tips for how to play warlord?

[სულიკო]

most people just parry or deflect all of my lights and headbut gets dodged and now i have no clue what to do

also how do i properly use the full block stance? all of its moves seem kind of useless

[Miromett]

Feint heavies mostly.

Warlord is also good at plundering stamina after a single parry since he has something similar to jorm's parry riposte if you click mmb mid parry which drains even more stamina.

headbutt and crashing charge are your options for when somebody is OOS 1v1

full block stance is for baiting out a gb or something similar then responding with an undodgeable heavy attack. Mostly useless.

His lights don't bounce off if they're blocked either leading to more chain pressure if you do land them. So something like countering a gb from someone after you don't throw anything then using that distance to start up a heavy and feinting it into a headbutt. Next time around feint it into nothing. Then feint it into a light before going into another headbutt or heavy mixup. Keep them guessing. If anything warlord is oppressive to fight 1v1.

if you land crashing charge while they are OOS and manage to throw them on the ground do a dashing top heavy into headbutt.

Take fury + fire flask for an easy area clear if you use them in conjunction.

[AR-NewRecruit]

Fullblock is a useful defensive OS, enter it on red indicator and Light Crushing Counter to cover committed heavy/heavy feint-GB, and simply use your light punish if it was a light. If the opponent anticipates you're gonna do this stuff? Simply exit it and do a neutral heavy or even dodge forward into Headbutt.

Try putting your guard top before doing a Headbutt, this hides some of the orange glow on Warlord's head for a few frames. In addition, empty dodging into GB is a valid mixup since your forward dodge recovery is shorter than most.

[shower speedrunner]

Heavy feint to heavy is a good option if your opponent tends to parry too much.

[JKArtorias]

Fullblock on red and headbutt once you see the attack feinted, then sometimes do the heavy from fullblock. Never hold fullblock though, exit and parry. Warlord's fullblock is 200 ms and has no recovery so it's actually a really good fullblock.

You have 4 parry options so abuse them. They are crushing counter, zone option select, full block and regular parry.

Also whiff lights randomly every few seconds to see if you can guess when they'll try to attack. If done correctly go directly into a combo top heavy for instant hyper armor trades.

Against assassins that aren't Shin and Berserker always follow up any attack that got deflected with a side heavy for the best trades.

[Lukkyb]

if you get a wall splat and go for the free heavy at higher levels players can parry the light after it on reaction so dont throw one if you think they will

[shower speedrunner]

After the jump heavy, you have a small mix up: headbutt / zone

[coolman552]

ur zone is one of the best in the game

[სულიკო]

Originally posted by i love dogs:

ur zone is one of the best in the game

really? it always gets blocked if not parried

[nugdolf]

Originally posted by Centurio:

Originally posted by i love dogs:

ur zone is one of the best in the game

really? it always gets blocked if not parried

you have to use it right. there's some people who have always catched my dodges with it

[shower speedrunner]

Originally posted by Centurio:

Originally posted by i love dogs:

ur zone is one of the best in the game

really? it always gets blocked if not parried

I haven't seen anyone asks so
Is this topic about 1v1 or 4v4 ?

Look someone far away to zone the one closer is a good way to zone.

[სულიკო]

Originally posted by Doing my best.:

Originally posted by Centurio:

really? it always gets blocked if not parried

I haven't seen anyone asks so
Is this topic about 1v1 or 4v4 ?

Look someone far away to zone the one closer is a good way to zone.

1v1 but gank tips are also appreciated

[nugdolf]

Originally posted by Centurio:

Originally posted by Doing my best.:

I haven't seen anyone asks so
Is this topic about 1v1 or 4v4 ?

Look someone far away to zone the one closer is a good way to zone.

1v1 but gank tips are also appreciated

top heavy spam but not chained

[Viable_Golem4375]

Remember to delay your Headbutts and also dodge into GB sometimes, as far as everything else you don't really have much (unless you want to use kiting tactics), your full guard can be used for a few things though.

[სულიკო]

Originally posted by Viable_Golem4375:

Remember to delay your Headbutts and also dodge into GB sometimes, as far as everything else you don't really have much (unless you want to use kiting tactics), your full guard can be used for a few things though.

full guard can be used for things such as?

[Viable_Golem4375]

Originally posted by Centurio:

Originally posted by Viable_Golem4375:

Remember to delay your Headbutts and also dodge into GB sometimes, as far as everything else you don't really have much (unless you want to use kiting tactics), your full guard can be used for a few things though.

full guard can be used for things such as?

It helps to counter blockable attack feints into other blockable attacks like Storming tap feint, Pk and Shaman's bleed feints, Ara's deadly feints, etc.