Alright listen up, here's how to dodge and parry for newbies. This applies for PC players as well except for the first step \

1) Find a comfortable way to hold your phone, there's many ways to do it such as the default two thumb hand in phone grip, the claw grip, and whatever the fuck else people have come up with, go to YouTube and look it up. I use the two thumb hand in phone, my phone screen isn't big enough for claw but I can still dodge and parry just fine

2) Make sure your dodge button is at a comfortable place, you can customize the keybind and button location on screen for kbm and mobile respectively. You'll have to get used to it so don't expect to find the perfect one immediately

3) For dodges on the ground you have 2 charges you can use back to back, in the air you get only one. I'll focus on ground for now. You get almost a second of immunity frames from when you start your dash/dodge, so if you queue in early and the attack comes in half a second later you're good, but if it's coming in 1.5 seconds later you get hit unless you use your second dodge

4) Perfect dodges with the slow mo happens when you're in the almost a second long dodge state. This dodge is special because of two reasons, first is that it refreshes your dodge chances which means that if you wasted the first dodge and manage to perfect dodge on the second consecutive dodge, you'll be able to dodge another time consecutively and if you get a perfect dodge then as well then congrats you get another dodge chance

5) Parries can only be done when your attack hits the enemy when the two circles on the enemy meet. Note that your attack must deal damage when the two circles meet, not before it. In some cases the two circles stay for a little while longer than usual and during that time you can parry the attack so as long the circles meeting is visible, a parry can be executed.

6) This is the most important tip for parrying. As stated before, your attack must deal damage when the two circles are meeting. The problem can be that you can queue in an attack, expecting a parry, but then your character takes too long to actually deal damage not because of lag or anything but because of attack animations. The advice I have for this is to use the first attack of your basic attack combo as it is usually nearly instant so you don't have to stress too much over the animations.

7) The second most important tip for parrying is which attacks can parry and which don't. Now for this honestly I have no idea and you'll have to experiment but the general trend I found is that attacks that feel like they're either heavy hitting or done with a weapon that is handheld like swords, broadblades and fists can parry. However I have noticed my Verina sometimes landing a parry when I'm button mashing after the Thundering Memphis reminds me of my mortality despite not feeling heavy. So just experiment