Is there a huge skill gap and/or am I losing my mind?
Okay, first, two disclaimers. One, I'm a an ultra casual gamer who play 98% dominion. Two, I don't even really have a main, just sort of play through the characters until they're rep 7 and look F A B with their glittery helmets'n crap.
What confuses me though, is it seems more and more that people are having IMPOSSIBLE reaction times to attacks. Even on characters like Valkyrie, I don't see how it's possible to block every light every time on reaction alone. I don't follow patterns. I don't always got left-right-up. It's random every time. Targeted on me, not targeted on me, dazed, OOS, doesn't matter. Even my PK gets parried like it's going out of business. Are y'all really just THAT good? Because that's no fun. How are they going to defeat this "turtle meta" if anytime I hit the right bumper I get parried, heavied, and then unspeakable things happen to me that I can't seem to even get my character to respond to? Like, my stance reticle stays black, all the attacks go through, I can't do anything, aaaaand I'm dead.
And it seems random. Sometimes I'll fight a Rep 20 Warden and get *just* beaten due to their better gameplay, and that's fair I don't mind getting mixed up by mix-ups,, but on the same team will be a rep 2 Lawbringer bringing light parry punishes to all. I mean sometimes you can clearly even see that their guard is (we'll say UP), so you attack left or right, and their guard stays up before and after your attack gets blocked/parried, only for that SPLIT SECOND is it left/right to block your attack. And this is on XBone, so I don't see how it would be cheating.