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Blocking

Blocking is an integral part to keep yourself alive. Knowing how to use which block in which situation will greatly improve your game. Not only will you be able to defend better, but in some cases you will be able to resume your offense faster.

Ground Block

Basic ground blocking is the most common defensive option. To guard against high attacks, simply hold back. To guard against mid attacks, hold back or down+back. To guard against low attacks, hold down+back.

Remember, you can not block against throws, and some attacks are just flat-out unblockable!

Air Block

Basic air blocking is even easier; simply hold any backwards direction while airborne. Air blocking does not have a high/low blocking, but instead comes with another restriction... air basic blocking will not work against ground based attacks!

Ground based attacks are all non-projectile attacks that are performed on the ground, such as all standing/crouching normals, ground specials, and ground supers!

Example #1: May jumps at Sol, Sol uses 2H, May gets hit because Sol is on the ground

Example #2: Potemkin jumps at Johnny, Johnny uses his 632146H super, Potemkin gets hit because Johnny is on the ground).

Any time your opponent attempts to use a grounded anti-air attack, you will need to Faultless Defense instead of basic air block. Remember this... it's important!

As with ground blocking, you also can't air block against air throws and unblockables.

Instant Block (IB)

begin blocking right before the attack touches you

Instant Block is a slightly more advanced version of normal blocking; you must start blocking right before the opponent's attack touches you. Your character will flash white if you IB an attack.

The benefits of IBing are:

Recover faster from blockstun (for exact amounts check the Attack Level table)
Reduced pushback (which might be a good or bad thing depending on your character)
Increased Tension Pulse (which means more Tension later)

IB does not allow you to make "illegal" blocks: you still must block high/low correctly, and you still must use air FD versus air unblockable attacks.

You can IB "during" attack patterns. This means that while normal blocking, you can begin IBing at any point if you can time your blocking with the opponent's attacks! Think of it as a mini-game: time your blocking to the rhythm of the opponent's hits.

Faultless Defense (FD)

Faultless Defense is an interesting and highly useful technique. It's often used to negate guard damage, but it has other, very effective uses. To perform Faultless Defense, hold any back direction and press any two buttons except D (example: 4P+K), and not S+HS (see Slash Back, below). As long as you hold 4P+K, your character will continue to remain in Faultless Defense. However, this gradually drains your Tension Gauge. If you have no Tension stored, your character will not perform the Faultless Defense. While Faultless Defense is active, your character will not build guard bar, and every hit blocked will force you and your opponent further apart than if the hit was blocked with a regular block. This is even more apparrent if you are in the corner. Since you cannot travel back, your opponent is forced even further away. One drawback of Faultless Defense is that it keeps you in guard stun longer than if you had normally blocked, or instant blocked (IB).

Faultless Defense can also be performed in the air, which brings up another very important use. Since the majority of ground based attacks cannot be guarded against with an air block, Faultless Defense can be used instead. This will allow you to jump in at an opponent and block many anti-air attacks.

During Faultless Defense, you still must remember to block the different attack levels correctly. If you remain standing with Faultless Defense active, low attacks will still connect. This holds true for overhead and jump in attacks if you remain crouching. You can also be thrown.

Complete knowledge and mastery of Faultless Defense is critical to high level play. Always try to keep Tension stored specifically for Faultless Defense.

As mentioned in the "Tension Gauge" section, when FD is used, your Tension Gauge will increase at only 20% of normal for a full 1 second.

Slash Back (SB)

Slash Back is a feature in Accent Core which allows any character to "parry" any form of attack (Projectile, Overdrive, Normals) by pressing 4 or 1+S+H. Attempting to Slash Back looks like a gold FD ring around the character for a brief moment. Successfully Slashing Back will cause the character to have a gold aura to flash around them, and they will recover insanely fast. You will recover fast enough that basically any poke in the game you will wind up on advantage on if it is not stringed.

Slashing Back costs SLIGHT tension to do. You cannot "hold" Slashback like you could FD. It needs to be tapped. Successfully Slashing Back will not only give you the parry, but it will net you a small amount of tension on success. You can Slash Back multi-hit moves as well as gatling chains. You must Slash back AS the active frame becomes active. AKA you do not want to do it "before" the hit hits, like with Instant Blocking. You want to do it just as it hits you, similar to parrying in Street Fighter III: Third Strike. You can activate Slash Back any time you are in Guard Stun as well as at Neutral.

You have about a 2-3 frame window to activate a Slash Back properly. You also cannot Slash Back for the first 10 frames after you have risen from the ground. You must Slash Back the correct direction (high or low) for the parry to take place (IE you can't 1SH a Dust). You can do either 4SH or 1SH for mid hits that do not hit high or low.

If missed, you are left vulnerable for approximately 30 frames during which time you can block nothing.If you whiff a Slash Back, you can still try with another Slash Back again, but your guardstun will then be 4 frames instead of 2. On that note, Slash Back usually has a guardstun of 2 frames if you're on the ground, and 4 frames if you're in the air, regardless of attack level. You take no block damage and your guard gauge does not increase.

Doing a Slash Back during a dash will cause you to stop dead in your tracks, similar to FD Braking.

Throw Break

There are 2 versions of throw breaks. The first one occurs when your opponent presses his throw at the EXACT same time as you. This causes a purple graphic to appear and you both back off on even recovery. The second one is if your opponent presses throw within about 2 frames of you throwing them. This causes another purple graphic to appear, but this time the throw animation will start, but they take no damage and they will back off in a less favorable way. It depends on the character's throw (like in Johnny's case, they get tossed in the air a little away from him but take no damage)

Command throws cannot be broken.
You can break air throws just like ground throws.
You CANNOT break throws while you are recovering from a move, so unsafe attacks are still unsafe.

Dead Angle Attack (DAA)

Dead Angle Attacks are basically counters / reversals which require 50% of your Tension Gauge. To perform a Dead Angle Attack, you must first block any attack while on the ground. During the block stun, press towards your opponent and any two buttons simultaneously (6P+K for example). When performed, your character will flash white, then immediately attack the opponent back. This can be useful when your opponent is rushing you down and you want to get them off your back. It can also be used to do a small amount of damage and set up possible combo follow ups. Since each character's Dead Angle Attack is different, it's important to know what each one does. Also, since each Dead Angle Attack has startup frames like every other attack, if you counter an opponents move that recovers quickly, your Dead Angle Attack may be guarded. It's best to use the Dead Angle Attack when you are certain it will connect.

As mentioned in the Increasing Tension section, when a DAA is used, your Tension Gauge will increase at only 20% of normal for a full 4 seconds.

Bursts

Bursts are an extremely expensive but highly versatile tool in Guilty Gear. To Burst, press D + any other attack button. Depending on your current state, your burst will be either Blue or Gold.

In terms of defense, both types of bursts have their uses:

Blue Bursts can be used while blocking or while being hit to deny your opponent damage and reset the pace of a match
Gold Bursts can be used on wakeup as a reversal that also gives you full Tension!

More information on bursts can be found here.

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core

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• HUD • Controls • Frame Data & System Data
• Movement/Canceling • Offense • Defense • Damage/Combo System • Gauges • Misc

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 === Instant Block (IB) ===
-[[File:GGAC_IB.png|thumb|250px]]
+[[File:GGAC_IB.png|thumb|250px|begin blocking right before the attack touches you]]
-Instant Block (also known as "Just Defend") is a precise version of Basic Guard. Instead of just holding back to guard incoming attacks, you actually wait until the last moment and press back or down+back right as the move connects. An Instant Block will be signified by your character flashing white. Instant Block shares the exact same properties and abilities of the Basic Guard except your character recovers much faster (they are in less block stun for every move that is Instant Blocked), and also there will be less pushback on your character (which can be a good or bad thing). Just as with Basic Guard, you can perform Instant Block in the air, however, ground-based attacks are still unblockable and you must use Faultless Defense.
+Instant Block is a slightly more advanced version of normal blocking; you must start blocking right before the opponent's attack touches you. Your character will flash white if you IB an attack.
-As a special feature of Instant Block, you can perform it "during" attack patterns. What this means is, if your opponent has you in a guard pattern and you are simply using Basic Guard, you can switch to Instant Block at any point in the pattern if you can time the back or down+back presses. This is highly useful for escaping many common attack sequences. By Instant Blocking certain hits, you can escape and/or retaliate where you normally couldn't.
+The benefits of IBing are:
+*Recover faster from blockstun (for exact amounts check the [[Offense (GGAC)#Attack Level|Attack Level table]])
+*Reduced pushback (which might be a good or bad thing depending on your character)
+*Increased [[Gauges (GGAC)#Tension Pulse|Tension Pulse]] (which means more Tension later)
+IB does not allow you to make "illegal" blocks: you still must block high/low correctly, and you still must use air FD versus air unblockable attacks.
+You can IB "during" attack patterns. This means that while normal blocking, you can begin IBing at any point if you can time your blocking with the opponent's attacks! Think of it as a mini-game: time your blocking to the rhythm of the opponent's hits.
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 === Faultless Defense (FD) ===
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