How do I practice using foresight slash?

[Mikko]

I'm really bad at using it, how do I practice using that attack so I can parry the monster?

[I hate summer]

Understanding the monster = success with FS. You don't practice the move. By learning the monster, you learn when to use the move, so you just have to play.

[Yoel]

Blow that barrel bomb on the Training Arena

[-Terry East-]

like he said, Understanding the monster 1st it move set, when the attack is coming, what is Its AI like move after move, and understand when to us FS, like using a counter attack. but you need also need understand the timing for FS time frame. the move/combo you were using, if you were locked in middle of animation, u can't just call out FS like SnS block or roll.

[Just Life]

Originally posted by Yoel:

Blow that barrel bomb on the Training Arena

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ECV7fERS2E
Do this to learn the timing then go out and practice on some monsters.

[Rathex 🐆]

Uhm i practiced it by getting naked going into arena and hunting diffierent types and tiers of monsters

[furfexache]

Start an investigation/event quest on the monster you want to practise on and go ham. Then abandon the quest before you hit the cart limit. Rinse and repeat. You don't lose anything that way and you get to actually learn the timing of the monsters' moves.

[cruste]

Originally posted by FurFexAche:

Start an investigation/event quest on the monster you want to practise on and go ham. Then abandon the quest before you hit the cart limit. Rinse and repeat. You don't lose anything that way and you get to actually learn the timing of the monsters' moves.

simply go to expedition or grinding land and train there so cart becomes meaningless

[~KeNnEtH~]

For me, I practised against Tzitzi Ya Ku in the Gathering Hub arena quest. This was before Iceborne. If you are somehow already at Guiding Lands (and still don't know how to use foresight slash), I agree that it is a good place to practise since carting does not matter.

Once I roughly got a better idea of it, I just use it in combat as much as I can.

Overtime, it just becomes instinctive.

You might have to adjust the lag time between the preceding move and the foresight slash depending on the monster and the move it is doing though.

[Houseki Yarisuke]

I practice and practice and practice. I can absolutely body any monster with longsword, but for the life of me I just cannot use foresight slash without getting hit. Does anybody know what the exact frame window is? I've pulled off Third Strike parries that are more lenient!

EDIT: Wait, so foresight slash needs meter now? Has it always required meter? That might be why I'm having so much trouble.

[JamesFace]

Originally posted by Emerald Lance:

I practice and practice and practice. I can absolutely body any monster with longsword, but for the life of me I just cannot use foresight slash without getting hit. Does anybody know what the exact frame window is? I've pulled off Third Strike parries that are more lenient!

EDIT: Wait, so foresight slash needs meter now? Has it always required meter? That might be why I'm having so much trouble.

Yes it does, I think they changed it in iceborne. It’s only a small amount though if I think. The timing for the foresight is pretty generous, even without meter it will still do the foresight but it will not activate a counter.

[cu5tmtp]

The window is when you are going backwards, the attack back only has invulnerability if you timed the fss correctly. I practised it by just playing the game, after 300+ hunts it just clicked.

[Houseki Yarisuke]

Originally posted by CU5TM-TP®:

The window is when you are going backwards, the attack back only has invulnerability if you timed the fss correctly. I practised it by just playing the game, after 300+ hunts it just clicked.

I tried to time it so the barrel would explode as I'm sliding back, but kept getting knocked down. Of course, I didn't have meter, so that's probably it.

Also thanks James for the clarification. ^-^

[JamesFace]

Originally posted by Emerald Lance:

Originally posted by CU5TM-TP®:

The window is when you are going backwards, the attack back only has invulnerability if you timed the fss correctly. I practised it by just playing the game, after 300+ hunts it just clicked.

I tried to time it so the barrel would explode as I'm sliding back, but kept getting knocked down. Of course, I didn't have meter, so that's probably it.

Also thanks James for the clarification. ^-^

I added a little bit extra but basically it still does the foresight animation, but the counter won’t activate without a small amount of meter.