Why are uchigatana/manslayer/blacksteel katana a step above all other weapons for PvP?

Straightswords have the best possibility to exploit a spear moveset mostly because of the fast rolling attacks. And yet a spear still always has the range advantage and most of them should have the trade advantage as well. Its still rather easy to force trades against a straightsword so Id call a spear the better weapon in most cases.

I guess what Chris tried to point out is that its not very rewarding to play aggressive with a katana or a spear because their attacks are even more telegraphed than other top tier weapons attacks. At the same time the versatile longswprd moveset definitely supports aggressive play more than other weapons. It offers great mixup potential (i hate saying that) and the 1h rolling attack enables you to pressure someone just with rolls.

Knowing that he plays on 360 aggressive playstyles should aork better in a majority of his fights. Probably in all of them. So I can see him having an easier time using a longsword instead of safe-but-harder-to-land katana attacks.

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