dual swords before the enemy room, dash to the boss
SANADA YUKIMURA
-  Buff swords with water, draw your bow and shoot him after he recovers from the ground slam, iai loop him to death.
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next region
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use guardian spirit talisman with suzaku for the enemies at the doors, shoot the one next to the second door. get kusarigama next to the boulder that they try to throw at you, get shrine after cannon guy, level up
get key, open door, kusarigama guy at next door is an issue, so chances of dying are high.
get last shrine
-Summer twilight, change to dual swords, buff with water
SANADA YUKIMURA (yes, again)
-  bait first attack, shoot him when he's recovering, iai loop strats, do last part fast, or Sasuke is gonna be an issue
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change suzaku as main spirit, summer twilight next to the shrine, when even triggers, equip dual swords, buff with water.
as soon as enemy appears, use 2 guardian spirit talismans on him, change to kara-jishi as main, water sword it to death.
change back to sword and dash to the next area.
trigger event, go back to the corner, shoot Onmoraki's head with a matchlock, dash to the last shrine.
change secondary spirit to gyokuto
same as before, trigger event, go to corner, shoot birb, proceed to the boss
-summer twilight, equip dual swords, set gyokuto as main spirit.
ONMORAKI
-  buff with water, stay far way from him and bait a running or breathing attack to shoot him in the head and stagger him, go to him, use guardian spirit talisman, switch main to Kara-jishi, go to his back, use weakness, water sword till gg.
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Offer stuff (remember to lock equipment you want)
Level up at map shrine, change secondary to Suzaku
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set Suzaku as main.
use guardian spirit talisman next to the wall to make the kusarigama yoki fall.
use stones to set LW, summer twilight on the corner of the room after the matchlock skelleton, water buff, approach the paperwall, use guardian spirit talisman, weakness, reaper the enemy till it dies.
weakness next enemy, activate LW, use guardian spirit talisman , then reaper him till it dies, open door.
dash past everything, get items next to matchlock skelleton before the door that leads to the shrine.
get shrine, dash away, get shortcut before Otani, and item on box (large soulstone)
-Summer twilight, buff with lightning
OTANI YOSHITSUGU (2.0)
-  Weakness, sign of the cross him till about half hp, then water sword him on the back while he buffs, more sotc if necessary.
get shortcut
-Summer twilight, buff dual swords with water.
ISHIDA MITSUNARI (Mark 2)
-  Weakness, move behind him while he's swinging around, water sword him on the back, finish with sotc strats.
get shrine, make sure you have earth talisman ready
-summer twilight at the bottom of the stairs before boss, water buff the dual swords
TOYOTOMI HIDEYORI
-  Wait for him to go to you first, then shoot him in the head, iai loop strats.
get items by the jars
get shortcut, offer things (lock things you need), level up
switch main spirit to Suzaku
open door, ready spirit stones and whatnot to use on the fly, ready LW, equip Odachi or Spear (as secondary weapon, use kusarigama first), summer twilight go to the first crystal, activate LW and reaper spam it, make sure have LW ready at every possible time, once you get rid of the crystals, switch to odachi/spear (not before using summer twilight) and activate lw with each row of enemies appearing, repeat strat, use guardian spirit talisman on the problematic yokai enemies, human enemies are the tankiest, so watch out for that.
Get shrine after the room, do your final level up (most level ups at this point are not really necessary, but anything to increase your chances of success is good for this imo) and dash to the boss
-Summer twilight, equip dual swords, buff them with earth
NINE-TAILED FOX
-  on the attacks with bigger recovery, use gyokuto's guardian spirit talisman, then switch to kara-jishi and weakness, on next opening, water sword her for confusion strats, repeat until you can do the finisher.
Run ends on door when screen goes black
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