SEKIRO Parry Timing Visualized

! ATTENTION !
this useless chart DOES NOT actually show you WHEN to press LB
it only shows you WHAT HAPPENS when you press LB.
The moment you press LB you activate a 30 frame parry window,
if the strike lands within this time a perfect parry goes off,
if the strike lands on the 31st frame it's a normal block,
if the strike lands on the 61st frame you take damage.

[@XxxTheFireEmblemxxX]

Lots of people don't realize that blocking from an early parry is wayyyy better than getting smacked on a late parry.

[@Hatchling99]

Hesitation is defeat, after all

[@nqtduc]

We all know that. But boss in sekiro deal shit ton of posture damage, especially the fake corrupted monk. So we're forced to parry at the right time, rather than always try to parry early 😬

[@liamcarlson4843]

@@nqtduc Thats why the gokan sugar is the best one (whatever sugar gives posture damage reduction)

[@AProblemOfficer]

@@nqtduc that’s why the illusion corrupted monk is one of my favorite bosses in the game. It’s a straight up deflect / posture battle. I just beat it a few minutes ago and man it feels good every time. I’ve memorized that move set like the back of my hand.

[@nqtduc]

@@AProblemOfficer I struggle with that boss in both NG and NG+. His attack sometimes delay, sometimes so quick. I ended up use firecracker and ash to beat her

[@ZeroPM]

Pretty interesting how one small indicator like this can change the whole feel and difficulty of a game. With the parry time window being visualized it's actually super forgiving, the real challenge is to read the movement of your foes. Also respect for the effort, this looks like a HUD element that could be in the actual game.

[@EverRusting]

I always thought that Sekiro parry window was huge (in comparison to most other games I mean) if you aren't spamming

[@lord-of-the-shinobi-world]

The way to parry correctly is One, watch the enemy's movements first Two, before the impact is about to happen, press L1 or LB Of course, easier said than done. I failed 100 times before i could actually have a success

[@ruski77]

@@EverRusting It is im pretty sure. The window is a lot more forgiving than parry times in Dark Souls. However the difference is you have to deflect entire chains of attacks while in souls you wait defensively for a *single* attack and parry it.

[@iotaje1]

Also the camera in close quarters.

[@juandiegoorozco5531]

please no, that would ruin the game

[@mrbiff1069]

I think this looks phenomenal and kudos to you for making this, it's super cool. However I can't help but think that this would result in a GTA V minimap situation where you would spend the entire time looking at that one bar and nothing else. You would eventually start getting comfortable and not needing to look at the rest of the screen if that makes any sense. In GTA and RDR a lot of people, me included, spend a lot of time looking at waypoint GPS on the map and that can detract from the spectacle that is happening on the screen. I feel like the way the game is currently built already answers this issue by forcing you to read the movements of your enemy's limbs as well as their weapon, the angle it's coming from and where it will land, etc.

[@haemburger8215]

W

[@prawn_]

I'm pretty sure Alexander knows that too. It's just nice to look at the time we have to deflect visually, at least once.

[@stephen6272]

i don't think anyones saying it should be on the screen in the game

[@textexadecimal9340]

I was thinking it would be best to have something like this animated relative to the enemies' or player's screen position. At least then you could still have a warning for attacks coming from off screen. Although, the game kinda has that. To get an idea of when to parry, on slow attacks, I've learned to recognize the position of graphical effects surround the blade, and the torso movements of fast attacks; like Isshin's Ashina Cross is just slow enough that you can actually react to it.

[@RuthwikRao]

this is just visualization, they're not trying to add in something that was missing or anything

[@ryzenwick120]

I think that when you block spam, the recovery animation (no parry frames) is longer than the parry animation. So it's like a 30% chance u get a deflect, while If u time them, the parry window is very generous so the chanses would be around 70% deflect. tl;dr. Hesitation is indeed, defeat

[@Tainuo]

It's actually a bit more technical than that. Every time you tap Deflect more than 2 times you will get diminishing returns on your active Deflect frames. So if your normal frame window is 6 frames for a Deflect it will be decreased to 4 frames as soon as you mash for the third time. Down to 2 frames on the fourth press and 0 on the fifth, meaning Deflects are no longer possible. So a key skill in higher level Sekiro(Charmless, Beadless, etc.) is only double tapping Deflect, basically doubling your chances of success.

[@emmanuelakalusi3690]

@@Tainuowow most interesting. This explains something. I tried not to spam ever but sometimes my timing was simply off. Especially with a new boss, and I would have to press it again but it still seemed to work in really short bursts

[@Ghorda9]

@@emmanuelakalusi3690 just hold the button down for a second or until the hit happens.

[@SMT-ks8yp]

@@Tainuo what a weird way to nerf button mashing.

[@MrGetsLaidALOT]

@@SMT-ks8ypthe game is built around learning to parry so it makes sense. if you could spam L1 and parry everything to win that wouldnt really be a fun game

[@plastic8570]

I'm so glad that people are still making content about sekiro

[@Ehzah8]

tru tru a forgotten hidden gem

[@teabow.]

@@Ehzah8 it won game of the year, it's definitely not a hidden gem

[@karayi7239]

Most parry windows seem to be around 30 frames. at 60fps, that's 500ms window. The average human reaction time is ~200ms, meaning, you need to recognize it's parry time within less than a third of a second. The insane thing is, even on a first playthrough, you'll manage to parry MANY attacks even against bosses you've never faced. A remarkable achievement of game design.

[@Kaldrin]

That's not entirely accurate, you only take in consideration an edge case where the enemy takes 500ms from the start of their animation (So the starting point from which the player can start to react) to the damage dealt. While these attacks exist they're not the norm in Sekiro, in fact most attacks take much more than 500ms to actually touch you, thus you have much more time to react than what you're implying. This mechanic challenges you less on your reaction time than it does on your sense of timing / rhythm / knowing the patterns

[@NoahYoudontneedtoknowmyl-kt3vc]

I want to get Sekiro and I want to go in blind :) (unlike elden ring and stuff)

[@karayi7239]

@@NoahYoudontneedtoknowmyl-kt3vc you're in for a treat

[@adomali87yearsago.71]

@@NoahYoudontneedtoknowmyl-kt3vc struggle learn beat repeat

[@TheMisterGuy]

"Most parry windows seem to be around 30 frames." Nooooooo no no no no. 30 FPS, in a 60 FPS game is 1/2 second. Most parry windows in ARPG games (like Dark Souls) are more like 1/4 second for "normal" parry tools, with 3/8 for the better tools and 1/8 for the worse tools. Fighting games like Soul Calibur have even tighter windows, and "perfect" parries in those games are sometimes literally perfect, meaning one frame or 1/60 second. 1/2 a second is a really long parry window, but Sekiro is so forgiving on this timing because you're expected to do it a lot.

[@axl2059]

My friend once said that Sekiro is like a rythm game, and it's true you can close your eyes when fighting another blade wielder and if you train/memorize the sounds it is like Uzui Tengen's musical score ability, he can basically memorize an opponents attacks and see it as a music sheet until he can read all the attacks and predict/deflect all of them

[@DeeMulaah]

I have the same perspective as your friend People initially look at me funny when I describe it that way until I say it's almost as if you're dancing with your enemies and the goal is to make sure you're always leading

[@gekiitriceps9211]

back when Sekiro came out and i heard this perspective of it being a rythm game, it completely changed my gameplay. it even got easier, to be fair :D

[@emmanuelakalusi3690]

@@gekiitriceps9211I only realized after playing other dark souls game. Elden ring bosses just felt so fucking clunky and random in comparison lmao

[@ISfake324]

People have beaten it blindfolded

[@nqtduc]

Lilagy defeated it blindfolded 🫣

[@vl9747]

" I p a r r i e d t h a t " lmfao, I'm dying.

[@ECCHIBANxHELLSING]

That’s our we haven’t gitted gud yet

[@fafflerproductions]

This is so cool to see. Also this shows why this game is so goddamn good. You can't just get by through random movements. When you understand how it works it ends up with an almost rhythmic dance between you and the enemy of blocking and striking. This game BY FAR has the best feeling combat out of any game I've ever played

[@x.Lion.x]

Tbh you can get through a lot with random movement but if you get into the dance of the blades you truly see the beauty of the game and combat also it's a LOT easier

[@Th3RealUnknown]

the game is ez asf 💀

[@x.Lion.x]

@@Th3RealUnknown Nobody said it's hard you fking r*t*rd it's by far the easiest souls game at least as long as you don't play any p*ssy one shot builds which you can even partly do in this game at least you can ez clap the end boss in like 2 minutes

[@redfrog1628]

That's a good way to describe it, I always called it Focus. Kind of like 'in the zone'

[@fafflerproductions]

@@Th3RealUnknown not really. From beginning to end it's one of the most challenging soulsborne games with some of the most challenging bosses along the way, and requires you to learn proper timing and certain mechanics. The way it works is it forces you to learn how to properly play the game until you've mastered it. Each boss uses a collection of mechanics you've learned across your playthrough and if you don't pay attention, you get destroyed. Maybe you had an easy time with the game, but if you're claiming the game was easy and you took more than an hour on a boss or skipped bosses, than you're lying to yourself. I've gotten to the point where I can easily play through the game on NG+7 with kuro's charm, but that doesn't mean the game is easy. It just means I got good at playing it.

[@ICDedPeplArisen]

Understanding that spamblocking is less effective is great, but even better if you understand why. After blocking, you have a generous 30 frame deflection window, which at 60 fps is half a second for a parry. If you block and don't deflect, the window is reduced slightly, and spamblocking can lower it down to about 1/10th of a second. Sure you may get lucky with some deflects, but practicing mindful blocking and early deflects is key to getting better. Another thing to mention is that when deflecting successfully, the deflection window resets to 30 frames.

[@acanthodactyl]

In theory yes, but for me the game became much MUCH easier when I started spamming block instead of trying to get the timing right. When I was playing "by the rules" every early game miniboss took me 20+ attempts, and it took me like 100 attempts to beat lady butterfly. Then I noticed that mashing parry was actually pretty consistent and much easier than learning all the timings by heart through trial and error. I beat many bosses in one or two tries without learning any of their patterns, just start mashing when they get close.

[@TimothyGod]

​@@acanthodactyl well some cases mashing party is the solution with how fast some attacks and combos are

[@yaboi-km2qn]

@@acanthodactyl this is a lie, unless you got a different version of the game than everyone else. The game is litterally designed to stop you from doing that.

[@hrybory3453]

​@@yaboi-km2qn With charm and without bell, most enemies do little damage and have little health. With proper posture management, I can see how spamming deflect can be a viable alternative to learning enemy attacks.

[@y_corruptor_y]

🤓🤓

[@iwearajacketwhenitscold5308]

very much missed opportunity to add the parry visualizer over the spam block footage. despite that this is a great demonstration of the parry mechanics and is very well edited

[@vepeu]

you'd be staring at the parry meter instead of playing the game, bad take

[@slyose6154]

@@vepeu You didn't even understand the take. He's talking about this video, not the game

[@Jaycomma]

@@vepeuyou didn’t even understand what he said 😂 why are the dumb ones always the loudest 💀

[@linedpaper5374]

this is so freaking awesome!!! i've always wanted to see something like this and you made it better than i had imagined. thank you for sharing! the final "i parried that" was legit hilarious

[@secondsaint214]

I play a lot of fighting games, and many of them have parry mechanics. Even after years of practice, I'm terrible at using them well. They often require a level of timing I just can't do outside of controlled situations. Sekiro's parry window is literally 10-15x larger than some of those windows (30f vs 3f or in some cases 2f). I immediately noticed that the parry window was massive when I started the game, and honestly I love it. It's so accessible and so much fun.

[@mingQWERTY]

Dante's Royal Guard in the Devil May Cry games is one that comes to mind for me. They did make it somewhat more forgiving in the 5th game but the games prior it was super hard to pull off a perfect deflect and I'd argue that even in DMC5 it's still quite hard to pull off. Sekiro's timing is indeed very forgiving in comparison

[@assassinonprozac]

⁠​⁠@@mingQWERTYRoyal Guard is actually pretty generous at a 6 frame window, and DMC5 didn’t adjust the window at all, it’s still 6 frames but the punishment for blocking early is non-existent in 5 so the risk/reward has been skewed massively in your favor. If you want a strict parry system try Issen in Onimusha, I don’t know the exact frame data but it starts off somewhere around 6 frames, the interesting part is that if you press the attack button at a specific point during the Issen animation you can do another one for free, and you can do this forever, the catch is that the window gets smaller every time you do it and it becomes genuinely frame perfect very quickly. If you get good at chain Issen you can destroy bosses in literal seconds because they dared to attack you one time.

[@cosmic2750]

My way of memorising movesets in Sekiro is through the clashing swords and the timing interval between them. How I learned to deflect Isshin's 7(8?) hit combo was to say the parries out loud, like, "1, 2...1 2, ...1,2,3-Mikiri". Same for Genichiro. Sekiro absolutely works as a music rhythm game. I wouldn't be surprised if we somehow found out that the music of the bosses match the tempo of their attacks.

[@Kaldrin]

Isn't the music of most From Soft games already matching the tempo of attacks of the bosses? I think I've seen that somewhere.

[@notVishnu69]

​@@KaldrinDancer of Boreal valley?

[@seastilton7912]

I just look at the weapon and parry when it's about to smack me. I rarely memorise timing but just observe the visual clues, the game does an amazing job of showing body language so you can almost watch the tension in their body to anticipate the timing of the strike. It works (kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnKbio1jopaVq7c)

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

1, 2, 3, Mikiri sounds like if Sekiro wrote a book for children.

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

@@seastilton7912 Someone gave me the tip of watching the hands, and that helped a ton

[@TheKnightDrag0n]

00:38 Mind blowing, I think this is the second time I've seen someone perfectly deflect Genichiro's floating passage, same goes for O'rin flurry attack.

[@ghad6799]

Second playthrough and I was deflecting perfectly, for all bosses except Isshin.

[@tobigomez3069]

I don't know if you guys read the movements like this but, when i want to do a perfect parry, i search for reading the "intent" of the attack. The perfect example to explain it is that stomp attack that the Guardian Ape does in his second phase. When he does it, i try to focus in his arm and not his sword, doing this when he is beggining his attack i can see that slight movement that his body does before the blade attacks and parry him perfectly.

[@BoomSqueak]

Love the ending. "I parried that!" Clearly, you did not.

[@metheuscane719]

Dude thats cool af . I wish we got this feature in practice mode like that to know the timing ( i dont think its a good idea tho). And I thought i was good at deflecting until using kuro charm. It showed me how bad i am at the game...

[@alexandershushakov4431]

That's actually a really cool idea for a mod

[@TimothyGod]

It would actually be the perfect practice thing. It doesn't tell you how to beat bosses, or what each owns timing is, just that this is how it works.

[@sassas1487]

@@TimothyGod That would trivialize the game even in practice, Sekiro is about reading the opponent replacing all of this with a bar in the middle of the screen is a bad idea

[@shitpostingstevebecauseall6279]

@@sassas1487 Not necessarily, especially since Sekiro has a lot of different enemy types. You can be amazing at killing Hanbei in the tutorial section, but you'd still probably die a lot on a first playthrough because timing the parry on different enemies is pretty hard. Putting this kind of feature in the Hanbei arena would just expedite some of the very early learning process by giving them a framework to work off of, but that practice wouldn't even scale far enough to trivialize the first Ashina Spear.

[@jeremycanning7058]

I think it wouldn't be too bad for game balance when you factor in unblockable moves. You'd still have to pay attention to things besides the bar.

[@MythyMoo]

Guy at the end sounds familiar, I don't know where I've heard him but he pisses me off

[@alexandershushakov4431]

He's here kzbin.infoUgkxl6i_5z3pbMSA_lD0an_e6Fx5t9hV_wxC

[@Tea-Spin]

Yooo mythymoo

[@Kringkily69]

One thing I would say about flurry attacks is that they are all at the same speed in groups so if you recognize the tap sequence it’s the same spacing each time and no need to panic tap block. Awesome video

[@internallyscreaming2788]

When you look at it like this. Sekiro's parry window is very generous

[@ZephyrK.]

I mean it is generous, Sekiro’s parry window is around 30 frames whereas a fighting game like Street Fighter 6 is around 2 or 3 Frames.

[@lillorrdpeep]

hitting a series of perfect deflections is one of the most satisfying feelings ever in gaming

[@fernandosousa7515]

You helped me and several friends to understand this mechanic better, thank you very much!

[@renanleandro5914]

The fact that the game doesn't have an indicator to when do certain actions is one of my favorite parts honestly, like having to actually read the enemies movements to know the right time to parry, or when you have the dangerous attacks, like the amples and the lunges, the game warns you that's it's an attack you can't block, but it doesn't tell you if you have to mikiri or jump, you have to ACTUALLY read the enemy's movement, see where he is going with his weapon, in order to plan your next moves.

[@ICDedPeplArisen]

Need a mod like this. I've already beaten the game numerous times but visualizing it for one wouldn't hurt.

[@konradk1066]

Today I learned, the parry window is a set of frames, not just a one-off perfect-timing chance kind of thing. THANK YOU

[@seastilton7912]

What did you think it was? 1 frame out of 60? That would be such an incredibly unlikely timing

[@shade08538]

@@seastilton7912but it’s possible

[@tileux]

I started off as a spam blocker. Its definitely a bad idea, although a simple block can be useful sometimes if you have time to shake off the posture damage - ie during the apparition phase of the second corrupt monk fight. As long as your back is to a wall during those attacks blocking works fine. I disagree about flurry attacks: i find them easier to parry due to the rhythm. The trick is to be ready for the inevitable kill shot at the end of the flurry, and also to be ready with the insta-block and then parries at the end of your attacks. Once your opponent starts parrying its time to back off.

[@enki5446]

I know this is kinda late but the parry window is actualy almost 3time shorter than this , it's 12 frame source : The Truth About Sekiro Parry Frames by ahmz1404

[@whatevermanh7657]

if this were a mod it would be amazing to teach newbie players to learn the "rhtymn" part of sekiro gameplay,hell even for pros it would help. You really gotta find someone to code this to a mod

[@TheGrades90]

a lot of people are learning about chip damage and kuro's charm right now.

[@ahmz1404]

Hey, I don't know how you counted your frames but it's really wrong, maybe you were counting the input delay too, at 00:09 the animation for the parry does not start until your indicator is almost halfway through the green bar, you started counting 10 frames too early. I went inside the game files themselves and the parry frames are 12 while playing at 60fps. I also counted frames just to show that even frame 15 is not a parry. I made a video about it.

[@alexandershushakov4431]

I did this animation by just observing, so it isn't by any means precise, but it still looks kinda right to me. The indicator starts moving when I usually press LB, I have over 200h in the game, so I feel very confident with those parries. What I've notices is that after a successful parry Sekiro spends another few frames just standing there being a badass. Like in here 0:20, pressing LB causes the character model to start turning when animation of the sword going up still hasn't started. Here's also a good example 0:22 he's just taking his time standing up and looking cool I guess, parry animation isn’t even there.

[@ahmz1404]

@@alexandershushakov4431 with all due respect, feeling that it is right when we're talking about frames per second, isn't good enough, especially if you are telling people it is such and such frames. This video is very cool but the info in it and the info on fextra about the parry being 30 frames is very misleading and wrong, while I've gone into the game files themselves to see the hard values. The parry is 12f at 60fps, or 0.2 of a second. I would recommend you go into the files yourself, or just watch my video, and then make a new video based on the hard data with your visual effects, and delist this video. But that's only my recommendation ✌️

[@alexandershushakov4431]

@@ahmz1404 this video wasn't supposed to get 200.000 views, it was sitting at 40 for 4 month😂

[@sullgames]

​​​​@@alexandershushakov4431 I think you should make a pinned comment about this. Many people will see such a polished animation and assume the maker got the timing right before doing all that. Thus the video is misleading about the game's difficulty because the parry window is apparently less than half as long as you show it to be (I can't verify this myself but other videos seem to prove it).

[@nomercy8989]

The animation team is the real mvp here

[@linedpaper5374]

animation team of one it sounds like, so extra props to Alexander. i'd call it better than "newbie animation" for sure

[@thechugg4372]

I was about to say the exact opposite, the animation does NOT convery at all how long this parry window is, a big failure on the animation part...

[@Ala_tus]

The parry system feels so nice with the corrupted monk, especially since his posture regen is so slow, feels like all you gotta do is block and then you win.

[@lukepoplawski3230]

I feel personally attacked with the “I pARrIeD tHaT.” At the end good sir/madame.

[@nikopascua9496]

Thank you so much for this, I thought that the window of opportunity was much smaller than that. I might actually finish the game now

[@zzedixx]

Love the MythyMoo reference at the end

[@Leg1503]

Coming back to sekiro after lies of p feels like a cakewalk. Feels like triple the parry time

[@ileiad]

finally... Sekiro journalist mode.

[@nobodycares3333]

This feature can be life changing...!!

[@MurielissonPepe]

Why would you want that during normal gameplay? It defeats the whole purpose of getting good. It’s a neat feature tho.

[@Kagezava]

Actually this is the point. Block spamming reduces the parry window, but gives you a block if you miss that window. So it's best to only spam a block when you don't know what moveset the enemy has.

[@DRcorban]

Can't believe it took this for me to realize the parry timer is tied to the *WOOSH* sounds.

[@Blackflagxll]

problem with this mod is that once you done a boss fight all you remember is this parry bar...

[@EuroFighter59]

I wish there was a video tutorial like this for every boss

[@diegosaez4885]

You may not know this but you just created one of the smartest and simplest accessibility feature I've seen in a long while.

[@TimothyGod]

100%

[@Certified_souls_player]

Also, thank you for pointing out the spam deflecting. I was arguing with somebody on KZbin about this how he said the game was so easy because you could literally just spam your way through it which I told him it’s not true you’ll end up taking damage or having your posture broken quick as hell like I would love to try to see someone do that shit with the demon of hatred lol

[@tobigomez3069]

When i fought Demon of Hatred i died a lot trying to parry him. Then i tried to fight him like a Souls Boss, and it worked perfectly. So maybe that's not the perfect example, i would say that Phase 2 of the Guardian Ape or even the Monk are better examples, because they have delayed attacks and if you spam block i'm pretty sure that you could get One shoted or almost

[@zeronime284]

You can spam block to flurry attack, and you can also do rhythm spam: by pressing and holding block exactly after 1 second each.

[@uffu2490]

Learning the mechanics is my only issue with this game but I love this game so, so much.

[@gaminginarow]

I just listen to the sound and predict the next move by the speed of the enemy's attack. I of course also look at the attacks, but sound plays a key role for me.

[@dangerdan2592]

I personally always have trouble with the delayed hit attacks where the enemy winds up but then sort of hesitates before swinging. The flurry attack can be hard too but the slow ones get me way too often because I press the button too early.

[@haikall5479]

Headless slow then fast attack is so annoying

[@mac-ec8do]

Axe guys, big bois, headless, corrupted/true monk, their slow timing always throws me off

[@Toshiro4619]

How you gonna call me out at the end of the video? In all honestly having the little visual indicator really helped me see about what I was looking for. Very helpful, 10/10 would recommend

[@GodKiller97]

This is literally how I mentally visualize just-frame moves in fighting games when I’m doing combos. It has carried me doing many b3 loops with Lee

[@seastilton7912]

I think people are misunderstanding what this does. When the bar starts moving isn't when the enemy has set off a trigger. It's not like 'the bar is moving, press LB before it ends to successfully parry'. In fact it's the opposite. The bar starts moving when the player presses LB. Then the enemy's attack must hit the player to reset the bar back and make it a successful parry. If it lands too late, it's because you started the parry early. In short: the LB input STARTS the bar moving, the enemy's attack RESETS it.

[@huntarius8253]

song at 0:34 is lotus waters from yume 2kki if anyone was curious

[@kevinchang0527]

I hope this can be added into a mod. I finished Sekiro with normal difficulty but never got the hang of it with the demon bell rung.

[@Kaldrin]

They key is to spam more slowly, with a precise rhythm, I think you can end up with a good half of the time being in parry windows.

[@daxia0]

I always stay in guard then let go and lb again to parry. Idk if its better or not but staying in guard recovers posture faster so ive just gotten used to it and its more immersive I think.

[@remigusker6024]

Seeing it visually the window is way more generous in actual timing than it feels like. X3

[@greenimpwtf]

I'd really like to see what's going on with some weird timings, like that Monk's upward cut or Armored Warrior's charged overhead, they seem to hit earlier than what is telegraphed.

[@Lachy1407]

This should be included when teaching people how to play Sekiro, it's great.

[@Raizmorph]

For a moment there i actually thought it showed you when to block, before i read the description. Why is nothing ever easy

[@MortalMercury]

I dont understand why the one that caused everything to go wrong with Genichiro didn't set back the progress of the bar despite being hit in the green zone

[@mazukai6525]

That's actually amazing 👏 I always wanted to know how much time I had to parry an attack

[@DankMemer42013]

So don’t wait for the sound of the Perry

[@xanderatkinson2748]

Bro I didn't know it was possible to parry genichiros second to last attack in his flurry.

[@StormbringerI]

There is a certain "whoosh" sound just when the parry window gets open.

[@PlaySA]

My problem is usually waiting too long to parry. I always want to do it right when the strike is about to hit but that's not the best way, better early than late

[@abrahamrangel2326]

It does feel like after every consecutive parry you do the parry frames decreases

[@zonk1580]

Adding this as a hud element could honestly work great as an easy mode and would be a much better option than just adding extra parry frames or reduced damage.

[@fatalcreeper8694]

This is so cool I can't wait to play this

[@alanfrost2973]

Music to my ear colors to my eyes

[@TheFizio]

I don't know if it does already since it's not shown here but it'd be cool if this worked for thrusts too, since they can be deflected normally

[@YourCrazyDolphin]

This doesn't show the enemy's window, this shows the player's window. The bar beginsoving when the player begins to parry, and if struck while in the green zone they deflect. If struck after, but before the arrow, they get an imperfect deflect.

[@yaourcoco2176]

Thank you for the great work ! Could you please confirm (or not) that the parry timing in termes of duration in seconds is the same at higher than 60 FPS ?

[@darthnut7089]

Spamming block works pretty well for flurry attacks

[@0mnislash208]

1:06 he accepted his fate and was like my time has come..

[@TheSolitaryEye]

This made me realize that Sekiro is really just a rhythm game disguised as an RPG

[@TimothyGod]

We've been trying to tell people for years

[@NobleVagabond2552]

This is really damn cool

[@camdenkid342rep6]

I know most people in these comments played sekiro already but for new players still willing to try don’t be afraid to just hold the block button and learn attack timing before just straight trying to guess deflect but using that trick to learn boss attack since ds3

[@verypatto]

The point is to recognize the movements of the opponent in order to know what time to parry. The indicator on the screen does everything for you, there is no sense in such a game

[@inferlas8313]

I only parry spam and when in first getting into the fight to learn there attacks once I’ve decided I’ve learned there attacks I reset the fight

[@acrowsnest_t6630]

theres also alot you havent touched. To time your parry as you intent to, you either need to be standing or *walking*, otherwise your character will first have to transition his stance to parry.

[@TimothyGod]

So moving while being ready to party is ideal?

[@acrowsnest_t6630]

@@TimothyGod jut no sprinting, or jumping

[@angryzergling7832]

When I played the game when it was new I swear I think I used to just spam L1 and get deflects constantly. Just started a new playthrough and that no longer works and it's like the video shows. I wonder if they changed it or if I'm misremembering.

[@chandrahas2502]

Perfectly Fits To Game. It's Looking Like The Developers Are Added This.

[@anz111]

Now this looks like a proper rhythm game 🥁

[@sirpuffball6366]

i have hundreds of hours in sekiro, i can beat every bossfight nearly effortlessly, and i have yet to *ever* fully deflect genichiro's floating passage.

[@Uchiha_Sasuke209]

a very cool visualation. Thx

[@Thiccness_Is_Delicious]

Would actually have loved something like this sekiro feels more like a cinematic experience rather than needing to be a ridiculously hard game for those who dont like to parry or play rythm games.

[@murrayshort5635]

Awesome visualisation only wish it showed the parry timing for stabs aswell

[@joyuwaekwe7788]

Who needs it just remember hesitation is defeat no need for an indicator

[@thechugg4372]

Thank you, this is the one video that made me understand and love this game, and yes when you learn this it is the easiest souls game

[@WeebSlayer27]

Idk if the video is accurate with this, but the deflect window when you hold a single block is wider than if you spam it.

[@Crispierbug]

Cant believe this rhythm game doesn't have a official rhythm visualizer

[@rEDiNFMY]

Im confused, I do the spam and it just recovers when I keep spamming it just doesn't stop working

[@mmaasstteerrdee]

I find flurry attacks easier than long, delayed strong swipes

[@Afflictamine]

I swapped Parry from LB to LT, makes a huge difference imo, much easier to do multiple parries in a row

[@marccarlovendivil7958]

Thanks for these, this video made Sekiro parry click for me,

[@arctother5176]

I cannot lie, I’d love to see this for Puppet Souls

[@latetootheparty]

It’s like you have to press block more than you should press to swing 🗿

[@1m2misaelenrique11]

This is the easy mode that journalist wanted

[@tranngockha6562]

Phenomenal works

[@leinadlink]

I know there's a difference between regular parry and a perfect parry in this game. I wonder which window is getting visualized here, because it feels to generous to be a perfect parry.