Can you parry troll attacks with any shield?

[Bono my tyres are gone]

I saw a guy in a video consistently parrying troll melees and melting them with the counter attacks but it looks like he's using pretty high end gear.

Is it a recommendable strat with a lvl3 wooden shield and a bronze sword or should I stick to kiting?

[Suzaku]

Upgraded wooden shield can parry unarmed basic attacks, but I think you either result in a draw or loss if you attempt to parry the overhead slam or a tree trunk. You'll want an upgraded bronze shield or above to handle those.

[Silent Warrior]

Yes, you can parry the trolls. But a buckler works better for parrying, when you got already a bronze sword, you could make a bronze buckler as well ? You'll get a 2,5 parry-bonus with buckler. A wooden shield can parry too, but with less bonus dmg.

[bacon]

bronze buckler

[Zombits]

I've read about bronze buckler LVL 2 or better, works in my new game.

Most enemies can be parried with same biome tier buckler that are updated. For mobs with stars it's more complicated

[Nerevar]

you could. or you could just keep headshotting them with a bow. they take bonus dmg on thier heads. a bow sneakshot to thier head with a good bow can instant kill a troll.

[Salty]

the bucklers aren't better at parrying or blocking, they just provide a bigger damage bonus after the parry. if you are more concerned with reducing damage and preserving stamina, a standard shield is the way to go.
but yup, you can certainly parry a troll. pretty sure you can parry everything as long as you get the timing. not poison dmg.

[bacon]

Originally posted by Frogman:

the bucklers aren't better at parrying or blocking, they just provide a bigger damage bonus after the parry. if you are more concerned with reducing damage and preserving stamina, a standard shield is the way to go.
but yup, you can certainly parry a troll. pretty sure you can parry everything as long as you get the timing. not poison dmg.

completely made up

[JP_Russell]

Originally posted by Frogman:

the bucklers aren't better at parrying or blocking, they just provide a bigger damage bonus after the parry. if you are more concerned with reducing damage and preserving stamina, a standard shield is the way to go.

This is not correct. All damage to an enemy while they're staggered is doubled regardless of how they were staggered.

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Stagger

The parry bonus multiplier on a shield is applied to the shield's block armor (which acts as a second layer of armor that reduces damage using the same formula before it then gets reduced again by your equipped armor), thus bucklers have the lowest block armor for regular blocks and the highest block armor for parrying.

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Blocking_(Skill)

[Salty]

oh. well that's kind of lame. here i though the bucklers were an offensive alternative. higher risk higher reward and all. my B.

[Zombits]

Originally posted by JP_Russell:

Originally posted by Frogman:

the bucklers aren't better at parrying or blocking, they just provide a bigger damage bonus after the parry. if you are more concerned with reducing damage and preserving stamina, a standard shield is the way to go.

This is not correct. All damage to an enemy while they're staggered is doubled regardless of how they were staggered.

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Stagger

The parry bonus multiplier on a shield is applied to the shield's block armor (which acts as a second layer of armor that reduces damage using the same formula before it then gets reduced again by your equipped armor), thus bucklers have the lowest block armor for regular blocks and the highest block armor for parrying.

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Blocking_(Skill)

Thanks for reminder. Also why a buckler is the only useful shield in the game when playing solo imo. Tried to find reasons for crafting tower shields and such, I cant. better just kite or parry.

in coop one would tank hits to help the group. all I can see

[JP_Russell]

Originally posted by Frogman:

oh. well that's kind of lame. here i though the bucklers were an offensive alternative. higher risk higher reward and all. my B.

Well, effectively, they kind of are more offensive. If you can parry heavier attacks, you can potentially engage bigger or higher starred enemies in melee and stagger them for the damage bonus with an iron buckler than you can with a banded shield, for example.

Without the ability to parry a high damage enemy (or to stagger them by some other means), fighting them in melee can be so difficult and risky as to not be worth it (skilled enough players can get it done with dodge rolls and stepping out of range of attacks with correct timing to keep the enemy from magnetizing to them during the attack animation, but that will be difficult for most). So a buckler can let you fight enemies you'd rather avoid without it.

[blackphoenixx]

Originally posted by Zombits:

Thanks for reminder. Also why a buckler is the only useful shield in the game when playing solo imo. Tried to find reasons for crafting tower shields and such, I cant. better just kite or parry.

Pretty much. Tower shields are for people who can't get down the parry timing.
Though the movement penalty makes them pretty sad even then, especially if you combine them with heavy armor. It's just not worth it.

[NiceSchwanzeBro]

Tower shields are for people who cant parry? lmao tower shields are the better choice overall, after around 900h in i realised that parry shields are a stamina hungery tool, i've never run out of stamina during a fight using a tower shield, did you? why run if my block skill is +40 and i can literally stand still with muliptle seekers hitting me for between 3 - 8 stamina, and on each hit they get flinged a couple meters backwards, sure its fun to parry but late game parrying an attack makes me lose 30 stamina or more which is crucial espiacially in infested mines, it really comes down to preference and what power you choose to use, i've played this game for around 1.4k hours beaten it muliple times with different setups everything is viabable it depends on the player

[cAipi_rInHa]

you can parry trolls with a knife, no need for a shield

[blprice61]

Not parry but blocked a log troll. Used a level 3 wooden tower shield, and had starting tunic, leather helmet and pants. The normal attack I could block but was close, the smash.. staggered me and left me with like 1hp - I beat feet and got out of there. Oh, food was deer, boar, and honey.