How to fight the enemies with Shield?

[Eternal]

I can easily parry any other enemy types, with shield ones I can never parry, it just results in me getting hurt, so I end up in a long stretched battle where I can only dodge and attack only after the focus meter is filled.

[Amygdala]

Yeah parry and then attack, or attack from the rear if possible. Just lingering charges the focus bar slower than parrying I think

[Eternal]

Originally posted by Amygdala:

Yeah parry and then attack, or attack from the rear if possible. Just lingering charges the focus bar slower than parrying I think

Normal enemies- unless the heavy attack we can parry some 70-80% of times.
Big enemies - Easier to get to their sides or back and continue attacking.
I just never could attack shield ones that easily. Attacking them from rear was only possible 20-30% of times at most.

[Draques]

you can melee (kick) the shield first then bash with normal/heavy attack, you can see the button for melee on pause menu, on controller it's B if i'm not mistaken

[Drakeeper]

I usually save focus for those and just go all out on their backs.

[Eternal]

Originally posted by Draques:

you can melee (kick) the shield first then bash with normal/heavy attack, you can see the button for melee on pause menu, on controller it's B if i'm not mistaken

Thanks, I realized I had totally forgotten about melee attack (b button) lol. I always used combination of light and heavy attacks.

[Eternal]

Originally posted by Darkeeper:

I usually save focus for those and just go all out on their backs.

This is what I did as well, now I realize I should have tried melee attacks to break their defence.

[DeadByLag]

I pretty much cheese most of the combat with kick slash slash slash kick slash slash slash rinse and repeat.

[Purplemonkey]

Side evade > melee > slash+slash+heavy > create distance > repeat

[Drakeeper]

Yeah, I later found out there's a melee button for combat. Should have checked the control list sooner.

[A Lazy Monkey]

Parry shield and slice

Or kick shield and slice

For a while I was foolish and just side stepping and getting one hit in at a time XD