Parry and Riposte

The parry and reposte is a form of critical attack in Dark Souls.

General Information
Players perform a parry and reposte by positioning themselves directly in front of a humanoid enemy. As the enemy attacks, the player must swing their shield, reflecting their attack, and thus executing the parry. Enemies are momentarily stunned after this. Immediately after, the player must perform a light attack to finish the reposte, an execution move that deals extremely high damage, more-so than the back-stab.

The parry and reposte deals high damage based on the base damage of the weapon and its critical rate.

Repostes cannot be interrupted. While in the motion of reposting, both the perpetrator and the victim are granted invincibility frames and cannot take further damage except for damage-over time effects such as being poisoned, under the effects of toxic, or while using Power Within.

Most humanoid enemies can be parried and reposted. Most enemies that can be backstabbed can also be reposted. Some non-humanoid enemies, such as the Fang Boar in the Undead Parish (but not the ones in Anor Londo), can also be reposted, but generally non-humanoid enemies are impossible to reposte.

Weapons that cannot Parry and Reposte

 * Bows
 * Crossbows
 * Talismans
 * Catalysts
 * Pyromancy Flame
 * Whips