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Welcome everyone, ...
... To my Legendary Upgrade guide series. In this series, every time a new Legendary Upgrade is released, I will cover them, but first I will be covering the ones that is are already out.
This time, I will be covering the Shogun-Guard upgrade for Kernel Corn! So, if you want to know how to get the upgrade, use it effectively or decide whether it is worth equipping for you, or you just want general notes and/or advice, check out this guide!
An Overview of Shogun-Guard
Shogun-Guard is a Legendary Upgrade for Kernel Corn. It gives the Kernel Corn a changed primary weapon that deals more damage, but fires slower and has less ammunition (overall, a higher damage per second), along with a personal shield with the lowest health out of any shield in the game, but a unique trait where you can shoot your primary weapon while your shield is active, and your shield is not an ability, so you can use it whenever you want, unless your shield runs out of health and it needs to recharge for a few seconds. Additionally, you can use Butter Beacon, Shuck Shot or revive while you hold up your shield. Just note it only covers half of Corn's front, but it is a quite big shield and it negates critical hits while active. Hold the aim button to activate your shield.
To watch some gameplay with it, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu-hIubsj-g
My Personal Legendary Upgrade likeness rating: 90%, as a player who loves defense and shields, this is a fun variant of an Attack character that I enjoy playing. Also, Shogun's shield is my favourite in the game due to its utility it provides while I use it. I sometimes use it to defend Pea Gatling and Sunbeamers along with some other allies (and while reviving of course). I really enjoy the primary weapon, I've learned to become really good at aiming it and landing many of my shots with it.
How to Obtain this Upgrade
To obtain this upgrade, you had to get it in the February Prize Map at the end of the Golden Path. However, if you are a new player and was not able to get this upgrade, or you missed out on this upgrade in the Prize Map, you can also buy it for 300 Rainbow Stars through Rux at any time. Just note that if you did not buy the upgrade through the Prize Map, you will not get to use the Foodal Lord Dracornius or Blade of the Beetle Costume that matches with the Legendary Upgrade alongside it (although, however, I have heard reports of Foodal Lord Dracornius being sold by Rux, so maybe that is a possibility).
When you own this upgrade, you may equip it (and unequip it) as often as you would like, for 5 upgrade points, and you may put it on as many of your Kernel Corn builds as you want at once. Because of the expensive cost to equip, you should consider whether it is worth equipping in some circumstances.
Foodal Lord Dracornius:
Blade of the Beetle:
Gameplay
Here is a video I made regarding the basics of this upgrade:
Disadvantages of Upgrade
The disadvantages of this upgrade include:
Advantages of Upgrade
The advantages of this upgrade include:
Tips for Using this Upgrade Effectively
You have got to practice with this upgrade in order to get a lot better with it. It changes the Corn's playstyle, here, I will share my personal tips with you to help you do better with Kernel Corn:
I have attached a video of using Shogun-Guard in PvP, if you are interesting in watching some Shogun-Guard PvP gameplay.
(Me on top half of screen, my brother on the bottom half).
What could you equip for your other 2 upgrade points?
You have 2 extra upgrade points that you can use when you attach this upgrade. My suggestions on some combos you can equip are:
Who does Shogun-Guard Hard Counter (opinion)?
Captain Deadbeard. His Primary attack does low damage to you, and he shouldn't be able to get up close to you anyway. His Secondary requires charge-up. If you have your shield active, he cannot deal critical damage to you. Snipers deal significantly extra critical damage, and he is unable to with it active. Additionally, he cannot destroy your shield with one fully charged shot. He also cannot vanquish you instantly with a fully charged attack without the shield. This makes it harder for the Captain Deadbeard to vanquish you.
Barrel Blast requires him to get close to you, if you see him approaching you in Barrel Blast, either use your primary weapon to quickly knock him out of Barrel Blast, or use Shuck Shot to destroy it quickly, or Husk Hop to avoid the explosion and possibly destroy the Barrel. If you see him using his Parrot Pal, you may want to get away from it, or try and quickly jump while shooting in an attempt to destroy it. Anchor's Away makes him vulnerable as he can't counterattack while using it, and you should be a fair distance away from him anyway.
Using Abilities in Sync with Upgrade
Butter Beacon: You are able to activate this ability even with your shield active, making you less vulnerable to enemies' attacks while you use this ability. You can use Butter Beacon when in the heat of combat in order to temporarily increase your damage against nearby enemies using your Primary Weapon and other abilities. Also aim for Critical Hits at this point as they get greatly boosted while your enemies are affected by Butter Beacon. You can then use your abilities to deal devastating, or take the chance to deal extra damage afterwards. If you are hiding at low health, you can also use this ability to assist your team by highlighting enemies, or to see if there are enemies near you. Just be mindful that enemies will know when they have spotted, and they will know that you are nearby.
Husk Hop: This ability can be really damaging to enemies you manage to hit, but you are also left vulnerable during the ability and for a short time after it has successfully resolved. This ability should be used either to try and vanquish enemies that get too close to you (Steam Blaster for example), to get away from enemies or for general mobility, or to get to a height. Try to save this ability for when you need it, as it can have a lot of good uses, but you may be left vulnerable when you activate it, so be mindful of that.
Shuck Shot: Shuck Shot can deal a lot of damage, and is very effective especially when used against clustered enemies. Thankfully, you are able to use your shield while you are using your Shuck Shot, similar to the way Extra Special upgrade works for Super Brainz. A great time to use this can be as a finisher on enemies, or when your enemies closely cluster. It takes a while for the ability to resolve, because of the delay and the time it takes to fire two cobs, so try to think ahead before you use it. Shield yourself if you think it is necessary. You can shield even while your Shuck Shot is resolving. You could also use cover while you wait for the delay to end, then pop out and fire those shucks!
Conclusion
This Legendary Upgrade can be hard to obtain and uses up a lot of your upgrade points to equip, but it is a very good upgrade if you can use it (along with the abilities) properly. Use your last 2 upgrade points very wisely if you run this upgrade, as running this upgrade really limits the other options you have to equip. The most popular used upgrade alongside this is Rapid Recob. This upgrade allows you to deal more damage, and gain protection, but to achieve your maximum possible damage, you need to hit a lot of your shots.
I suggest trying this upgrade and deciding whether you like it, if you have not.
Hopefully this guide was helpful to some at least, see you around fellow people!
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@Fork_x_SpoonIt was a secret buff from the recent patch notes.
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@TheSprinter85You can also use Shuck Shot while the shield is active.
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You can use Shuck Shot while the shield is active? Only I wouldn't have known something this minor yet useful for six months.
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@Fork_x_SpoonIt was a secret buff from the recent patch notes.
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@Cameroid07 Actually, I thank you for bringing this up, I actually mentioned this several times that you can "Shuck Shot while holding your shield". The other day, me and my brother was messing around with Shogun (as you do) and we realised that we were suddenly able to Shuck Shot with the shield active, I was about to report it in Bug Reports, but then realised that it was probably a legitimate change. So, I just went with it and I incorporated it into my guide I wrote yesterday, so that other players know how to do the same thing. I had tested this in the past and it has not worked. I did test Husk Hop and you can't shield while using Husk Hop, which would not make sense anyway.
@Fork_x_Spoon Agreed, if you were able to do this for the last 6 months and I did not know about it, I wouldn't know what to say.
@benn1nat0r As a max ranker, I know for a fact that you would have a decent amount of play time on each of your characters, correct me if I am wrong, but I am glad to know that you will still be able to benefit from some of my guides (e.g. this one). Hopefully, this guide assists newbies and players who do not use this upgrade much, do not have it yet, or are not very good with using it. I would agree that all of the Legendary Upgrades are at least somewhat better than their regular counterparts. Making them cost coins instead of Rainbow Stars from Rux would save players a lot of trouble and won't make it (near) locked behind a paywall.
I finally managed to figure out how to upload YouTube videos onto the forum - bliss for that!