Storm Wall can parry the annoying Pocket Sand but I don't know why anyone would every choose to parry arrows or Pocket Sand when they can also just dodge. Dodging is just more reliable and actually moves your character.
@@sobky6378 Some people use the term to sarcastically refer to the Bestial Sling Incantation because it doesn't do that much damage but people who spam it are incredibly annoying. It's like someone throwing a pebble in your face on repeat, or pocket sand. EDIT: Spelling
@lagideath actually, it does insane damage if you level strength and faith both to 40 or more, it does close to lordswarn greatsword damage which is a weak greatsword but the spam is aweful!
Stormwall can also blow away perfumes, like spark aromatic. Itll outright delete whatever dust it hits directly and push away the dust on the edge of the parry
@@sturmmagnunstein1008 there should be some risk involved using tools not specifically designed for parrying to do so, because you have no weapon-catching curvature or large surfaces to deflect with, but I think overall parrying needs improved. Also left handed ripostes
@@BigHatLoganGamingat the end of the day it's a video game that has magic are u realy gana talk about how much realism it should have 😅 no just no dude
@@BigHatLoganGaming No gear is "specifically designed" to parry until you slap a parry on it, *any* parry. I don't think your weapon catching curvature has much to do with your ability to parry a one handed colossal your size, turn magic into your own magic or parry beyond your physical presence. To invoke realism when talking about souls parry, you probably didn't think about the parry in itself ! I can give you nioh if you want more realistic parries in an otherwise just as unrealistic game
I like using curved sword parry. Very satisfying ^_^ Though I haven't tried PvP yet. I probably should... I think fist and thrusting sword are apparently 1 frame later than it (in 60fps)
Thops's Barrier is better than Carian Retaliation if you intend on parrying multiple spells at the same time. Carian Retaliation can only parry one spell per parry. So if you're under spell spam by a few enemies or if an enemy uses a spell that hits you multiple times, Thops's Barrier can be more advantageous.
That's interesting. I had forgotten about that aspect. I was thinking of mentioning that it doesn't cost MP to use, unlike Carian Retaliation. Nothing like bringing Retaliation to a gun fight & running out of bullets. Don't need to worry about that with Thop's if all you want is to negate magic.
So what people dont tell you is that carian retal cant block holy based projectiles in many cases while thops barrier is better for barrage spels and deflects all forms of non physical projectiles.
@@BigBirdMMA Its very similar to the DS3 onikiri&ubadachi idk if you can parry with them though. But now that you said it, if you poison infuse the wakizashi you'd basically have the sabimaru from sekiro (I love its high speed moveset with the kusabimaru)
I miss the caestus parry animation from ds3, it felt a lot cooler to slap weapons away than it does to just backhand them. Plus it was a unique animation instead of the normal shield parry, which can also be said for rapiers
I recently made a build that is kudos to chasethebros old ds3 chaos witch build in eldenring and I had a caestus with parry on it and I tried to duel with it and it was so bad I miss ds3 😢
Dagger parry is my favorite. It just has that very definitive visible parry window that lets you know exactly when you need to have your opponent hit you
I will always concede that parrying is a bad choice in PVP. No matter how good you are at it, latency and other connection issues will make it not work 60% of the time. That's why competetive duelists rarely do it. But... I'm an invader. And i invade with style. You best believe parries are the most satisfying thing for me and i can't resist.
Carian Retaliation is the best parry not only for the frames but also because it parries almost any magical projectile be it a Sorcery, Incantation or Ash of War. Most people do not realize you can parry thing like The Black Knife, Bolt of Gransax, Lightning spear, Sacred Blade etc.
Stormwall is for the style! (Also fextra isn’t a very reliable source for almost anything other than mostly complete lists, I wouldn’t trust them very much.)
I will stand by that Thop's Barrier is better than Carian Retaliation. While it doesn't have as good frame data as C.R., it has no FP cost and works repeatedly on spells such as Stars of Ruin. As well, the feeling as you stare down a Moonveil's Transient Moonlight blade and you slam your shield into it, and the turquoise light of Glintstone emanates from your shield as the paper-thin blade, crafted from the stars themselves, flies to your side, digging it's deadly tip into the dirt. And then, you see the shock on the Host's face as their instant-win button has finally met it's match. Ooh hoh oh, that shit's priceless. And also, it has some lore significance too, cus our favorite poor college student Thops made it himself, where as Carian Retaliation was probably discovered by some poindexter in Raya Lucaria.
It also reflects incants, which carian cannot. Thops made a huge discovery about incants and sorceries being 2 sides of the same coin, which is why the spell says it’s worthy of an entire new area of study
Carian Retaliation is my personal favorite. Especially now knowing that it has better frame data than the buckler. Fun fact: you can Carian Retaliate your own magic even when its source is a tool/consumable like the Omen Bairns or Glintstone Scraps. Carian Retaliating my own Large Glintstone Scraps is my favorite troll against magic spammers.
Carian retaliation used to scale off of your shield upgrades and the incoming spell damage which was a bit ridiculous(ly fun). Parry one comet and suddenly you have 1600 damage floating over your head.
I prefer the carian retaliation for the simple fact that most pvp or invasions have someone using magic...also, you forgot to showcase the last parry...the tree sentinel shield that bounces magic back
I am and have always been a firm believer in ""no shields." Dagger parry has always been my favorite and now I know why. But curved sword has always been the parry for me for showing off because it is hard to hit.
Thops is better for spells with multiple rapid fire spells as it can deflect all incoming ones instead of just one same for the arrows. It is mostly a counter to barrage type strategies.
Very cool video, I am definitely going to start using some of these, been trying to beat Malenia with all parrys recently, maybe Golden Parry will help with that.
I would like thops barrier more if it properly deflected the homing spells like star shower, but as it is I really only use it when helping people with Rennala (You can use it to cover teamates, unlike carian parry)
I know it’s been said already but god. If I could put carian retaliation on a dagger. I just love having dual daggers as an option on so many different builds. Fun fact. I’m pretty sure parrying dagger gets S in dex with keen. E/B with Lightning too ;).
My first character i spent all my stones on the lordsworn greatsword because it was the first big sword i found and my two braincells went ooga booga, and ooga booga i did but man, having the parrying dagger on the left hand is just magical since the normal attack is so much faster than the normal greatsword attack, i can catch a lot of things with it and then big bonk it with the big bonkingstick. Also some enemies ask to be parried, it is objectively the fastest way to shut some fools up.
That they had such a beautiful parry/deflect system in Sekiro and then used a static and clunky one in Elden Ring is a mystery to me. I almost bought Elden Ring in the hopes of that very same deflect-posture system, tried it at my brothers and was instantly put off.
Dagger offhand is very very deceptive, combine with some heavier main hand to poise break reliably. Not only it allows to parry, but bleed dagger with 45 arcane procs bleed in like 3-4 hits. Very useful if opponent tries to run around you or quickstep, all hits in dodges will apply bleed anyway, the tracking of dagger light attacks is very very good and the sick damage is there.
Bro that wind parry is so cool looking while also being technically lame af. If you could parry greatbows and some semi-magical projectiles like the gravity rocks, and i wish that parry actually did some damage lmao
I think you’re forgetting the unique parts about thops barrier, that you’ve also probably already seen by now. For example, the fact that it can deflect incants
Basically, Carian Retaliation/Golden Parry for objectively best, parrying dagger/curved sword/thrusting sword for swag, and buckler for instilling fear into your opponent upon loading into the arena.
Well done. I have to say youre very lucky with several of the parries straight out of the matches, esp since you didnt even know the latency. Good on ya though for landing one for every weapon available. I wish theyd buff weapon parries - they should have been at least small shield tier as missing is so much more devastating compares to with a shield.
I'm surprised they didn't use the assets from Dark Souls 3 for a katana parry. You could sheathe and choose between a parry and weapon skill attack. I'd imagine it wouldn't be hard to implement in the game or even mod it over.
Don't forget about parrying with the Wakizashi. Can be pretty good for pvp because most people won't be expecting you to parry with it, also can be power wielded with other katana class weapons.
Carian retaliation is one of the two things that carried me through the Godskin in Radahn's divine tower, the other being rot, so I consider it better than Thops barrier
WTF was that attack the opponent did at 12:57? I've never seen the godskin peeler do that with the base moveset while the weapon effects imply that it is a special attack. It doesn't look like double slash or sword dance either.
the active frames for the curve sword parry...is while the blade is BEHIND YOU? (also 2 frames on top of that, no wonder I have never parried anyone with it.)
Rapier parry animationc used to look pretty cool in DS1, I don't know why they kept nerfing til now where it just gets the basic parry animation of fist weapons, while Curved Swords get to keep their own animation.
Storm Wall can parry the annoying Pocket Sand but I don't know why anyone would every choose to parry arrows or Pocket Sand when they can also just dodge. Dodging is just more reliable and actually moves your character.
My friends pvp build is just two seals and pocket sand...this would've helped allot.
What pocket sand?
@@sobky6378 Some people use the term to sarcastically refer to the Bestial Sling Incantation because it doesn't do that much damage but people who spam it are incredibly annoying.
It's like someone throwing a pebble in your face on repeat, or pocket sand.
EDIT: Spelling
@lagideath actually, it does insane damage if you level strength and faith both to 40 or more, it does close to lordswarn greatsword damage which is a weak greatsword but the spam is aweful!
Stormwall can also blow away perfumes, like spark aromatic. Itll outright delete whatever dust it hits directly and push away the dust on the edge of the parry
I'm of the opinion that the parrying dagger should be able to equip every parry ash. Let me cut a comet in half
Parry on weapons shouldnt be garbage, period.
@@sturmmagnunstein1008 there should be some risk involved using tools not specifically designed for parrying to do so, because you have no weapon-catching curvature or large surfaces to deflect with, but I think overall parrying needs improved.
Also left handed ripostes
@@BigHatLoganGamingat the end of the day it's a video game that has magic are u realy gana talk about how much realism it should have 😅 no just no dude
@@BigHatLoganGaming No gear is "specifically designed" to parry until you slap a parry on it, *any* parry. I don't think your weapon catching curvature has much to do with your ability to parry a one handed colossal your size, turn magic into your own magic or parry beyond your physical presence.
To invoke realism when talking about souls parry, you probably didn't think about the parry in itself ! I can give you nioh if you want more realistic parries in an otherwise just as unrealistic game
@@thegk-verse4216 "no gear is designed to parry"
....parrying dagger and buckler.
I've heard good things about nioh! Dunno much about it though
The parry is the combat equivalent of saying “Nuh-uh”
"Nuh uh! That attack never happened"
It’s more like a “no u”
@@sundew3848 nuh-uh
@@bclt4705 no u
@@sundew3848 erm…nuh-uh
curved sword parry really is for when you just wanna decimate someone with style
Smoking Sexy Style
Curved swords just have amazing movesets overall. Loved them since DS1, Quelaags Furysword and buffed falchion are so strong
I like using curved sword parry. Very satisfying ^_^ Though I haven't tried PvP yet. I probably should...
I think fist and thrusting sword are apparently 1 frame later than it (in 60fps)
Thops's Barrier is better than Carian Retaliation if you intend on parrying multiple spells at the same time. Carian Retaliation can only parry one spell per parry. So if you're under spell spam by a few enemies or if an enemy uses a spell that hits you multiple times, Thops's Barrier can be more advantageous.
That's interesting. I had forgotten about that aspect. I was thinking of mentioning that it doesn't cost MP to use, unlike Carian Retaliation. Nothing like bringing Retaliation to a gun fight & running out of bullets. Don't need to worry about that with Thop's if all you want is to negate magic.
Does it last long enough to eat "Stars of Ruin?" If so, I'm gonna Thop the hell out of those spammers.
Also you can use it as a spell on a staff
@@-Gravity.There are still stars of ruin spammers in this game?
It also costs no fp, even if it hits a spell
As someone who runs dual Flowing Curved Swords, landing consistent parries in PvP would be a dream. So elegant… so dangerous…
aha consistent parries... thats a dream in itself
So what people dont tell you is that carian retal cant block holy based projectiles in many cases while thops barrier is better for barrage spels and deflects all forms of non physical projectiles.
My favourite parry is Perry the Platypus.
The one benefit of Thops Barrier is that it can deflect multiple magic projectiles at once.
+ it blocks incants which carian doesnt
The wakizashi is a dagger but can be powerstanced with katanas. So if you want to be stylish with a dagher for parrying, keep that in mind.
gives you sekiro vibes
@@BigBirdMMA Its very similar to the DS3 onikiri&ubadachi idk if you can parry with them though. But now that you said it, if you poison infuse the wakizashi you'd basically have the sabimaru from sekiro (I love its high speed moveset with the kusabimaru)
I miss the caestus parry animation from ds3, it felt a lot cooler to slap weapons away than it does to just backhand them. Plus it was a unique animation instead of the normal shield parry, which can also be said for rapiers
I recently made a build that is kudos to chasethebros old ds3 chaos witch build in eldenring and I had a caestus with parry on it and I tried to duel with it and it was so bad I miss ds3 😢
DS2 parry and critical attack animations are pretty rarely mentioned, the animatiom is very nice.
Hornet Ring moment @@franciscoreza8295
Dagger parry is my favorite. It just has that very definitive visible parry window that lets you know exactly when you need to have your opponent hit you
I will always concede that parrying is a bad choice in PVP. No matter how good you are at it, latency and other connection issues will make it not work 60% of the time. That's why competetive duelists rarely do it.
But...
I'm an invader. And i invade with style. You best believe parries are the most satisfying thing for me and i can't resist.
“Sup my dudes”
I have a passion for fashion
As a person who has never parried in this game whatsoever, I'd say you did a good job.
This actually inspired a run idea, also nice job. Respect
Carian Retaliation is the best parry not only for the frames but also because it parries almost any magical projectile be it a Sorcery, Incantation or Ash of War. Most people do not realize you can parry thing like The Black Knife, Bolt of Gransax, Lightning spear, Sacred Blade etc.
carian doesn’t parry incants lol, that’s something only thops can do
Stormwall is for the style!
(Also fextra isn’t a very reliable source for almost anything other than mostly complete lists, I wouldn’t trust them very much.)
I will stand by that Thop's Barrier is better than Carian Retaliation. While it doesn't have as good frame data as C.R., it has no FP cost and works repeatedly on spells such as Stars of Ruin. As well, the feeling as you stare down a Moonveil's Transient Moonlight blade and you slam your shield into it, and the turquoise light of Glintstone emanates from your shield as the paper-thin blade, crafted from the stars themselves, flies to your side, digging it's deadly tip into the dirt. And then, you see the shock on the Host's face as their instant-win button has finally met it's match. Ooh hoh oh, that shit's priceless.
And also, it has some lore significance too, cus our favorite poor college student Thops made it himself, where as Carian Retaliation was probably discovered by some poindexter in Raya Lucaria.
It also reflects incants, which carian cannot. Thops made a huge discovery about incants and sorceries being 2 sides of the same coin, which is why the spell says it’s worthy of an entire new area of study
As a wise man once said: No one expects the parrying dagger inquisition
imagine they see you dual wielding daggers and go for an attack and boom they get parried out of nowhere
I legit Love to play Like that. Parry dagger and the misericordia Go so Well together
Jokes on you I use a rapier
@@bencameron299based
It is a painful thing to parry with a curved sword, a very painful thing…
12:10 u were so badass with that parry that he begged u to spare his life 😂😂😂
I'm just a sucker for Rift Shield with either Carian Retaliation or Golden Parry, I always make sure I get me that shield asap
Butthole shield
That first parry was just so clean, like you did it without effort
parrying in botw and totk (zelda) is less powerful that flurry rush, that is the only game i can think of to challenge your mindset
But you can disarm people with style and deflect laser beams in the coolest way possible
I like the Golden Retaliation on the Erdtree Greatshield - deflects magic and sends a big bolt of holy back at the caster.
Carian Retaliation is my personal favorite. Especially now knowing that it has better frame data than the buckler. Fun fact: you can Carian Retaliate your own magic even when its source is a tool/consumable like the Omen Bairns or Glintstone Scraps. Carian Retaliating my own Large Glintstone Scraps is my favorite troll against magic spammers.
i like tossing the triple rings of light at my feet then doing the golden retaliation ash on the Erdtree Greatshield
Carian retaliation used to scale off of your shield upgrades and the incoming spell damage which was a bit ridiculous(ly fun). Parry one comet and suddenly you have 1600 damage floating over your head.
Thops barrier can deflect multiple spells unlike carian retaliation
I prefer the carian retaliation for the simple fact that most pvp or invasions have someone using magic...also, you forgot to showcase the last parry...the tree sentinel shield that bounces magic back
I am and have always been a firm believer in ""no shields." Dagger parry has always been my favorite and now I know why. But curved sword has always been the parry for me for showing off because it is hard to hit.
Thops is better for spells with multiple rapid fire spells as it can deflect all incoming ones instead of just one same for the arrows. It is mostly a counter to barrage type strategies.
Thank you for the nice and informative video, I personally use the golden parry just for the extra range ^^
I'm pretty sure this man said "parry" more then 100 times on this video, i love it.
My favorite parry has got to be the Wakizashi. Does good damage on its own and can bleed people fast with the blood affinity.
Very cool video, I am definitely going to start using some of these, been trying to beat Malenia with all parrys recently, maybe Golden Parry will help with that.
I would like thops barrier more if it properly deflected the homing spells like star shower, but as it is I really only use it when helping people with Rennala (You can use it to cover teamates, unlike carian parry)
I just love using the perry dagger while in combat though
for practicing
practicing the harder parries is so worth because it makes other parries super easy
My favorite parry is the UGS parry from DS2.
I appreciate some love to DS2, best souls' pvp imo.
😉👍
Anything felt good to parry with in DS2, at least for me.
Thop's Parry was my favorite, because Thop was the only character I got emotional about during my first playthrough.
My brother you forgot the best parry in the game, Erdtree Greatshield.
Sadly it can’t parry tho, it’s more of a deflect
@@monkwashere touche
@monk it's a spell parry though
@@samuelruiz7377 Yeah but i think the prerequisite is it needs to be able to parry physical attacks
Carian parry for the win!!
Very versatile and can be aplied to high defence/high stability shields like the one Godrick soldiers use.
I know it’s been said already but god. If I could put carian retaliation on a dagger. I just love having dual daggers as an option on so many different builds. Fun fact. I’m pretty sure parrying dagger gets S in dex with keen. E/B with Lightning too ;).
the parry I'm mad didn't return was the Katana parry, I find it the most satisfying personally.
i first discovered the curved sword parry on a shamshir, so i call it the Shamshir Parry, my favorite parry
9:23 SO TRUE. Nothing like a PvP invasion with magic and RoB, gotta love that shit.
My first character i spent all my stones on the lordsworn greatsword because it was the first big sword i found and my two braincells went ooga booga, and ooga booga i did but man, having the parrying dagger on the left hand is just magical since the normal attack is so much faster than the normal greatsword attack, i can catch a lot of things with it and then big bonk it with the big bonkingstick. Also some enemies ask to be parried, it is objectively the fastest way to shut some fools up.
That they had such a beautiful parry/deflect system in Sekiro and then used a static and clunky one in Elden Ring is a mystery to me.
I almost bought Elden Ring in the hopes of that very same deflect-posture system, tried it at my brothers and was instantly put off.
Dagger offhand is very very deceptive, combine with some heavier main hand to poise break reliably.
Not only it allows to parry, but bleed dagger with 45 arcane procs bleed in like 3-4 hits. Very useful if opponent tries to run around you or quickstep, all hits in dodges will apply bleed anyway, the tracking of dagger light attacks is very very good and the sick damage is there.
HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THE CURVED SWORD PARRY BEFORE?! THAT WAS SO DOPE!
Bro that wind parry is so cool looking while also being technically lame af. If you could parry greatbows and some semi-magical projectiles like the gravity rocks, and i wish that parry actually did some damage lmao
Storm wall should be able to parry weapons that cant be parried
Like whips or two handed colossal wepons
That curved sword parry is nutty
I wish there was a katana parry so I could embrace the One-Armed Wolf playstyle.
Love this comment
The uchigatana had that in dark souls 3, I miss it dearly
I think you’re forgetting the unique parts about thops barrier, that you’ve also probably already seen by now. For example, the fact that it can deflect incants
i just use thops’s barrier in memory of my boy thops. rest in peace sweet prince
Basically, Carian Retaliation/Golden Parry for objectively best, parrying dagger/curved sword/thrusting sword for swag, and buckler for instilling fear into your opponent upon loading into the arena.
Well done. I have to say youre very lucky with several of the parries straight out of the matches, esp since you didnt even know the latency. Good on ya though for landing one for every weapon available. I wish theyd buff weapon parries - they should have been at least small shield tier as missing is so much more devastating compares to with a shield.
Awesome video man
bubble sorceries + golden and carian retaliation = good time
Slap it on an only shield build to become the Bubble Lord.
prettiest elden ring thumbnail I've seen. good job mate
You can also use carian retaliation on some incantations like godskin black fire ball thing
I'm surprised they didn't use the assets from Dark Souls 3 for a katana parry. You could sheathe and choose between a parry and weapon skill attack. I'd imagine it wouldn't be hard to implement in the game or even mod it over.
Big fan of Carian Retaliation paired with DMGS
I am entertained, good work peasant
I wish the buckler and parrying dagger were the same as in ds3, they feel too different for me to use
i hoped onto ds3 last month to see if maybe i lost my touch or something but yeah, elden ring mucked it up for some reason :/
The storm parry can deflect gurranq's stone toss and boulder toss attacks 100%
i love the tree sentinal "parry"
this dude pulled up with the medium shield parry straight dogging on it and then just parried the very first attack and smoked that dude out
carian retaliation parry on any medium shield is my fav to use
A water drop just made me sub to you 😂
Bro that thop's barrier invasion looked painful. A full bull goat, using rivers of blood, spamming magic. Bro has to be fat rolling bad😂
When using a longsword in conjunction with a shield the Longsword is so much better than the Broadsword just for the pokes alone.
Me before: man I'll never be able to parry
Me now: **changes equipement mid fight just to parry**
Don't forget about parrying with the Wakizashi. Can be pretty good for pvp because most people won't be expecting you to parry with it, also can be power wielded with other katana class weapons.
I've had a lot of success using wind wall or whatever (the wind parry) for people throwing bombs and such at me cuz they're a lot slower.
8:01 guy is still in the times when rollcatch with black knight GS was meta
Carian retaliation is one of the two things that carried me through the Godskin in Radahn's divine tower, the other being rot, so I consider it better than Thops barrier
The guy using the patches emote after getting CS parried is a real one ☠he knows he just got styled on hahah
I was waiting for golden retaliation 😭
WTF was that attack the opponent did at 12:57? I've never seen the godskin peeler do that with the base moveset while the weapon effects imply that it is a special attack. It doesn't look like double slash or sword dance either.
barbaric roar r2
This guy has practiced a lot obvs. I suck so bad at parrying, I can say I’m good at jump attacks and comet azure with the night and flame sword lmao
Beat all 3 dark souls blood borne and Elden ring haven’t parried once
bro hit a K.O. at the end
netcode saves your location from x-ms before. So, you can't run away from any attack in pvp.
Best video monk 🤝
Yes bro I definitely see the dookieness in the hit box
Amazing monk 👏💯🤘💪
Good thing about DS2 was parrying with greatswords I really wish that was still a thing
I wish they would have given the rapier a special animation
Always loved the curved sword parry all the way back to DS1
the active frames for the curve sword parry...is while the blade is BEHIND YOU? (also 2 frames on top of that, no wonder I have never parried anyone with it.)
getting a parry with the curved swords is just a flex
That’s crazy the medium shield parry is the only one that works for me 😩
Rapier parry animationc used to look pretty cool in DS1, I don't know why they kept nerfing til now where it just gets the basic parry animation of fist weapons, while Curved Swords get to keep their own animation.
Storm wall can deflect the barrels thrown by the Stormhawks
this is a fire tip, i hate those birds lol
All parriable weapons should be able to equip those ashes.
I'm now gonna go online and use the curved sword parry. Is cool
Weirdly I have always used medium shields for parrying simply because i got used to the feeling of them.
No greet at the beginning of the match great PvP etiquette here folks
no way in hell should you have hit the 1st parry ahhaha great vid