Thanks to a recent recommendation in my weekend soulslike discussion post, I tried this tear to some success. Had a crack against the Scadutree Avatar and after a lot of frustrating attempts, and fucking third phase (???), I persevered. The flow of combat does remind me a lot of Lies of P that way and that makes me want to finally play the game to the end.

FF to Malenia. The parry is not really viable against her, is it? You can parry most her attacks, of special note is waterfowl dance, but her healing negates all the chip damage you might get in from guard counters. Am I missing something or is she just purposefully built this way?

Edit: Guess I came back home too late :D

Oh well, next time then

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    61·
    7 days ago

    I mean, you’ll take less damage sure. But she heals when she hits you so you really don’t want to just guard or block, you want to not get hit. Use the one that gives you fast rolls (more iframes) no matter what your weight is. Or stuff that just buffs your damage (especially flame or frost damage).

    Parrying is effective, if you can time it right. Completely negates the Waterfowl Dance if you manage it.

    Another viable strat is to just be super aggressive and hit her with something large that deals Strike damage and push her into a wall. She’ll spend the entire fight on the floor.

    • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      7 days ago

      You can parry Waterfowl Dance? This is news to me, I wish I had a save near her so that I could try it.

    • Druid@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Shucks. I thought I had it figured out for her. I guess it makes sense that they’d add some feature that makes it harder to cheese her. Although there’s plenty other cheese to use against her, I imagine, and I feel like sword & board builds aren’t as common as they used to be with previous entries. Whatever