Thymesia - Complete Combat Guide
Thymesia is a brutal Soulslike from the lads and ladies over at Team17 and OverBorder Studio. It’s fast, deadly, unforgiving, and satisfying all lumped together into one, plague-ridden experience. Being part of the genre it is in, combat is the main focus, and getting to grips with it all is essential.
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Unfortunately, that is easier said than done. Thymesia - as is often the case - is devastatingly difficult in all the right (and some of the wrong…) ways. You will get slapped around by basic enemies, mini-bosses, and full-blown bosses on the regular. Knowing is half the battle, of course, so we’ve compiled a few tips to help you on your way.
Dodging in Thymesia is great. You move quickly in a chosen direction, you gain some I-Frames, and theoretically, it will get you to safety. However, dodging is not effective enough in Thymesia to warrant relying on it. If dodging is your primary form of defence, you will die. Constantly.
This is for several reasons. At base, dodging has noticeable recovery frames. You can’t spam it, and if you try, you will get clipped by enemies who have long combos. This is a death sentence against stronger enemies. Dodging should instead be used at key moments to get a bit of breathing room. It is not a “get out of jail free” card.
If dodging is underwhelming, then how do you defend yourself? Well, you deflect your enemies instead. Deflecting requires honed reflexes and knowledge of an enemy's attack patterns and wind ups to pull off, but landing a deflect will result in massive gains that you need to take advantage of if you want to succeed.
Successfully deflecting negates all damage you would otherwise take, it instantly resets its recovery
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