AI Parrying Heavy is Ridiculous

Suros_moonSuros_moon Member Posts: 476 ★★★
in General Discussion
To preface this, I haven’t died in AW for quite some time. I frequently use tigra and, as such, my ability to heavy intercept is a skill I worked at developing to the point of consistency.

Today the AI successfully parried my heavy three times in a row. I died.

What is the point of the heavy attack if it can only be safely used when you can stop them blocking before throwing it. When you boot the tutorial it is literally advertised as the BLOCK BREAKING tool.

This is to say nothing of the ever-evolving AI who, despite constant denial, the player base has accurately characterized as consistently improving. We are now at the stage where they react with a high enough degree of precision that, in tandem with resist, they are able to fundamentally reshape a component of the game. A resisted attack has no business activating parry. There’s likely an even stronger argument to be made about having a mastery which essentially breaks the utility of one of three basic attacks- but an obvious line should be drawn at literally parrying heavy attacks

Comments

  • AverageDesiAverageDesi Member Posts: 5,260 ★★★★★
    It's a knock off from stand your ground mastery. With SYG, a heavy attack becomes just another attack.

    If you have a champ who can block unblockable attacks, you can parry unblockable attacks. That just follows
  • Suros_moonSuros_moon Member Posts: 476 ★★★
    AverageDesi said:

    Suros_moon said:

    AverageDesi said:

    It's a knock off from stand your ground mastery. With SYG, a heavy attack becomes just another attack.

    If you have a champ who can block unblockable attacks, you can parry unblockable attacks. That just follows

    I know how and why it works. Im challenging the premise that it should be allowed to exist given the state of AI in thus game
    I disagree. Exceptions are not always good
    Thats an odd framing because parrying the heavy is the exception not expecting that you shouldnt be able to
  • SearmenisSearmenis Member Posts: 1,623 ★★★★★
    When the game parries the SECOND hit from a heavy, has nothing to do with STD.
  • AverageDesiAverageDesi Member Posts: 5,260 ★★★★★
    Suros_moon said:

    AverageDesi said:

    Suros_moon said:

    AverageDesi said:

    It's a knock off from stand your ground mastery. With SYG, a heavy attack becomes just another attack.

    If you have a champ who can block unblockable attacks, you can parry unblockable attacks. That just follows

    I know how and why it works. Im challenging the premise that it should be allowed to exist given the state of AI in thus game
    I disagree. Exceptions are not always good
    Thats an odd framing because parrying the heavy is the exception not expecting that you shouldnt be able to
    Partying the heavy is expected to follow from the mechanics.

    Well timed block => Parry. If you can well time block a heavy then you'd expect it to be a parry
  • Mohammad07Mohammad07 Member Posts: 183 ★★
    Colinwhitworth69 said:

    And not throwing specials no matter what you do to bait one.

    Makes me want to quit the game
  • AverageDesiAverageDesi Member Posts: 5,260 ★★★★★
    Sand_Devil13 said:

    The AI has never been able to Parry a Heavy Attack before last months update. It’s ridiculous and needs to be fixed, otherwise there’s no point in a Heavy Attack

    That is objectively wrong. It has been happening for far longer than just last month


    Here's a thread from 3years ago
  • Viking_St3v3Viking_St3v3 Member Posts: 161 ★★
    Working as intended then.
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