Everything you need to know about the Parry in Street Fighter 6 

UPDATE: Hey its SF6 launch time, and everything in this video is still 100% applicable, so why not give it a watch!

Honestly the frame data bar in training mode is the biggest blessing fighting game has had in years for training mode… it’s perfect visualisation for the perfect parry mechanics

You crazy kids love your parries, so why not make a video going in depth on the mechanic in SF6? Time stamped for your ease of use, the parry in some ways is very straight forward and in other ways is super weird and esoteric with strange rules you wouldn't know unless someone told you and well, thats what this vid is for so enjoy!

Very interesting, I like how SF games usually have these wildly diferent mechanics among themselves

Figured id make at least one proper guide while the beta is up, its just in my nature I guess. Come launch period expect the channel to basically cover every single possible aspect of the game in guides so look forward to that when the time comes! Hopefully parries don't change otherwise ill have to remake this video lol :(

Nice to know to know about all the details on SF6's parries! A 2-frame window for perfect parries will be very difficult to pull off consistently, but very rewarding for skilled players. Also good to know that though hitting someone during their parry's recovery frames results as a punish, they can block during those frames, but instead run the risk of being unable to tech throws.

Also, different attack types recover different amounts of gauge. Projectiles seem to give half a bar, melee 1 bar and drive impacts more than one bar, i think one and a half. Which if you like to spend gauge, can be a life saver knowing that parrying a block string will let you recharge instantly, even if you risk being thrown

This. This is it. Never really held any kind of hype for street fighter 6 before, but now I do just for this mechanic alone. That's cool as hell.

Amazing SF lesson by my favourite versus fighting scientist. I just got the frame science. Damn!!! I definitely will go back to SF with this opus.

For context, in 3s regular parries are 10f and red parries are 2f for specials/supers and 3f for normals. So parry punishes aren't going to be as regular as 3s.

You honestly have the best content man. The only one so far that fully breaks down the difference in Frame advantages on counter, punish counter ect.

thanks for keeping on with the great content. I watch them all. Stoked for SF6

i think perfect parrying fireballs is worth trying because they reward you with more drive meter but i dont have the beta so im not sure..

This video is very informative, u explain the mechanics & frame data in a very easy to digest manner. Thanks for providing us with info.

Thank you for posting this video, your videos always make my day good sir!

I swear you are the best bc I was extremely curious about the parry system and you answered all my questions. Thank you and I would definitely want to fight some sets with you when it comes out

Love how informative you are .. so great how you analyze the mechanics of the game ❤thank you Bro

That's GG Faultless Defense, but with bar refill.

You're a legend for these videos

thanks a lot for the in-depth video!!

I'm glad it's not free. In 3, parry was free.

Brilliant video mate

Great video bro

perfect parrying projectiles is kinda useful, it gives you less recovery time than if you just parried or blocked it, allowing you to just barely get a punish if you’re close enough, sometimes with a sweep or a long range button.

The scaling makes sense, with how you already have Drive Impact and Reversal to help create/get around offense. They obviously don't want parry to define the meta again, just cover that particular niche the other mechanics don't. Speaking of, how *are* Drive Reversals compared to Alpha Counters/V Reversals? Can they be thrown, how fast does the startup feel in actual gameplay, etc?

Great info as usual, I'm hoping they bring an open beta, can't wait to play this

good video man. the 2 frame window fo that perfect parry is definitely gonna be the big tech and also pain to learn. also not to abuse it too much like 3rd strike so i suggest using it sparingly for certain situations. nonetheless. really liked this video!!!

I came here from the demo to double check the frames for parry vs block from a trusted source and only learned just now about being able to block and unable to throw tech in parrys recovery frames. Learn something new everyday

Thanks for making this.

As someone whose specialty is one-frame mechanics, I'm looking forward to trying this out and going for Perfect Parries whenever applicable. They definitely seem to be situational though, and not something you want to abuse. Which... will have me crying but, oh well. Thanks for this video. I really appreciate the information & display.

Very good video sir !

Thank you so much for this video. The parry system was the thing I was most disappointed by in the SF6 reveal, but your breakdown makes me like it a little more. Seems like command grapplers are gonna be eating good this game.

I think the defensive meta in sf6 will be deep and intriguing because with drive parry you can force a neutral situation instead of challenging a frame trap option to you disadvantage. I'm guessing since you can block out of parry recovery frames may be you throw break as well as this theory goes so you can offset the opponent by changing his options mid attack which is deep. Grapplers would be deadly if the defensive meta is possible and developes.

wow, I had no idea you could block during the recovery frames, before that, I thought the parries were way worse than they actually are !

i love how this tutorials feels like you're in the couch explaning to us noobs the parry system

Funny how perfect parrying fireballs ended up being quite useful in some niche situations.

One important note you didn't emphasize is that there is an incentive to perfect parry projectiles. You recover much faster, just like perfect parrying normals for example. Because of that, you can move forward or even punish in ways that you would not be able to otherwise. The easiest example is against Guile. His recovery is so fast that you will NEED to perfect parry otherwise you are forced into his game by default. But if you succeed, it will make his boom game way less advantageous.

I’d love a video on sodc cleaning for hit box vs sfv. Thx for all you do. Sending Good Vibes

One thing that was visible even if not explicitly mentioned was that a perfect parry on a fireball has greatly reduced recovery, this is probably most relevant if used to perfect parry something like a slow boom with Guile walking at you behind it. In general though some of the best uses will likely be on things like ambiguous cross ups where neither player is 100% sure which side it will land on. But basically you're gambling with drive gauge. You're betting meter that a strike is coming, guess right get rewarded with meter, guess wrong and lose health and meter to a punish. The other big one will be reading correctly a multi-hitting move where you might get a lot of meter back very quickly for guessing correctly.

I saw a video on twitter where someone perfect parried and timed their punish to after the slowdown and they avoided the 50% penalty I can't test myself :(

I’m saving all these guides when the game drops

U gotta love how Ryu coaches u while kicking your ass.

I didn't know you could block in the parry recovery, that's huge!

Seems like a good tool to get to block projectiles while walking forward. In other situations it seems like Drive Impact is a better choice (at least if used on a move that is not special cancellable so that your opponent can't DI back).

Hey Rooflemonger, excellent video as always. A thought came to mind, could you test if an attack after Jamie's command grab as a counter punish gives bonus damage?

Amazing tutorial as usual. I main Tekken and genuinenly interested in SF6. Looking forward to your analysis regarding classic vs modern controls/combo and setups for new comers and veterans alike

So basically a perfect parry is a V-Shift! When Capcom stretched SFV for one more season, it's crystal clear they added some SF6's mechanics, including the "mystery" behind SFV Luke's V-meter regenerates automatically (like Drive gauge).

evo moment 37 remade as a perfect parries, or just held down if you can't pull it off

AMAZING! Truly top notch teaching skills on display. Orders concepts in a way that make sense. Takes time to demonstrate and repeat. Just a great example of breaking down a complex idea.

With respect to the scaling, I've seen it claimed that it only applies for a few frames after a perfect parry, such that if you delay slightly you can get an unscaled punish (possibly dependent on the frame data of the parried move?). If you have time to test that's sure something a lot of people would be keen to know, meaties seem a lot riskier than usual as it is. Strike throw characters seem like they directly benefit if the system mechanics turn all/most oki situations into the one their kits are designed for

As a life-long Soul Calibur player, it seems like the SF6 parry mechanic, specifically the Perfect Parry, is pretty much identical to Soul Calibur's "Guard Impact", which is a parry with extremely strict timing that leaves your opponent in a stunned state for a fraction of a second, your opponent even has a really brief stunned state animation, and the only thing they can do is dodge, or parry you right back. SF6 is basically that, minus that stunned state animation, you can just attack right away. In Soul Calibur, when your opponent gets parried, the only thing they can answer with is dodge or Guard Impact you right back, which if they did, that would sometimes lead to these epic parry battles where each opponent gets answered with a parry back & forth in rapid succession, it was EPIC. I'm really hoping that parry battle dynamic can be exploited in SF6, because would be incredible. And thanks to Rooflemonger's detailed explanation, because this totally clicked for me

Very interesting! I was very excited to see parries come back out to their "original" form. However, I'm not sure if I missed out on that video but is there a way to "perfect parry" a projectile?

Saw on max’s stream last night it looks like perfect parry on a projectile doesn’t lessen damage like a physical attack. He was getting full damage perfect partying the fireball off low forward.

I'm extremely excited for this game.

some tech i've seen for perfect parries is perfect parrying projectiles give you like, 0 block stun and no pushback, so you can just walk into hadoukens and cover distance with no penalty

Good info in this one rooflemonger. Does perfect parrying projectiles give you any benefit like Increased meter, faster recovery... etc?

The only change I would make to Parry is to allow you to backdash out of it to bait throws

Once the Grapplers are here, I could see a lot of players looking to the Heavens asking 🙄"I could use a V-Shift about now"

wait so if normal parry is the same as on block does that mean u can hit them after if they don’t do anything like as if u were blocking the first time or is there still recovery on the normal parry after parrying the opponents hit n u can’t hit back? also can u parry out of blockstun?

I think I saw something where if you time your attack after a perfect parry properly, then you don't get that 50% scaling. Not sure if this is true, but it would add even another layer of depth to this kind of interaction which would be cool.

As always, thank you for putting out this content. One thing I noticed that you didn’t mention is when you throw someone during the parry recovery frames it’s a hard knockdown whereas they normally result in a soft knockdown. Not sure how I feel about how easy the parry is to execute relative to how much benefit it provides. Guess I’ll have to wait to see how it plays out in actual matches.

Sweet, I was hoping someone would break the parry down!

Oh wow, they actually thought of the whole perfect parry on wake up thing. Maximilian Dood hypothesized that the damage scaling is so high because perfect parry was happening all the time on wake up during Capcom's testing. That sort of goes out the window here.

I really only have two questions - can you parry mid jump like third strike and can you actually replicate evo moment 37 where you perfect parry every hit of Chun Li's super?

I like this implementation, there's reasons to choose blocking over parrying. I could see parrying some moves end up disadvantageous against say, a grappler because of the reduced knockback. In a daigo parry situation you're better off blocking, since you don't get chip killed and would get more damage off. It'd be nice if perfect parries were available in burnout or you could get chipped out outside of burnout to encourage smart parry play at low health, but this is still super cool. Was there a parry macro at all? Or did two buttons feel consistent enough to not need one?

how much drive meter you receive back from a perfect parry? I would think you receive more back than a regular parry. edit: I believe its a full bar and half.

I wish you would have mentioned how the dash cancel works with it. Great video either way though

I would have liked to see if regular parry cancel into green rush gives more frame advantage

What about multihits like a red fireball or chun’s classic super art? Do you have to tap parry each hit to perfect parry it, or can you perfect parry the first hit and hold out the rest?

So, I'm wondering if this will be a seperate video, but how does being able to drive rush out of Drive Parry work? can you do it in Parry's recovery frames? how soon can you do it after normal parrying something?

I know Jamie has some sort of command grab in this beta. I wonder how the punish counter damage modifier effects that move.

It is the SF6 version with of Just Defence system from FF MOTW

Now that the game has been out awhile I figured I should learn how drive parry actually works!

I heard that if you do a perfect parry the opponent cannot cancel into another move during their recovery. Is that the case?

Amazing how you explain frame data. I personally don't like how Capcom designed parry in SF6. Guess 3rd Strike is still my last SF game.

U can get unscaled combo damage off the perfect parry, if u link it at then end of the recovery of the perfect parry. Soo if combo straight away u get the 50% scaling.

Slightly tangential, but has anyone found out if Jamie’s command grab gets buffed from punish counter? Like a larger opening to get a heavier combo starter or something?

Dope

so a perfect parry is as strict as a red parry in 3S... speaking of red parry, can you parry out of blockstun? Also, with wakeup hold parry into block, will oki crossups be kinda obsolete? Dangerous with the throws if your opponent reacts to it i suppose

It’s sounds like a mix of street fighter 4’s focus attack and Ryu’s street fighter V parry

It's like the clockwork orange torture scene watching 20% or so undeserving lucky people have the time of their lives while the rest of us are forced to watch every detail of everything we're missing out on every second of every day in agony.. I'm ready for this nightmare weekend to be over already. But sure this might be useful in 8 months or whatever so thanks

Blocking is allowed during normal parry recovery? This def changes how I feel about it, people will def start parrying once this becomes general knowledge

So does a parried block string guarantee a throw? Or is there a mind game where the opponent mixes up when they end their strings to get the throw?

What about Drive Rushing out of Parries? How quickly can you do that? Can you throw tech during a drive rush? Can you use the rush to make parrying more plus than blocking? Or to reduce/remove the combo scaling from Perfect Parry?

Hmm that's actually pretty good system.

To me it feels kind of scary to go for, you can really feel those recovery frames. Also I saw Maximilian recently show off how a perfect parry is stupidly easy against meatys on wake-up since it comes out on frame 1 (which is probably a big part of why they scale damage so much).

Question- can you throw tech when you’ve let go of parry after a hit I.e. when you are recovering from parry but can still block? If not then I don’t see too much use for this instead of blocking up close

why does every single content creator on the planet love This is true Love Makin' from cvs2?

You say that it doesn't do much if you perfect parry a fireball, but your recovery frames are gone. So you can follow up if you're close enough, or even stick a drive rush behind it and get combos off of it

So what this video is saying is that we need grapplers with teleports.

Can you Drive Rush if you parry a projectile?

Noted.

7:50 I'm really glad holding it doesn't auto frame 1 perfect parry - But what about mashing? If I am mashing the parry button, does it behave like holding, or does my mashed input on wakeup frame 1 get a perfect parry still?

I'm new to fighting games so correct me if I'm wrong. Since perfect parry has the damage penalty, does that mean it's best usage would be to end your opponents turn so you can begin your pressure?

I've seen how they perfect parry the response from another perfect parry. You didn't show that. I wonder if it can be done back and forth.

On xbox and my parry is absolutely not working any solutions??

I'm just happy its not like SF3 parry system. SF3 parry system was a live or die mechanic as in if you were not good or a master using it you already lost the match before it begins.

Now if they add Gen I will definitely play street fighter 6

What's the point of normal parry vs block? The chance to maybe get some drive gauge and no chip? But leaves you more vulnerable to throws and costs Drive, not to mention loss of screen control.

When did Chef John start doing SF6 tutorials???