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Lies Of Pis an extremely polished game with a lot offun mechanicsand useful tools for the players to mess around with. However, it has the same base mechanics to deal with an enemy attack asa typical Soulslike game: dodging, blocking, and parrying.
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The Parry mechanic in Lies of P, called the Perfect Guard, is incredibly hard to pull off compared to the parries inother Soulslike games. It has a very small timeframe where it’s successful, leaving the players to hang out and dry without any mercy at every opportunity.
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What Does Perfect Guard Do?
The Perfect Guard happens when you time your guard just right, parrying the enemies attack no matter what they throw at you. The Perfect Guard protects the player from any status effects. Furthermore, you won’t consume as much stamina as a normal guard.
The reason you want to perform the Perfect Guard is so that you have more time to punish enemies on their big attacks,break their weapons, make them fall intogroggy mode, guard against fury attacks, and to all around feel like an absolute badass.
When You Should Use Perfect Guard
In many cases, it’s not worth it to do a Perfect Guard as it’smuch easier to just dodge. Furthermore, it might even be more efficient to just take the extra damage from a normal block and recover your HP by hitting the enemy back.
For small enemies and mobs, there’s absolutely no reason to try and parry their attacks rather than just dodge them. Since they’re usually in an area as a group, it’s actually a bad idea to try and block anything since you might get attacked from the other side while you’re vulnerable.
Bosses typically have one or twoFury Attacks. These areunblockable attacksthat can only be stopped by a Perfect Guard. Learn to parry one and dodge the other to save yourself the headache of getting the muscle memory for two Perfect Guards.
The Perfect Guard really shines when facingmini-bosses and boss enemies. Since these enemies require a lot of tries to beat, you’ll have the time and motivation to learn how to Perfect Guard some of their more annoying attacks and deal with them as fast as possible.
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How To Parry
Performing a Perfect Guard is a daunting task, even for more veteran players ofthe Soulslike genre. Lies of P only gives you asmall windowin which you can do so. It’s very normal for players to fail at least a handful of attempts before managing a Perfect Guard for any particular enemy.
You should practice your parry timing with the puppet in the Krat Hotel courtyard. The attack patterns of other enemies don’t have the same timing, but it’s a good way to train your reaction speed against attacks and polish your parrying ability.
How To Break Enemy Weapons
Players canbreak the weaponof their enemies byperforming several Perfect Guards in a row. Make sure you’re facing an enemy who has a breakable weapon before you try to break it. Some enemies only require one single Perfect Block, while others can tank parries like its nobodies business and still come out on top of the player at the end.
If it looks like a body part, you probably can’t break it.
Furthermore, breaking the enemies' weapon doesn’t makethatmuch of a difference. Itreduces their damage output, but they still deal decent damage. You can’t break the weapon of most bosses, and breaking the weapon of regular mobs is too time-consuming and risky to be worth it. It only really comes into play when facing off against mini-bosses, and even some of them can’t have their weapons broken.
The best way to break a weapon is to doPerfect Blocks for a full combo. You’ll know you’re close to breaking the weapon when it starts toflash a bright red color. The more you wait between blocks, the longer it will take to break a weapon.
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How To Inflict Groggy Status
Sometimes, the player will see theHP bar of the enemy start to blink in white. This means that if the player does acharged special attack, they can inflict Groggy Status on the enemy, making themvulnerable to Fatal Attacksthat can deal a significant amount of damage. The amount of time the enemy remains in Groggy Status doesn’tdepend on your level, but you may get aP-Organ upgradethat can increase the window of opportunity.
You don’t need to hit a ‘Groggy Available’ enemy with the entire special attack. Hitting them with even just the last part will suffice. However, you need to hit them with a fully charged attack.
Putting enemies into a Groggy Available status issimple in theory and difficult in practice. You will need to deal as much damage and parry as many of their attacks as possible. Once they do become Groggy Available, you’ll have a few seconds in which you can make them Groggy using a charged attack.
