Combat Explained
Sekiro’s Posture System Explained: Deflects, Posture Damage and Deathblows
How Sekiro's posture bar works: deflect vs block, posture recovery, perilous attacks like thrusts, sweeps and grabs, and how deathblows end fights.
Combat Explained
Combat Explained
Parry Systems Explained: From Street Fighter III to Sekiro
How parries work in Street Fighter III, SF6, Garou, Sekiro, Metal Gear Rising and Bayonetta, and why the risk/reward trade-off makes them so satisfying.
Combat Explained
Invincibility Frames Explained: How Dodges and Rolls Really Work
What invincibility frames are, why dodges are about timing rather than distance, and how rolls, Trickster dashes and reversals use i-frames.
Combat Explained
Style Ranking Systems Explained: How DMC and Bayonetta Grade Combat
How Devil May Cry's D-to-SSS style meter and Bayonetta's verse medals grade combat, what raises and drops a rank, and how it feeds mission scores.