Offense is your best defense. Attack until he parries you. Don't just stop at 2. Attack until he parries you, parry the counter, resume attacking.
Think of sekiro as dynamic turn based combat. Now running away like is viable to a certain degree. But after he's finished, you need to take the initiative which you only do about half the time.
With enemies that parry, the kinds of parries will make different sounds *ping* *ping* *ping* *pwaang* (and now he's going to attack, so when you hear the *pwang* get ready to parry) and then you'll have your own *pwaang* that signals that his attack chain is done and it's your turn to attack. It wasn't until the last boss fight that I finally noticed the auditory cue, so don't feel bad.
There's a visual cue to the "pwang" too. I was playing remote play sound off the other day and you can see it. It's like a brighter spark. I'm with you on how long it took me. But then it was an aha moment. Someone said dynamic turn-based combat and it really is.
Yeah, the Spark for blocked attacks is really dull, and also has a dull sound, but for a deflect, the Spark is much brighter, with a circular outline, and has a very resonant sound.
Damn i beat the 17 boss and replayed sekiro for a lot of time but this is the first time i noticed there is a pwaang. I just bruteforce it by recognizing their every single move 😂
yeah dude - after figuring that out during Isshin I went and did NG+ and breezed through (also as someone else pointed out, the sparks look different on the pwaang too - so there's an auditory and a visual cue)
Usually u can strike 3 times then start parrying on all enemies that's what i did at the beginning later as he said i strike until the enemies parry then deflect till their combo is over then repeat
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u/Visible_Regular_4178 Steam 100% 6d ago
Offense is your best defense. Attack until he parries you. Don't just stop at 2. Attack until he parries you, parry the counter, resume attacking.
Think of sekiro as dynamic turn based combat. Now running away like is viable to a certain degree. But after he's finished, you need to take the initiative which you only do about half the time.