Originally Posted by
Felheric
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patience,patience unfortunetly just blocking majority of attacks is still extremely effective way of playing.
Against LB they most likely will just shove of block with lights, delayed lights, heavys, heavy feints, and gb. With occasional top lights pokes mixed with feints.
So obviously properly reacting to shove attacks is the main condition to win. Dont accidently change your guard during shove attacks as it would mess up your timing, it could happen when Lb is slightly delaying his lights. Be very conservative with your attacks, dont go low on stam or oos, try to keep your stamina on point where he will be threatened by your zone most of the time.
Learn to react to his guardbreak animation so if he tend to use guardbreaks from neutral you will be able to react with light instead of just counter guardbreak. Dont get annoyed by slow pace of the match. Dont mess up your light inputs with buffering if you open him up, I think LB is one of those who benefit from the bug of instant guard switch so be prepared that most of your second 400 ms lights would be just blocked and shoved. Dont try to parry him to often as he will most likely wont do that also. Take it slow and make your peace that match will take long and there wouldnt be any flow of pressure whatsoever. Atleast he cant really do to much from neutral also, so you kinda decide when to deal with his stuff. But still the fight will be more reaction demanding/exhausting for you than for him, as he would most likely walk you down and stare with his guard on side of your zone most of the time. Dont duel to many in row, take break or play some other mode where people try to do stuff more, Because is very easy to get annoyed and make mistakes.
Against Conq alot above points apply also. keep your stam in check, if you want to slow down fight or your are not sure if he is shield bashing or just forward dashing into guardbreak, just unlock during dodge animation to roll away to kinda reset neutral. I personally find good conq super hard as they have good pressure during match and superior defense options. They will mostly be blocking and annoying ,occasionly options select parry with they zone or that instant heavy cancel with allblock stance as it is very safe parry option for them aswell. You will have to throw some neutral guardbreaks and zones in hope you catch them during startup of shield bash to atleast condition them they are not free to do it whenever, but it is extremely hard and its pretty much read not a reaction.
defense is still only countered by better defense on pc for most of the cast.. Hope this will atleast help you to win more duels against them, because I know for a fact it will not help you have better fun during them.