Heavy attack parried in AW?

BluntMachete

I just got parried by a heavy attack on Modok, is this normal???

XxOriginalxX

If the defender has resist its possible

Zer0bits

Heavy attacks can be parried, this is normal

Dexman1349

It's the Stand Your Ground mastery at the bottom of the main Defense tree. If maxed out, they have a 50% chance to resist a heavy attack.

BluntMachete

Resist and parry stun are two different things. I didn’t know you could parry a heavy

Dexman1349

A well-timed block does not differentiate what kind of attack is incoming. You can even parry special attacks (although Kabam nerfed that by making specials stun-immune). Heavy attacks are not stun-immune.

When combined with the SYG mastery, you can have a well-timed block resist a heavy attack and generate a parry and then stun.

It is extremely rare because you have to be fighting a champ with those masteries (only in arena or AW), most players don't run the SYG mastery (or only have 1 point in it so don't have a high percentage chance to resist), the timing of a parry against a heavy is very difficult to achieve, and the AI doesn't actively try to parry.

In theory, you could even parry a heavy attack and not generate a stun (if opponent has ability accuracy reduction, like BW or Xbones).