How do you escape when you're cornered

[Runtz & Balenciagas]

Title, I've gotten into this situation a couple of times where enemies that are small but not small enough for you to jump over corner me and trying to roll out or trying to kill the enemies will end up with my atks getting canceled, is there some way to escape these situations, an answer other than "don't get into that situation" would be helpful

[Tao314zdin]

poise moves with fast start like stomp should work.

[Old Man Gamer (OMG)]

I often find jumping works. If that does not work, you can try jump heavy attack. The animation will sometimes throw you over the enemy.

[[Lethalvriend]]

Knockback spells, poise... curl in a ball and die. Usually the game won't allow you to escape when you get cornered because you get staggered.

[Graf Vigah]

sounds cheap

[Sabaithal]

Area-of-Effect attacks that either do a ton of damage (golden slam) or stagger (stomp attacks). Then either counter attack or run like hell.

Or my method (with a good shield) block an attack, then guard-counter and hope for the best. You'd be surprised how many times its saved my ass by hitting multiple enemies.

[Aldain]

Take a deep breath, watch your target carefully and focus on i-framing through attacks until you see an opening.

If the enemy is too large to escape from (like a *%&$ing Runebear) then pray.

[XTAKK]

there are ashes of war that basically give you hyper armor to poise through any attacks too, allowing you to get your attack in. Those could be useful to have on a hotswap weapon if you find yourself in those situations often

[Tom]

Great shield plus barricade shield ash is my go to when I get cornered, forces most enemies to bounce and I get a counter attack.

[Yard-Dog®]

Git gud.

Lol. J/K.

For me, I've always been able to escape those situations with a jump attack followed by an immediate roll-out upon landing.