Parrying Trouble

[unclesporkums]

In the garden level, I tried parrying the earthworm the potato spits at you, and it only hurt me, I only successfully did it ONCE by chance and couldn't figure it out afterwards. I tried the head, the body, tail. Nope. Only took damage. Anyone know the exact spot?

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did you try pressing jump as you landed squarely on the center-top of the hitbox?

[unclesporkums]

Yep. Didn't seem to work. Maybe it was too late

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Honestly I didn't even know that the worms were a paryable projectile, keep trying man. :)

[unclesporkums]

Thanks! Will do. Glad you found out.

[Aristocratic Cthulhu]

Yeah, parrying is rather tricky. Keep trying, you'll get it eventually. This reminds me, I need to redo that boss myself to A+ rank it.

[unclesporkums]

Thanks!

[Aristocratic Cthulhu]

Btw, you could also try to parry the tears fromt he onion, might be easier.

[CowboyYojimbo]

Parrying is just timing and practice. I found it helpes to mash the button just as i was getting there to prevent a split second failure.

And any pinkish projectile is a parry-able thing.

[unclesporkums]

LOL, I couldn't figure those ones either, but thanks for the help, everyone! It not only got me a couple bages, but it help me beat the stage!

[Faraday]

Parrying is done differently than it seems. You are supposed to parry with a bitchslap. When your hand touches the projectile, you get the parry. If your hurtbox get in touch, you get the damage instead.

[BoostWorm]

Originally posted by ファラデイ 「Faraday」:

Parrying is done differently than it seems. You are supposed to parry with a bitchslap. When your hand touches the projectile, you get the parry. If your hurtbox get in touch, you get the damage instead.

This is wrong. You press jump again and there's about a 0.5 second window to parry all parryable objects you come into contact with. Do not try parrying as you touch the object, rather, try to parry before touching the object.

[Tsar Butterfly]

lol I was wondering if you could parry the worms but figured it wasn't worth trying since i could just parry the onion's pink tears way more easily

[Faraday]

Originally posted by NotSoAccurate:

Originally posted by ファラデイ 「Faraday」:

Parrying is done differently than it seems. You are supposed to parry with a bitchslap. When your hand touches the projectile, you get the parry. If your hurtbox get in touch, you get the damage instead.

This is wrong. You press jump again and there's about a 0.5 second window to parry all parryable objects you come into contact with. Do not try parrying as you touch the object, rather, try to parry before touching the object.

But you are supposed to parry things in the outer circle described by the hand, aren't you? Things inside the inner circle still hurt you in this 0.5 second

[BoostWorm]

Originally posted by ファラデイ 「Faraday」:

But you are supposed to parry things in the outer circle described by the hand, aren't you? Things inside the inner circle still hurt you in this 0.5 second

Objects inside the circle only hurt you if you decide to *not* press the parry button before coming into contact with said object. There's nothing to it. Parrying is easy.

[mj_gent]

For anyone having trouble with parrying, I noticed something as I was playing one of the World 1 Run & Gun levels that you should keep in mind.

The parry slap, which I love, goes against most standard conventions of parrying/reflecting/staggering in games. Instead of highlighting all of the unblockable attacks (i.e. red-glowing weapons, huge wind-ups, grabs, etc.) like most games, this game instead decides to highlight everything that you CAN parry. So, a lot of the trouble probably just comes from our usual conditioning.

It seems they're supposed to be "pink" themed projectiles, but the game is so damn gorgeous and colorful that they can really be hard to spot, or not necessarily the same shade of pink. The foolproof way to find out is to just take a couple runs with the P. Sugar charm (you have to buy the smoke bomb first) to see what you can parry.

As an example, the weirdest one I found was while fighting Beppi the Clown when I parried the small nose on the rollercoaster that shows up in several stages of his fight.

Hope this helps.