Talk:Kiwame/@comment-38790788-20190416054623/@comment-30214985-20190418052926

I don't have hard evidence to back it up, but my hunch is that higher Leadership might lead to a higher chance of parrying.

When I have PVP with someone with a team stronger than my best, my usual strategy is to give light infantry and +15/17 horses to my fastest kiwame tantous, choose the bottom-right formation (increased speed), and hope that my speedsters can eliminate some of the opponents so they never even get a chance to strike. If I have spare slots, then, like you're thinking, I put in some kiwame wakis with shields and just hope and pray that they parry.

However, I (and my same-saniwa-level PVP peers) are of the generation that were playing heavily during the early days of kiwame, when tantous were the only kiwame-able type, so my opponents and I all tend to have super-strong kiwame tantous and relatively weaker kiwames of all other types, so whoever strikes first, kills.

As newer saniwas, I'll bet you and your PVP peers availed yourselves of your wider kiwame options, so, unlike my generation, the strongest kiwames might be uchis or wakis, or heck, maybe someone has been grinding like crazy and has some monster ootachis already. In that case, fast-but-low-level kiwame tantous might not be able to take them down.