Virtuosa Before You Buy Showcase - New Rapier Hero For Honor Review How to Combat Guide Tips

Tried Ilaria yet? The Virtuosa's agile footwork and lightning-fast thrusts rule1v1s and dominion zones. Some players say she's broken but she dominates nonetheless, making her the new META. Ilaria comes in with lots of personality, making the dark brutal battlefield of For Honor seem a walk in the park. This is your ultimate guide, Virtuosa's before-you-buy showcase. Master every move, learn posture attacks, soft feints and that game-changing evade stance, before spending your steel. Discover her mix ups, executions, feats, and her ultimate deciding factor answering if she’s your next main. 

Meet Virtuosa: For Honor’s Sleek New Rapier Hero

Ilaria enters For Honor

Virtuosa backstory

Virtuosa, real name Ilaria, debuts as For Honor’s newest Outlander hero in Ubisoft’s July 2025 mid-season update, bringing quick-witted charm and razor-sharp fencing to Heathmoor. Once apprenticed to pirate Captain Coalheart, she struck out on her own as a blade-for-hire, honing techniques like Muscle Memory and Artful Improvisation to outmaneuver every foe with graceful footwork and deadly precision.

Virtuosa All Movesets showcase

Key Movesets & Playstyle

Posture Attack chains Virtuosa excels at chaining light attacks into heavies infinitely or into finishers without changing direction until you run out of stamina or cancel, overwhelming enemies before they react.

Evade and Riposte Right after a light or heavy she immediately enters the evade stance unlike the stances of Highlander or Shaolin, this is her ultra defensive mode evading most attacks and can be followed with finishers. It is quite amazing to see her do quick dodges like Neo from The Matrix movies.  

Dodge Attacks for Openers This evasive attacks like Bait & Switch, Bottom's Up can be done on either side and the Weaving Charge opens with a hilt hit straight in your enemy's face 🤣 

Bash and Sword in Throat  Bash attacks of most heroes are kicks but Virtuosa has this really cool moment I call Sword-in-Throat that pauses the fight for 1 second then resumes with a 180 turn elbow hit, insane! This is a must-try and it is a guarantee to make you smile on duels! 😋

Soft Feint Mix Ups Just like the graceful soft feints of Kensei and Highlander, Ilaria's soft feint attacks are fluid that can be converted to finishers or bash attacks while making your enemies confused to which direction to block. 

Virtuosa All executions showcase

Virtuosa Executions

Virtuosa makes executions extra salty, her smugness can be seen in the style of a true virtuoso wielding the rapier with ease and outsmarting her opponents, making her the best choice in duels while she rubs it in on your enemies already wounded egos. Her "Smile for the Fans" execution is almost breaking the 4th wall moment. Here is a list of her executions. 

Perfected Reversal

Easy Breezy

Take a Seat

Smile for the Fans

Virtuosa Signature Feats

Virtuosa’s dueling prowess crystallizes into four lore-driven feats, each embodying her rapier mastery and charismatic finesse.

Muscle Memory Active feat allowing her to enter any posture stance without attacking. 

Artful Improvisation Passive feat where she heals a small amount of health every time she enters a posture stance

Superior Retort Another passive feat that makes every successful  riposte attack more powerful by adding damage 

Rejuvenating Spirit This is the most surprising and a game changing ability adding more oomph to an already superior hero, a team heal. Unlike the team heals of Gryphon, Jiang Jun and Medjay, hers is map wide making her such an essential component in Dominion PvP matches. This is her ultimate deciding factor to sway your choice in making her your main.

Virtuosa All Emotes and Signature showcase

Pros & Cons at a Glance

Pros	Cons
High mobility and evasiveness	Low health pool
Punishing riposte makes parries shine	Struggles in prolonged brawls
Stylish animations & flashy finishers	Requires precision timing
Superb at 1v1 duels and team plays	Steep learning curve for mix-ups

Broken Mix Ups? 

I tried for almost an hour but I failed over and over in doing her mix up combos. I can't show you that part at the moment, either I suck at this game or the heroine is indeed broken. Just in case here are the combinations if you want to try them yourself.

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