This was by far the most satisfying video of Havel getting tortured for his crimes against fun ever.

i understand this video is old i doubt you will see this but i feel the need to say it still. a long while ago in my early days of dark souls the one thing i wanted to do was figure out how to parry. that is when i came across your video here. you explained this so well and i today still play the first dark souls and i still can parry 90% of the time due to this video. you made my first dark souls play through so amazing and memorable and all the others to follow as well and i never thanked you for it. so i would like to say it now. thank you.

I discovered a quick and dirty general rule that will usually get you a successful parry: hit the button just as they begin to make their attack go towards you, so hit it right after they stop their windup and begin moving to actually hit you.

I didn't know that lengths of weapons didn't count in parrying, that tip was very useful.

3:54 Most brutal circumcision ever

I just realized this came out 10 years ago, holy crap! So well made and detailed.

I've been playing games for over 25 years and the Souls series since Demon Souls came out in 09, I've played and beaten all 4. Never could I ever get the parry right. I platinum'd Bloodborne, I can parry anything and everything all day in that game, no problem; but parrying in Dark Souls, might as well critical attack my own character for all the good it will do. Then I watched your video. The slow mo was especially some real help. Afterwards, I applied what you taught me in the video and within my first encounter to test the skill in Dark Souls 1 (and after eating the first two strikes) I was able to get my first ever parry. I continued to practice and within 20 minutes I was parrying at a rate I was comfortable with to effectively use the skill. Now I can parry anything in all 3 games with ease and its all thanks to your video. I cannot thank you enough, as all it took for me to finally get it after all these years was how you showed and explained it to me. I'm no noob and have no issues getting through any game really, but the parry in the Souls series has always been a annoyance of mine, something that I had to give up on in a series that is about perseverance against all odds, something I had to watch other do put couldn't participate in, something I could never get right despite my best efforts and other trying to teach me. Your one video changed all that and has opened up a whole new gameplay experience to me, so thank you. Thank you and million more thanks yous as I could never thank you enough.

I miss this guy and all of the og dark souls content... DS1 had some great times...

Being someone who just picked up the game last month, knowing that you have to be really close no matter the size of the enemy's weapon is incredibly helpful.

Just picked up the remaster today. This video is still helpful in 2023.

10 years later and this video is still relevant. Helped me immensly in learning how to perry/reposte. Thanks a bunch!!!

Havel trolling .. you made me cry man ..

Sorry, but after seeing the guy get wrecked by the falling gate at 4:21, I stopped listing to what you were saying and just watched that on loop.

Short version: When their hand is moving forward, parry

"I feel sorry for Havel" - said no one ever

The definition of "riposte" is generally a quick reply or answer. The definition of parry is to ward off an attack. So you parry(ward off) an attempted attack and then riposte(quick reply) with your own attack.

I was seriously about to hang this game up for good....until I watched this. I can actually enjoy the game now. I know it's been years ..but thank you. Really

That's one extremely brutal way to kill Havel (and embarrassing for him).

I find it helpful to look at your attackers body and not the weapon. As soon as their body move toward you, parry.

70 hours put into DkS2 and I still can't parry for the life of me. Just loaded up DkS out of nostalgia and I parried all the Firelink hollows in one try, even getting no sound ripostes on a few of them. Oh how times have changed..

The first few bits of this video gave me the most precious knowledge on parrying. Seeing that you parried on when they cocked their arm back helped me with my timing so much. I used to stare at the tip of the weapon and use that for timing. It always resulted in getting hit or a partial. Thank you so much for that slow-mo and the follow up advice

this is parry useful!

5:10 good sir this clip helped me alot with parrying and with timing, i know its 2016 but this video is never too late for the game because its always gonna be good, great work on the video and thanks.

just bought this game for my switch, never played dark souls or the others. Great video!

After playing for a while, I realized that parrying is all about knowing the different attack animations and patterns.

I love how those reposites while you're "havel trolling" looks like your motorboating him. Adds insult to injury to insult.

thanks for this. I am 10 hours into the game and I am starting to get into how things work. The first 5 hours were painful I must say, now it is getting somewhat playable.

DARK SOULS LOGIC: The giant geeatsword of Gwyn got push away by your tiny arm BONUS LOGIC: Do you see the metal balls that the giant used to throw in Sen's Fortress?Try punch it to see what happens

Wow. I have played this game for months, yet I still learn more! Like last week I learned to parry longswords, curved swords, and all other fast attack weapons. I never knew you could parry the berenike knight at 1:30. Thanks so much!

Not only is the information in this video excellent, it is also very well made and that is something you don't see very often

Late praise, but extremely impressed with the quality of this video (and presumably the series - about to find out). Articulate gaming webcasts are hard to come by.

You're doing the Lord's work

this video makes it look so easy! I've died a good 20 times trying to parry the black knight

Incredibly professional and well composed. Great video, great advice. If only there were more channels like this one. Bravo.

"DS runs at 30fps. Each frame is 300ms, the human eye can blink at approx 3-400ms"..... I think I'm in love with you. This was divinely well crafted to suit any adventurer. Ty!

2020 and still the best parry tutorial ever

you just snapped the rock's neck with one hand. My god. That was beautiful.

Great tutorial, and holy shit that dude got annihilated 4:21

That moment you parry giant arrows in Anor Londo blew my mind.

You saying that they gotta be close for it to work is exactly what made it click for me. Thank you

Very useful, thank you sir.

I watched the beginning of the video with my jaw to the ground. Seriously man, you do it like a machine (or asian).

Every few years I come back to brush up my skills

Bro, I'm a dark souls (III) veteran, but I've never tried parrying until today because it's so frustrating. I decided to try again now that I've started DSPTD, and was struggling for about an hour to get more than like, 2-3 parries. Total. Not in a row, I got about... actually maybe 5 in an hour. Then I decide to google it, find this video, and I haven't missed a parry yet (out of 7, I got excited and wanted to comment immediately, haha). Just knowing it's the beginning of the animation that does it, and you have to be close enough, made all the difference. Thank you so very much for helping a parrying newb start their journey of satisfying animations and combat!

awesome video! I love the fact that you took the time to make some actual measurments of the parry-windows and recovery time. Every other comment or video I've seen regarding this has all been based on mere speculation. great job, man :)

I need this information so I can kill Gwyn. He is my nightmare. From what I understand here, the best window to parry is as soon as the attacker has finished their attack wind up animation and begins the actual attack itself.

Really handed Havel the Rock his ass at the end. Didn't even need a shield for it. I think practicing parries will be my next goal.

Playing as Bulma?

Thank you for this wonderful in depth guide. From the footage I see that your parry skills are god like. Kudos.

I just reached Anor Londo and by this point, i have all but forgotten that my controller had a left trigger, hence why i am watching your video. 5 minutes later, and i understand parrying. With just your statement about those 4 conditions, im starting to git gud at parrying finally ahhh THANK YOU

I cannot thank you enough for this video. Until I watched your video I never understood how parrying actually worked. Which is sad because I’ve played through all the dark souls and Bloodborne multiple times. 😅

jesus... you are so damn good at this game man. you just have fun, I've played them over and over again scared miserable, while using all my health potions. I dont get it, but props!

Just looking back on some of my favorite DS videos as DS2 fast approaches. Vageta311 - this was one of the classics for me along with EWFG's videos and a few others. Hope you do some of this in DS2. Cheers.

I've played all three, and I'm on my second run through all of them, currently on game three... and I've never really figured out how to parry. I'm a dirty casual. Watching this though, has made me seriously want to dive back and and try it again, armed with this new knowledge! Great video, man!

Bro this helped so much thank you. Anyone who want to learn how to parry watch this video

lol if the hornte's ring was in the game in the first plase and you can equip it during pvp then fuck them, everything is valid in war.

Hey, you're really good at parrying. You should do a video.

4:21 demon's souls fat minister flashbacks 😂😂😂

Thank you for these infos. For me specifically the "be close to your enemy" was the one that is boosting my parrying the most.

Just watched this video today and you helped me realise my mistake. Trying to parry from too far away! Then being confused why I hardly ever get it to work. Shortened the distance and wouldn’t you know it - it works a lot better now! Thank you so much dude, really appreciated 👍🏻

Thanks to your guide here I went up to that black knight above the Hellkite Dragon, and whooped that ass.

Miss ya man

1. Thanks for the guide. 2. Havel got rekt

Thanks for the video man. I suck at parrying but I’m learning. I’m fighting Gwynn now so I’m sure you know exactly why I watching this vid.

i watched this for 30 seconds then i started parrying EVERYTHING literally i love you now.

13:19 why are you motor-boating havel?

Analysis of the animation is nice, but what we need to know is when to press the button. Has anyone found a video with a "press button now" icon?

I stopped listening when he got to the Havel trolling and just watched

It was amazing to see you parry arrows and magic attacks. You're awesome!

The slo mo part really did help my timing, fresh to game

Come back vageta :(

there was no need to use that system of counting frames, if you have Sony Vegas then you can change the timecode to count frames rather then seconds anyway.

4:17 Dude.

Because of this video I actually dropped the Shield/Weapon type of gameplay in the Souls games and focuses on playing with different weapons in both hands to time parries and attacks from both hands. It was really informative. :D and helped me utilize dual wield playstyle in these games too. (my favorite in fantasy genre in general)

Just got Dark Souls 1 and 2 at a great discount, and noticed that parrying is one of the hardest things to do. i want to learn as most as I can before purchasing Dark Soul 3 and thi video was a great help.

havel getting owned that hard made my day xD

You sound like Rust Cohle off True Detective

"Dark souls runs at 30 frames per second." That is not a constant. Look down on blight town and tell me it always runs at 30fps >.>

Just started my Dark Souls journey and this video is a lifesaver. Thank you for putting in all the time!

This was extremely helpful, now I know I need to be a LOT closer to what I'm parrying.

Im not your pal

3:55 feminism at work.

So how much crit modifier has rapier then? it's written 110 on wiki.

After I watched this video it really helped me learn the interworking's of parrying and I damn near mastered it not too long after watching it. I could definitely use a guide like this for elden ring.

Amazing. On this day, July 3, 2013, I, a semi-experienced player, have learned that a partial parry can prevent stagger effects. Thank you sooo very much... O and S are screwed now lol

do all of these apply to darksouls 3?

I think all this frame counting is like EVs in Pokemon, it ruins the spirit of the game. That being said Dark Souls is one of the meanest games I've ever played so fuck the spirit of the game I'm taking all the help I can get.

You kinda sound like Matthew McConaughey.

As someone who started playing the games in disorder (first Bloodborne, then Dark Souls 3, then Elden Ring and Now Dark Souls Remastered) this is such a good tutorial! I couldn't figure out for the life of me why I couldn't parry in DSR!!! T H A N K Y O U!

I just got this game for Switch and can't get past the first Black Knight. This upload is 9 years old as of this comment, and still relevant to raging players such as myself. Thank you! (now to search your channel for 'back stab' and other Dark Souls meta game info!)

This video seems too good for 2012.

"Parrying Basics" - Doesn't tell you which button to press.

How bout you talk less and actually tell us how to parry. Bud.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge on parrying.

clicking on an 8year old video and having this kind of quality was unexpected and i appreciate it. even the audio is nice compared to some other 8 yo videos that sound like it was recorded in a bathtub

Its not casual that your name is Vegeta! Awesome work, congrats from Brazil!

Can I just say that the little transitional frames are a really, really nice touch? Super classy, nice homage, 10/10 will steal for use later.

Holy shit, thank you dude. I couldn't parry for life, watched your video and was able to parry the first silver knight I saw. That's so awesome, thank you so much haha.

thank god for this vid. i've been so confused on how special parrying items (parry knife and target shield) work compared to normal parrys. thanks alot man

"WHEN THE PC VERSION COMES OUT" MY MAN DELIVERED THIS PIECE OF A VIDEO 11 YEARS AGO LIKE IT WHERE FROM TODAY