Can you parry a greatsword?

When two-handed, R1 and R2 attacks from Ultra Greatswords, Greataxes, and Great Hammers cannot be parried. Two-handed rolling and running R1 attacks from these weapons can still be parried.
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Can Greatswords be parried ds1?

Two-handed greatsword class weapons can be parried, but not on reaction. You gotta predict their attacks.
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Can you parry Greatswords ds2?

How to execute a Parry: To parry an attack, it has to be parriable. There are some trash mobs, some bosses and even some player weapon attacks (e.g. from Ultra Greatswords) that can't be parried. If the attack is parryable, the player needs to have a weapon/shield equipped, that can parry attacks.
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Can you parry great curved Greatswords?

Curved Greatswords can be parried.
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Can you parry the fume greatsword?

No! The answer is all ways no. However, the Side-to-side strikes appear to be fine.
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Can you Parry ultra greatsword?

That ultra greatswords CANNOT be parried.
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Why is the greatsword an ultra greatsword?

Ultra Greatswords are a type of Weapon returning in Dark Souls 3. These Weapons usually do very high damage and have extremely slow attacks along with high Strength requirements. Ultra Greatswords benefit from "hyper armor" during certain attack animations, allowing you to continue a combo even while being struck.
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Can you parry 2 handed Greatswords?

When two-handed, R1 and R2 attacks from Ultra Greatswords, Greataxes, and Great Hammers cannot be parried. Two-handed rolling and running R1 attacks from these weapons can still be parried.
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What weapons can't be parried ds3?

Weapons that cannot be parried
  • Any Ultra Greatsword, Greataxe, or Great Hammer two-handed (exceptions for rolling and running attacks)
  • Whips.
  • Any ranged weapon.
  • Catalysts.
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Can you parry Yhorm?

Pretty convenient, eh? Now all you have to do is two-hand it, charge it up with the parry button, then unleash its special wind attack with the attack button. A few blows from this, and Yhorm will go down.
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What cant be parried ds2?

Cannot parry

Greatshields. Reapers, Spears, Halberd, Lances and Twinblades. Staves, Sacred Chimes, Pyromancy Flames. Weapons and shields with a special function bound to the left-hand strong attack (e.g. Defender Greatsword augmentation or Sanctum Shield spellcasting)
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Can you parry greatswords Elden ring?

While you can parry most physical attacks in Elden Ring, you can't parry them all. Generally, any attack from enemies that are gigantic in size cannot be parried, and attacks from enemies using large weapons with two hands can't be parried as well. It's also not possible to parry arrows, bolts, or shield bash attacks.
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Can you parry Zweihander?

can you parry the Zweihander?? Yeah, you can parry any player held weapon.
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Can you parry Greatsword Black Knight?

All of his moves except the shield bash can be parried, but the consequences for failing to parry them are severe.
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What cant be parried in Dark Souls?

In DS1/DSR I believe that only whips and jump attacks can't be parried. Maybe shields. Weapon size and one/two handing doesn't matter.
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Can you parry Smough hammer?

You cannot parry 2 handed greathammers unless its a running or rolling attack, so yeah, i guess you can parry 2 handed smoughs hammer, sometimes. Oh... Both weapons had the name great in them and looked big so I thought they couldn't be parried. I am surprised that even the rolling and running attack could be parried.
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Can the dancer be parried?

No the Dancer cannot be parried she can however be staggered but you cannot do a riposte.
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Can the plank shield parry?

The Plank Shield has light deflection and a long parry window.
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Can Moonlight greatsword be parried?

Reinforced with Titanite Scale. Fully Charged Strong attack fires a projectile: Costs 4 Durability. Parriable.
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Is it possible to one hand a greatsword?

But there are no rules governing it the other way. A human doesn't get advantage on a halfling's dagger, for example. And there's no way of using a greatsword one handed - even if it was a halflings greatsword, the halfling would simply have disadvantage for using a heavy weapon.
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Can you parry a halberd?

They can be parried. The only attack someone has parried me was when I used the Special Lunge attack with Gundyrs Halberd. Then you got lucky or they were bad at parrying, Halberds can be parried with the exception of the 2 weapon arts I listed.
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What is the heaviest weapon in Dark Souls 1?

Great Axes are the largest and among the heaviest weapons in the game, requiring the highest strength to wield.
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What is the biggest sword in ds1?

Overview. Ultra Greatswords, as their name suggests, are the biggest, heaviest, and quite often, strongest type of sword you can acquire in the game.
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What is the fastest weapon in Dark Souls?

Daggers are the absolute fastest and can do significant when buffed. Other fast weapons aside from hand axe are curved, straight, rapiers, and maybe spears. Painting guardian sword is a rather good fast weapons that isn't used too much.
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