Sekiro Beginner Tips
Always Guard and Parry
If you consider yourself a Soulsborne veteran, you’re gonna have to throw everything you know about those games out the window. In Sekiro, it’s far more efficient to guard and deflect attacks rather than dodge out of your enemy’s way.
This game’s combat system revolves around the Posture mechanic, where you have to hit your enemy repeatedly or deflect their attacks to build up their Posture meter, which allows you to perform an instant kill Deathblow on them once it’s completely full.
You could kill enemies just by depleting their health bar, but it’s far more efficient to focus on the Posture meter and get kills that way.
When you deflect attacks, your own Posture meter won’t get any build-up, and you’ll be dealing Posture damage to your enemy in turn. And if your Posture meter gets a little too high, you can back away and hold the guard button to make it decrease a little faster.
You’ll also want to watch your health bar, as more health allows your Posture to recover faster and vice versa. The same goes for your enemies as well.
Speaking of parrying, once you unlock the skill tree, I highly recommend picking up the Mikiri Counter skill. This allows you to get perfect parries on all thrusting attacks, and it deals extra Posture damage, as opposed to just deflecting it regularly or dodging it.
