What's the point of dodge in this game when you can parry everything?

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What's the point of dodge in this game when you can parry everything?

dodging is easier than parrying or at least it should be

Double the frame window? Parries are tight.

parrys are for fromdrones

what's the point of defensive stats in a game where you can negate all damage?

In case you mess up, you won't die in one hit.

parry this you fucking casual

That aside, it's fucking over.
I did everything in the game on Expert without the OP Stendhal (only got it after the patch). I can't even get his HP down to 75% in the second phase. I'm not sure if I even reached 90%, to be honest.
And I tried on Story mode too. Every hit of every of his attacks kills me instantly, I've never managed to even dodge, let alone parry a full combo in phase two. And as soon as he removes Maelle, it's already over, because if I have a 0.001% chance of beating him, it's through critical marked Gommage that should deal him ~10kk. At least it does in the first phase.
I don't believe I could beat him even if I spent the whole weekend trying.

The final boss has a specific attack I could not figure out the timing and it wasn't worth the risk of trying to parry so I just dodged instead. Also the petank melee attack pisses me off. Seems like it has the tighest timing in the whole game despite it being a nothing enemy.

I did this yesterday, you can still cheese him.

It's still an RPG at it's core and it sounds like your party setup just sucks. You should do Simon after all other content in the game.
Do you use cheater pictos on everyone? Avoid shields and instead go for shell buffs and survivor pictos. Sciel 2x damage buff? Greater slow pictos + an attack that slows down the fucker?

0 parries

0 dodges

no damage

35kk

How do you even set up for any damage higher than 2kk before he can attack once?

Like I said, I did everything in the game, aside from the final dungeon. Maelle, Lune and Monoco are 93, the other two are 88, because I use them less.
Yes, I have no shields and do have cheater on everyone plus pictos that increase AP + Second Chance + Survivor. Haven't tried Sciel's buff or slowing him down. But what's the purpose of shell if he constantly lowers my HP to 1 with an unavoidable attack?

For those who can't parry

There's a pictos that fills the enemy's break meter when you die. That's what carried me through this fight. Break his ass after every attack he gets.

Empowering Dodge exists and if you want to game Wheel with Monoco with one of his weapons, then dodging at certain intervals becomes mandatory. Besides that, it's the low risk option in cases you're just feeling out specific encounters and attack timings.

Dunno, they should have added an early picto that regens health on dodge, with more on perfect dodge, or something like that. The window for dodging isn't so much more forgiving than parrying that it's an attractive option over just going for the parry. Even if you fuck up once or twice and don't get the counter-attack, you get an AP on every parry and there's more pictos that enhance it.

So that Maelle can tell you to DODGE

they literally tell you to dodge until you can get the hang of it since it has a bigger window and then parry

turn based

QTE

maelle solo with the following pictos:

solo fighter

inverted affinity

augmented first strike

cheater

auto shell

powerful on shell

greater powerful

full strength

warming up

first offensive

immaculate

soul eater

tainted

roulette

1. stendhal
2. last chance (gives +1 turn)
3. stendhal
if roulette procs, he ded

I'm assuming this is with Medallum, so she's in Virtuoso from the start. Thanks, I'll try this when I give up trying to fight him normally. Shouldn't take long.

Roleplaying Game

It's just a movie with shitty, non-strategic combat encounters and pointless statistics that have minimal if no impact on the actual game beyond the illusion of min/max turboautism

I will never forgive Japan for this shit. Fuck Dragon Quest. Fuck Final Fantasy. Fuck Square in general. Fuck the French. Fuck Canada. Fuck Bongland. And without further adieu; Fuck Niggers.

what is the point of "higher skill option that gives large reward" when there exist "lower skill option that gives small reward"

God this boss was so shit, just pure parryslop

I can't find any info on Soul Eater aside from what it does. Where do you get it?

What's the large reward?

Pre-nerf I hit him for 215 million with stendahl without gambler or truly maximizing damage. Even if the stendahl nerf plus medalum nerf drops damage like 80%, that would still be 43 million. I was running everyone with agility pictos, sciel going first auto-applying all buffs to self, then using her cheater turns to spread greater version of her buffs to the whole party and give Maelle double damage. 2nd character applies greater defenseless with melee attack, then uses ranged attack to apply burn and mark. Maelle is setup with literally anything that boosts damage. More damage to burning, more damage per shield and auto-shields on start, inverted, etc.

*blocks your path*

you can permanently stun bosses with M's sword that burns her, auto death, cheater/faster than strong, the one and stun on death

Maybe you can. I can't even dodge shit. After a point everything just spams endless combos and I can't keep up with that.

Since you asked
*unzip dick*

if this game is parry based, whats the point of leveling vitality or buying armor?

Just in case you get hit.
I put a some into vitality and a few into defence early on, but if I bothered to redistribute, I'd remove some vitality and all defence at the least.

I read that stats start falling off after a certain point

no idea, never played Elden Ring

What armor?

first time i encounter this lil nigga was KINO

You are supposed to dodge first and figure out the parry timing.

Dodging is easier, also i was never able to parry that spell that freezes you but i was always able to dodge it

bigger window to not eat shit