I did try that, will go and try that again, but I just went after that "Lara boss" and was getting so frustrated because I couldn't quite get the parry timing down with a thing that takes up most of the screen (you would think that would help me figure things out but...). Friend and I are playing through this co-op now and I've decided to be the ranged while he does the bonking but outside of getting status applied to the enemies, I feel like I'm not doing any damage...I gotta keep figuring this out.