Need some tips against the tiger enemies

[Turtle]

I am suffering. The tiger demons (don't remember what they were called) are being a huge problem for me - to be precise those machinegun slapping attacks are becoming my death sentence every time.

[Lu Bu]

Try holding block and then parry based on the rhythm of the tigers 5hits combo, that will help minimize damage if your parry is off.

[Mioummioum]

Block it if you are not able to deflect. As in Nioh, you can block and dodge at the same time, leaving few vulnerable frames.

Burn and poison these MFs, they are very weak to elements.

[Turtle]

Originally posted by Lu Bu:

Try holding block and then parry based on the rhythm of the tigers 5hits combo, that will help minimize damage if your parry is off.

I'll try doing both, hope it would solve my pain

Originally posted by Mioummioum:

Block it if you are not able to deflect. As in Nioh, you can block and dodge at the same time, leaving few vulnerable frames.

Burn and poison these MFs, they are very weak to elements.

Elements and constant damage, will try out thanks

[Heavenly Peaks Purveyor]

My tips are ambush them if you can. I often use Elemental Weapon to boost damage. Fire seems to work well for me. I also boost my attack.

If you can't ambush them, then focus on alternating between dodge and deflect. If you deflect all of their attacks they WILL break your guard, easily at that. If you manage to dodge one and deflect the other, you're winning.

They also have weird , lumbering attacks to watch out for. The best advice is to kill them before they can really get started. Even if you have to run up to them and get a few free licks in. Martial skills also work well if you can get them off.

[Kensei]

Tigers are a nightmare to parry. In Souls and Sekiro we're used to parrying the second we see the blade coming towards us. If you wait that long for the Tiger you've already lost.

Advice here is similar to what I've been doing, hold block, parry when you see an opportunity.

I saw a review that you can make your time parrying easier by picking a weapon with a higher score for Deflect Difficulty. That might help Tigers idk?

[MajorWeed]

Block, block and block. And while blocking, try to deflect at the right time, like the game expects you to. There's a spell that can prevent you from being staggered when hit so you can use that to "tank" those kitties while trying to get the rythme. BUT, no matter what you do, you won't be able to deflect all of their attacks. Yeah, that's good design for you

[AH-1 Cobra]

After blocking/deflecting the claw combo, be ready for a double forearm slam right afterwards! You might want to wait on the hard punish until it does the forearm slam.

Also, heavy armor + stone armor buff, you can poise through the claw combo, I only got hit for 1/10th of my bar per claw swipe, so at worst I'd lose 1/2 my HP bar to the full combo. Once you break the tiger, you can throw up an HP leech buff before landing the finisher and leech the HP back. Yes, you heard that right, you can actually mash these things down with the correct build/strategy.

[HighLanderPony]

Dodge away and ignore the combo altogether... can't get mixed up if you don't get into the mixup.

[Mr.Hmm]

As others have said, BLOCK and PARRY(whenever possible) while using FIRE or METAL dmg.

These tiger demons are super weak to Fire and Poison dmg.

[Archon]

https://youtu.be/Cgetjk9IHbo

[WhatIsHisName]

Fire sword and sneak attacks

[D. Flame]

Ignore them at first. Fight other enemies. Build up morale. Then when you do fight them block and parry. When they do their wombo combo, just back away, then parry the last hit.

[Foogley]

There's a BLOCK? lmao, didn't know and didn't need it

[Zeph]

Wait for the attack where he swings at you like 4 or 5 times. Its the easiest thing to deflect, the full combo should get you a full blue bar, then wait and block. If he does the jump back, wait again, if he does the front flop, do a strong attack with the blue bar and enjoy doing 50% of its qi greyed.

[Arani]

Originally posted by Turtle:

I am suffering. The tiger demons (don't remember what they were called) are being a huge problem for me - to be precise those machinegun slapping attacks are becoming my death sentence every time.

Crits are the best thing against all things like these. Always start off by jumping off atop them with a crit, or sneaking behind.

Other than that their most dangerous attack is the one where they swipe at you 4 times, then stand up, and smack down. The timing on all of it is always the same, so you can just deflect the four attacks, get in a few hits, then deflect the last one. The trick with the smackdown is you don't want to deflect too early. So you can hold block, and the moment you see those arms swinging down is when you press deflect. Even if you miss, you'll have blocked it and that's that. Besides that overhead swing, all of their attacks are also horizontal. So if you can get airborne via jumping attacks or best case scenario you have something like the Heaven's Reliance (Cao Cao's sword, best long sword imo) with the Dawning Sky attack, use those. Dawning Sky and I'm sure a few other similar martial arts that basically flip you in the air can be comboed with a heavy attack when you come down from there. These attacks are super fast, you hover in the air for quite a bit meaning enemies like these tigers will just swing air beneath you, and when you come down you're likely to stagger or spirit break them completely on top of doing a ton of damage.

I would say however that all the enemies in Wo Long take pretty much the same attitude. Don't be afraid of them. When there's a tricky enemy type you're struggling with, make a note of it and if you find one near a flag pole, just go crazy and challenge it as many times as it gets for you to get the enemy. Unlike say Nioh 2 with a ton of enemies that had insanely hard to read attacks, would always ignore your staggers, and occasionally require reactions normal people just aren't capable of, Wo Long is a lot more forgiving and the deflect windows are much bigger. I'd argue almost anyone can learn the timing on all of the attacks given a little bit of effort. I mean Dark Souls 3 was filled with stuff that even if you knew *exactly* when the attack was coming in, timing that parry took such accuracy that even with 2k hours into it I just couldn't do it. Wo Long isn't like that at all, the deflect window is almost half a second it feels like.

So just go in there, hold that guard up, and deflect, and keep doing this and dying if need be until you get it. Very few enemies in the game in the end are troublesome, learning their tricks and timings is ultimately not a big effort and once you do, you don't really have to worry at all anymore. Your most important skill is patience. Don't get carried away and start button mashing, but just wait for them to make their move and defend. :>