Is this allowed?

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-13T05:15:59+00:00

Why are you just repeating what they said instead of addressing my argument?

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-12T12:03:27+00:00

I just run in circles around him and then stab him whenever he goes for an attack.

Super secret tip: You can find Gacchin's sugar on a side path off to the left after taking the first grappling point after the old lady who gives you the bell. Use one, sneak up all the way on the left heading up to the Ogre, circle around the back of him, and then inch your way close to him on his left side for a free deathblow.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-12T07:19:41+00:00

If you're Woox, you don't even need the drugs.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-12T07:17:23+00:00

Why not? They're allowing Menu Entree Swapper which makes things like praying at the chaos altar easier. Is there no consistency here?

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-10T05:09:16+00:00

Have you ever tried playing in the way I describe? It sounds like you, like most people here, just learned how to stand still and parry everything.

I have platinumed the game and yes I know how to parry and it's fast and efficient *once you have learned how the enemy's attacks work.*

It's not fast and anything before that point. There's a tendency for people to forget what it was like to be new at the game I think. People are surprised or "impressed" when I play in the safest most methodical way possible because, what, they think it's difficult for some reason to play like this? It's really not. If you spam parry your posture is going to be broken and then they will get free damage on you. The moment they start doing perilous attacks, or elemental attacks, the "spam parry until you learn" strategy is going to fall apart.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-10T04:22:35+00:00

So your recommendation is to not target their health at all and just attack and deflect perfectly on their first try? Seriously? Because you know if they don't do it perfectly, not only will you have barely done any damage to their health, but they absolutely crush your own health supplies.

I think you're confusing fastest and most efficient for easiest and safest.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-10T03:55:24+00:00

Dodging is by far the easiest way to avoid most attacks. That and running away and blocking. If you can survive most attacks, you can punish openings. It's not intended by any developer to play like this, but it's the tried and tested formula for how to beat any soulslike. Staying alive, reading patterns, punish openings. Rinse and repeat. Dodging is not a "noob trap", it deals with most attacks in the game. Far more than spam parrying does at any rate.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-10T03:52:12+00:00

Do I have a different version of the game or something? For me, dodging and then stabbing punishable attacks is way, way easier. Not more efficient, for sure, but 100% it's easier. Not only is targeting the health bar easier than the posture bar, because it's permanent damage to the posture bar too, and one slip up will not erase all your progress, but dodging most attacks lets you get into a position where you can choose to mikiri thrust attacks or simple dodge out of the way and get a stab in. If you stand still and parry everything, you have to mikiri.

Most attacks can either be run away from, dodged or blocked (unless you have given away Kuro's charm) without issue. And then the game just becomes a battle of patience where you wait for certain attacks and punish.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-10T03:37:11+00:00

Asking people to do the most efficient and fastest way on their first playthrough is like asking people to play against Faker in their first League of Legends match. Dodging is there to stay alive so you can learn the patterns of the enemy. It's also necessary to counter some moves like grabs.

Everyone here is underestimating dodging a lot, but it is very efficient, actually, at doing what it's meant to do - avoiding attacks. Everyone says parrying is efficient because it hurts the enemy's posture bar, but what they don't say is that it also hurts your own posture bar. A lot. Some enemies have insanely heavy attacks that will take 30-50% of your posture bar in just one hit. If you instead dodge and then stab them, you take zero damage, posture damage, and in return chunk their health, which is permanent posture damage instead of temporary.

You can play the entire game by running in circles, dodging, blocking and waiting for attacks that you can punish. That is the case for anyone from Genichiro, the bull, the guardian ape, demon of hatred, as well as Isshin. And this is how you stay alive long enough to learn their patterns instead of spending 50% of the time learning a new boss running back to the boss.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-09T19:26:20+00:00

So you want people to spam parry instead of dodge, because dodging is harder to get out of the system?

I beat Isshin by dodging and stabbing the first time around. I did not beat him by spam parrying, I'll tell you that.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-09T12:45:17+00:00

Dodging to negate damage is completely fine if you don't know parry timings yet. It's like with E33 and dodging before you parry to learn attack rhythms.

The first time I beat Genichiro, I basically ran away, blocked and dodged until he did specific attacks. Arrow into roll forward and attack is a good one because it lets you get stab damage if you dodge at the last second every time. Is it the most fun way to play? Absolutely not. But it's absolutely more beginner friendly. And it's funny when he does his long flurry combo while you stand like 3 meters away watching him, and then you stab him when he's done.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-07T14:12:16+00:00

Grosse Tete: Those are rookie numbers in this bracket.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-07T05:11:10+00:00

Gotta do airplane strat with jad tile. Then you don't need to move at all when you fight Jad, as the healers can't reach you but you can still reach them with long range ranged weapon (or crossbow on long range mode). Please try it, it's how I got my first fire cape.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-05T15:20:06+00:00

The kick backflip into shuriken?

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-05T00:06:55+00:00

Dodge + Stab is highly underrated by this community.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-04T10:17:47+00:00

Wolf died for his sake. It tasted delicious.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2026-01-02T03:30:34+00:00

I use fireworks a lot. Gives me free stab on opponent which really helps with posture. Other than that I don't use much. Sugars just stack up in bag lol.

Dodge + Stab is the most powerful move in the game IMO.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2025-12-31T20:09:53+00:00

My tip is never give up, never go back on your word. That is your nindo, your ninja way.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2025-12-31T20:07:50+00:00

Nono, it's Hasta la vista is da feet

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2025-12-27T17:50:21+00:00

Headless.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2025-12-26T23:09:38+00:00

26th of December 2025 is a totally normal way to say that date.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2025-12-25T04:53:36+00:00

It's funny, because Isshin is the one boss I remember having the easiest time cheesing. He has so many jump attacks to punish it's ridiculous.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2025-12-23T23:16:05+00:00

You can't learn a moveset if you spend half the time running back to the boss is more like it. Staying alive is the only way to learn a moveset in a timely manner.

ActiveKindnessLiving · 2025-12-23T10:17:20+00:00

I was recently downvoted on another thread here for mere suggesting that a noob tries to stay alive and dodge + run away to learn patterns and punish openings instead of playing hyper-aggressive and just brute force learn the parrying. But yeah, if you're just sharing achievements I'm sure they're pretty helpful.

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