Lightsaber Tips?

[Arbys We Have The Meats]

Any tips for lightsaber duels? Which is usually the ideal stance, the blue, yellow or red? Also for combos do I just keep pressing the attack button or do I hold it down for combos?

[Shwarts]

hold it down for combos, for sure.
best is red, but predictable. mix it up.

[untitled-unrivaled]

is this for Movie Battles II? I'm a blue main/shill and so I'd highly recommend people to learn blue as it's the easiest at least for me, to play. All you really need to learn is swingblocking (hold block after swing), interrupts (swing before your enemy's swing lands), parries (swinging at the same time your enemy swings) and combos (swinging the lightsaber in different directions).

For beginners though, people always say yellow.
Once you have a thing going, you should branch out as once you learn other styles you develop a counter to them.

It's really a ladder you climb
Cyan helped me learn Blue, Blue helped me learn Yellow, Yellow helped me learn Staff and Cyan and Yellow helped me learn how duals should play out. Blue and Yellow helped me learn how to play and work Purple and I'm in the process of learning red.

I can teach you some basics and give you advice in-game if you'd like. Movie Battles II ofc.

[=CrimsoN=]

If we're talking vanilla. The stances are basically rock-paper-scissors. Blue (Fast) counters Yellow (Medium) while Yellow (Medium) counters Red (Strong) and Red (Strong) counters Blue (Fast). But this is still heavily determined by the player's own skill. Someone really good at Fast style could counter someone who just spams Strong style all day.

Also, the rock-paper-scissors formula of the vanilla game really only applies to offense. In terms of defense. Blue (aka Fast) is the most defensive stance and has the capability to block a mass majority of blaster fire and lightsaber attacks. Blue is basically Soresu. Which is Obi-Wans signature lightsaber style. Yellow (aka Medium) is a good middle ground. You won't be blocking every blaster bolt or lightsaber strike, but won't be a sitting duck either. Yellow is a lot like Shii-Cho or Niman. Think Luke Skywalker before Episode 6. "It is simple, and its simplicity is strength." - Kreia. Lastly you have Red (aka Strong) which is the most aggressive lightsaber style, but also the most defenseless. It's horrible with blocking blaster fire and all around horrible for blocking other lightsabers as well. It's very similar to Djem So or Makashi. Think Darth Vader/Anakin or Count Dooku respectively.

Dual Lightsabers are basically just a combination of double fast. You basically get the range and speed of fast, but with double the damage (because it's two lightsabers). The biggest disadvantage is that it's a bit messy to use imo and you lack the power hitting of strong. You're entirely limited to the fast style, even if you turn off one of the lightsabers.

Double Bladed is like a combination of medium and fast. You dish out a lot of damage, but you're limited to the range of fast. So it's definitely a little quirky (as it should be since in the lore double-bladed lightsabers were actually incredibly difficult to use).

I got a lot of this information from here and personal observation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUTNActAX3E&t=391s

The biggest thing that's helped me (especially with blocking in vanilla) is that you need to find a fine balance between attack and defense. You can't just spam attacks and expect to win. Your character will attempt to auto block most of the time if you have your lightsaber positioned in the direction of the opponent's saber and your lightsaber defense skill doesn't completely suck, but you can't attack and defend at the same time. I find blue to be my favorite style. I hate the animations for it in vanilla, but I love the fact that it basically makes you a tank. At max lightsaber defense and in front of a group of blaster wielding enemies, you can hold up blue all day and NOTHING is getting through you.

Hope this helps. I don't play a lot of Jedi Academy, and tbh I prefer blasters, because I guess I'm just uncivilized, but the above helped me a lot and got me to stop spamming.