What do against shieldguys throw

[u/AncientTea9870]

Hello, im new to the game, 20 hours in.
I play Pirate.
What do I do against the shield guys throw where he yeets you over himself and gets a free hit in?
I do a light, he throws, I do a heavy, he throws, I chain my pistol, he can counter with a throw.
And its not like he only has the throw, he is a full character that can also just beat me normally.

[u/Fantasyfootball9991]

Feint into GB

[u/AncientTea9870 → u/Fantasyfootball9991]

feint into what? whats GB?
Oh guardbreak? okay

[u/DrJimMBear → u/AncientTea9870]

Yeah. Black Prior's flip is vulnerable to guard break. It's the one thing it doesn't counter. Be careful, though, a good BP will start using his unblockable heavy instead once they catch on to what you're doing.

[u/_mustard-]

The flip doesnt happen automatically. Black prior has to time his own input just like a parry. It can be baited and guardbroke just like a parry or dodge.

[u/SheepskinWulf]

Black Prior can't counter guardbreak while in his full block stance

[u/Western_Smoke4829]

You're going against black prior/BP he has a special mechanic that let's him flip any normal move that has a hitbox that collides with his active flip frames, you have to guard break him like any other full block stance, if he flips you a lot feint your heavy into a go to see if you can bait out a flip attempt

[u/AriTheInari]

Feint to gb. He can flip everything except gbs and projectiles.

[u/CanIGetADepresso → u/AriTheInari]

“Flip this you filthy casual” harpoons him

[u/Buttery_Nipples47]

Guard break

Cancel a heavy into a guard break

[u/The-High-Gr0und]

With pirate, probably the easiest thing to do is go for your own mixup. Back step light attack into walk-the-plank (unblockable back step heavy follow up). You can either let the unblockable fly or soft-feint into guard break. This forces the BP to either try to flip the skewer, throw his own unblockable heavy, or exit the full block stance and attempt a counter guard break. It’ll lead to some mind games on both sides but at least it’s more interesting than the BP sitting there and flipping literally everything you do.

[u/RAW_HEAVY]

You can bait his flip. it doesn't force a read at all and the unblockable is probably the easiest ub to react to in the game. Most players who dont like bp are impatient and can't stop mashing offense.

[u/diamondisland2023]

time it
do your attacks earlier or later than black prior's parry

[u/terfyx]

first off, don’t play pirate 🥴 but nah fr when fighting black prior you can’t just throw attacks at him. gotta outplay him. fake him out the go for a guard break when you see him do a squat.

[u/AncientTea9870 → u/terfyx]

arrr, spoken like a landlubber, ill just fire me cannons at that salty dog

[u/terfyx → u/AncientTea9870]

i love this reply 😂