How do I know if I mastered Royal Guard in DMC3?

[Rusty]

Silly question I know, I'm starting to royal block most attacks from Nevan, Beowulf, first boss, Doppelganger, Geryon, and my parries got a bit consistent with Vergil too, yet I get plenty of guard breaks due to timing being so tight
How far do I have to get to be just sure I mastered this style?

[ProjectXsent]

Probably if you can block all of Vergil's attacks in M20 DMD.

Also, I'm not sure if you saw the Buffered Royal Blocks (Jump Guard/Roll Guard strat).

[OST]

DMC3 speed runners (e.g. WaifuRuns) tend to favor the use of Royal Guard, so you could watch some speedruns for inspiration.

If you're more into the style play side of things, there are SS DMD runs here: https://dmc3ss.github.io Some players like Sena or Surefire Tactics stick to RG IIRC.

This is obviously a very high bar, so don't be too harsh on yourself. Have fun!

[Rusty]

Originally posted by ProjectXsent:

Probably if you can block all of Vergil's attacks in M20 DMD.

Also, I'm not sure if you saw the Buffered Royal Blocks (Jump Guard/Roll Guard strat).

Oh I have seen it yeah, I use it often mixed with ground parries

[Rusty]

Originally posted by OST:

DMC3 speed runners (e.g. WaifuRuns) tend to favor the use of Royal Guard, so you could watch some speedruns for inspiration.

If you're more into the style play side of things, there are SS DMD runs here: https://dmc3ss.github.io Some players like Sena or Surefire Tactics stick to RG IIRC.

This is obviously a very high bar, so don't be too harsh on yourself. Have fun!

It's so addicting to parry despite failing multiple times that I'm starting to git gud with the style, recently I started accidentally parrying whole attacks from a few bosses and I felt stylish for it, and then I combine it with DDMK to bully the bosses

[OST]

Yeah, RG is very addictive. DDMK makes things much easier, at least for me, since I'm not that good at blocking when there are still 6-7 enemies surrounding me, so it's nice to be able to use other styles until I thin out their numbers a bit.