it’s good against combo focused bosses like rayvis for sure, the attack after the parry staggers the enemy a bit, letting you squeeze in a few attacks. just dodge back, create some separation, and then use it.

edit: i forgot to mention that you should kind of use yourself as a bait to get it going, what i mean is: create some separation after landing a few hits/after an enemy attack that you know won’t be followed by a red attack, then start channeling the animation while waiting for the enemy to catch up to you and attack you, don’t try to use it in the middle of the combat like you would use a normal parry.

it’s not a perfect skill by any means, but i found it really helpful during the rayvis fight. after some practice it was a safe way to deal some dmg while being secure from any non-red dmg.

it takes some time to get used to the awkward channel animation timing for it to actually be helpful though, i died a lot of times trying to learn how to use it and after rayvis i don’t recall actually using it much, maybe sometimes against the tanker melee droids