New to Charge Blade, help with openings to land SAED please.

[River Victor]

Topic. I started Charge Blade 2-3 days ago, and am starting to get the hang of it. I can kill tempered Teostra in about roughly 10 mins easily, and it's safe to say I know enough to land SAED efficiently on some easy monsters like Teostra and Vaal now.

But I still find it hard to land SAED in some difficult monsters like Blos, Black Blos, Joe, and Los, especially Blue Los, all of which make me curse the whole house awake and wanna run fist through screen. I need some help here because I seriously can't see a clear "GOTCHA MTFKR!" openings for them. Joe is fkn huge, and almost everything is out of reach, especially tail. Los, especially Blue Los is the same, and is all over the place. Blos is just too fast to keep up. Anyone can give me some ideas when I can bash their fkn heads with the SAED, I would appreciate it.

[Nope]

That depend on your combo I think, you can chain SAED from shield thurst which can be chain from any attack if you don't know already
I'm not main charge blade but would love to use it some day, I usually messed up the SAED a lot so maybe my advice help a bit

[tuna_fan68]

For any blos, a GP from the standard rise after it burrows is a free SAED/AED onto its meaty tail. A lot of GP's are actually free SAEDs on that thing especially after it finishes its heavy attacks like the double horn swing or if you happen to be at the very end of its charge.
As for general fighting tips on this guy, don't bother chasing him too much when he charges and just bait him to get to you and guard point.

For Jho, I recommend doing AEDs over SAEDs for the most part until it really exposes its whole mass for a prolonged amount of time. Guard pointing this guy is great since a lot of his attacks have easily spotted tells and huge hitboxes to prevent a guard point from missing.

And finally for the Los........ I honestly don't really know. If I don't use flashpods, I just tickle him while he's flying. Flying monsters are such wusses.

[River Victor]

Originally posted by sangreal:

For any blos, a GP from the standard rise after it burrows is a free SAED/AED onto its meaty tail. A lot of GP's are actually free SAEDs on that thing especially after it finishes its heavy attacks like the double horn swing or if you happen to be at the very end of its charge.
As for general fighting tips on this guy, don't bother chasing him too much when he charges and just bait him to get to you and guard point.

For Jho, I recommend doing AEDs over SAEDs for the most part until it really exposes its whole mass for a prolonged amount of time. Guard pointing this guy is great since a lot of his attacks have easily spotted tells and huge hitboxes to prevent a guard point from missing.

And finally for the Los........ I honestly don't really know. If I don't use flashpods, I just tickle him while he's flying. Flying monsters are such wusses.

Hi, thanks guys for getting back to me. I still haven't mastered guard points. How exactly do I execute what you've said? I'm not young anymore, so my reflexes aren't what it used to be. I can't really combo and use that flash 0.1 second during that to guard and counter. One GP away, I don't get it. Explain please.

[tuna_fan68]

The safest way to guard point is to just hold up your shield and press Y/Triangle when you feel like an attack is about to hit to initiate the sword transformation into axe which has guard points at the very beginning of the animation when your character holds his shield infront of him. If you press it too late, it wouldn't matter much this way since you're still in guard to be protected from an attack.

As for turning a GP into a SAED, all you have to do is press Y+B/Triangle+circle, right after you block the attack. To turn this into the regular amped elemental discharge, hold back(relative to your character's direction) + Y/Triangle, and it'll cancel your SAED into an AED.

It's also worth mentioning that a regular block can also be used to go directly into your SAED with the same inputs, but it won't get the benefits of a GP such as reduced impact and applying phial damage onto opponents.

Here are some nice advanced guides to help you out more:
https://youtu.be/zsSmn61yQfI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQYa3folynU