After completing the game with a greatsword, I tried to play using this katana and found out that the game became much more challenging. Colossal weapons like the greatsword deal high damage, break enemy defenses with ease (I even killed Malenia on my second attempt with a greatsword and the mimic), and are able to block a significant amount of incoming damage. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if katanas are simply more difficult to use.

Like to see when somebody losing in pvp switches to this weapon

Guess what?

Still pretty widely used, just goes to show how people will just use whatever reddit or gaming articles tells them to use.

Ribera Bobera

Rivers of come

I’m glad of the nerfs tbh
It weeded out the people who only used it because it’s meta and left only the collection of Based Jetstream Samuel Cosplayers to revel in the newfound purity of the ROB fanbase

MEMORIES BROKEN
THE TRUTH GOES UNSPOKEN

started a new playthrough, and i came back to my boy RoB. the weapon art is just too good to deny in pve. and the comedy of seeing boss heath bars explode when i pull in a +10 mimic is the cherry on the top.

I never used this weapon for the hate it earned in the community, but seen it hundreds of times when invading, and I gotta say, if you didn't learn to counter it at this point, the problem lies in you. Yes, there are situations where rivers spam is just unavoidable death, but hyperarmor, parry, poise and many other methods exist that are super effective against these. I kind of feel like most tryhards just use this weapon's existance as a cheap excuse to justify using equally broken (if not more broken) stuff like dual bleed lances with bloodhound step and sleep (which is a carried by the phantom hit glitch and hopefully will get fixed btw).