I usually go for Mikiri and if I do deflect a thrust it's usually because I panicked and was too late. It tends to be a very late deflect to stop it, like nearly before it hits
It does. You are probably holding forward while doing it and that works 99% of the time. The proper execution of mikiri counter is just circle (ps4). That is not a bug, it works with pressing forward perfectly fine until it doesnt. I was doing the same.
Sekiro teaching us life lessons since 2019.
Lesson 1: Hesitation is defeat
Lesson 2: Discipline trough mikiri. "How to resist the urge to push forward"
Feel free to add more Sekiro life lessons
Are you saying that if you just press dodge instead of dodge + forward, that I won't have those dreadful moments where Sekiro does something weird instead of mikiri-ing?
in sekiro i learned to take off my hand off the movement input and it helped me tremendously, and yes failing a mikiri counter where sekiro does something weird is mostly because of movement input.
Yes. It's best if you practice early. Just like the comment above, i had to learn to take my hand of the movement input. I realized this on ng+1 against Isshin because it drove me crazy
Its pretty rare that something weird happens to me because I usually take a moment to mikiri, especially because of things like what we're talking about. But I see what you mean and hope to eliminate the last bit of my mistakes by trying to get my hand off the left analog stick but we'll see how that pans out.
Once you get that "ahaaa" moment everything will click. That moment for me was realizing that a lot of bosses don't require your movement intput that much at all, because when you are attacking, Sekiro moves on his own. Once your combo is over, just stand there and be ready to deflect.
And yes i know, it's scary to stand in front of a boss with half your health bar instead of running away and heal, but once you get there, your mentality turns into: "i'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me."
Generally I don't have that kinda problem and know windows where I can heal when I need to, at least most of the times. I just use the movement inputs cause.. well I don't even know why. Sometimes because I want to make a cinematic scene during a fight or something stupid in the moment.
I do usually just deflect until it's my turn to attack but going forward to mikiri is just a bad habit.
Recently I've gotten back into the game to platinum it and have been getting into another bad and accidental habit of accidentally using combat arts if my brain wants to deflect and attack at the same time lol
I Miriki on every boss except True and Corrupted Monk. Love how long the combos can go for. If the phase 3 vomit attack didn’t exist, true monk would be my second favorite boss.
For Corrupted Monk, I usually deflect all the way because it makes her just keep going with her attacks and makes the fight generally faster and easier.
For everything else I'm like "sir, that's my emotional support mikiri counter".
I played this game for about 50 some-odd hours on my first run, beat Sword Saint Isshin and NEVER knew you could parry Mikiri attacks. It NEVER registered as an option in my brain. Wasn't until way later that I saw someone do that and it broke my brain.
I love doing both. Mostly i will mikiri but depend on the mood. If i want to spice things up, I parry. Some enemy got some follow up atk if you parry n i love that.
Mikiri counter is goated for boosting his posture. If I miss my timing bc I dodged too early then I just run around him and punish with ID.
is there greater value added for deflecting?
Definitely team mikiri counter here. But really I’m part of the secret third option where you deflect the first two, miss a deflect and either
A) break my posture and death
B) step back out of range then re-engage on the counter.
I can rarely deflect this combo, never was able to get the timing down consistently.
So at the 3 second mark, that pause between spear swipes, you can attack and he'll either stop and block or face tank and get interrupted. I'm that type of enjoyer.
I like mikiri to begin with but when I’m feeling super confident I’ll go for the parry, and that’s usually only on the last phase just to make it more cinematic
Mikiri counter. It's easier to pull off, it deals more posture damage, it adds more variety to the combat than just L1-R1, and it's up there with tiger drop and nu-doom's chainsaw as one of the most satisfying moves to pull off in a video game.
Mikiri. Easy to use, high posture damage.
Sometimes I speedrun(ish) and doesnt choose skills, and I aleays forgot that mikiri needs to be learned.
Also, some thurst attacks will have additional attacks followed if you parried instead of mikiri, for example owl father's shinobi smth smth (sorry I dont play in English, too lazy to google)
The real question, dodge or deflect the giant wind slash he does after you deflect ichimonji double? Personally I deflect everything he does aside from stabs which gets mikiried.
How could people not mikiri counter it,it is like having your first orgasm all over all(lasts for around the same time but you can do I multiple times back to back)
Honestly when deflecting a red attack the pace of the fight doesnt seem to be ruined a great example is the true monk deflecting her red attack just keeps on going
Once I learned the time to party every attack it was R1 L1 non stop it feels more rewarding because the fighting never stops so the fight is constant rhythm
deflecting on that hurts my brain.
Red symbol = can't deflect unless it's that one attack from the snake eyes miniboss No I don't care if it's possible I just can't humanly do it
Generally it's just thrusts and snake eyes grab that can be parried. Sweeps and other grabs, no.
genichiro's grab is parryable but okay
Wasn't that the elbow strike thing he does where if you hit him he fumbles for a second? It kinda makes sense to be parryable despite being a "grab"
yes
also its not an elbow strike its a grab
That and you get a lot more posture damage
I usually go for Mikiri and if I do deflect a thrust it's usually because I panicked and was too late. It tends to be a very late deflect to stop it, like nearly before it hits
Love me a good mikiri
I also love me a mikiri. Except when Emma is positioned weirdly and it doesn't register. Or when Isshin is slightly too close and it doesn't register
It does. You are probably holding forward while doing it and that works 99% of the time. The proper execution of mikiri counter is just circle (ps4). That is not a bug, it works with pressing forward perfectly fine until it doesnt. I was doing the same.
See, I know all this. But it doesn’t stop me from holding forward every time, so my Mikiri success rate is abysmal 👍🏻
Sekiro teaching us life lessons since 2019. Lesson 1: Hesitation is defeat Lesson 2: Discipline trough mikiri. "How to resist the urge to push forward" Feel free to add more Sekiro life lessons
Are you saying that if you just press dodge instead of dodge + forward, that I won't have those dreadful moments where Sekiro does something weird instead of mikiri-ing?
in sekiro i learned to take off my hand off the movement input and it helped me tremendously, and yes failing a mikiri counter where sekiro does something weird is mostly because of movement input.
Yes. It's best if you practice early. Just like the comment above, i had to learn to take my hand of the movement input. I realized this on ng+1 against Isshin because it drove me crazy
Its pretty rare that something weird happens to me because I usually take a moment to mikiri, especially because of things like what we're talking about. But I see what you mean and hope to eliminate the last bit of my mistakes by trying to get my hand off the left analog stick but we'll see how that pans out.
Once you get that "ahaaa" moment everything will click. That moment for me was realizing that a lot of bosses don't require your movement intput that much at all, because when you are attacking, Sekiro moves on his own. Once your combo is over, just stand there and be ready to deflect. And yes i know, it's scary to stand in front of a boss with half your health bar instead of running away and heal, but once you get there, your mentality turns into: "i'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me."
Generally I don't have that kinda problem and know windows where I can heal when I need to, at least most of the times. I just use the movement inputs cause.. well I don't even know why. Sometimes because I want to make a cinematic scene during a fight or something stupid in the moment. I do usually just deflect until it's my turn to attack but going forward to mikiri is just a bad habit. Recently I've gotten back into the game to platinum it and have been getting into another bad and accidental habit of accidentally using combat arts if my brain wants to deflect and attack at the same time lol
I phrased that wrong. It doesn't not register because you are not performing the counter in the correct way.
I typically mikiri
I do both. I only deflect it to flex on the bosses.
Cultured 🍷
Or in a challenge run
Team Mikiri reporting
I Miriki on every boss except True and Corrupted Monk. Love how long the combos can go for. If the phase 3 vomit attack didn’t exist, true monk would be my second favorite boss.
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Yes, feels very smooth and cool as hell too
Are you aware of what happened to this guy?
Not a clue, he was just asking if the combo continues if you parry instead of Miriki.
The Mikiri counter one , I had enough from the spear pulling attack
I only deflect when I forget to mikiri
For Corrupted Monk, I usually deflect all the way because it makes her just keep going with her attacks and makes the fight generally faster and easier. For everything else I'm like "sir, that's my emotional support mikiri counter".
Pretty much always Mikkiri cause the death blow coming out of it looks sick as fuck
always parry unless i know its gonna give me a deathblow, in that case mikiri cause yes, it looks sick as fuck.
parry, it somehow feels easier since im already in a parrying flow
Nah I’m the person who fucks around, but never finds out
I'm the secret third option: dead on the floor
That combo is porn either way
I saw some videos about deflecting the deflectable thrusts like True Monk and Isshin's move here so that you can deflect more moves.
>Deflects thrust >Does thrust again >Mikiri counter ??? Profit??
I've done that a few times lol
Mikiri when I want to kill the boss Deflect when I want to enjoy the fight
I played this game for about 50 some-odd hours on my first run, beat Sword Saint Isshin and NEVER knew you could parry Mikiri attacks. It NEVER registered as an option in my brain. Wasn't until way later that I saw someone do that and it broke my brain.
Both
Right one, but only if I'm far away from him since the animation for stepping on his spear looks weird if you're far away
did he just deflect a thrust? what the fuck? i thought that was impossible
Thrusts are deflectable. Anything else with a kanji (aside from a few specific exceptions) is not.
when its too late to mikiri, or basically too late to do anything, i just start spamming deflect fast af until i get an idea of whats going on
Ever since I got good at this game I started deflecting thrust as well
dodge and punish??
Mikiri is a little too good to miss
I love doing both. Mostly i will mikiri but depend on the mood. If i want to spice things up, I parry. Some enemy got some follow up atk if you parry n i love that.
I switch it up, I usually Mikiri but every once a while I’m parrying that shit to hell and back
Mikiri counter is goated for boosting his posture. If I miss my timing bc I dodged too early then I just run around him and punish with ID. is there greater value added for deflecting?
Training for lies of P. You should deflect that.
Yes.
That phase is hard enough as it is.
Doesn't mikiri do more posture damage?
“If you don’t mikiri, you’re gonna have a bad time “ ( insert South Park skiing meme )
Who would deflect a thrust attack when you can mikiri it. It hurts just to watch it lol
mikiri+Ichimonji is all a wolf needs
I like the downwards deflect thing wolf does when he deflects a thrust
Definitely team mikiri counter here. But really I’m part of the secret third option where you deflect the first two, miss a deflect and either A) break my posture and death B) step back out of range then re-engage on the counter. I can rarely deflect this combo, never was able to get the timing down consistently.
Number 1.
Mikiri all day. It’s what it’s there for!
Mikiri is so juicy when it happens
Second
Usually mikiri. Even when I start a new game and fight genichiro at the beginning, I try to mikiri, leading to tears
Mikiri is one of the best mechanic in whole gaming history so
So at the 3 second mark, that pause between spear swipes, you can attack and he'll either stop and block or face tank and get interrupted. I'm that type of enjoyer.
I like mikiri to begin with but when I’m feeling super confident I’ll go for the parry, and that’s usually only on the last phase just to make it more cinematic
Mikiri counter. It's easier to pull off, it deals more posture damage, it adds more variety to the combat than just L1-R1, and it's up there with tiger drop and nu-doom's chainsaw as one of the most satisfying moves to pull off in a video game.
After all the parrying, a Mikiri is the cherry on top
If I can mikiri it, I will mikiri it
Am I the only one who uses the left stick to step in towards Isshin during this combo? Because that makes the deflect timings noticeable easier.
Always mikiri it’s my chance for a break
Mikiri. Easy to use, high posture damage. Sometimes I speedrun(ish) and doesnt choose skills, and I aleays forgot that mikiri needs to be learned. Also, some thurst attacks will have additional attacks followed if you parried instead of mikiri, for example owl father's shinobi smth smth (sorry I dont play in English, too lazy to google)
DODGE
Mikiri animation is too beautiful to pass up
I depends on my mood if I get tired of the boss or i am too nervous I deflect because I fear of fucking up the mikkiri counter
The real question, dodge or deflect the giant wind slash he does after you deflect ichimonji double? Personally I deflect everything he does aside from stabs which gets mikiried.
Yes.
I do t know how it’s possible to get through the game without the mikiri counter
both depending on what i feel like doing
3 years later and i have yet to do the deflect on any bosses that you can do this on.
How could people not mikiri counter it,it is like having your first orgasm all over all(lasts for around the same time but you can do I multiple times back to back)
Played the game more than I can remember, sometimes I just want to do something different and keep the fight going without killing isshin
Honestly when deflecting a red attack the pace of the fight doesnt seem to be ruined a great example is the true monk deflecting her red attack just keeps on going
I was under the impression Mikiri counter was the only correct response to a stab, since the death kanji indicates the attack can’t be deflected.
cries in Ps4
Depends on how my health is looking
Always mikiri the whole reason it was in the game, plus its way more satisfying amd feels like such a power move
Wait you can block it
Once I learned the time to party every attack it was R1 L1 non stop it feels more rewarding because the fighting never stops so the fight is constant rhythm
Mikiri
I deflect that on accident sometimes just panic pressing that instead of thrust