Parry v. low stance?

[Flavio]

Hello guys,

I'm feeling very uncomfortably against low stance enemies. I almost always miss the parry and get hit. Any tips?

Thank you.

[Noeat]

block or dash away

[paveI94]

If you want to parry low stance, do it on the strong attacks as their animation takes longer to execute. For what's it worth, I find spear and odachi quick attacks also rather easy to parry, but with the other weapons I just tank some damage as I execute my strongest attacks (flowing shadow most of the time for those annoying low stance dragon ninja revenants).

[Gorwe]

It's designed to work like that. Try blocking specific parts of combos(like third Strong Katana attack) or push through them. Try to make enemies to change their stance.

[Oninomiru]

If you want to learn parry timings, I can't recommend this video highly enough.
https://youtu.be/045KiL1biQE

[Bishop]

There are few options:

1) There's not enough i-frames to actually react on the quick lowstance attack of some weapons, so you have to predict it instead. It's easier to do with revenants, but I wouldn't bother with any other enemy that mix attacks and skills because skills can't be parried.
2) Keep your distance. Really, that's the entire point. Lowstance has crazy speed but low reach. After some time not being able to touch you they will likely switch the stance.
3) See 2 and just outreach and murder them without any parry. Saves a lot of time.

[Facepalm]

For low stance don't go for the first hit parry, aim for one of the slower ones. For dual swords dodge 3 then block 4 and parry 5 immediately after the block(works on katana, don't know for others)

[Flavio]

Huge info here. Thank you, guys!