How the hell do you parry without having a 90% chance of just taking damage?

[Beaver Bologna]

How the hell do you parry without having a 90% chance of just taking damage?

[RabidBurp]

The parry move has a bit of delay to it. Try parrying a bit sooner than you'd expect it to connect and you'll be fine.

[Terratoast]

For the objects that don't disappear when you parry you must parry from the top. Otherwise you just get hit by it after traveling up from the parry.

[Beaver Bologna]

well how the ♥♥♥♥ do i parry the flying carrots?

[Terratoast]

You can only parry things that are pink.

[Reijiro]

by gittin' gud

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Originally posted by BinkieMcFartNuggets:

well how the ♥♥♥♥ do i parry the flying carrots?

ahahahah

[ASDF]

I've had no issues with Parrying up until that Run'n'Gun Forest level after Moonface girl.
Those bouncing ladybugs come down as fast as I go up so they deal damage right before the Parry hits.
Pretty annoying.

[The Highwayman]

Originally posted by BinkieMcFartNuggets:

well how the ♥♥♥♥ do i parry the flying carrots?

It has to be glowing pink, so you can't do the flying carrots.

Otherwise, make sure you parry before you touch it. You can even parry things that aren't actually touching you. Just practice using the outside of the parry animation in the tutorial.

[VoreTechz]

Once I learned the timing, I literally never had a problem with it again. I only miss a parry like 1% of the time now. Doing the mausoliums is good partice for parrying.

[Kolarin]

Consider the parry as an 'attack', an attack that lasts maybe a dozen frames, so yeah, hit the parry just before you hit a pink object and you should be fine, even if you parry from below the object.

[Xersin]

There are things you can parry that aren't pink, if you're using the axe attack, but those must be enemies, and not projectiles and attacks.

[ReV0LT]

Wait, did you even read the tutorial?

[V I D A L]

You must be a journalist. Go play the tutorial again.

[Archmage MC]

Parry INTO it, not when your ON it. Its like a mario jump or DK jump, but with a bit more time when starting the button press where you'll parry.

The first time you press the parry button in the air Cuphead will do a short spin with a faint pink ring around him. When that ring is up, any pink object you hit you'll parry off of, and grant you another parry.

[Blingtron]

Originally posted by Just some Tits:

I've had no issues with Parrying up until that Run'n'Gun Forest level after Moonface girl.
Those bouncing ladybugs come down as fast as I go up so they deal damage right before the Parry hits.
Pretty annoying.

Yeah ♥♥♥♥ those bugs, I just gave up on trying to parry them... maybe one day ill be good enough to do it.

[Bones]

you can always buy the easy parry mode from the shop