Any tips for stun locking?

[CADPgamer]

I understand that Stun Locking is one of the effective ways of making boss fights easier in harder difficulties, but I never understood how it can be done consistently. Are crits the only way to consistently stun lock in SO2R? Or are there other ways?

[Second Duke Revier]

Stun locking, as done in the original, can't be done here on bosses - most of them have innate Super Armor that triggers at a certain HP threshold, often set fairly high. This stops them from playing their wounded animation and lets them continue attacking uninterrupted. The only way to reliably stun(for a certain definition of "reliably") is to get lots of hits in quickly. But afaik, each hit has a pretty low chance of stunning, so it can take a while.

[CADPgamer]

Oh, so that's what stun locking was in the original. I thought it was actually proccing the stun ailment.

[Sky Render]

The old stun system has been by and large supplanted by the shield system. Nearly every boss can be made a joke with multi-hit break-focused arts.

[Second Duke Revier]

Hello! Are you the same Sky Render as on Talking Time? :o

[Sky Render]

Originally posted by Second Duke of Aeria Revier:

Hello! Are you the same Sky Render as on Talking Time? :o

Yep, that's me. Talking Time, GameFAQs, the Harvest Moon speedrunning community, the RPGOne Discord server... I'm in a few places.