Talk:Parry and Riposte/@comment-25950924-20150115230957

I know parry and riposte can be very effective and it's fun to do in addition, but at my skill level it's pretty unreliable. And with Havel he can one-shot me so missing is really bad. Unless it's in a cramped area I can usually just backstab the enemy. Also, a lot of enemies can't be parried an riposted and I don't do PVP.

The reason I'm asking is because I have an unusual control setup due to chronic pain in my hands. I'm able to use all of the buttons so if I use parry I can't use R2 (strong attack). I actually have some other options if I don't use parry since I'm using xpadder which allows multiple keystrokes. Instead of parry I could have the button do up+R1 (kick) or up+R2 (jumping attack). I've noticed a number of weapons have a special R2 attack so I'm leaning towards switching parry to R2. Any advice would be appreciated.