Learn to parry....

[MPN64]

I am new to souls games the only From Soft game I played is Sekiro.
In my first play through of ER I used every tool had availeble to me to win boss fights.

Now on my second play through I wanted to go more mano a mano with bosses.

I decided that I need to learn to parry, I practice on the soldiers in the beginning of the game. They are easy to parry with a little practice, later the first boss fight Margit I supriced myself with being able to parry some of his hits and it is a very satesfying feelen getting the riposte after parrying.

I just fought Leonine Misbegotten and I was thinking before the fight that he has a lot of jumping around being all over the place, I was able to parry him twice in the fight and again the riposted are soo sweet after a successful parry!

Now why do I post this....Not to flex!!!

I recommend new players to practice parry makes the game more fun and it feels very rewarding to git gud on parrying.

[★Brosef]

Sounds like work, Barricade Shield works good enough.

[Thy GoD]

Good advice, but most players wouldn't give a damn since they wouldn't have sufficient vigor to make up for any mistakes.

I also recommend getting the buckler and a Golden parry ash of war.

[Grubbs008]

That is how all the twitch/youtube streamers are doing their "No Hit, Naked" Challenge garbage on NG+++++++ after all.

[Red]

I don't parry, there's no firearms in the game so I just dodge.

Also I don't wanna get in the habit of relying on parrying against some bosses, only for the next one to not be able to be parried.

[r]

Parry Bosses? Not even speedrunners are doing it... because it's bad....

Parries in this game (or ripostes) lead to no damage.

Actually parry into R1 is less damage than PArry into two L1's.

Some bosses also take MULTIPLE parries to get the same damage you'd get with a single R1 in that entire duration. (Radagon takes 3 parries to riposte which nets you just over 500 damage on my build. A single L1 does over 1k)

On top of that they made Weapon Arts and other stuff that auto parry and stuff now.

Manual parrying is over, game went casual my guy.

[Get Donked On]

Im gonna try it for my next build that's going for faith as im currently running ah 100 guard boost build with rapiers and the pike wich is frankly really good only time i have trouble is grapple enemies

[Riqcrow]

parrying is high reward-higher risk ♥♥♥♥ from past, I don't see any reason why to bother with it.

[MPN64]

Originally posted by nines:

Parry Bosses? Not even speedrunners are doing it... because it's bad....

Parries in this game (or ripostes) lead to no damage.

Actually parry into R1 is less damage than PArry into two L1's.

Some bosses also take MULTIPLE parries to get the same damage you'd get with a single R1 in that entire duration. (Radagon takes 3 parries to riposte which nets you just over 500 damage on my build. A single L1 does over 1k)

On top of that they made Weapon Arts and other stuff that auto parry and stuff now.

Manual parrying is over, game went casual my guy.

Maybe you are right about the fact the game went casual.
Still two riposte on Leonine Misbegotten and he had less that half his health left.....

Speedrunners they run past a boss if they can. Not how I like to play games!

[r]

Originally posted by MPN64:

Originally posted by nines:

Parry Bosses? Not even speedrunners are doing it... because it's bad....

Parries in this game (or ripostes) lead to no damage.

Actually parry into R1 is less damage than PArry into two L1's.

Some bosses also take MULTIPLE parries to get the same damage you'd get with a single R1 in that entire duration. (Radagon takes 3 parries to riposte which nets you just over 500 damage on my build. A single L1 does over 1k)

On top of that they made Weapon Arts and other stuff that auto parry and stuff now.

Manual parrying is over, game went casual my guy.

Maybe you are right about the fact the game went casual.
Still two riposte on Leonine Misbegotten and he had less that half his health left.....

If Two riposte did that, two L1's also would have. So why Parry him if u can just L1 twice? One is for style, one is clearly better and doesn't have a "skill" gate behind it.

Just weird this game puts the skill gate parry there, which is a GATED function in the game (you need to git gud to use it)

But the mashing L1 playstyle? Rewards more, not the above one.

Very weird game design choice.

[Lunacy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tOfAdBvQRQ
A thing you can do when you learn how to parry.
(Later game side boss spoiler if you're not that far in yet.)