Perfect Rush Punishing Draw

[Ghost Bear]

I have been having a lot of fun playing a punishing draw build with SnS, I find it to be a great weapon to use with due to how easy it is to sheath and how great the draw attack is, I've managed to get around 3 stuns on a furious rajang. I have however noticed, that perfect rush seems to apply the stun effect even mid combo, as I have stunned monsters that are already knocked down in the middle of the combo.

Could someone with more knoweldge than I on the working mechanics of perfect rush explain this perhaps? I believed only the first hit of the attack would apply the stunning effect. The first time I thought that perhaps I lagged or that I simply misjudged what happened, but it has happened to me a few times already. Perhaps the stunning effect lasts a few seconds after the draw and its not just on the first attack as I believed?

[JebKerman]

Shield blows with SnS (which I believe perfect rush has at least one in it) also do a bit of Blunt damage and so can KO.

[Ghost Bear]

I have never noticed a shield blow in Perfect Rush, but I could be wrong, I'll try to pay closer attention to it.

[JebKerman]

Originally posted by The Senate:

I have never noticed a shield blow in Perfect Rush, but I could be wrong, I'll try to pay closer attention to it.

There's 2
1. The first hit of the first attack, a light shield bash followed by a couple of slashes.
2. The entire second attack, a shield uppercut of sorts.

They make a different sound, a sort of dull thud, as opposed to the slashing sound made by the sword attacks.

[Ghost Bear]

You are correct, I just watched a video on it, it does have one shield bash. I suppose I never noticed because I'm usually focusing on the animation queus to get the timing right XD

[Grisnir]

Originally posted by The Senate:

You are correct, I just watched a video on it, it does have one shield bash. I suppose I never noticed because I'm usually focusing on the animation queus to get the timing right XD

if you use the Witcher Sword or the layered version of it, you can see it

[Imperial City Guard]

Originally posted by The Senate:

I have been having a lot of fun playing a punishing draw build with SnS, I find it to be a great weapon to use with due to how easy it is to sheath and how great the draw attack is, I've managed to get around 3 stuns on a furious rajang. I have however noticed, that perfect rush seems to apply the stun effect even mid combo, as I have stunned monsters that are already knocked down in the middle of the combo.

Could someone with more knoweldge than I on the working mechanics of perfect rush explain this perhaps? I believed only the first hit of the attack would apply the stunning effect. The first time I thought that perhaps I lagged or that I simply misjudged what happened, but it has happened to me a few times already. Perhaps the stunning effect lasts a few seconds after the draw and its not just on the first attack as I believed?

I think punishing draw only applies on a drawing attack.
For example the first hit of a io slash after a special sheathe on the longsword