I could never get the parry timing right. I went on Youtube, followed every tutorial under the sun, but it never clicked. They all talked about overlapping windows of attack and parry and it all went right over my head. Or they went the other way and were too vague: "Wait till the last moment. You'll figure it out."
Then I read in a single article that I can't find again, the only place I could find that laid it out so clearly, this simple way to know when to parry: The very first frame after your opponent's wind-up, the split second when his weapon _starts_moving_towards_you_, that is when your parrying window opens. You then have however many frames to hit your parry. And since most enemies' windups are so obvious, it get really easy when all you have to spot is the moment his weapon starts to move towards you.
I don't know if this is technically true in every single case, but it served me well against Havel, against every black and silver knight, and against Gwyn. I went from successfully parrying about 20 % of the time to hitting it 80-90 % of the time.
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