I think you judged the Knockback shield too harshly. You judged it exclusively in terms of melee combat. But it’s a Tactics shield, it’s meant for people playing ranged builds, where it’s very useful at keeping enemies away and synergizes well with Tranquility or people relying on turrets
technically the bottom tier is always occuped by shields that are Op in this game (because parry frame data is too generous) so bottom tier shields are still good
Personally, id bump the ice shield up one, solely because reflected projectiles freeze enemies, which can be really useful, especially when reflected projectiles hit multiple enemies.
Personally I use the assault shield religiously, it's very very good for any enemy with a lunge like zombies or failed experiments, or for projectiles in general, it makes your already very forgiving timing even more forgiving because if an enemy is going towards you and you are going towards them, you will hit earlier in the attack. Also knocking an enemy off an edge with it is just so disrespectful, you don't even deserve a parry or being hit with my main weapon, you get slapped with my shield into an abyss
And also you can like “remove” the bosses attacks with it, when they are going to attack you attack with the shield and the don’t do the attack for a little bit, if you are good with it it’s very funny
The "parrying gives you health" mutation gives you about 2%-6% health per melee attack parried. This means you can refill your entire health-bar in about 20 parries. How is no-one talking about how OP this is.
It sounds good on paper but is not very reliable in reality. First of all, not every enemy has melee attacks - I would say, 1/3 or 1/4 of enemies do, depending on the biome. Secondly, sometimes you will mess up the parry. Even if the chance is very low and 99% of time you parry things perfectly, this 1% might fuck up everything - not only you lose some of the hp regenerated previously, but you also lose the kill counter and might actually die. Thirdly, and most importantly, this mutation FORCES you to parry when its not neccessary. Rolling is sometimes a better defensive option (because of mobility and easier timing, a good example is rampager's attacks which are way easier to dodge than parry), and when you pick up the mutation you dismiss this option, you become more vulnerable and lose more health. Whenever I want more healing, I usually pick Gastronomy. Given that food is your only healing source (using flasks before reaching the second boss is bad), you get solid 65% more total hp for the entire run. Without doing anything. Another good option is Alienation, but its kinda situational because not every biome has cursed chests or golden doors.
It's worth noting that parry heal only happens once per enemy, so you can't just farm parries for healing. It also makes it kinda useless on boss fights
The assault shield is by far my favorite, especially when you get that roll dash down. If you liked it with Impaler, you should try it with Spartan Sandals. The extra momentum carries into the kick for a really satisfying shove. Throw in the force push and it makes for a really interesting physics based approach where you're killing everything with gravity and inertia.
Parry shield shreds TimeKeeper and Giant, and can shred HOTK when its in the backpack Usually quite happy to see it if I'm looking for a shield as tactics
Cocoon is really interesting and the first time I used it was a colorless on High Peak Castle in 2 BC. Out of all the weapons I had that time they were pretty underleveled and had 0 flasks when i reached the HOTK fight. I was pretty surprised to see the Cocoon just parries just about anything, and because it parries any direction, it felt even more lenient than the average shield. Not to mention that reflecting grenades is really easy to do too. Similar to reflrcting grenades with the Armadillopack.
I've seen cocoon-only boss clears where people just stand still and time their cocoons. it seems that there's no attack immune to parries, it's just that normally you can't parry in the correct direction to block it.
Can't say I've ever used shields that much though now that duel-binding is effectively removed until you've 100% the game I guess I'm gonna be using them more often XD
I'm one of the people that loves the assault shield. partially because dodging is annoying on keyboard so this is a great movement option in close quarters. Also, it makes the parry timing significantly easier on ranged attacks. Sometimes if you hit an enemy with the shield it kind of just cancels their attack so you can kind of chain the shield with a fast weapon if you know what you are doing. Great on any red build for me.
What do you mean dodging is annoying on keyboard? Every videogame ever uses shift so it's not like it's an annoying button to press. And the attack cancel for me is what makes the assault shield unusable. When you cancel their attack they just start another one, I pretty much always am using brutality weapons but they often dont feel fast enough with such a short window. I would much rather actually parry them, leaving them open long enough for a real beat down.
i have dodge as middle mouse button and imho it works far more naturally. i don't ever know why the default is shift. it feels so unnatural for the game, especially if you have smaller hands or a bigger keyboard. it's not intuitive in the least to me
I know that you're talking about this back in 2021, but I feel like the cudgel is honestly op for any weapon that needs stun/time to use. The new addition of the bat, for example, seems to be best when paired with the cudgel because it allows you to get 5 more critical hits in on bosses than you would have otherwise.
i started playing dead cells recently and parries are one of my favourite things to land, when i first beat the time keeper it was thanks to me perfectly parrying all of her throwing stars and omg i felt like Daigo landing that
For that I’d recommend the Rampart shield. Parrying just one attack means you get a bubble of invisibility that means you don’t even need to nail the parries on the other monsters' attacks.
The greed shield legendary is so incredibly powerful, ik you don't cover those in the tier list, but it takes 1% of your gold, and increases your damage by that percent, so it can just straight up increase your damage by 100 percent if you have enough gold
It´s a good feeling when you land some good parries, I actually got so confortable with it I got today my first good parrys against the spoiler boss. It´s actually really dooable when you really try to do it instead of dodging. But I still feel like more for the dodging gang, since when you miss a parry you get a big hit and defending on what happens next you may end up dying or taking more hits beecause you kinda stunned by the hit. It feels somewhat rewarding and risky at the same time. Also the best thing I remember from the Assault Shield was pushing enemys off platforms and kill them, or otherwise, I am not sure about this, but I vfeel like an Assault Shield dash can briefly stun enemys so you can get your attacks in, I did both things alot with it instead of parrying
Don't think of dodging and parrying as two separate gangs, its kind of like a symphony when you get good dodge/parry combos against bosses like HOTK or Mama Tick
I've beaten 5BC several times and got a plenty of no hit bosses, but I never picked up a shield before lmao. Just after watching this vid I've even noticed that there's an exclamation mark indicators, didn't paid too much attention to that before. Now I want to try some shields bc it surely seems fun!
I haven't actually unlocked the knockback shield yet, but could it work in combination with Valmont's whip? I see that it's a tactics shield, and it looks like it might knock enemies into a good range for the tip of the whip, which seems to be an issue when using Valmont's whip with any other shield
Yes the knockback shield is awesome. When you parry think of it like a mushroom boi attack it knocks them back does and certain amount of damage and does increase damage when hitting a wall.
Enemies have different "weights" to them so the knockback mechanic in the game has variable results, you have to be good with Valmont's anyway to be able to adjust your positioning when it comes to knockbacks.
The Knockback Shield works that way? Spartan Sandals always knock enemies in a set distance, the 3rd hit of the combo knocks back really far. The first two hits put enemies exactly in position for Valmont's Whip to crit.
One thing I would like to add about the thunder shield when I got it from a legendary pedestal (yes, you can get items from a bc level you’re not at from a pedestal) is that it’s essentially cudgel but so much better in most ways, driving cudgel even deeper into placeholder tier One niche usage for knockback shield could be pairing it with the marks man’s bow since it knocks them back pretty far, but then again I have yet to actually get the knockback shield
@@ScrodumHat I can’t fight that argument yet since I’ve only tried it out once and I died with a curse by rolling into knife thrower knives, but in the future I’ll come back to this
I know you mentioned that the knockback shield interupts melee which is why you put it in placeholder but I'd argue against that because of ranged builds.
Definitely appreciate the video as well as the One Step From Eden music (my favorite rogue lite) featured throughout. I actually picked up Dead Cells as I’d put nearly 200 hours into Eden but wanted something that would scratch a similar itch. Both great Games for sure.
Freeze shield can be insane in Toxic Sewers or Ancient Basin where there are always at least 3 enemies around you: parry one and they are free for the taking (mainly for melee)
I'm with you on everything but the parry shield. Personally I only ever parry with shields anyways so it doesn't really matter that I can't absorb and the majority of bosses and biomes on the more efficient runs (in terms of scroll counts) have a lot of ranged attacks to reflect, except for the sewer duo. Personally I view it, the spike shield, and the punishment as the holy trinity of insta-punishment (note I haven't gotten the thunder shield yet :'()
honestly, the parry shield is just what you use in your close-ranged tactics builds or when you want that extra bit of safety instead of damage in tactics. it's really just a placeholder for thunder shield, which you unlock on 5BC so the majority of most people's playtime is going to be without thunder shield unlocked. so, if you're running tactics and want to use a shield instead of something like hokuto's bow or throwing knives in your offhand you've got two options until you get the 5th boss cell and then actually get to astrolab. knockback shield if tranquility, parry shield otherwise.
The Assault shield was the first that granted me a super good run, I got overconfident and thought I mastered the parry system, and got wrecked with any other types of shield for a lot of future runs ahaha. The Assault shield is overly generous on the timing since you are moving forward which grants a huge window to actually parry, plus it can deflect bombs/canon balls on the ground, which other shields don't allow and I just die because of the explosions hahaha
I just picked up the game recently and have found your guides to be very informative. I had actually completely dismissed the parry mechanic in favor of dodge rolling because when I was messing around with a shield in the safety of an empty room there was a cool down before I could parry again, so I figured it would be useless in high density / rapid fire situations. Thanks to this video I now know that successful parries reset that cool down and, with practice, are an extremely potent defensive tool. Thanks so much for all you do!
Fun fact: You can interrupt most of the bosses with the assault shield. I didnt test this on every boss but I do know that you can interrupt every attack of the Mama Tick and the Concierge. Just dash into the boss while hes about to attack and he will get interrupted.
I definitely have to agree with you, but some of the dynamic does change if you're running a 2 handed survival weapon (ex mama tick's claws) having the ice shield or say the rampart with armadillopack can make a big difference as just the flat out damage from say the spiked shield doesn't compare. Also thunder shield would still be op af in your backpack.
Maybe I am missing something, because you are the shieldmaster here, but I would definitely say that Assault Shield is OP. It can interrupt enemies(even some bosses, with Mama Tick it is like she only have one attack(tentacles from below), because the rest is easily interrupted. I can also push enemies off the platforms inflicting high damage on their drop, it can deal damage(that even as insignificant is just that little bit that sometimes might do it's job), it let you get faster to the enemy and because of a dash it has wider parry area. So to summarize: Movement, interruption, push, damage, wider parry area. I see why you would put those two shields in OP as they let you keep dealing high area damage while preventing damage to you, but I would put Assault Shield at least in "Generally Good" category, while still thinking it's OP and also it's the most newcommer friendly shield as because of the wider parry area it doesn't punish you for using a shield a bit earlier and if you won't land a parry on melee attack because of activating shield earlier, there is high chance that you will just interrupt enemy which also will save you. Of course you could say that interruption lessens incentive to parry some attacks, as you can just interrupt enemy before it attacks, but realistically it helps to learn parrying itself as well, because you learn when enemy will attack so you can interrupt it, which is useful in parrying too.
I use Armadillopack religiously, because I prefer having a ranged and a melee weapon. Unfortunately, that means I haven't really practiced with parrying. I should probably do something about that.
Good video. Only critique is when you show crossbow video. No point in that on a shield tier guide. I was hoping to see you using the shield in question more. Very insightful video. Thanks!
I agree with this list, but personally for me, parry shield and cudgel are situational, not placeholder since I had a build with toothpick, spiked shield, whistle of giant, tonic and parry shield. I used spiked shield on mobs and first boss and parry shield on giant in attacking slot and on the hand of the king in backpack (with mutation that makes you use shield in back pack while dodging) while he throws bombs at you.
If you ever run out of ideas for videos, you could try doing challenges! I would love to see you try completing the game on 5bc with the starting sword
I have parrying down for every boss in the game right now (haven't gotten the first cell yet) but that. Damn. Golem. Somehow no matter how well i time my parry on the golems in slumbering sanctuary, they still hit me.
Love the greed shield in the early game...I tend to grab it if it's in a tube at the beginning...unless I see something I really like...I love this game I'm watching this because I finally beat a 4bc run(was disappointed to learn that's not Even how you unlock 5bc) and I've still never been great with shields and parries save for the early levels with greed because i know the timings and you don't get overwhelmed I know i need to get good at parrying because right now dps and dodge aren't consistently getting me through
The parry shield's one good use is against time keeper. If you pair it with spite, then you can kill her in 5 actual seconds (im not exagerating thats how long it took).
10:04 Yeah, I'mma disagree on that one, chief! The parry shield releases a lot of projectiles, when you reflect a shot from an enemy, giving you a lot of burst damage to damage enemies, look at Time Keeper for example! For the sheer amount of projectiles she spams you with, the parry shiel absolutely shreds her! I'd say it's situational at worst and OP at best!
@@karlhnedkovsky5214 yeah, parrying all shurikens+bonus progectiles from the parry shield+tactics scaling and if you sprinkle on top some decent sinergy/s it's just redicilous.
@@Dantelor Spartan Sandals are a support weapon though. You wouldn't replace your primary weapon for them you replace your shield. Obviously there are big downsides associated with shieldless runs but sometimes you need to switch things up. Relying too heavily on shields can start to feel like a crutch since they are just so darn good and easy to use.
I see a lot of content about parrying and shields but no one really talks about rolling in details. Some attacks that are considered hard to parry are really easy to dodge roll.
I dont know how, but as i was starting a new save (i had never beaten the game yet anyways) and while exploring the toxic sewers biome, i somehow got the thundershield. it was being protected by enemies nearby (it had that weird force field and i had to kill the enemies before accessing the shield)
Fun fact: Assault Shield not only gives you an even larger parry frame, but also disrupts boss attacks. This makes bosses like Mama Tick an absolute joke.
The only problem I have when thinking about attempting a shield run is screwing the 60 kills door at the end. When you start using a shield it's borderline impossible to not get hit 60 times in a row. Perhaps said doors should allow you to get hit with a cooldown, similar to how disengagement works.
I become a literal God when I have vorpan + assault shield+ a grenade (not root grenade). The demopan tf2 combo... but melee parries are my kryptonite with assault shield.
force shield i would say its more than place holder because in my cursed sword run i got force shield and it saved my life so many times when it came to bosses the time keeper is annoyinq while using a cursed sword because how many projects you need to dodge or try parry but i cant spam parry sp force shield is more of a life saver for people who struggle to parry
Blocking does have a purpose. It's for when you goofed up and can't parry an attack and so instead you can block to reduce the damage of the attack. With that in mind, force shield is amazing. Blocking with a shield reduces the damage taken by a large amount and with an certain affix, most of the damage will be blocked. Force shield when blocking makes you invincible and so you take no damage. If you suck at parrying ravagers then either roll or block...I suck at parry ravagers.....I'm sorry
I find the knockback shield ok on purple, because I'm usually running ranged anyway. Might as well get them farther away if I'm using a quick bow or something.
Excuse me my guy, but knockback shield works like bread and dutter with the bladed tonfas so its not all melee weapons included. All of range works perfectly fine with it and some survival weapons such as the symmmetrical lance or whips are too perfect for this shield!
I think you judged the Knockback shield too harshly. You judged it exclusively in terms of melee combat. But it’s a Tactics shield, it’s meant for people playing ranged builds, where it’s very useful at keeping enemies away and synergizes well with Tranquility or people relying on turrets
late to the vid and the comment but went down here to comment the same thing
technically the bottom tier is always occuped by shields that are Op in this game (because parry frame data is too generous) so bottom tier shields are still good
smh just use the best ability in the game spartan sandals instead
Legendary spartan version is just fun as hell and isn't that the point of playing? I always yell, this is SPARTA! Lol @@MeowCat-bc9xp
Personally, id bump the ice shield up one, solely because reflected projectiles freeze enemies, which can be really useful, especially when reflected projectiles hit multiple enemies.
It was a hard carry in my first concierge fight. Turns out ice blast is just better.
@@dascreeb5205 Ice blast can't Parry thing tho 😁
@@dascreeb5205 Ice blast is heaven for 0 bc players.
Once you reach 1 to 5 you understand it's no use. Shield is necessary
@@bait5257 It really depends on synergies and builds
@@kauan5527 yeah but I can tell any other synergy would be better then using a synergy with frost blast.
Personally I use the assault shield religiously, it's very very good for any enemy with a lunge like zombies or failed experiments, or for projectiles in general, it makes your already very forgiving timing even more forgiving because if an enemy is going towards you and you are going towards them, you will hit earlier in the attack.
Also knocking an enemy off an edge with it is just so disrespectful, you don't even deserve a parry or being hit with my main weapon, you get slapped with my shield into an abyss
assault shield go zoom zoom
@@brambl3014 of course i can't forget if you roll and hit shield with good enough timing you go super far
Yes you get slapped with my shield into the abyss 😆
That shield also can be used for secondary roll.
Overpowered by meaning that it could do many things in one weapon.
And also you can like “remove” the bosses attacks with it, when they are going to attack you attack with the shield and the don’t do the attack for a little bit, if you are good with it it’s very funny
I actually really like assault shield it kills those pesky bats and kamazies while u have a slow weapon like symetrical lance
I noticed it. It also briefly stuns enemies and disrupts their atk
You can also get slow all enemies on your survival weapon and get frostbite
Assault shield with balanced sword got me through some early BC
assault shield is my favourite shield
I use it for pushing enemies i dont want to deal with off ledges
The "parrying gives you health" mutation gives you about 2%-6% health per melee attack parried. This means you can refill your entire health-bar in about 20 parries. How is no-one talking about how OP this is.
It sounds good on paper but is not very reliable in reality. First of all, not every enemy has melee attacks - I would say, 1/3 or 1/4 of enemies do, depending on the biome. Secondly, sometimes you will mess up the parry. Even if the chance is very low and 99% of time you parry things perfectly, this 1% might fuck up everything - not only you lose some of the hp regenerated previously, but you also lose the kill counter and might actually die. Thirdly, and most importantly, this mutation FORCES you to parry when its not neccessary. Rolling is sometimes a better defensive option (because of mobility and easier timing, a good example is rampager's attacks which are way easier to dodge than parry), and when you pick up the mutation you dismiss this option, you become more vulnerable and lose more health.
Whenever I want more healing, I usually pick Gastronomy. Given that food is your only healing source (using flasks before reaching the second boss is bad), you get solid 65% more total hp for the entire run. Without doing anything.
Another good option is Alienation, but its kinda situational because not every biome has cursed chests or golden doors.
@@griglog yup
It's a strong effect for sure, it rewards mastering the parry mechanic, good game design in my opinion.
it called (what doesn't kill me)
It's worth noting that parry heal only happens once per enemy, so you can't just farm parries for healing. It also makes it kinda useless on boss fights
The assault shield is by far my favorite, especially when you get that roll dash down. If you liked it with Impaler, you should try it with Spartan Sandals. The extra momentum carries into the kick for a really satisfying shove. Throw in the force push and it makes for a really interesting physics based approach where you're killing everything with gravity and inertia.
The roll dash technique also works with effects that trigger on dodge rolling, so that's even more to play around with considering new backpack stuff.
@@ketzerapathetic1414 What's roll dash technique?
@@Voxirius2 years late, but you use the shield and roll a split second later to get a massive shield dash boost.
Parry shield shreds TimeKeeper and Giant, and can shred HOTK when its in the backpack
Usually quite happy to see it if I'm looking for a shield as tactics
If you dodge through any hand of the king attack with rampart porcupack you will bu invulnerable for the full combo, its actually broken
I remember when the invisibility time was 5 seconds. Good times.
If you roll an hotk attack correctly you don't take any damage anyway if you know what you're doing
Cocoon is really interesting and the first time I used it was a colorless on High Peak Castle in 2 BC.
Out of all the weapons I had that time they were pretty underleveled and had 0 flasks when i reached the HOTK fight.
I was pretty surprised to see the Cocoon just parries just about anything, and because it parries any direction, it felt even more lenient than the average shield.
Not to mention that reflecting grenades is really easy to do too. Similar to reflrcting grenades with the Armadillopack.
does it parry ground wave attacks? i dont have time to watch the video rn lol
@@Scroolewse yes it does
I've seen cocoon-only boss clears where people just stand still and time their cocoons. it seems that there's no attack immune to parries, it's just that normally you can't parry in the correct direction to block it.
@@ananmaysahu4563what about aoe attacks like concierge's kill aura?
Can't say I've ever used shields that much though now that duel-binding is effectively removed until you've 100% the game I guess I'm gonna be using them more often XD
I'm one of the people that loves the assault shield. partially because dodging is annoying on keyboard so this is a great movement option in close quarters. Also, it makes the parry timing significantly easier on ranged attacks. Sometimes if you hit an enemy with the shield it kind of just cancels their attack so you can kind of chain the shield with a fast weapon if you know what you are doing. Great on any red build for me.
What do you mean dodging is annoying on keyboard? Every videogame ever uses shift so it's not like it's an annoying button to press.
And the attack cancel for me is what makes the assault shield unusable. When you cancel their attack they just start another one, I pretty much always am using brutality weapons but they often dont feel fast enough with such a short window. I would much rather actually parry them, leaving them open long enough for a real beat down.
i have dodge as middle mouse button and imho it works far more naturally. i don't ever know why the default is shift. it feels so unnatural for the game, especially if you have smaller hands or a bigger keyboard. it's not intuitive in the least to me
Rampart Shield also has the highest held-up damage reduction in the game, making it ideal for Spite Sword combos.
I know that you're talking about this back in 2021, but I feel like the cudgel is honestly op for any weapon that needs stun/time to use. The new addition of the bat, for example, seems to be best when paired with the cudgel because it allows you to get 5 more critical hits in on bosses than you would have otherwise.
i started playing dead cells recently and parries are one of my favourite things to land, when i first beat the time keeper it was thanks to me perfectly parrying all of her throwing stars and omg i felt like Daigo landing that
Hell yeah! Sheild tier list! Like having sheilds because of the parry of course wonder who even uses the held up sheild
Hey, it's very useful with spite sword!
@@thetruegavinator except that I use spite sword too (I also break the golden doors for a curse for the sword)
Thanks for the vid Pseychie! I really aprecciate it, I’m progressing in dead cells pretty fast thanks to you, take care!
Awesome, now i just need to get used to being attacked by 5 enemies at once and knowing how to parry all of em :D
For that I’d recommend the Rampart shield. Parrying just one attack means you get a bubble of invisibility that means you don’t even need to nail the parries on the other monsters' attacks.
The greed shield legendary is so incredibly powerful, ik you don't cover those in the tier list, but it takes 1% of your gold, and increases your damage by that percent, so it can just straight up increase your damage by 100 percent if you have enough gold
It´s a good feeling when you land some good parries, I actually got so confortable with it I got today my first good parrys against the spoiler boss.
It´s actually really dooable when you really try to do it instead of dodging. But I still feel like more for the dodging gang, since when you miss a parry you get a big hit and defending on what happens next you may end up dying or taking more hits beecause you kinda stunned by the hit. It feels somewhat rewarding and risky at the same time.
Also the best thing I remember from the Assault Shield was pushing enemys off platforms and kill them, or otherwise, I am not sure about this, but I vfeel like an Assault Shield dash can briefly stun enemys so you can get your attacks in, I did both things alot with it instead of parrying
Don't think of dodging and parrying as two separate gangs, its kind of like a symphony when you get good dodge/parry combos against bosses like HOTK or Mama Tick
I've beaten 5BC several times and got a plenty of no hit bosses, but I never picked up a shield before lmao. Just after watching this vid I've even noticed that there's an exclamation mark indicators, didn't paid too much attention to that before. Now I want to try some shields bc it surely seems fun!
Another very good guide to "Dead Cells". I have just over 150 hours in this game and still I have very little experience with shields.
I haven't actually unlocked the knockback shield yet, but could it work in combination with Valmont's whip? I see that it's a tactics shield, and it looks like it might knock enemies into a good range for the tip of the whip, which seems to be an issue when using Valmont's whip with any other shield
Yes the knockback shield is awesome. When you parry think of it like a mushroom boi attack it knocks them back does and certain amount of damage and does increase damage when hitting a wall.
Knockback Shield is good, but why would I pick that up when you can do it without waiting for the enemy to attack with Spartan Sandals?
Enemies have different "weights" to them so the knockback mechanic in the game has variable results, you have to be good with Valmont's anyway to be able to adjust your positioning when it comes to knockbacks.
The Knockback Shield works that way? Spartan Sandals always knock enemies in a set distance, the 3rd hit of the combo knocks back really far. The first two hits put enemies exactly in position for Valmont's Whip to crit.
@@SyRose901 If you manage it in practice, I tip my hat off to you good sir!
I waited for a parry guide from you for so long
One thing I would like to add about the thunder shield when I got it from a legendary pedestal (yes, you can get items from a bc level you’re not at from a pedestal) is that it’s essentially cudgel but so much better in most ways, driving cudgel even deeper into placeholder tier
One niche usage for knockback shield could be pairing it with the marks man’s bow since it knocks them back pretty far, but then again I have yet to actually get the knockback shield
disagree with the first point. the discharge of electricity can sometimes screw up parry timing
@@ScrodumHat I can’t fight that argument yet since I’ve only tried it out once and I died with a curse by rolling into knife thrower knives, but in the future I’ll come back to this
Armadillopack will also allow you to parry things that Cocoon can but normal parrying will not.
I know you mentioned that the knockback shield interupts melee which is why you put it in placeholder but I'd argue against that because of ranged builds.
Yo i just reach 5bs in Mobile version, it was quite hard, thanks for your videos man 😉
Definitely appreciate the video as well as the One Step From Eden music (my favorite rogue lite) featured throughout. I actually picked up Dead Cells as I’d put nearly 200 hours into Eden but wanted something that would scratch a similar itch. Both great Games for sure.
One change: knock back shield is also tactics.
And due to it giving you space, it has natural synergy with bows.
TBH, parry shield generally good if you use armadillopack.
You can deflect projectiles by rolling and it will multiplied it by a lot
I usually use the spiked shield a lot , I'll definitely try out other shields after watching this video .
as a dead cells noob in the early game I always use the ice shield and the flint together and normally works pretty well.
Freeze shield can be insane in Toxic Sewers or Ancient Basin where there are always at least 3 enemies around you: parry one and they are free for the taking (mainly for melee)
I'm with you on everything but the parry shield. Personally I only ever parry with shields anyways so it doesn't really matter that I can't absorb and the majority of bosses and biomes on the more efficient runs (in terms of scroll counts) have a lot of ranged attacks to reflect, except for the sewer duo. Personally I view it, the spike shield, and the punishment as the holy trinity of insta-punishment (note I haven't gotten the thunder shield yet :'()
enjoyed this video! im new to dead cells and appreciated the guidance on parries
I haven't unlocked all but that assault shield is fun to use when it comes to pushing people off ledges.
Here’s an idea: If you have +70% dmg to stunned enemy on a weapon you might wanna get cudgel, because of the stun it does
the first thing I picked up upon starting my first run was a shield, and quite frankly I’d not have it any other way because shields are so fun to use
a guide on how to effectively get better at any bc. Like how to get better every bc would be a fun and new idea to have on the channel
Yeah, I do think some of my older guides can be better, I’ll keep this in mind. Thx for the suggestion !
Thank you so much for reminding me of Baldr Sky and its exceptional OST.
honestly, the parry shield is just what you use in your close-ranged tactics builds or when you want that extra bit of safety instead of damage in tactics. it's really just a placeholder for thunder shield, which you unlock on 5BC so the majority of most people's playtime is going to be without thunder shield unlocked.
so, if you're running tactics and want to use a shield instead of something like hokuto's bow or throwing knives in your offhand you've got two options until you get the 5th boss cell and then actually get to astrolab. knockback shield if tranquility, parry shield otherwise.
Just recently learned to parry well and hoo boy I have been missing out lol
The Assault shield was the first that granted me a super good run, I got overconfident and thought I mastered the parry system, and got wrecked with any other types of shield for a lot of future runs ahaha. The Assault shield is overly generous on the timing since you are moving forward which grants a huge window to actually parry, plus it can deflect bombs/canon balls on the ground, which other shields don't allow and I just die because of the explosions hahaha
tbh cudgel is the shield with more cc than any other shield, nutcracker works especially well with it because the stun window it gives is huge
I just picked up the game recently and have found your guides to be very informative. I had actually completely dismissed the parry mechanic in favor of dodge rolling because when I was messing around with a shield in the safety of an empty room there was a cool down before I could parry again, so I figured it would be useless in high density / rapid fire situations. Thanks to this video I now know that successful parries reset that cool down and, with practice, are an extremely potent defensive tool. Thanks so much for all you do!
Fun fact: You can interrupt most of the bosses with the assault shield. I didnt test this on every boss but I do know that you can interrupt every attack of the Mama Tick and the Concierge. Just dash into the boss while hes about to attack and he will get interrupted.
Yooo!!! I've been waiting for this
Great videos as always! Keep it up!
The Assault Shield deserves a better ranking for looking so dope.
I definitely have to agree with you, but some of the dynamic does change if you're running a 2 handed survival weapon (ex mama tick's claws) having the ice shield or say the rampart with armadillopack can make a big difference as just the flat out damage from say the spiked shield doesn't compare. Also thunder shield would still be op af in your backpack.
Knockback shield with Alucard’s sword is amazing
Maybe I am missing something, because you are the shieldmaster here, but I would definitely say that Assault Shield is OP. It can interrupt enemies(even some bosses, with Mama Tick it is like she only have one attack(tentacles from below), because the rest is easily interrupted. I can also push enemies off the platforms inflicting high damage on their drop, it can deal damage(that even as insignificant is just that little bit that sometimes might do it's job), it let you get faster to the enemy and because of a dash it has wider parry area.
So to summarize: Movement, interruption, push, damage, wider parry area.
I see why you would put those two shields in OP as they let you keep dealing high area damage while preventing damage to you, but I would put Assault Shield at least in "Generally Good" category, while still thinking it's OP and also it's the most newcommer friendly shield as because of the wider parry area it doesn't punish you for using a shield a bit earlier and if you won't land a parry on melee attack because of activating shield earlier, there is high chance that you will just interrupt enemy which also will save you. Of course you could say that interruption lessens incentive to parry some attacks, as you can just interrupt enemy before it attacks, but realistically it helps to learn parrying itself as well, because you learn when enemy will attack so you can interrupt it, which is useful in parrying too.
I use Armadillopack religiously, because I prefer having a ranged and a melee weapon. Unfortunately, that means I haven't really practiced with parrying. I should probably do something about that.
Good video. Only critique is when you show crossbow video. No point in that on a shield tier guide. I was hoping to see you using the shield in question more. Very insightful video. Thanks!
"NO shield can harm your run"
- Laughs in Assault Shield Enemy Animation Resetting
I'm 45hs into the game and I've barely used a shield before, thanks
This is what i need.Thanks
I agree with this list, but personally for me, parry shield and cudgel are situational, not placeholder since I had a build with toothpick, spiked shield, whistle of giant, tonic and parry shield. I used spiked shield on mobs and first boss and parry shield on giant in attacking slot and on the hand of the king in backpack (with mutation that makes you use shield in back pack while dodging) while he throws bombs at you.
Was this video released before the armadillo mutation????? No Word on it? I got addicted to it. Dodging is so much more safe...
i personally say that rampart shield is insanely good saved my ass in lighthouse
Ikr! I mean, it makes you invulerable for some time
Whats better than that!
@@ytuser3982Force shield can do it longer but you can't move
If you ever run out of ideas for videos, you could try doing challenges! I would love to see you try completing the game on 5bc with the starting sword
Or a cursed sword run.
Oh how I just love dead cells content
I have parrying down for every boss in the game right now (haven't gotten the first cell yet) but that. Damn. Golem. Somehow no matter how well i time my parry on the golems in slumbering sanctuary, they still hit me.
Those tanky bastards are the reason I almost never go sanct
I really like running armadillo. Although, it seems I'd be missing out on the continuous parry.
Love the greed shield in the early game...I tend to grab it if it's in a tube at the beginning...unless I see something I really like...I love this game I'm watching this because I finally beat a 4bc run(was disappointed to learn that's not Even how you unlock 5bc) and I've still never been great with shields and parries save for the early levels with greed because i know the timings and you don't get overwhelmed
I know i need to get good at parrying because right now dps and dodge aren't consistently getting me through
The parry shield's one good use is against time keeper. If you pair it with spite, then you can kill her in 5 actual seconds (im not exagerating thats how long it took).
10:04 Yeah, I'mma disagree on that one, chief! The parry shield releases a lot of projectiles, when you reflect a shot from an enemy, giving you a lot of burst damage to damage enemies, look at Time Keeper for example! For the sheer amount of projectiles she spams you with, the parry shiel absolutely shreds her! I'd say it's situational at worst and OP at best!
If you parry at point-blank with the parry shield, it's a straight one-shot lol.
@@petkofuchalski9809 For real? Well bloody hell, that makes Pseychie's choice even more questionable!
@@karlhnedkovsky5214 yeah, parrying all shurikens+bonus progectiles from the parry shield+tactics scaling and if you sprinkle on top some decent sinergy/s it's just redicilous.
I could agree with situational but it is so far from OP. Like can you really in good conscious place it on the same level as the Thunder Shield?
@@Scroolewse i never said it's OP, i only said you can one-shot the Time keeper.
Damn bro i didnt even know you could parry
I really like the Assault shield. It's just so fun to use and push enemies off cliffs
i'd rather just spartan kick them tbh
@@Scroolewse The difference is that Assault Shield is generally better, cause you have a better option for your other weapon.
@@Dantelor Spartan Sandals are a support weapon though. You wouldn't replace your primary weapon for them you replace your shield.
Obviously there are big downsides associated with shieldless runs but sometimes you need to switch things up. Relying too heavily on shields can start to feel like a crutch since they are just so darn good and easy to use.
Also it's very good if you're too lazy to chain-parry ranged attacks
Just gave you a sub. GREAT channel bro!
Starter shield arguably the best, free upgrades and you can reroll them to match the build (for free btw)
Very useful videos, even tho l am 5 BC l still find your opinions-advices very useful and helpful👏👏
Also nice vid and editing dude
". . . and just hit 'em with my shovel." Yes. So much yes.
I parried exclusively for the longest time ‘cause I thought that was the only way shields could be used way back in the early access days.
This game is crazy man. I'm hooked. I bought it on mobile.
Nice vid. How do you get the skin at 3:54?
Kind of a spoiler, but beat the 5bc boss without taking damage, it was the last outfit I unlocked before 100% achievements
love the stardew music!! (and the vid ovs)
I see a lot of content about parrying and shields but no one really talks about rolling in details. Some attacks that are considered hard to parry are really easy to dodge roll.
I dont know how, but as i was starting a new save (i had never beaten the game yet anyways) and while exploring the toxic sewers biome, i somehow got the thundershield. it was being protected by enemies nearby (it had that weird force field and i had to kill the enemies before accessing the shield)
Crudge isn't that bad, it just looks bad
This dude: learn to go close parries early, maybe 2 or 3 BC
also this dude: it took me two years to beat the game
i once had legend greed shield with colorless( i maxed red to more than 20)
quite surprised it hit harder than my melee with higher number
Armadillo pack and Parry Shield is the way to go.
Fun fact: Assault Shield not only gives you an even larger parry frame, but also disrupts boss attacks. This makes bosses like Mama Tick an absolute joke.
If you have parry shield in your backpack for armadillo pack and you roll through a cluster of egg bombs, you get flash banged irl
The only problem I have when thinking about attempting a shield run is screwing the 60 kills door at the end. When you start using a shield it's borderline impossible to not get hit 60 times in a row. Perhaps said doors should allow you to get hit with a cooldown, similar to how disengagement works.
you just need more practice.
Skill issue fr
I become a literal God when I have vorpan + assault shield+ a grenade (not root grenade). The demopan tf2 combo... but melee parries are my kryptonite with assault shield.
force shield i would say its more than place holder because in my cursed sword run i got force shield and it saved my life so many times when it came to bosses the time keeper is annoyinq while using a cursed sword because how many projects you need to dodge or try parry but i cant spam parry sp force shield is more of a life saver for people who struggle to parry
Blocking does have a purpose. It's for when you goofed up and can't parry an attack and so instead you can block to reduce the damage of the attack. With that in mind, force shield is amazing. Blocking with a shield reduces the damage taken by a large amount and with an certain affix, most of the damage will be blocked. Force shield when blocking makes you invincible and so you take no damage. If you suck at parrying ravagers then either roll or block...I suck at parry ravagers.....I'm sorry
great video and well due
If this was made back when we had a shield that couldn't parry at all it would be the only shield that would be hurt your run.
New shield video let’s goooooooo
I find the knockback shield ok on purple, because I'm usually running ranged anyway. Might as well get them farther away if I'm using a quick bow or something.
I am new and u said parrying has no cooldown but from what i experienced it has a high cool down because its slow to reuse it so i often get hit
Is there a guide that explains how staggering enemies using melee/ranged attacks works?
Thank you for the video
I'm honestly surprised the Spiked Shield is not brutality given its focus on damage.
Excuse me my guy, but knockback shield works like bread and dutter with the bladed tonfas so its not all melee weapons included. All of range works perfectly fine with it and some survival weapons such as the symmmetrical lance or whips are too perfect for this shield!
Cocoon my beloved