Parrying Ribbit Brothers

[D-Rex65]

I've searched around for a bit and no one seems to putting any attention on how difficult it is to get 3 parries on the Ribbit Brothers. Am I the only one having extreme difficulty with this!? I've A+'d every single stage in World 1 except the Ribbit Brothers solely because of parrying. You only get exactly 3 chances in the whole fight and those punches come fast. I can't even hit a low punch unless it is the first punch thrown.

Is there some very obvious trick that I'm missing to get these 3 parries? Please offer tips and guidance!

[enzYm]

try dealing less dmg to them to force multiple fist shooting attack phases - thus more opportunities to land your parries if you are having trouble landing all three in one phase.

[Reijiro]

P. Sugar, learn the patterns and don't over do it in the first phase.

[terr0rble]

P. Sugar, I usually do 2 parrys in the first punches not bring him to the 2nd phase and let him do another round of punches where I get the last parry.

[Guwahavel]

In Expert mode, the pink fists spawn in set patterns that can be memorized and predicted. I don’t know about regular, however.

[Moe Magi Maxima]

Originally posted by Much Agreeable:

In Expert mode, the pink fists spawn in set patterns that can be memorized and predicted. I don’t know about regular, however.

Still fairly predictable, only really varying in the height the punches start from and which ones are pink.

[Nervatel]

Originally posted by Much Agreeable:

In Expert mode, the pink fists spawn in set patterns that can be memorized and predicted. I don’t know about regular, however.

A majority of fights have patterns for almost everything, with a few exceptions
Ribby and Croaks on Normal will shoot 9 punches, but they are always one of these 3 setups:
Regular (R), R, Parryable (P) (loops again twice)
P, R, R (loops twice)
R, P, R (loops twice)
(There might be a chance that they can switch between active pattern sets, but I have yet to actually see it myself)

On hard they shoot 5 punches on phase 1, in one of these pattern:
"RRPRP",
"RPRPR",
"PRRRP"

Phase 2 is only 3 punches each time, in one of these patterns:
"RRP",
"PRR",
"RPR",
"PRR"

I'd post the slot machine patterns, but the op doesn't seem to be asking for it, and it would require a bit of explanation, despite there being 6-8 patterns that are ~12-13 results long.

[D-Rex65]

Sorry for my absence; I was taken away from Cuphead for a while. Isn't going through 2 fist sequences going to hurt my time? I was always under the impression you needed to beat a boss in about 1.5mins or less to get max score.

[D-Rex65]

I did it guys! I guess the threshold is actually 2mins since I had a time 1:50 for A+ score. The real trick is making sure to do very short jumps which I find the game has a pretty low hold tolerance for. I simply could not do it while shooting at the same time (fire and jump mapped to X and A). My strategy was to do all my damage during the flame fairies attack and just focus solely on parries during the fist attack.