Was messing around in Anor Londo earlier fighting the painting guardians, was going to practice some parries on them, but they ended up being rediculusly easy to parry, I dunno why., maybe cuz they dual wield Now I'm looking for some harder stuff to practice on. Darkwraiths in New Londo maybe? I've really only backstabbed them, and I havent fought many. What do you guys think is the hardest/easiest target to parry, players excluded?

i've always found it difficult to parry the hollow warriors in the burg and parish, that long wind up they have is tough to learn and really *** up your timing

Dj-B-Man-Jr wrote:i've always found it difficult to parry the hollow warriors in the burg and parish, that long wind up they have is tough to learn and really *** up your timing

LOL, me too.

It's true... the very first enemies in the game are some of the hardest to parry! Like you said, their wind-up is so slow, then their strike is quite fast. But once you know their moveset, they're really easy.

One I wouldn't say is so hard, but is annoying, is the faith-NPC in the forest (I call him "Leap of Faith" from my brief time as a noob farming NPCs in the forest!). He's annoying because he has 2 regular 1-handed strikes with his mace that have practically the same animation, only one has a short wind-up and the other has a slightly longer one. Takes a while to get used to parrying him because of that. A really easy NPC in the forest, though, is the Battle Axe guy. Very hard to miss a parry against him!

Easy ones... The Silver Knights and Black Knights are easy because of their predictability.

Hard ones... The manserpents take pretty precise timing. You have to get very familiar with their moveset and their timing. Same for the Great Club Fatties in Blight, you need to be pretty precise with them.

That's pretty much all I can think of right now.

Oh wow I didn't even know those things could be parried. Time to practice! Thanks for the input!

Easiest: Undead Hollow Warrior with Sword.

Hardest: Silver Knight with Spear (I wanna see someone parry that guy's horizontal strong attack, it's very difficult.)

Easiest: ME

Hardest: You

All joking aside

Easiest: First three mobs in Painted World

Hardest: Lord Gwyn, until you get the timing down.

the spear silver knights are easiest followed by hollow any thing, then the giants (you parry as you hear a thunk noise...) and abunch of othe beasty's until you reach gwyn at hardest

Easiest mob to parry? When I'm in the zone, all of them. Burg and Parish mobs mostly, sometimes I just walk through the whole zoning parrying and riposting anything that attacks me~

Hardest? I agree with everyone else on the long wind up attacks, I always misjudge the timing. Also the Silver Knights with spears, I have never been able to parry the sweep yet.

I have no problem with the sweep. When you parry it properly, it's like their spear goes in one fluid motion from one side to the other--only in the middle of that motion was you deflecting it and pushing it on its way! I can't remember if that's the first sweep or the second, though (when the knight sweeps from his left to right)... Been a while since I've been in that area. But just go up to the one guarding the chest with the Sunlight Medals and stand there parrying him for a while. Eventually it'll click, and you'll parry him easily.

As for Gwyn... I wouldn't place him any higher than "medium" on the scale of "easy to hard" to parry.

Like Whknight said though, eventually everything just becomes easy to parry. You'll reach a point where you'll be familiar with every mob's move sets, and that's when you become untouchable.

Gwyn is pretty easy to parry overall but his predictable combos make it that way. If you can block the first strike then the 2nd is pretty much guaranteed. Parrying the initial attack can be difficult because his 1h attack doesn't have a tell. By the time you see him swing it's too late to parry. His 2h swipes and jumping attacks however are cake.

All true. But I find his weapon is long enough and his swing just the right speed, that I can parry the first hit just with reflexes. See him initiate his strike, parry just before it hits--I find the timing perfect. Just don't fall for the trap of the delayed swing! He has (vageta I know you know this, I'm saying this for the thread!) 2 similar swings: 1 gives you just enough time to parry, and the other is just slow enough that if you timed to parry the quick hit, he'll land the hit right after you parry. So don't parry blindly! Other mobs, I'll parry because I can recognize all their moves. But with Gwyn, since you don't have time to tell which of the two swings he's going for on the first strike, I find it easiest to parry him by sight, reflexively--ie just before he hits. Same as the Faith NPC in the forest.

With Gwyn I use the target shield because the extra window allows me to get both swings.

Black knight is probably the easiest.

The Balck knights long wind-up throws me off, easiest is silver knights. (both kinds) Hardest would be Prince Ricard & the Balder knights for the rapier. (normal ones are easy)