Just remember that the parry window is actually quite small. When in doubt, block earlier than later.

Lies of Pie?

You helped me with elden ring, bg3, starfield and now with lies of pi, thank you very much

I had almost given up on being able to improve enough to progress until I watched this. I am so glad I am able to keep playing this incredibly cool game. Thank you sensei

thank you. i am usually good with a parry but i was struggling a little with the narrow parry window. now, i'm nailing the perfect guard almost every time

Tip: Electric Baton and Puppet Sabre Handle have Fable Arts that both give buffs, and both stack. So does the Salamander Dagger Blade. So, instead of showy moves, you can double buff for a substantial damage increase.

The game is a masterpiece. This one of those games that idc about anyone’s reviews. Based off my expo experience so far. It’s everything I wanted it to be. Basically a tru next gen Bloodborne

In my opinion, in order for any enemy, you’re fighting to guard perfectly you have to get a base animation and then time it from there one Mississippi to Mississippi, and so on once you get that timing right for each individual enemy, you’ll be able to block for consistently without relying on just sight

Amazing just watched this video 5 minutes ago and killed. A boss that i was struggling for days . Easy way to explain 🔥🔥

I just came from Seikro so I’m trying to get the timing down 😂 the game is still a blast. Thanks!

One gripe I have is that enemies dont get interrupted by your attacks reliably. The toughest fight ive had so far is with that survivor npc in the factory. He just keeps attacking nonstop and even if you do perfect block, your counterattack will just be a hit trade because his next attack will hit you. I did manage to beat him eventually but at some point I considered switching to the rapier because it has less recovery time before you can block after attacking.

I find when they do delayed attacks, if you hit them with a quick attack then guard or dodge, it makes it much easier to hit their timing. Rather than trying to guess when the attack will drop. Plus you can sneak in more damage between attacks.

i just started this game and stumbled onto your channel i am so glad i did. Incredible insight and helpful tips! i have gone from feeling defeated to being excited to play. Did I subscribe? i sure did.

Mf got confused between Lies of P and Life of pi in the intro alone.... lmao

Thanks man, this is just what i was looking for.

Excellent guide, really helpful thanks!😊

I have very few complaints, but in such a fast paced + difficult game… I should be able to guard at any time, not be stuck in my attack animation, especially after I’ve connected already.

In short. When you see an animation attack coming - press guard.

Thanks for the tips. Very useful

depends on the boss, I had to retrain my brain to dodge only on the last boss as every perfect guard, block is followed by another attack, eventually u die, dodging is the only viable tactic i found as nearly every dodge is left with a nice attack window

Best lies of p youtuber

Skip all dat mess and buy a ton of throwables, blade buffs, and resistance ampoules while grinding your levels & weapons. Every single boss gets owned by distracting them with your Spectre, and throwing a crap ton of type-specific throwables in between you hitting them with charged-grindstone buffed blades. I played Strength & used that first sword throughout the entire playthrough. Malum District Vendor has all your throwables & buffs. Cessani Vendor has cheaper Electric buffs & throwable. Elysion Vendor has all your save-ergo buffs.

Legend! Works like a charm!

Tysm! I beat the first boss with this in mind, now my blocking is even better!

Thank you!!! I needed this

The parry is slightly before than it feels it should be he actually has to have the block up before the hit just slightly

Very helpful. Appreciate it

My favorite content creator at it again thank you for everything

You pay something either w/ stam or wep durability, pick your poison. On my 1st pt I went from going w/ guard in early game to dodging mid game and back to dodging & guarding late game. The problem I have w/ the guard system is my wep was constantly breaking throughout the fight where dodging w/ the dodge ammy and stam fixed the stam issue and my wep broke far less. I'm going to try a new build to optimize the weapon durability to see if that works... The devs really force players to TIGHTLY min max to find a good balance and I have yet to find that but I've only done one play thru.

It looks like an interesting game, I'll have to check out some gameplay. Thanks p4wny.😊😜🤙

best combat guide for beginners, thanks!

Great video!

You said Lies of Pi too!!! I always end up saying Lies of Pi too. Life of Pi was a memorable movie! 🤣

Brilliant game! Thankyou for the excellent video Cheers!

thank you, i needed this 😺😺😺

i love lies of pie

Ah yes, Lies of Pie. My favorite food-like game

Now i understand the mechanics 😎👌

My best tip just watch their arm pit you’ll usually get it. Also use a weapon with a high block negation

Oh wow. Tysm for this video. Finally someone explains it so its not confusing to me lol. Im not horrible at perfect gaurds, but i mess them up once in awhile which is just way to much with this game 😂😂 TY TY TY!! Subscribed!

Thanks Bro !

How to 'charge' your weapon? I can use that blue bar once and its gone for a long time. And after guard.. L1... do you press R1 to hit back?

People under play how good dodging is when fully upgraded, especially later game. I used dodging exclusively to fight Romeo and did not lose any health. You do have to get perfect timing, but it is possible. I also use primarily use long-range spears and trusting weapons and long blades, so the majority of a heavy charge attack that can hit perfectly when you double dodge away and I also use the puppet string legion arm which can get you closer as well. All of my passives are focused on charge and fable attacks, and now I stager faster with charge attacks than perfect guard. I know mine is good because I have a dedicated build around it, but if you can put your mind to it, you can come up with some crazy builds that seem like they should not work.

Im really enjoying the game im up to where your tracking down the alchemists but I keep clicking my guard in the perfect window of before the attack lands but just to late to get the guard up and i take full damage. theres a touch of delay with guarding that has made it difficult to master for myself.

Pies can’t lie my man

The handle does change the move-set of the blade EXCEPT for the execution. That always goes by what blade you have, not the handle

Great video

I really love all from software games so i had zero expectations for this. But I really love this game!! NG+3 right now

I love you so much for this (ignore the valorant pfp) i was always having trouble parrying and i managed to get over my performance anxiety and can explore everything without getting scared 😊😊😊😊

Nice, that weapon/strat got me through Fuoco :D

Thanks for the guide! really helpful. I am having an issue with the perfect parry. On some enemies especially the police baton puppet i noticed that the block stays stuck after i block him. So when the red attack comes i usually get finished with that because P is already in blocked stance even if i reliese the button. Do enemies when their hits are heavy stagger my weapon? What is going on here? I never had this on Sekiro which I mastered deflecting.. Does anyone else have this issue?I play on PC with keyboard and mouse.

Haven’t played yet but thinking of holding guard and letting go last min

I spent over 24 hours trying to beat Champion Victor and almost beat the living shit out of myself. I finally did it by dodging but I have to figure this perfect block out. I press the block but it's like my controller doesn't respond fast enough.

Brilliant video.

Yeah, the dodge roll was so bad that I figured guarding / perfect guard was going to be the best defensive part of the game. Can't say I'm a fan of it, but I appreciate the tips.

Whats a chatge attack? If i hold r2 it just does an r2 attack iver and over. What am i missing?

How did you get 5 pulse charges before this boss?

The parrying time seems very odd in this game. Most of the time I parry while thinking I totally missed the timing window.

Yesterday, I was playing and had a couple accidental perfect guards with the Two Dragons sword simply because I was charging up a heavy attack, which has a guard point in it. After tinkering with the timing and trying to recreate it, I realized that I had to perform the animation and finish it BEFORE the zombie thing even swung. It showed a perfect guard when the enemy's hand was BEHIND HIS HEAD still. I'm somehow deflecting an attack that hasn't even happened yet. It really just proved to me why I could never get the hang of it in LoP when I beat literally every enemy in Sekiro, including the Inner Bosses. It really, really annoyed me as I've been trying to learn the guard timings on enemies with odd animations and long-ass fake-out windups. To me, this guard system needs more work and fine-tuning, it doesn't make sense to be deflecting an enemy's arm when it's still behind his body. Maybe understanding this will help me time them from here on out, because I'm 45 hours in and I still eat hits constantly. The dodge window is terrible, and the perfect guard feels broken too, but if you ask for advice or complain at all, literally every response you get is "Skill issue. It's easier than Sekiro." because people need to feel superior for being good at their Special Hard Game.

I’ve been struggling so bad with this game. This is my first souls game and I’m trying my hardest and I’m still in the beginning

I love this game. It feels super smooth and the atmosphere is wonderful. A few not so great level design choices.. looking at you cathedral... and the parrying has me throwing my controller but this is a masterpiece

When I started this, I always TAPPED the guard button. Then one of the comments in your video said you HOLD the button. I screamed once, and now I'm managing the game. I've never played a soul game before, and this game is super challenging for me. Thanks for all your videos. I'm going for tech build, but I saw your adv build, so I'm leaning toward that build for now. Does advance build slow your ATK?

My first souls game whereby I am actually hyped to go into ng and ng+

I have held back getting this game, mainly due to the fact I have never actually known if I was any good at parrying (as when playing bloodborne I found shooting easy, and Elden Ring I used ranged builds mainly). I never played Sekiro as I thought I may get it, and end up having to buy a new tv and ps5 remote after half an hour! I watched this vid, and took the plunge and nabbed Lies of p. And man I am having an absolute blast! The parrying for me took a bit of time to get right, but I just fought any and every enemy in the first zone before the Hotel, and seemed to just click eventually. Now I actively seek out every enemy just so I can hone my skills even more. I agree with a lot of people. This game is 10/10 for me. A true next gen Bloodborne sequal.

After I get a stagger, I have a hard time getting that big flurry attack to actually hit. I see the indicator, and walk up and tap the light attack, and it only works about half the time. Is there some trick to this the community needs to know? Because I've been watching people like fightincowboy play this game, and he's having the same issue, and he's much better at these games than I'll ever be, so it seems like there's an issue with this.

Am digging this game so far.

9:08 Something to note actually - having a single A-scale weapon may not always be the best approach, especially late-game or ng+. As you progress further and get more ergo, pumping so many points into a single Stat will begin to have lower results (ex: A-scaling for motivity, you get around ~4 extra damage for your level of motivity, but as put more points into it (around 30+), the attack you gain per point decreases to +3, +2, etc. If you have a handle with B-scale motivity and C-scale technique, you want to put a lot of points in motivity, but when you begin to get less attack per point, you can switch to pumping points into technique. It's a lot more efficient than having a single A-scaling for a weapon for the entire game.

Lies of pie??? 😭

So best way to perfect guard / parry is to hold your guard up, then wait for the attack to connect, then release & quickly hold guard again?

If you come into this playing sekiro beforehand you will feel right at home. It makes more sense to guard because the enemies posture weakends. Which means the attack over time won't be as strong and they'll be easy to stagger triggering the fatal attack opportunity. I dodged a handful of times. I would say I blocked 85 to 90 percent of the time and some moments I would dodge. Also you gotta block before the point contact not during or after. Its a bit weitd but you get used to it

This is a game that you just feel it's a masterpiece. Doesn't even matter who says what you just love it.

Im have more trouble getting parries in this than i did in sekiro. And that took me a while haha

Dude, There is someone behind you!.

Omg so cool to see you making videos for Lies of P. I won't be able to play it at launch because of Cyberpunk DLC and MK1 tho, can't buy all of them at once lol. I'll definitely get next month or so! Had a blast playing the demo.

I feel validated for spending my time with the boxing dummy before the 1st boss now. I have definitely gotten used to guarding and perfect guarding over defaulting to dodging. The combat in this game is just a nice soup of other combat ingredients from other games: Charged R2 from DS3 / BB Rally mechanic from BB Guarding / deflecting from Sekiro Perfect guard / parry from DS ALL COMBINED

Please make nameless puppet phase 2 guard timing video

stuck at the start of the game and after i opened this door theres a big more powerful enemy and i cant get past him..

Boi really just said Lies of Pie

What's lies of pie? I must have the wrong game.

Is there ANY way in this game to get the non existent perfect guard window to improve? I'm not wasting my money until their is. Maybe not even then.

i like this guy

how do you do multiple perfect guards when an enemy is throwing multiple attacks quickly?

I'm sorry...did you say "pity timer"? What is that?

Ha! I've been playing the game for a few hours, I'm not good at parry but something I xan get used to. After few hours I've notice that my perfect guard works when I press the button a bit faster than what would feel like a perfect guard. Still getting used to it😅

This is like sekiro 2 for me but I’m struggling a long time on almost every boss. But for some reason I don’t care. I just enjoy it and then feel so satisfied when I finally win

This boss took me 1 hour 30 min 😅 perfect guarding is the only way to go for me

The frame by frame is helpful, but holy crap my block timing is bad

The way he says "baton".... where are you from?

I can't guard. It's so inconsistent and broken feeling. In Sekiro it felt natural and well implemented but here it's...well i can't put my finger on it but it just doesn't work?

What's lies of pie?

I just used the sekiro tactic, useful when panicking.

Crazy that this masterpiece is free on Xbox Game Pass…such a deal! 😎

I was yesterday years old when my dumbass realized you could block the red attacks 😂

I always see people talk about "always parry/guard," and I feel they haven't tried to dodge. I'm almost completely through the game and haven't parried at all, and it has been easy.

I learn with time the best defence with bosses fight is max agressive posture. Because perfect parrying with ceatures for example with "6 arms" and 18 animation attacks with its windows to pary can be .... Frustrating :D

I selected to stay away from all attacks till i can react to the attaks, slowly gettin in, and only parry or guard those attaks that leaves huge openings for punishing.. all boses became really easy after that really. laxasia, Fuoco, last boss, and green beast are the only ones that became tricky. WHile Manus and the archbishop became an utter Joke =/... but thats just me...

Yeah but what if you can’t play in slow motion?

Having played Elden Ring, Wo Long, Nioh and Sekiro, and not Bloodborne, I feel like Sekiro is the game that comes closest to this for combat. It’s all in the timing and you can’t hesitate.Thanks for the vid. Very informative.

Mmmm. Lies of Pie. You've made me hungry now 🤤🤤

What is this Lies of Pie game you speak of?