About the parry duration

Username1583

I have always thought, because of the mastery description, that more points on parry increases the stun duration also. But after a long discussion in my ally a friend did some tests and proved the opposite.
Is parry bugged or it's just the description that is wrong?
https://youtu.be/Igmohs_DSY0
PS. My game is in Italian so I haven't posted the mastery description for this reason. If someone wants to post it here I will be grateful.

Karinshi

interesting,
just want to add that even the opposite, let's say you are running 5/5 Limber, sometimes when you get parried it will last for normal time, and sometime it will work just fine(reduce the duration), I think both those bugs are related

Karinshi

here you go

Karinshi

I think this is because of "up to" not flat +2sec.
and this "up to" depends on your perfect block chance
not sure tho

Username1583

Fact is that parry lasts up to 2 seconds only for Captain America with a perfect block and that includes the other mastery which makes stun longer by 0,5 seconds. The 2 seconds stun seems to be the upper limit that can't be passed.

Dexman1349

Perfect Block is champ-specific and can be boosted by team synergies. If your champ has 0 PB chance, then a maxed Parry will provide 0 additional stun duration. I believe there are only a few champs (like Capt America) that have it naturally. You can boost your PB rating via the mastery in the Defensive tree, but that's only a 4% max gain.

This is why you only need 1 point in Parry. Anything else has very little gain unless you run a Perfect Block team (something from the pre-12.0 days).

If you want to maximize the duration of your stun, rank up Stupefy instead.

Dexman1349

Additionally, if you are facing champs equipped with masteries (like non-thanos/kang teams in arena, and defenders in AW), they will have varying levels of limber which will effect how long your stun will last.

Username1583

Dexman1349 wrote: »

Perfect Block is champ-specific and can be boosted by team synergies. If your champ has 0 PB chance, then a maxed Parry will provide 0 additional stun duration. I believe there are only a few champs (like Capt America) that have it naturally. You can boost your PB rating via the mastery in the Defensive tree, but that's only a 4% max gain.

This is why you only need 1 point in Parry. Anything else has very little gain unless you run a Perfect Block team (something from the pre-12.0 days).

If you want to maximize the duration of your stun, rank up Stupefy instead.

You've missed the point man though. The tests were done with maxed stupefy. My problem was with the misleading description of the mastery which says that parry should stun up to 1,5 sec at level 1 and up to 2 seconds at level 3 while that's not true since there's no stun duration changes.

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Dexman1349

No I haven't. The 2 second additional duration is dependent on your Perfect Block rating. It says so right in the description. If you have 0 perfect block chance, then maxing out Parry is worthless compared to level 1 if your only goal is to extend the duration of the stun (higher parry does grant less damage taken).

"If contact is made, Stun attackers for up to 2 seconds. Stun duration increases with Perfect Block chance."

Basically you're reading it to say that with a maxed Parry you are automatically granted a 2.0 second stun, with Perfect Block granting additional duration beyond that.

How it works is how I describe it: you are granted a stun, but the amount of that 2.0 seconds is dependent on your perfect block chance.

DragonUnleashed

Dexman1349 said:

No I haven't. The 2 second additional duration is dependent on your Perfect Block rating. It says so right in the description. If you have 0 perfect block chance, then maxing out Parry is worthless compared to level 1 if your only goal is to extend the duration of the stun (higher parry does grant less damage taken).



"If contact is made, Stun attackers for up to 2 seconds. Stun duration increases with Perfect Block chance."



Basically you're reading it to say that with a maxed Parry you are automatically granted a 2.0 second stun, with Perfect Block granting additional duration beyond that.



How it works is how I describe it: you are granted a stun, but the amount of that 2.0 seconds is dependent on your perfect block chance.

Thanks man... I've been playing it for a year now, and am decent ininlaying the game, but i understood it the same way the Topic starter did..

I even got rid of stupify because i thought a 2 second stun is better than an 0.5 sec increase, and i could use those points elsewhere..
The perfect block thing.. i thought it was about the mastery, which then would increase it even further..

You can understand my surprise when i did arena or war and my champs parried the Opponent but immediately got smacked..

Thanks , was really an eye opener !
Feel like such a noob...

Got parry back from 3 to 1 point , put the points in stupify and longer stuns are back....

The 10% extra damage you take from parry is nothing compared to the usefullness of those two extra points elsewhere.. as skill evolves i use parry less often

So thank you again 👍


Kind regards
A noob

SummonerNR

@DragonUnleashed , additional discussion, including regarding changes to Parry Mastery wording (they had removed the “up to” wording at some point semi-recently) can be found here...

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/157359/huge-bug-parry-timer-is-not-correct-vs-generic-quest-npcs#latest

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Kabam Lyra

Going to close this as there is already an open and more recent discussion about this issue.